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* The Scandinavian ''Arn'' films uses a variant of this where English represents most languages aside from Swedish (the native language of the central characters) and Norwegian. Throughout the film English represents Arabic, Latin and French, to mention a few. Often an initial line or two is spoken in the intended language, and then they switch to English.
* Excellently deployed in ''[[The 13th Warrior]]'', where Ahmed ibn Fadlan (played by [[Antonio Banderas]]) is a character of Middle Eastern origin exiled to Viking lands. Ahmed hears authentic Icelandic (initially incomprehensible to him), and in a scene at a campfire, more and more English words are dubbed over the Icelandic, illustrating to the audience that Ahmed is learning the local language by immersion. Once all the Vikings are heard speaking fluent English, the audience is informed that Ahmed has learned to speak and understand Old Norse. By contrast, in the book his character spends most of the story slowly learning the language and having most things translated into Latin by a bilingual Norseman.
** This particular scene is immensely confusing to one who understands all the languages involved, as the switching between languages is less clear than if you
* The film ''[[Valkyrie (film)|Valkyrie]]'' opens with Stauffenberg writing a letter and reading it to himself in German, which slowly morphs into English as he continues to speak.
* Avoided in ''The Red Violin'': all of the dialogue is shot in the language appropriate to the place and subtitled as necessary (for example, the scene in Italy is filmed in Italian and subtitled for English audiences but not for Italian ones). Settings include Cremona, Vienna, Oxford, Shanghai, Montreal, and France.
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