Fictional characters

• Silence (Doctor Who), fictional aliens in Doctor Who
• Lady Silence, an Inuk character in Dan Simmons' 2007 novel The Terror

Films and television series

• Silence (1926 film), a silent film by Rupert Julian
• Silence (1931 film), a film by Louis J. Gasnier and Max Marcin
• Silence (1963 film), a Soviet two-part feature by Vladimir Basov
• The Silence (1963 film), a film by Ingmar Bergman
• Silence (1971 film), a film by Masahiro Shinoda based on the 1966 novel by Shūsaku Endō
• The Silence (1975 film), a made-for-TV film about James Pelosi
• The Silence (1998 film), a film by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
• Cisza (film) or Silence, a 2001 Polish film by Michal Rosa
• Dead Silence or Silence, a 2006 horror film
• The Silence (2006 film), an Australian television film
• Silence (2010 film), a 2010 Indian Kannada-language film
• The Silence (2010 film) or Das letzte Schweigen, a German film
• The Silence (TV series), a 2010 BBC TV series
• Hiljaisuus or Silence, a 2011 Finnish film by Sakari Kirjavainen
• Barfi! or Silence, a 2012 Indian Hindi-language film
• Silence (2013 film), an Indian Malayalam-language film
• The Silence (2015 film), an Indian Marathi-language film by Gajendra Ahirey
• Silence (2016 film), a film by Martin Scorsese, also based on the Endō novel
• The Silence (2019 film), a horror film by John R. Leonetti, based on the novel by Tim Lebbon
• Silence (2020 film), an Indian Tamil-language thriller film
• A Silence , a 2023 drama film
• Silence, an Indian film series, including
  • Silence... Can You Hear It? (2021)
  • Silence 2: The Night Owl Bar Shootout (2024)

Literature

• Silence (1969 play), a short play by Harold Pinter, first performed in 1969
• The Silence, a 1969 novel by Jens Bjørneboe, the third and final part in his History of Bestiality-trilogy
• Silence (1999 play), a play by Moira Buffini
• Silence (Balmont), an 1898 poetry collection
• Silence (Kennaway novel), 1972 novel by James Kennaway
• Silence (Fitzpatrick novel), a 2011 novel by Becca Fitzpatrick
• Silence (Endō novel), a 1966 novel by Shūsaku Endō
• "Silence", an 1839 poem by Edgar Allan Poe
• Le Roman de Silence , a thirteenth-century Old French novel by Heldris of Cornwall
• Silence: A Christian History, a 2013 book by Diarmaid MacCulloch
• "Silence: A Fable", a short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• Silence: Lectures and Writings , a 1961 collection of writings by John Cage
• The Silence, a 2015 horror novel for Tim Lebbon
• The Silence (novel), a 2020 novel by Don DeLillo

Music

Television

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• Silence (video game), a 2016 point-and-click adventure game
• Silence! The Musical , a 2003 off-Broadway musical parody of the film Silence of the Lambs