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The 25 Best Movies About Loneliness of All Time. by malthe-tuxen • Created 4 years ago • Modified 4 months ago. My 25 personal favorite movies where the central theme is loneliness. Honorable Mentions: God's Own Country (2017) The Martian (2015) The Great Beauty (2013) Shame (2011)
29 giu 2023 · Loneliness isn't an easy emotion to capture, but when it's done well, the resulting movie can make you feel things you never expected to. Here are the best movies about loneliness, how different people deal with feeling lonely, and even how they overcome it.
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2 feb 2024 · From being stranded alone in space or disconnected from others in a large crowd, movies have always been a source of emotionally charged and thought-provoking storylines. As such, numerous motion...
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9 feb 2017 · Summer Madness (1955) Director: David Lean. Summertime (1955) Is there anywhere in the world more likely to highlight loneliness than the romantic city of Venice? As middle-aged American tourist Jane Hudson (Katharine Hepburn) soon discovers, the city’s romance can quickly turn oppressive.
- 15 Columbus
- 14 Portrait of A Lady on Fire
- 13 Eighth Grade
- 12 Shoplifters
- 11 Pariah
- 10 Short Term 12
- 9 Roma
- 8 The Double
- 7 High Life
- 6 Spirited Away
The understated drama Columbus stars John Cho — recognizable for his roles in Star Trek and Harold and Kumar — and Haley Lu Richardson, whom you might have seen in The White Lotus or Five Feet Apart. Their characters meet in Columbus, Indiana, where Richardson's character lives with her mother and Cho's character is visiting his father in a coma. B...
Celine Sciamma's Portrait of a Lady on Fireis a poetic and compelling movie about a woman hired to paint a portrait of another woman to be sent to her suitor. It takes place on a French island that is seemingly only occupied by the few characters present. Vast depictions of the sea and landscape emphasize this sense of isolation. Slowly, over the c...
Eighth Gradestars Elsie Fisher in her last week of eighth grade. She is introverted and shy, struggling to connect with her peers. The movie can be uncomfortable to watch, but also feels incredibly tender and loving toward its main character. It's very grounded and real, and will be relatable to anyone who has struggled to fit in, even if they've n...
In an original story by writer and director Hirokazu Kore-eda, Shoplifters is about a family who makes their money through small-scale crimes. When they come across a child on her own in the cold, they take her in and end up not attempting to return her to her family. The movie presents interesting questions about ownership, family, belonging, and ...
Adepero Oduye stars as Alike in Pariah. The plot follows Alike, a young lesbian who is struggling to come to terms with, and understand, her identity under the scrutiny and criticism of her mother. Pariah's title speaks volumes about the presence of loneliness and isolation in this movie, especially with the definition of the word being used in its...
Short Term 12tells the story of the staff and residents at a residential treatment center for children and teenagers. The movie provided many of its actors with a break-out role, such as LaKeith Stanfield, Kaitlyn Dever, Brie Larson, Rami Malek, and Stephanie Beatriz. Stanfield's first acting role was in the short film version of the movie. As a re...
Alfonso Cuarón's Romadepicts the life of a maid in Mexico City. Yalitza Aparicio excellently plays the lead role with subtlety and clarity. When the husband of the family Aparicio's character, Cleo, works for runs off with a mistress, Cleo is invited by the wife on holiday with her children. The movie does not feel didactic in the way it presents c...
The Doubleis a movie directed by Richard Ayoade and based on a novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Jesse Eisenberg plays the main character whose life is taken over by an exact physical double of himself, but who is much more confident and charming. The cast also includes Mia Wasikowska and Wallace Shawn. As the story plays out, the events become more a...
Space is arguably the perfect setting to explore loneliness; there aren't many places more isolated. High Lifetakes place on a spaceship whose crew is made up of criminals who volunteered to take part in a reproduction experiment. The characters become more desperate for the experiment to succeed as time goes on, and this mirrors a need for connect...
In Spirited Away, a young girl, Chihiro, and her family are moving to the countryside, and she's unhappy about the decision. The family comes across an abandoned theme park where Chihiro's parents stop for food while she explores the park. She then discovers that the park is home to several sinister creatures, including demons and spirits, and real...
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GREAT FILMS ABOUT LONELINESS AND ISOLATION. by Aalkazar • Created 3 years ago • Modified 3 years ago. the only true wisdom 'lives far from mankind, out in the great loneliness, and can be reached only through suffering. Privation and suffering alone open the mind to all that is hidden to others.'.
23 nov 2022 · Lost in Translation. Check Price on Amazon. Have you ever gone abroad and felt like you were lost in translation? This film is all about those feels. Lost in Translation is a 2003 movie starring Bill Murray and Scarlet Johansson.
