Movies: Loneliness

A younger man encounters the old. Both fearful and aware of the impending end. The clock is almost striking 12, it has passed 5 to 12. Celebrating love between two humans they spend time together, until the old one vanishes into the wind....

Jaira, Chelsea, and Alecz catch up with their friend, Sujee, who lives in Busan, Korea. Sujee is lonely and seeks people who understand her struggles as a diaspora but her friends have a different image of her life there....

While the battle rages around an emptied city, one citizen battles loneliness through a variety of daily rituals....

Three perspectives on loneliness, how it feels and how it can be survived: “If I could just dance with somebody once more.”...

On the background of a room rebuilt in every detail, a man is suspended in the emptiness of his memories, without dialog, speaking only through the notes of Satie. And his other self (his youth) who appears suddenly to remind us of the past, and of t...

A mysterious accident has separated Jaap from his beloved Rose, but they continue to talk to each other in their minds and dreams. As Jaap struggles to come to terms with what happened, his best friend JP suggests they travel to France to visit Rose ...

No man is an island, it is said. In this beautifully observed film, we follow Mark, a lonely young man in search of happiness. Through his daily encounters he struggles with his desires and his fears, until at last he is forced to come face to face w...

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A man struggles to survive in a post-apocalyptic world while also dealing with his loneliness...

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Richard Parker is the lone remaining member of a Royal Observer Corps team, stationed deep underground, during an unidentified cataclysm. He spends his days battling with isolation, loneliness, fear of what waits above and his own memories....

They gave the smugglers all their money and risk their life on their journey across borders: Three women from a small town in Moldavia, living now in Austria as cleaning women. On top of their hard job they live a life in illegality without documents...

Yarn Over is a stop motion animation about loneliness in older adults. The short film tells the story of a widowed man finding solace in a local knitting group. This narrative aims to encourage older adults to participate in social events to combat i...

A documentary film crew examines loneliness in America through the experiences of a man in his 30s with a secret invention....

Telefon-Saudade is an intimate short drama about an elderly woman mourning her lost son, who finds unexpected comfort in conversations with a phone scammer posing as her grandchild. As her daughter struggles to understand this fragile emotional copin...

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A homeless man regularly attends a place where children play ball every afternoon. A caring link develops between them which drives him to change his life. A new hope befalls him....

"Too embarrassed to accept help, Tabitha lives alone in a (slightly stinky) pit of solitude. But even the stinkiest pits need tackling eventually, and Tabitha’s attempt to clean sends her tumbling into a world of softness—and sentient clothing."...

A group of young people looking for their place in the world through a party night discovers how loneliness and internal conflicts are intertwined with the search for intimacy, love and drugs at a party where no one is the protagonist. An honest and ...