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Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden, Finland
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A drug addict becomes a mother and has to deal with responsibility and self-respect.
Style:
disturbing, realistic, serious, rough, independent film ...
Plot:
coping, haunted by the past, dysfunctional family, downfall, youth, human nature, life is a bitch, destructive relationship, family problems, solitude, addiction, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
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16K
Genre: Drama
Country: France, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Mona Bergeron is dead, her frozen body found in a ditch in the French countryside. From this, the film flashes back to the weeks leading up to her death. Through these flashbacks, Mona gradually declines as she travels from place to place, taking ...
Style:
road movie, thought provoking, disturbing, art house, contemplative ...
Plot:
homeless, solitude, freeze to death, homelessness, death, drifter, rural setting, death of protagonist, cold weather, wanderer, feminist, wine ...
Time:
80s, year 1985, 20th century, 18th century
Place:
france, south of france, europe, paris france, morocco ...
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
After spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson returns to the U.S., where he decides the best way to connect with his homeland is to hike the Appalachian Trail with one of his oldest friends.
Style:
scenic, light, humorous, road movie, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
friendship, hiking, camping, elderly, camping trip, escapades, road trip, wilderness, writers, woods, foul language, backpacking ...
Time:
18th century, 21st century
Place:
appalachia, new hampshire, usa, california
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25K
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Germany, Poland
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A movie spun out of equal parts folk tale, fable and real-life legend about the mysterious, 1930s Tennessee hermit who famously threw his own rollicking funeral party... while he was still alive.
Style:
emotional, touching, talky, sentimental, psychological ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
small town, solitude, loner, death, funeral director, character study, life philosophy, uncover truth, gossip and rumors, haunted by the past, dealing with death, mysterious character ...
Time:
20th century, year 2009, year 1938, 1930s, 1920s
Place:
tennessee, usa, appalachia, california
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Big Sur is a film adaptation of the Jack Kerouac autobiographical novel of the same name.
Style:
sincere, realistic, captivating, serious, independent film
Plot:
beat generation, friendship between men, friendship, writer's life, introspection, mentally unstable, lifestyle, solitude, solitary, social relations, addiction, novelist ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
usa, california, san francisco
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Germany, USA, Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
An African-American Mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob.
Style:
cult classic, art house, philosophical, stylized, atmospheric ...
Plot:
loneliness, loner, african american, mafia, hitman, samurai, hip hop, honor, friendship, martial arts, assassin, professional killer ...
Time:
90s, year 1999, future, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey, brooklyn new york city, japan ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
It is a bitter story about a middle-aged man, who hates his life and other people, including himself. Adam Miauczynski, the character known from director Marek Koterski's previous films, is a 44 year-old teacher, who reads poetry during school ...
Style:
independent film, dark comedy, tragicomedy, humorous, cynical ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, nothing goes right, social satire, paranoia, loner, alienation, burnout, obsessive compulsive disorder, neurosis, longing, solitude, teacher ...
Time:
year 2002, middle ages
Place:
eastern europe, central europe, warsaw poland, poland
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Single and middle-aged, beautiful Irene (Margarita Buy) is wholly devoted to her job as an inspector of luxury hotels. Constantly on the road, she indulges in expensive pleasures at impeccable resorts, but always incognito and alone, soon escaping ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, touching, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
solitary, unfulfillment, introspection, midlife crisis, workplace, siblings relations, workplace situations, solitude, husband wife relationship, concierge, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
morocco, berlin germany, alps, shanghai, paris france ...
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33K
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Accompanied only by her faithful dog and four camels, an Australian satisfies her craving for solitude by embarking on a solo trip across the desert from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean.
Style:
touching, uplifting, sexy, scenic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
desert, wilderness, solitude, camel, photographer, human spirit, survival, independent woman, dog, explorer, obsessive quest, beautiful scenery ...
Time:
year 1977, 20th century, 2010s, year 1976, year 1973 ...
Place:
australia, africa, new zealand
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A council case worker looks for the relatives of those found dead and alone.
Style:
sincere, realistic, semi serious, captivating, black comedy ...
Plot:
loneliness, solitude, social worker, self discovery, death, introspection, private investigation, misfit, workplace, obsession, workplace situations, social misfits ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
london, europe, england
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9K
Genre: Drama, Music, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
After losing contact with Earth, Astronaut Lee Miller becomes stranded in orbit alone aboard the International Space Station. As time passes and life support systems dwindle, Lee battles to maintain his sanity - and simply stay alive. His world is a ...
Style:
futuristic, thought provoking, psychological, mind bending, surreal ...
Plot:
isolation, trapped in space, astronaut, space travel, stranded, space, space and aliens, space station, losing-it hero, loneliness, journal, survival ...
Time:
future, 2030s, 2040s, 2010s, 1860s
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Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A tragicomedy set in the world of gas stations in rural Ireland, where over-diligent employee of the garage searches for intimacy during the course of a life-changing summer.
Style:
psychological, realistic, melancholic, bleak, humorous ...
Plot:
small town, friendship, society, solitude, misfit, social relations, pornographic video, loneliness, angst, friends, coming of age, small town life ...
Place:
ireland, europe
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684K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Chuck, a top international manager for FedEx, and Kelly, a Ph.D. student, are in love and heading towards marriage. Then Chuck's plane to Malaysia ditches at sea during a terrible storm. He's the only survivor, and he washes up on a tiny ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspense, emotional, inspirational ...
Audience:
date night, family outing, teens, kids
Plot:
survival, loneliness, isolation, island, desert island, stranded on an island, courage, determination, solitude, lost at sea, air disaster, survivor ...
Time:
year 2000, 20th century, y2k, year 1999, 2000s ...
Place:
fictional island, moscow russia, persia, america, pacific ocean ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Angèle, a beautiful young woman with a past, arrives in a small fishing harbor in Normandy. She meets Tony, a professional fisherman, who finds himself attracted to her although he dislikes her blunt ways. Tony hires her as a fishmonger, lodges her ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, emotional, serious, contemplative
Audience:
date night
Plot:
solitude, fall in love, starting over, dysfunctional family, family problems, estrangement, bittersweet, introspection, unlikely couple, male female relationship, mother son reunion, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, normandy
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Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A young writer called Mati is stalking his ex-wife, while also trying to make unsuccessful passes at other women. Augusti is a barber living a dreary bachelor life who forms a bond with little girl, but his approaches are misconstrued as pedophilia. ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, anthology, atmospheric ...
Plot:
melancholy, solitude, male pubic hair, hopes, working class, social decay, suffering, family relations, lifestyle, society, redemption, suburbs ...
Time:
80s, 2000s
Place:
estonia, europe, soviet union, ussr
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Norway, Iceland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Forty-year-old Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is presented with a job, an apartment - even a wife. But before long, Andreas notices that something is wrong. Andreas makes an attempt to escape the city, but ...
Style:
surreal, philosophical, psychological, enigmatic, art house ...
Plot:
dystopia, nightmare, suicide attempt, exile, accountant, alone in the world, parallel universe, suicide, emotionless, isolation, confined, captivity ...
Time:
distant future, future
Place:
argentina
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Gus van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents while living on the streets of the Bronx. He accidentally runs into an old writer named Forrester who discovers his passion for writing. With help ...
Style:
feel good, sentimental, touching, sincere, inspirational ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
mentor, literature, dedicated educator, coming of age, prejudice, genius, basketball, writers, teacher, african american, prodigy, intergenerational friendship ...
Time:
year 2000, 90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, scotland, usa, bronx new york city ...
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5K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
While walking home from her latest OB appointment, a very pregnant Esther Woodhouse is brutally attacked and disfigured by a hooded assailant. This horrible event seems to be a blessing in disguise when Esther finds consolation in a support group. ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, serious, realistic, mumblecore ...
Plot:
mind game, support group, revenge, female killer, pregnancy, illness, mental illness, babies and infants, supernatural, home invasion, child, mental disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
indiana, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Ichiko (Ai Hashimoto) lived in a big city, but goes back to her small hometown Komori, located on a mountain in the Tohoku region. She is self-sufficient. Ichiko gains energy living among nature and eating foods she makes from seasonal ingredients.
Style:
thought provoking, captivating, sincere, realistic, epic ...
Plot:
food, japanese girl, japanese culture, solitude, nature, agriculture, abandoned by mother, isolation, society, rural setting, backpacking, cookery ...
Place:
japan
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Ghoulish Count Dracula lures a naive estate agent, Jonathan Harker, to his decaying Transylvanian castle with the promise of easy money. But when he spies a portrait of the man's beautiful young wife Lucy, the vampire becomes obsessed and sets ...
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, dark, bleak, creepy ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
vampire, blood, castle, melancholy, plague, nosferatu, death, rat, medieval, loneliness, insanity, solitude ...
Time:
19th century, year 1979, 1850s, 1800s, 20th century ...
Place:
romania, transylvania, europe, germany, black sea ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Canada, UK, South Africa, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara, he feels like a fraud: he hasn’t really tasted life, and yet he’s offering advice to patients who are just not getting any ...
Style:
feel good, sentimental, entertaining, emotional, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
travel, self discovery, life, psychiatrist, life philosophy, relationships, teaching the ways of the world, happiness, friendship, loneliness, midlife crisis, stereotypes ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
africa, china, tibet, england, london ...
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226K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, India
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When a deadly airborne virus threatens to wipe out the northeastern United States, teacher Elliott Moore (Mark Wahlberg) and his wife (Zooey Deschanel) flee from contaminated cities into the countryside in a fight to discover the truth. Is it ...
Style:
tense, gloomy, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
apocalypse, disaster, survival, virus, natural disaster, end of the world, suicide, graphic violence, catastrophe, paranoia, danger, plague ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 20th century, future, 21st century
Place:
new york, boston, philadelphia, west virginia, usa ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A powerful and seductive Hollywood mogul convinces an impoverished West Hollywood writer, whose lover has recently died of AIDS, to sell his autobiographical screenplay for big bucks. The writer, Robert, knows he'll have to make major changes ...
Style:
psychological, melancholic, clever, talky, absurd ...
Plot:
gay, twists and turns, aids, glbt, solitude, tragedy, grief, depression, internet, lgbt, family problems, hollywood ...
Time:
90s, year 2005
Place:
los angeles, egypt, new york, rome italy
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Fiji, Jamaica
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Two small children and a ship's cook survive a shipwreck and find safety on an idyllic tropical island. Soon, however, the cook dies and the young boy and girl are left on their own. Days become years and Emmeline (Brooke Shields) and Richard ...
Style:
romantic, sexual, erotic, sexy, sensual ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, kids, girls' night ...
Plot:
island, stranded, love and romance, shipwreck, young love, beautiful scenery, coming of age, teenage love, survival, desert island, youth, fall in love ...
Time:
victorian era, turn of the century, 1890s, 19th century, year 1980 ...
Place:
fictional island, pacific ocean, san francisco
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Abandoned by her mother, young Ichiko leaves her life in the city to live off the land in Komori, a small town nestled among the mountains in rural Japan. Despite the void left by her mother’s disappearance, Ichiko comes to enjoy her independence ...
Style:
captivating, visually appealing, thought provoking, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot:
food, japanese girl, farmer, village life, solitude, mother issues, female protagonist, provincial life, nature, slice of life, countryside, agriculture ...
Place:
japan
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Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Alex, Emily, and their son, RJ, are new to Los Angeles. A chance meeting at the park introduces them to the mysterious Kurt, Charlotte, and Max. A family “playdate” becomes increasingly interesting as the night goes on.
Style:
sexy, sex comedy, humorous, clever, dark comedy ...
Plot:
swinger, couple relations, couples, sex scene, relationships, male nudity, sex orgy, erotic massage, infidelity, female pubic hair, massage, skinny dipping ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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12K
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Ben Tyler (Joshua Jackson) has been diagnosed with cancer. With a grim chance of survival in the best case scenario even if he immediately begins treatment, he instead decides to take a motorcycle trip from Toronto through the Canadian prairies to ...
Style:
road movie, sexy, philosophical, realistic, bad ending ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
road trip, self discovery, motorcycle, terminal illness, travel, cancer, love story, depression, solitude, coming of age, beautiful scenery, wanderlust ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, pacific ocean, ontario canada, toronto ontario canada, british columbia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
This Canadian made comedy/drama, set in Hamilton, Ontario in 1954, is a sweet and - at times - goofy story that becomes increasingly poignant as the minutes tick by.
It's the fictional tale of a wayward 9th grader, Ralph (Adam Butcher), who is ...
Style:
sincere, sentimental, realistic, spiritual, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
friendship, coming of age, adolescence, religion, fighting the system, solitude, human spirit, ambition, goodhearted, teachers and students, track and field, catholic school ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, year 2004, 20th century, year 1954 ...
Place:
ireland, europe, boston, ontario canada, canada
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139K
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, France, UK, USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.
Style:
road movie, touching, surreal, atmospheric, lyrical ...
Plot:
amnesia, father son relationship, desert, redemption, on the road, road trip, relationships, memory, melancholy, motel, reconciliation, drifter ...
Time:
80s, year 1984, 20th century
Place:
texas, los angeles, houston texas, california, america ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After a harrowing snowmobile accident, a young couple is stranded in the woods and must survive while waiting for help to arrive. Events take a turn for the worse after the disappearance of Emma's boyfriend, leaving her on her own not only to ...
Style:
suspense, slasher, psychological, minimal cast, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
wilderness, snow, winter, lost in the woods, stalking, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, fear, stranded, accident, isolation, hiding, wilderness survival ...
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