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Social isolation movies and TV shows – page 4
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A family seen at two different periods, some 40 years having passed between the two. A dysfunctional family marked by what used to be called an ugly illness, cancer and death. The characters quarrel, hate each other, and refuse to accept in their ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, thought provoking, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot:
family relations, family problems, dysfunctional family, eccentric family, death, family drama, marital argument, relationship problems, family conflict, social problems, life philosophy, conflict ...
Time:
60s
Place:
morocco, andalusia
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151
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A Nigerian refugee struggles to integrate into Australian society after escaping the clutches of Boko Haram, until he meets a woman who opens her home, and ultimately her heart, to him.
Style:
emotional, heartfelt, realistic
Plot:
refugee, immigration, compassion, trauma, struggle, house, identity, empathy, survival, resilience, humanitarian, hopes ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story:
Tsunoda Miki is a graduate of a second-rate university who manages to find a job at a top-notch company. But after a minor mistake, she becomes the subject of serious bullying by her superiors and other co-workers. Ultimately, she chooses to endure ...
Style:
captivating, satirical, thrilling, psychological, semi serious ...
Plot:
bullying, workplace, harassment, office, job, relationships, coworker, relationship problems, satire, employer employee relationship, co worker co worker relationship, office politics ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Teruko is a 28-year-old office worker. 5 months ago, she fell in love with Mamoru at first sight. Since that time, she has not cared about her work or her friends. She then loses her job and her friends look at her coldly. Yet, Teruko is happy as ...
Style:
realistic, romantic drama, psychological, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot:
obsession, unrequited love, heartbreak, love, japanese woman, female protagonist, relationships, couples, fall in love, family relations, relationship vs career, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Zhou Can moved to school in a small town from a big city, a place he didn't like, and kept thinking about going back to where he had lived. His grades are very excellent, so he doesn't have to worry about study in the new school. In terms ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, romantic, romantic drama
Plot:
couples, friendship, young love, campus, high school life, romantic relationship, love story, relationships, male female relationship, love, love interest, couple relations ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Jang-bu was an ordinary boy except his special talent; To see every moving thing like a slow motion video. As friends teased him by calling ‘monster eyes’, he decided to stick at home and not to go out. Television has been his only friend. Time ...
Style:
entertaining, captivating, semi serious, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
time dilation, friendship, eyesight, love affair, workplace, love interest, supernatural ability, workplace situations, romantic friendship, love and romance, lifestyle, social problems ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
When his father flees from debt, carefree college student Osamu sees his life turn upside-down. Expelled from school and evicted from his apartment, he becomes one of Japan’s many ‘net cafe refugees’, barely scraping by each day with temporary ...
Style:
captivating, suspense, tense, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
homelessness, poverty, alienation, homeless, life is a bitch, father son estrangement, manhunt, social problems, estrangement, refugee, swashbuckler, social misfits ...
Place:
tokyo
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An adult woman puts herself up for adoption and forms a bond with the misanthropic patriarch of her adoptive family. Based on a true story.
Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, emotional, heartfelt ...
Plot:
female protagonist, adoption, foster home, relationships, family relations, social problems, patriarch, family life, foster parent, social issues, lifestyle, patriarchy ...
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
Humans couldn’t handle magic without chanting until Monica Everett, the Silent Witch and one of the Seven Sages, made unspoken magecraft possible. Painfully shy, she enjoys seclusion. One day, Louis Miller, the Barrier Mage, delivers the king’s ...
Style:
suspense, melancholic, anime, shoujo
Audience:
teens
Plot:
witch, magic, shyness, school, secret identity, undercover, nobility, loyalty, bodyguard, young adult, royal court, social isolation ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Her distant husband refusing to join, a mother spends the holidays alone with her children for the first time. Lost in her life, she opens up to a seducing and strange and young man, who slowly draws her into his dark trap.
Style:
tense, melancholic, bleak, art house, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
female protagonist, family drama, motherhood, toxic relationship, beach, parenting, isolation, gender roles, seduction, single mother, emotional abuse, manipulation ...
Time:
2020s
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A rookie drag queen, reeling from a break-up, escapes to the country, where he finds his grandmother in steep decline yet desperate to avoid the local nursing home.
Style:
heartfelt, emotional, uplifting, lgbt cinema, gay cinema ...
Plot:
gay interest, gay couple, gay relationship, gay son, gay, drag queen, lgbt, self discovery, aging, personal growth, family drama, acceptance ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 66 min.
Story:
An experimental look into the lives of teens and young adults in a dysfunctional town.
Style:
experimental, art house, melancholic, bleak
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
character study, small town, coming of age, alienation, young adult, friendship, aimlessness, apathy, youth culture, social isolation, slice of life, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Family
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
A self-centered businesswoman living in the city is shocked to discover that she has inherited five sheltered, home-schooled kids in the Midwest.
Style:
psychological, feel good, semi serious, captivating, emotional ...
Audience:
family friendly, teen drama
Plot:
family drama, personal growth, home schooling, fish out of water, relationships, lifestyle change, foster home, motherhood, lifestyle, female protagonist, family life, family relations ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
Toshiyuki Tanishi (Ryuhei Maruyama) is 27-year-old single guy, who has never had a girlfriend in his whole life. He works for small toy company, Saida Company. People view Toshiyuki Tanishi as stupid and the last person who will achieve success. ...
Style:
feel good, captivating, satirical, romantic comedy, sex comedy ...
Plot:
workplace romance, japanese man, co worker co worker relationship, changing lives, lifestyle change, relationships, male female relationship, love story, relationship problems, love and romance, love affair, satire ...
Place:
tokyo
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A story about a strange friendship between 11 years old Maria and an older man Jon.
Style:
melancholic, dramatic, sexual, sexy
Plot:
male nudity, friendship, small town, childhood, children, young girl, intergenerational friendship, coming of age, self discovery, female protagonist, slice of life, family drama ...
Time:
70s
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A woman tries to create a relationship with the soap star who is the object of her obsession.
Style:
soap opera, psychological thriller, suspense, creepy, sexy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, delusion, infatuation, female protagonist, character study, mental disorder, unrequited love, loneliness, makeover, jealousy, fan culture, social isolation ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Hubert Wolfe, bestselling author, suffers from the writer's block for a long time. Thus, he often used a ghost writer, the talented but taciturn Dany. While the deadline for his next novel approaches, Wolfe still requires the help of his secret ...
Style:
existential, suspense, atmospheric, melancholic, dark comedy
Plot:
self discovery, literary, identity, creative block, deception, redemption, moral ambiguity, midlife crisis, small town, fraud, betrayal, friendship ...
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Angela's deafness raises concerns during her pregnancy regarding connecting with her daughter. Post-delivery, partner Héctor supports her as she learns to mother in a society lacking adequate accommodations for the hearing-impaired.
Style:
heartfelt, melancholic, tense
Plot:
motherhood, deafness, parenting, female protagonist, sign language, domestic drama, pregnancy, family relations, resilience, intimate, social realism, adaptation ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
"It is absolutely wrong to believe that other people are in a position of undertanding our deepest feelings." - Mishima
Style:
psychological, art house, contemplative, thought provoking, existential ...
Plot:
loneliness, alienation, misunderstanding, identity, existential crisis, intimate, regret, social isolation, human nature, memory, minimalism, realism ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Ottmar hands his Hamburg bakery to daughter Janina, retiring after 40 years with his wife to compatriot Beinle's fancy seniors residence in Pattaya, Thailand, which also provides private nursing as required. She waited decades to enjoy free ...
Style:
captivating, tense, crime drama
Audience:
adult
Plot:
fraud, bakery, deception, elderly, aging, relationship problems, con trick, family problems, family business, business, marital problem, scam ...
Place:
thailand, germany
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Karsten apparently has it settled. However, in this provincial German town, a moment of weakness turns to disaster, disappointment soon fuels anger, justice hides behind hypocrisy, and evil gradually unfolds.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, bleak, independent film ...
Plot:
relationships, hypocrisy, hypocrite, intrigue, relationship problems, character study, intimate, moral ambiguity, tragedy, small town, male protagonist, provincial ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
Niko, a middle schooler in Japan, witnesses a fight between two strangers on her way home from school. Desperate to talk to someone about the event but too afraid to tell her family, she responds to an ad for the "Tele-Club" and gets in ...
Style:
humorous, contemplative, unusual plot structure, captivating, light ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
female protagonist, family relations, crime investigation, crime solving, heroine, collector, female boss, investigation, communication, young adult, empathy, slice of life ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
japan
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Audrey is determined not to be defined by motherhood. In theory, this seems fairly easy. In practice, her career-focused husband, self-obsessed mother & fancy-free best friend, make it damn near impossible.
Style:
humorous, satirical, psychological, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot:
motherhood, parenthood, satire, unsupportive spouse, social satire, family problems, family life, female protagonist, relationship problems, mother love, husband wife relationship, marital problem ...
Place:
new zealand
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Norway
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Singel mother, Elin, experiences her worst nightmare when her son dies in a drowning accident. She tries to get her life back on track after the tragedy together with her daughter Storm (10), but there are rumours around school that somebody saw ...
Style:
sad, emotional, tense, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
family tragedy, mother daughter relationship, drowning, family drama, grief, single mother, trauma, guilt, intimate, protective mother, parenting, empathy ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A student's chances of getting into a good college hang in the balance when inappropriate photos of her are posted on the Internet.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, suspense, sexy
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
social media, mother daughter relationship, social network, high school, cyberbullying, uncover truth, social problems, female student, family relations, lifestyle change, changing lives, student ...
Time:
2010s
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Ichigo no kakera deals with a female manga artist Ichigo Nekoda (Miyazawa), whose career is heading into a downward spiral as she can't reinvent the success of her 12 year old hit the Cherry Road. Now in her early 30's she's become ...
Style:
comedy drama, manga
Plot:
creative block, female protagonist, character study, self destructing, introspection, alcoholism, slice of life, fan culture, nostalgia, showbiz, midlife crisis, social isolation ...
Place:
tokyo
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
The story takes place in 2061, 50 years after humanity developed the "Net society" that depended on information networks despite their security issues. To improve security, a new network called Meta Real Network — or "Metal" ...
Style:
anime, disturbing, futuristic, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
cyberpunk, virtual reality, investigation, police officer, distopia, forensics, job, fighting crime, escape from reality, intelligence agency, police, cybercrime ...
Time:
near future
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 69 min.
Story:
"Empty Room is a dark, highly erotic tale of a married couple whose relationship is slowly sliding into oblivion. Bored and sexually frustrated, the wife begins taking lovers while her unemployed husband spends his days wandering aimless around ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, tense, erotic, melancholic ...
Plot:
adultery, infidelity, husband wife relationship, affair, sexual frustration, family problems, family relations, male female relationship, bored housewife, relationship problems, marital problem, housewife ...
Time:
2000s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A student moves in with a family that lives in an underground house in the middle of the forest, far from civilization. His hopes of peace and quiet are soon shattered, when it becomes apparent that both the parents and their son have a screw loose.
Style:
surreal, semi serious, atmospheric, horror comedy, funny ...
Plot:
isolation, teacher student relationship, abused child, eccentric family, dysfunctional family, family problems, dark humor, prodigy, parents and children, mental disorder, sexual abuse, bunker ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, central europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young farmer in rural Yorkshire numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker.
Style:
homoerotic, sexy, lgbt cinema, erotic, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, gay romance, lgbt, gay relationship, gay love, migrant worker, gay interest, gay lead character, gay couple, village life, sheep, homosexuality ...
Time:
year 2017, 2000s, 2010s, 90s
Place:
yorkshire, northern england, indiana, britain, romania ...
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