| Oldboy (2003) | 8.3 | |
| Up (2009) | 8.3 | |
| Richness of Internal Space (2012) | 6.6 | |
| The Great Escape (1963) | 8.2 | |
| Cast Away (2000) | 7.8 |
Solitary movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant solitary movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, suspense and interesting films and TV shows about / with solitary, death, flashback, redemption, murder, confined, violence, vengeance, storytelling and survival plots mostly in Drama, Crime and Romance genres shot in USA, France, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as solitary: Oz (1997), Oldboy (2013), One Hour Photo (2002), Papillon (2017), Black August (2007), Undisputed (2002), A Five Star Life (2013), Rosewater (2014), Takva: A Man's Fear of God (2006), In the Arms of My Enemy (2007).
Best films
List of solitary movies
116K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorizes their mutual enemies.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, rough, disturbing, talky ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison life, prison, convict, confined, violence spree, rape, gang, gay, gang violence, strong sexual content, prison rape, aryan brotherhood ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york
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85K
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
An everyday man has only three and a half days and limited resources to discover why he was imprisoned in a nondescript room for 20 years without any explanation.
Style:
twist ending, sexy, suspenseful, disturbing, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
incest, male nudity, revenge, vengeance, father daughter incest, held captive, incestuous relationship, sex with father, violent, incestuous sex, solitary, father daughter sex ...
Time:
year 2013, 90s, year 2005, year 2000, year 2001 ...
Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Sy "the photo guy" Parrish has lovingly developed photos for the Yorkin family since their son was a baby. But as the Yorkins' lives become fuller, Sy's only seems lonelier, until he eventually believes he's part of their ...
Style:
psychological, creepy, scary, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, photography, loneliness, loner, voyeurism, insanity, psychopath as protagonist, adultery, character study, female pubic hair, voyeur, photograph ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
america, usa, los angeles
Is relevant?
95K
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Czech Republic, Spain
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Henri "Papillon" Charrière is convicted in Paris for a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he becomes obsessed with escaping. After planning and executing a series of treacherous ...
Style:
suspense, factual, homoerotic, psychological, art house ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
prison escape, prison, island prison, friendship, wrongful conviction, life sentence, escape, jail, escape plan, male friendship, solitary, survival ...
Time:
year 2017, year 1931, 1930s, year 1969, 20th century ...
Place:
south america, colombia, france, former yugoslavia, venezuela ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
The last 14 months of George Jackson's life was an existence under subjective and objective conditions in California's industrial prison complex. George Jackson would spend 11 years in jail (7 of which were in solitary confinement) for a ...
Style:
rough, serious, realistic, thought provoking, political
Plot:
prison, racism, solitary, prison life, against the rules, fighting the system, confined, militant, price of justice, injustice, rebelliousness, society ...
Place:
california, usa
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Germany, Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Monroe Hutchens is the heavyweight champion of Sweetwater, a maximum security prison. He was convicted to a life sentence due to a passionate crime. Iceman Chambers is the heavyweight champion, who lost his title due to a rape conviction to ten ...
Style:
suspense, talky, intense, stylized, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
prison, violence, fight, boxing, prisoner, african american, prison fight, hip hop, mafia, tough guy, martial arts, gangster ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
usa, mojave desert, las vegas, nevada, california ...
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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 ...
Is relevant?
11K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In 2009, Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari was covering Iran's volatile elections for Newsweek. One of the few reporters living in the country with access to US media, he made an appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, in a taped ...
Style:
suspenseful, brutal, suspense, surreal, captivating ...
Plot:
prison, journalism, brutality, macabre, reporter, violent, torture, propaganda, investigation, adaptation, captivity, twists and turns ...
Time:
2010s, future, 21st century
Place:
iran, middle east
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Turkey
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Humble and introvert Muharrem lives in a solitary and meager existence of a prayer and sexual abstinence adhering strictly to the most severe Islamic doctrines.His extraordinary devotion attracts the attention of the leader of a rich and powerful ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, serious, atmospheric, emotional ...
Plot:
muslim, islam, society, faith, koran, politics, family relations, solitary, fall in love, new job, religions or cults, heaven ...
Place:
turkey, middle east, istanbul turkey
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Belgium, France, Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Jakub and Vladimir, two brothers in their late teens, join in the Cossack army to flee poverty. Elias and Roman, two other brothers, on their own as well, steal horses to survive... When fate brings them together, the encounter proves lethal. ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic ...
Plot:
homoeroticism, male male relationship, gay, chase, murder, rivalry, vengeance, injustice, solitary, family relations, life is a bitch, social misfits ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Because of his younger brother’s poor health, Takumi and his family move to a different Japanese town. There, Takumi, an incredibly gifted baseball pitcher, gradually alienates his relatives and friends by putting sports above all else in life.
Style:
dorama, serious, sincere, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, baseball, family relations, teenage life, social misfits, family life, athlete's life, siblings relations, high school life, youth, misfit, solitary ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A young woman, struggling with agoraphobia, hasn't left her New York apartment or seen anyone in over a year. However, when her toilet overflows she is forced to call in the plumber.
Style:
sexy, sincere, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
agoraphobia, plumber, misfit, love and romance, fall in love, isolation, social misfits, solitary, passionate love, passion, actress, loner ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
John Glass, wakes up in a desolated barn from a long cryogenic slumber, to be informed that not only the planet has been devastated by a third world war, but reduced to little habitability by a subsequent alien invasion. He also learns that in order ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, tense, suspense, realistic ...
Plot:
cryogenics, apocalypse, heroic mission, nothing goes right, evil alien, chaos, dark humor, heroes, escapades, solitary, disorder, extraterrestrial ...
Time:
future
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Locked up and isolated, constantly exposed and threatened to be killed, for the first time in his life Lazaro understood that he was a free man.
Style:
psychological, uplifting, serious, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
captivity, human spirit, introspection, freedom, hopes, danger, confined, survival, solitary, faith, kidnapping, free spirit ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america
Is relevant?
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
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A haunted Vietnam veteran, living in exile in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, is faced with a life-changing decision after he is visited by a former platoon member and his young Amerasian daughter.
Style:
realistic, psychological, emotional, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
vietnam veteran, homecoming, friendship, exile, society, orphan, life is a bitch, solitary, redemption, family relations, farm, children ...
Place:
usa, vietnam, asia
Is relevant?
24K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil, Argentina, Italy
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Carandiru, a story based on real facts and on the book written by the doctor Drauzio Varella, starts when he decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo, Carandiru, ...
Style:
bleak, compassionate, captivating, rough, touching ...
Plot:
prison, aids, prison life, doctor, life is a bitch, fighting illness, regret, protest, lgbt, unconventional method, solitary, injustice ...
Time:
20th century, year 2003, 90s
Place:
south america, brazil, latin america, sao paulo, brazil, sao paulo brazil ...
Is relevant?
658K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
Due to a political conspiracy, an innocent man is sent to death row and his only hope is his brother, who makes it his mission to deliberately get himself sent to the same prison in order to break the both of them out, from the inside out.
Style:
exciting, tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
prison, fugitives, escape, prison life, scheme, prison escape, conspiracy, determination, fbi, confined, siblings relations, brother ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
south america, chicago, texas, california, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
Framed in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, ...
Style:
clever, uplifting, inspirational, touching, twist ending ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, kids, family friendly ...
Plot:
prison, prison escape, freedom, friendship between men, hopes, friendship, corruption, human spirit, justice, prison life, life, stephen king ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, 90s, year 1994, 2010s ...
Place:
usa, maine, columbus ohio, persia, iran ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Life of San Juan de la Cruz.
Style:
historical drama, dark, thought provoking, period piece, art house ...
Plot:
solitary, catholic church, mysticism, symbolism, persecution, convent, haunting, christianity, catholic, poet, temptation, sanity ...
Time:
16th century
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 189 min.
Story:
A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cellblock's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, ...
Style:
touching, emotional, heartbreaking, sentimental, sad ...
Audience:
family friendly, date night, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
death penalty, prison, stephen king, death row, death sentence, convict, supernatural, false accusation, prison life, life philosophy, electric chair, execution ...
Time:
1930s, year 1999, 20th century, 90s, year 1935
Place:
southern usa, usa, louisiana, america, persia
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stroud's life gains new meaning when he happens upon a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard ...
Style:
black and white, realistic, serious, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot:
prison, bird, warden, life sentence, alcatraz, redemption, medical, pet bird, biopic, rebel, self discovery, isolation ...
Time:
20th century, year 1962, 1910s, 1920s, 1940s ...
Place:
san francisco, bay area, kansas, usa
Is relevant?
636
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
An African American male is imprisoned and placed in solitary confinement after being found guilty of murdering his wife, as he's haunted by internal demons and his dead wife, and pushed to the breaking point by an abusive female guard.
Style:
psychological, scary, suspenseful, psychotronic, bleak ...
Plot:
dead wife, isolation, african american, evil woman, murder, insanity, innocence, racism, racial discrimination, nightmare, psychiatrist, fear ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The story of the New Mutants, a team of mutant heroes comprised of the first graduates from Charles Xavier's school.
Style:
suspense, tense, suspenseful, saga, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens, teen fantasy, adult
Plot:
superhero, mutant, superhero team, coming of age, bear, x men, superheroine, childhood trauma, indian reservation, girl girl kiss, sole survivor, demon ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s
Place:
boston
Is relevant?
775
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Tommy, 10 years old, is well known by Social Services. He is considered a danger to society. Gilles, his guardian at this halfway house, sees potential for redemption in this kid driven by violence.
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic
Plot:
boy, kids in trouble, juvenile delinquent, child abuse, social worker, isolation, youth, danger, precocious child, police, redemption, coming of age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, quebec
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Nicole (Agnes Soral) is sent up the river for infanticide in this routine woman-in-prison feature. There she meets Marthe (Annie Girardot), a fellow murderess who receives special treatment from the warden Dessombes (Marie-Christine Barrault). The ...
Style:
tension, bleak, tragic
Plot:
women's prison, women in prison, solitary, filicide, prison, claustrophobia, isolation, lesbian romance, survival, betrayal, manipulation, redemption ...
Is relevant?
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 ...
Is relevant?
696K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, Taiwan, UK, Canada, India, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.
Style:
philosophical, touching, visually appealing, reflective, scenic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, kids, family outing, chick flick ...
Plot:
survival, animal, ocean, human animal relationship, loneliness, life & death, stranded, survivor, hopes, beautiful scenery, storm at sea, journey ...
Time:
70s, year 2012, 2010s
Place:
india, america, asia, montreal, pacific ocean ...
Is relevant?
491K
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, Hong Kong
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two passengers are awakened 90 years early.
Style:
futuristic, romantic, scenic, thought provoking, visually stunning ...
Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick, family friendly
Plot:
space travel, outer space, isolation, survival, love story, space program, trapped in space, love, loneliness, space station, malfunction, spaceship ...
Time:
future, year 2016, 2010s
Place:
america, los angeles, space western
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Japan, USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The dialogue-less film follows the major life stages of a castaway on a deserted tropical island populated by turtles, crabs and birds.
Style:
meditative, atmospheric, stylized, anime, colorful ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, adult
Plot:
nature, loneliness, island, raft, sea turtle, isolation, desert island, sea, swimming, magic realism, turtle, solitude ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
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