Existential loneliness movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant existential loneliness movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out art house, realistic, serious, melancholic, independent film and thought provoking films and TV shows about / with existential loneliness, loneliness, existentialism, psychological drama, death, dialogue, nude, melancholy, suicide and train plots mostly in Drama, Crime and Comedy genres shot in France, Italy, USA and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as existential loneliness: The Man Who Sleeps (1974), An Elephant Sitting Still (2018), Le Samurai (1967), Nomadland (2020), Another Round (2020), Beau Travail (1999), Wrong Move (1975), Things to Come (2016), Without Me (2007), Yourself and Yours (2016).
Best films
New films
| Just Friends (2018) | 7.2 | |
| Days (2020) | 6.6 | |
| Aftersun (2022) | 7.6 | |
| High Life (2018) | 5.7 | |
| Martin Eden (2019) | 7.0 |
List of existential loneliness movies
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 202 min.
Story:
A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores, takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. Slowly, her ritualized daily routines begin to fall apart.
Style:
slow cinema, sexy, experimental, sentimental, serious ...
Plot:
loneliness, minimalism, feminism, female protagonist, housewife, prostitution, prostitute, single mother, feminist, widow, chores, mother son relationship ...
Time:
70s, year 1975
Place:
europe, brussels, belgium, france, brussels belgium
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Tunisia
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
In this French tour-de-force a young student decides to have no more interaction with the world than is needed to minimally sustain life. His increasingly automaton-like behavior is coupled with a strange clarity of insight about the world around ...
Style:
experimental, art house, artsy, existential, contemplative ...
Plot:
nihilism, existentialism, depression, loneliness, minimalism, introspection, existential loneliness, boredom, loser, time travel, lsd, trauma ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 230 min.
Story:
In the northern Chinese city of Manzhouli, they say there is an elephant that simply sits and ignores the world. Manzhouli becomes an obsession for the protagonists of this film, a longed-for escape from the downward spiral in which they find ...
Style:
depressing, melancholic, rough, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
existential loneliness, suicide, youth, manslaughter, life is a bitch, city life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, family problems, life turned upside down, existentialism, alienation, wench ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
china
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Hitman Jef Costello is a perfectionist who always carefully plans his murders and who never gets caught.
Style:
neo noir, detective, sexy, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
loner, hitman, assassination, chase, professional killer, lone wolves, gangster, surveillance, police investigation, murder, assassin, betrayal ...
Time:
20th century, year 1967, 60s
Place:
paris france, france, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the American West after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.
Style:
road movie, serious, realistic, sincere, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
van, homeless, motor home, on the road, loss of job, road trip, nomad, journey, desert, homelessness, skinny dipping, healing ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s, 90s, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
nevada, nebraska, arizona
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223K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, Belgium, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Four high school teachers launch a drinking experiment: upholding a constant low level of intoxication.
Style:
dark comedy, sexy, social, psychological, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
friendship, drinking, teacher, midlife crisis, group of friends, alcohol abuse, nordic, experiment, marriage, friendship between men, dancing, drunkenness ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s, year 2013, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
denmark, copenhagen, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Belarus, Belgium, Cyprus, Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Foreign Legion officer, Galoup, recalls his once glorious life, leading troops in the Gulf of Djibouti. His existence there was happy, strict and regimented, but the arrival of a promising young recruit, Sentain, plants the seeds of jealousy in ...
Style:
surreal, harsh, realistic, touching, serious ...
Plot:
foreign legion, gay, desert, obsession, military, military training, gay interest, discipline, french foreign legion, soldier, homoeroticism, existential loneliness ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s
Place:
africa, france, south africa, marseille, paris france ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Six days in the life of Wilhelm: a detached man without qualities. He wants to write, so his mother gives him a ticket to Bonn, telling him to live. On the train he meets an older man, an athlete in the 1936 Olympics, and his mute teen companion, ...
Style:
road movie, art house, cult classic, manga, spiritual ...
Plot:
existential loneliness, cat, bicycle, train, on the road, girl man relationship, writers, voice over narration, blood, suicide by hanging, beach, teenage girl ...
Time:
year 1975, 70s
Place:
berlin germany, germany, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Nathalie teaches philosophy at a high school in Paris. She is passionate about her job and particularly enjoys passing on the pleasure of thinking. Married with two children, she divides her time between her family, former students and her very ...
Style:
art house, psychological, sincere, contemplative, captivating ...
Plot:
divorce, human animal relationship, midlife crisis, black cat, infidelity, female teacher, husband wife relationship, loss of mother, anarchist, book, anarchism, teacher student relationship ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, 90s
Place:
france
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Anna, a divorced single mother, employs a mysterious young woman called Lise to care for her children.
Style:
tense, melancholic, art house, independent film, dark ...
Plot:
character study, female protagonist, single mother, lesbian, existential loneliness, intimacy, secrets, caretaker, young woman, moral ambiguity, trauma, claustrophobia ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Youngsoo hears that his girlfriend, Minjung, has recently had drinks with another man. This leads to a quarrel that seems to end their relationship. The next day, Youngsoo tries to find her. As he wanders, Minjung has a series of encounters with ...
Style:
art film, art house, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
unrequited love, ambiguity, unfulfilled love, brawl, in love, couple relations, bickering couple, romantic rivalry, male female relationship, satire, romantic relationship, relationships ...
Place:
seoul
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The lonely Charlie Bickle works in a morgue owned by the corrupt Dr. Dale Brodsky cremating bodies and lives with his crippled wife Mary. Dr. Dale illegally sells body parts before the cremation, bribing dirty policemen. When Charlie meets the ...
Style:
bleak, melancholic, crime drama, dark comedy, surreal ...
Plot:
morgue, crematorium, forbidden love, macabre, haunting, obsessive love, existential loneliness, mature, character study, tragic romance, police corruption, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
year 2002
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A mysterious young woman materializes in the middle of the southwestern desert, where each step teaches her about her new world and her new body. As she assumes her new life, she discovers she has a twin with whom she shares more than just an ...
Style:
tense, captivating, psychological, suspenseful, mysterious ...
Plot:
female protagonist, twins, self discovery, imitation, desert, body double, identity, introspection, twin sister, secret, space, identity crisis ...
Place:
new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A middle-aged man tries to get by in Milan while trying to retain his dignity.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, touching, light ...
Plot:
bittersweet, family relations, fall in love, parents and children, society, love and romance, workplace situations, workplace, father son relationship, optimism, humanism, character study ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When Suzy arrives in London to visit an old school friend, she is unwittingly plunged into the ruthless world of the 'groupie'. Fuelled by sex, drugs and jealousy, her new lifestyle fosters in her a cold, cynical instinct for survival. But ...
Style:
independent film, offbeat, period drama, sexploitation film
Plot:
rock music, sexploitation, lesbian, exploitation, female protagonist, female sexuality, casual sex, survival, sensuality, drug use, street life, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
70s
Place:
london
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Singapore
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Put in charge of his young son, Ali leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Ali's bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.
Style:
sexy, sentimental, independent film, sad, touching ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
depression, disabled person, disability, sex, illegal fistfight, orca, ex boxer, amputee, relationships, family drama, opposites attract, redemption ...
Time:
2010s, y2k, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
france, cote d'azur, south of france, french riviera, europe ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Belgium, Poland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
After a painful journey through Europe, Alex, the Belarusian, joins the Foreign Legion in France and clings to a confused hope of a European identity. Jomo, the Nigerian, fights for the survival and durability of his people in the Niger Delta and is ...
Style:
tense, thrilling, suspenseful, captivating
Plot:
foreign legion, immigrant, french foreign legion, hostage, soldier, military, oil field, black man, illegal immigration, military training, guilt, rebel ...
Place:
paris france, france, guyana
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Emile Chenal and his wife, Françoise, leaned on boxing manager Jim Fox Warner to cough up the considerable sum of money that he owes them, with both the police and the mob circling the situation. In the same hotel, Inspector Neveu looks into a ...
Style:
neo noir, detective, contemplative, tense, talky ...
Plot:
female nudity, murder, mafia, existential loneliness, existential crisis, sadness, melancholy, boxing, hotel room, boxer, money, cop ...
Time:
year 1985, 80s
Place:
paris france, france, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Someone we hear talking - but whom we do not see - speaks of a project which describes the four key moments of love: meeting, physical passion, arguments/separation and making up. This project is to be told through three couples: young, adult and ...
Style:
philosophical, stylized, psychological, enigmatic, contemplative ...
Plot:
art, humanity, life & death, politics, artist, philosophy, painter, existentialism, memory, existential loneliness, minimalism, women ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
france, paris france, europe, japan, tokyo
Is relevant?
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: Germany, Japan, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
On the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange North American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.
Style:
atmospheric, bleak, gloomy, tense, offbeat ...
Plot:
journey, gunfight, transformation, wilderness, indians, cowboy, murder, on the road, accountant, modern west, culture clash, existentialism ...
Time:
19th century, year 1995, 1870s, 90s, victorian era
Place:
usa, cleveland ohio, pacific ocean, england
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 229 min.
Story:
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
Style:
ambiguous ending, melancholic, epic, breathtaking, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids, adult
Plot:
gangster, organized crime, mafia, friendship, prohibition, rape, betrayal, childhood friend, gunfight, murder, corruption, flashback ...
Time:
1930s, 60s, 1920s, 20th century, year 1984 ...
Place:
new york, usa, bronx new york city, america, china ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take ...
Style:
independent film, art house, philosophical, slow cinema, contemplative ...
Plot:
suicide, desert, soldier, existentialism, death, abrupt ending, muslim, dialogue, iranian, depression, hopelessness, conversation ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
iran, middle east, persia, tehran iran, asia ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Russia, Italy, Switzerland, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The Sun (Russian: Сóлнце, Solntse) is a 2005 Russian biographical film depicting Japanese Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito) during the final days of World War II. The film is the third drama in director Aleksandr Sokurov's trilogy, which included ...
Style:
disturbing, thought provoking, serious, captivating, slow cinema ...
Plot:
world war two, emperor, military, leadership, politics, wartime life, society, head of state, state affairs, totalitarianism, manic, defeat ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1945, post world war two
Place:
japan, soviet union, tokyo, asia
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Two melancholy Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious female underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant he frequents.
Style:
art house, atmospheric, cult classic, visual, visually stunning ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
loneliness, multiple storylines, food, serendipity, femme fatale, love story, relationships, fall in love, breakup, amor, drug smuggling, police officer ...
Time:
90s, year 1994, 20th century
Place:
hong kong, china, california, asia, taiwan ...
Is relevant?
45K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, UK, Germany, Poland, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A father and his daughter struggle to survive in deep space where they live in isolation.
Style:
suspense, psychological, visually stunning, psychotronic, exciting ...
Audience:
toddlers, adult
Plot:
survival, astronaut, spaceship, space mission, galaxy, baby, trapped in space, outer space, deep space, experiment, father daughter relationship, taboo ...
Time:
2010s, future, year 2019
Is relevant?
60K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.
Style:
depressing, bleak, atmospheric, thought provoking, emotional ...
Plot:
lawyer, adultery, corruption, politics, courtroom, poverty, small town, corrupt mayor, alcohol abuse, drunk, alcoholism, small town life ...
Time:
2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place:
russia, soviet union
Is relevant?
35K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A police officer leaves the force in the face of harrowing personal and professional difficulties. Spiraling into a depression, he makes questionable decisions.
Style:
bloody, emotional, bleak, art house, lyrical ...
Plot:
police, yakuza, gangster, character study, dying, death, samurai, loss, loss of partner, loss of loved one, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time:
20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia, mount fuji, india
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
Itinerant projection-equipment repairman Bruno Winter (Rüdiger Vogler) and depressed hitchhiker Robert Lander (Hanns Zischler)--a doctor who has just been through a break-up with his wife and a half-hearted suicide attempt--travel along the Western ...
Style:
road movie, black and white, contemplative, art house, spiritual ...
Plot:
on the road, male pubic hair, male nudity, travel, cat, existential loneliness, cinema, bus, border, caught masturbating, loneliness, father son relationship ...
Time:
year 1976, 70s, 20th century
Place:
germany, west germany, berlin germany, europe, german democratic republic
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A man returns to the place he once lived a passionate love affair with a woman who is now dead. So powerful are the emotions that seize him that he imagines she is still alive, and begins to live as if this were the case...
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, atmospheric, art house, poetic ...
Plot:
loneliness, obsession, grief, mourning, passion, loss, memory, delusion, male protagonist, symbolism, haunting, flashback ...
Place:
india, france, normandy
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Belgium, France, Italy, Germany, USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
An acclaimed novelist struggles to write an analysis of love in one of three stories, each set in a different city, that detail the beginning, middle and end of a relationship.
Style:
sexy, tricky, twisted, suspense, intense ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night
Plot:
multiple storylines, love, incest, female nudity, trauma, hotel room, guilt, unfaithful husband, estrangement, couples, love and romance, lifestyle ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
paris france, rome italy, europe, italy, new york ...
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