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List of existential loneliness movies

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A Summer's Tale (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A shy maths graduate takes a holiday in Dinard before starting his first job. He hopes his sort-of girlfriend will join him, but soon strikes up a friendship with another girl working in town. She in turn introduces him to a further young lady who ...
Style: art house, anthology, cute, artsy, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: summer, love, fall in love, graduation, glamour, friendship, time travel, mathematician, journey, crazy love, love hurts, daily life ...
Time: 90s, year 1996, year 1995
Place: france, europe, brittany, english channel
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Palermo or Wolfsburg (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 173 min.
Story: Palermo or Wolfsburg (German: Palermo oder Wolfsburg) is a 1980 film by Werner Schroeter. It tells the story of an Italian immigrant who comes to West Germany in search of work.
Style: thought provoking, captivating, serious, realistic, stylized ...
Plot: law, migration, courtroom, immigrant, society, misfit, rivalry, love and romance, social misfits, life is a bitch, fall in love, disorder ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: germany, italy, europe, sicily
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The State of Things (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, Portugal, France, Spain, Netherlands, UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's The Day the World Ended (1956) . The producer is nowhere to be found and director Munro attempts to find him in hopes of being able to finish ...
Style: contemplative, spiritual, black and white, independent film, semi serious ...
Plot: filmmaking, children, film industry, spirituality, art, chaos, film producer, showbiz, disorder, chases and races, workplace, nothing goes right ...
Time: year 1982, 20th century, 80s
Place: los angeles, germany, portugal, europe, usa
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 7.8
 13K
Poetry (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea, France
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Grandmother Mi Ja works part-time as a caretaker, and struggles to raise a teen grandson by herself. Despite her tough situation, she speaks softly, dresses fashionably, and approaches the world with child-like curiosity. Enrolling in a poetry ...
Style: touching, sincere, emotional, realistic, lyrical ...
Plot: loneliness, bullying, self discovery, teenage rape, suicide, existentialism, teenager, introspection, society, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, grandparent and grandchild ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, 21st century
Place: korea, japan, south korea, asia
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 7.8
 21K
The Silence (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check into a near-empty hotel. A basic inability to communicate among the three seems only to worsen ...
Style: art house, black and white, sexual, erotic, cerebral ...
Plot: existentialism, female orgasm, religion, dysfunctional family, female masturbation, illness, translator, war zone, room, sibling rivalry, lesbianism, hotel room ...
Time: year 1963, 20th century, 60s
Place: europe
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 7.3
 181K
Nomadland (2020)
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, social, sad, sincere ...
Audience: adult
Plot: van, homeless, traveler, motor home, loss of job, on the road, journey, nomad, road trip, homelessness, snow, loneliness ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 90s, year 2011
Place: nevada, nebraska, arizona
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 7.1
 1K
Sue (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: An unemployed ex-office worker (Anna Thomson) searching for work floats a fragile line of sanity as she struggles to find friendship and companionship. Her tenuous grasp on reality further fluctuates when a man (Matthew Powers) whom she met in a ...
Style: heartbreaking, independent film, contemplative, captivating, serious ...
Plot: society, unemployment, girl, women, social injustice, poverty, homeless, fetish, frustration, casual sex, mental health, couples ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, usa
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Mother and Son (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, Germany
Duration: 73 min.
Story: A slow and poignant story of love and patience told via a dying mother nursed by her devoted son. The simple narrative is a thread woven among the deeply spiritual images of the countryside and cottage.
Style: contemplative, slow cinema, depressing, aesthetic, realistic ...
Plot: art, biopic, countryside, youth, childhood, mental disorder, landscape, mother and son, spirituality, minimal dialogue, artist, underground ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: soviet union, russia
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 6.5
 259K
Ad Astra (2019)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Brazil
Duration: 123 min.
Story: An astronaut travels to the outer edges of the solar system to find his father and unravel a mystery that threatens the survival of our planet. He uncovers secrets which challenge the nature of human existence and our place in the cosmos.
Style: exciting, suspense, futuristic, touching, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: space exploration, outer space, astronaut, moon, solar system, obsession, father son relationship, space pirate, space travel, spacecraft, trapped in space, space station ...
Time: 2010s, future, year 2019, near future
Place: space western
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 6.3
 927
Going Away (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Two unlikely friends — a supply teacher and a lonely young boy suspended between two estranged parents — embark on a weekend motorcycle voyage full of surprises and unforeseen consequences in this surprisingly tough, unsentimental drama.
Style: realistic, serious, tense, touching, captivating ...
Plot: haunted by the past, hopes, redemption, weekend, loneliness, women, neglected child, family problems, dysfunctional family, young boy, manor, existential loneliness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, french riviera, south of france
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White Material (2009)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Cameroon
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Maria is a White farmer who runs a failing coffee plantation in an unnamed African country in the present day. Civil war has broken out and rebel soldiers, many of them child soldiers, are advancing on the area. Rebels on the radio advocate attacks ...
Style: serious, disturbing, realistic, emotional, rough ...
Plot: coffee, family relations, civil war, chaos, political unrest, family business, family in danger, state affairs, danger, single parent, colonialism, african ...
Time: 90s, year 2009, 2000s
Place: africa
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 7.9
 24K
The Night (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A married couple attend a bourgeois party and wade through the stifling strain that long-term marriage has imposed upon them.
Style: cerebral, art house, erotic, black and white, neorealism ...
Plot: writers, infidelity, hospital, midlife crisis, love, relationships, marriage, family relations, crumbling marriage, alienation, dysfunctional family, night ...
Time: year 1961, 60s, 20th century
Place: italy, mediterranean sea, milan italy, usa, europe ...
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The Wanderings of Ivan (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 75 min.
Story: During a beautiful summer, Ivan, a young Russian arriving in Paris, lives in extreme precariousness. Without money, isolated, deprived of everything, victim of general indifference, even rejected by his Orthodox community, he soon left the big city ...
Style: crying, homoerotic, multicultural, psychotronic, avant garde ...
Plot: lgbt, male prostitution, gay, prostitute, immigration, gay interest, older man younger man relationship, gay cruising, blond boy, immigrant, prostitution, tramp ...
Place: paris france
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 7.0
 11K
A Cop (1972)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Commissaire Edouard Coleman is a Paris police chief whose life investigating violent crimes has left him despondent. After beginning an affair with a beautiful but cold woman named Cathy, he befriends her boyfriend, Simon, a local nightclub owner. ...
Style: neo noir, visually appealing, hood, noir, suspense ...
Plot: gang, caper, french police, gangster, train robbery, heist, criminal, corruption, robbery, police inspector, driver, bank robbery ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france, europe
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 6.8
 2K
Winter Boy (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Lucas is a 17-year-old gay teenager coping with the sudden and unexpected death of his father in an accident that may or may not have been suicide. He views his life as a wild animal in need of taming. Between a brother settled in Paris and a mother ...
Style: psychological, captivating, thrilling, homoerotic
Plot: male nudity, coming of age, social problems, life is a bitch, social issues, adolescence vs adulthood, grownups, gay sex, male male relationship, teenage boy, teenage sex, homosexual subtext ...
Place: paris france, alps
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 6.5
 935
Wonderful Town (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Takua Pa is a small town in the South of Thailand. Ever since the tsunami, people have lost their jobs and remember better times in the past. One day a stranger comes to town. His name is Ton, he is an architect. He rents a room in a small hotel ...
Style: atmospheric, realistic, emotional, captivating, serious ...
Plot: love affair, social relations, fall in love, couples, seaside town, small town, hotel, secret, love and romance, family relations, small town life, handsome man ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand, asia
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 7.4
 61K
2046 (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Hong Kong, China, France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life, over the course of a few years, after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.
Style: touching, surreal, contemplative, emotional, art house ...
Plot: writers, writer's life, love, androids, road not taken, sensuality, haunted by the past, old friend, coincidence, destiny, memory, introspection ...
Time: future, 60s, year 2004, 2040s, y2k ...
Place: hong kong, china, singapore, east asia, asia
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 7.0
 8K
Martin Eden (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 129 min.
Story: The tale of an individualist proletarian in a time marked by the rise of mass political movements. In early 20th-century Italy, illiterate sailor Martin Eden seeks fame as a writer while torn between the love of a bourgeois girl and allegiance to ...
Style: social, touching, emotional, sentimental, sweet ...
Plot: individualism, class struggle, love at first sight, love and romance, social differences, couples, secret love, love affair, young lovers, love triangle, writers, biopic ...
Time: 70s
Place: naples italy, italy
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 7.0
 12K
As Tears Go By (1988)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Two parallel stories of Wah caught in the mist of a love affair with his beloved cousin, Ngor and his relationship with his triad brother, Fly, who seems to never fall out of trouble.
Style: neo noir, crime drama, psychedelic, surreal, mind bending ...
Plot: triad, friendship, anti hero, mob hit, criminal underworld, brother brother relationship, thug, gang leader, bloody violence, love, gang, heroic bloodshed ...
Time: 80s
Place: hong kong, china, asia
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Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Bob and his friends Dianne, Rick and Nadine have been drug addicts for years and live from one high to the next. Gus Van Sant attempts to show an intimate look into the lives of heroin addicts with his film Drugstore Cowboy.
Style: road movie, independent film, cult classic, depressing, dark ...
Audience: teens
Plot: drug abuse, junkie, addiction, heroin, drug addiction, drug, on the road, friendship, dark humor, drug addict, beat generation, recovery ...
Time: 70s, year 1989, 20th century, year 1971
Place: usa, portland oregon
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 7.7
 78K
Badlands (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Dramatization of the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of the 1950s, in which a teenage girl and her twenty-something boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands.
Style: road movie, rough, surreal, visual, art house ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: serial killer, on the road, killing spree, road trip, lovers on the run, psychopath, killer, on the run, murder, father daughter relationship, first sex, true crime ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, year 1973, 1950s
Place: south dakota, montana, usa, wyoming
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 6.6
 2K
Days (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Kang lives alone in a big house, Non in a small apartment in town. They meet, and then part, their days flowing on as before.
Style: psychological, sincere, disturbing, slow cinema, erotic drama ...
Plot: massage, society, gay sex, gay, lgbt, friendship, disorder, class differences, youth, social satire, life philosophy, unemployment ...
Place: taiwan
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The Woman Who Left (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 226 min.
Story: After spending the last 30 years in prison, Horacia is immediately released when someone else confessed to the crime. Still overwhelmed by her new freedom, she comes to the painful realization that her aristocratic former lover had set her up. As ...
Style: psychological thriller, black and white
Plot: revenge, love letter, underground, gays and lesbians, slum, prison, slow burn, released from prison, lawyer, night, transvestite, false accusation ...
Time: year 1997
Place: the philippines
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 7.4
 5K
Vive L'Amour (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Three lonely young denizens of Taipei unknowingly share an apartment: Mei, a real estate agent who uses it for her sexual affairs; Ah-jung, her current lover; and Hsiao-ang, who's stolen the key and uses the apartment as a retreat.
Style: erotic, disturbing, meditative, atmospheric, slow cinema ...
Plot: sex, love triangle, character study, multiple storylines, friendship, art, dysfunctional family, storytelling, drug, love and romance, couples, jealousy ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: taiwan, taipei, asia
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Rebels of the Neon God (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Defying his parents, disaffected youth Hsiao Kang drops out of the local cram school to head for the bright lights of downtown Taipei. He falls in with Ah Tze, a young hoodlum, and their relationship is a confused mixture of hero-worship and rivalry ...
Style: slow cinema, neo noir, existential, aesthetic, art house ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: youth, vandalism, dysfunctional family, nihilism, revenge, street life, haunting, lgbtq, minimalism, underground, existentialism, mental disorder ...
Time: 90s
Place: taiwan, taipei
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Woman on the Beach (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Stymied by writer's block while crafting his latest script, director Kim Jung-rae persuades his friend Won Chang-wook to drive him to a beach resort—where he promptly becomes involved with Chang-wook's girlfriend. Abandoning her and ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, semi serious, touching, emotional ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love triangle, resort, rudeness, love and romance, wooing, unfulfillment, obsession, infidelity, vampire, adultery, artists and showbiz, moon ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: asia, korea, seoul, south korea
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 6.7
 1K
Our Sunhi (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Sunhi from the Department of Film stops by the school one day to get a letter of recommendation from Professor Choi to leave to the US. She expects him to write her a nice one since he took favor to her. She runs into two men from the past ...
Style: humorous, realistic, captivating, sincere, romantic ...
Plot: love triangle, love affair, wooing, youth, coming of age, homecoming, professor, filmmaking, love and romance, twentysomething life, artists and showbiz, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, korea
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Last Tango in Paris (1972)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A young Parisian woman begins a sordid affair with a middle-aged American businessman who lays out ground rules that their clandestine relationship will be based only on sex.
Style: erotic, disturbing, sexy, art house, controversial ...
Audience: adult
Plot: grief, tango, strong sexual content, erotica, lust, older man younger woman relationship, suicide, hotel, sex scene, relationships, profanity, sex ...
Time: 70s, year 1972, near future, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
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 7.3
 6K
The Eel (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story: White-collar worker Yamashita finds out that his wife has a lover visiting her when he's away, suddenly returns home and kills her. After eight years in prison, he returns to live in a small village, opens a barber shop (he was trained as a ...
Style: enigmatic, captivating, psychological, touching, independent film ...
Plot: self discovery, starting over, human nature, social relations, hopes, crimes of passion, haunted by the past, murder, suicide attempt, prison, adultery, obsession ...
Time: year 1997, 90s, 80s
Place: japan, asia
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 7.0
 11K
Under the Sand (2000)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When her husband goes missing at the beach, a female professor begins to mentally disintegrate as her denial of his disappearance becomes delusional.
Style: bleak, enigmatic, melancholic, stylized, atmospheric ...
Plot: love, disappearance, obsession, relationships, delusion, tourist, love and romance, coping, haunted by the past, couple relations, mentally unstable, female masturbation ...
Time: 2000s, year 2000, 90s, 20th century
Place: paris france, europe, france
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