Loneliness Movies
Loneliness is one of cinema’s oldest subjects, and independent filmmakers have always approached it with the most honesty. The films in this collection follow people who are cut off from others, whether by choice, circumstance or the machinery of modern life. Dramas, comedies, documentaries and experimental works sit side by side, from classics of world cinema to little-known independent discoveries, all sharing a refusal to look away from the loneliness at the heart of ordinary lives.
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A Better Life
Movie
Drama, thriller, by Fabio Del Greco, Italy, 2007.
Rome: Andrea Casadei is a young investigator specializing in audio wiretapping who conducts investigations commissioned by husbands betrayed by their wives, or by parents worried about what their children are doing outside the home. But what inter... -
Return to Planet Underground
Movie
Drama, Thriller, by Gideon Homes, Netherlands, 2025.
A former underground techno DJ working in a large and famous law firm delves into the dark side of society. With one eye on the past and one on the future, he stirs up the ashes of the true underground. The demand of society to function superfi... -
Mystery of an Employee
Movie
Drama, thriller, by Fabio Del Greco, Italy, 2019.
Someone wants to control the life of the employee Giuseppe Russo: the products he buys, his political and religious faith, his private life, even his dreams. But he will do anything to escape control and find his true self. Giuseppe is a man of ar... -
Don Barry: A Quixotic Exploration
Movie + 2 extras
Docufiction, Experimental, by Paul Smart, Mexico, 2026.
Don Barry: A Quixotic Exploration is a debut feature that places the biography of an eighty-year-old experimental filmmaker and artist, Barry Gerson, within the metanarrative of Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote. Don Barry was filmed in the c... -
Children Of A Darker Dawn
Movie
Drama, horror, sci-fi, by Jason Figgis, United States, 2012.
In a post-apocalyptic Ireland, a pandemic has wiped out the adult population, struck down by a mutant strain of flu that turns them paranoid and violent before killing them. Nine months later, the surviving children wander through aband... -
The Ecstasy of Isabel Mann
Movie
Horror, thriller, by Jason Figgis, United States, 2016.
Set in Ireland, the film tells the story of Isabel Mann, an introverted and lonely teenager who is drawn into a dark and seductive world of blood, violence, and vampirism. As the story unfolds, Isabel undergoes a disturbing transformation—fr... -
Days Blows by in a Moment
Movie
Documentary, by Cristiana Donghi, Italy, 2022.
Ancilla is 86 years old. Two years ago, she moved in with her daughter Emanuela at the pandemic's beginning. Ancilla is slowly losing her memory. He does not remember what she had for lunch, she only remembers events from the past, perhaps only becau... -
The Sands
Movie + 1 extra
Science fiction, by Noah Paganotto, Argentina, 2022.
In an undetermined location on planet Earth, in an unknown time, Zoilo lives with his family in a wasteland surrounded by ruins. They live uprooted, without mothers, knowing that pregnancy for women is synonymous with death. For them there is o... -
The Girl from the Back Desk
Movie
Drama, by Matteo Piacenti, Corrado Bonicelli, Italy, 2020.
Viola is a lonely teenager who feels out of place in the world around her, inadequate and imperfect. The comfort and support of her parents and friends are of no use. Art is the only way she has to express herself: like a colorful mosaic,... -
The Ardor of the Timid
Movie
Comedy, drama, by Antonio Vladimir Marino, Italy, 2021.
The Ardor of the Timid is an ensemble film, which intersects different stories in the Neapolitan hinterland, represented in a curious suspension between tragedy and boutade. Five stories, five small universes: Mario, the girl, the homeless m... -
Bare Hands
Movie
Drama, adventure, by Andrea Malandra, Italy, 2021.
Daphne is a young woman fleeing the grayness of the city and her ghosts to find herself in contact with nature. She arrives in Abruzzo, a region that meets her expectations from a naturalistic point of view, but during an excursion she ends up ge... -
Nasumice
Movie
Drama, by Caleb Burdeau, United States/Italy/Bosnia, 2018.
Italy, 1994. The war in the Balkans drags on without end. Elvis, a young man from Sarajevo, is photographing tourists with his Polaroid to get by. After his camera is stolen, Elvis decides to visit Rodolfo, a stranger he met by chance in ... -
The Cow
Movie
Drama, by Dariush Mehrjui, Iran, 1969.
Based on the play by Gholam-Hossein Saedi, probably inspired by an Iranian legend that Prince Buyid Majd ad-Dawla considered himself a cow. Hassan loves his only cow more than anything else, a source of sustenance. When he leaves the village for a short time... -
B-52
Movie
Short film, drama, by Flavio Nani, Italy, 2021.
In the near future, new technology makes us even more alienated and hyper-connected. Marco, crushed by a boring and monotonous life, seeks his place in the world. When he meets Nico at a bar counter, he thinks he has finally found him. But it will e... -
Tokyo Story
Movie
Drama, by Yasujirô Ozu, Japan, 1953.
Shukichi and Tomi, now close to seventy, take a trip to Tokyo to visit their children before it's too late. When they arrive in the city, however, the welcome is not what they expected: the eldest son Koichi and his sister Shige have too many work commitments ... -
The Last Laugh
Movie
Drama, by F.W. Murnau, Germany, 1924.
Jannings is the doorman of the Atlantic hotel in Berlin, happy with his role and his uniform. But his boss thinks he is too old to receive customers at the entrance and sets him up to clean the bathrooms. Jannings, deeply troubled by what happened, gets drunk... -
The Exterminating Angel
Movie
Drama, by Luis Bunuel, Mexico, 1962.
The plot revolves around a group of people who gather in a sumptuous villa for a gala dinner. However, after dinner, they find that they are unable to leave the villa, despite the fact that the doors and windows are barred and the exits apparently blocked. Wha... -
There is a salad standing between us
Movie
Short film, comedy, by Alice Von Gwinner, Germany, 2017.
42nd Open Air Filmfest Weiterstadt / 49th Nashville Film festival. The length of their dining table and the unreachable salad bowl in the center has become a symbol of their slowly freezing relationship. Today the time has finally come to c... -
Corona days
Movie
Drama, by Fabio Del Greco, Italy, 2020.
A man remains alone at home due to the Corona virus emergency measures. Solitude, time, and space become his adversaries, while imagination, memories, and the yearning for freedom become his allies. Director Fabio Del Greco intimately and personally documen... -
The Kempinsky Method
Movie
Drama, by Federico Salsano, Italy 2020.
The introspective imaginary road movie of a man in the maze of his own mind, his memories of his youth, his never dormant passions and contradictory truths. The road is made of water, the destination is falsely unknown. His traveling companions are three my... -
Altin in the City
Movie
Drama, thriller, by Fabio Del Greco, Italy 2017.
Altin, aspiring Albanian writer arrived in Italy aboard a large ferry in the 90‘s, works in a butcher shop when he’s selected to audition for a reality of writers and finally sees a chance to be successful with his book “the journey of Ismail.” Unf... -
The Lost Poet
Movie
Drama, by Fabio Del Greco, Italy, 2024.
Dante Mezzadri wants to see an old friend, nicknamed the Iguana, whom he has lost sight of for many years, and who has managed to turn their shared youthful passion for poetry into a job, becoming a famous writer and poet. The man escapes from his bourgeois...