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114 films tagged loneliness, showing 50
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2025 · Comedy
On the opening night of Oklahoma! in 1943, the lyricist Lorenz Hart slips away to a Broadway bar and holds court, sore about the hit his old partner wrote without him. One room, and almost all talk.
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2025 · Drama
An Irish financier hiding in Macau under a borrowed title lives between hotels and baccarat tables, drinking, running out of money and waiting for his luck to turn. Slow, sweaty and mostly one man.
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2025 · Comedy
A 94-year-old moves to New York after her closest friend dies, wanders into a support group for Holocaust survivors, and starts telling her friend's story as her own. A young student takes an interest.
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2025 · Drama
After her father dies suddenly, a woman buys a goshawk and gives herself over to training it, pulling away from everyone else while she does. Mostly her, the bird, and the fields.
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2025 · Drama
Two men meet by chance in a London pub on a cold December night and end up spending the whole of it together, talking. A two-hander across one night, with both of them in a bad way.
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2025 · Drama
During the Paris Olympics, a hearing-impaired woman managing short-term flats gets through the noise by taking her hearing aids out. Then an American visitor turns up. Short, and it drifts.
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2025 · Drama
Ari passes his teaching exam, breaks down nine months into the job and is pushed out of his father's house. He wanders the city feverish, running into old friends, and the film wanders with him.
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2025 · Drama
A well-known TV host, married and successful, feels finished with his career and starts secretly writing stories, while a strange new acquaintance tells him fantastical tales. Slow and small, a man drifting.
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2025 · Drama
A washed-up tennis pro coaching tourists at a Fuerteventura resort spends his nights drinking, and then a guest asks him to teach her son. Slow, sunlit, and it stays inside his aimless routine.
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2025 · Drama
A single mother making a documentary about the lack of affection in her Barcelona neighbourhood ends up in a wheelchair after an accident, and old friends gather round. Adapted from a play, and it is mostly talk.
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2025 · Comedy
An American actor stuck in Tokyo taking whatever work he can get joins an agency that hires people out to play family members and friends for strangers. It is a run of separate jobs, each a small story about someone else.
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2025 · Horror
An astronaut crash-lands after her shuttle is hit, and is kept alone in a rural cottage while the Pentagon works out what happened. Strange things start in the woods, and it is mostly her.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Drama
Several couples across urban India work through infidelity, doubt and loneliness in love stories that keep crossing into each other. Nearly three hours, a lot of songs, and it moves between strands.
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2022 · Horror
Two young cannibals meet in 1980s America and drive its back roads together, keeping clear of towns and of others like them. A road film and a first-love story, with a lot of blood in it.
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2025 · Drama
A post office clerk who published one book of poems fifty years ago is tracked down by a young admirer and taken up by a circle of rich would-be writers who treat him as a lost master. It is small and quiet, and it stays with him.
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2015 · Drama
A young woman leaves a small Irish town for New York in the 1950s, homesick and alone until she meets someone. Gentle and slow, and mostly about one person working out where she belongs.
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2026 · Action
Four years after a spell wiped him from everyone's memory, Peter Parker guards New York anonymously while his old friends move back to town. Then someone starts attacking the facilities holding the people he locked up.
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2018 · Thriller
A young man getting by on delivery work runs into a girl from his old neighbourhood, and when she comes back from a trip abroad she has a rich, easy-going friend with her. Very slow, and it holds a lot back.
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2026 · Crime
A careful Los Angeles jewel thief plans his robberies to avoid violence, and a detective who thinks one man is behind them all cannot get anyone to listen. It cuts between the two of them.
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2018 · Comedy
A broke and prickly New York biographer works out that she can pay the rent by writing letters in dead authors' voices and selling them. Dry, funny, and largely two people drinking in bars.
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2026 · Science fiction
Years after a flu killed almost everybody, a former mechanic lives by an airstrip outside Denver with his dog and a survivalist neighbour who shoots strangers on sight. A radio signal from the west keeps coming and going.
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2026 · Drama
An elderly widow cleaning an aquarium at night keeps company with a captive octopus, and takes in a broke young musician who turns up in town needing work. It moves slowly and stays with the three of them.
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2016 · Drama
A father raising six children off the grid in the forest has to bring them into ordinary America for the first time. Funny and sad in the same scene, and mostly about what the kids make of him.
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2026 · Romance
Three lonely people who work at one department store fall in together, one of them a stockroom clerk who hides from the way people look at her. It is slow, and it stays with the three of them.
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2026 · Science fiction
A programmer grieving his wife takes home a companion android and quietly rewrites her code so she can feel more than she was built to. She learns quickly, and starts going out into the world by herself.
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2026 · Drama
A freelance proofreader who lives alone by a strict routine finds it starting to loosen after she meets a reserved high school physics teacher. Slow and small, built around her days and the one person who comes into them.
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2026 · Comedy
Olga lives alone and by strict routine in a huge Mexico City block of flats until money forces her to rent out a room, and her lodger has secretly brought his young son. It moves very slowly.
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2011 · Crime
A Hollywood stunt driver takes getaway jobs at night and keeps himself to himself, until his neighbour's husband comes home from prison. Long quiet stretches, then sudden and very hard violence.
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2018 · Comedy
A thirteen-year-old girl posts advice videos nobody watches and tries to get through the last week of middle school. Small scenes shot close up, and often hard to watch out of sheer embarrassment.
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2004 · Romance
After a bad breakup a shy man learns his girlfriend has had him wiped from her memory, and books the same procedure for himself. Most of it happens inside his head over one night, with the rooms coming apart around him.
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2023 · Comedy
Two lonely people in Helsinki, both scraping by on bad jobs, meet at a karaoke bar and keep losing track of each other. Short, very quiet, deadpan, and in Finnish.
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2017 · Drama
The minister of a small, nearly empty church in upstate New York starts keeping a journal and agrees to counsel a young man who is frightened about the climate. Slow, quiet, mostly one man alone.
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2001 · Romance
A shy Paris waitress decides to quietly arrange other people's lives for the better, and finds her own much harder to touch. Bright colours, small schemes, and a lot of narration.
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2013 · Science fiction
A medical engineer on her first shuttle mission is left drifting when debris tears the craft apart, with limited air and no way to call home. Ninety minutes of one problem after another, mostly in silence.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2013 · Science fiction
A lonely man in a near-future Los Angeles, who writes other people's love letters for a living, installs an operating system that talks back. Quiet and warm-looking, and largely one man talking to a voice.
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2024 · Horror
Two lonely teenagers in the suburbs bond over a late-night TV show about girls fighting monsters, and one of them cannot let it go. It is slow and dreamlike, and more sad than scary.
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2000 · Romance
Two neighbours in 1960s Hong Kong work out that their husband and wife are seeing each other, and start spending evenings together. Slow and quiet, mostly small talk in corridors and stairwells, in Cantonese.
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2013 · Drama
A folk singer in 1961 Greenwich Village sleeps on other people's sofas, plays a set most nights, and cannot get a record to sell. A week of his life, mostly cold streets and a cat he cannot shake off.
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2019 · Drama
A clown-for-hire in a filthy 1980s city looks after his mother, takes seven kinds of pills and wants to do stand-up. The camera never leaves him, and it turns grim very early.
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2008 · Horror
A bullied twelve-year-old in a snowed-in Stockholm suburb makes friends with the girl who has moved in next door and only comes out at night. It is very quiet and very cold, and it takes its time.
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2012 · Adventure
A boy from a zoo-owning family in India ends up adrift in a lifeboat in the Pacific with a Bengal tiger, telling the story years later to a writer. Long stretches of just the boat, the boy and the animal.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2024 · Animation
A woman in Melbourne tells her life story to her pet snail: a twin brother sent to the other side of the country, foster homes, and a collection of things she cannot throw away. Clay animation, narrated all the way through, and sad more often than not.
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2016 · Drama
A Boston handyman is made guardian of his teenage nephew after his brother dies, which means going back to the town he left. The reason he left comes out slowly.
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2009 · Science fiction
A man three years into a solo contract mining the far side of the Moon, with a talking computer for company, has two weeks left before he goes home. One man, one base, and hardly anyone else in it.
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2020 · Drama
After her town in Nevada empties out, a woman in her sixties packs her life into a van and takes seasonal work across the American west. Not much plot, real people playing themselves, a lot of sky.
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2022 · Horror
In 1918 a young woman stuck on her family's Texas farm while her husband is away at war dreams of dancing in pictures. Bright, slow, and mostly her on the same few acres.
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2023 · Drama
A man who cleans public toilets in Tokyo gets up before dawn, works his round, reads a paperback and does the same again tomorrow. Almost nothing happens, on purpose, and he barely speaks.
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2021 · Drama
A man who lives alone in the Oregon woods with his truffle pig goes back into Portland when somebody takes her. Quiet and slow, and much of it is people talking about food.
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1994 · Romance
Two Hong Kong policemen, both recently left by someone, drift through the same late-night food stall in two separate stories. Loose, fast-cut, and more about routine than plot.
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2023 · Drama
A fourteen-year-old army daughter in Germany is invited to a party at Elvis Presley's house, and spends the next decade mostly waiting for him inside Graceland. Quiet and slow, almost entirely from her side of the room.
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