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Neither of these is the better film. They are just at opposite ends.
51 films tagged loneliness, showing 50
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2003 · Drama
An ageing actor shooting a whisky advert in Tokyo and a young woman waiting on her photographer husband keep running into each other in the same hotel. They spend a few days wandering the city, mostly talking.
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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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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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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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2014 · Horror
In an Iranian ghost town, a lonely young man with a nice car crosses paths with a skateboarding vampire in a chador. Black and white, very slow, and more mood than plot.
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Little-known
2006 · Drama
A Stasi officer in 1984 East Berlin is assigned to bug a playwright's flat and listen, day after day. What he hears starts to work on him.
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2013 · Adventure
A photo archivist who daydreams elaborately and does very little finally leaves the building, chasing a missing negative across Greenland and Iceland. The daydreams stop once the trip starts.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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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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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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Little-known
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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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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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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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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Little-known
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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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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Little-known
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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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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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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2002 · Comedy
A lonely man who sells novelty bathroom supplies, has seven sisters, and loses his temper in ways he cannot explain meets a woman who likes him anyway. Loud in odd places, and ninety minutes long.
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2000 · Drama
Four people in Brooklyn, three of them young and one a widowed mother waiting on a call from a TV game show, each get hooked on something over the course of a year. Cut fast and hard, and it gets grimmer the longer it runs.
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Little-known
2022 · Drama
A twenty-five-year-old adopted from Korea and raised in France lands in Seoul on a whim and asks the agency to find her birth parents. It follows her on and off for years, and she is not easy company.
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2023 · Animation
A lonely dog in 1980s New York orders a robot for company, and the two of them spend a summer together. Nobody speaks a single word in the whole film.
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2019 · Horror
A young hospice nurse who has recently found God is sent to look after a former dancer dying at home, and decides the woman's soul is her responsibility. Small, quiet and very close to one person.
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2011 · Drama
A man with a good job in New York builds his whole life around sex, and then his sister turns up with nowhere else to stay. Cold and slow, holding on shots for a long time.
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2021 · Drama
Three days at Christmas 1991 with Princess Diana at the royal family's country estate, weighed down by schedules, meals and being watched. It stays close to her throughout and moves slowly; more mood than story.
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2002 · Drama
Two men meet at a Madrid clinic where each is sitting with a woman in a coma, and become friends over months of talking to them. Quiet and slow, in Spanish, and it goes to some uncomfortable places.
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2022 · Comedy
On a small Irish island in 1923, a man is told by his only friend, with no warning and no reason given, that they are not friends any more. Two men, a pub and a lot of talking, and it gets darker as it goes.
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2015 · Horror
Two students are left behind at a Catholic boarding school over the winter break, while a young woman hitches a ride through the snow toward them. Very slow, very quiet, and told out of order.
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2023 · Comedy
A disliked teacher at a New England boarding school is stuck minding the boy nobody collected for Christmas 1970, along with the cook who has just lost her son. Slow, snowy, and mostly the three of them.
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2019 · Horror
Two keepers are left alone on a rock off the New England coast in the 1890s, and the boat that should collect them does not come. Black and white, a boxy old frame, two men and a lot of drink.
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2015 · Science fiction
In a world where single people are sent to a hotel and given forty-five days to pair off or be turned into an animal of their choosing, a newly dumped man checks in. Everybody speaks flatly, on purpose, and the rules are followed to the letter.
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2013 · Romance
Mumbai's lunchbox service delivers a wife's cooking to the wrong desk, and the man who eats it writes back. Most of the film is two people passing notes, in a city that never stops moving.
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2017 · Fantasy
A mute cleaner at a secret government lab in 1962 Baltimore starts leaving boiled eggs for the creature they are keeping in a tank. A fairy tale for grown-ups, with a Cold War thriller running underneath.
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2024 · Horror
A fitness-show host dropped by television on her fiftieth birthday takes a black-market drug that promises a younger version of herself. It gets very graphic, and the last stretch does not hold back.
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2013 · Horror
A woman drives a van around Glasgow picking up men, and she is not from here. Very slow, almost no dialogue, and long stretches of black space and noise.
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2011 · Romance
Two men meet in a Nottingham club on a Friday night and spend the next two days together, mostly talking in a flat. One of them leaves the country on Sunday.
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