Movies: Loneliness

An orphaned teenager is visiting his parents’ grave - once a place of solace, now a reminder of his growing emptiness....

Edward Loneman, a teenager living alone and far from his family, doesn’t understand what he truly feels until a series of tragedies teach him valuable lessons....

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Ghost Story is a short film which follows a ghost who tries to befriend a lonely man. Together they overcome loneliness by finding companions in each other. As they grow a closer bond, they learn that they are worthy of love and friendship. Ghost Sto...

The intimate life of the mythical Candy Dubois, from her childhood in a correctional facility to her success with the "Blue Ballet" in the great "BIM BAM BUM"....

A lonely man begins to be stalked by someone who repeatedly knocks on his doors. This will generate in him a paranoia that will bring him closer to madness....

This holiday-themed melodrama released by Edison Studios in 1910 concerns Robert, a young man who leaves his mother’s home in New England to forge a career in the big city. When he achieves “fame and fortune” six years later, his proud mother can’t w...

A South Korean foreign exchange student experiences the hardships of being at a school far away from home....

This short animation film is based on a Tove Jansson picture book. It tells of the little knytt (“knytt” is a non-existing word signifying something tiny like a crumb) who is ever so lonely, but so shy that he is afraid to approach others. The story ...

A village mayor is trying to bring together local people in their thirties who are still single. 21st century social engineering in a situation documentary by Erika Hníková. Slowly but surely, the Slovak village of Zemplínske Hámre is dying out. But ...

"Too embarrassed to accept help, Tabitha lives alone in a (slightly stinky) pit of solitude. But even the stinkiest pits need tackling eventually, and Tabitha’s attempt to clean sends her tumbling into a world of softness—and sentient clothing."...

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Aeterna is a movement-based film that explores the feeling of personal insignificance when confronted with the complexity of human existence. By combining choreography and cinematography, the film plays with distorting the human form, offering a visu...

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A boy amidst the struggles in his journey of friendship has a decision to make....

Can there be a bleaker portrait of a life half-lived? Cinematic treatment of poet R.S. Thomas's story of Twm, the "shy soul" who lives and dies alone in the "grim house nailed to the mountainside", oblivious to the interest shown in him by young girl...

While the battle rages around an emptied city, one citizen battles loneliness through a variety of daily rituals....

The emotional need and the fear of exposing themselves make Etna and Dario learn to cope with loneliness....

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