Movies: Alienation

Social media corrupts the mind of a young University student--but can he escape the psychological torment of alienation?...

Lou and Noodles are consumers. Adrift and empty, they are separate from each other and from the world. Ruled by desire and uncontrollable drives to excess, they spend their solitary hours in spaces both real and unreal. Occasionally, they are in the ...

This is the story of three characters (brothers Tomek and Jacek and their neighbor Magda), each of them is in their own way lonely and alienated. The title character makes herself secluded. Tomek's alienation results from his neurological disease, an...

About the mysterious disappearance of a man who lives alone in a city where people are vanished mysteriously, who is alienated from society and ignorant to social tragedies....

A married, middle-aged professor meets a mysterious woman in the woods and has an affair with her....

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France: 2020s. Piotr, a young Polish immigrant stuck in a string of odd jobs, crosses paths with Stefano, a burly mover. Little did Piotr know, this encounter would soon draw him into the eerie world of nighttime fighting....

The film is about the band Stockholms Negrer, but also about what formed their music, about being Swedish but still being viewed as an outsider....

About how the social environment affects Mazhar's consciousness/inner world and his effort to get rid of the stuckness he is in....

A railway crossing guard and his wife live in a routine of total isolation and uneventfulness....

Sarah, head of the swimming team, self-harms to deal with the pressures of her life. A burgeoning friendship is her first step towards healing....

Alberto is dead and can no longer hide it. Make-up and perfume can no longer conceal his quickly decomposing body. Dismayed, he decides to withdraw from the world, whilst forming an unusual friendship with Luly, the manager of the 24-hour gym where h...

A young man overwhelmed by humdrum mechanized life chooses something different....

The main character of the film writes a diary. For over 20 years he has lived in a bunker and has not ventured outside. His only companions are ghosts of the past. He tries to find an explanation for the fateful course of events, which has destroyed ...

Mike lives in New York. Every day he walks in the streets and what he sees mixes with his thoughts, while his dreams blur with the mirages of the society of images. In such a large city it may be difficult to find a balance between the words and the ...

Two 17-year-old boys mark the new year by doing twelve dangerous but exciting tasks set for them by their friends....

The tale of Boris, a young musician living in Hollywood. We chronicle two days in the life of Boris as he experiences a bizarre and unsettling mystery that leads him on a journey to the Los Angeles River....

A satire about an alien who lands in Belgium and tries to attain citizenship. During the integration programme he experiences discrimination and unfairness whilst he just wants to fit in with the rest....

A hermitic stop-motion animator is tasked with caring for a collection of strange plants....

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