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Loneliness, alienation, romance

by arnalp • Created 11 years ago • Modified 2 years ago
My favorite films dealing with some or all of these themes.
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  • 3-Iron (2004)

    1. 3-Iron

    20041h 28mR72Metascore
    7.9 (60K)
    A transient young man breaks into empty homes to partake of the vacationing residents' lives for a few days.
    DirectorKim Ki-dukStarsLee Seung-yunJae HeeHyuk-ho Kwon
  • Jeong Jae-yeong in Castaway on the Moon (2009)

    2. Castaway on the Moon

    20091h 56mPG-13
    8.0 (20K)
    A failed suicide attempt leads a heartbroken man to live a life in the wilderness.
    DirectorLee Hae-junStarsJeong Jae-yeongJung Ryeo-wonYoung-Seo Park
  • A Short Film About Love (1988)

    3. A Short Film About Love

    19881h 27mNot Rated
    8.1 (27K)
    A naive inexperienced young man spies on a woman who lives across the courtyard, and falls in love with her. He starts using tricks which he hopes will lead to them meeting.
    DirectorKrzysztof KieslowskiStarsGrazyna SzapolowskaOlaf LubaszenkoStefania Iwinska
  • Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003)

    4. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring

    20031h 43mR85Metascore
    8.0 (89K)
    In the midst of the Korean wilderness, a Buddhist master patiently raises a boy while teaching wisdom and compassion through experience and endless exercises.
    DirectorKim Ki-dukStarsKim Ki-dukOh Yeong-suJong-ho Kim
  • Solaris (1972)

    5. Solaris

    19722h 47mPG93Metascore
    7.9 (103K)
    A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.
    DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsNatalya BondarchukDonatas BanionisJüri Järvet
  • Let the Right One In (2008)

    6. Let the Right One In

    20081h 54mR82Metascore
    7.8 (235K)
    A bullied boy forms a unique friendship with his new neighbor, who is a vampire.
    DirectorTomas AlfredsonStarsKåre HedebrantLina LeanderssonPer Ragnar
  • Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-wai in In the Mood for Love (2000)

    7. In the Mood for Love

    20001h 38mPG87Metascore
    8.1 (179K)
    Two neighbors form a strong bond after both suspect extramarital activities of their spouses. However, they agree to keep their bond platonic so as not to commit similar wrongs.
    DirectorWong Kar-WaiStarsMaggie CheungTony Leung Chiu-waiPing-Lam Siu
  • 2046 (2004)

    8. 2046

    20042h 9mR78Metascore
    7.4 (64K)
    Several women enter a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years, after the author has lost the woman he considers his one true love.
    DirectorWong Kar-WaiStarsTony Leung Chiu-waiZiyi ZhangFaye Wong
  • Scarlett Johansson in Lost in Translation (2003)

    9. Lost in Translation

    20031h 42mR91Metascore
    7.7 (514K)
    A fading movie star falls for a lonely young woman in Tokyo.
    DirectorSofia CoppolaStarsBill MurrayScarlett JohanssonGiovanni Ribisi
  • Last Life in the Universe (2003)

    10. Last Life in the Universe

    20031h 52mR73Metascore
    7.4 (12K)
    A suicidal, obsessively compulsive Japanese librarian is forced to lie low in Thailand with a pot-smoking woman coping with the recent loss of her sister.
    DirectorPen-Ek RatanaruangStarsTadanobu AsanoSinitta BoonyasakTakashi Miike
  • Sam Rockwell in Moon (2009)

    11. Moon

    20091h 37mR67Metascore
    7.8 (388K)
    Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet's power problems.
    DirectorDuncan JonesStarsSam RockwellKevin SpaceyDominique McElligott
  • Joaquin Phoenix in Her (2013)

    12. Her

    20132h 6mR91Metascore
    8.0 (706K)
    In the near future, a lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with an operating system designed to meet his every need.
    DirectorSpike JonzeStarsJoaquin PhoenixAmy AdamsScarlett Johansson
  • Ryan Gosling in Drive (2011)

    13. Drive

    20111h 40mR79Metascore
    7.8 (741K)
    A mysterious Hollywood action film stuntman gets in trouble with gangsters when he tries to help his neighbor's husband rob a pawn shop while serving as his getaway driver.
    DirectorNicolas Winding RefnStarsRyan GoslingCarey MulliganBryan Cranston
  • Takeshi Kaneshiro, Brigitte Lin, and Faye Wong in Chungking Express (1994)

    14. Chungking Express

    19941h 42mPG-1378Metascore
    7.9 (105K)
    Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious female underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal waitress at a late-night restaurant he frequents.
    DirectorWong Kar-WaiStarsBrigitte LinTakeshi KaneshiroTony Leung Chiu-wai
  • Leon Lai in Fallen Angels (1995)

    15. Fallen Angels

    19951h 39mNot Rated71Metascore
    7.5 (57K)
    This Hong Kong-set crime drama follows the lives of a hitman, hoping to get out of the business, and his elusive female partner.
    DirectorWong Kar-WaiStarsLeon LaiMichelle ReisTakeshi Kaneshiro
  • All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001)

    16. All About Lily Chou-Chou

    20012h 26mUnrated73Metascore
    7.5 (13K)
    The problematic lives of teenager students for whom the singer Lily Chou-Chou's dreamy music is the only way to escape an alienating, violent and insensitive society.
    DirectorShunji IwaiStarsHayato IchiharaShûgo OshinariAyumi Ito
  • Love Letter (1995)

    17. Love Letter

    19951h 57mPG
    7.9 (12K)
    After losing her fiance in a fatal mountain-climbing incident, Hiroko was devastated. She comes across his childhood address in a school yearbook and impulsively writes to him. But what happens when she receives a reply?
    DirectorShunji IwaiStarsMiho NakayamaEtsushi ToyokawaBunjaku Han
  • Kurai tokoro de machiawase (2006)

    18. Kurai tokoro de machiawase

    20062h 10m
    7.1 (358)
    A precarious loner sneaks into a blind woman's home and begins living there without her noticing. Meanwhile, the woman mourns her recently deceased father and struggles to remain connected to the world.
    DirectorDaisuke TenganStarsRena TanakaChen BolinHaruka Igawa
  • Moon So-ri and Sul Kyung-gu in Oasis (2002)

    19. Oasis

    20022h 13m79Metascore
    7.8 (11K)
    An irresponsible and childish ex-con befriends a girl with cerebral palsy and develops a progressively stronger bond with her.
    DirectorLee Chang-dongStarsSul Kyung-guMoon So-riAhn Nae-sang
  • The Isle (2000)

    20. The Isle

    20001h 30mNot Rated61Metascore
    6.9 (15K)
    Working at a fishing resort in an idyllic location, but surrounded by various facets of human unpleasantness, a young mute woman falls in love with a man on the run from the law for committing murder.
    DirectorKim Ki-dukStarsJung SuhKim Yu-seokCho Jae-hyun
  • Charles Chaplin in City Lights (1931)

    21. City Lights

    19311h 27mG99Metascore
    8.5 (209K)
    With the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically.
    DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinVirginia CherrillFlorence Lee
  • Talk to Her (2002)

    22. Talk to Her

    20021h 52mR86Metascore
    7.9 (120K)
    Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.
    DirectorPedro AlmodóvarStarsRosario FloresJavier CámaraDarío Grandinetti
  • The Man from Earth (2007)

    23. The Man from Earth

    20071h 27mNot Rated
    7.8 (211K)
    An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he has a longer and stranger past than they can imagine.
    DirectorRichard SchenkmanStarsDavid Lee SmithTony ToddJohn Billingsley
  • Emile Hirsch in Into the Wild (2007)

    24. Into the Wild

    20072h 28mR73Metascore
    8.0 (683K)
    After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness.
    DirectorSean PennStarsEmile HirschVince VaughnCatherine Keener
  • Be with You (2004)

    25. Be with You

    20041h 59m
    7.8 (5.2K)
    A young woman returns from the dead to her guilt-ridden husband and son, but she cannot remember them.
    DirectorNobuhiro DoiStarsYûko TakeuchiShidô NakamuraAkashi Takei

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