Loneliness Movies

Inspired by Lovecraft's "The Outsider", this short follows a lonely child who longs for human touch. Will he finally be held?

COVID-19 forces global lockdown. Isolation becomes a mandate. Suicide rates reach unprecedented levels. Loneliness becomes endemic. In desperation,...

Edgar and his dog roam the ruins of a large city. Arriving home one day, he sees that someone sprayed the name ‘Anna’ on the wall. The...

Yogi, an employee who lives alone in his house. One time, an unknown child entered his house and change his life.

A music and a couple, the beginning and the end. After leaving his ex-girlfriend, man looks for other women.

A man struggles to find intimacy and loses himself in the process.

Whilst working at a funeral parlour, a lonely mortician develops a dark obsession with a local man.

Directed by Helen Tadesse, often recognized as Ethiopia’s first female feature film director, the film centers on a teenage girl trying to live...

The unusual friendship between a German embassy employee and a twelve-year-old refugee girl helps both of them rediscover their joy in life, but also...

A sister comes to terms with what it means to come of age in rural isolation, but the adversity of the outside world is no comparison to the...

After ending a decade-long relationship, Matías experiences a year of empty parties, disconnected sex, and conversations with the ghost of his...

Eleven-year-old Steve is the smallest boy in class. He thinks girls are soppy, detests football and prefers painting. To alleviate his loneliness, he...

A mosaic film about a group of people in the city of Rotterdam, The Netherlands strugging with loneliness, hope and love.

Reality unravels when Cora suffers a mental breakdown at university.

A documentary film crew examines loneliness in America through the experiences of a man in his 30s with a secret invention.

A young mother returns to her village after a hospital stay and is forced to deal with an emotionally distant husband and her own simmering guilt.

A homeless man regularly attends a place where children play ball every afternoon. A caring link develops between them which drives him to change his...

If youth is the most intense stage of life, it is also the farthest Tere can be from herself. In his life, a group of students who rent the apartment...

A Short film by Christophe Bisson