Loneliness is one of the things cinema does better than almost any other medium.
When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.
It understands loneliness well enough that watching it doesn't feel lonely at all.
A night at the movies turns terrifying when Michael and his date are attacked by zombies. Released at the height of Thriller's success, the short film redefined the music video, broke racial barriers, and became the first inducted into the U.S. National Film Registry.
It understands loneliness well enough that watching it doesn't feel lonely at all.
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
It understands loneliness well enough that watching it doesn't feel lonely at all.
During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.
The film knows what it's doing. You'll feel less alone by the end.
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
The film knows what it's doing. You'll feel less alone by the end.
The films that make you feel less lonely are usually the ones most honest about what loneliness is.
Paradoxically effective when the characters face isolation together.
Solves boredom immediately. No warm-up required.
Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens him for some moments from his death-like sleep.
The film knows what it's doing. You'll feel less alone by the end.
A former vaudeville child star viciously torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.
The film knows what it's doing. You'll feel less alone by the end.
A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the purpose of starting a family.
It understands loneliness well enough that watching it doesn't feel lonely at all.
Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. Soo-hyeon, a top-secret agent, decides to track down the murderer himself. He promises himself that he will do everything in his power to take vengeance against the killer, even if it means that he must become a monster himself.
It understands loneliness well enough that watching it doesn't feel lonely at all.
A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.
It understands loneliness well enough that watching it doesn't feel lonely at all.
Some films earn their effect. These do.