The right film can be the least lonely thing in the room.
While vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.
It understands loneliness well enough that watching it doesn't feel lonely at all.
Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.
The film knows what it's doing. You'll feel less alone by the end.
A vengeful witch, Asa Vajda, and her fiendish servant, Igor Jauvitch, return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant: Katia. Only a handsome doctor with the help of family members stand in her way.
The film knows what it's doing. You'll feel less alone by the end.
Two hillbillies are suspected of being killers by a group of paranoid college kids camping near the duo's West Virginian cabin. As the body count climbs, so does the fear and confusion as the college kids try to seek revenge against the pair.
It understands loneliness well enough that watching it doesn't feel lonely at all.
American tourists David and Jack are savagely attacked by an unidentified animal while hiking on the Yorkshire Moors. After retiring to the home of a beautiful nurse to recuperate, David soon begins experiencing disturbing changes to his body and mind.
It understands loneliness well enough that watching it doesn't feel lonely at all.
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.
Works across generations. Safe but not boring.
When a Sumatran rat-monkey bites Lionel Cosgrove's mother, she's transformed into a zombie and begins killing (and transforming) the entire town while Lionel races to keep things under control.
The film knows what it's doing. You'll feel less alone by the end.
A mother of two inherits a home from her aunt. On the first night in the new home she is confronted with murderous intruders and fights for her daughters' lives. Sixteen years later the daughters reunite at the house, and that is when things get strange...
It understands loneliness well enough that watching it doesn't feel lonely at all.
A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
It understands loneliness well enough that watching it doesn't feel lonely at all.
A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.
It understands loneliness well enough that watching it doesn't feel lonely at all.
Beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat to go on an Italian holiday with her married boyfriend, Carole withdraws into her apartment. She begins to experience frightful hallucinations, her fear gradually mutating into madness.
It understands loneliness well enough that watching it doesn't feel lonely at all.
Some films earn their effect. These do.