Loneliness is one of the things cinema does better than almost any other medium.
Held captive for 7 years in an enclosed space, a woman and her young son finally gain their freedom, allowing the boy to experience the outside world for the first time.
The film knows what it's doing. You'll feel less alone by the end.
Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.
It understands loneliness well enough that watching it doesn't feel lonely at all.
Hoping to put to rest years of unease concerning a past case, retired criminal investigator BenjamÃn begins writing a novel based on the unsolved mystery of a newlywed's rape and murder. With the help of a former colleague, judge Irene, he attempts to make sense of the past.
The film knows what it's doing. You'll feel less alone by the end.
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
It understands loneliness well enough that watching it doesn't feel lonely at all.
Ripley, the sole survivor of the Nostromo's deadly encounter with the monstrous Alien, returns to Earth after drifting through space in hypersleep for 57 years. Although her story is initially met with skepticism, she agrees to accompany a team of Colonial Marines back to LV-426.
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.
Survival partnership. Indirect but can work.
Good for the specific solitude of post-breakup evenings.
Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.
It understands loneliness well enough that watching it doesn't feel lonely at all.
Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the violent pursuit of money and justice collide.
The film knows what it's doing. You'll feel less alone by the end.
A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from prison.
The film knows what it's doing. You'll feel less alone by the end.
In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.
It understands loneliness well enough that watching it doesn't feel lonely at all.
Two young men attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party for the family of a classmate they just strangled to death.
It understands loneliness well enough that watching it doesn't feel lonely at all.
Some films earn their effect. These do.