Highest-Rated Movies about 'Solitude', Sort by Popularity

The Five Obstructions (2003), Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), A Man Called Ove (2015), Still Life (2014), Tuvalu (1999), Louise by the Shore (2016), In the Realms of the Unreal (2004), Rapture (1965) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Solitude movies.

#1. The Five Obstructions (2003)

Storyline: In 1967, experimental filmmaker Jorgen Leth created a striking short film, "The Perfect Human," starring a man and women sitting in a box while a narrator poses questions about their relationship and humanity. Years later, Danish director Lars von Trier made a deal with Leth to remake the film five times, each under a different set of circumstances and with von Trier's strictly prescribed rules. As Leth completes each challenge, von Trier creates ever more elaborate rules for the contest.

Plot Keywords: filmmaker, man, woman, director, chilling, fascinating, suspenseful ...

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#2. Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)

Storyline: In 1912, the notorious and violent prisoner Robert Franklin Stroud is transferred to the Leavenworth Prison convicted for murdering a man. When a guard cancels the visit of his mother, Elizabeth Stroud, due to a violation of the internal rules, he stabs and kills the guard and goes to trial three times. He is sentenced to be executed by the gallows, but his mother appeals to President Woodrow Wilson who commutes his sentence to life imprisonment. However, the warden, Harvey Shoemaker, decides to keep Stroud in solitary for the rest of his life. One day, Stroud finds a sparrow that has fallen from the nest in the yard and he raises the bird until it is strong enough to fly. Stroud finds a motivation for his life raising and caring for birds and becomes an expert in birds. He marries Stella Johnson and together they run a business, providing medicine developed by Stroud. But a few years after, Stroud is transferred to Alcatraz and has to leave his birds behind.

Plot Keywords: prisoner, warden, guard, mother, wife, moving, touching ...

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#3. A Man Called Ove (2015)

Storyline: 59 year old Ove is the block's grumpy man who several years earlier was deposed as president of the condominium association, but he could not give a damn about being deposed and therefore keeps looking over the neighborhood with an iron fist. When pregnant Parvaneh and her family moves into the terraced house opposite and accidentally backs into Ove's mailbox it turns out to be an unexpected friendship. A drama comedy about unexpected friendship, love and the importance of surrounding yourself with the proper tools.

Plot Keywords: old man, neighbor, friend, government official, senior citizen, widower, confident ...

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#4. Still Life (2014)

Storyline: Still Life is a poignant, quixotic tale of life, love and the afterlife. Meticulous and organized to the point of obsession, John May (Eddie Marsan) is a council worker charged with finding the next of kin of those who have died alone. When his department is downsized, John must up his efforts on his final case, taking him on a liberating journey that allows him to start living life at last.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: civil servant, neighbor, professional, amusing, emotional, funeral, the south ...

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#5. Tuvalu (1999)

Storyline: In a desolate and colorless landscape stands a dilapidated bathhouse run by a puffed-up blind man, his long-suffering wife, and their son Anton, who does all the work. He's lonely and unsophisticated, and he falls in love with the beautiful Eva, who comes to bathe with her father. When Eva and her father lose their home, they come to the bathhouse to stay, but bits of the ceiling fall on the old man and he dies. Eva blames Anton, and she seems to seek the arms of the brute Gregor. Can Anton win back her heart, get the bathhouse through a rigorous government inspection, and help keep his parents employed? Waiting out there somewhere is the paradise isle of Tuvalu.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>

Plot Keywords: swimming instructor, attendant, blind man, beautiful woman, swimmer, love interest, charming ...

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#6. Louise by the Shore (2016)

Storyline: In a wonderfully sweet yet poignant story, Louise, an old lady, finds herself stranded in a seaside resort after the last train of the holiday season has left the station. But far from panicking, the fearless Louise decides to stay, no matter what awaits her. And the worst does await her: foul weather, heavy rains, high tides. Under such circumstances, will this new Robinson achieve her goal and manage to survive amidst the raging elements?—Guy Bellinger

Plot Keywords: old woman, amusing, charming, inspiring, moving, train, sea ...

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#8. Rapture (1965)

Storyline: In the French countryside, Agnes (Patricia Gozzi), a withdrawn teenager, lives in relative seclusion with her hermetic ex-judge father, Frederick (Melvyn Douglas). Agnes, who longs for male companionship, falls in love with Joseph (Dean Stockwell), an injured escaped convict her family has taken in and nursed back to health. When Frederick expresses his disapproval of their romance, the two run off to Paris, where the perils of the city soon catch up with both of them.

Plot Keywords: father, daughter, escaped convict, teen girl, fugitive, brooding, melodramatic ...

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#9. Cold Skin (2017)

Storyline: In 1914, just after of Franz Ferdinand's assassination that eventually caused World War I, a steamship approaches a desolate island on the edge of the Antarctic Circle, where a young nameless man is poised to take the post of weather observer, to live in solitude at the ends of the earth for an entire year until the arrival of his replacement. For the next twelve months, his entire world will consist of a deserted cabin, the surrounding sea, and dangerous strange beings that he discovers are sharing the island.—Darkwalker173

Plot Keywords: lighthouse keeper, monster, creature, ship captain, weatherman, castaway, bleak ...

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