Zama (2017), Fear and Trembling (2003), My Life to Live (1962), Funny Ha Ha (2003), Jellyfish (2007), Brewster McCloud (1970), These Are the Damned (1962), The Way We Laughed (1998) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Alienation movies.
Storyline: In the 18th century, a highly-placed servant of the Spanish crown who is obsessed with petty grudges and fantasies plots his transfer to Buenos Aires.
Plot Keywords: colonialism, historical drama, latin america, 18th century, bureaucracy, identity crisis, isolation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Belgian interpreter (Sylvie Testud) endures humiliation by her new co-workers (Kaori Tsuji, Taro Suwa) at a huge Japanese company.
Plot Keywords: drama, psychological, workplace, cultural conflict, japan, corporate culture, stress ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Twelve tableaux tell the story of a Parisian (Anna Karina), separated from her husband (Monique Messine), who decides to become a prostitute.
Plot Keywords: existentialism, prostitution, black and white, paris, minimalist, philosophical, social critique ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After graduating from college, Marnie (Kate Dollenmayer) is living in Boston. Looking for temporary work while trying to figure out what it is she wants to do, Marnie grapples with her feelings toward her good friend Alex (Christian Rudder), who doesn't seem to feel the same way about her. As she attempts to mature while surviving her dreary desk job, Marnie meets Mitchell (Andrew Bujalski), a shy, neurotic coworker who helps her better understand herself.
Plot Keywords: independent film, drama, comedy, romance, realism, low budget, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The lives of three dissimilar women -- bride Keren (Noa Knoller), catering crewmember Batia (Sarah Adler) and Joy (Ma-nenita De Latorre), an attendee's employee -- converge at a wedding in Tel Aviv, Israel. Each woman has her own unique set of problems to face. Batia ends a romantic relationship, and afterward finds an abandoned child. Joy has emigrated from the Philippines, but could not bring her son with her. The prospect of Keren's honeymoon is shattered after an unfortunate accident.
Plot Keywords: drama, coming of age, family, loneliness, youth, british film, independent film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A birdlike boy (Bud Cort) lives in the Houston Astrodome, advised by his guardian angel (Sally Kellerman).
Plot Keywords: black comedy, absurdist, satire, counterculture, surreal, allegory, crime ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An American man (Macdonald Carey) and an Englishwoman (Shirley Anne Field) discover genetically engineered children who can survive a nuclear war.
Plot Keywords: science fiction, thriller, cold war, nuclear fear, dystopian, teenagers, experimental ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Studying to become a teacher in Turin, Italy, Pietro (Francesco Giuffrida) is joined by his older brother, Giovanni (Enrico Lo Verso), who has moved up from Sicily. While Giovanni is a worker with no schooling, Pietro shows considerable promise in academics, prompting the elder sibling to seek employment to support his brother's academic pursuits. Unfortunately, things don't go well for Giovanni and Pietro, and they face significant hardships as they try to improve their lives.
Plot Keywords: brotherhood, immigration, family relationships, social class, coming of age, moral dilemma, italian cinema ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jumpei Niki, a Tokyo based entomologist and educator, is in a poor seaside village collecting specimens of sand insects. As it is late in the day and as he has missed the last bus back to the city, some of the local villagers suggest that he spend the night there, they offering to find him a place to stay. That place is the home of a young woman, whose house is located at the bottom of a sand pit accessible only by ladder. He later learns that the woman's husband and child died in a sandstorm, their undiscovered bodies buried somewhere near the house. The next morning as he tries to leave, he finds that the ladder is gone - he realizing that the ladder he climbed down was a rope ladder which is anchored above the pit - meaning that he is trapped with the young woman as the walls of the pit are sand with no grip. He also realizes that this entrapment was the villagers and the young woman's plan for him to stay there permanently to be her helper in the never-ending task of digging out ...
Plot Keywords: existentialism, psychological thriller, surrealism, absurdism, isolation, human nature, survival ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Chaplin's last 'silent' film, filled with sound effects, was made when everyone else was making talkies. Charlie turns against modern society, the machine age, (The use of sound in films ?) and progress. Firstly we see him frantically trying to keep up with a production line, tightening bolts. He is selected for an experiment with an automatic feeding machine, but various mishaps leads his boss to believe he has gone mad, and Charlie is sent to a mental hospital - When he gets out, he is mistaken for a communist while waving a red flag, sent to jail, foils a jailbreak, and is let out again. We follow Charlie through many more escapades before the film is out.
Plot Keywords: comedy, silent film, capitalism, unemployment, social satire, great depression, working class ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Willie (Doug E. Doug), Tom (Mario Joyner), Johnny (John Alberto Leguizamo) and Vinny are fast-talkers from the South Bronx looking for a party.
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, youth, friendship, urban life, coming of age, new york ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The widow Rosaria moves to Milano from Lucania with her 4 sons, one of whom is Rocco. The fifth son, Vincenzo, already lives in Milano. In the beginning, the family has a lot of problems, but everyone manages to find something to do. Simone is boxing, Rocco works in a dry cleaners, and Ciro studies. Simone meets Nadia, a prostitute, and they have a stormy affair. Then Rocco, after finishing his military service, begins a relationship with her. A bitter feud ensues between the two brothers, which will lead as far as murder...
Plot Keywords: family drama, social realism, immigration, brotherhood, poverty, class conflict, moral dilemma ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Elderly couple Shukishi and Tomi Hirayama live in the small coastal village of Onomichi, Japan with their youngest daughter, schoolteacher Kyoko Hirayama. Their other three surviving adult children, who they have not seen in quite some time, live either in Tokyo or Osaka. As such, Shukishi and Tomi make the unilateral decision to have an extended visit in Tokyo with their children, pediatrician Koichi Hirayama and beautician Shige Kaneko, and their respective families (which includes two grandchildren). In transit, they make an unexpected stop in Osaka and stay with their other son, Keiso Hirayama. All of their children treat the visit more as an obligation than a want, each trying to figure out what to do with their parents while they continue on with their own daily lives. At one point, they even decide to ship their parents off to an inexpensive resort at Atami Hot Springs rather than spend time with them. The only offspring who makes a concerted effort on this trip is Noriko ...
Plot Keywords: family, generation gap, aging, loneliness, tradition, modernity, parent-child relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves mysteriously unable to leave the room... and over the next few days all the elaborate pretenses and facades that they've built up by virtue of their position in society collapse completely as they become reduced to living like animals...
Plot Keywords: surrealism, black comedy, social satire, absurd, confined space, fatalism, symbolism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A man wanders out of the desert after a four year absence. His brother finds him, and together they return to L.A. to reunite the man with his young son. Soon after, he and the boy set out to locate the mother of the child, who left shortly after the man disappeared.
Plot Keywords: drama, road movie, family, loneliness, america, texas, paris ...
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