Alice in the Cities (1974), Stroszek (1977), Playtime (1967), Kings of the Road (1976), The Darjeeling Limited (2007), Katzelmacher (1969), Junebug (2005), Lights in the Dusk (2006) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Estrangement movies.
Storyline: German journalist Philip Winter has a case of writer's block when trying to write an article about the United States. He decides to return to Germany, and while trying to book a flight, encounters a German woman and her nine year old daughter Alice doing the same. The three become friends (almost out of necessity) and while the mother asks Winter to mind Alice temporarily, it quickly becomes apparent that Alice will be his responsibility for longer than he expected. After returning to Europe, the innocent friendship between Winter and Alice grows as they travel together through various European cities on a quest for Alice's grandmother.—Karl Engel <cassiel@ix.netcom.com>
Plot Keywords: road movie, loneliness, travel, alienation, father-daughter relationship, american culture, childhood ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he ekes out a living as a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck. After they are harried and beaten by the thugs who have been Eva's pimps, they join Bruno's neighbor, Scheitz, an elderly eccentric, when he leaves Germany to live in Wisconsin. In that winter bound, barren prairie, Bruno works as a mechanic, Eva as a waitress. They buy a trailer. Then, bills mount, the bank threatens to repossess the trailer, Eva wants privacy, and inexorably, the promise of a new life deserts Bruno.
Plot Keywords: drama, road movie, black comedy, social critique, german cinema, american dream, immigration ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Monsieur Hulot has to contact an American official in Paris, but he gets lost in the maze of modern architecture which is filled with the latest technical gadgets. Caught in the tourist invasion, Hulot roams around Paris with a group of American tourists, causing chaos in his usual manner.
Plot Keywords: comedy, satire, modern life, city, technology, bureaucracy, architecture ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Near the Eastern borders with West Germany, Bruno, a solitary, permanent citizen of the road and film projection equipment repairman, witnesses the sad sight of a VW beetle car storming straight into the River Elbe. After a while, however, the depressed driver, Robert, instinctively accepts an offer for a lift in Bruno's repair van, and just like that, an impromptu relationship begins. Now, against the backdrop of the German countryside, the new companions find themselves sharing the same need for freedom, visiting dilapidated movie theatres for maintenance, and getting to know each other one small town after another. But, no one knows, or cares, how long is the road that stretches out ahead of them. After all, the only thing that matters is one's commitment to a precious ideal. Have the kings of the road found life's true meaning?—Nick Riganas
Plot Keywords: road movie, black and white, existentialism, loneliness, male friendship, self-discovery, journey ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A year after the accidental death of their father, three brothers -- each suffering from depression - meet for a train trip across India. Francis, the eldest, has organized it. The brothers argue, sulk, resent each other, and fight. The youngest, Jack, estranged from his girlfriend, is attracted to one of the train's attendants. Peter has left his pregnant wife at home, and he buys a venomous snake. After a few days, Francis discloses their surprising and disconcerting destination. Amid foreign surroundings, can the brothers sort out their differences? A funeral, a meditation, a hilltop ritual, and the Bengal Lancer figure in the reconciliation.
Plot Keywords: adventure, comedy, drama, family, travel, brothers, india ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jorgos, a migrant worker from Greece, joins a group of young people in Munich usually hanging around. This foreigner incites hostility and jealousy among them, and he is insulted as a "Communist" and "Greek dog". After having been attacked, Jorgos talks to Maria of his wish to return home.—L.H. Wong <as9401k56@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg>
Plot Keywords: black and white, social critique, racial discrimination, alienation, minimalism, realism, low budget ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Successful Carolinian George Johnsten meets Chicago art gallery owner Madeleine at an electoral benefit art auction- love at first sight. Madeleine decides to meet a Southern original artist, so George seizes the opportunity to come along and present her to his North Carolina parents Eugene and Peg, drop-out brother Johny and his high-pregnant wife Ashley. Confronting the outsider soon opens a can of worms as emotions revive or emerge, like admiration and jealousy.
Plot Keywords: family, drama, american south, cultural clash, marriage, pregnancy, art ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Koistinen is a sad sack, a man without affect or friends. He's a night-watchman in Helsinki with ideas of starting his own business, but nothing to go with those intentions. He sometimes talks a bit with a woman who runs a snack trailer near his work. Out of the blue, a young sophisticated blonde woman attaches herself to Koistinen. He thinks of her as his girlfriend, he takes her on her rounds. She's in league with a crook who's planning a jewel robbery, and Koistinen is their patsy. Will he ever wise up?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: crime, film noir, finland, loneliness, social outcast, grim, realism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Chinese man travels to America to visit his estranged daughter after her recent divorce. Though his trip starts off as a mission to see his daughter remarry, he sparks to an Iranian woman who, despite their language barrier, captures his heart.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: family, cultural conflict, immigration, father-daughter relationship, loneliness, china, america ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Thomas Jerome Newton is a humanoid alien who comes to Earth to get water for his dying planet. He starts a high technology company to get the billions of dollars he needs to build a return spacecraft, and meets Mary-Lou, a girl who falls in love with him. He does not count on the greed and ruthlessness of business here on Earth, however.
Plot Keywords: science fiction, drama, alien, isolation, identity, cultural conflict, addiction ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The teenager and skateboarder Alex is interviewed by Detective Richard Lu that is investigating the death of a security guard in the rail yards severed by a train who was apparently hit by a skate board. While dealing with the separation process of his parents and the sexual heat of his virgin girlfriend Jennifer, Alex writes his last experiences in Paranoid Park with his new acquaintances and how the guard was killed, trying to relieve his feeling of guilty from his conscience.
Plot Keywords: teenager, crime, murder, coming of age, psychological trauma, loneliness, alienation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Cape Town professor David Lurie blatantly refuses to defend himself for an affair with a colored student whom he gave a passing grade for an exam she didn't even attend. Dismissed, he moves to his daughter Lucy's farm, which she runs under most disadvantaged terms, favoring the black locals. Yet rowdies, unprovoked, violently rob and abuse them both. Lucy refuses to fight back, unlike David, who is surprised by his own altruistic potential.—KGF Vissers
Plot Keywords: moral decay, father-daughter relationship, identity crisis, revenge, cultural clash, dark side of humanity, social injustice ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After a rough time working a night shift job in the city, Alvin is spending the summer on a remote two-man public works crew, painting lines on newly paved roads through what is a recently wildfire-ravaged region of Texas. He is camping along the way, living off the land, even doing so on his days off. He is what he considers a responsible man, earning and sending money to his girlfriend, Madison, a single mother, so that she need not concern herself with anything besides child rearing. The junior second that Alvin hires for his crew is Madison's brother, Lance. Alvin's controlling and judgmental nature comes to the surface in his dealings with more immature and irresponsible Lance, who goes back to the city on the weekends so that he can have "his little man squeezed", something he cannot understand in Alvin being without Madison or any woman for such a long stretch of time. Alvin prefers to stay in the burnt out woods on the weekends as being alone with his thoughts and his chores -...
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, road movie, independent film, absurd, loneliness, nature ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The dreams and aspirations about America and life of Arun, a young Indian in his 20s, change as he struggles to fit into a new and alien culture. His strained relationship with his rigidly traditional uncle, Max, further complicates his dilemma.—L.H. Wong <lhw@sfs.org.sg>
Plot Keywords: independent film, immigration, loneliness, cultural clash, new york, asian american, identity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Frenchwoman (Isabelle Huppert) loses an eye in Australia and becomes the lover of a blind man (Robert Menzies) who grows cactuses as a hobby.
Plot Keywords: australian film, drama, independent film, black comedy, social satire, cultural clash, immigrant story ...
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