A Short Film About Love (1988), Fists in the Pocket (1965), The Exiles (1961), Fight Club (1999), The Black String (2019), THX-1138 (1971), Noise (2007), A Woman Under the Influence (1974) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Social Alienation movies.
Storyline: A postal worker (Olaf Lubaszenko) in love with his neighbor (Grażyna Szapołowska) spies on her through a telescope, holds her mail, and makes anonymous phone calls.
Plot Keywords: love, polish cinema, moral dilemma, loneliness, desire, human relationships, psychological drama ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Augusto (Marino Mase) is the oldest son in a dysfunctional Italian family that includes a blind mother (Liliana Gerace), a selfish sister, Giulia (Paola Pitagora), and two epileptic brothers, Alessandro (Lou Castel) and Leone (Pier Luigi Troglio). Augusto is planning to marry Lucia (Jennie MacNeil) despite Giulia's repeated attempts to drive them apart, but cannot do so while taking care of the clan. An angry and unstable Alessandro decides to help Augusto by killing their mother and siblings.
Plot Keywords: psychological drama, family conflict, mental illness, moral dilemma, black comedy, social critique, existentialism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In a Native American neighborhood in Los Angeles, Homer (Homer Nish) lives with his pregnant wife, Yvonne (Yvonne Williams), in a crowded apartment. While Homer goes drinking with his friend Tommy (Tom Reynolds), Yvonne is left at a movie by herself. As the men get progressively drunker, Yvonne realizes her husband is not coming home. Meanwhile, Homer and Tommy wander through the nighttime city, looking for fights, playing poker and discussing their problems as Native Americans.
Plot Keywords: independent film, documentary style, los angeles, urban life, social realism, 1960s, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A nameless first person narrator (Edward Norton) attends support groups in attempt to subdue his emotional state and relieve his insomniac state. When he meets Marla (Helena Bonham Carter), another fake attendee of support groups, his life seems to become a little more bearable. However when he associates himself with Tyler (Brad Pitt) he is dragged into an underground fight club and soap making scheme. Together the two men spiral out of control and engage in competitive rivalry for love and power. When the narrator is exposed to the hidden agenda of Tyler's fight club, he must accept the awful truth that Tyler may not be who he says he is.
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, dystopian, black comedy, violence, social critique, anarchism, self-destruction ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After a one-night stand with a mysterious and beautiful woman, a man falls ill and starts to believe that he's the victim of a sinister supernatural plot.
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, horror, mystery, supernatural, isolation, paranoia, mental breakdown ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: George Lucas' nightmarish vision of a dehumanized future where mankind has been reduced to emotionless zombies.
Plot Keywords: science fiction, dystopian, human nature exploration, minimalism, identity crisis, technophobia, isolation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Diagnosed with tinnitus, a lawman (Brendan Cowell) works the night shift while a murderous gunman remains at large.
Plot Keywords: thriller, mystery, crime, drama, psychological, american film, independent film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Peter Falk is a blue collar man trying to deal with his wife's mental instability. He fights to keep a semblance of normality in the face of her bizarre behavior, but when her actions affect their children, he has her committed.
Plot Keywords: family, marriage, mental illness, social pressure, working class, realism, dramatic conflict ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Umberto Ferrari, aged government-pensioner, attends a street demonstration held by his fellow pensioners. The police dispense the crowd and Umberto returns to his cheap furnished room which he shares with his dog Flick. Umberto's lone friend is Maria, servant of the boarding house. She is a simple girl who is pregnant by one of two soldiers and neither will admit to being the father. When Umberto's landlady Antonia demands the rent owed her and threatens eviction if she is not paid, Umberto tries desperately to raise the money by selling his books and watch. He is too proud to beg in the streets and can not get a loan from any of his acquaintances. He contracts a sore throat, is admitted to a hospital and this puts a delay on his financial difficulty. Discharged, he finds that his dog is gone and, following a frantic search, locates him in the city dog pound. His room has been taken over by the landlady and the now-homeless Unberto determines to find a place for his beloved dog, and ...
Plot Keywords: loneliness, poverty, elderly, social marginalization, humanity, struggle for survival, emotional bond ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Born on the fourth of July, 1900, the future holds unlimited potential for newborn John Sims. But dreams soon fade with the death of his father when John is but a lad. Like many before him, John sets out to make his mark in New York City, but ends up a faceless worker (#137) in a large office of a large business. Still he is happy with his fate and soon meets a young woman named Mary on a blind double date. Things take their course and they soon marry and live in a small apartment. Soon John is bickering with Mary and finds that he has no love for the in-laws. When the marriage looks like a bust, he finds that Mary is with child and he stays. After 5 years, he has a son and a daughter and the same dead end job. When tragedy strikes, John must find the conviction to continue or lose what little he has left.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Plot Keywords: silent film, drama, american film, classic film, realism, social critique, urban life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: On a cold winter's Sunday, the pastor of a small rural church (Tomas Ericsson) performs service for a tiny congregation; though he is suffering from a cold and a severe crisis of faith. After the service, he attempts to console a fisherman (Jonas Persson) who is tormented by anxiety, but Tomas can only speak about his own troubled relationship with God. A school teacher (Maerta Lundberg) offers Tomas her love as consolation for his loss of faith. But Tomas resists her love as desperately as she offers it to him. This is the second in Bergman's trilogy of films dealing with man's relationship with God.
Plot Keywords: religion, crisis of faith, loneliness, pastor, black and white, existentialism, church ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A psychiatrist, Simon, uncovers Mathias Jüst, and he discovers that his unhinged target may have Nazi ties.
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, corporate corruption, mind control, workplace stress, moral dilemma, identity crisis, french cinema ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: People, each representing an aspect of the Serbian character, spend a hectic and frightening night in a city.
Plot Keywords: moral decay, multi-narrative, despair, hatred, revenge, social alienation, psychological trauma ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Mr. Lazarescu, a 63 year old lonely man feels sick and calls the ambulance. When it arrives, the paramedic decides he should take him to the hospital but once there they decide to send him to another hospital and then yet another... As the night unfolds and they can't find a hospital for Mr. Lazarescu, his health starts to deteriorate fast.
Plot Keywords: realism, social critique, healthcare system, humanity, loneliness, death, bureaucracy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A 59 year old carpenter recovering from a heart attack befriends a single mother and her two kids as they navigate their way through the impersonal, Kafkaesque benefits system. With equal amounts of humor, warmth and despair, the journey is heartfelt and emotional until the end.
Plot Keywords: social realism, working class, bureaucracy, poverty, british society, unemployment, social injustice ...
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