3-Iron (2004), Happy Together (1997), Private Fears in Public Places (2006), Kontroll (2003), After Hours (1985), Revolution No. 9 (2001), Loveless (2017), Oslo, 31. august (2011) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Urban Loneliness movies.
Storyline: An idealistic girl, Patsy Newquist, saves a young apathetic photographer, Alfred Chamberlain, from a gang of hooligans. She falls for him, but he turns out to be a nihilist. They go out anyway. All this happens against the background of random shootings in NYC (at the time the play the movie is based on was written, the city was going broke). Her family accept him, but when she tries to change him and get him to find meaning in life, things go horribly wrong in a cruel twist of fate.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
Plot Keywords: black comedy, satire, absurdist, social critique, urban life, violence, psychological stress ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Leo Macias writes sentimental novels with great success but hidden under a pseudonym, Amanda Gris. She is unhappy with her professional life and with her husband, a soldier working in Brussels and Bosnia that is never at home. She will try anything to change her life.—Miguel A. Andrade <andrade@gredos.cnb.uam.es>
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, spanish, female, writer, marriage, loneliness ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Every night while the city sleeps, Ahmad, a Pakistani immigrant, struggles to drag his heavy cart along the streets of New York to his corner in Midtown Manhattan. And every morning, from inside his cart he sells coffee and donuts to a city he cannot call his own. He is the worker found on every street corner in every city. He is a man who wonders if he will ever escape his fate.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: independent film, new york, pakistan, working class, realism, street life, loneliness ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Lamington Road on Bombay's Western Railway is the nearest railway station that takes one to Kamathipura, notorious for it's red-light, in particular, and a crime-prone area in general. It is in this area, on a stormy rainy day, that wealthy Aman Kapoor's car breaks down. His efforts to call for help via his cell phone are in vain, and he takes shelter in a nearby building. This is where he comes in contact with a prostitute named Chameli - and this is where his nightmare involving pimps, eunuchs, prostitutes, and corrupt police officers - will begin - and will seem to have no ending whatsoever.—rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, indian cinema, bollywood, female lead, urban life, social issues ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Four young friends have tedious night jobs and meet every night after work in a café. Sean hasn't met his girlfriend in three weeks, Vincent flirts with everybody, Lenny is too afraid to ask a girl at work on a date and Jody can't admit that she shows up at the café every night, although she was fired some time ago.—Mattias Thuresson
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, british film, independent film, urban life, nightlife, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Set against the bright lights of Manhattan, a tale which takes a comic, urbane look at the modern male ego at war in the singles scene trenches. Roger Swanson is a hopelessly cynical advertising copywriter with a razor-sharp wit who believes he has mastered the art of manipulating women. But Roger's seemingly foolproof world of smooth talk and casual sex begins to unravel when he is paid a surprise visit by his teenager nephew, Nick. Hoping to settle, once and for all, the issue of his virginity, Nick begs Roger to school him in the art of seducing women. Welcoming the challenge, Roger guides Nick through the city's wild nightlife for an all-night crash course, only to realize that he--the adult--still has something to learn about what women, and men, really want.
Plot Keywords: independent film, black comedy, coming of age, male perspective, dialogue-driven, family dynamics, psychological drama ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Twenty-four hours in the tentative relationship of two young San Franciscans also dealing with the conundrum of being a minority in a rapidly gentrifying city.
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, independent film, american film, urban life, race relations, african american ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A lovable slacker (Paulo Costanzo) becomes part of a money-laundering scheme, then finds it difficult to buy happiness with his ill-gotten gains. Meanwhile, his hippie friend discovers the joys of capitalism in an illegal way; his brother remains big on money but short on ethics; and his father loses his job but finds profit outside the system.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, independent film, coming of age, canadian film, urban life, dark comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Erin is a nurse and her longtime boyfriend has dumped her. Her mother Piper places a personal ad for her. Meanwhile the film follows the life of Alan, a volunteer at a local aquarium who dreams of becoming a marine biologist. Will their paths cross?—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, romantic, indie film, urban life, single life, fate ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two families, sort of neighbours in Manhattan, cross paths as they navigate marriage, parenthood of a teen, ennui, a first date, and end-of-life care. Rebecca and Mary are sisters; their cranky 91-year-old grandmother's neighbours, Kate and Alex, run an upscale retro-furniture business, and will expand into her flat after she dies. Rebecca is quiet, without a boyfriend until a patient at the clinic where she works introduces her grandson. Mary is acerbic, stung by a recent breakup. Kate looks for meaning in her life, wondering if she should volunteer. Alex, too, is at loose ends. Their daughter, Abby, has zits and teenage moods. What does it mean to be good?
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, family, new york, urban life, relationships, moral dilemma ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Left by Joachim, an artist with whom she shared her life for 10 years, Paula finds herself wandering the streets of Paris, lonely and fixated.
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, female protagonist, independent film, french film, urban life, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After a love affair ends badly, a young Parisian named Paul (Romain Duris) sinks into the same kind of deep depression that led his sister to kill herself. He moves back home with his father (Guy Marchand) and aimless brother Jonathan (Louis Garrel) but refuses to get out of bed. One night, Paul rises from his torpor and makes a fateful visit to the Seine.—filmcomment
Plot Keywords: french film, family drama, brotherhood, emotional conflict, psychological portrayal, urban loneliness, family breakdown ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Rémy, a young Parisian with an unskilled job, lives alone in his apartment. Mélanie, a young she-Parisian who works in scientific research, lives alone in her apartment. Two solitudes, two depressive moods living in close proximity but strange to each other. Shall the twains ever meet?—Guy Bellinger
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, french film, urban life, loneliness, self-discovery, human relationships ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Dave Spritz is a local weatherman in his home town of Chicago, where his career is going well, while his personal life, his relationship with his perfectionist writer father, his neurotic ex-wife, and his now-separated children, is spiralling downward. Despite being loathed and loved by the local masses, Dave is a guy who doesn't seem to have it all together, and in this movie, he begins to feel it. An attractive job offer presents Dave with a major question: to pursue his career in New York City, or to remain at home with his family.
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, black comedy, midlife crisis, family, father-son relationship, self-discovery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Middle-aged zoo worker Natasha still lives with her mother in a small coastal town. As she struggles for independence, she has to endure the absurd reality of her life filled with gossip spread by the women around her. She is stuck and it seems that life has no surprises for her until one day... she grows a tail. Embarrassed at first, Natasha decides to go further with the transformation and use it as an opportunity to redefine herself as a person and as a woman. With the new "accessory" she gets access to the life that she has never experienced before - she starts a relationship with a man, who finds her attractive, she goes out and allows herself to be foolish for the first time in her life. But her second puberty eventually comes to an end and Natasha has to make a choice between reality and illusion.—New Europe Film Sales
Plot Keywords: fantasy, drama, black comedy, surreal, female coming-of-age, social outcast, loneliness ...
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