alienation
93 movies and shows
Taxi Driver
Mon, 09 Feb 1976
Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city.
The Savages
Wed, 28 Nov 2007
A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.
Martian Child
Fri, 02 Nov 2007
A recently-widowed science fiction writer considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old abandoned and socially-rejected boy who says he's really from Mars.
L'Eclisse
Fri, 13 Apr 1962
This romantic drama by Michelangelo Antonioni follows the love life of Vittoria, a beautiful literary translator living in Rome. After splitting from her writer boyfriend, Riccardo, Vittoria meets Piero, a lively stockbroker, on the hectic floor of the Roman stock exchange. Though Vittoria and Piero begin a relationship, it is not one without difficulties, and their commitment to one another is tested during an eclipse.
Other People
Fri, 09 Sep 2016
David, a struggling comedy writer fresh off from breaking up with his boyfriend, moves from New York City to Sacramento to help his sick mother. Living with his conservative father and much-younger sisters for the first time in ten years, he feels like a stranger in his childhood home. As his mother’s health declines, David frantically tries to extract meaning from this horrible experience and convince everyone (including himself) that he's "doing okay.”
Beowulf
Mon, 05 Nov 2007
A 6th-century Scandinavian warrior named Beowulf embarks on a mission to slay the man-like ogre, Grendel.
You, the Living
Fri, 21 Sep 2007
In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, deadpan vignettes that rush past. Some are just seconds long, none longer than a couple of minutes. A young woman remembers a fantasy honeymoon with a rock guitarist. A man awakes from a dream about bomber planes. A businessman boasts about success while being robbed by a pickpocket, and so on. The absurdist collection is accompanied by Dixieland jazz and similar music.
Good News
Sat, 24 Nov 1979
A disaffected media executive spends his days watching violent programming on the television screens in his office and his evenings neglecting his frustrated wife at home. The monotonicity is disturbed when he is contacted by an old friend who confides in him he is being threatened by mysterious assassins.
Alien (The Other)
Wed, 15 Jun 2022
Set in an established wealthy home, a middle aged woman is awoken by the sounds of an intruder. As she follows the unsettling sounds, she walks into a nightmare. A nightmare whose dreamer is unknown.
AlieNation
Wed, 26 Oct 2022
A family of immigrants is chased through the woods by border patrol. But they're not alone.
Pulse
Sat, 03 Feb 2001
In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lures some of its inhabitants who are desperately trying to escape the sadness and isolation of the modern world.
Fists in the Pocket
Sun, 31 Oct 1965
A deeply disturbed and epileptic young man benignly decides to murder other members of his dysfunctional family for altruistic reasons.
A Touch of Sin
Fri, 04 Oct 2013
Four independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.
Fia i folkhemmet
Sat, 01 Jan 1977
Fia is 18 years old, pregnant and has just moved with her boyfriend to their first apartment in a suburb. Alone she tries to navigate the society of adulthood for the first time.
The Cat
Sat, 24 Apr 1971
Julien Bouin, a former typographist, and his wife Clemence, who used to perform in a circus, hardly talk to each other in their small house, soon to be demolished. His cat Greffier being the only one he still gives affection to, he becomes the object of Clemence's anger.
Naked
Fri, 06 Aug 1993
An unemployed Brit vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey.
Pi
Fri, 10 Jul 1998
A mathematical genius discovers a link between numbers and reality, and thus believes he can predict the future.
Re/cycle
Fri, 07 Jun 2019
With input from actor and writer Jan Hlobil, director and cinematographer Rene Smaal presents a film in the true surrealist tradition, in the sense that only 'found' elements were used, and that it defies interpretation based on ordinary cause-and-effect time sequence.
New Year's Day
Sat, 01 Jan 2000
Two 17-year-old boys mark the new year by doing twelve dangerous but exciting tasks set for them by their friends.