Movies: Isolation

I Go Further Under is inspired by the true story of Jane Cooper who, in 1971, at 17 years of age, arrived in Hobart from Melbourne and asked local fishermen to take her to a remote island where she intended to live in solitude, hoping to remain there...

Struggling with the move to Australia, a father concedes that he might not be the only one having a hard time with the transition....

Richard Parker is the lone remaining member of a Royal Observer Corps team, stationed deep underground, during an unidentified cataclysm. He spends his days battling with isolation, loneliness, fear of what waits above and his own memories....

A meditation on isolation through paint textures, video collage and sound...

In the countryside, a man lives isolated from the world. More than 200 years ago, a couple puts their naïve love for each other above anything else, with tragic results. Two people form a peculiar intertemporal conversation on the meaning of loss, gr...

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A hermitic stop-motion animator is tasked with caring for a collection of strange plants....

Between the lugubrious landscape of the river and an old deteriorated house, a sleepless man reflects on the absence of his wife. An encounter with fishing partners reveals his disturbed nature, and a violent drive....

After a mysterious event, Adam’s house falls apart, trapping him in his past and thoughts. To escape, he must confront the chaos in his mind....

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Anxious and unstable after removing herself from a money-grubbing rehab facility, a recovering addict isolates herself in a nearby rental home while she gets her life on track. Haunted by episodes of sleep paralysis and visions of silhouetted demons,...

A recluse painter’s careful routine is shaken up when a mysterious young woman knocks on his door. An encounter that will confront him with his past....

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A man's entire life is put in jeopardy when he accidentally joins a conference call with the sinister New World Order....

It starts like this: a beach, a cliff, a pine tree forest, and a house made of stone. In the house, Virginia wakes up startled by a nightmare, and in the nightmare we can see her cousin Anabel with a deathly pale face and traces of blood around her l...

A doctor's mysterious pill offers solace to a teen plagued by an unknown disease. As he uncovers the chilling truth behind his affliction, he is tormented by the dark and twisted side effects of his treatment....

Tsuchiya takes us through a day of wanted or unwanted solitude in a variety of self-made costumes, stumbling and dancing in what appears to be an entranced and captivated state....

A prefabricated estate in Moscow is meant as a transit stop for four queer Cuban exiles – until Russia’s attack on Ukraine radically shifts their outlook. Moving telephone calls back home provide the structure of Luís Alejandro Yero’s debut work....

A boy who finished school and spends time at home, between routine and sleep, during the COVID-19 pandemic....

"After a freak accident leaves him deaf, a young man enters therapy, only to discover that losing his hearing has granted him a deeper understanding of his fractured family and inner turmoil. ግብረ ጉንዳን/Gbre gundan is a psychological drama that blurs t...