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This list includes movies where a key factor in the storyline is isolation and seclusion. A thematic category is given. The latest movies appear at the top.
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- 'Lost in Translation' (2003) Director: Sofia Coppola. Widely regarded as Sofia Coppola's best feature to date (for which she understandably earned a Best Original Screenplay Academy Award), Lost in Translation showcases beautiful landscapes in the city of lights and stars Scarlett Johansson and Bill Murray as two outsiders in Tokyo.
- 'Taxi Driver' (1976) Director: Martin Scorsese. Taxi Driver is one of Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese's most memorable collaborations. Written by Paul Schrader, the 1976 neo-noir psychological thriller centers on a mentally unstable veteran who takes a new job as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City.
- 'Her' (2013) Director: Spike Jonze. Set in a near-future Los Angeles scenario and starring Joaquin Phoenix as the heartbroken, highly introverted Theodore, Spike Jonze's Her portrays the unlikely romantic relationship between a divorcee who is still mourning the ending of the relationship with his childhood sweetheart (Rooney Mara, Phoenix's real-life wife) and his highly advanced virtual assistant (voiced by Scarlett Johansson).
- 'Persona' (1966) Director: Ingmar Bergman. Obscure and mysterious, Persona is a must-see psychological drama centering around a nurse named Alma (Bibi Andersson) who is put in charge of a well-known mute stage actress named Elisabet Vogler (Liv Ullmann), only to realize that their personae are slowly merging.
- The Shining
- Into The Wild
- The Thing
- The Cabin in The Woods
- Buried
- Cast Away
- The Martian
- Room
- Moon
- Oldboy
All work and no play makes Jack a homicidal boy. When Jack Torrance gets the job as caretaker of the Overlook Hotelduring the winter months, it seems like a cushy gig for he and his family. Except it seems like the isolation, as well as some sort of evil force within the hotel, really gets to Jack, and he ultimately tries to murder his wife and you...
For some people, being completely alone is not a pleasant experience. But for others, exploring themselves while they're completely by themselves can be a revelatory experience. Both luckily and unluckily for Chris McCandless, the real life subject of Into the Wild, the beauty of nature and isolation drew him in, and wound up being what got him kil...
After being attacked by some sort of alien life form that is capable of perfectly mimicking any living thing, isolation is really the best that this Antarctic crew can hope for. RELATED: 10 Movies To Watch If You Like John Carpenter's The Thing The only two surviving members of the crew hope that they've destroyed the mimic, but really all they can...
When a group of college students decide to take off for a fun weekend in an isolated cabin, a fun weekend is all that they believe is on the menu. However, unbeknownst to them, they are actually the sacrifices in some sort of ritual designed to keep ancient gods from destroying the world. And unsurprisingly, things don't exactly go as planned.
Revolving an entire feature length film around one character who literally cannot move is a pretty tall order, but the Ryan Reynolds starring vehicle Burieddoes just that, and does it spectacularly well. Reynolds stars as Paul Conroy, an American working in Iraq who suddenly wakes up to find himself buried alive with nothing but a phone and a zippo...
Tom Hanks stranded on a deserted island with nothing but a volleyball to keep him company sounds like an incredibly depressing premise for a film, butCast Awayis both heartbreaking and inspiring. After a violent plane crash, Hanks' character manages to survive on said island for years, eventually building a raft and managing to escape this tropical...
For some more lighthearted isolationist fare, there is the Matt Damon starring and Ridley Scott directed movie The Martian, which tells the story of an astronaut named Mark Watney who finds himself literally stranded on Mars. RELATED: 10 Deadliest Cinematic Martian Invaders, Ranked The world pulls together to rescue Watney, and Mark himself doesn't...
The premise of Roomis pretty dark but also horrifyingly based on a few real life cases of women who've been abducted, held prisoner, and abused by people. However, the story is told mostly from the perspective of the young son of the woman who's being held captive, which gives the story a sense of hope and whimsy that would otherwise be lost in the...
Moontells the surreal story of Sam Bell, an astronaut living alone on the moon, running a facility that is meant to mine the incredibly valuable helium-3. Sam is obviously suffering some serious side effects after being left alone in this facility for years, and eventually it's hard to know whether or not what the viewer is seeing is actually happe...
Arguably the most shocking, unexpected, and downright insane movies revolving around isolation is the Korean classic Oldboy. After being arrested for public drunkenness, Dae-su is abducted, locked in a room, and left completely alone for fifteen years with no explanation as to why he's even there. He eventually escapes, and after his escape goes do...
May 7, 2020 · The tradition of isolation in cinema, either psychological, physical, or both, is rich and also, a rather modern phenomenon (you don’t see a lot of 1930s movies about people contemplating their existence in a tomb). But isolation in the age of pandemics and social distancing has taken on a new resonance and probably created a new ...
Jun 14, 2022 · O9en Up: Directed by Tyler Lee Allen. With KateLynn E. Newberry, Lanny Joon, David Solomon Abrams. A woman wakes up trapped inside a room with no memory of who she is or how she got there.
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Apr 20, 2007 · The Rock in the Sea. September 23, 2022. A Monk living in 9th century Ireland must contend with grief, despair, isolation and his own identity, on a far-off desolate rock. Discover new TV shows and movies tagged as 'isolated' and where you can watch them.
Jan 30, 2013 · Isolated: Directed by Justin Le Pera. With Ryan Phillippe, Travis Potter, Jenny Useldinger, Andrew Mooney. Five world class surfers travel to New Guinea in search of undiscovered waves, but end up discovering so much more.
