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24 results for “alienation”

Field Reports

2026 ★ 0.0

An autistic documentary filmmaker studies two neurotypicals, trying to understand their shared way of being through objects, language and small social gestures.

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Pea Soup

1979 ★ 6.7

Images and sounds are spliced together in this journey to the heart of the political, economic and cultural oppression of the Quebec people. A reflection on neo

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And Then I Go

2017 ★ 6.3

In the cruel world of junior high, Edwin suffers in a state of anxiety and alienation alongside his only friend, Flake. Misunderstood by their families and demo

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That Peter Crouch Film

2023 ★ 6.8

That Peter Crouch Film is the true story behind football's most unlikely hero. Belittled for his height and shunted from club to club, all logic suggests that h

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The Stranger

1967 ★ 6.8

Meursault is a man who feels utterly isolated from everyone and everything around him. This alienation results in sudden, inexplicable bursts of violence, culmi

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AlieNation

2026 ★ 0.0

Mario, a barber in Turin, Ming, a small businessman in Russia, and Shahe, recently released from prison in Beijing, live vastly different lives yet share one id

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Manila in the Claws of Light

1975 ★ 7.4

Julio, a young fisherman from a provincial village, descends into social alienation as he arrives in Manila to search for his loved one. Manila in the Claws of

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Guns of the Trees

1961 ★ 7.3

Barbara, a young woman consumed by despair, contemplates suicide, while a man she meets in a church and a married couple struggle to persuade her that life is s

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Faces

1968 ★ 7.1

Middle-aged suburban husband Richard abruptly tells his wife, Maria, that he wants a divorce. As Richard takes up with a younger woman, Maria enjoys a night on

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L'etreinte

1969 ★ 4.3

L’Étreinte (1969) is a sharp, provocative Franco-Belgian psychological drama that masterfully subverts power dynamics through an erotic lens. Heavily inspired b

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Martian Child

2007 ★ 6.7

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 fro

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Trial of Hein

2026 ★ 0.0

After 14 years away, Hein returns to his home village on a remote island, only to discover that the close-knit community no longer recognises him. Suspecting hi

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Glass Saints

2026 ★ 0.0

A group of young men ranging from the ages of 18 to 24 live their bizarre eccentric lives in a world that doesn't understand them. They navigate life's course o

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The 7th Day of Creation

1966 ★ 7.0

A newlywed man who has just completed his national service, Alekos Stathakis, is trying to get over his class' misery, but doesn't have the necessary "equipment

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Oslo, August 31st

2011 ★ 7.5

A recovering drug addict is granted a day’s leave from rehab and returns to Oslo, where he reconnects with friends, faces the weight of his past, and struggles

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Madame de Sévigné

2024 ★ 5.1

In the middle of the 17th century, the Marquise de Sévigné wanted to make her daughter a brilliant and independent woman in her own image. But the more she trie

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A Public Opinion

1967 ★ 6.4

Documentary about middle-class people in Rio de Janeiro, in the 1960s, when Brazil was going through a hard period in its history, with the military coup and th

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A Letter to Three Wives

1949 ★ 7.2

A letter is addressed to three wives from their 'best friend', announcing that she's running away with one of their husbands – but she doesn't specify which one

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The Cat

1971 ★ 7.4

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 demolish

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The Savages

2007 ★ 6.9

A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father. Drama Comedy daughter depression sibling relat

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Fists in the Pocket

1965 ★ 7.8

A deeply disturbed and epileptic young man benignly decides to murder other members of his dysfunctional family for altruistic reasons. Drama epilepsy alienatio

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Bad Tales

2020 ★ 6.7

In a small suburb on the outskirts of Rome, the cheerful heat of summer camouflages a stifling atmosphere of alienation. From a distance, the families seem norm

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The Devil, Probably

1977 ★ 6.8

Charles drifts through politics, religion and psychoanalysis, rejecting them all. Once he realises the depth of his disgust with the moral and physical decline

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Jimmy

2026 ★ 0.0

In November 1948, James Baldwin left New York and, thanks to a fellowship grant, relocated to Paris. The 24-year-old writer would spend most of the next decade

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