Alienation Movies

Bhutan: The World’s Happiest Man tells the story of Mr. Bishnu, an aging Bhutanese-American in Ohio, who dreams of returning to his homeland....

Burned-out B-movie actress Maria, depressed and frustrated with her loveless marriage to an ambitious film director, Carter Lang, who would rather...

This is the story of Leonardo and Federico, two students who have never accomplished anything in their lives... Maybe

A railway crossing guard and his wife live in a routine of total isolation and uneventfulness.

Two 17-year-old boys mark the new year by doing twelve dangerous but exciting tasks set for them by their friends.

The main character of the film writes a diary. For over 20 years he has lived in a bunker and has not ventured outside. His only companions are...

Tokyo is a mere five-hour flight from Hong Kong but it is a totally different world. Sarah (Josie Ho) has come to Japan seeking to buy an investment...

With input from actor and writer Jan Hlobil, director and cinematographer Rene Smaal presents a film in the true surrealist tradition, in the sense...

Amidst the 1960 Japanese-American mutual security treaty, alienated young nihilist Takuya struggles to find his footing between his do-nothing wealth...

An intimate portrait of Mariano "Cronopio" Gedwillo, an Argentinian clown in Riga, as he transforms ordinary life into wonder through the magic of...

A bucolic fantasy frolic in which an adaptable young woman must navigate a bewildering and whimsical phantasmagoria, populated by anthropomorphic and...

The film is about the band Stockholms Negrer, but also about what formed their music, about being Swedish but still being viewed as an outsider.

In a world where loneliness has become ordinary and warmth is something humans buy with money, the protagonist lives a life that does not move...

About how the social environment affects Mazhar's consciousness/inner world and his effort to get rid of the stuckness he is in.

A German tourist who gained fame in the 1970s after becoming lost in America and a washed-up one-hit-wonder indie rocker are connected across history...

A man leaves his work by the computer terminal and rushes home through the worries of urban nighttime. In the loneliness of his apartment the...