Movies About Isolation
Kinora's catalogue lists 201 films about isolation, spanning 1941–2023. Each is tagged by where and when it takes place — filter by real-world setting, era, and environment, or open any film for its full tagged world.
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127 Hours
Wilderness · Desert · Undergrounddir. Danny Boyle - 1954
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Coastal Sea · Islanddir. Richard Fleischer - 1968
2001: A Space Odyssey
Off World · Wildernessdir. Stanley Kubrick - 2002
28 Days Later
Urban · Ruraldir. Danny Boyle - 2004
3-Iron
Urbandir. Kim Ki-duk - 2007
30 Days of Night
Wilderness · Ruraldir. David Slade - 2005
A Bittersweet Life
Urbandir. Kim Jee-woon - 2014
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Urbandir. Ana Lily Amirpour - 1988
A Short Film About Love
Urbandir. Krzysztof Kieślowski - 1977
A Special Day
Urbandir. Ettore Scola - 2019
Ad Astra
Off Worlddir. James Gray - 1985
After Hours
Urbandir. Martin Scorsese - 1974
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Urbandir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder - 1979
Alien
Off Worlddir. Ridley Scott - 2001
Amélie
Urbandir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet - 1999
American Beauty
Suburbandir. Sam Mendes - 1981
An American Werewolf in London
Urban · Rural · Wildernessdir. John Landis - 2018
Annihilation
Wilderness · Coastal Seadir. Alex Garland - 2020
Another Round
Urbandir. Thomas Vinterberg - 1969
Army of Shadows
Urbandir. Jean-Pierre Melville - 1990
Awakenings
Urbandir. Penny Marshall - 1962
Birdman of Alcatraz
Islanddir. John Frankenheimer - 1966
Black Girl
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Ousmane Sembène - 1966
Blow-Up
Urbandir. Michelangelo Antonioni - 2018
Burning
Urban · Ruraldir. Lee Chang-dong - 1962
Carnival of Souls
Urbandir. Herk Harvey - 2000
Cast Away
Island · Coastal Seadir. Robert Zemeckis - 2009
Castaway on the Moon
Island · Urbandir. Lee Hae-jun - 1942
Cat People
Urbandir. Jacques Tourneur - 2016
Certain Women
Ruraldir. Kelly Reichardt - 1964
Charulata
Urbandir. Satyajit Ray - 2012
Chronicle
Urban · Suburbandir. Josh Trank - 1994
Chungking Express
Urbandir. Wong Kar-Wai - 1941
Citizen Kane
Urbandir. Orson Welles - 1962
Cléo from 5 to 7
Urbandir. Agnès Varda - 1977
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Rural · Wildernessdir. Steven Spielberg - 2007
Control
Urbandir. Anton Corbijn - 1972
Cries and Whispers
Ruraldir. Ingmar Bergman - 1951
Diary of a Country Priest
Ruraldir. Robert Bresson - 2011
Drive
Urbandir. Nicolas Winding Refn - 1971
Duel
Desert · Ruraldir. Steven Spielberg - 1982
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Suburbandir. Steven Spielberg - 1990
Edward Scissorhands
Suburbandir. Tim Burton - 2018
Eighth Grade
Suburbandir. Bo Burnham - 2022
EO
Rural · Wildernessdir. Jerzy Skolimowski - 1977
Eraserhead
Urbandir. David Lynch - 2015
Ex Machina
Urbandir. Alex Garland - 1995
Fallen Angels
Urbandir. Wong Kar-Wai - 2023
Fallen Leaves
Urbandir. Aki Kaurismäki - 2002
Far from Heaven
Suburbandir. Todd Haynes - 1999
Fight Club
Urbandir. David Fincher - 1970
Five Easy Pieces
Rural · Island · Coastal Seadir. Bob Rafelson - 2001
Ghost World
Urbandir. Terry Zwigoff - 2013
Gravity
Off Worlddir. Alfonso Cuarón - 1998
Happiness
Suburban · Urbandir. Todd Solondz - 1997
Happy Together
Urbandir. Wong Kar-Wai - 1995
Heat
Urbandir. Michael Mann - 2013
Her
Urbandir. Spike Jonze - 2007
I Am Legend
Urbandir. Francis Lawrence - 1999
I Stand Alone
Urbandir. Gaspar Noé - 1952
Ikiru
Urbandir. Akira Kurosawa - 2013
Inside Llewyn Davis
Urbandir. Joel Coen - 1994
Interview with the Vampire
Urbandir. Neil Jordan - 2007
Into the Wild
Wilderness · Rural · Desertdir. Sean Penn - 1978
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Urbandir. Philip Kaufman - 2016
It's Only the End of the World
Suburbandir. Xavier Dolan - 1976
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Urbandir. Chantal Akerman - 1972
Jeremiah Johnson
Wilderness · Mountaindir. Sydney Pollack - 1971
Johnny Got His Gun
dir. Dalton Trumbo - 2019
Joker
Urbandir. Todd Phillips - 1970
Kes
Ruraldir. Ken Loach - 2003
Kontroll
Underground · Urbandir. Nimród Antal - 1960
L'Avventura
Island · Coastal Sea · Urbandir. Michelangelo Antonioni - 1962
L'Eclisse
Urbandir. Michelangelo Antonioni - 1960
La Dolce Vita
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Federico Fellini - 1961
La Notte
Urbandir. Michelangelo Antonioni - 1954
La Strada
Rural · Coastal Seadir. Federico Fellini - 1967
Le Samouraï
Urbandir. Jean-Pierre Melville - 2018
Leave No Trace
Wilderness · Ruraldir. Debra Granik - 1995
Leaving Las Vegas
Urbandir. Mike Figgis - 1994
Léon: The Professional
Urbandir. Luc Besson - 2008
Let the Right One In
Suburbandir. Tomas Alfredson - 2003
Lost in Translation
Urbandir. Sofia Coppola - 2017
Loveless
Urbandir. Andrey Zvyagintsev - 1973
Ludwig
dir. Luchino Visconti - 2000
Malena
Ruraldir. Giuseppe Tornatore - 1986
Manhunter
Urban · Suburbandir. Michael Mann - 2006
Marie Antoinette
Urbandir. Sofia Coppola - 1978
Martin
dir. George A. Romero - 1955
Marty
Urbandir. Delbert Mann - 1968
Memories of Underdevelopment
Urbandir. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea - 1969
Midnight Cowboy
Urbandir. John Schlesinger - 2019
Midsommar
Ruraldir. Ari Aster - 2009
Moon
Off Worlddir. Duncan Jones - 1967
Mouchette
Ruraldir. Robert Bresson - 1991
My Own Private Idaho
Urban · Ruraldir. Gus Van Sant - 1989
Mystery Train
Urbandir. Jim Jarmusch - 1994
Nell
Wilderness · Mountaindir. Michael Apted - 2004
Nobody Knows
Urbandir. Hirokazu Kore-eda - 2021
Nomadland
Rural · Wildernessdir. Chloé Zhao - 1983
Nostalgia
Ruraldir. Andrei Tarkovsky - 1992
Of Mice and Men
Ruraldir. Gary Sinise - 2003
Oldboy
Urbandir. Park Chan-wook - 2017
On Body and Soul
Urbandir. Ildikó Enyedi - 2013
Only Lovers Left Alive
Urbandir. Jim Jarmusch - 2011
Oslo, August 31st
Urbandir. Joachim Trier - 2023
Perfect Days
Urbandir. Wim Wenders - 1959
Pickpocket
Urbandir. Robert Bresson - 1975
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Wilderness · Ruraldir. Peter Weir - 2021
Pig
Wilderness · Urbandir. Michael Sarnoski - 1982
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Urbandir. Alan Parker - 1967
PlayTime
Urbandir. Jacques Tati - 2009
Pontypool
Rural · Undergrounddir. Bruce McDonald - 1990
Pump Up the Volume
Suburbandir. Allan Moyle - 2002
Punch-Drunk Love
Urbandir. Paul Thomas Anderson - 1999
Ratcatcher
Urbandir. Lynne Ramsay - 1954
Rear Window
Urbandir. Alfred Hitchcock - 1964
Red Desert
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Michelangelo Antonioni - 1965
Repulsion
Urbandir. Roman Polanski - 2000
Requiem for a Dream
Urbandir. Darren Aronofsky - 2022
Return to Seoul
Urbandir. Davy Chou - 2015
Room
Suburbandir. Lenny Abrahamson - 1968
Rosemary's Baby
Urbandir. Roman Polanski - 1995
Safe
Suburban · Desertdir. Todd Haynes - 1994
Satantango
Ruraldir. Béla Tarr - 1973
Serpico
Urbandir. Sidney Lumet - 1986
Shadows in Paradise
Urbandir. Aki Kaurismäki - 1960
Shoot the Piano Player
Urban · Mountaindir. François Truffaut - 1993
Short Cuts
Urban · Suburbandir. Robert Altman - 1972
Silent Running
Off Worlddir. Douglas Trumbull - 1972
Solaris
Off Worlddir. Andrei Tarkovsky - 1977
Sorcerer
Wilderness · Urban · Mountaindir. William Friedkin - 2020
Sound of Metal
Rural · Urbandir. Darius Marder - 2021
Spencer
Ruraldir. Pablo Larraín - 2006
Still Life
Urbandir. Jia Zhangke - 1984
Stranger Than Paradise
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Jim Jarmusch - 1971
Straw Dogs
Ruraldir. Sam Peckinpah - 1977
Stroszek
Urban · Ruraldir. Werner Herzog - 2016
Swiss Army Man
Island · Wilderness · Coastal Seadir. Daniel Kwan - 2011
Take Shelter
Rural · Coastal Seadir. Jeff Nichols - 2002
Talk to Her
Urbandir. Pedro Almodóvar - 1997
Taste of Cherry
Urbandir. Abbas Kiarostami - 1976
Taxi Driver
Urbandir. Martin Scorsese - 1959
The 400 Blows
Urban · Coastal Seadir. François Truffaut - 1960
The Apartment
Urbandir. Billy Wilder - 2022
The Banshees of Inisherin
Island · Ruraldir. Martin McDonagh - 1999
The Blair Witch Project
Wildernessdir. Daniel Myrick - 1961
The Children's Hour
dir. William Wyler - 1974
The Conversation
Urbandir. Francis Ford Coppola - 2007
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Coastal Seadir. Julian Schnabel - 1980
The Elephant Man
Urbandir. David Lynch - 1974
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Urbandir. Werner Herzog - 1983
The Evil Dead
Wilderness · Ruraldir. Sam Raimi - 1966
The Face of Another
Urbandir. Hiroshi Teshigahara - 1963
The Fire Within
Urbandir. Louis Malle - 1997
The Game
Urbandir. David Fincher - 1947
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Coastal Seadir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz - 2013
The Great Beauty
Urbandir. Paolo Sorrentino - 1986
The Green Ray
dir. Éric Rohmer - 1996
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Urbandir. Kirk Wise - 1957
The Incredible Shrinking Man
Suburbandir. Jack Arnold - 1987
The Last Emperor
Urbandir. Bernardo Bertolucci - 1971
The Last Picture Show
Ruraldir. Peter Bogdanovich - 1998
The Legend of 1900
Coastal Seadir. Giuseppe Tornatore - 2019
The Lighthouse
Island · Coastal Seadir. Robert Eggers - 2013
The Lunchbox
Urbandir. Ritesh Batra - 2001
The Man Who Wasn't There
Suburbandir. Joel Coen - 2012
The Master
Urbandir. Paul Thomas Anderson - 1990
The Match Factory Girl
Urbandir. Aki Kaurismäki - 1962
The Miracle Worker
dir. Arthur Penn - 1961
The Misfits
Desert · Urbandir. John Huston - 1975
The Passenger
Desert · Urbandir. Michelangelo Antonioni - 1993
The Piano
Coastal Sea · Wilderness · Ruraldir. Jane Campion - 1989
The Seventh Continent
Urbandir. Michael Haneke - 1980
The Shining
Mountaindir. Stanley Kubrick - 1963
The Silence
Urbandir. Ingmar Bergman - 1999
The Sixth Sense
Urbandir. M. Night Shyamalan - 1973
The Spirit of the Beehive
Ruraldir. Víctor Erice - 2003
The Station Agent
Ruraldir. Tom McCarthy - 1976
The Tenant
Urbandir. Roman Polanski - 1998
The Thin Red Line
Wilderness · Island · Coastal Seadir. Terrence Malick - 1982
The Thing
Wildernessdir. John Carpenter - 2000
The Virgin Suicides
Suburbandir. Sofia Coppola - 2016
The Witch
Rural · Wildernessdir. Robert Eggers - 2007
There Will Be Blood
Ruraldir. Paul Thomas Anderson - 1993
Three Colors: Blue
Urbandir. Krzysztof Kieślowski - 1994
Three Colors: Red
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Krzysztof Kieślowski - 2011
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Urbandir. Tomas Alfredson - 1952
Umberto D.
Urbandir. Vittorio De Sica - 2014
Under the Skin
Urban · Wilderness · Mountaindir. Jonathan Glazer - 2009
Up in the Air
Urbandir. Jason Reitman - 1985
Vagabond
Ruraldir. Agnès Varda - 1971
Wake in Fright
Desert · Ruraldir. Ted Kotcheff - 2001
Waking Life
Urbandir. Richard Linklater - 1971
Walkabout
Desert · Wilderness · Urbandir. Nicolas Roeg - 1996
Welcome to the Dollhouse
Suburbandir. Todd Solondz - 1957
White Nights
Urbandir. Luchino Visconti - 1987
Wings of Desire
Urbandir. Wim Wenders - 1963
Winter Light
Ruraldir. Ingmar Bergman - 2014
Winter Sleep
Mountain · Ruraldir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan - 1964
Woman in the Dunes
Coastal Sea · Rural · Desertdir. Hiroshi Teshigahara
Frequently asked
How many movies are about isolation?
Kinora's catalogue lists 201 films about isolation, spanning 1941–2023.
What are some movies about isolation?
Films about isolation in our catalogue include 127 Hours (2010), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), 28 Days Later (2002), and 3-Iron (2004).
What is the oldest movie about isolation?
Citizen Kane (1941) is the earliest film about isolation in our catalogue; the most recent is Perfect Days (2023).