ALIENATION THEMED MOVIES

Taxi Driver
1976
A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence...
Beowulf
2007
A 6th-century Scandinavian warrior named Beowulf embarks on a mission to slay the man-like ogre, Grendel.
Pi
1998
A mathematical genius discovers a link between numbers and reality, and thus believes he can predict the future.
Naked
1993
An unemployed Brit vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey.
Pulse
2001
In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lures some of its inhabitants who are desperately trying to ...
A Touch of Sin
2013
Four independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.
L'Eclisse
1962
This romantic drama by Michelangelo Antonioni follows the love life of Vittoria, a beautiful literary translator living ...
Sister My Sister
1994
A true story of shocking violence catapults a picturesque little town into history. The close sibling relationship betwe...
Martian Child
2007
A recently-widowed science fiction writer considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old abandoned and social...
The Savages
2007
A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.
Other People
2016
David, a struggling comedy writer fresh off from breaking up with his boyfriend, moves from New York City to Sacramento ...
The Life of Jesus
1997
Twenty-something Freddy is becalmed in a podunk French village where the only sign of life is the local amateur brass ba...
You, the Living
2007
In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, deadpan vignettes that...
The Cat
1971
Julien Bouin, a former typographist, and his wife Clemence, who used to perform in a circus, hardly talk to each other i...
Tokyo Stray Girls
2010
A timid young woman who lives with her domineering mother accepts an Adult Video scout's offer to "become somebody else"...
Fists in the Pocket
1965
A deeply disturbed and epileptic young man benignly decides to murder other members of his dysfunctional family for altr...
The Idol
1966
A rebellious student embarks on an affair with the mother of his best friend, leading to disastrous consequences.
Despair
1978
Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the ...
Full Moon in Paris
1984
Louise is dissatisfied with her mundane life in a bleak Parisian new-town. She rents a pied-à-terre in the city so she c...
Darling
2007
Eva is beautiful, irresponsible, self-absorbed and emotionally disconnected. Her life is all about the right clothes, th...