THEME EXPLORATION

existential isolation

12 films · 3 directors
FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Winter Light
Winter Light
1963 · Ingmar Bergman
Cosmopolis
Cosmopolis
2012 · David Cronenberg
Le Feu Follet
Le Feu Follet
1963 · Louis Malle
A Man and A Woman
A Man and A Woman
2026 · Guan Hu
Bamui haebyun-eoseo honja
Bamui haebyun-eoseo honja
2017 · Hong Sang-soo
After Liverpool
After Liverpool
1974 · Michael Haneke
The Convenience Store
The Convenience Store
2026 · Jirô Nagae
The Consequences of Love
The Consequences of Love
2004 · Paolo Sorrentino
Pátio
Pátio
1959 · Glauber Rocha
Dennis Fischer, Horror Film Directors, - , McFarland & Company
Dennis Fischer, Horror Film Directors, - , McFarland & Company
1931 · John Carpenter
Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
2021 · Hideaki Anno & Katsuichi Nakayama & Kazuya Tsurumaki & Mahiro Maeda
Windows
Windows
1974 · Peter Greenaway
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Nuri Bilge Ceylan Turkey · Istanbul

Architectural patience extracting profound silence from ordinary human suffering and landscape.

 Kazuya Tsurumaki Japan

Deconstructive animator who fragments narrative and psyche through radical formal innovation.

 Andrei Tarkovsky Soviet Union

His philosophical films explore spiritual loneliness and humanity's struggle to find meaning in an indifferent universe through meditative, introspective storytelling.