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2) A single man
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
After the death of his longtime partner, a British college professor in Los Angeles struggles to find meaning in his life. As he dwells in the past, he begins to contemplate suicide. A series of events and encounters will lead him to question if there really is a meaning to his life after all.
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists. The pilot episode "Where Is Everybody?" has a man wandering through an empty ghost town seeking someone, anyone, to break his isolation.
5) Marty
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
Marty is the story of a 34-year-old Bronx butcher who fears that he will never find love, but at a Saturday night dance he meets a lonely schoolteacher with similar fears.
6) Surge
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
[2021]
Formats
Description
Set over 24 hours in London, it is a stripped-back thriller about a man who goes on a bold and reckless journey of self-liberation.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001, 1958
Description
Explores the separate and interwoven dreams of a number of eccentric and lonely people in a rather gloomy, small hotel in the seaside town of Bournemouth, England. In one evening, four unhappy misfits will bare their innermost secrets and change each other's lives forever.
8) Papi Chulo
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Cast adrift in Los Angeles, Sean, a lonely TV weatherman, drives past a middle-aged Latino migrant worker standing outside a hardware store looking for work. He decides to hire this kind-looking man to be his friend. Sean is young, gay, and white. Ernesto, portly, straight, and married. Despite having nothing in common and the language barrier, they build a sort of friendship, until Sean becomes consumed with a deeper obsessive need.
Publisher
VCI Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Fannie Fairchild is old and quite rude with the people in her life, and is having trouble trying to hire someone to keep flowers on her grave when she is gone. Young Louise comes along to care for Fannie in her old age. Will Fannie accept love from Louise, or continue the lonely life she's lived all these years?
Publisher
Well Go USA
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
A modern fairytale' with zombies! Oliver lives alone in his late parents' suburban home and faces rejection at every turn. He is tasked with making new friends, and decides his best bet is to build a perfect TV family starting at the local cemetery' where he digs friends up one at a time!
Series
Miriam collection volume 5
Publisher
Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Jeremy, a big-hearted owner of a small New York diner, tries to soothe Elizabeth's jilted heart with his blueberry pie. But only after going on a year-long cross-country odyssey does she realize love was right at her doorstep all along.
13) Liverpool
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
2010
Description
In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, Farrel asks the captain of the freighter he works on to go ashore once they reach the port of Ushuaia, a town in southern Argentina. He wants to return to his birthplace and see if his mother is still alive. For the past twenty years he has worked as a seaman. Having reached the cluster of houses where he grew up, Farrel discovers his mother is indeed still alive, but someone else has become part of the family....
14) Hello lonesome
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2012
Description
A story about people, actually, three stories about people. Regular people. They're all trying their best, just like the rest of us. There's a voiceover artist who lives and works in his underwear from his self-made mountain utopia. There's a sassy suburban widow in her seventies. There's an adorable young couple that meets on line and jumps right into a hot and heavy relationship despite some potential red flags.
15) Blackbird
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
An unlikely friendship forms between Sean Randall and popular teen Deanna Roy. After writing a death threat online, Sean is falsely accused of plotting a Columbine-like massacre. The police raid his home and find rifles, shotguns, and a 'hit list' with twenty names of students who bullied Sean. As Sean faces imprisonment in a youth detention facility, he must overcome his dark image and prove his innocence to Deanna and his shaken community.
16) Loverboy
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Emily is a beautiful and brilliant loner obsessed with having the perfect child. Her desperation will drive her to commit shocking and perilous acts, pushing her closer to the edge of sanity.
17) Touch
Publisher
www.touchthefilm.com [distributor]
Pub. Date
[2010?]
Description
""Touch" is an eleven minute drama starring Lily Knight ("Changeling", "Secretary") and Rachel Kanouse. An ode to city life, "Touch", explores the universal themes of isolation and need for community when two strangers make the most important connect of their lives while waiting for a train."--Film synopsis.
Series
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Sadry and his new assistant struggle to make a living running their gas station. With few customers and little in common, they spend most of their time alone except for occasional visits by the local postman. Despite their apparent loneliness, each of the three men dream of romance and become determined to pursue impossible relationships.
20) Marty
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2014
Description
Marty is a nice guy, living with his mother in the Bronx, hanging around with similarly socially inept friends, dreaming of owning his own butcher's shop, and maybe even finding a girl to love. The people around him don't think Marty will make anything more of himself than he already has--life is comfortable, why would Marty want to change? But when Marty meets Clara, a schoolteacher with similar aspirations, Marty is motivated to do remarkable things....
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