Alienation Movies

A timid young woman who lives with her domineering mother accepts an Adult Video scout's offer to "become somebody else" by performing in porn...

A young girl leaves her Nigerian village to attend a ballet school in England. Fascinated by Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, she dreams of performing as...

Lou and Noodles are consumers. Adrift and empty, they are separate from each other and from the world. Ruled by desire and uncontrollable drives to...

A disaffected media executive spends his days watching violent programming on the television screens in his office and his evenings neglecting his...

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

Alberto is dead and can no longer hide it. Make-up and perfume can no longer conceal his quickly decomposing body. Dismayed, he decides to withdraw...

When a young man’s silent pain erupts into violence, his older brother is forced to confront the past and...

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

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...

A rebellious student embarks on an affair with the mother of his best friend, leading to disastrous consequences.

A man who is fascinated with patterns and symbols discovers his one true path to enlightenment.

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.

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

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...

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

A multi-awarded 23 minute short film about pansexual punk rockers in a toxic relationship in London’s underground music scene

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

This award-winning feature examines a minority group that is discounted and often ignored by mainstream media. Sharing a common past, many African...