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Actually, it all started a few weeks back when a friend on facebook prompted me to suggest my favorite films dealing with solitude, loneliness, and isolation. And, with nothing but my own inchoate thoughts and savory vestiges of all things cinema, I started working on it. Voila! In a matter of minutes, I came up with a list of 51 films which I thought were quite relevant to the themes of solitude and detachment.

As soon as I shared the same on my facebook timeline, the responses started pouring in from all sides. It didn't take me long to realize that I needed to come up with a more exhaustive list to placate one and all.





After a lot of contemplation, I have come up with a compilation of 100 films from across the globe. Now, it may not satisfy everyone (after all, we all have different tastes and besides, I have so many more movies to watch) and so I hope that each and everyone of you assess it with utmost candor. If you have any movie recommendations then please do share the same in the comment box below.





So, without any further ado, I present to you my list of 101 favorite films revolving around the theme of loneliness:

1. Nights of Cabiria ( 1957) .. Federico Fellini

2. The Conversation (1974) .. Francis Ford Coppola

3. Solyaris (1972) .. Andrei Tarkovsky

4. Barry Lyndon (1975) .. Stanley Kubrick

5. Blow-Up (1966) .. Michelangelo Antonioni

6. City Lights (1931) .. Charles Chaplin

7. La Dolce Vita (1960) .. Federico Fellini

8. Dead Ringers (1988) .. David Cronenberg

9. The Mirror (1975) .. Andrei Tarkovsky

10. Winter Light (1962) .. Ingmar Bergman

11. Viridiana (1961) .. Luis Buñuel

12. The Consequences of Love (2004) .. Paolo Sorrentino

13. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) .. Philip Kaufman

14. Three Colors: Red (1994) .. Krzysztof Kieślowski

15. Scent of a Woman (1992) .. Martin Brest

16. The Remains of the Day (1993) .. James Ivory

18. The Legend of 1900 (1988) .. Giuseppe Tornatore

19. Persona (1966) .. Ingmar Bergman

20. Belle de Jour (1967) .. Luis Buñuel

21. In a Lonely Palace (1950) .. Nicholas Ray

23. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) ... John Huston

24. The Shining (1980) .. Stanley Kubrick

25. Novecento (1976) .. Bernardo Bertolucci

26. Last Tango in Paris (1972) .. Bernardo Bertolucci

27. The Petrified Forest (1936) .. Archie Mayo

29. The Hustler (1961) .. Robert Rossen

30. El (1953) .. Luis Buñuel

31. Apocalypse Now (1979) .. Francis Ford Coppola

32. The Story of Adele H (1975) .. François Truffaut

33. Mera Naam Joker (1970) .. Raj Kapoor

34. Blade Runner (1982) .. Ridley Scott

35. The King of Comedy (1982) .. Martin Scorsese

36. Nymphomaniac (2013) .. Lars von Trier

37. Taxi Driver (1976) .. Martin Scorsese

38. Raging Bull (1980) .. Martin Scorsese

39. Wild Strawberries (1957) .. Ingmar Bergman

40. Taste of Cherry (1997) .. Abbas Kiarostami

42. Rear Window (1954) .. Alfred Hitchcock

43. The Lives of Others (2006) .. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

48. Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959) .. Guru Dutt

49. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) .. Ang Lee

50. The Garden of Finzi-Continis (1970) .. Vittorio de Sica

51. Le Passe (2013) .. Asghar Farhadi

52. Umberto D. (1952) .. Vittorio De Sica

53. The Passenger (1975) .. Michelangelo Antonioni

54. L'Avventura (1960) .. Michelangelo Antonioni

55. Cast Away (2000) .. Robert Zemeckis

56. 3-Iron (2004) .. Ki-duk Kim

57. Charulata (1964) .. Satyajit Ray

58. Kanchenjungha (1962) .. Satyajit Ray

59. Jalsaghar (1958) .. Satyajit Ray

60. Leaving Las Vegas (1995) .. Mike Figgis

61. Lost in Translation (2003) .. Sofia Coppola

63. 2046 (2004) .. Wong Kar-wai

64. In the Mood for Love (2000) .. Wong Kar-wai.

65. My Blueberry Nights (2007) .. Wong Kar-wai.

66. Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai (1999) .. Jim Jarmusch

68. Le Samourai (1967) .. Jean-Pierre Melville

70. The Night of the Iguana (1964) .. John Huston

71. Magnolia .. Paul Thomas Anderson

72. Unforgiven (1992) .. Clint Eastwood

73. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia .. Sam Peckinpah

74. Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) .. Jim Jarmusch

75. Lord Jim (1965) .. Richard Brooks

78. Moon (2009) .. Duncan Jones

79. The Rules of the Game (1939) ..

Jean Renoir

80. The Pledge (2001) .. Sean Penn

81. Into the Wild (2007) .. Sean Penn

82. A Passage to India .. David Lean

83. The Banishment (2007) .. Andrey Zvyagintsev

84. Metropolis (1927) .. Fritz Lang

85. M (1931) .. Fritz Lang

86. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) .. Robert Altman

88. Cries & Whispers (1972) .. Ingmar Bergman

89. Scarface (1983) .. Brian De Palma

90. Amadeus (1984) .. Miloš Forman

91. Crash (1996) .. David Cronenberg

92. Frenzy (1972) .. Alfred Hitchcock

93. The Wild Bunch .. Sam Peckinpah

94. The Graduate (1967) .. Mike Nichols

95. Lust, Caution (2007) .. Ang Lee

96. The Name of the Rose (1986) .. Jean-Jacques Annaud

97. The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) .. Peter Weir

98. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) .. Steven Spielberg

99. Last Year at Marienbad (1961) .. Alain Resnais

100. The Sheltering Sky .. Bernardo Bertolucci

101 Alphaville .. Jean-Luc Godard

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