Top Isolated Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Max von Sydow

Liv Ullmann

Gertrud Fridh

Georg Rydeberg

Hour of the Wolf (1968)

7.4 560 votes

Genre: Drama, Horror

Country: Sweden

Duration: 88 min.

Audience: 15

Story: While vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.

Plot: island, nightmare, isolation, insanity, artist, diary, castle, insomnia, ...

Cast

Holly Hunter

Harvey Keitel

Sam Neill

Anna Paquin

The Piano (1993)

7.4 1.7K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: Australia, France

Duration: 120 min.

Audience: R

Story: When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction.

Style: intimate, intense

Plot: adultery, secret love, beach, jealousy, love triangle, isolation, culture clash, sexuality, ...

Time: 19th century

Place: new zealand

Cast

Sissy Spacek

Piper Laurie

Amy Irving

William Katt

Carrie (1976)

7.3 4.3K votes

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: R

Story: Withdrawn and sensitive teenager Carrie White faces bullying from her classmates and abuse from her fanatically pious mother. When she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers, things take a dark and violent turn.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: high school, child abuse, based on novel or book, isolation, cemetery, stage, bible, telekinesis, ...

Restrepo (2010)

7.2 366 votes

Genre: Documentary, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 93 min.

Audience: R

Story: Directors Hetherington and Junger spend a year with the 2nd Battalion of the United States Army located in one of Afghanistan's most dangerous valleys. The documentary provides insight and empathy on how to win the battle through hard work, deadly gunfights and mutual friendships while the unit must push back the Taliban.

Plot: based on novel or book, isolation, radio, dead soldier, us army, afghanistan war (2001-2021), taliban, grief, ...

Cast

Amandla Stenberg

Nick Robinson

Anika Noni Rose

Ana de la Reguera

Everything, Everything (2017)

7.2 3.8K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 96 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A teenager who's lived a sheltered life because she's allergic to everything, falls for the boy who moves in next door.

Plot: based on novel or book, nurse, isolation, love, neighbor, teenage girl, air, teenage love, ...

Cast

Seo Young-hee

Ji Sung-won

Baek Su-ryeon

Park Jeong-hak

Bedevilled (2010)

7.2 490 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror

Country: South Korea

Duration: 117 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A disillusioned Seoul woman visits a remote island to reconnect with a childhood friend, only to find her trapped in an oppressive cycle of physical, mental, and sexual abuse. As tensions escalate, the situation spirals into a harrowing tale of survival and retribution.

Plot: friendship, island, prostitute, rape, isolation, revenge, domestic abuse, rural area, ...

Cast

James Franco

Kate Mara

Amber Tamblyn

Clu00e9mence Pou00e9sy

127 Hours (2010)

7.1 8.1K votes

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller

Country: France, United Kingdom

Duration: 94 min.

Audience: R

Story: The true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah.

Plot: canyon, based on novel or book, utah, photography, despair, hiking, biography, engineer, ...

Cast

Anya Taylor-Joy

Ralph Ineson

Kate Dickie

Harvey Scrimshaw

The Witch (2016)

7.0 7.7K votes

Genre: Horror

Country: Brazil, Canada

Duration: 92 min.

Audience: R

Story: In 1630, a farmer relocates his family to a remote plot of land on the edge of a forest where strange, unsettling things happen. With suspicion and paranoia mounting, each family member's faith, loyalty and love are tested in shocking ways.

Plot: witch, isolation, magic, possession, black magic, older woman seduces younger guy, new hampshire, woods, ...

Time: 17th century

Place: new england

Cast

Jennifer Lawrence

Chris Pratt

Michael Sheen

Laurence Fishburne

Passengers (2016)

7.0 14.3K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two passengers are awakened 90 years early.

Style: shocking

Plot: android, spacecraft, asteroid, isolation, shower, hibernation, swimming pool, automation, ...

Bronson (2009)

7.0 2.7K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: United Kingdom, Denmark

Duration: 92 min.

Audience: R

Story: A young man who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending 30 years in solitary confinement. During this time, his own personality is supplanted by his alter ego, Charles Bronson.

Style: cynical

Plot: prison, isolation, biography, based on true story, solitary confinement

Cast

Romain Duris

Paul Kircher

Adu00e8le Exarchopoulos

Tom Mercier

The Animal Kingdom (2023)

6.9 944 votes

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: Belgium, France

Duration: 127 min.

Story: In a world hit by a wave of mutations transforming humans into animals, François does everything he can to save his wife. As some of the creatures disappear into a nearby forest, he and their son Émile embark on a quest that will change their lives forever.

Plot: mutation, human animal relationship, turns into animal, hunted like animals, human becoming an animal, father son relationship, animal transformation, violence against animals, ...

Cast

Simone Simon

Kent Smith

Tom Conway

Jane Randolph

Cat People (1942)

6.9 675 votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 73 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A Serbian émigré in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves will turn her into a feline predator.

Plot: work, jealousy, love triangle, isolation, cat, smoking, office, zoo, ...

Time: 1940s

Cast

Havana Rose Liu

Danny Ramirez

Dennis Haysbert

David Rysdahl

No Exit (2022)

6.8 1.3K votes

Genre: Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 96 min.

Audience: R

Story: Stranded at a rest stop in the mountains during a blizzard, a recovering addict discovers a kidnapped child hidden in a car belonging to one of the people inside the building which sets her on a terrifying struggle to identify who among them is the kidnapper.

Plot: based on novel or book, isolation, winter, cocaine, drug rehabilitation, salt lake city, utah, blizzard, ...

Cast

Christina Ricci

James McAvoy

Catherine O'Hara

Peter Dinklage

Penelope (2007)

6.7 1.5K votes

Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 104 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Forlorn heiress Penelope Wilhern is cursed, and the only way out is to fall in love with someone of suitable stock. But how can she find her soulmate when she's sequestered inside her family's estate with only her parents to keep her company? This untraditional fairy tale is about a girl who bucks convention to create her own happy ending.

Plot: marriage proposal, isolation, pig, fairy tale, yellow press, transformation, beauty, nose, ...

Cast

Emile Hirsch

Bruce Dern

Grace Park

Amanda Crew

Freaks (2019)

6.7 1.3K votes

Genre: Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: Canada, United States of America

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: R

Story: Kept locked inside the house by her father, 7-year-old Chloe lives in fear and fascination of the outside world, where Abnormals create a constant threat—or so she believes. When a mysterious stranger offers her a glimpse of what's really happening outside, Chloe soon finds that while the truth isn't so simple, the danger is very real.

Style: lighthearted

Plot: mind control, flying, escape, isolation, safe, psychic power, little girl, tears, ...

Time: near future

Cast

John Gallagher Jr.

Kate Siegel

Michael Trucco

Samantha Sloyan

Hush (2016)

6.7 4.9K votes

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 82 min.

Audience: R

Story: A deaf woman is stalked by a psychotic killer in her secluded home.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: computer, isolation, deaf-mute, deaf, knife, alone, murder, mute, ...

Cast

Kumiko Aso

Haruhiko Kato

Koyuki

Kurume Arisaka

Pulse (2001)

6.7 678 votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Country: Japan

Duration: 119 min.

Audience: R

Story: In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lures some of its inhabitants desperately trying to escape the sadness and isolation of the modern world.

Style: atmospheric

Plot: depression, suicide, isolation, afterlife, alienation, flashback, loneliness, internet, ...

Cast

Kaitlyn Dever

Elizabeth Kaluev

Zack Duhame

Lauren L. Murray

No One Will Save You (2023)

6.7 1.5K votes

Genre: Horror, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 93 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A lonely woman battles extraterrestrials who threaten her future while forcing her to face her past.

Plot: isolation, trauma, grief, female protagonist, alien abduction, home invasion, guilt, death of mother, ...

Cast

Megan Fox

Eoin Macken

Aml Ameen

Callan Mulvey

Till Death (2021)

6.7 975 votes

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Country: France, United States of America

Duration: 89 min.

Audience: R

Story: After a romantic evening at their secluded lake house, a woman wakes up handcuffed to her dead husband. Trapped and isolated in the dead of winter, she must fight off hired killers to escape her late spouse's twisted plan.

Plot: infidelity, suicide, husband wife relationship, winter, cheat on husband, survival, murder, lawyer, ...