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Publisher
CBS Worldwide Inc
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In I sing the body electric, a girl comes to understand that a grandmother can be a tender, thoughtful, caring, loving woman, even if she is a robot. In Long distance call, a young boy uses a toy telephone to talk with his dead grandmother. In Lonely, a murderer is sentenced to solitary confinement on a distant asteroid. In Probe 7, over and out, the lone survivors of two annihilated planets must begin new lives together on a new world.
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This film is inspired by the final hours of Kurt Cobain. Blake is a brilliant but troubled musician whose success has left him in a lonely place. The film follows Blake through a handful of hours spent in his wooded home...a fugitive from his own life.
3) Marty
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ellie is a free-spirited and headstrong young woman. She is left in charge of a residential home over the Christmas holidays. Her youth and inexperience bring her into conflict with the four grumpy residents. See how the hilarious antics of this uncivilized group, an unlikely romance, and the gradual solidarity that develops between the residents and Ellie unfold.
Publisher
Distributed by Universal
Pub. Date
c2003.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A middle-aged actor and the wife of a photographer meet while on business in Tokyo. They strike up an unusual friendship in the hotel bar that helps them both overcome boredom and loneliness.
7) Liverpool
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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....
Series
Criterion collection volume 813
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Formats
Description
German journalist Philip Winter is forced to take on nine-year-old Alice after her mother leaves her in his care temporarily and never returns; while traveling to find himself and inspiration, an aimless writer meets and interacts with a disparate group of people; two men bond over their shared loneliness after one saves the other's life in a suicide attempt.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A middle-aged actor and the wife of a photographer meet while on business in Tokyo. They strike up an unusual friendship in the hotel bar that helps them both overcome boredom and loneliness.
10) Taxi driver
Formats
Description
Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city. When Travis meets pretty campaign worker Betsy, he becomes obsessed with the idea of saving the world, first plotting to assassinate a presidential candidate, then directing his attentions toward rescuing 12-year-old prostitute Iris.
Series
Miriam collection volume 5
Publisher
Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
12) The window
Series
Film Movement volume 7, film 6
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (75 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
While waiting for his estranged son's visit, eighty-year-old Antonio walks in his fields, reminiscing about his life.
Seventy: talks about the loneliness that many elderly people experience nowadays.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ten-year-old Edward lives in his family-run retirement home. While his mother struggles to keep the family business afloat and his father copes with the onset of a mid-life crisis, Edward leads an increasingly lonely existence until he meets Clarence, a retired magician and grieving widower who refuses to give in gracefully to old age.
Publisher
IndiePix
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (75 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Pilar and Felipe, two lonely people in their forties, meet, Felipe sends the relationship in an unexpected direction when he tells Pilar he recites a memorized hypnosis speech from an old cassette to get him through rough times.
15) Fremont
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 91 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Each morning Donya leaves her tight-knit community of Afghan immigrants in Fremont, California. She crosses the Bay to work at a family-run fortune cookie factory in San Francisco. Donya drifts through her routine, struggling to connect with the culture and people of her new, unfamiliar surroundings while processing complicated feelings about her past as a translator for the U.S. government in Afghanistan. Unable to sleep, she finagles her way into...
16) Taxi driver
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A psychotic taxi driver tries to save a child prostitute and becomes infatuated with a political campaigner. He goes on a violent rampage when his dreams don't work out.
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