5 Films · Collection

5 Films That Feel Like Being Alone in a City

Neon-lit streets, empty hotel rooms, and the strange beauty of being nobody. Five films that capture the loneliness and freedom of urban solitude.

2003 Sofia Coppola

Sofia Coppola turned jet-lagged insomnia in Tokyo into one of the most precise portraits of loneliness in modern cinema.

2013 Spike Jonze

Spike Jonze's Los Angeles is not the LA of crime films or car chases.

1994 Wong Kar-Wai

Wong Kar-wai's Hong Kong never sleeps and neither do the people in it.

2013 Joel Coen

A week in the life of a broke folk singer in 1961 Greenwich Village.

1995 Wong Kar-Wai

Wong Kar-wai's companion piece to Chungking Express, and if anything, lonelier.

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