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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.

Lost in Translation

2003 Sofia Coppola

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

Her

2013 Spike Jonze

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

Chungking Express

1994 Wong Kar-Wai

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

Inside Llewyn Davis

2013 Joel & Ethan Coen

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

Fallen Angels

1995 Wong Kar-Wai

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