Five to Watch - Movies About Isolation

With the Corona-virus still staying strong, we all still have to stay inside as much as we can. Which isn’t the hardest task. Because there are lots of movies that show isolation on a whole different level and we sure as hell don’t want to swap with them. It’s time to look at all those films about isolation that came out over the years. I selected five movies that are worth it to watch, but you might not know about them or they are seriously underrated or overlooked.

Room
Based on Emma Donoghue’s inspiring novel, “Room” makes for a great drama. Brie Larson plays Joy, a young mother incarcerated in a small space with her young son, who has grown up with no concept of the outside world.

Buried
Ryan Reynolds plays an American truckdriver in Iraq, who is buried in a wooden box underground, with a cellphone and a lighter next to him. While calling he is trying to lead the army to his location. The entire movie is inside that wooden box and this alone makes “Buried” for an exciting and claustrophobic thriller. The film has a lot of tension until the end.

The Martian
Being left for dead on Mars, Matt Damon plays a stranded Nasa scientist. Well, he doesn’t just sit around waiting for help. He uses his skills to survive, grow food and find a way to go home. One of Matt Damon’s best.

Cabin Fever
An Eli Roth directed horror flick, about a group of friends in a cabin and a flesh-eating virus among them. It’s a gory spectacle about teens making dumb, cruel and selfish decisions and a lesson in how not do deal with such a thing. Not a masterpiece, but definitely a solid horror film about isolation.

Moon
Astronaut Sam Bell, played by Sam Rockwell sees, after being solo in the lunar helium mining, a reunion with his home and family approaching. Finally. Despite halluciantions, it looks like he will get there without any problems. But then he gets into an accident and wakes up in sickbay. His on-board computer GERTY calms him down, but Sam knows something is wrong. It’s an ingenious screenplay and well directed by Duncan Jones, who made this his debut. It makes for a disturbing and disorienting viewing experience and Sam Rockwell is fantastic.