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1) Marty
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
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
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Explores the separate and interwoven dreams of a number of eccentric and lonely people in a rather gloomy, small hotel in the seaside town of Bournemouth, England. In one evening, four unhappy misfits will bare their innermost secrets and change each other's lives forever.
4) Slapface
Publisher
Shudder
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
After the death of his mother, Lucas, a loner who lives in a rundown home with his brother Tom, regularly seeks solace in the nearby woods. With his only "friends" being a group of female bullies, he keeps to himself most of the time. But, after a strange encounter with an inhuman monster, Lucas begins to withdraw from others. When the two reach a tentative trust, a bizarre friendship is born, and Lucas is swept up in a series of primal adventures....
5) Papi Chulo
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Cast adrift in Los Angeles, Sean, a lonely TV weatherman, drives past a middle-aged Latino migrant worker standing outside a hardware store looking for work. He decides to hire this kind-looking man to be his friend. Sean is young, gay, and white. Ernesto, portly, straight, and married. Despite having nothing in common and the language barrier, they build a sort of friendship, until Sean becomes consumed with a deeper obsessive need.
Publisher
Distributed by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Tigger is feeling lonely and curious. He wonders if there are any other tiggers out there. He sets out on an exciting trip to find his true family. In his attempt to find his family he has to deal with some unforeseen consequences, especially when his friends Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Owl, Kanga, Roo and Rabbit try to help. Includes 2 new adventures.
Publisher
Distributed by VCI Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The year is 1659 and after a shipwreck, the sole survivor, Robinson Crusoe, is washed ashore on a deserted tropical island. Suddenly faced with a hostile and unknown wilderness, he carves out a life for himself with his bare hands. Remarkably, he learns how to survive the maddening absence of human companionship and intense loneliness. An amazing story about the human spirit's ability to endure what seems like insurmountable challenges.
8) Spanglish
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Punch-drunk love: Barry Egan, a shy sad-sack with a great deal of repressed anger that occasionally bursts forth in sudden violent outrages, falls in love with Lena, a co-worker of one of Barry's seven sisters. After calling a phone-sex line, Barry is extorted by bad-guy Dean, who eventually sends four goons to assault Barry and get the money.
Reign over me: Alan Johnson runs into his old college roommate, Charlie Fineman, on the streets of New York...
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