Loneliness & Isolationshort films

Being alone in a crowded world, where nothing happens loudly. Shorts that stay in the long quiet and say everything.

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Drama
Helpline

A young psychology student takes his first call at a suicide hotline

3 min · intense · suspenseful
Crime
Hope Chest

Raised on murder TV, Eve dreams of the detective who mourns her

4 min · satirical · thought-provoking
Drama
Penny drops

A widowed man escapes into the countryside for one last weekend away

12 min · emotional · heartwarming
Drama
42 Seconds

Months after a mass shooting, survivors return to the diner where it happened

16 min · emotional · intense
Mystery
Off the Face of the Earth

A photographer captures a vanished woman on camera

18 min · atmospheric · mysterious
Romance
Always for the First Time

Memories of love and trauma intertwine in ways she never saw coming

19 min · intimate · romantic
Documentary
Livestreams with GrandmaPuzzles

A lifelong hobby becomes a lifeline for an unexpected Twitch streamer

6 min · heartwarming · inspiring
Comedy
Gone Fishing

Two men catfish each other on a would-be date

9 min · heartwarming · intimate
Dark Comedy
Blocked

A new Mom consumed with the futility of cleaning up after her kid

6 min · comic · intense
Drama
Avocado Heart Girl

Invisible beside his disabled sister, a lonely boy finds friendship, identity and acceptance

19 min · emotional · heartwarming
Thriller
Vessel

A young disabled girl tries to escape the control of her religious mother

18 min · atmospheric · intense
Documentary
El Chapulin

After a decade in the U.S. and a fight with addiction, a man returns home to Mexico

16 min · heartwarming · meaningful
For filmmakers

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Share it with the world.

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Loneliness & Isolationshort films

Being alone in a crowded world, where nothing happens loudly. Shorts that stay in the long quiet and say everything.

Hand-picked Curated Free to watch
Filter by genre
Drama
Helpline

A young psychology student takes his first call at a suicide hotline

3 min · intense · suspenseful
Crime
Hope Chest

Raised on murder TV, Eve dreams of the detective who mourns her

4 min · satirical · thought-provoking
Drama
Penny drops

A widowed man escapes into the countryside for one last weekend away

12 min · emotional · heartwarming
Drama
42 Seconds

Months after a mass shooting, survivors return to the diner where it happened

16 min · emotional · intense
Mystery
Off the Face of the Earth

A photographer captures a vanished woman on camera

18 min · atmospheric · mysterious
Romance
Always for the First Time

Memories of love and trauma intertwine in ways she never saw coming

19 min · intimate · romantic
Documentary
Livestreams with GrandmaPuzzles

A lifelong hobby becomes a lifeline for an unexpected Twitch streamer

6 min · heartwarming · inspiring
Comedy
Gone Fishing

Two men catfish each other on a would-be date

9 min · heartwarming · intimate
Dark Comedy
Blocked

A new Mom consumed with the futility of cleaning up after her kid

6 min · comic · intense
Drama
Avocado Heart Girl

Invisible beside his disabled sister, a lonely boy finds friendship, identity and acceptance

19 min · emotional · heartwarming
Thriller
Vessel

A young disabled girl tries to escape the control of her religious mother

18 min · atmospheric · intense
Documentary
El Chapulin

After a decade in the U.S. and a fight with addiction, a man returns home to Mexico

16 min · heartwarming · meaningful
For filmmakers

Have a short film?
Share it with the world.

Klipist is where short films find their audience. Hand-curated, independently run, watched in 190 countries. If you’ve made something great, we want to see it.

Submit your film
Curator’s note

Short films about loneliness and isolation.

Loneliness is hard to film because nothing happens, and short films are the form that knows how to stay in that nothing. One room, one person, one long quiet that says everything. These films are hand-picked, complete, and free to watch. Stories about being alone in a crowded world.

(Manic)quin follows an unemployed Plan B junkie having difficult conversations with a mannequin, and And Now I Lay Me Down sits with a once-famous actress arranging her perfect day, until it doesn't go as planned. #tagged traces the sweet intimacy and destructive power of social media, while Adam Adamson: Licensed Realtor asks who you can trust to find your dream apartment.

The best short films about loneliness and isolation offer company rather than a cure. Annie Waits tells a woman's story of lust, disappointment and waiting for 'The One', and Bad Mother is an unnerving short about motherhood with no one to lean on. Every film is editor-selected, free to stream in 190 countries with no account. Press play, and sit with it a while.