Epidemic of Loneliness

Oct 17, 2025

1h 7m

★ 0.0

We are all affected!

Overview

Three episodes of the unfinished series commissioned by the now-defunct Corporation for Public Broadcasting, examining how and why people fail to make meaningful connections in the early 21st century. Hosted by amateur filmmaker Kurtis Matthew Russell who was given a budget of 5 dollars.

Genres

Documentary

Comedy

Drama

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Cast

Jesse

Jesse Rapapapapaport

Miranda

Miranda Anapol

Fred

Nash Aatlo

Katie

Katie J. Kell

Izzy

Ismet Prčić

Extremely shy Lars finds it impossible to make friends or socialize. His brother and sister-in-law worry about him, so when he announces that he has a girlfriend he met on the Internet, they are overjoyed. But Lars' new lady is a life-size plastic woman. On the advice of a doctor, his family and the rest of the community go along with his delusion.

7.2

Death in Venice

Mar 5, 1971

Composer Gustav von Aschenbach travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty of an adolescent Polish boy named Tadzio who is staying with his family at the same Grand Hôtel des Bains on the Lido as Aschenbach.

7.4

The Match Factory Girl

Jan 12, 1990

Iris is a shy and dowdy young woman stuck in a dead-end job at a match factory, who dreams of finding love at the local dancehall. Finding herself pregnant after a one-night stand and abandoned by the father, Iris finally decides the time has come to get even and she begins to plot her revenge.

7.0

Lemon Tree

Feb 8, 2008

Salma Zidane, a widow, lives simply from her grove of lemon trees in the West Bank's occupied territory. The Israeli defence minister and his wife move next door, forcing the Secret Service to order the trees' removal for security. The stoic Salma seeks assistance from the Palestinian Authority, Israeli army, and a young attorney, Ziad Daud, who takes the case. In this allegory, does David stand a chance against Goliath?

4.5

Minus 31: The Nagpur Files

Jul 21, 2023

A murder has happened at the time of COVID, and the female cop is on duty to find the murderer.

0.0

Agape

Jun 28, 2024

A film about unconditional love. Fragments from the life of a man who cares for his mother with dementia.

7.6

The Fire Within

Oct 15, 1963

Depressed Alain Leroy leaves the clinic where he was detoxified. He meets friends, acquaintances and women, trying to find a reason to continue living.

7.7

God's Own Country

Aug 31, 2017

A young farmer in rural Yorkshire numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker.

3.0

Sexwork & Me

Jan 1, 2012

21st century legal prostitution through the frank stories of Amsterdam red-light district sex workers at a time when tighter regulation threatens their livelihood.

6.5

And the Band Played On

Sep 11, 1993

The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.

0.0

Love Comes After

Apr 3, 2013

In this romantic tragedy, love drama, three stories are interwoven with characters that are trying to solve their emotional problems and unresolved relationships from the past during one night. Each of the characters survive their loneliness with others.

0.0

Across the Aisle

Jul 18, 2025

An idealistic congressman attempts to woo his colleague from the other side of the aisle.

6.9

Man Push Cart

May 10, 2006

Every night while the city sleeps, Ahmad, a former Pakistani rock star turned immigrant, drags his heavy cart along the streets of New York. And every morning, he sells coffee and donuts to a city he cannot call his own. One day, however, the pattern of this harsh existence is broken by a glimmer of hope for a better life.

7.7

12 Angry Men

Aug 17, 1997

During the trial of a man accused of his father's murder, a lone juror takes a stand against the guilty verdict handed down by the others as a result of their preconceptions and prejudices.

6.9

80,000 Suspects

Aug 15, 1963

A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.

2.7

A Lady Surrenders

Oct 6, 1930

A wealthy industrialist's wife gets into a big argument with him; to cool off, she goes on an ocean trip. He thinks she's left him for good, so he marries another woman. When his first wife returns, complications ensue.

6.0

Blind Dating

Jul 28, 2006

Danny is a blind man who does not let his impairment get in the way of living his life to the fullest, except when it comes to love. Danny's brother sets him up on a series of blind dates, but all of them go disastrously wrong. Just when Danny is about to give up, he meets Leeza, a nurse who works for Danny's doctor. There is just one catch: Leeza, who is from India, is promised to another man.

0.0

Tormento

Jul 8, 2025

Amelie, a young woman who finds herself engulfed in unresolved grief, adds a new object to her collection that leaves her torn between nightmare and reality.

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