Disillusionment Movies

An older woman gets involved with her young neighbor.

Vic "Bomber" Bealer is a handsome, manipulative boxer who aspires to something greater than the small-town life he knows in Texas. But, even when...

As winds of change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of admiration for its leader, and because he wants to live and die as a...

Leftist radical-turned-terrorist Giorgio—hiding out in Latin America since the 1970s—turns himself in as soon as the Berlin Wall falls....

Emily the chicken lives in Hickville but dreams of Hollywood. Her chance comes when director J. Megga-Phone happens to drive past and gives her his...

Set in Milan in the summer of 1989 against the backdrop of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the film follows four frustrated individuals whose lives...

Country girl Margit sits for the artist Sándor, from Budapest. She is fascinated and charmed by him, and agrees to accompany him to the...

Living in apparent self-sufficiency a lone man must confront his past and realise the difference between living and existing.

Professor Lipari teaches in a public school and is in a full-on existential crisis. He has no faith in himself and in the possibility of changing the...

Disillusioned with his wealthy friends, a man pretends to be poor and goes to live in the slums where he falls in love with a burglar's sister.

Nancy Savoca’s second student film follows two twelve-year olds, Bobby (Joey D’Arelli) and Denise (Kelly Cinnante) who run away to...

Young radical Riccardo returns home after hiding in South America for five years, only to find out that his comrades either gave up their ideals or...

A married couple begins to drift apart after they discover the husband's doppelgänger lurking the streets of their neighbourhood.

A man struggling to support his family on the meager wages of his menial job has always dreamed of running his own business. He transforms an old...

In a bar, Pauline writes to a man she does not know. Between desire, art, and projection, reality eventually begins to crack the story she has...