Pig, 2021. Stars Nicholas Cage, directed by Michael Sarnoski. A hermit acts after his truffle-hunting pig is stolen.
Leave No Trace, 2018. Directed by Debra Granik; produced by Bleecker Street. A PTSD vet and his young daughter live in wilderness but their lives are derailed when discovered.
Hermit, 2013. Produced by Susannah Lane Bragg; directed Amy Goldberg. A reclusive prodigy ventures into the world.
The Wall (Das Wend), 2013.Written and directed by Julian Pölsler. A woman is cut off from human contact when an invisible wall surrounds the countryside. AUSTRIA/GERMANY.
All is Lost, 2013. Stars Robert Redford, produced by J. C. Chandor. On a solo yachting voyage, the sailor's boat disabled, time and luck are running out.
Silence, 2012. Directed by Pat Collins; produced by South Wind Blows and Harvest Films. A sound recordist returns to Ireland after 15 years; an encounter with sound, silence, and memory. IRELAND
Get Low, 2009. Stars Robert Duvall, produced by Dean Zanuck, directed by Aaron Schneider. A 1930s Tennessee hermit throws his own rollicking funeral party while he is still alive.
Shaking Tokyo, 2008. Directed by Bong Joom-Ho. One of four films comprising Tokyo! A hikikomori falls in love with a pizza delivery girl during an earthquake. JAPAN
Ostrov (The Island), 2006. Directed by Pavel Lungin. A starets-like mysterious newcomer to a monastery displays spiritual powers. RUSSIA
Milarepa, 2006. Directed by Neten Chokling. Milarepa is a tale of vengeance, magic, murder, redemption - the story of Tibet's greatest mystic. BHUTAN
The Man Who Planted Trees, 1987. Produced by Frédéric Back and Radio Canada; narrator Christopher Plummer. Based on the book L'Homme qui plantait des arbres by Jean Giono. CANADA
Dersu Uzala, 1975. Directed and screenplay by Akira Kurosawa. A Mongol hermit in the Siberian taiga becomes an invaluable guide to a Russian captain. A modest epic. USSR/JAPAN
Simon of the Desert (Simón del desierto), 1965. Directed by Luis Buñuel. Despite Buñuel's reputed anti-clericalism, his portrait of Simon Stylites (5th-century desert pillar hermit), is strikingly sympathetic to Simon's rejection of the world. MEXICO