Isolation and Alienation in TV and Movies

Photo credit: Terence Faircloth

For those who want to use their quarantine time to watch people on TV who are themselves stuck in a room or a lonely planet.

The Twilight Zone (1959 - 1964)

•  Takes place entirely in a single room:
  "Nervous Man in a Four-Dollar Room"
  
  
• One person alone in a deserted town:
  "Where is Everybody?"
  
  
• Two people alone in a deserted town:
  "Stopover in a Quiet Town"
  
  
• A woman lives in a hermetically-sealed house with her eccentric parents:
  "The Lateness of the Hour"
  


• A woman is trapped alone overnight in a department store:
  "The After Hours"
  
  
• Several families are close friends, and only one of them has a bomb shelter:
  "The Shelter"
  
  
• The first human space colony, isolated for 30 years, is about to be rescued and return to Earth:
  (Starring James Whitmore)
  "On Thursday we Leave for Home"
  
  
• A woman is afraid that if she leaves her house she will die:
  (Starring Gladys Cooper and Robert Redford)
  "Nothing in the Dark"
  
  
• An introvert and bookworm wants only to be left alone with his books:
  (Starring Burgess Meredith)
  "Time Enough at Last"
  
  
• A former movie star would rather stay alone and watch her old movies than go outside:
  "The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine"
  
  
• A convict lives alone on a barren asteroid, until he isn't alone any more.
  "The Lonely"
  
  
• The villain here is a slot machine, not a virus:
  "The Fever"
  
  
• A loudmouth bets that he can remain silent for one year, while remaining in a glass room:
  "The Silence"
  
  
• A dying man's last request is that his dysfunctional family wear masks for one night:
  "The Masks"
  
  
• A ship crash-lands and the only survivor experiences Martian hospitality:
  "People Are Alike All Over"
  

Other TV and movies:

• A completely isolated society where everyone is happy, until outside events force The Enterprise to intervene
  Star Trek: TNG
  The Masterpiece Society
  
  
• A prison world run by vicious captors who reward good behavior with time in the garden
  (Starring Una Damon)
  Sliders
  "Invasion"
  
  
• Charles and Buddy accidentally lock themselves in a cage.
  Charles in Charge
  "La Cage Aux Fools"
  
  
• A mother and child are trapped alone in a room with no way to escape.
  "Room"
  Book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_%28novel%29
  Movie: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3170832/