Hermit Movies

Dick Proenneke retired at age 50 in 1967 and decided to build his own cabin in the wilderness at the base of the Aleutian Peninsula, in what is now...

Danusia and her daughter Basia live far away from the modern world, in tune with the rhythm and laws of nature, among animals and the spirits of the...

Renowned for his extreme generosity, the Athenian nobleman Timon has fallen prey to flatterers and false friends, on whom he showers lavish gifts and...

Self-made chemist Sean, a recluse living in an old trailer in the woods, suffers from pill-popping delusions of fortune. When his manic attempts at...

Alaska Silence & Solitude is the follow up to Alone in the Wilderness, filmed 20 years later. Bob Swerer and Bob Swerer Sr. visit Dick Proenneke at...

The sexual relationship between a successful woman and her brother, an introvert, hypochondriacal youth, who is also a pornophile.

After an accident that confines her to her home, Torte II wanders alone through her decaying apartment. Revisiting her diary entries and remembering...

The beautiful Florida Keys provide the setting of this adventure that tells the tale of a fun-filled fishing trip that becomes a nightmare when the...

For more than 30 years a man by the name of Dick Proenneke lived alone in the Alaskan Bush. His only neighbors were the wolves and grizzly bears and...

A young woman with cancer travels to a remote wilderness zone in Northern Italy in search of an alternative cure. What she and her friend, Martino,...

An aging hermit, Eloy, lives in seclusion in the Colombian mountains, haunted by his grandfather’s ghost and bound to the land. When park...

A hermit's idyllic life on an island is disturbed by the arrival of a bunch of cutthroats.

An old widower, Jasper, routinely makes coffee in two mugs and picks up trash around his community. Some of his more interesting finds speckle his...

Following a nuclear explosion that transforms the voice of all the inhabitants of an island, a Finnish journalist goes there in order to find a...

Haunted by his past, a man retreats to a sailboat anchored in the middle of a vast lake, where he lives in self-imposed isolation. But his solitude...

"A Penny Weighs More Than a Soul" is a powerful documentary by Tobias Demetz (TD Films) that takes viewers deep into the untouched nature of the...

Dick Proenneke's simple yet profound account of his 30 year adventure in the remote Alaska wilderness continues in this sequel to "Alone in the...

In the 1940's American-born Willard MacDonald jumped his troop train heading to WWII. Fearing authorities he lived as a hermit deep in the northern...

Dr. Gangrene hosts 4 tales of terror in this horror anthology directed by Cameron McCasland

This short film profiles the benevolent Mike Sullivan, who has been in the process of shooting a stop-motion robot sex film in his New York City...