Movies and TvShows featuring "aimlessness" theme.

Bob, a still famous actor, arrives in Tokyo to shoot a commercial but feels oblivious and bored. He meets Charlotte, a lonely young woman accompanying her busy photographer husband. Over the next few days, Bob and Charlotte connect, sharing their emotions and fears. They have a great time together at a party and their understanding deepens. Bob has a brief affair with a singer but Charlotte is disappointed. On their last night together, they admit their wish to stay in Tokyo but know it's just a fantasy. They share a gentle goodbye and embrace before parting ways.

Two freewheeling bikers named Wyatt and Billy ride from L.A. to New Orleans, meeting a man who bridges a cultural gap they didn't know existed. After smuggling drugs, they sell them and ride eastward to reach New Orleans in time for Mardi Gras. They face challenges with their hippie appearance and encounter a rancher, a hitchhiker, and a commune. They befriend a drunken lawyer and are attacked by locals, resulting in the death of their friend. They continue their journey to Florida, but tragedy strikes again.

A young couple, Kit and Holly, go on a killing spree across the American Midwest after Kit murders Holly's disapproving father. They become fugitives, constantly on the run from the police. As they travel through different states, they encounter various challenges and face the consequences of their actions.

In Hardball (2001), a schoolteacher struggling with aimlessness and financial crisis becomes a coach for a little league baseball team in a housing project. Through dedication and redemption, he forms an intergenerational friendship with the team and helps them overcome their challenges.

Kicking and Screaming is a comedy-drama film about a group of college friends who struggle to find direction and purpose in their lives after graduation. It explores themes of friendship, romance, and the transition to adulthood.

The Doom Generation follows the story of three aimless youth who embark on a violent and nihilistic journey across California. As they encounter various bizarre characters and engage in dangerous situations, the trio struggles to find meaning in their lives.

Lakshya is the story of a young man, Karan, who joins the Indian army with a dream of becoming a soldier. The movie follows his journey of self-discovery and growth as he faces various challenges and obstacles during his training and later on the battlefield in Kashmir. Along the way, he learns about discipline, courage, and the importance of following one's dreams.

Dev.D is a modern-day adaptation of the classic novel Devdas. The story follows Dev, a spoiled brat from Delhi who becomes addicted to drugs and alcohol after his childhood sweetheart, Paro, marries someone else. Dev embarks on a journey of self-destruction, exploring his sexuality, hitchhiking, and indulging in psychedelic experiences. Along the way, he comes across Chanda, a young prostitute, who becomes a key figure in his life. Dev's journey is filled with emotional abuse, manipulation, and the grim realities of life, ultimately leading to catharsis and a new beginning.

Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar is a movie set in a small town where a teenager named Sanju competes in a high-stakes bicycle race. Sanju comes from a middle-class family and attends a boarding school, where he faces various challenges and interactions with his friends and family. He is driven by the desire to win the race and prove himself, especially in front of his domineering father. The story explores themes of friendship, first love, and the struggles of teenage life.

Assault! Jack the Ripper is a 1976 Japanese movie that follows the story of a shocking crime which sets off a series of brutal murders in the city. The film explores themes of crime, drama, and horror, as the police desperately try to catch the killer and put an end to the horrifying spree.

Martin moves around Buenos Aires at night, picking up guys, going to clubs, scoring drugs and having sex. Sometimes he’s paying and sometimes his trans sex-worker friend or another woman takes him along for a threesome.

Mouth to Mouth follows a teenage girl who becomes a part of a cult and embarks on a journey across Europe, struggling with abuse, drug addiction, and homelessness.

In 'Pieces of Me,' a young girl navigates the challenges of growing up in a small town while dealing with her mother's illness, her sister's pregnancy, and her own exploration of her sexuality. With the help of her loyal dog and the video camera she carries everywhere, she captures the ups and downs of her life, discovering the true meaning of friendship and family along the way.

A young German soldier deserts the military and returns home, where he engages in aimless activities like skateboarding and swimming. He forms a relationship with an older woman and struggles with drug abuse. The film explores themes of aimlessness, relationships, and the consequences of desertion.

With a singular voice that distinguishes him from his New Taiwan Cinema contemporaries, Lin Cheng-sheng adds to his brief, but already remarkable, filmography with Sweet Degeneration, his third film in two years. As with A Drifting Life and Murmur of Youth, Lin’s new film delicately unfolds, gradually building to a climax of stunning emotional reverberations. Drawn from a particularly painful episode in the director’s past, Sweet Degeneration delves into the uneasy bonds a brother and sister have with each other and the people around them.

School leaver Phil moves with his father from inner-city London to the satellite Hertfordshire New Town of Stevenage, where they are promised a brighter future...but all Phil finds there is a bleak, cultural wilderness; a world of unemployment, violence, alcoholism and drug abuse in 90s Britain

Boy and Bicycle is an experimental film about a 16-year-old boy who skips school and spends the day riding his bicycle around Hartlepool, England. The film explores themes of naivete, loneliness, and self-reflection as the boy wanders by the sea, contemplates life, and daydreams about his future.

17 year old Saki lives in a run-down hack with her mom who survives by pushing a food cart from dawn to dusk. Saki has dropped out of school, and when she's not helping her mother selling noodles in the streets, she's playing flesh-games with boyfriend Sotoo. In her spare time, the girl also entertains a truck driver named Ataru. She believes her promiscuity is a trait inherited from her mom. Determined to improve her lot in life (she doesn't want to grow up like her mother), Saki decides to stop seeing the two guys. The sizzling Japanese Tatsumi Kumashiro’s erotic drama 'Shoujo Shofu: Kemonomichi' (aka 'Whore Girl - the Animal Trail' distributed internationally as 'Path of the Beast'), offers a venue for sex kitten Ayako Yoshimura to reveal choice areas of her nubile frame.

The turbulent relationship between Oskar and Alex ends in a big blaze, Alex has set fire in Oskar's apartment. So Oskar decides that everything shall be different with the next one and he makes a deal with fun-loving Masha: sleeping together but no making love. They both drift through Berlin and through their lives, sometimes playful, sometimes obsessively. And even Masha has her issues. While trying to build up a "normal" relationship, both Masha and Oskar reach their limits. - Written by Claudia Romdhane

A boy, abandoned by the whole family - torn apart by obsessions, perversions and problems of every kind-start looking at everything around him through the eye of the camera, so that nothing can seem flat and keep up hope. The meeting between these two lonely souls will bring unexpected consequences.