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Love Among the Lonely

Watch these when you want love written for grown-ups — drifting, grieving, self-destructing people who find or keep each other with no fanfare — and want to feel a deadpan Helsinki karaoke bar and a warm Jakarta romance answer each other.

A split table: beloved festival arthouse (Kaurismäki, Pálmason) sitting beside warm Indonesian crowd-pleasers, ranging from breezy to quietly demanding; more repertory house than multiplex, and rewarding to a viewer who likes stillness over swell.

• Fallen Leaves (2023)
• The Love That Remains (2025)
• Falling in Love Like in Movies (2023)
• Sore: A Wife from the Future (2025)
• Lost in Starlight (2025) — If Sore's time-crossed tenderness and Falling in Love Like in Movies landed, this is the recent one to pull down next — a hand-soldered, vinyl-warm Seoul romance between an astronaut and a musician whose love plays as quiet longing across an unbridgeable distance rather than swelling spectacle.