Alienation in industrialized socities

I saw this film recently and to me, I think that it may be the best film I have ever seen in it's dealing with the issue of the mechanisms of society creating a culture of people who are detached from thier lives and each isolated from each other. Certainly, this is a theme that is present within so much of cinema as well as literature, but this is a film that I think does a very good job of dealing with this theme directly. It is certainly a theme that runs throughout Haneke's body of work, but I think that this film is the most direct exploration of this theme. That it is a true story gives the film even more strength in it's expression of the cold and despairing undercurent modern society.

I have compiled a list of other films that I feel deal with the same theme and am curious if anyone would have any other's that they themeselves would feel would be good additions.

Code Unknown - To continue with films from Haneke, I believe that this stands along seventh continent as being his most direct depiction of the isolation that exists within modern socities (though I still have yet to see benny's video and 71 chronologies)

Taxi Driver - One of the qualities that makes this film such an enduring classic is that is a very believeable representation of the underground man living in society, one who is rejected by others and so lashes out against them in return.

Elephant - The meaning of this film I think is often lost on people. More than just a documentary-style recreation of the Columbine murders, this film really is more about the detachment of youth culture and how violence arises from this detachment. The coldness of the film and it's characters, not just the killers, is what the film is about more than it is about columbine.

Vive L'amour: I would need to see this film again to write very much about it, but it certainly deals with the theme of an urban environment being alienating in a cold and direct manner. This film shows this side of Tsai Miang Liang's work more than any other of his films.

I Stand Alone - Focusing on a similiar archetypyal character as the anti-hero of Taxi Driver, though more cynical and intelligent, this is one of the most chilling expressions of individual hatred captured in film.

Gummo - While I don't feel this film has as strong a place on this list, the focus being more on depravity and suffering than actual lonliness and isolation, I think that the power of this film is undeniable. The best representation that I can think of in regards to what it's like to live life inside of America's toilet.

Videodrome - This film doesn't really deserve the same place on this last as the others do either, but it still deserves mention. While alienation is not a dominant theme within the film, oppression coming from the mecahanisms of society as well as the urge to seek refuge in sensationalism as a means of escape are dominant themes within the story and relate very strongly to the state of alienation that many individuals in developed nations are faced with.

All About Lily Chou-Chou - Similar to both Videodrome and Seventh Continent in how it deals with people who's lives are held together by the constructions of society. And, as is the case with all of these films, the constructions become a way in which people become strangers to themselves.