Depressing movies
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Detachment (2011)
DepressingBeautifulThought provokingTear-jerker
A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long enough to form any ... (more)
Amour (2012)
DepressingTragicEmotionalSlow moving
Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested. (more)
The Virgin Suicides (1999)
DepressingComplexWeirdBeautiful
A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents. (more)
Filth (2013)
A bigoted junkie cop suffering from bipolar disorder and drug addiction manipulates and hallucinates his way through the festive season in a bid to secure promotion and win back his wife and daughter. (more)
Boy A (2007)
Freed after a lengthy term in a juvenile detention center, convicted child killer Jack Burridge (Andrew Garfield) finds work as a deliveryman and begins dating co-worker Michelle (Katie Lyons). While out on the road one day, the young Englishman notices a ... (more)
The Road (2009)
DepressingDramaticIntenseDisturbing
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough to crack stones, and, when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the warmer south, ... (more)
The Mist (2007)
DepressingMysteriousDramaticThrilling
After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other people. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten their lives, and ... (more)
The Place Beyond the Pines (2013)
DepressingDramaticOriginalGripping
A motorcycle stunt rider considers committing a crime in order to provide for his wife and child, an act that puts him on a collision course with a cop-turned-politician. (more)
Never Let Me Go (2010)
DepressingEmotionalDisturbingDark
As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy spend their childhood at an idyllic and secluded English boarding school. As they grow into adults, they must come to terms with the complexity and strength of their love for one another while also preparing for the haunting ... (more)
American History X (1998)
DarkViolentInsightfulDepressing
Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we learn that before going to prison, Derek was a skinhead and the leader of a violent white supremacist gang that ... (more)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
DepressingDarkEmotionalHeartbreaking
The hopes and dreams of four ambitious people are shattered when their drug addictions begin spiraling out of control. A look into addiction and how it overcomes the mind and body. (more)
The Machinist (2004)
DarkDisturbingDepressingSuspenseful
The Machinist is the story of Trevor Reznik, a lathe-operator who is suffering from insomnia. In a machine shop, occupational hazards are bad enough under normal circumstances; yet for Trevor the risks are compounded by fatigue. Trevor has lost the ability to sleep ... (more)
The Butterfly Effect (2004)
Mind blowingComplexThought provokingDepressing
A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change history. However, he soon finds that every change he makes has unexpected consequences. (more)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
DarkMusicalDepressingDisturbing
The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Based on the hit Broadway musical. (more)
Perfect Blue (1997)
DarkMind blowingBrainyDepressing
A retired pop singer turned actress' sense of reality is shaken when she is stalked by an obsessed fan and seemingly a ghost of her past. (more)
Brick (2006)
A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend. (more)
The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
EmotionalInspiringBeautifulHeartbreaking
A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career. (more)
Lost in Translation (2003)
BeautifulEmotionalInsightfulRomantic
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America. (more)
In Bruges (2008)
Ray and Ken, two hit men, are in Bruges, Belgium, waiting for their next mission. While they are there they have time to think and discuss their previous assignment. When the mission is revealed to Ken, it is not what he expected. (more)
Gravity (2013)
SuspensefulIntenseGrippingBeautiful
Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer on her first Shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The Shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and ... (more)
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