In the same way that the release of blues music can serve as a balm for a troubled soul, sinking into a deeply unhappy movie can be just what can give you a sense of catharsis. After all, everyone likes a clever wall from time to time, and in a very calculated blockbuster era designed to offend anyone, it’s strangely refreshing to watch a movie that’s afraid to make you feel like a BadArray
However, it takes more than an undeniably unsatisfied ending to inscribe itself in the ranks of the maximum miserable films of all time. These films herald a pervasive feeling of existential sadness, drawing attention to the fate of other people facing the true circumstances, or simply inviting us to explore a breadth of feelings that the Avengers can’t channel.
The effects that the war weighs on young people (a subject of unfortunately persistent sheet) are excellently and tearing in the tomb of Isao Takahata, the chimneys, the director’s first film after having co -founded Studio Ghibli. A couple of Japanese brothers and sisters greatly escape the Kobe American chimney bombs in the last months of World War II, however, their difficulties continue while they are in a crusade torn by war. The animators used a comfortable brown as a base, instead of the most classic black ink, which provides the film with an exclusive and dreamy visual quality. Japanese animation has nothing to result at this stage, or even in 1988, when it was published, however, serious of the fireflies, obviously, it shows that anime is a medium, not a genre, and the stories that the moviema say They can be as deeply significant and moving as any other in the cinema. You can transmit chimneys in Netflix.
A war of testomony between two parties at war tirelessly that ends well for anyone, or their families. Kathy Nicolo’s (Jennifer Connelly) drug addiction is mistakenly kicked out of her space, which is then bought for a bite of bread through a former Iranian army colonel (Ben Kingsley) whose fortune has fallen since the two of them arrive in America almost reconciled, with a glimmer of humanity in their interactions, External pressures force them to corners and in spite of everything to tragedy. You can stream the gritty space and fog on Paramount or hire it to premium video.
The veterans of the British actors John Mills and Peggy Ashcroft Voice Jim and Hilda Bloggs, an aged English couple that a little nuclear missiles only to locate that their efforts to remain and to achieve a sense of normality are coming to an end. There is The Sllightst Trace of Optimism Toward the End, Yet Before that, It is a Vray Candy and Poignant Reminder That Even (or specially) The Blalaless Can’t Escape The Conceptions of War.
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A Czech immigrant and factory worker in the 1960s loses his sight and is desperate to raise the cash to secure an operation for his son that will spare him the same fate. Despite the musical numbers that keep Selma (Björk) and her own more productive. The intentions, fate, and greed she trusts conspire to bring her back to a tragic end. The musical interludes are spectacular, but the contrast between Selma’s dream worlds and her real-life cases only adds to the sense of tragedy and injustice. The bright side: This is a piece of the era, and we know that the U. S. fitness care formula is a good one. U. S. You can never force anyone to such horrible hotlines today.
Sticking with the problematic master of mirth, Lars von Trier, it’s hard to argue that you’re not getting exactly what it says on the tin when you sit down to watch a movie called Melancholia. (No refunds.) Here, von Trier adds a science fiction-ish twist to a story of modern malaise. The titular rogue planet is on a collision course with Earth, and two sisters handle that destiny in very different ways. The result is a string of depressive episodes, infidelity, and death by suicide that all eschew the hope that we might make some sort of wary peace with death. You can stream Melancholia on Netflix, Hulu, Tubi, and Prime Video.
A symphonic ode to the misery of addiction, Darren Aronofsky’s second feature plays like an X-rated version of the anti-drug films you watched in high school. Over the course of two punishing, stylishly filmed, and artfully edited hours, we watch as four characters’ lives fall apart as they try to use drugs—from heroin to diet pills—to fill the empty places inside. It doesn’t work out: Jared Leto gets gangrene from an infected injection site, Jennifer Connelly turns to prostitution to get the money for her next score, and Marlon Wayans winds up in prison, abused by the guards. And then there’s Ellen Burstyn, who starts the film a lively, red-headed retiree and ends it a vacant-eyed, ashen amphetamine junkie in a squalid nursing home. Drugs are bad, mmmk? You can stream Requiem for a Dream on Tubi or rent it from Prime Video.
I get that horror movies are destined to be terrifying, but there are some that are less scary than are tirelessly, which is painful in another way. Anyway, this 2022 Danish film is as dark as possible. Follow a young circle of relatives who knows a quite a couple and their son on vacation and accepts an invitation to stay with them. To tell him what will happen next, it would be a great spoiler, but I would like to save the anxiety of experimenting. It is not necessary to say that only bad things happen, and in the maximum ruthless way, adding young children. Bad emotions everywhere, and one of the maximum desperate extremes of all time. For some reason, did you receive a new Hollywood version with James Mcavoy? You can transmit without talking about evil in emotion and AMC + or hire it with the privileged video.
In the flashbacks just after the war, we were informed of the Hallocaust Sophie (Meryl Streep), whom those years had been forced to make a decision of which of their young people would live and who would die. As with William Styron’s novel in which the film was founded, it is a difficult story and is based on facts that, unfortunately, has become a type of shortcut for any difficult decision. You can transmit Sophie’s selection in Tubi and Peacock or hire it in Prime Video.
The director Elem Klimov fought against the Soviet censors for almost a decade to launch his film, a painful look at the horrors of the war, as we see through the eyes of a beamorruso teenager who joins the antiprozi after the invasion of his town. As the profession continues, even Flyora’s survival feels like a curse; The accumulated horrors (including the planned burn of a church with dozens of other people inside, an occasion that took place) came here to watch one of the most productive war films ever made, because all the largest war films are against the war. You can distribute to see in the criterion channel or hire it to a premium video.
Nicolas Cage won an Oscar for portraying a suicidal alcoholic who leads Las Vegas with a complete trunk of alcoholic beverages and the intention of drinking in this critically acclaimed and horribly gloomy film of the writer/director Mike Figgis, adapting the semi -autobiographic novel Through John O’Brien (who died through suicide in a while after the rights of the film were sold). I have noticed it more than a decade ago, and in the most productive of my memory, it is almost two hours of seeing Hard Hard Guzzy liquor in a monotonous hotel room the screams, interspersed with sex scenes (Elisabeth Shue, also a Oscar nominated) being subjected to horrible sexual assault. I could have bad details, but it will still be a little before I can look at it to verify. You can transmit to Las Vegas in Max or hire it for prime video.
The starting fog (not to be with the fog) is established in a city of this nihilistic adaptation of Stephen King, placing a lot of premises in the throat from the other after they are trapped in a grocery store at the end of the world. Frank Darabont’s film obviously indicates that there is no external evil that can compete at a distance from ignorance, concern and devoted extremism we face daily. Once this is clear, the film pushes things 10 steps beyond, ending in a note that is a better citation of its message or unbearably cruel. It is probably both. You can transmit the fog in the Prime and Greervee video.
Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s serial killer drama is a bit like seven at first, but it becomes more and more philosophical and esoteric as it progresses, maintaining an icy detachment from all the murders it portrays. ‘The police inspector of Kenichi Takabe is looking for a murderer, even though his own circle of relatives is imploding. The killer, we end up learning, is not a killer at all, but rather someone who is smart to manipulate others into doing their homework for him. The film plays with the concept that there may be something of another global at stake, but it’s less frightening than the argument that we are, each of us, capable of incredibly dark acts, as long as we’re given just enough momentum.
An unidentified guy and his son roam a dark and desolate and post-apocalyptic America in search of a rumored shelter that is close to the coast. When other stories like this invite us to laugh with the concept that we could be wise enough. To (and occasionally launch zombies for a wise measure), it is unlikely that the road (as with the Cormac McCarthy is based) appreciate much of the Cave of civilization. You can take the address in Peacock, Tubi and Starz or rent is Prime Video.
The youth of the men of Alfonso Cuarón recommend that we are not more than five years of the Cueva of civilization after a war era, a herbal crisis and an economic depression. So, the concept that we still have five years in all this is optimistic, but if not, the global represented here, in which infertility has become an epidemic, is that of a deep depression and a general absence of ‘hope . As much as any film here, and thanks to the fallen eye of Cuarón as director, the meaning of a global over the edge is in each plane. You can transmit young men of men in Peacock or hire it to the privileged video.
While the first two alien videos were slightly disturbances, David Fincher’s sequel (problems) is Almaximum, in fact, the maximum disturbing franchise in the sequel to Hollywood History. The film begins with the death of Almaximum, all the survivors of the previous film (and the post of Grck -Mortem of a loved character) before dropping Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) in a criminal colony in which the friendly character maximum maximum (Charles S. Dutton) is a serial killer and rapist. , I am a great admirer of his risk, but Hoo Boy is dark. You can hire Alien 3 on video prime.
A twisty-turny film that at first plays like a slasher-movie at sea, but then quickly turns into something far more disturbing. Jess is off on a boat trip with some friends, offering a slightly sketchy explanation for the absence of her autistic son, who was meant to join them. A sudden storm finds the group seeking shelter about a strangely empty ocean liner—empty except for the person who keeps killing everyone. The film soon evolves into a time-loop science-fiction thriller, before revealing itself to be a punishment of mythological proportions. You can stream Triangle on Prime Video, Peacock, Tubi, and AMC+.
Another sci-fi curve involving a coup with time, this Spanish mystery follows the tragic temporal fate of Hector (Karra Elejalde) and his wife Clara (Candela Fernandez). Hector sees an apple tree in the forest, naked and unconscious. Using, he is attacked through a mysterious guy covered in bloody bandages. Escape, he ends up in the middle of a strange experience in time, which sends him back in time and beyond that only gets worse. And then it aggravates again. And again. Nacho Vigalondo’s evil film suggests that neither our maximum productive intentions nor all the time in the Global can erase our maximum egocentric errors. You can rent premium video schedules.
Plenty of films tweak audiences for our willingness to wallow in onscreen horrors (see Rear Window for a cheerier example). Belgian mockumentary Man Bites Dog puts us through the wringer by putting us in the place of a film crew following a vicious serial killer. There’s a bit of a tongue-in-cheek style here, which does nothing to lessen the impact of the film crew’s increasing sympathy with the killer, who ultimately become accomplices to his actions. Man Bites Dog asks deeply uncomfortable questions about not just our tolerance for on-screen violence, but about the extent to which we’ll stand aside in the face of real-world horrors, or even join in given the right incentives. You can stream Man Bites Dog on Max and The Criterion Channel or rent it from Prime Video.
Heather Matarazzo made a brilliant debut in welcoming Todd Solondz into the doll space as Dawn Weiner, an incredibly unpopular school whose life turns into a series of rejections, assaults, bullying, and disappointments. Though the character is charming, it’s not a film of a brave nonconformist who overcomes the odds: it’s the mental trauma in the face of those who don’t fit in and the horrific choice between staying true to you—mending and settling down for the resulting abuse—or hiding your gentle in a bushel in hopes that you’ll locate some peace. You can spread to welcome in the doll space on Tubi or hire it with a premium video.
The valuable of Gabourey Sidibe, 16, cannot read or write and, in the opening of the film, is pregnant at the moment after a series of violations through her father, even if her carefree mother presents him to a physical and verbal abuse normally. Unlike many characters in those films, there is a suspicion of hope for priceus: a transfer to a new school; The attention of a well -intentioned teacher, however, the way for (maybe) goes to a larger position is dark and rocky. You can transmit beautiful in tubi and hulu or hire it with the Premium video.
The horror on the revolutionary path of Sam Mendes is the fulfillment of the fence of the 1950 He tries to see him in a suffocating world, before his efforts to escape in anything more satisfactory threatening his appointments and, possibly, his life. The bright and blank streets of the revolutionary name of the name feel as dystopic as those of the apocalypse of the film. You can transmit a revolutionary direction in Paramount + or hire it to the Premium video.
Federico Fellini was known for films full of fantastic colors and images, and there is a little of that in his history of simple brain gelsomina (Giulietta Masina), bought through the widower and the street artist Zampanò (Anthony Quinn), in the Past married at the end of Gelsomina’s sister Gelsomina Zampan. The brilliant brain and type of gelsomina gradually anchor through the ruthless remedy of her new husband; When a partner unearthed in another street artist (a clown, in this case), Zampanò’s jealousy leads to the tragedy, even if the strong guy cannot bother to show his wife’s affection. It is a lovely movie and a moving. You can transmit the Strada in Max and the criterion channel or hire it for prime video.
Snitter (John Hurt) and Rowf (Christopher Benjamin) escape from a ruthless animal control laboratory in this adult film that adapts the novel through Richard Adams (Watership Down). I will skip the main points of the reports to which the two were presented, unless they say they are absolutely ruthless and also absolutely reflected the practices of genuine animal controls. Unfortunately, the global as total is not much more pleasant with the two dogs escaped than their former prison. He is lovely, in his own way, and magnificently animated, however, animal lovers, in particular, will place it difficult. Which is in fact the point. You can transmit plague dogs in tubi.
Anthony Hopkins won an Oscar for his representation of Anthony, the titular father, at the end of his life and living with serious dementia. It is a brilliant functionality in a film that tells its story completely from the point of view of Anthony, its disorientation takes position as non -unusual moments in a life through the waste of all fabrics hooked. To favor the patient’s point of view, that the circle of relatives or caregivers, the film is intensely human, but does not breathe the experience, and there is little comfort. You can transmit to the father in Starz or hire him in prime video.
A romantic ghost story on the surface, All of Us Strangers follows lonely screenwriter Adam (Andrew Scott) as he starts a relationship with his very mysterious neighbor Harry (Paul Mescal), the two of them the only residents of an imposing new apartment building. It’s a relationship that draws Adam to return to his family home, where he finds his parents seemingly alive and well, despite them having died decades earlier. Without offering too many spoilers beyond that, the movie goes to very dark places from there, providing a strong reminder that loss is an inevitable part of life, yes, but also that the only real comfort is in forgetting and moving on. You can stream All of Us Strangers on Hulu or rent it from Prime Video.
An effective interpretation of the east genre of nuclear war does so from the beginning and mid -1980s (see also: testament and the next day), this British film adopts a terrifying and false documentary technique of the end of the days. A young pair of Sheffield is preparing to build a life and a circle of relatives in combination when the war between the United States and the Soviet Union broke out, with a nuclear attack on a base of NATO about 20 miles in the city. . The two are separated, and this is only the beginning of the horrors to Karen Meagher’s Ruth Beckett. The emphasis is put in the ventilation that affects the law and the social order, with a final shot that is a genuine blow to the intestine. You can transmit cables in tubi and raffard or hire it in prime video.
There are moments of gentle in Manchester through the sea, and does not accumulate in a finish that is completely crushed, however, there is a tremfinishous amount of pain and anger along the way. Casey Agleck plays Lee, who is surprised by noticing that he has noticed has been assigned the custody of his deceased brother’s son. The scenario forces him to confront his beyond in the name of the city and, although we perceive why a damn and alcoholic Lee can do it for a day, becomes transparent why his beyond is retaining back – and will continue to do so. (It’s so bad). You can transmit Manchester through the sea in Prime Video.
Initially, and on the surface, Aftersun is a brilliant and captivating look of a vacation at a reasonable beach hotel in Turkey that involves a divorced father (Paul Mescal, which we have already discussed) and the woman (Frankie Corio) that did not see enough. But there are disturbing elements from the beginning, and expanding discomfort slips to our point of view as public. We soon perceive that what we see is a memory, the attempts of an adult woman to perceive the life and death of her father with only a child’s memories of working. This adventure of laughter soon becomes something melancholic and deeply moving. You can transmit Aftersun in Netflix and Paramount + or hire it to the Premium video.
Robert Bresson’s film opens with the gift of a donkey named Balthazar to a sensitive farm girl, Marie. The two are separated following a family tragedy, with the once-beloved beast of burden winding up as nothing more than a pack animal for a family that doesn’t care for him beyond his ability to perform labor. Marie, meanwhile, ends up in a deeply abusive relationship, and, though fate reconnects woman and donkey at intervals over the years, neither is having a particularly good life and neither winds up with a particularly happy ending. It’s a lovely movie, in many ways, but it’s definitely a banger in the depressing animal-story genre (and just maybe, the donkey is supposed to be a metaphor, but let’s try not to think too much about that). You can stream Au Hazard Balthazar on The Criterion Channel or rent it from Prime Video.
Although I never describe Ingmar Bergman as Maudlin, it is the case that his most productive films, while the masterpieces of action, genuine and script are deeply depressed, if not completely pessimistic. Here, Agnes (Harriet Andersson) dies slowly from cancer while their sisters fight with their own disorders and insecurity, without being able to provide mandatory support. The intelligent task and care of the genuine caregiver, Anna, is additional worsen the emotions of the insufficiency that prevent the circle of relatives from connecting when it is mandatory. It can transmit screams and whispers in Max and the Criterion channel or hire it with the Prime video.
Clint Eastwood’s sports drama cleaned up by cleaning up in the primary Oscar categories in its year, winning Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress (for Hilary Swank) and Best Supporting Actor (for Morgan Freeman). All the most impressive ones gave the film’s length beautifully acted and it’s a lovely film, but it takes the tropes of inspiring sports cinema and turns them into its sides, building to a tragic finish that gives inspiration to Little Rock’s style. You can sign a million-dollar baby from Prime Video.
Reenie Redfield (Tessa Thompson), a middle -class black woman, meets her old friend Clare (Ruth Negga), now engaged and past for White, something harmful in New York in the 1920s. She is even married to a husband who You have no idea. The two offer incredible actions, while two women who see the unrepmed roads, but their disturbing encounter takes them to each one along a path to the tragedy. The film has a lyrical and dream quality that only increases and the feeling that the walls close for the two old friends. You can transmit in Netflix.
A young swinger (this is 1991, when such terms were still in the parlance) played by Mimi Rogers becomes a born-again Christian after a sect convinces her that the Rapture is imminent. Her new piousness is challenged when her husband is murdered, and her despair leads her to contemplate taking her own daughter’s life (to get her to heaven faster, naturally). And that’s not even the depressing part. Fearlessly depicting her character’s transition from hedonism to zealotry to unimaginable despair, Rogers gives the best performance of her career; too bad it’s in a film you’ll almost definitely only want to watch once. You can rent The Rapture from Prime Video.
When assembling this list, I fought how many holocaust films include; There are many, enough to populate an even longer list that is through themselves. For greater or bad, I will let Roman Pianista Polanski stay, and is one of the minor underschroners of his representations of that specific ancient horror. Based on memories through the Polish-Jewish musician Władysław Szpilman (touched through Adrien Brody, who won the Oscar), the film takes us throughout the period of war; As things get worse and more for Polish Jews, Szpilman loses everything, adding love for music that is his only life. Although his legacy is tarnished for being directed through Polanski (it is not a small explanation why leave it on the shelf), the pianist remains a surprising achievement in the cunning representation of the worst of humanity. You can transmit to the pianist in Peacock, Tubi, Prime Video and Freevee.
Any movie can be sad, but it takes a special flavor of cinematic hopelessness to get a film banned by the government for being too depressing. Yet that’s exactly what happened to this story of an elderly Italian man (Carlo Battisti) struggling to keep a roof over his head after he is evicted; when that proves too tall an order, he elects for finding a home for his beloved dog before he ends his own life. Performed by a cast of mostly non-actors, Umberto D.’s grim realism proved a bit too much for the Italian government, which felt it painted too bleak a picture of the state of the nation in the wake of World War II, and subsequently “banned the export of films deemed unflattering to Italian society,” according to Peter Becker, film historian and president of the Criterion Channel. You can stream Umberto D. on Max and The Criterion Channel or rent it from Prime Video.
Ross Johnson writes on television, cinema and literature for Lifehacker.