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List of melancholic movies

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The Banishment (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 150 min.
Story: A trip to the pastoral countryside reveals a dark, sinister reality for a family from the city.
Style: bleak, melancholic, surreal, emotional, serious ...
Plot: abortion, dysfunctional family, death, family drama, family bonds, relationships, adultery, crumbling marriage, brothers, betrayal, hide and seek, pregnancy ...
Time: 90s
Place: russia, czech republic, europe
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 7.4
 60K
Ida (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Denmark, France, UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Anna, a young novitiate in 1960s Poland, is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a family secret dating back to the years of the German occupation.
Style: black and white, art house, emotional, melancholic, visually stunning ...
Plot: nun, world war two, faith, family secret, anti semitism, judaism, holocaust, religion, character study, orphan, suicide, self discovery ...
Time: 60s, 2010s, year 2014, year 2013, year 2016 ...
Place: poland, israel, eastern europe, europe, denmark
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 7.1
 13K
A Touch of Sin (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: China, Japan, France
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Four independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.
Style: bleak, meditative, melancholic, art house, lyrical ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: violence, loneliness, working class, wuxia, brutality, life philosophy, injustice, society, social decay, life is a bitch, capitalism, multiple storylines ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: china
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Safety Not Guaranteed (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Three magazine employees head out on an assignment to interview a guy who placed a classified ad seeking a companion for time travel.
Style: independent film, mumblecore, melancholic, enigmatic, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, family friendly
Plot: time travel, time machine, loneliness, intern, self discovery, journalism, love, social misfits, mental illness, fall in love, character study, escapades ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, seattle, washington state
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The Boys Are Back (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: When the wife of sports-writer Joe Warr dies of cancer, he takes on the responsibility of raising their 6-year-old son, and his teenage son from a previous marriage. As Joe rejects the counsel of his mother-in-law and other parents, he develops his ...
Style: touching, inspirational, melancholic, sentimental, intense ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: single parent, single father, family drama, cancer, family relations, father son relationship, depression, life philosophy, brothers, overcoming, widower, writers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, australia, europe
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Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Dispatched from his basement room on an errand for his mother, slacker Jeff might discover his destiny (finally) when he spends the day with his brother as he tracks his possibly adulterous wife.
Style: touching, mumblecore, humorous, feel good, melancholic ...
Plot: slacker, brother brother relationship, midlife crisis, brothers, twists and turns, everyday life, parents and children, loser, naivete, character change, immature, existentialism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new orleans
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In the Land of Women (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After a bad breakup with his girlfriend leaves him heartbroken, Carter Webb moves to Michigan to take care of his ailing grandmother. Once there, he gets mixed up in the lives of the mother and daughters who live across the street.
Style: touching, realistic, romantic, independent film, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: bittersweet, mother daughter relationship, love story, love, suburban life, teenager, depression, neighbor, self discovery, believe in yourself, homecoming, passion ...
Time: 2000s, 20th century, year 2007, 21st century
Place: california, detroit, michigan, los angeles
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The Dying Gaul (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A powerful and seductive Hollywood mogul convinces an impoverished West Hollywood writer, whose lover has recently died of AIDS, to sell his autobiographical screenplay for big bucks. The writer, Robert, knows he'll have to make major changes ...
Style: psychological, melancholic, clever, talky, absurd ...
Plot: gay, aids, solitude, tragedy, grief, depression, internet, twists and turns, lgbt, family problems, hollywood, glbt ...
Time: 90s, year 2005
Place: los angeles, rome italy, egypt, new york
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 4.9
 4K
Boys (1996)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Fed up with boarding school and frustrated with the way others have planned his life, John Baker Jr. wants a change -- anything to shake up his staid routine. The moment arrives when he stumbles upon a woman, Patty Vare, unconscious in a field. ...
Style: melancholic, intense, enigmatic, romantic, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: boarding school, amnesia, teenage love, teenager, police investigation, teenage life, friendship, lifestyle, rescue, high school, school, secret ...
Time: y2k, year 1996, 90s
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My Blueberry Nights (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, France, USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Elizabeth has just been through a particularly nasty breakup, and now she's ready to leave her friends and memories behind as she chases her dreams across the country. In order to support herself on her journey, Elizabeth picks up a series of ...
Style: sentimental, atmospheric, road movie, psychological, touching ...
Plot: road trip, love and romance, love story, travel, loneliness, waitress, cross country, passion, on the road, bittersweet, self discovery, melancholy ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa, tennessee, china, new york, memphis ...
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 6.0
 13K
Violet & Daisy (2011)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Two teenage assassins accept what they think will be a quick-and-easy job, until an unexpected target throws them off their plan.
Style: surreal, melancholic, intense, absurd, freeze frame ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: teenage girl, assassin, best friend, existentialism, twists and turns, life & death, partner, unlikely criminals, implied rape, female protagonist, coming of age, teenager ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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 6.4
 16K
Ashby (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When new kid in town Ed Wallis is given an assignment to interview an older person, he turns to his mysterious neighbor, Ashby Holt for help. That new connection leads to unexpected journeys for both of them, as Ashby – who turns out to be a ...
Style: melancholic, talky, touching, romantic, funny ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: high school, bullying, coming of age, assassin, classmate, friendship, mentor, relationships, redemption, existentialism, storytelling, stereotypes ...
Time: 2010s
Place: usa
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 7.2
 122K
Silence (2016)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA, UK, Taiwan, Japan, Mexico
Duration: 161 min.
Story: Two Jesuit priests travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate, banned Catholicism and almost all foreign contact.
Style: philosophical, stylized, cerebral, melancholic, intellectual ...
Audience: teens
Plot: missionary, religion, christianity, religious persecution, culture clash, crisis of faith, faith, torture, doubt, betrayal, christian, clergy ...
Time: 17th century, 2010s, year 2016, year 2015
Place: japan, portugal, asia
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 6.3
 22K
He Never Died (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Jack is a solitary man with a mysterious past. His strange habits will soon become stranger when his past catches up with him.
Style: dark, enigmatic, melancholic, bleak, bloody ...
Audience: adult
Plot: vampire, immortality, immortal, supernatural, cannibalism, father daughter relationship, loneliness, gangster, culture clash, brutality, superhero, life & death ...
Time: year 2015
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 7.4
 52K
Son of Saul (2015)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hungary
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival trying to save from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son.
Style: compassionate, melancholic, disturbing, grim, cerebral ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, nazi concentration camp, genocide, tragedy, nazi, prison, shoah, courage, concentration camp, brutality, life & death ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944, year 2015, 90s
Place: poland, germany, eastern europe
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Beyond the Lights (2014)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Noni Jean is a hot new rising star. But not all is what it seems, and the pressure causes Noni to nearly fall apart - until she meets Kaz Nicol, a promising young cop and aspiring politician who's been assigned to her detail. Can Kaz's ...
Style: romantic, sexy, melancholic, emotional, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: music, mother daughter relationship, suicide attempt, musician, love, pop star, showbiz, police officer, domineering mother, musician's life, relationship vs career, black ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indiana, usa, mexico, united kingdom
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 4.2
 13K
The Patriot (1998)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A deadly virus threatens to wipe out an entire Rocky Mountain town, leaving the town doctor to find some way to escape the soldiers who enforce the town's quarantine and devise an antidote. Matters take a more deadly turn after the physician is ...
Style: melancholic, exciting, serious, rough, action adventure ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, small town, virus, doctor, death, epidemic, chase, indians, violence, fight scenes, father daughter relationship, hospital ...
Time: year 1998, 90s, 20th century
Place: montana, usa
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 7.0
 66K
Enough Said (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Eva is a divorced soon-to-be empty-nester wondering about her next act. Then she meets Marianne, the embodiment of her perfect self. Armed with a restored outlook on being middle-aged and single, Eva decides to take a chance on her new love interest ...
Style: romantic, touching, feel good, sweet, clever ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: dating, loneliness, masseuse, poet, relationships, divorce, sexual activity, parenthood, goodhearted, couple relations, single parent, middle aged ...
Time: year 2013, y2k, 2010s, 21st century
Place: california, usa
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London Boulevard (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A parolee battles a gangster for the affections of a reclusive movie star.
Style: melancholic, visually appealing, rough, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: fall in love, gangster, violence, love and romance, organized crime, going straight, mentor, runaway, criminal heroes, dishonor among criminals, brother sister relationship, starting over ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: england, london, europe, los angeles
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 6.8
 10K
Mammoth (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story: While on a trip to Thailand, a successful American businessman tries to radically change his life. Back in New York, his wife and daughter find their relationship with their live-in Filipino maid changing around them. At the same time, in the ...
Style: melancholic, depressing, thought provoking, sincere, multicultural ...
Plot: pedophilia, doctor, loneliness, life philosophy, family problems, moral dilemma, maid, corporate world, parents and children, rich and poor, social differences, couple relations ...
Time: year 2009, 90s, 21st century
Place: new york, thailand, the philippines, usa, asia ...
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 6.9
 4K
Echo Park LA (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: As Magdalena's 15th birthday approaches, her simple, blissful life is complicated by the discovery that she's pregnant. Kicked out of her house, she finds a new family with her great-granduncle and gay cousin.
Style: touching, melancholic, sentimental, realistic, emotional ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, pregnancy, gay, culture clash, unwanted pregnancy, lgbt, religion, virginity, character study, life turned upside down, starting over, teenage life ...
Time: year 2006
Place: los angeles, california, usa, glendale california
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Lights in the Dusk (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland, Germany, France, Italy, Sweden
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Koistenin is a sad sack, a man without affect or friends. He's a night-watchman in Helsinki with ideas of starting his own business, but nothing to go with those intentions. He sometimes talks a bit with a woman who runs a snack trailer near ...
Style: bleak, melancholic, sincere, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: existentialism, betrayal, down on your luck, loneliness, femme fatale, night watchman, cons and scams, misfit, gem, regret, homeless, loser ...
Time: 90s, 21st century
Place: finland, europe
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 6.1
 2K
Flipper (1963)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Many kids might say their best friend is a puppy or a pony. But for 12-year-old Sandy, the most special pet of all is the exuberant dolphin he rescues and who returns the favor by rescuing Sandy from sharks.The dolphin named Flipper first swam into ...
Style: melancholic, touching, exciting, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: dolphins, youth, ocean, coming of age, healing power, animal, young heroes, friendship, danger, teenage life, boy, father son relationship ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: florida, usa
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Robot Stories (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Four stories including: "My Robot Baby," in which a couple must care for a robot baby before adopting a human child; "The Robot Fixer," in which a mother tries to connect with her dying son; "Machine Love," in which an ...
Style: futuristic, melancholic, surreal, stylized, semi serious ...
Plot: androids and robots, robot, adoption, existentialism, imaginary, family life, parents and children, society, estrangement, human nature, immortality, bittersweet ...
Time: future, 80s, 90s, 2000s
Place: tokyo
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 6.9
 2K
Rain (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Janey is on vacation with her brother, Jim, mother, Kate, and father Ed, at their beach house on the Mahurangi Peninsual in New Zealand. Ed and Kate, who are on the verge of divorce, sit around in the back yard all day drinking whiskey and Janey and ...
Style: bleak, melancholic, emotional, sexual, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: coming of age, dysfunctional family, vacation, boy, women, family problems, parents and children, siblings relations, infidelity, youth, crumbling marriage, skinny dipping ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: new zealand, iowa, australia
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Gods and Monsters (1998)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: It's 1957, and Whale's heyday as the director of "Frankenstein," "Bride of Frankenstein" and "The Invisible Man" is long behind him. Retired and a semi-recluse, he lives his days accompanied only by images ...
Style: enigmatic, melancholic, captivating, sentimental, cult classic ...
Plot: homosexuality, life & death, gay interest, gay, friendship, filmmaking, homosexual, biopic, depression, loneliness, adaptation, gardener ...
Time: year 1998, 1950s, 50s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa, california, pacific ocean
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Clockwatchers (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The relationship between four female temps all working for the same credit company is threatened with the arrival of a new hire, who lands a permanent position one of the women was vying for.
Style: atmospheric, melancholic, satirical, dark comedy, semi serious ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: office, workplace, women, friendship, existentialism, office politics, storytelling, loneliness, workplace situations, heist, fighting the system, secretary ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
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Nenette and Boni (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Teenage siblings Nenette and Boni were raised apart as a result of their parents' divorce. Their mother, who doted on her son Boni, has died. He works for an interesting couple as a pizza baker, and is surprised and enraged when his younger ...
Style: psychological, melancholic, art house, sexy, contemplative ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dysfunctional family, obsession, sexuality, siblings relations, teenage life, love and romance, single parent, coming of age, runaway, siblings, incest, character study ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: vietnam, france
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Brother of Sleep (1995)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Schlafes Bruder tells the story a few exceptionally talented individuals who grew up in a remote mountain town in the Alps. The film, based on an internationally successful novel by Robert Schneider of the same name, depicts the slow withering of ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, melancholic, enigmatic, sexual ...
Plot: jealousy, mountain, gay love, music, unrequited love, social differences, introspection, poverty, couples, isolation, friendship, human nature ...
Time: 1800s, 19th century
Place: alps, austria, europe
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 5.8
 2K
Faithful (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A depressed housewife whose husband is having an affair contemplates suicide, but changes her mind when she faces death by a killer hired to do her in.
Style: talky, melancholic, semi serious, black comedy, clever ...
Plot: loneliness, female protagonist, woman in danger, greed, crumbling marriage, family problems, self discovery, marriage, adultery, depression, killer, assassin ...
Time: year 1996, 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, usa
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