Desolation movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant desolation movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out bleak, atmospheric, grim, tense, independent film and psychological films and TV shows about / with desolation, isolation, survival, post apocalyptic, dystopia, slow burn, violence, post apocalypse, loneliness and claustrophobia plots mostly in Drama, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres shot in USA, Canada, Australia and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as desolation: Joker (2019), Children of the Corn (1984), Begotten (1989), Chained (2012), Cold Sun (2016), The Man from Ruin (2016), End of Time (2013), Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me (2015), Shiba (1993), The Plains of Heaven (1982).
Best films
New films
| 3 from Hell (2019) | 5.4 | |
| Peninsula (2020) | 5.5 | |
| The Midnight Sky (2020) | 5.7 | |
| Joker (2019) | 8.3 | |
| Ink & Rain (2018) | 7.0 |
List of desolation movies
1.7M
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Australia
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
Style:
thought provoking, atmospheric, suspense, bleak, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
mental illness, villain, loneliness, mental patient, psycho, comedian, psychological trauma, mental disorder, psychopath, social problems, insanity, social decay ...
Time:
2010s, 80s, year 2019, 20th century, year 1981
Place:
new york, new jersey, los angeles, persia, bronx new york city
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A boy preacher named Isaac goes to a town in Nebraska called Gatlin and gets all the children to murder every adult in town.
Style:
creepy, slasher, demonic, cult horror, suspenseful ...
Audience:
kids, teens, adult
Plot:
violence, folk horror, killer child, small town, religion, creepy child, stephen king, children, blood, murder, devil, isolation ...
Time:
80s
Place:
nebraska, usa, iowa
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13K
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Begotten is the creation myth brought to life, the story of no less than the violent death of God and the (re)birth of nature on a barren earth.
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, avant garde, experimental, independent film ...
Plot:
necrophilia, surrealism, self mutilation, macabre, gory, spirituality, cruelty, chaos, nihilism, extreme, obsession, supernatural ...
Place:
america
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23K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A serial killer kidnaps a young boy after murdering his mother, then raises him to be his accomplice. After years in captivity, the boy must choose between escaping or following in his captor's bloody footprints.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, scary, serious, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, captivity, misogynist, abuse, kidnapping, slave, serial rapist, psychopath, escape attempt, childhood trauma, isolated house, strong violent content ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, seattle, canada
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Story:
"This feature-length film is set in the barren and lifeless "Broken Heart" desert of the 1920s. "Cold Sun" is the story of a prostitute searching for her dead brother, a confused excommunicated priest seeking love, two ...
Style:
atmospheric, noir, period piece, melancholic, tension ...
Plot:
desert, isolation, moral ambiguity, greed, desolation, loneliness, stolen gold, obsession, betrayal, tragedy, religious conflict, slow burn ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
california
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After a series of unexpected UFO crash landings on the planet Earth, a large portion of life slowly and mysteriously went extinct. We follow a man that struggles for survival, as he gathers items needed for the impending winter. Outside of personal ...
Style:
bleak, existential, atmospheric, contemplative, melancholic ...
Plot:
survival, winter, post apocalyptic, sole survivor, desolation, isolation, slow burn, minimalism, post apocalypse, very little dialogue, loneliness, end of the world ...
Time:
future
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A catastrophe wipes out almost all of humanity. A single girl appears to be the only survivor. Having managed to escape the ruins, she is now growing up in the woods. Could this last person on earth be a new beginning?
Style:
atmospheric, bleak, independent film, existential, grim ...
Plot:
dystopia, survival, post apocalyptic, isolation, desolation, wilderness, loneliness, solitude, resilience, catastrophe, female protagonist, coming of age ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Muhammad, a rejected boy from the fringe of society, floats through the streets of a filthy city, exposed and desolated, until he meets Gurevich; a lone rover who rides his motorcycle into the bowels of the city, through the shadows of the back ...
Style:
dark, existential, bleak, art house, psychological ...
Plot:
urban decay, street life, urban, desolation, isolation, identity, alienation, loner, survival, anti hero, power struggle, coming of age ...
Place:
palestine, israel
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Croatia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Cain is a military scientist, bitterly disappointed in human race. His conclusion is that the mankind failed to create a world worth living in. Only a small minority of privileged people live in prosperity, while the rest are spending their lives in ...
Style:
grim, bleak, atmospheric, dark, contemplative ...
Plot:
post apocalyptic, dystopia, survival, loneliness, desolation, hopelessness, survivor, isolation, desperation, existentialism, ethical dilemma, weapon of mass destruction ...
Time:
future
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A multi-lingual tour guide who owns multiple passports one day drives his wife and daughter to a desolate seashore town and checks in a secluded, spacious, ruins-like hotel. From that moment on, he throws himself into gambling, tossing the dice with ...
Style:
bleak, art house, ambiguous ending
Plot:
seaside, gambling, loneliness, desolation, character study, obsession, moral ambiguity, criminal, hooker, rural setting, prostitute, brother sister relationship ...
Place:
taiwan
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Two scientists at a remote satellite station begin to have hallucinations because of the facility's isolation. Or are they hallucinations... ?
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological horror, surreal, creepy, atmospheric ...
Plot:
loneliness, violence, paranoia, hallucination, madness, isolation, desolation, ambiguity, australian outback, claustrophobia, slow burn, moral ambiguity ...
Is relevant?
494
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When an apocalyptic event strikes, a group of people caught on the outside of civilization must take a perilous journey to find refuge.
Style:
apocalyptic, tense, suspenseful, captivating, scary ...
Plot:
end of the world, disaster, lightning, acid, survival, extinction, journey, apocalypse, illness, lightning strike, disease, natural disaster ...
Time:
near future
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA, Colombia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In a post-apocalyptic world, a young woman, with the help of an abandoned dog searches for other survivors while trying to cope with an unborn child growing inside of her.
Style:
bleak, suspenseful, apocalyptic, dramatic, captivating ...
Plot:
pregnancy, survival, dog, post apocalyptic, post-apocalyptic future, female protagonist, survival horror, post apocalypse, struggle for survival, apocalypse, pregnant woman, woman ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 173 min.
Story:
Sometime in the near future within a place of rot and wasted dreams, four men come looking for the Hall of Wishes within the contaminated zone of post-apocalyptic earth.
Style:
bleak, atmospheric, grim, mysterious, psychological ...
Plot:
post apocalyptic, isolation, desolation, dystopian future, haunting, survival, moral ambiguity, radiation, slow burn, salvation, post soviet, desire ...
Time:
future
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Argentina
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Trying to escape danger in a post-apocalyptic world, Bannon realizes that his very existence will be put to the test.
Style:
tense, bleak, grim, dark, suspense
Plot:
survival, post apocalyptic, desperation, escape, danger, struggle for survival, desolation, wasteland, dystopia, journey, isolation, loneliness ...
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Genre: History, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Three Australian couples stumble across an ancient curse in the Outback, and their dream holiday turns into a nightmare that may kill them all.
Style:
atmospheric, tense, psychological horror, psychological thriller, suspense ...
Plot:
outback, isolation, curse, survival, supernatural, desolation, disappearance, claustrophobia, folklore, infidelity, superstition, sexual tension ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Álex and Cata, two young women who live on the outskirts of the city, a desolate place full of empty stores and ramshackle bars where dreams end up fading, have been preparing their escape all their lives.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional, bleak ...
Plot:
poverty, moral dilemma, escape, social realism, social problems, money problems, women, female protagonist, poor, lifestyle, dysfunctional family, choice ...
Time:
2020s
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Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Long after the end of the world people wander the fields and woods that once housed the cities of Britain, in search of food, warmth and anything that may help them survive. One of these survivors is The Man (Max Curtis), haunted by the terrible ...
Style:
bleak, independent film, psychological, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot:
dystopia, post apocalyptic, survival, end of the world, violence, isolation, wasteland, desolation, ruins, desperation, moral ambiguity, redemption ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
The men of a small town on the edge of nowhere mysteriously disappear, one by one, leaving women and children behind to fend for themselves in a desolate and dreamlike world.
Style:
bleak, melancholic, atmospheric, surreal, poetic
Plot:
small town, abandonment, coming of age, family drama, adolescence, loss, isolation, desolation, mysterious disappearance, grief, motherhood, slow burn ...
Time:
future
Place:
california
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In the future Saturn's moon of Titan houses a prison where Earth's worst criminals are kept awaiting their return to Earth for trial and execution. One of those criminals, Python Diamond, is being flown back to Earth, escorted by five ...
Style:
bleak, grim, tense
Plot:
military, gang, siege, post apocalypse, dystopia, post apocalyptic, nuclear war, post nuclear, survival, wasteland, desolation, armed conflict ...
Time:
future
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The film adapts and expands the Planetarian visual novel by Key. The story is set in a dystopian future where biological and nuclear warfare has left a once prosperous civilization in complete ruin. The film tells the story of an old man travelling ...
Style:
anime, entertaining, captivating, disturbing, futuristic ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
slice of life, post apocalyptic, dystopia, dystopian future, children, humanity, vestiges of humanity, ruins, desolation, lonely, post war, bittersweet ...
Time:
future
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Described as an 'epic environmental horror' film. Plot TBA.
Style:
dark comedy, psychological horror, atmospheric, bleak, grim ...
Plot:
mental illness, postpartum depression, sexless marriage, car accident, emotional breakdown, hallucination, psychosis, isolation, desolation, character study, slow burn, claustrophobia ...
Place:
montana
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Civilisation is coming to an end. The death of his only relative gives a feral boy the pretext to journey beyond the confines of his home environment; only by doing this will he be able to decipher his father's journal, the most valuable ...
Style:
atmospheric, melancholic, bleak, poetic, contemplative ...
Plot:
coming of age, post apocalyptic, father son relationship, survival, dystopia, desolation, family drama, loneliness, isolation, minimalism, rite of passage, road trip ...
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478
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Iceland, Finland
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
A young couple, physiologist Agla and filmmaker Gunnar, wake up at a glacier drilling camp only to find the camp mysteriously abandoned and their co-workers gone. When searching for the lost team they realize they’re up against an unknown deadly ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, atmospheric, suspense, bleak ...
Plot:
found footage, isolation, snow, winter, wilderness, danger, survival, macabre, cold weather, husband wife relationship, life philosophy, obstacle ...
Is relevant?
269K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
bleak, harsh, depressing, rough, gloomy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
survival, apocalypse, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, father son relationship, distopia, end of the world, cannibalism, starvation, dystopia, on the road, journey ...
Time:
future, year 2009, near future, distant future, 2000s ...
Place:
pittsburgh, usa, north america, canada
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, West Germany, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A soldier from Earth crashlands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he encounters another survivor, but from the enemy species he was fighting; they band together to survive on this hostile world. In the end the human finds ...
Style:
futuristic, cult classic, stylized, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night
Plot:
alien, stranded, evil alien, space exploration, space and aliens, friendship, space wars, space, extraterrestrial, alien life-form, space opera, dystopian future ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 80s, 21st century
Place:
space western
Is relevant?
1K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Cora is set decades into the future, after a deadly mist has covered earth, effectively wiping out most of humanity. Now, we follow Cora, a woman working for an organization trying to reverse the effects of the apocalypse.
Style:
atmospheric, suspenseful, futuristic, bleak, tense ...
Plot:
post apocalyptic, survival, dystopia, female protagonist, desolation, isolation, haunting, conspiracy, slow burn
Time:
near future
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mozambique, Portugal
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In the midst of Mozambique's devastating civil war, Muidinga, an orphaned refugee, wanders the countryside in search of his mother. His only companion is an elderly storyteller, and the only guide to finding his mother is a dead man's ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, touching, serious, art house ...
Plot:
survival, obsessive quest, missing person, on the road, wartime life, young heroes, escapades, heroes, friendship, youth, storytelling, civil war ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
africa
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Neil Parker is a passionate wildlife photographer who pays more attention to his wildlife than his human life. as a result his relationships with the real world suffer. When his girlfriend walks out on him he resigns himself to isolation and nature. ...
Style:
bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, rough ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
zombie, monster, zombie attack, zombie apocalypse, breakup, photographer, transformation, marital argument, social change, danger, life is a bitch, relationship problems ...
Is relevant?
200
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Germany, Colombia
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
On a post-apocalyptic world of never-ending winter, a sparse cast of outsiders live underground. Due to their unsanitary conditions, sexual contact has become dangerous. Masturbation has become the paradigm of sexual experience and an array of ...
Style:
bleak, erotic drama, tense, controversial, existential ...
Plot:
masturbation, dystopia, post apocalyptic, isolation, survival, obsession, cold, end of the world, exploitation, claustrophobia, taboo, desolation ...
Time:
near future
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