Misanthropy movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant misanthropy movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out bleak, psychological, dark comedy, realistic, suspense and melancholic films and TV shows about / with misanthropy, anti hero, violence, murder, female nudity, brutality, pornography, nude, betrayal and loneliness plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Crime genres shot in USA, France, Italy and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as misanthropy: Numb (2007), House (2004), Weekend (1967), 3 from Hell (2019), The Devil's Rejects (2005), Timon of Athens (1981), The Local Stigmatic (1990), Tears Were Falling (1983), All God's Creatures (2011), Pluribus (2025).
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9K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Hudson Milbank is a successful Hollywood screenwriter who suddenly and strangely finds himself without any emotional feelings. He tries doctor after doctor and shrink after shrink, but nothing works. The Golf Channel, lesbian exercise classes and a ...
Style:
psychological, humorous, realistic, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot:
mental illness, therapy, misfit, mental health, couple relations, family relations, unfulfillment, writers, estrangement, depression, fall in love, dysfunctional family ...
Place:
canada
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586K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Dr. Gregory House, a drug-addicted, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius, leads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey.
Style:
medical drama, clever, cynical, emotional, witty ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
doctor, medicine, hospital, talented, mastermind, prodigy, loner, doctors and patients, expert, medical, patient, surgery ...
Time:
2000s, future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa, syria
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17K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.
Style:
black comedy, experimental, road movie, surreal, disturbing ...
Plot:
satire, surrealism, violence, traffic jam, murder, anarchism, car crash, car accident, misanthropy, on the road, cannibalism, cruelty ...
Time:
year 1967, 60s, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france
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Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The second of two theatrically released follow-ups to the Neon Genesis Evangelion series. Comprising of two alternate episodes which were first intended to take the place of episodes 25 and 26, this finale answers many of the questions surrounding ...
Style:
anime, psychological, mecha, ambiguous ending, adult animation ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
loneliness, depression, philosophy, insanity, misanthropy, suicide, alienation, hate, surrealism, infiltration, stream of consciousness, death ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
tokyo, japan
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Genre: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After barely surviving a furious shootout with the police, Baby Firefly, Otis Driftwood and Captain Spaulding are behind bars. But pure evil cannot be contained. Teaming up with Otis’ half-brother Wilson, the demented Firefly clan escape to ...
Style:
slasher, suspense, rough, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot:
violence, clown, panic, massacre, serial murder, female nudity, insanity, murderer, psychopath, lethal injection, halloween, sociopath ...
Time:
year 2019, year 1988, 80s
Place:
mexico, texas
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Western
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The sequel to House of 1000 Corpses – the Firefly family are ambushed at their isolated home by Sheriff Wydell and a squad of armed men guns blazing – yet only Otis and his sister, Baby, manage to escape the barrage of bullets unharmed. Hiding ...
Style:
scary, bloody, suspense, cult classic, dark ...
Audience:
date night, boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, revenge, torture, brutality, psychopath, sheriff, kidnapping, maniac, violence, female villain, hostage, killer clown ...
Time:
70s, year 2005, 2000s, y2k, year 2000 ...
Place:
texas, bolivia, austin texas, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Timon loves to give parties and objects to friends, but when he cannot pay his creditors, his "friends" refuse to help him, and he becomes a misanthropic hermit.
Style:
period piece
Plot:
shakespeare, generosity, betrayal, tragedy, misanthropy, social commentary, isolation, bitterness, character study, cynicism, adaptation, desperation ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min.
Story:
Two symbiotic sociopaths play obscurely deviant mind games with each other while engaging in perversely brutal acts of violence against victims apparently chosen at random
Style:
disturbing, intense, tense, bleak, atmospheric ...
Plot:
violence, working class, class conflict, moral ambiguity, character study, cruelty, celebrity, social commentary, humiliation, obsession, machismo, alienation ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Once an evil inventor created a mirror, "in which everything that was kind and good disappeared, and everything that was bad and obscene was reflected and seemed even worse". The students of the evil professor did a lot of evil with the ...
Style:
allegory, folk tale, bleak, tragicomedy, grim ...
Plot:
family relations, symbolism, redemption, magic realism, transformation, melancholy, curse, family drama, male protagonist, satire, social commentary, paranoia ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Creature of habit, Jon Smith, spends his days mindlessly working as a barista in New York City. When night falls, this seeming everyman savagely kills "filthy women" as his social outlet. A chance encounter with Delia, a young prostitute ...
Style:
psychological thriller, dark, disturbing, indie film, intense ...
Plot:
serial killer, character study, violence, loneliness, isolation, psychopath, moral ambiguity, anti hero, alienation, urban, nightlife, social outcast ...
Place:
new york
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122K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The most miserable person on Earth must save the world from happiness.
Style:
dark comedy, existential, bleak, melancholic, philosophical ...
Plot:
female protagonist, loneliness, dystopia, alienation, social commentary, deadpan, misanthropy, character study, ethical dilemma, irony, morality, satire ...
Time:
near future
Place:
new mexico, albuquerque new mexico
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Pulled into an otherworldly adventure with cute sidekicks and superpowers, you’d think Osamu hit the jackpot. Nope! From a time before pixels, the early 20th-century gloomy author just wants to find a quiet place to meet his maker, not to rack up ...
Style:
dark comedy, tragicomedy, dark fantasy, melancholic, period piece ...
Plot:
isekai, suicide, slice of life, existential crisis, reluctant hero, bittersweet, existentialism, anti hero, loneliness, misanthropy, magic realism, literary ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An adult woman puts herself up for adoption and forms a bond with the misanthropic patriarch of her adoptive family. Based on a true story.
Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, emotional, heartfelt ...
Plot:
female protagonist, adoption, foster home, relationships, family relations, social problems, patriarch, family life, foster parent, social issues, lifestyle, patriarchy ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Iran
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Saeed is a forty-year-old mason, severe and fanatical in his religious beliefs. One day his wife is accosted by a driver who assumes she is a prostitute. Seething with rage, Saeed seeks revenge. In so doing he gets into various bruising encounters, ...
Style:
bleak, disturbing, crime drama, tense, art house
Audience:
adult
Plot:
social commentary, religious fanaticism, character study, social realism, violence, tragedy, murder, revenge, poverty, prostitution, social injustice, female exploitation ...
Place:
iran, middle east, lebanon, persia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The best italian film of the 90's, the most extreme and radical work since SALO', a ruthless representation, in a surreal-metaphorical key, of a civilization condemned to worshipping its own blindness. The two sicilian directors use a ...
Style:
black and white, surreal, dark comedy, avant garde, experimental ...
Plot:
zoophilia, mafia, satire, urban decay, dystopia, radical, anti establishment, misanthropy, cruelty, taboo, underground, deaf ...
Place:
italy, sicily, southern italy
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Lawrence is an optimistic suit salesman for whom everything always goes right-until he takes the suicidal credit collector Holloman under his wing, and everything starts to go wrong. Very wrong.
Style:
psychological, dark comedy, black comedy, tragicomedy, captivating ...
Plot:
satire, suicidal thoughts, odd couple, dark humor, misfit, male female relationship, mishap, relationships, problem, accountant, opposites attract, bittersweet ...
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
A reporter follows an incestuous brother and sister who kill tourists in the name of God.
Style:
controversial, bloody, dark, disturbing, thrilling ...
Plot:
incest, murder, exploitation, violent, graphic violence, religious fanaticism, taboo, problem, murderer, reporter, brother sister relationship, shock ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 5 min.
TV show
Story:
Web Therapy is an improvised online series starring Lisa Kudrow as Fiona Wallice, a therapist who has conceived of a new form of therapy: the titular "web therapy".
Style:
humorous, entertaining, psychological, captivating, thought provoking ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
therapy, psychotherapy, therapist, satire, psychotherapist, psychoanalysis, doctors and patients, unconventional method, social satire, psychoanalyst, psychology, doctor ...
Time:
2000s
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
They’re dirty, vulgar, dishonest, grouchy, uncultured. They’re also a big, happy family. The Bougon are a joyous bunch of scoundrels who live on the margins of society, doing whatever it takes to scam their way through life, thinking up new ...
Style:
dark comedy, sitcom, cynical, offbeat, absurd ...
Plot:
white trash, satire, husband wife relationship, family relations, fighting the system, social problems, lifestyle change, changing lives, social issues, social satire, working class, anti hero ...
Place:
quebec
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A retired thief swears revenge on the lunatic who murdered his brother and partner, while going on the run with the loot they stole.
Style:
neo noir, suspenseful, perverse, hood, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, betrayal, revenge, gangster, gang, robbery, murder, kidnapping, existentialism, money, chase, violence ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, florida, palm springs california
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Genre: Action, Crime, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Having defeated the Joker, Batman now faces the Penguin - a warped and deformed individual who is intent on being accepted into Gotham society. Crooked businessman Max Schreck is coerced into helping him become Mayor of Gotham and they both attempt ...
Style:
gothic, mysterious, stylized, saga, disturbing ...
Audience:
kids, teens, date night, boys' night, family outing
Plot:
superhero, villain, batman, revenge, christmas, femme fatale, cat, vigilante, corruption, double life, christmas season, circus ...
Time:
year 1992, 20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, north america
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Ash Ketchum must put his skill to the test when he attempts to save the world from destruction. The Greedy Pokemon collector Lawrence III throws the universe into chaos after disrupting the balance of nature by capturing one of the Pokemon birds ...
Style:
anime, 3d animation, cult classic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, teens, preschool
Plot:
pokemon, pikachu, superhero, collector, violence, greed, misanthropy, peril, storm, violence against women, video game, prophecy ...
Time:
90s, 2000s
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
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176
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Freely inspired to the GACY's torture insane world, this film promise to tell what in other movies no one had the courage to push the limits!
Style:
disturbing, suspense, underground film, depressing, psychotronic ...
Plot:
sadism, graphic violence, killer clown, gay, sexual torture, murder, serial killer, insane, torture, hallucination, bondage, torment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy
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202K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 185 min.
Story:
In the Eighteenth Century, in a small village in Ireland, Redmond Barry is a young farm boy in love with his cousin Nora Brady. When Nora engages to the British Captain John Quin, Barry challenges him for a duel of pistols. He wins and escapes to ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, epic, visually appealing, atmospheric ...
Plot:
nobility, rise and fall, aristocracy, opportunist, duel, card playing, british army, pistol duel, wealth, soldier, social climber, literary ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era, 20th century, year 1975, 19th century ...
Place:
ireland, england, prussia, berlin germany, britain ...
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13K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A forged 500-franc note is cynically passed from person to person and shop to shop, until it falls into the hands of a genuine innocent who doesn't see it for what it is - which will have devastating consequences on his life, causing him to ...
Style:
slow cinema, spiritual, cynical, neo noir, anthology ...
Plot:
betrayal, murder, forgery, prison, trial, nihilism, misanthropy, loss of daughter, solitary, nude girl, labor, modernism ...
Time:
80s, year 1983
Place:
france, paris france, europe
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238K
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Match Point is Woody Allen’s satire of the British High Society and the ambition of a young tennis instructor to enter into it. Yet when he must decide between two women - one assuring him his place in high society, and the other that would bring ...
Style:
sexy, romantic, psychological, talky, erotic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
infidelity, love triangle, couples, lust, sex, seduction, adultery, passionate interest, murder, destructive relationship, fatal attraction, love and romance ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
london, europe, england, united kingdom, ireland ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Set in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a fraud.
Style:
romantic, period piece, humorous, romantic comedy, cute ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
twists and turns, magic, love story, relationships, cons and scams, fish out of water, happy ending, destiny, marriage proposal, medium, magician, plot twist ...
Time:
1920s, year 2014, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
france, cote d'azur, provence, south of france, french riviera ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.
Style:
controversial, disgusting, erotic, extreme horror, psychological ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult, teen drama
Plot:
torture, atrocity, sexual perversion, sex, fascism, sexual abuse, sexual torture, sadism, brutality, rape, libertine, captivity ...
Time:
1940s, year 1975, 20th century, year 1943, year 1944 ...
Place:
italy, europe, latin america
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of.
Style:
disturbing, splatter, sexy, black comedy, frightening ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gory, violence, gang, gangster, sadism, organized crime, massacre, rage, danger, yakuza, psychopath, insanity ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan, east asia, asia, tokyo
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92K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Assassin Robert Rath arrives at a funeral to kill a prominent mobster, only to witness a rival hired gun complete the job for him -- with grisly results. Horrified by the murder of innocent bystanders, Rath decides to take one last job and then ...
Style:
suspense, exciting, tense, clever, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, assassin, revenge, sniper, assassination, rivalry, spy, contract killer, hotel, mexican standoff, bank, cat ...
Time:
90s
Place:
puerto rico, usa, seattle, south america, detroit ...
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