Grim movies and TV shows – page 4
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List of grim movies
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story:
A prominent female forensic investigator suffers from antisocial personality disorder and the process in which the shadow of the father she killed threatens her honor and life.
Style:
tense, crime drama, grim, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
serial killer, antisocial personality disorder, family secret, forensics, police investigation, moral ambiguity, cover up, psychological manipulation, cat and mouse, autopsy, father daughter conflict, laboratory ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A juvenile offender is handed over to authorities at age 13 and placed in an institution in this somber social drama. Martin is a petty thief who enjoys stealing and looks up to his older brother. When he is informed that his brother has died, ...
Style:
bleak, grim, tragic ending, melancholic, intense ...
Plot:
runaway, social realism, juvenile delinquency, teen suicide, reform school, desperation, social criticism, mental health, loneliness, alienation, child psychologist, character study ...
Time:
70s
Place:
southern germany
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Concentration camp commander Kraft finds out that prisoner Kominek is a former professional boxer. Overnight, the prisoner is made Kraft's exercise partner and unwillingly rises to a privileged position at the camp. His anger over the death of ...
Style:
bleak, grim, tense, historical drama, period piece ...
Plot:
boxing, concentration camp, world war two, boxer, survival, oppression, holocaust, tragedy, dehumanization, violence, forced labor, morality ...
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Austria
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Austria-Hungary 1813: Two soldiers returning from the Napoleonic war encounter a creeping invasion in a remote mountain village that far exceeds their imagination - especially as the powerful enemy calls for actions that put the humanity of the two ...
Style:
tense, grim, bleak
Plot:
survival, isolation, folk horror, moral dilemma, alien, extreme violence, paranoia, hopelessness, slow burn, unknown, struggle, problem ...
Time:
19th century, 1810s
Place:
austria
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Inspired by the classic Brothers Grimm stories, this anthology features six fairy tales with a dark twist, exposing the shadowy side of human desire.
Style:
fairy tale, anthology, dark fantasy, anime, grim ...
Plot:
fairy, magic, secret, wizards and magicians, magical, adventure hero, magical creature, wizard, cautionary tale, folklore, macabre, desire ...
Place:
asia, japan, pennsylvania
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Slovakia
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
As Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels creates films and pictures used to prepare the Germans for Total War and the Holocaust. When the war is lost, he conceives his last staging, the most radical propaganda act still possible to him.
Style:
historical drama, disturbing, grim, period piece, dark ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, propaganda, nazi germany, hitler, biopic, manipulation, political corruption, husband wife relationship, infidelity, flashback, nazi propaganda ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s
Place:
berlin germany, germany
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Behind a beautiful face hides a cruel nature—Baek Ah-jin, who sees through and manipulates others' hearts. After stepping on the sacrifices of many to reach the top, everything begins to change the moment she arrives there. A woman wearing a ...
Style:
psychological thriller, grim, noir, crime drama, bleak
Plot:
deception, manipulation, femme fatale, moral ambiguity, power struggle, rise to power, sociopath, ambition, revenge, cruelty, list, childhood trauma ...
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Genre: Action
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Jas and her sister Laura are interrupted on their family weekend break in the country side by a group of local men intent on terrorising them. When Laura is attacked and killed by the group, Jas discovers her lifeless body back at the cabin ...
Style:
grim, intense, suspense
Plot:
revenge, retribution, vigilante justice, rage, extreme violence, female vigilante, trauma, home invasion, loss of family, cold blooded murder, brutality, small town ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
In 1941 Minsk is overrun by the Germans and social order is obliterated. Choices must be made - cooperate with the occupying forces or resist? A mini-series about surviving in the most uncertain times.
Style:
realistic, disturbing, thought provoking, captivating, dark ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, courage, violence, occupation, nazi occupation, moral dilemma, resistance, survival, military officer, soldier, danger, heroes ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
soviet union
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
The story is about convict Sathyanathan (Mohanlal) sentenced to death following multiple murders (of two adult men and two girl-children) he has committed and his subsequent prison life till death. The film focuses on his past and the chain of ...
Style:
bleak, crime drama, grim, intense, emotional ...
Plot:
death row, death sentence, prison, character study, moral ambiguity, tragedy, execution, ethical dilemma, morality, introspection, redemption, isolation ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A young girl named Mitsuki receives a ticket for a bus tour from her uncle. The tour appears to be normal (expect that everyone appears to be quite sombre), but Mitsuki learns its true purpose: the other passengers and the tour manager have a ...
Style:
bleak, road movie, disturbing, grim, melancholic ...
Plot:
bus, suicide, mass suicide, insurance fraud, desperation, guilt, mental illness, fatalism, isolation, claustrophobia, single, slow burn ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
japan, asia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A young boy loses his innocence in a pre-perestroika Russian prison during the chaotic last months of the Khrushchev regime.
Style:
bleak, psychological, grim, historical drama, existential ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, prison, stalinism, perestroika, brutality, gay, torture, sadism, trauma, survival, violence, authoritarianism ...
Time:
60s
Place:
eastern europe, soviet union, ussr
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
When the world of Armageddon faces invasion by Orks, Chaplain Grimaldus and a group of Black Templars Space Marines are among those sent to defend it. Charged with the defense of Hive Helsreach in one of many onsets, the task seems forlorn. - A ...
Style:
grim, dark, brutal, tense, futuristic ...
Plot:
protection, siege, epic battle, sacrifice, explosions, violent, heroism, dystopia, religion, honor, space opera, space marine ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Canada
TV show
Story:
When a night watchman finishes his shift at work, he is terrified to discover that everyone in the world who went to sleep the previous night has died. Now he and a band of survivors must stay awake and uncover the secret of this global epidemic, ...
Style:
suspense, tension, dark, grim, bleak ...
Plot:
sleep deprivation, survival, investigation, isolation, post apocalyptic, epidemic, insomnia, pandemic, paranoia, claustrophobia, night watchman, conspiracy ...
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Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In a post apocalyptic world run by vampires, only the strong survive. John Shepard, Vampire Hunter, is one of them. John has to track down and eliminate the master vampire before he himself gets turned.
Style:
grim, dark, tense, bleak
Audience:
adult
Plot:
vampire, vampire hunter, survival, blood, post apocalyptic, violent, dystopia, survivalist, revenge, gunfight, cat and mouse, moral ambiguity ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Book one followed a family of sadistic butchers, living in the backcountry, who see anyone that crosses their path as dead meat. In “Butchers Book Two: Raghorn,” the story continues when an accident leaves the captors in the hands of brutal ...
Style:
disturbing, brutal, slasher, grim, bleak ...
Plot:
bloodbath, cannibalism, violent, survival, shock, torture, savage, captivity, hunted, isolation, abduction, revenge ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia, France, Croatia, Iran, Qatar
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Vlada works as a truck driver during the NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999. Tasked with transporting a mysterious load from Kosovo to Belgrade, he drives through unfamiliar territory, trying to make his way in a country scarred by the war. He knows ...
Style:
grim, bleak, road movie, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
guilt, moral ambiguity, trauma, survival, fear, corruption, claustrophobia, isolation, minimalism, suspicion, smuggling, truck ...
Place:
serbia, belgrade, kosovo
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: India
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Things go awry when a haunted mansion is opened as a tourist attraction by Aghathiyan leading to the unraveling of the dark history behind the mansion's previous occupant.
Style:
grim, suspenseful, gothic, psychological horror
Audience:
adult
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, supernatural, dark past, revenge, investigation, slow burn, family tragedy, superstition, isolation, secrets, occult ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An ex-con with ties to the Russian mob and Aryan brotherhood yearns to escape his past life of violence but ultimately decides to undertake one last assignment to escape the Russian mob and earn his freedom.
Style:
suspense, dark, intense, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
murder, criminal underworld, betrayal, vengeance, violent, bloodbath, organized crime, ex convict, russian mafia, gangster, mafia, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
This film consists of six supernatural tales linked together by a demon that is intent on collecting human souls. The Demon banished to Earth by The Devil performs unholy rituals that releases the souls of the damned.
Style:
anthology, scary, suspenseful, dark, captivating ...
Plot:
lucifer, supernatural, demon, evil, fallen angel, religion and supernatural, monster, fear, supernatural power, supernatural being, occult, possession ...
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Parisian authorities clash with the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) in director Alain Tasma’s recounting of one of the darkest moments of the Algerian War of Independence. As the war wound to a close and violence persisted in the streets of ...
Style:
historical drama, bleak, grim, intense, tension ...
Plot:
algerian war, police brutality, racism, violence, massacre, protest, immigration, civil rights, social injustice, police corruption, political repression, ethnic conflict ...
Time:
60s
Place:
algeria, paris france
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306
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, Brazil, Hungary
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A man who grew up an orphan finally gets to meet his father: The psychopath Dr. Josef Mengele, the Auschwitz surgeon who performed genetic experiments on concentration camp refugees during WWII.
Style:
suspense, captivating, intense, serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi, father son relationship, psychopath, family reunited, orphan, parent child relationship, experiment, father son reunion, war criminal, concentration camp, holocaust ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
brazil
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Azerbaijan, Mexico, Switzerland, UK, Turkey
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Davud returns from war to find everyone in his village has succumbed to a strange illness and has decomposed. His sister, the only survivor, is slowly rotting away herself. Davud is troubled by his memories as a soldier, as he confronts the only ...
Style:
existential, bleak, reflective, grim, atmospheric ...
Plot:
isolation, loneliness, survivor, trauma, loss, grief, moral ambiguity, mourning, war veteran, post war, post apocalyptic, moral dilemma ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Switzerland, Hungary
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
The courageous young midwife Christine makes a pact with the devil to save her village from the brutal terror of the Teutonic Knights. Punished by a spider plague, Christine goes from savior to hunted.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, grim ...
Plot:
violence, medieval, sacrifice, supernatural, pact with the devil, deal with the devil, terror, small village, evil, female protagonist, superstition, plague ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
When Hong Kong is rocked by multiple gruesome murders, the police forms a task force to investigate. Jun, once a brilliant detective who suffered a mental breakdown, begins his own investigation. Eventually, the police learn that the murder victims ...
Style:
suspense, tense, crime thriller, detective, captivating ...
Plot:
investigation, murder investigation, crime investigation, murder mystery, police procedural, murderer, mystery killer, death, police investigator, investigator, murder, killer ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
hong kong
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
From the mind of horror manga maestro Junji Ito comes a spine-tingling selection of some of his most bizarre, disturbing and terrifying tales.
Style:
anime, suspenseful, anthology, psychological, dark ...
Plot:
body horror, violence, macabre, sadistic horror, multiple storylines, supernatural, haunting, body transformation, monster, obsession, shock, psychosis ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
From the moment she and her fellow students arrive in the mountain village of Yasaka, Mikoto knows that there is something very wrong with this tiny town. Can it really be true that, for 50 years, not a single girl has been born in this isolated ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
body horror, isolation, villager, woman in danger, remote location, countryside, woman, professor, threat, supernatural, mountain village, folk horror ...
Place:
japan
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Two unsuspecting strangers, Jason and Allison, find themselves participants in a twisted new dating service. Led by the Matchmaker, it forces the two singles inside a nightmarish maze designed to help them find their soul mates, or die trying.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological thriller, psychological horror, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
maze, survival horror, threat, stranger, problem, dating show, survival, mind game, twisted game, psychological manipulation, isolation, dating service ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Tatsuya Kawakami's mother becomes a member of a religious group after her husband commits suicide, and makes a large donation to the organization. Her three children are forced to live in poverty, and her eldest son, who is blind in one eye due ...
Style:
political thriller, intense, grim, controversial, bleak ...
Plot:
assassination, religious cult, true crime, family tragedy, biopic, revenge, political corruption, anguish, conspiracy, vigilante, isolation, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
tokyo
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Russia
TV show
Story:
The story of three generations of the Gromov family. The main character is Prokhor Gromov: his grandfather Danila made a fortune by robbery and robbery, father Peter invested money in the business and inherited everything to Prokhor. He has an ...
Style:
gloomy, family saga, captivating, historical drama, grim ...
Plot:
family business, rich snob, rise and fall, family conflict, greed, three generations, wealthy family, historical figure, dysfunctional family, businessman, rich, bandit ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
siberia
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