| Dead Man (1995) | 7.5 | |
| The Bridge (2011) | 8.6 | |
| Oldboy (2003) | 8.3 | |
| The Road (2009) | 7.2 | |
| Mary and Max (2009) | 8.1 |
Gloomy movies and TV shows – page 3
Best films
New films
| The Park (2023) | 4.4 | |
| The Nightman (2023) | 5.2 | |
| Kalamkaval (2025) | 7.2 | |
| The Switch (2022) | 6.1 | |
| Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) | 5.2 |
List of gloomy movies
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and confront their loss.
Style:
depressing, touching, gloomy, sincere, sad ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
addiction, grief, love and romance, heroin, haunted by the past, coping, loss of spouse, funeral, drug addiction, childhood, character study, best friend ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
seattle, usa
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461K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.
Style:
touching, inspirational, sincere, sexy, gloomy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
racism, police, redemption, prejudice, plot twist, racial tension, racist, multiple storylines, sexual harassment, social injustice, class differences, interracial relations ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, persia, puerto rico ...
Is relevant?
226K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, India
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When a deadly airborne virus threatens to wipe out the northeastern United States, teacher Elliott Moore (Mark Wahlberg) and his wife (Zooey Deschanel) flee from contaminated cities into the countryside in a fight to discover the truth. Is it ...
Style:
tense, gloomy, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
apocalypse, disaster, survival, virus, natural disaster, end of the world, suicide, graphic violence, catastrophe, paranoia, danger, plague ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 20th century, future, 21st century
Place:
new york, boston, philadelphia, west virginia, usa ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.
Style:
melancholic, thought provoking, sexual, dark comedy, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, teen drama ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, dysfunctional family, existentialism, age difference, obsession, loneliness, coming of age, older man younger woman relationship, dysfunctional marriage, youth, adultery, suburbs ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1999, year 2013
Place:
usa, america, los angeles, iran
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27K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run effects of nuclear war on civilization.
Style:
depressing, grim, psychological, gloomy, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
nuclear war, nuclear holocaust, apocalypse, cold war, nuclear explosion, survival, world war three, nuclear, post apocalypse, distopia, post apocalyptic, radiation ...
Time:
80s, near future, distant future, year 1984, 20th century ...
Place:
england, northern england, europe, ussr, soviet union ...
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Genre: Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story:
Russia, 1959. A KGB major investigates the mysterious deaths of a group of nine student hikers in the Ural Mountains. Troubled by his past as a WWII veteran, he has a sixth sense and death seems to follow him around as he digs deeper into the ...
Style:
bad ending, harsh, suspenseful, gloomy, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
missing person, student, danger, rocky mountains, survival, death, hiking, natural disaster, uncover truth, investigation, escapades, found footage ...
Time:
year 1959, 20th century, 1950s, 50s
Place:
russia, soviet union, ussr
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A young man travels to an isolated farm for his lover's funeral where he's quickly drawn into a twisted, sexually charged game by his lover's aggressive brother.
Style:
psychological, serious, sexy, sexual, gloomy ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, male homosexuality, lgbtq, loneliness, lgbt teen, family problems, closeted homosexual, brother brother relationship, threat, farm, gay son ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, year 2013, year 1997, 70s ...
Place:
quebec, canada, montreal
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A grandiose party to celebrate a sixtieth birthday unleashes a family drama with all the lies that conceal horrendous secrets. The eldest son, Christian, stages a showdown with the popular pater familias; his provocative, moving after-dinner speech ...
Style:
black comedy, cerebral, dark comedy, disturbing, surreal ...
Plot:
dogme 95, family secret, incest, child abuse, hotel, haunted by the past, pedophile, suicide, birthday party, drunkenness, birthday, party ...
Time:
year 1998, 20th century, 90s
Place:
europe, denmark
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.
Style:
neo noir, suspense, psychological, bleak, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
private detective, murder, serial killer, kidnapping, revenge, drug dealer, murder of wife, sniper, flashback, hostage, mafia, violent ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 20th century, year 1991, year 1999 ...
Place:
brooklyn new york city, new york, usa
Is relevant?
418K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Czech Republic
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.
Style:
suspenseful, futuristic, thought provoking, allegory, philosophical ...
Audience:
date night, family friendly, chick flick, adult
Plot:
train, post apocalypse, survival, distopia, dystopian future, dystopia, revolution, rebellion, violence, social differences, class struggle, winter ...
Time:
future, near future, 2030s, year 2013, year 2014 ...
Place:
east asia, britain, south korea
Is relevant?
16K
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, Hungary, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A woman's consuming love forces her to bear the clone of her dead beloved. From his infancy to manhood, she faces the unavoidable complexities of her controversial decision.
Style:
psychological, serious, touching, thought provoking, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
parents and children, couple relations, sex scene, mother son incest, nudity, boy, incest, moral dilemma, dealing with death, tragic love, genetic engineering, death ...
Time:
year 2010, future, distant future, 21st century
Is relevant?
23K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
An Irish fisherman discovers a woman in his fishing net believing her to be a mermaid.
Style:
touching, sentimental, sweet, fairy tale, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
father daughter relationship, mermaid, small town, sea, mysterious stranger, daughter, longing, fisherman, self discovery, character study, secrets, solitude ...
Time:
year 2009
Place:
ireland, europe, new jersey
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When a foreign exchange student arrives in a small upstate New York town, she challenges the dynamics of her host family's relationships and alters their lives forever.
Style:
sexy, serious, gloomy, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, age difference, midlife crisis, couples, teenage girl, musician, forbidden love, husband wife relationship, music teacher, illicit affair, older man young girl relationship, male teacher female student affair ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, War
Country: Germany, France, Poland
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Run Boy Run is the true story of Jurek, an eight-year-old boy, who escapes from the Warsaw ghetto, then manages to survive in the woods and working as a farmhand, disguising himself as a Polish orphan. He encounters people who will betray him for a ...
Style:
touching, captivating, serious, bleak, realistic ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, boy, children in wartime, youth, human spirit, corporal punishment, medical examination, young heroes, on the run, hidden identity, anti semitism ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
germany, poland
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Summer 1890. In order to make some money to feed his family, Anton Chekhov, modest physician, wrote short stories for newspapers to sign Antosha Tchékhonté. Important characters, writer and editor, just make him aware of his talent. His situation ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot:
writers, literature, writer's life, biopic, tuberculosis, family relations, couple relations, life is a bitch, obsession, siblings relations, artists and showbiz, infidelity ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
russia
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, clever, sexy, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, twists and turns, kidnapping, rape, revenge, isolation, gender, abuse, skin, lgbtq, insanity, mad scientist ...
Time:
year 2011, year 2006, year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
spain, ancient greece, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
One Monday morning Katya, Vika and Zhanna learn that there will be a school disco, their first disco, on the coming Saturday night. The girls feverishly start preparing for the event, which rapidly becomes the most important moment ever in their ...
Style:
touching, realistic, gloomy, serious, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
friends, teenage life, life is a bitch, boy girl relationship, youth, family problems, friendship, high school life, social relations, dysfunctional family, school, social decay ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
soviet union, moscow russia, russia, ussr
Is relevant?
349K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In Arizona in the late 1800s, infamous outlaw Ben Wade and his vicious gang of thieves and murderers have plagued the Southern Railroad. When Wade is captured, Civil War veteran Dan Evans, struggling to survive on his drought-plagued ranch, ...
Style:
tense, harsh, psychological, clever, brutal ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
old west, gunfight, wild west, runaway, honor, outlaw, prisoner, gunslinger, sheriff, heroic mission, righting the wronged, gang ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s, year 2007, 2000s, 1800s
Place:
arizona, tucson arizona, yuma arizona, usa, sonora ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A psychological thriller about an eight year old boy named Cole Sear who believes he can see into the world of the dead. A child psychologist named Malcolm Crowe comes to Cole to help him deal with his problem, learning that he really can see ghosts ...
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night, horror for children, teen drama
Plot:
twists and turns, afterlife, supernatural, psychology, ghost, plot twist, death, psychiatrist, psychic, life & death, supernatural horror, psychologist ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1999, future
Place:
usa, pennsylvania, persia, philadelphia
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, confusing ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
twists and turns, plot twist, investigation, mental illness, insanity, psychology, memory, paranoia, mental institution, schizophrenia, psychiatrist, mental patient ...
Time:
1950s, year 2010, year 1954, 1940s, year 1945 ...
Place:
iran, persia, america, boston
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship. A TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel.
Style:
psychological, rough, melancholic, bleak, captivating ...
Plot:
sexism, rape, dystopia, surrogate mother, infertility, protest, tyranny, belief, women's rights, religion, totalitarianism, kidnapping ...
Time:
future, near future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
syria
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Welcome to 2020: The European Union has collapsed following the fourth Gulf War and massive barricades keep illegal immigrants out of cities that are barely functioning. In the middle of this highly volatile environment is the family of Walter ...
Style:
serious, realistic, bleak, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot:
terrorism, dystopian future, introspection, danger, dysfunctional family, political unrest, chaos and mayhem, social decay, family problems, society, life is a bitch, human nature ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
germany, europe, berlin germany
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
It's Yorkshire in 1974, and fear, mistrust and institutionalised police corruption are running riot. Rookie journalist Eddie Dunford is determined to search for the truth in an increasingly complex maze of lies and deceit surrounding the police ...
Style:
neo noir, suspenseful, detective, suspense, serious ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder mystery, violence, investigation, journalism, police brutality, strangulation, conspiracy, justice, journalist, uncover truth, law enforcement ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 2009, year 1974, 80s
Place:
england, britain, northern england, europe, yorkshire ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Music, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
ASSA is set in Crimea during the winter in the mid eighties. A young musician (Bananan) falls for mobster's (Krymov) young mistress (Alika). The parallel story line involves an 18th century assassination plot.
Style:
gloomy, serious, realistic, bleak
Plot:
love triangle, love, perestroika, murder, young lovers, youth, russian mafia, winter, art theft, organized crime, russian history, cold war ...
Time:
18th century, 80s, 20th century
Place:
russia, soviet union, ussr, europe, ukraine
Is relevant?
905K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.
Style:
psychological, surreal, mind bending, atmospheric, philosophical ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult, teen drama
Plot:
mental illness, imaginary friend, schizophrenia, psychology, time travel, insanity, parallel universe, suburbs, surrealism, time loop, trippy, schizophrenic ...
Time:
80s, year 2001, 2000s, future, 20th century ...
Place:
los angeles, america, usa, virginia, harvard university
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy spend their childhood at an idyllic and secluded English boarding school. As they grow into adults, they must come to terms with the complexity and strength of their love for one another while also preparing for ...
Style:
sad, melancholic, depressing, psychological, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night, chick flick, adult ...
Plot:
dystopia, boarding school, existentialism, distopia, childhood, cloning, sadness, friendship, transplant, couples, love story, love and romance ...
Time:
year 1978, 2010s, 50s, year 2010, 70s ...
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie's abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing "Mister" Albert ...
Style:
sentimental, inspirational, touching, sincere, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
african american, sexual abuse, incest, lgbtq, domestic violence, life is a bitch, rape, racial discrimination, feminism, incest rape, wife abuse, abusive relationship ...
Time:
edwardian era, 20th century, 1930s, year 1985, 1920s ...
Place:
africa, southern usa, usa, tennessee, georgia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
On the surface Henrik and Nina Christofferson are an ordinary family living happily. But they have a problem. Their daughter, Stine, a difficult 14 year old, has a habit of telling lies in class. When Stine accuses her father of sexual abuse, and is ...
Style:
disturbing, tense, serious, bleak, sexual ...
Plot:
sexual abuse, child abuse, incest, swimming pool, lawyer, family relations, under the surface, parents and children, family problems, youth, life is a bitch, illicit affair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
denmark
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A paedophile returns to his hometown after 12 years in prison and attempts to start a new life.
Style:
sexy, harsh, independent film, psychological, controversial ...
Plot:
pedophilia, pedophile, ex convict, friendship, parole officer, sexual perversion, temptation, starting over, psychology, factory worker, suspicion, anger ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
philadelphia, california
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hoods are skidding out of control. Benjamin Hood reels from drink to drink, trying not to think about his trouble at the office. His wife, Elena, is reading self help books and losing patience with her ...
Style:
depressing, cerebral, realistic, sexual, philosophical ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
dysfunctional family, thanksgiving, coming of age, snow, extramarital affair, mate swapping, adultery, sexual awakening, swinger, infidelity, parenthood, virgin ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 90s, year 1997, year 1973
Place:
new york, connecticut, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
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