Anguish movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant anguish movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, serious, psychological, suspenseful, realistic and emotional films and TV shows about / with anguish, violence, death, murder, desperation, anger, blood, fear, danger and depression plots mostly in Drama, Horror and Thriller genres shot in USA, France, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as anguish: Collateral Beauty (2016), The Basketball Diaries (1995), Hell Girl (2005), The Possession of Michael King (2014), Ordinary People (1980), Loving Vincent (2017), The Conjuring (2013), The Den (2013), Anniyan (2005), Green Celery (2013).
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List of anguish movies
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Retreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see how these things interlock and how even loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty.
Style:
twist ending, sad, sentimental, tear jerker, compassionate ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
loss, anguish, group therapy, death, grief, life philosophy, christmas, solitude, co worker co worker relationship, going crazy, father daughter relationship, anger ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
usa, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city, china, new york
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll's epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction.
Style:
rough, emotional, teen, harsh, serious ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
addiction, heroin, drug abuse, basketball, downfall, drug, teenage life, life is a bitch, drug overdose, teenager, high school, drug addiction ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, near future, 60s, year 1995 ...
Place:
boston, new york, seattle, usa, manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
Hell Girl, also known as Jigoku Shōjo: Girl from Hell, is an anime series produced by Aniplex and Studio Deen. It focuses on the existence of a supernatural system that allows people to take revenge by having other people sent to Hell via the ...
Style:
anime, exciting, scary, stylized, suspenseful ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
justice, torment, murder, teenage girl, risk, vengeance, bullying, supernatural, schoolgirl, desperation, evil, threat ...
Place:
japan, asia
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of documentary filmmaker Michael King (Shane Johnson), who doesn’t believe in God or the Devil. Following the sudden death of his wife, Michael decides to make his next film about the search for the existence of the ...
Style:
dark, demonic, scary, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
demonic possession, found footage, occult, paranormal activity, possession, supernatural, self destructing, demon, exorcism, skepticism, satanic ritual, loss of control ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the extent of a suicide attempt. He is in therapy. Beth had always preferred his brother and is having ...
Style:
depressing, realistic, crying, sentimental, compassionate ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
dysfunctional family, therapy, suicide attempt, suicide, grief, coming of age, depression, psychiatrist, alienation, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, loner ...
Time:
20th century, year 1980, 70s, 80s
Place:
chicago, usa, illinois, houston texas, middle east ...
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Mystery
Country: Poland, UK, Switzerland, Netherlands, Qatar
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The film brings the paintings of Vincent van Gogh to life to tell his remarkable story. Every one of the 65,000 frames of the film is an oil-painting hand-painted by 125 professional oil-painters who travelled from all across the world to the Loving ...
Style:
adult animation, visually stunning, artsy, period piece, costume drama ...
Plot:
painter, painting, artist, art, suicide, genius, skill, art history, mysterious death, doctor, guilt, death ...
Time:
19th century, year 2017, ancient times, 2010s, year 1990
Place:
paris france, france
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616K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most terrifying case of their lives.
Style:
scary, dark, suspenseful, creepy, atmospheric ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens, adult
Plot:
haunted house, supernatural, ghost, exorcism, paranormal investigation, fear, witch, danger, supernatural horror, possession, doll, investigation ...
Time:
year 2013, 70s, year 2000, 20th century, 60s ...
Place:
rhode island, new england, connecticut, usa
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17K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
A young woman studying the habits of webcam chat users from the apparent safety of her apartment witnesses a brutal murder online and is quickly immersed in a nightmare in which she and her loved ones are targeted for the same grisly fate as the ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, suspense, slasher, cyber ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
internet, murder, found footage, panic, violence, danger, abduction, cyberspace, laptop, hacker, sex, hacking ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The 17 years old Marco Weiss has spent as usual his holiday with his parents at the Turkish Rivera.But on the last day of his stay Marco is arrested for sexual abuse against the minor British girl Carolina.He will spend 247 days in provisional ...
Style:
harsh, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense
Plot:
prison, desperation, investigation, trial, district attorney, anguish, judge, flirting, propaganda, holiday, teen romance, arrest ...
Place:
turkey, germany
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26K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 181 min.
Story:
Ambi, a meek lawyer, ends up being a vigilante named Anniyan, and a supermodel named Remo, after suffering with multiple personality disorder due to the society.
Style:
serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
split personality, vigilante, multiple personality disorder, lawyer, alter ego, psychiatrist, unrequited love, punishment, mental illness, anguish, vigilantism, love affair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, india
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Chile
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Adriana finds out the son she's expecting suffers a brain malformation that won't allow him to live outside her womb. As therapeutic abortion is illegal in Chile, she must wait until her baby is naturally born.
Style:
psychological, rough, suspenseful, thought provoking, suspense ...
Plot:
anger, abortion, violence, loss of control, dysfunctional marriage, pills, wrath, marriage as hell, pregnancy, mental breakdown, motherhood, danger ...
Place:
chile
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A terminally ill patient, wakes up in a dark, decrepit underground chamber. An IV pumps an unknown liquid into his body and adorning his head is a crown of wires. His last memories lead him back to the hospital where doctors had recently discovered ...
Style:
suspense, art house, underground film, sinister, creepy ...
Plot:
nightmare, blood, macabre, bondage, cancer, terminal illness, illness, evil man, insanity, psychopath, murder, surrealism ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Ilya Goryunov has spent seven years in prison on false charges of drug trafficking. When Ilya is free he realizes that the old life that he yearned for is no more. Although he did not intend to take revenge on the man who sent him to prison, now ...
Style:
suspense, sexy, disturbing, avant garde, touching ...
Plot:
lust, sexual relations, unsimulated sex, falsely accused, drunkenness, loss of mother, frame up, death of mother, anguish, wrongful conviction, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, depression ...
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, Martinique
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A realistic look at the horrors of the slave trade, told entirely through the voice of a dead African slave whose spirit haunts the ocean route
Style:
realistic, rough, serious, sentimental, suspenseful ...
Plot:
slave trade, slavery, genocide, social injustice, human rights, captive, prisoner, freedom, revolt, protest, racism, anguish ...
Place:
africa, atlantic ocean, senegal
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, USA, Czech Republic, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
North Carolina mountains at the end of the 1920s – George and Serena Pemberton, love-struck newly-weds, begin to build a timber empire. Serena soon proves herself to be equal to any man: overseeing loggers, hunting rattle-snakes, even saving a ...
Style:
depressing, emotional, teen, suspense, melancholic ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, chick flick, kids
Plot:
jealousy, illegitimate son, twists and turns, brutality, family in crisis, obsession, cutting down a tree, miscarriage, tragedy, writers, loneliness, marriage ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, year 2014, 20th century, future ...
Place:
north carolina, usa, new jersey
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Ireland, Switzerland, UK, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him.
Style:
independent film, melancholic, art film, touching, rough ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
painter, loneliness, artist, art, priest, painting, doctor, insanity, obsession, art gallery, mission, genius ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1890s, 1880s
Place:
france, paris france
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A car crash victim, humiliated housewife and two repressed teens are connected by their relationships with hard-working therapist Viola, who helps them battle their addictions while two disillusioned detectives struggle with the mounting war against ...
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological, independent film, tension ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
double life, strong female character, social problems, social realism, secret, doctor patient relationship, friendship between men, secret life, organized crime, drug use, car accident, anguish ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016, 21st century
Place:
usa, america, midwest, kentucky, cincinnati ohio ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In a small American coal town living in the shadow of a recent mining accident, the disappearance of a teenage boy draws three people together—a surviving miner, the lonely wife of a mine executive, and a local boy—in a web of secrets.
Style:
suspense, sad, psychological, enigmatic, disturbing ...
Plot:
extramarital affair, small town, teenage boy, adultery, disappearance, coming of age, solace, marital problem, investigation, husband wife relationship, tragic event, secret ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
After a brain hemorrhage, Maud, a filmmaker, wakes up one morning in a half-dead body that has left her hemiplegic and facing inevitable solitude. Bedridden but determined to pursue her latest film project, she discovers Vilko, a con man who ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, sincere, semi autobiographical ...
Plot:
weakness, cons and scams, dishonesty, anguish, epilepsy, criminal, female protagonist, stroke, new house, women, feminist, biopic ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
belgium, brussels
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Ed and Susan might seem to be a normal, suburban American couple, but they’ve got a horrifying secret: They create and sell snuff films in their inescapable deathtrap of a home. When Ed decides to create the world’s first ‘triple feature’ ...
Style:
dark, sadistic, rough, psychological, dark comedy ...
Plot:
torture chamber, sadist, found footage, female psychopath, torture, fear, brutality, murder, violence, trap, mercilessness, psychopath ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Laura and Marta share a nice apartment. Laura, the youngest one, began to document their life in the house with her camera. Marta undergoes the continual jokes of the friend. One day Laura, poking too much her nose in the privacy of Marta, discovers ...
Style:
captivating, scary, suspense, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot:
found footage, fear, friendship, anxiety, secret, rage, anger, prank, roommate, book, occult, strange behavior ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
rome italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Canada, France, Sweden, Norway
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
One day, driving aimlessly around the outskirts of town after a trivial domestic quarrel, a writer named Tomas accidentally hits and kills a child. Will he be able to move on?
Style:
serious, touching, psychological, emotional, teen ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
redemption, introspection, novelist, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, guilt, car accident, boy, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, loss of son, writers, depression ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
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531K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
In 2001, editor Marty Baron of The Boston Globe assigns a team of journalists to investigate allegations against John Geoghan, an unfrocked priest accused of molesting more than 80 boys. Led by editor Walter "Robby" Robinson, reporters ...
Style:
factual, tense, suspense, clever, cerebral ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
journalism, investigative journalism, conspiracy, newspaper, lawyer, investigation, sexual abuse, catholic church, cover up, child abuse, journalist, expose ...
Time:
year 2001, year 2015, year 2016, 70s, 2000s ...
Place:
boston, massachusetts, new england, nova scotia, florida
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A man kidnaps two girls in Oregon triggering the Amber Alert system throughout many surrounding states.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, realistic ...
Plot:
kidnapping, danger, disturbed individual, police officer, missing child, investigation, teenage girl, police investigation, anguish, kidnapped girl, disturbed person, fear ...
Time:
21st century
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11K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In 2009, Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari was covering Iran's volatile elections for Newsweek. One of the few reporters living in the country with access to US media, he made an appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, in a taped ...
Style:
suspenseful, brutal, suspense, surreal, captivating ...
Plot:
prison, journalism, brutality, macabre, reporter, violent, torture, propaganda, investigation, adaptation, captivity, twists and turns ...
Time:
2010s, future, 21st century
Place:
iran, middle east
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Set in 1992, during a hallucinogenic drug nightmare infused with illicit partying and forbidden sex, young ravers discover the murderous world of the DeadThirsty.
Style:
slasher, emotional, serious, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, massacre, rave, abandoned hospital, drug, nightmare, psychopath, party, murder, psycho killer, killing spree, masked killer ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two married, down-on-their-luck, actors decide to put on a site-specific play about their unsuccessful life in Hollywood.
Style:
tragicomedy, suspense, psychological, indie film, dark comedy ...
Plot:
hollywood, puppet, marriage, actor's life, family problems, depression, family relations, celebrity, anguish, dysfunctional family, unfulfillment, desire for fame ...
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A reverse comedy that tells the story of a perfectionist assassin who falls and hits his head in a sauna, giving him amnesia. When a down-and-out actor switches locker keys with him, they switch lives until the hit-man, who soon becomes an action ...
Style:
witty, suspenseful, cynical, humorous, scenic
Plot:
amnesia, hitman, actor's life, movie actor, deception, ambition, unfulfillment, rise and fall, misfit, anguish, culture clash, introspection ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
The story of four people who cannot manage to become a family again after a loss and who destroy themselves with each passing day.
Style:
realistic, surreal, serious, rough, talky ...
Plot:
sex with friend's mother, older woman teenage boy sex, older woman younger man sex, family relations, older woman younger man relationship, crumbling relationship, loss, relationships, downfall, paranoia, self destructing, degradation ...
Place:
turkey
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Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The Valley of Light is a beautifully-filmed, sentimental movie of a young man's quest to make sense of his experiences and find new meaning in life. While this film deals with weighty material such as the suicide of Eleanor's husband and ...
Style:
touching, sincere, sentimental, emotional, melancholic ...
Plot:
post war, love and romance, fishing, love story, kindness, human spirit, in love, romanticism, province, happy ending, provincial life, angst ...
Time:
post world war two, 20th century, 1940s
Place:
usa, north carolina
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