Pessimism movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant pessimism movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out weird, realistic, cult classic, independent film, psychological and serious films and TV shows about / with pessimism, death, friendship, nihilism, family relations, kiss, depression, rain, female nudity and father daughter relationship plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as pessimism: Yes Man (2008), The Art of Getting By (2011), The Art of Negative Thinking (2006), Annie Hall (1977), Destination Wedding (2018), Tomboy (2011), The Eyes of My Mother (2016), The Silence (1963), The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962), TORMENT (2017).

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 6.8
 381K
Yes Man (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Carl Allen has stumbled across a way to shake free of post-divorce blues and a dead-end job: embrace life and say yes to everything.
Style: feel good, funny, light, humorous, romantic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, family friendly, kids, teens ...
Plot: life, life changing experience, lifestyle change, love and romance, change of heart, life philosophy, character change, optimism, motivational speaker, self esteem, transformation, love affair ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, nebraska
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The Art of Getting By (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: George, a lonely and fatalistic teen who's made it all the way to his senior year without ever having done a real day of work, is befriended by Sally, a popular but complicated girl who recognizes in him a kindred spirit.
Style: feel good, independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: teenager, high school, youth, coming of age, teenage love, friendship, friends, teenage life, artist, art, pessimism, homework ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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The Art of Negative Thinking (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 79 min.
Story: The local disability support group visits an involuntary member, not realizing that it will bring them to a critical mass.
Style: dark comedy, semi serious, realistic, humorous, suspenseful ...
Plot: disability, self pity, hopes, rehabilitation, isolation, psychology, couples, dark humor, misfit, russian roulette, husband wife relationship, pessimism ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
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 8.0
 277K
Annie Hall (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In the city of New York, comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.
Style: romantic comedy, philosophical, romantic, humorous, funny ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: comedian, relationships, love and romance, neurosis, marriage, divorce, loneliness, unlikely friendships, love story, dating, passion, friendship ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 1940s, year 1977, 60s
Place: new york, los angeles, california, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
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Destination Wedding (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Frank and Lindsay two emotionally broken people, must attend a destination wedding. They meet and, over the course of the weekend and against all odds, find themselves drawn to one another even as they are repulsed by one another.
Style: rom com, witty, romantic, ironic, talky ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: wedding, initially antagonists, mountain lion, airport, sex scene, one night stand, cougar, male female relationship, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, chance meeting, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, fall in love ...
Place: california
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 7.4
 22K
Tomboy (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A French family with two daughters, 10-year-old Laure and 6-year-old Jeanne, moves to a new neighborhood during the summer holidays. With her tomboy ways, Laure is immediately mistaken for a boy by the local kids and passes herself off as Mickaël.
Style: serious, captivating, sincere, touching, crying ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gender, childhood, transsexual, youth, child protagonist, children, summer, friendship, lgbt, tomboy, sexual identity, society ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 90s, 21st century
Place: france, indiana, paris france, europe
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The Eyes of My Mother (2016)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: A young, lonely woman is consumed by her deepest and darkest desires after tragedy strikes her quiet country life.
Style: black and white, disturbing, scary, post-horror, psychological thriller ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: death of father, dead body, loneliness, serial killer, violence, dark past, unsettling, curiosity, friends, friendship, mother, anatomy ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016
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 7.8
 21K
The Silence (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check into a near-empty hotel. A basic inability to communicate among the three seems only to worsen ...
Style: art house, black and white, sexual, erotic, cerebral ...
Plot: existentialism, female orgasm, religion, dysfunctional family, female masturbation, illness, translator, war zone, room, sibling rivalry, lesbianism, hotel room ...
Time: year 1963, 20th century, 60s
Place: europe
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The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 64 min.
Story: A reconstruction of the trial of Joan of Arc based entirely on the transcripts of the real-life trial, concerning Joan's imprisonment, interrogation and final execution at the hands of the English.
Style: contemplative, spiritual, depressing, fairy tale, powerful ...
Plot: joan of arc, burned alive, courtroom drama, medieval, courtroom, inquisition, burned at the stake, minimalism, biopic, martyrdom, trial, catholic ...
Time: middle ages, year 1962, ancient times, medieval times, 15th century
Place: france, europe
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 4.3
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TORMENT (2017)
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: graphic violence, killer clown, gay, serial killer, psychopath, murder, insane, torment, male objectification, sadist, suffering, hallucination ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Western
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 160 min.
Story: Outlaw Jesse James is rumored to be the 'fastest gun in the West'. An eager recruit into James' notorious gang, Robert Ford eventually grows jealous of the famed outlaw and, when Robert and his brother sense an opportunity to kill ...
Style: cerebral, atmospheric, suspense, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: assassination, jesse james, betrayal, biopic, vengeance, depression, assassin, modern west, modern western, robbery, wild west, sheriff ...
Time: 19th century, year 2007, 2000s, 1800s, ancient times ...
Place: missouri, america, kentucky, usa, kansas city ...
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The Turin Horse (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, France, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 155 min.
Story: A monumental windstorm and an abused horse's refusal to work or eat signals the beginning of the end for a poor farmer and his daughter.
Style: bleak, atmospheric, slow cinema, contemplative, thought provoking ...
Plot: horse, poverty, survival, minimalism, nihilism, desperation, destiny, everyday life, family relations, human nature, philosopher, isolation ...
Time: 19th century, 2010s, 90s, year 2011, distant future
Place: turin italy, europe
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 7.6
 227K
Match Point (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Luxembourg
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: romantic, psychological, talky, clever, suspense ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: infidelity, love triangle, lust, adultery, seduction, passionate interest, destructive relationship, couples, love and romance, fatal attraction, murder, passion ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: london, europe, england, united kingdom, new york ...
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Thodasa Roomani Ho Jaayen (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: India
Duration: 160 min.
Story: A poetic blend of Dreams and Reality, a story of ordinary people and that what is extra-ordinary in them.
Plot: rain, small town, drought, pessimism, self discovery, brother sister relationship, father son relationship, teen angst, single father, cynic, teenage boy, dysfunctional family ...
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American Pastoral (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Set in postwar America, a man watches his seemingly perfect life fall apart as his daughter's new political affiliation threatens to destroy their family.
Style: emotional, novela, rough, thought provoking, suspense ...
Plot: vietnam war, terrorism, teenage girl, social criticism, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, bombing, hopelessness, parent child relationship, hiding, dysfunctional family, female terrorist ...
Time: 60s, 70s, year 2016
Place: usa, pittsburgh
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 6.6
 54K
THX 1138 (1971)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As THX is without drugs for the ...
Style: bleak, mindfuck, philosophical, futuristic, thought provoking ...
Plot: distopia, totalitarianism, dystopian future, cyberpunk, dystopia, prison, brainwashing, androids and robots, utopia, fighting the system, robot, post apocalyptic ...
Time: future, year 1971, distant future
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Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story: George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
Style: disturbing, thought provoking, psychological, political, bleak ...
Plot: distopia, brainwashing, dystopia, politics, totalitarianism, surveillance, fascism, alternate reality, political corruption, female nudity, totalitarian state, propaganda ...
Time: future, year 1984, 80s, near future, 20th century
Place: london, england, europe, britain, united kingdom
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Day of the Wacko (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 93 min.
Story: It is a bitter story about a middle-aged man, who hates his life and other people, including himself. Adam Miauczynski, the character known from director Marek Koterski's previous films, is a 44 year-old teacher, who reads poetry during school ...
Style: tragicomedy, humorous, cynical, independent film, existential ...
Plot: midlife crisis, alienation, nothing goes right, social satire, loner, teacher, obsession, polish, burnout, self loathing, paranoia, mental illness ...
Time: year 2002, middle ages
Place: poland, warsaw poland, eastern europe, central europe
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 6.4
 66K
Crash (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims who use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife.
Style: erotic, disturbing, sexual, psychological, sexy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sexuality, obsession, erotica, lust, deviant sex, car accident, hospital, sexual perversion, sex scene, husband wife relationship, sadomasochism, sexual obsession ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1996
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 7.0
 939
Typhoon Club (1985)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The movie takes place in the five-day period before, during and after a ferocious, seemingly liberating typhoon, which five of the students endure while marooned in their school gymnasium.
Plot: mental disorder, coming of age, alienation, lesbian, teenager, teenage angst, nihilism, depression, pessimism, adolescence, school, rain ...
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She's In Portland (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Two college friends, now in their thirties, admire each others' lives and feel trapped in their own. Wes, tied to a demanding career and responsibilities to family, extends a work trip to drag his dispirited artist friend Luke to find ...
Style: road movie, satirical, captivating, semi serious, disturbing ...
Plot: road trip, friendship, travel, satire, buddy, self discovery, introspection, friends, social problems, crisis of conscience, depression, best friend ...
Place: washington d.c., california, san francisco, portland oregon
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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Matt and Christina Drayton are a couple whose attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.
Style: sentimental, touching, compassionate, intense, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing, adult
Plot: interracial relations, racism, culture clash, miscegenation, african american, social commentary, interracial marriage, doctor, liberal, prejudice, widower, interracial love ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: san francisco, california, america, usa, hawaii
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The Broken Hearts Gallery (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Lucy is a young gallery assistant who collects mementos from her relationships. She discovers that she must let go of her past to move forward, and comes up with a lovely, artistic way to help herself and others who have suffered heartbreak.
Style: captivating, entertaining, feel good, rom com, thought provoking ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: broken heart, breakup, art gallery, chance meeting, masseuse, curator, romantic friendship, male female friendship, new life, love, memorabilia, teenager ...
Time: year 2014, year 2006
Place: harvard university, new york, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, paris france
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 7.1
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Fate (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The paths of people from various countries cross during the course of one night. They speak different languages, but they are fatefully bound together by the solitary quest for happiness and deliverance. Sloping paths are all that's left for ...
Style: slow cinema, aesthetic, apocalyptic, sad, crying ...
Plot: redemption, sadomasochism, man murders a man, desolation, alcoholism, fate, unfaithfulness, apocalypse, rape, helplessness, humiliation, corpse ...
Place: germany
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 6.2
 31K
Wonder Wheel (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The story of four characters whose lives intertwine amid the hustle and bustle of the Coney Island amusement park in the 1950s: Ginny, an emotionally volatile former actress now working as a waitress in a clam house; Humpty, Ginny’s rough-hewn ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, enigmatic, thought provoking, suspenseful ...
Plot: adultery, unhappy marriage, betrayal, psychiatrist, extramarital affair, alcoholic, summer, infidelity, waitress, smoking, temptation, carnival ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 2017
Place: usa, new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, brooklyn new york city
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In the Courtyard (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Antoine is a musician. The forties, he suddenly decides to end his career. After a few days of wandering, he gets a job as a janitor. Mathilde lives in the old building in the east of Paris where he takes office. This is a young retiree, generous ...
Style: touching, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic
Plot: friendship, aging, elderly, midlife crisis, career change, depression, anxiety, musician, illegal alien, retiring, friends, bittersweet ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: europe, france, paris france
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The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat (1974)
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Fritz, now married and with a son, is desperate to escape from the domestic hell he now finds himself in. Lighting up a joint, he begins to dream about his eight other lives, hoping to find one that will provide a pleasant distraction.
Style: adult animation, disturbing, satirical, surreal, brutal ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: surrealism, satire, racism, hell, interracial relations, marijuana, friendship, society, friends, misfit, buddies, adult humor ...
Time: 70s
Place: usa, new york
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 6.9
 12K
Sink or Swim (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 121 min.
Story: 40-year-old Bertrand has been suffering from depression for the last two years and is barely able to keep his head above water. Despite the medication he gulps down all day, every day, and his wife's encouragement, he is unable to find any ...
Style: feel good, sincere, light, humorous, touching ...
Plot: swimming, burnout, coach, overcoming, ambition, synchronized swimming, happy ending, stereotypes, life philosophy, financial problem, competition, working class ...
Time: 2010s, 80s
Place: france
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 7.3
 373K
Hereditary (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: After their reclusive grandmother passes away, the Graham family begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry. The more they discover, the more they find themselves trying to outrun the sinister fate they seem ...
Style: psychological horror, spooky, disturbing, satanic, psychological ...
Audience: adult
Plot: fear, supernatural horror, dysfunctional family, ghost, grief, demon, seance, supernatural, evil spirit, possession, secret society, funeral ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: utah, america
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Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 112 min.
Story: An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.
Style: road movie, disturbing, black comedy, cult classic, neo western ...
Plot: gunfight, death, on the road, gangster, one man army, grave, anti hero, shootout, prostitute, murder, prostitution, organized crime ...
Time: year 1974, 20th century, 70s
Place: mexico, latin america, mexico city
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