Here we've displayed a list of the best Bleak films : The Good, the Bad and the Ugly(1967), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest(1975), The Matrix(1999), Les Misérables: The Staged Concert(2019), Parasite(2019), Life Is Beautiful(1997), Song of the Road(1955), The Pianist(2002), Joker(2019), Once Upon a Time in America(1984), Apocalypse Now(1979), Paths of Glory(1957) ... ...
Western
Italy|Spain|West Germany|USA
1967
161 Minutes
Clint Eastwood Eli Wallach Lee Van Cleef Aldo Giuffré Chelo Alonso Mario Brega Luigi Pistilli Rada Rassimov
stranger bandit criminal killer union soldier bounty hunter amusing brutal gritty tense bleak gripping desert jail small town abandoned town southwest u.s. prison camp greed theft
A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.
Drama
USA
1975
133 Minutes
Jack Nicholson Louise Fletcher Brad Dourif William Redfield Michael Berryman Peter Brocco Dean R. Brooks Alonzo Brown Scatman Crothers Danny DeVito Christopher Lloyd
anti-hero nurse native american mentally challenged patient bleak gutsy powerful mental institution oregon boat abuse rebellion conformity mental illness rivalry transformation 1960s
A criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients.
Sci-Fi, Action
USA
1999
136 Minutes
Keanu Reeves Andy Wachowski Laurence Fishburne Carrie-Anne Moss Hugo Weaving Joe Pantoliano Gloria Foster Marcus Chong Paul Goddard Robert Taylor Julian Arahanga
hero secret agent leader hacker rebel robot dark bleak intense simulated reality ship office household big city man vs. machine survival war love technology deception
When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.
Musical
2019
170 Minutes
Jean-Pierre Van Der Spuy Shan Ako Michael Ball Alfie Boe Earl Carpenter Carrie Fletcher Rob Houchen Matt Lucas Katy Secombe
prisoner prison guard peasant waif innkeeper love interest spirited touching bleak france prague street inn poverty injustice historical events prison break class conflict underdog pursuit
Seen by over 120 million people worldwide one of the world's most popular musicals. Now cinema audiences can experience a live broadcast of the musical phenomenon which broke box office records and sold out its entire 16-week season.
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
South Korea
2019
132 Minutes
Song Kang-ho Yeo-jeong Jo So-dam Park Woo-sik Choi Sun-kyun Lee Seo-joon Park Jung Ziso Jeong-eun Lee Andreas Fronk Hyae Jin Chang Myeong-hoon Park
son mother daughter maid father tense bleak sad hilarious family home party estate secret hideout vanity class distinctions poverty murderous rampage hostage situation misfortune escape
Greed and class discrimination threaten the newly formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan.
Comedy, Drama
Italy
1997
122 Minutes
Roberto Benigni Nicoletta Braschi Giorgio Cantarini Giustino Durano Sergio Bustric Marisa Paredes Amerigo Fontani Horst Buchholz Lidia Alfonsi Giuliana Lojodice Pietro De Silva
father mother son waiter schoolteacher nazi moving playful emotional sad bleak frightening italy concentration camp hotel household bookstore big city holocaust concentration camp
When an open-minded Jewish librarian and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor, and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.
Drama
India
1955
126 Minutes
Kanu Bandyopadhyay Karuna Bannerjee Subir Bannerjee Uma Das Gupta Chunibala Devi Runki Banerjee Reba Devi Aparna Devi Haren Banerjee Tulsi Chakraborty Nibhanoni Devi
priest mother aunt daughter son bleak emotional moving small town bengal poverty abuse growing up sacrifice 1920s
Impoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work.
War, Drama, History
UK|France|Poland|Germany|USA
2002
148 Minutes
Adrien Brody Thomas Kretschmann Frank Finlay Maureen Lipman Emilia Fox Ed Stoppard Julia Rayner Jessica Kate Meyer Ruth Platt
musician pianist military officer jew bleak powerful disturbing warsaw radio station attic holocaust music world war ii adaptation escape pursuit 1940s
A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.
Crime, Drama
USA|Canada
2019
122 Minutes
Joaquin Phoenix Robert De Niro Zazie Beetz Frances Conroy Brett Cullen Shea Whigham Bill Camp Glenn Fleshler Leigh Gill Josh Pais Rocco Luna
comedian loner depressed person therapist neighbor love interest bleak brooding brutal intense disturbing shocking gotham city television studio therapist's office apartment fundraiser subway loneliness isolation
In Gotham City, mentally troubled comedian Arthur Fleck is disregarded and mistreated by society. He then embarks on a downward spiral of revolution and bloody crime. This path brings him face-to-face with his alter-ego: the Joker.
Drama, Crime
Italy|USA
1984
139 Minutes
Robert De Niro James Woods Elizabeth McGovern Treat Williams Tuesday Weld Burt Young Joe Pesci Danny Aiello William Forsythe James Hayden Darlanne Fluegel
mafia boss bootlegger gang member police chief girlfriend mobster bleak intense gripping lower east side brooklyn, n.y. buffalo, n.y. street big city organized crime coming of age prohibition corruption america growth
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
War, Drama
USA
1979
153 Minutes
Marlon Brando Martin Sheen Robert Duvall Frederic Forrest Albert Hall Sam Bottoms Laurence Fishburne Dennis Hopper G.D. Spradlin Harrison Ford Jerry Ziesmer
military officer soldier lunatic bleak brooding intense disturbing vietnam cambodia river patrol boat river military base vietnam war horrors of war assassination mental illness quest wretched excess 1970s
A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.
War, Drama
USA
1957
86 Minutes
Kirk Douglas Ralph Meeker Adolphe Menjou George Macready Wayne Morris Richard Anderson Timothy Agoglia Carey Christiane Kubrick Bert Freed
military officer soldier bleak gutsy passionate france battlefield military base horrors of war world war i battle fatigue wretched excess sacrifice fall 1910s
After refusing to attack an enemy position, a general accuses the soldiers of cowardice and their commanding officer must defend them.
Drama
China|Hong Kong
1994
125 Minutes
You Ge Gong Li Niu Ben Tao Guo Jiang Wu Ni Dabong Liu Tianchi Deng Fei
chinese man gambler wife peasant soldier daughter bleak emotional tender china village house field war zone chinese cultural revolution starting over family poverty tragedy gambling
After Fugui and Jiazhen lose their personal fortunes, they raise a family and survive difficult cultural changes during 1940s to 1970s China.
Documentary
USA
1996
150 Minutes
Joe Berlinger Bruce Sinofsky Jessie Misskelly Sr. Jason Baldwin Damien Wayne Echols Christopher Byers Michael Moore Steven Branch Pam Echols Domini Teer
teen boy adult friend father girlfriend judge bleak disheartening tennessee court murder trial satanism false accusations imprisonment mystery discovery 1990s
A horrific triple child murder leads to an indictment and trial of three nonconformist boys based on questionable evidence.
Documentary, Music
USA
1982
87 Minutes
man woman sailor factory worker bleak profound powerful earth desert city factory highway nuclear power plant industrial landscapes technology man vs. nature overpopulation environmental consciousness modernization wretched excess
A collection of expertly photographed phenomena with no conventional plot. The footage focuses on nature, humanity and the relationship between them.
Documentary
USA
2016
111 Minutes
host president citizen office worker bleak chilling disturbing intense inspiring cairo studio office restaurant street house revolution freedom insurgency authority democracy
While the Egyptian revolution of 2011 is underway, surgeon turned comedian Bassem Youssef airs a television show that makes him popular to his countrymen but disliked by the government.
Documentary, War, Drama, History
UK|New Zealand
2018
99 Minutes
soldier army recruit british officer british soldier british soldiers german soldier german troops bleak emotional moving patriotic powerful sad somber war zone france belgium united kingdom trenches training camp
A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of the end of the war.
Sci-Fi, Drama
Germany
1927
123 Minutes
Brigitte Helm Alfred Abel Gustav Fröhlich Rudolf Klein-Rogge Fritz Rasp Theodor Loos Erwin Biswanger Heinrich George Olaf Storm Hanns Leo Reich Heinrich Gotho
leader son rebel teacher worker android bleak dark melodramatic tense metropolis class distinctions social change social standing kidnapping quest discovery metamorphosis 21st century
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
Drama
USA
1974
155 Minutes
Gena Rowlands Peter Falk Katherine Cassavetes Lady Rowlands Fred Draper Matthew Labyorteaux Matthew Cassel Christina Grisanti
wife child mother stranger construction worker coworker intense bleak los angeles household bar insanity alcoholism class distinctions love-hate relationship marital problems transformation 1970s
Although wife and mother Mabel is loved by her husband Nick, her mental illness places a strain on the marriage.
Drama
USA
1937
94 Minutes
Victor Moore Beulah Bondi Fay Bainter Thomas Mitchell Porter Hall Barbara Read Maurice Moscovich Elisabeth Risdon Minna Gombell Ray Mayer
husband wife son daughter daughter-in-law young boy bleak emotional somber family home aging poverty family marriage grief love sacrifice 1930s
An elderly couple are forced to live hundreds of miles apart when they lose their house and none of their five children will take both parents in.
Drama
Czechoslovakia
1965
128 Minutes
Elmar Klos Jozef Kroner Ida Kaminska Hana Slivkova Frantisek Zvarik Helena Zvaríková Martin Hollý Martin Gregor Adam Matejka Mikulás Ladizinský Eugen Senaj
nazi storekeeper jew deaf person bleak somber intense czechoslovakia small town nazism anti-semitism holocaust collaboration corruption sacrifice rescue temptation 1940s
A carpenter in the Fascist Slovak State is appointed "Aryan controller" of a Jewish widow's store.
War, Drama, History
Germany|Austria|Italy
2004
154 Minutes
Bruno Ganz Alexandra Maria Lara Corinna Harfouch Ulrich Matthes Juliane Köhler Heino Ferch Christian Berkel Matthias Habich Thomas Kretschmann Ulrich Noethen Gotz Otto
dictator eva braun josef goebbels wife secretary nazi frightening bleak fascinating shocking germany berlin bunker office world war ii adolf hitler disillusionment traudl junge paranoia defeat
Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.
Drama
USA
1932
93 Minutes
Paul Muni Glenda Farrell Helen Vinson Preston Foster Edward Ellis Allen Jenkins Noel Francis Berton Churchill
veteran prisoner guard landlady lawyer bleak brutal intense georgia diner prison chicago construction site prison injustice torture escape aspirations jealousy escape
Wrongly convicted James Allen serves in the intolerable conditions of a southern chain gang, which later comes back to haunt him.
Drama, History
Japan|France
1985
160 Minutes
Tatsuya Nakadai Mieko Harada Akira Terao Jinpachi Nezu Daisuke Ryu Yoshiko Miyazaki Kazuo Kato Masayuki Yui Hitoshi Ueki Hisashi Igawa Takeshi Nomura
lord son brother messenger fool dark bleak castle japan greed revenge betrayal death conspiracy injustice fall pursuit rivalry 12th century
In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.
War, Drama
USA
1978
183 Minutes
Robert De Niro Christopher Walken John Savage John Cazale Meryl Streep George Dzundza Chuck Aspegren Shirley Stoler
soldier friend girlfriend wife enemy blue-collar worker bleak disturbing powerful intense emotional brutal clairton, pa. battlefield vietnam pow camp wedding town horrors of war vietnam war
An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania.
Drama
Turkey|Republic of North Macedonia|France|Germany|Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bulgaria|Sweden|Qatar
2018
188 Minutes
Dogu Demirkol Murat Cemcir Bennu Yildirimlar Hazar Ergüclü Serkan Keskin Tamer Levent Öner Erkan Rifat Sungar Akin Aksu Kubilay Tunçer Ercüment Balakoglu
gambler mother aspiring writer villager father bleak emotional brooding village home ambition going home 2010s
An unpublished writer returns to his hometown after graduating, where he seeks sponsors to publish his book while dealing with his father's deteriorating indulgence into gambling.
Action, Adventure
Australia|South Africa|USA
2015
120 Minutes
Tom Hardy Charlize Theron Nicholas Hoult Hugh Keays-Byrne Josh Helman Nathan Jones Zoë Kravitz Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Riley Keough Abbey Lee Courtney Eaton
survivor tyrant rebel loner gang leader gang member bleak brash intense thrilling gripping wild fortress road truck battlefield desert canyon apocalypse rebellion
In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a woman rebels against a tyrannical ruler in search for her homeland with the aid of a group of female prisoners, a psychotic worshiper, and a drifter named Max.
Crime, Drama
France
1959
93 Minutes
Jean-Pierre Léaud Claire Maurier Albert Remy Guy Decomble Patrick Auffray Georges Flamant Yvonne Claudie Robert Beauvais
son mother father friend teacher bleak disheartening france paris apartment school childhood child custody troubled youth rebellion growing up underdog 1950s
A young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime.
Drama
India
2014
159 Minutes
Tabu Shahid Kapoor Shraddha Kapoor Kay Kay Menon Narendra Jha Kulbhushan Kharbanda Ashish Vidyarthi Aamir Bashir Sumit Kaul Rajat Bhagat Irrfan Khan
young man father missing person mother uncle lover engaging emotional melodramatic suspenseful bleak intense india secret past relationships attraction secret family dysfunction murder adventure
A young man returns to Kashmir after his father's disappearance to confront his uncle, whom he suspects of playing a role in his father's fate.
Drama
China|Hong Kong|Taiwan
1991
125 Minutes
Gong Li Ma Jingwu Saifei He Cao Cuifeng Jin Shuyuan Kong Lin Ding Weimin Cui Zhihgang
concubine wife husband servant bleak melodramatic china palace marriage gossip lying rivalry wretched excess 1920s
A young woman becomes the fourth wife of a wealthy lord, and must learn to live with the strict rules and tensions within the household.