Here we've displayed a list of the best Desperation films : Mattress Men(2016), Germany Year Zero(1948), Hell or High Water(2016), Cross of Iron(1977), Notes on a Scandal(2006), The Ax(2005), Midnight Family(2019), The American Friend(1977), God Knows Where I Am(2016), Dawn of the Dead(2004), The Next Three Days(2010), Our Man in Havana(1960) ... ...
8.1/10
Comedy, Drama, Documentary
Ireland
2016
81 Minutes
Michael Flynn Paul Kelly
sales manager business owner father friend colleague eccentric amusing cheeky endearing heartwarming lighthearted offbeat house ireland shop club computer world desperation failing business debt
Trying to save his struggling mattress business, Michael Flynn reinvents himself as the eccentric online persona 'Mattress Mick', under the guidance of his friend Paul Kelly. As business begins to grow, their friendship starts to implode.
7.9/10
War, Drama
Italy|France|Germany
1948
73 Minutes
Ernst Pittschau Erich Guhne Edmund Moeschke Ingetraud Hinze Franz Otto Kruger Heidi Blänkner Karl Krüger Jo Herbst
boy father brother sister teacher bleak disheartening disturbing berlin apartment street family poverty desperation starvation sexual advances quest fall transformation 1940s
A young German boy faces the problems of the tough life in the immediate post WWII Berlin.
7.6/10
Crime, Mystery & Thriller, Drama, Action, Western
USA
2016
97 Minutes
Jeff Bridges Chris Pine Ben Foster Gil Birmingham Marin Ireland Katy Mixon Dale Dickey Kevin Rankin
divorce brother son ex-convict banker texas ranger brooding raw intense texas house bank casino car office brother relationship foreclosure desperation search family
A divorced father and his ex-con older brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's ranch in West Texas.
7.5/10
War, Drama
UK|West Germany
1977
119 Minutes
James Coburn Maximilian Schell James Mason David Warner Klaus Löwitsch Vadim Glowna Roger Fritz Dieter Schidor Burkhard Driest Fred Stillkraut Michael Nowka
corporal commander german soldier young boy nurse disheartening gritty intense russia war zone hospital world war ii military life honor desperation sexual abuse murder rivalry wretched excess 1940s
German commander Hauptmann Stransky (Maximilian Schell) places a squad in extreme danger after Sergeant Rolf Steiner (James Coburn) refuses to lie for him.
7.4/10
Gay & Lesbian, Drama
UK
2006
98 Minutes
Cate Blanchett Judi Dench Bill Nighy Tameka Empson Max Lewis Andrew Simpson Juno Temple Alice Bird Emma Kennedy
student teacher friend husband adulterer dark passionate emotional engaging high school house scandal affair desperation friendship betrayal child abuse pursuit forbidden love 2000s
A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her fifteen-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond a platonic friendship.
7.4/10
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Comedy, Drama
Belgium|France|Spain
2005
122 Minutes
José Garcia Karin Viard Olivier Gourmet Ulrich Tukur Yvon Back Thierry Hancisse Geordy Monfils Christa Théret Olga Grumberg Yolande Moreau Dieudonné Kabongo
unemployed person wife executive police detective son husband dark emotional amusing suspenseful suburb motel house europe unemployment murder capitalism desperation financial crisis marriage
A chemist (Garcia) loses his job to outsourcing. Two years later and still jobless, he hits on a solution: to genuinely eliminate his competition.
7.4/10
Documentary, Action, Crime, Drama
Mexico
2019
81 Minutes
patient ambulance driver family medical personnel bleak disturbing gripping intense mexico city wealth medical bureaucracy desperation compromising situation rivalry sacrifice 2010s
In Mexico City's wealthiest neighborhoods, the Ochoa family runs a private ambulance, competing with other for-profit EMTs for patients in need of urgent help.
7.4/10
Mystery & Thriller
West Germany|France
1977
127 Minutes
Dennis Hopper Bruno Ganz Elisabeth Kreuzer Gérard Blain Nicholas Ray Samuel Fuller Peter Lilienthal Daniel Schmid Jean Eustache Rudolf Schündler Sandy Whitelaw
art dealer husband artist forger friend wife uneasy profound dark suspenseful hamburg, germany car train city apartment murder plot unlikely criminal family desperation terminal illness
Tom Ripley, who deals in forged art, suggests a picture framer he knows would make a good hit man.
7.3/10
Documentary
USA
2016
99 Minutes
Jedd Wider
homeless person dead person police detective witness mother daughter bleak fascinating sad intricate farm cabin car mysterious deaths desperation mental illness discovery fall mystery sacrifice
Through diary entries, this documentary follows the life and death of homeless woman Linda Bishop and her struggles with starvation, sanity and God.
7.3/10
Horror
USA|Canada|Japan|France
2004
100 Minutes
Sarah Polley Ving Rhames Jake Weber Mekhi Phifer Ty Burrell Michael Kelly Kevin Zegers Michael Barry Lindy Booth Jayne Eastwood Boyd Banks
mother police officer husband wife guard zombie chilling creepy frightening milwaukee house street shopping mall death survival escape trust desperation pursuit metamorphosis
A nurse, a policeman, a young married couple, a salesman and other survivors of a worldwide plague that is producing aggressive, flesh-eating zombies, take refuge in a mega Midwestern shopping mall.
7.3/10
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama, Action
USA|France
2010
133 Minutes
Russell Crowe Elizabeth Banks Brian Dennehy Lennie James Olivia Wilde Ty Simpkins Helen Carey Liam Neeson Daniel Stern Kevin Corrigan Jason Beghe
husband wife son ex-convict boss suspenseful brutal united states venezuela prison airport university murder prison break schemes desperation fall rescue pursuit 2000s
A married couple's life is turned upside down when the wife is accused of a murder.
7.2/10
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
UK
1960
107 Minutes
Alec Guinness Burl Ives Maureen O'Hara Ernie Kovacs Noel Coward Ralph Richardson Jo Morrow Paul Rogers Gregoire Aslan Jose Prieto Duncan Macrae
expatriate secret agent double agent director secretary salesman cool amusing suspenseful havana, cuba london city apartment government offices store city espionage communism father/daughter relationship patriotism deception
Jim Wormold, who is a vacuum cleaner salesman, participates as an Agent in the British Secret Service. But he soon realizes that his plans by lying are going to get him into trouble.
7.2/10
Comedy
Italy
1981
89 Minutes
Nino Manfredi Adolfo Celi Vittorio Mezzogiorno Luigi Basagaluppi Silvio Spaccesi Vittorio Caprioli Marzio Honorato Gigi Reder
vendor train conductor train passenger bureaucrat laborer son witty amusing charming endearing lighthearted uplifting italy train travel coffee bureaucracy money father/son relationship desperation adventure
An Italian laborer (Nino Manfredi) foils anyone who tries to stop him from selling espresso on the Milan-to-Naples train.
7.2/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1974
108 Minutes
George Segal Elliott Gould Ann Prentiss Gwen Welles Edward Walsh Joseph Walsh Bert Remsen Barbara London Barbara Ruick
gambler friend prostitute roommate charming cheeky spirited reno, nev. casino bar los angeles gambling addiction hedonism desperation friendship wretched excess quest 1970s
When a casual gambler befriends a professional one, he begins to mirror his life, sending both deeper into the sleazy gambling world where the stakes keep getting bigger.
7.2/10
Comedy, Drama
Belgium|Germany|Luxembourg|UK|France
2007
103 Minutes
Marianne Faithfull Miki Manojlovic Kevin Bishop Siobhan Hewlett Dorka Gryllus Jenny Agutter Corey Burke Meg Wynn Owen Susan Hitch Flip Webster
prostitute grandmother sick person son owner grandson somber amusing endearing london sex shop hospital prostitution illness money mother/son relationship surgery desperation sacrifice love
Maggie, a 60-year-old widow, desperately needs some money to pay for a medical treatment for her ill grandson, Olly. After one attempt at trying to find a job, she finds herself roaming the... See full summary »
7.2/10
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Brazil
2012
131 Minutes
Irandhir Santos Irma Brown Sebastião Formiga Gustavo Jahn Maeve Jinkings W.J. Solha Lula Terra Ana Rita Gurgel
young man young woman grandfather mother housewife intense emotional disturbing brazil desperation loneliness drugs sexual frustration threats love underdog forbidden love discovery fall rivalry
The lives of the residents of a Brazilian apartment building and the security guards who get the job guarding the surrounding streets.
7.1/10
Crime, Romance, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
France|Spain
2008
96 Minutes
Vincent Lindon Diane Kruger Lancelot Roch Olivier Marchal Hammou Graïa Liliane Rovère Olivier Perrier Moussa Maaskri Rémi Martin Thierry Godard Slimane Hadjar
wife husband son police officer judge counterfeiter brash suspenseful emotional france prison house courtroom suburbia family wrongful conviction desperation jailbreak husband/wife relationship murder case
With no legal means left to him, a high school teacher devises a daring plan to rescue his wrongfully imprisoned wife from jail.
7.1/10
Drama, History
South Korea
2017
132 Minutes
Jeong-min Hwang So Ji-sub Song Joong Ki Lee Jung-hyun Su-an Kim Kyeong-ho Yoon Seung-hwan Shin Seong-il Park
korean person prisoner japanese soldier rebel leader officer bleak brutal disturbing frenetic frightful shocking island prison japan labor camp ship imprisonment uprising power
During the Japanese colonial era, roughly 400 Korean people, who were forced onto Battleship Island ("Hashima Island") to mine for coal, attempt to a dramatic escape.
7.1/10
Drama
Guatemala|France
2015
93 Minutes
María Telón María Mercedes Coroy Manuel Manuel Antún Justo Lorenzo Marvin Coroy
young woman worker groom father disturbing emotional intense profound brooding guatemala mayan culture pregnancy desire forced marriage destiny desperation discovery escape love metamorphosis
On the slopes of an active volcano in Guatemala, a marriage is arranged for seventeen-year-old María by her Kaqchikel parents.
7.1/10
Adventure, Biography, Drama
USA
2014
115 Minutes
Reese Witherspoon Laura Dern Thomas Sadoski Michiel Huisman Gaby Hoffmann Kevin Rankin W. Earl Brown Nick Eversman Mo McRae Keene McRae Brian Van Holt
troubled woman dead person ex-husband counselor stranger friend brooding emotional intense trail camp forest bar street car desperation tragedy reflection healing travel
A chronicle of one woman's one thousand one hundred mile solo hike undertaken as a way to recover from a recent personal tragedy.
7.1/10
Drama
USA|Canada
2003
95 Minutes
Hayden Christensen Peter Sarsgaard Chloë Sevigny Rosario Dawson Melanie Lynskey Steve Zahn Hank Azaria Cas Anvar Ted Kotcheff Mark Blum Simone-Elise Girard
reporter editor love interest rival incredible confident washington, d.c. newsroom office scandal ambition journalism deception desperation rise fall underdog 1990s
The story of a young journalist who fell from grace when it was discovered he fabricated over half of his articles from the publication The New Republic magazine.
7.1/10
Comedy, Drama
Ireland
2004
85 Minutes
Mark O'Halloran Tom Murphy Louise Lewis Gary Egan Dylan Grimes Deirdre Molloy Mary Murray Paul Roe Ian Cregg Michael Ryan Gerry Moore
junkie friend criminal drug dealer disturbing bleak cheeky ireland dublin field inner city addiction heroin friendship desperation crime poverty quest wretched excess 2000s
2 heroin addicts negotiate their way through Dublin's city centre, encountering friends and family as they search for their next fix.
7.0/10
Crime, Drama
USA|Canada
2018
116 Minutes
Clint Eastwood Bradley Cooper Laurence Fishburne Michael Peña Dianne Wiest Andy Garcia Alison Eastwood Taissa Farmiga Ignacio Serricchio Loren Dean Eugene Cordero
older man drug trafficker police officer dea agent drug dealer senior citizen bleak brooding uneasy tense suspenseful touching truck warehouse house wedding office road drug cartel drug bust
A ninety-year-old horticulturist and Korean War veteran turns drug mule for a Mexican cartel.
7.0/10
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Spain|UK|USA|France
2010
94 Minutes
truck driver terrorist man iraqi insurgent hostage suspenseful bleak shocking tense thrilling underground iraq coffin kidnapping terrorism iraq war buried alive race against time desperation
Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.
7.0/10
Drama
USA
1965
98 Minutes
Sidney Poitier Anne Bancroft Telly Savalas Steven Hill Indus Arthur Greg Jarvis Robert F. Hoy John Benson Paul Newlan Ed Asner Jason Wingreen
college student volunteer wife detective psychiatrist emotional brooding seattle call center depression desperation suicide investigation marriage volunteerism fall rescue 1960s
College volunteer Alan Dyson is working alone at the crisis center one evening when he receives a telephone call from suicidal caller Inga Dyson.
6.8/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1937
71 Minutes
Pat O'Brien Humphrey Bogart Ann Sheridan Frieda Inescort Henry O'Neill Hobart Cavanaugh Mary Gordon Frank Sheridan Delmar Watson Sybil Jason Donald Crisp
police officer father police captain wife disabled girl crossing guard gripping melodramatic moving tense street courtroom pawn shop hospital school police station ethics poverty law and order desperation
God, heaven, and several Old Testament stories, including the Creation and Noah's Ark, are described supposedly using the perspective of rural, black Americans.
6.7/10
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
UK
2010
82 Minutes
Wunmi Mosaku Isaach De Bankolé Igal Naor Nyokabi Gethaiga Nasser Memarzia Selva Rasalingam Amaar Sardharwalla Jameel Sardharwalla
girl slave family member soldier englishwoman child brooding dark emotional sudan village london house car street slavery hope desperation family fitting in
A thriller set in London's slave trade and centered on a woman's fight for freedom.
6.6/10
Comedy
USA
2017
96 Minutes
Morgan Freeman Michael Caine Alan Arkin Ann-Margret Joey King John Ortiz Peter Serafinowicz Kenan Thompson Matt Dillon Christopher Lloyd Siobhan Fallon Hogan
old man friend bank employee bank teller bank robber charming playful uplifting confident big city apartment bank desperation heist bank robbery economic deprivation financial crisis adventure growing up pursuit
Desperate to pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, three lifelong pals risk it all by embarking on a daring bid to knock off the very bank that absconded with their money.
6.6/10
Drama
USA
1949
99 Minutes
Barbara Stanwyck Robert Preston Stephen McNally Edith Barrett John Hoyt Elliott Sullivan John Harmon Philip Van Zandt Leif Erickson Houseley Stevenson Tony Curtis
wife husband reporter casino owner gambler sister dark tense sad las vegas casino hotel chicago hospital gambling addiction marriage financial troubles journalism desperation
A desperate husband tries to find help for his wife suffering from addictive gambling.
6.6/10
Fantasy
USA
1997
93 Minutes
Ben Daniels Michel Piccoli Paul M. Meston Kenneth Collard Nadia Odeh Mohammed Alì Auda Mohammed Badoul
guard artist leopard officer bedouin profound offbeat dreamy fascinating egypt desert survival desperation human-animal friendship abandonment nature transformation discovery 1790s
Young French officer Augustin Robert escorts artist Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis to Egypt during Napoleon's Egyptian campaign. Napoleon sent de Paradis to record Egypt's great monuments ... See full summary »
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