Disheartening Movies, Movies about Disheartening

Here we've displayed a list of the best Disheartening films : Woman in the Dunes(1964), American Beauty(1999), Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills(1996), Inside Job(2010), The 400 Blows(1959), Viridiana(1961), I Am Because We Are(2008), Gone Girl(2014), The Corporation(2003), The Last Command(1928), The Grapes of Wrath(1940), Germany Year Zero(1948) ... ...

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Woman in the Dunes

An entomologist on vacation is trapped by local villagers into living with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.

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American Beauty

A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.

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Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills

A horrific triple child murder leads to an indictment and trial of three nonconformist boys based on questionable evidence.

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Inside Job

Takes a closer look at what brought about the 2008 financial meltdown.

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The 400 Blows

A young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime.

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Viridiana

Viridiana, a young nun about to take her final vows, pays a visit to her widowed uncle at the request of her Mother Superior.

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I Am Because We Are

A look into the lives of Malawi's 1 million plus orphans in the wake of the AIDS pandemic. It offers hope and real solutions to the challenges that people face living in extreme poverty.

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Gone Girl

With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

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The Corporation

Documentary that looks at the concept of the corporation throughout recent history up to its present-day dominance.

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The Last Command

A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.

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The Grapes of Wrath

A poor Midwest family is forced off their land. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.

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Germany Year Zero

A young German boy faces the problems of the tough life in the immediate post WWII Berlin.

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I, Daniel Blake

After having suffered a heart-attack, a 59-year-old carpenter must fight the bureaucratic forces of the system in order to receive Employment and Support Allowance.

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Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth

Comedian Lenny Bruce struck a subversive chord in an era of change in America. After getting his start as a conventional stand-up comic, Bruce's increasingly iconoclastic act transformed ... See full summary »

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The Second Mother

When the estranged daughter of a hard-working live-in housekeeper suddenly appears, the unspoken class barriers that exist within the home are thrown into disarray.

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Mephisto

In early-1930s Germany, a passionate stage actor finds himself before a dilemma: renounce his apolitical stance and comply with the Reich's doctrine, or face oblivion. But, Faustian bargains never end well. What is the price of success?

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Sacco and Vanzetti

The story of two anarchists who were charged and unfairly tried for murder when it was really for their political convictions.

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The White Ribbon

Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. Who is responsible?

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Eureka

The traumatized survivors of a murderous bus hijacking come together and take a road trip to attempt to overcome their damaged selves. Meanwhile a serial killer is on the loose.

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Secret Superstar

A talented teenage singer-songwriter living amid domestic abuse becomes a YouTube sensation after a video in which she hides her identity goes viral.

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Seven Beauties

The defense of honor, a strong value in Neapolitan society, and its effects on the life of everyman Pasquale Frafuso.

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Glengarry Glen Ross

An examination of the machinations behind the scenes at a real estate office.

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Fox and His Friends

A suggestible working-class innocent wins the lottery but lets himself be taken advantage of by his bourgeois new boyfriend and his circle of materialistic friends.

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Totally Under Control

An in-depth look at how the United States government handled the response to the COVID-19 outbreak during the early months of the pandemic.

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This Is England

A young boy becomes friends with a gang of skinheads. Friends soon become like family, and relationships will be pushed to the very limit.

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Family Life

A teenage girl suffers a nervous breakdown.

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Short Cuts

The day-to-day lives of several suburban Los Angeles residents.

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I Am Sam

A mentally handicapped man fights for custody of his 7-year-old daughter and in the process teaches his cold-hearted lawyer the value of love and family.

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This Is Congo

An unfiltered look in to the lives of 3 characters surviving amongst the most recent cycle of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, otherwise known as the M23 rebellion.

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Just Mercy

World-renowned civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson works to free a wrongly condemned death row prisoner.

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