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) ... ...
8.5/10
Drama
Japan
1964
125 Minutes
Eiji Okada Kyôko Kishida Kôji Mitsui Hiroko Ito Sen Yano Ginzô Sekiguchi Kiyohiko Ichiha Tamatsu Tamura Hiroyuki Nishimo
entomologist widow villager wife brother dark disheartening creepy japan small town sand pit abduction escape love escape forbidden love 20th century
An entomologist on vacation is trapped by local villagers into living with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.
8.3/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1999
122 Minutes
Kevin Spacey Annette Bening Thora Birch Wes Bentley Mena Suvari Peter Gallagher Allison Janney Scott Bakula Sam Robards Chris Cooper Barry Del Sherman
husband father young girl stalker student boyfriend witty disheartening intense household high school car suburbia infatuation mother/child relationship sex depression death family escape
A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.
8.3/10
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.
8.2/10
Documentary
USA
2010
108 Minutes
banker government official academic economist media personality corrupt businessman disheartening disturbing suspenseful shocking white house wall street federal repository china iceland money greed financial crisis stocks abuse of power
Takes a closer look at what brought about the 2008 financial meltdown.
8.1/10
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.
8.1/10
Drama
Spain|Mexico
1961
90 Minutes
Silvia Pinal Francisco Rabal Fernando Rey Margarita Lozano Victoria Zinny Teresa Rabal Jose Manuel Martin Luis Heredia
nun mother superior uncle beggar benefactor shocking raw unrestrained disheartening spain estate seduction corruption religion guilt sex temptation fall forbidden love transformation
Viridiana, a young nun about to take her final vows, pays a visit to her widowed uncle at the request of her Mother Superior.
8.1/10
Documentary
USA
2008
86 Minutes
madonna president bill clinton rev. dr. desmond tutu professor jeffrey sachs filmmaker disheartening passionate uplifting africa malawi united states malawi orphans aids poverty famine outreach transformation sacrifice discovery
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.
8.1/10
Crime, Drama, Mystery & Thriller
USA
2014
149 Minutes
Ben Affleck Rosamund Pike Neil Patrick Harris Tyler Perry Kim Dickens Patrick Fugit Carrie Coon David Clennon Lisa Banes Missi Pyle Emily Ratajkowski
writer wife suspect police officer journalist police detective brooding dark intense bleak thrilling disheartening carthage house street police station car office disappearance illusions
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.
8.0/10
Documentary
Canada
2003
168 Minutes
noam chomsky activist expert kathie lee gifford ceo michael moore frightening disheartening passionate rousing sweatshop united states office yard factory corporate greed political activism exploitation capitalism human rights
Documentary that looks at the concept of the corporation throughout recent history up to its present-day dominance.
8.0/10
Drama, Romance, History
USA
1928
90 Minutes
Emil Jannings Evelyn Brent William Powell Nicholas Soussanin Michael Visaroff
revolutionary russian general director extra gripping disheartening intense russia hollywood movie set revenge role reversal humiliation insanity movie making fall rivalry transformation 1920s
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.
8.0/10
Drama
USA
1940
129 Minutes
Henry Fonda Jane Darwell John Carradine Charley Grapewin Dorris Bowdon Russell Simpson O.Z. Whitehead John Qualen Eddie Quillan Zeffie Tilbury Frank Sully
ex-convict sharecropper priest uncle grandfather grandmother bleak disheartening emotional oklahoma california family historical events american dream farming poverty labor strike pursuit escape quest
A poor Midwest family is forced off their land. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.
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.
7.9/10
Drama
UK|France|Belgium
2016
100 Minutes
Dave Johns Hayley Squires Dylan McKiernan Briana Shann Kate Rutter Sharon Percy Kema Sikazwe Micky McGregor Julie Nicholson
widower carpenter doctor government official single mother child cool engaging emotional disheartening england office house neighborhood hospital work-life balance grief health care heart attack romance
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.
7.9/10
Documentary
USA
1998
93 Minutes
Robert De Niro Lenny Bruce
robert de niro comedian friend mother drug addict tv personality rousing amusing fascinating disheartening new york city television studio nightclub strip club comedy club obscenity court battles stand-up comedy controversy lenny bruce
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 »
7.8/10
Drama
Brazil
2015
112 Minutes
Regina Casé Michel Joelsas Lourenço Mutarelli Karine Teles Camila Márdila Helena Albergaria Luis Miranda Theo Werneck Luci Pereira
housekeeper maid family member mother daughter son charming disheartening heartwarming emotional melodramatic intense brazil são paulo apartment relationships single mothers mother/daughter relationship abandonment love
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.
7.8/10
Drama
West Germany|Hungary|Austria
1981
135 Minutes
Klaus Maria Brandauer Krystyna Janda Ildiko Bansagi Karin Boyd Rolf Hoppe Christine Harbort
actor wife mistress nazi dancer patron dark profound disheartening opera house stage dressing room ballroom apartment ambition theater politics faust fall 1930s
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?
7.8/10
Drama, History
Italy|France
1971
120 Minutes
Gian Maria Volonte Riccardo Cucciolla Cyril Cusack Milo O'Shea Rosanna Fratello Geoffrey Keen
shoemaker peddler prosecutor wife judge defense attorney emotional disheartening shocking intricate boston massachusetts street courtroom factory city nicola sacco bartolomeo vanzetti false accusations immigration
The story of two anarchists who were charged and unfairly tried for murder when it was really for their political convictions.
7.8/10
War, Drama
Germany|Austria|France|Italy|Canada
2009
144 Minutes
Christian Friedel Leonie Benesch Ulrich Tukur Ursina Lardi Burghart Klaußner Steffi Kühnert Josef Bierbichler Gabriela-Maria Schmeide Rainer Bock Susanne Lothar Maria-Victoria Dragus
child pastor doctor father teacher baron bleak uneasy disheartening dark village germany church house school mill punishment small-town life religion dominance
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?
7.8/10
Drama
Japan|France
2000
218 Minutes
Koji Yakusho Aoi Miyazaki Masaru Miyazaki Yoichiro Saito Ken Mitsuishi Gô Rijû Yutaka Matsushige Sansei Shiomi Kimie Shingyoji
hijacker bus driver schoolboy schoolgirl cousin passenger disheartening intricate emotional japan rural community office bus trauma murder hijacking orphans redemption grief transformation
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.
7.8/10
Drama, Music
India
2017
150 Minutes
Zaira Wasim Meher Vij Raj Arjun Tirth Sharma Farrukh Jaffar Aamir Khan Manuj Sharma Nikita Anand Mona Ambegaonkar
father mother young girl mentor aspiring singer emotional endearing sad disheartening inspiring incredible india city house room street chasing dreams aspirations conservatism domineering father
A talented teenage singer-songwriter living amid domestic abuse becomes a YouTube sensation after a video in which she hides her identity goes viral.
7.8/10
Comedy, Drama
Italy
1976
115 Minutes
Giancarlo Giannini Fernando Rey Shirley Stoler Elena Fiore Piero Di Iorio Enzo Vitale Roberto Herlitzka Lucio Amelio
thug sister psychiatrist nazi commandant wife soldier witty dark disheartening family home pow camp naples, italy germany asylum survival world war ii seduction collaboration family honor fall
The defense of honor, a strong value in Neapolitan society, and its effects on the life of everyman Pasquale Frafuso.
7.7/10
Drama
USA
1992
100 Minutes
Al Pacino Jack Lemmon Alec Baldwin Ed Harris Alan Arkin Kevin Spacey Jonathan Pryce Bruce Altman Jude Ciccolella Paul Butler
salesman manager client motivational speaker bleak dark disheartening new york city office business family money ambition real estate wretched excess fall revenge 1980s
An examination of the machinations behind the scenes at a real estate office.
7.7/10
Drama
West Germany
1975
123 Minutes
Rainer Werner Fassbinder Peter Chatel Karl Boehm Harry Baer Adrian Hoven Ulla Jacobsson Christiane Maybach
carnival worker con artist businessperson soldier dark bleak disheartening disturbing germany munich deception class distinctions homosexuality money theft greed love fall pursuit 1970s
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.
7.7/10
Documentary
USA
2020
123 Minutes
Ophelia Harutyunyan Taison Bell Michael Bowen Rick Bright Caroline Chen Thomas Frieden
politician doctor donald trump bleak disheartening shocking united states virus pandemic politics discovery 2020s
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.
7.7/10
Drama
UK
2006
98 Minutes
Thomas Turgoose Stephen Graham Jo Hartley Andrew Shim Joseph Gilgun Vicky McClure Rosamund Hanson Andrew Ellis Perry Benson George Newton Frank Harper
skinhead racist young boy ex-convict friend girlfriend disheartening unrestrained touching cleethorpes, england street city racism coming of age working class nationalism father figure gangs growing up rivalry
A young boy becomes friends with a gang of skinheads. Friends soon become like family, and relationships will be pushed to the very limit.
7.7/10
Drama
UK
1971
105 Minutes
Sandy Ratcliff Bill Dean Grace Cave
mother father daughter nurse bleak disheartening intense london mental institution mental illness abortion rebellion family depression aimless youth growing up escape 1970s
A teenage girl suffers a nervous breakdown.
7.7/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1993
189 Minutes
Andie MacDowell Bruce Davison Julianne Moore Matthew Modine Lily Tomlin Tom Waits Robert Downey Jr. Chris Penn Jennifer Jason Leigh Lyle Lovett Huey Lewis
doctor wife waitress young boy baker cop tense engaging dense disheartening intricate los angeles family home hospital loneliness relationships adultery accident jealousy fall
The day-to-day lives of several suburban Los Angeles residents.
7.7/10
Drama
USA
2001
132 Minutes
Sean Penn Michelle Pfeiffer Dakota Fanning Dianne Wiest Loretta Devine Richard Schiff Laura Dern Brad Allan Silverman Joseph Rosenberg Stanley DeSantis Doug Hutchinson
father daughter mentally disabled person lawyer foster mother friend disheartening profound emotional courtroom foster home apartment soccer game coffee shop school parenthood father/daughter relationship mental disability custody battle friendship
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.
7.7/10
Documentary, War, Drama, History
USA|Congo
2017
93 Minutes
Mamadou Ndala
merchant poor person villager government official military officer bleak brutal uneasy tense intricate disheartening congo village plains office road market political corruption political unrest military occupation
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.
7.6/10
Drama
USA
2019
136 Minutes
Michael B. Jordan Jamie Foxx Brie Larson Rob Morgan Tim Blake Nelson Rafe Spall O'Shea Jackson Jr. Karan Kendrick Drew Scheid Steve Coulter Mary Kraft
defense attorney death row inmate wrongly accused emotional disheartening passionate powerful alabama courtroom prison death row wrongful conviction murder case racism politics rescue quest underdog fall discovery
World-renowned civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson works to free a wrongly condemned death row prisoner.
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