Here we've displayed a list of the best Melancholy films : Roger Waters: Us + Them(2019), Loving Vincent(2017), The Social Network(2010), So Long, My Son(2019), Sorry We Missed You(2019), Weathering With You(2019), Remember Me(2019), Never Rarely Sometimes Always(2020), Babylon(1980), Honey Boy(2019), David Crosby: Remember My Name(2019), Beautiful Boy(2018) ... ...
Documentary, Music
UK
2019
135 Minutes
musician guitarist band member confident creative fascinating melancholy passionate spirited amsterdam netherlands music musicians adventure 2010s
A look at Roger Waters' 2017-2018 concert tour.
Animation, Biography, Drama, History
Poland|UK|USA|Switzerland|Netherlands
2017
95 Minutes
Hugh Welchman
postal worker artist son brother daughter painter fascinating moving melancholy old city village inn france painting darkness life story art imitating life following your heart investigation personal tragedy
In a story depicted in oil painted animation, a young man comes to the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh (Robert Gulaczyk) to deliver the troubled artist's final letter and ends up investigating his final days there.
Biography, Drama
USA
2010
120 Minutes
Jesse Eisenberg Andrew Garfield Justin Timberlake Armie Hammer Max Minghella Josh Pence Brenda Song Rashida Jones John Getz David Selby Denise Grayson
computer programmer genius billionaire lawyer twin businessperson amusing engaging endearing dark witty melancholy harvard university bar palo alto, calif. household office new york state friendship betrayal
As Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site that would become known as Facebook, he is sued by the twins who claimed he stole their idea, and by the co-founder who was later squeezed out of the business.
Drama
China
2019
175 Minutes
Wang Jingchun Ray Wang Xi Qi Cheng Xu
couple family adopted son bleak emotional melodramatic melancholy intense china family home industrial town social change growing up childhood friends discovery growing up love 21st century
Two married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present.
Drama
UK|France|Belgium
2019
100 Minutes
Kris Hitchen Debbie Honeywood Rhys Stone Katie Proctor Mark Birch Alfie Dobson Charlie Richmond
entrepreneur employee father wife husband mother child boss bleak brooding dark disheartening emotional gritty melancholy moving profound raw sad solemn
Hoping that self-employment through gig economy can solve their financial woes, a hard-up UK delivery driver and his wife struggling to raise a family end up trapped in the vicious circle of this modern-day form of labour exploitation.
Anime, Fantasy, Drama
Japan|China
2019
111 Minutes
schoolboy schoolgirl publisher brother police officers dreamy emotional melancholy quirky tender tokyo japan running away young love hope rain magic love metamorphosis 2020s
A high-school boy who has run away to Tokyo befriends a girl who appears to be able to manipulate the weather.
Romance, Comedy, Drama
USA
2019
88 Minutes
Brian Cox Sienna Guillory Bruce Dern Brandon Larracuente Nicole Ansari Cox Ben Temple John Bowe Verónica Forqué
widower old flame elderly person family friend nurse amusing charming emotional endearing heartwarming melancholy moving powerful quirky touching witty california united states dementia
The Sultana was a river boat that exploded in 1865 killing many passengers, mostly Union Soldiers.
Drama
USA|UK
2020
101 Minutes
Ryan Eggold Théodore Pellerin Sharon Van Etten Sidney Flanigan Talia Ryder Drew Seltzer Lester Greene Kim Rios Lin
teen girl friend teen boy parent doctor bleak chilling emotional melancholy moving sad uneasy pennsylvania new york city united states teen pregnancy abortion poverty abusive relationship traumatic past
A pair of teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania travel to New York City to seek out medical help after an unintended pregnancy.
Drama
UK|Italy
1980
95 Minutes
Brinsley Forde Karl Howman Trevor Laird Brian Bovell Victor Romero Archie Pool Mel Smith Beverly Michaels Maggie Steed Bill Moody Stefan Kalipha
dj mc friend girlfriend neighbor cool disheartening emotional engaging gritty melancholy moving offbeat profound raw spirited uneasy london united kingdom black culture
The movie centres around Brindsley Forde's character Blue. He fronts a reggae sound system based in West London. The film captures the trials and tribulations of young black youths in troubled London in the early eighties.
Drama
USA
2019
93 Minutes
Shia LaBeouf Lucas Hedges Noah Jupe Byron Bowers Laura San Giacomo FKA Twigs Natasha Lyonne Maika Monroe Clifton Gonzalez Gonzalez Martin Starr
child actor father therapist family confident dark emotional engaging gritty intense melancholy moving powerful profound raw uneasy united states hollywood dysfunctional family dysfunctional relationship
A young actor's stormy childhood and early adult years as he struggles to reconcile with his father and deal with his mental health.
Documentary, Music
USA
2019
95 Minutes
david crosby musician creative emotional engaging fascinating melancholy moving powerful united states biography music music business life aging adventure quest 2010s
Meet David Crosby in this portrait of a man with everything but an easy retirement on his mind.
Biography, Drama
USA
2018
112 Minutes
Steve Carell Timothée Chalamet Maura Tierney Amy Ryan Timothy Hutton Kaitlyn Dever Andre Royo LisaGay Hamilton
father son ex-wife drug addict doctor addict emotional intense melancholy raw tender powerful united states new york city los angeles school home addiction father/son relationship love
Based on the best-selling pair of memoirs from father and son David and Nic Sheff, Beautiful Boy chronicles the heartbreaking and inspiring experience of survival, relapse and recovery in a family coping with addiction over many years.
Documentary
USA
2020
95 Minutes
Amy Ziering Sil Lai Abrams Tarana Burke Kimberlé Crenshaw Jenny Lumet
music executive music producer musician friend journalist dark disheartening emotional engaging fascinating intense melancholy moving powerful uneasy united states sexual abuse sexual harassment sexism music industry
A former hip hop executive decides whether to make public her rape by one of the most powerful men in the music industry.
Documentary
2019
93 Minutes
Anita Alvarez Dean Angelo Alma Benitez Pat Camden Charlene Carruthers Kina Collins
teenager murder victim murderer police captain police officer investigator lawyer judge journalist bleak dark emotional gripping gritty melancholy powerful sad solemn chicago murder
A documentary examining the 2014 shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke and the cover-up that ensued.
Gay & Lesbian, Drama
USA
2018
85 Minutes
Jamie Chung Virginia Madsen Michael Chiklis Cory Michael Smith Ryan Piers Williams Bryan Massey Aidan Langford Antonio Drake
closeted homosexual texan aids patient confident emotional melancholy texas new york aids family death transformation 1980s
A closeted young man goes home for the holidays and struggles to reveal his dire circumstances to his conservative family.
Drama
UK
2019
89 Minutes
Morgan Val Baker Georgia Ellery Martin Ellis Chloe Endean Stacey Guthrie Giles King Edward Rowe Simon Shepherd Tristan Sturrock Janet Thirlaway Isaac Woodvine
fisherman brother tourist love interest local brooding melancholy somber suspenseful cornwall seaside harbor cottage united kingdom ship fishing loss of job tourism struggle anger
Martin is a fisherman without a boat, his brother Steven having re-purposed it as a tourist tripper. With their childhood home now a get-away for London money, Martin is displaced to the estate above the harbour.
Drama
UK|France|Germany|Zambia
2017
90 Minutes
Maggie Mulubwa Nancy Murilo Henry B.J. Phiri Nellie Munamonga Margaret Spinella James Manaseh Margaret Z. Mwale Mirriam Nata
girl witch police officers accuser outcast bleak brooding melancholy uneasy zambia village camp school talk show witchcraft superstition corruption escape growing up quest
In a remote Zambian community a girl is denounced as a witch and sent on a trajectory of exploitation, as a tethered member of a witches' camp, a witch for hire and a tourist exhibit.
Romance, Drama
UK|Finland
2017
108 Minutes
Janne Puustinen Boodi Kabbani Mika Melender Virpi Rautsiala
refugee student young man emotional dreamy melancholy profound somber touching finland lake family home friendship romance starting over new life love 2010s
Having moved to Paris for university, Leevi returns to his native Finland for the summer to help his estranged father renovate the family lake house so it can be sold. Tareq, a recent ... See full summary »
Romance, Comedy, Drama
Germany
2018
125 Minutes
Franz Rogowski Sandra Hüller Peter Kurth Henning Peker Matthias Brenner Gerdy Zint Michael Specht Andreas Leupold Clemens Meyer Steffen Scheumann Sascha Nathan
employee coworker supermarket manager amusing melancholy supermarket new job relationships detachment work alienation mysterious past love 2010s
Christian begins to work as a shelf stacker at a supermarket and finds himself in a new, unknown world: the long aisles, the bustle at the checkouts, the forklifts.
Drama
UK
1968
119 Minutes
Bob Kellett Suzy Kendall Dennis Waterman Maureen Limpan Adrienne Posta
wealthy woman worker friend colleague emotional melancholy disheartening london england factory pub class distinctions working class abortion discovery growing up love 20th century
Addresses some of the major 60s social issues - a bored rich London-girl from Chelsea decides to go "slumming" in depressed Battersea, getting a flat and starts factory-work and makes friends... of which one has to get an illegal abortion.
Biography, Drama, History
Ireland|Switzerland|UK|France|USA
2018
110 Minutes
Willem Dafoe Rupert Friend Oscar Isaac Mads Mikkelsen Mathieu Amalric Emmanuelle Seigner Niels Arestrup Amira Casar Vladimir Consigny Vincent Perez Alexis Michalik
vincent van gogh painter paul gauguin priest melancholy profound france countryside vincent van gogh painting last days art discovery 1880s
A look at the life of painter Vincent van Gogh during the time he lived in Arles and Auvers-sur-Oise, France.
Adventure
UK|USA
1965
154 Minutes
Peter O'Toole James Mason Curt Jurgens Eli Wallach Jack Hawkins Paul Lukas Daliah Lavi Akim Tamiroff
seaman trader captain war lord chief woman brooding powerful gutsy suspenseful melancholy boat river village south sea cargo ship indian ocean redemption guerrilla warfare seafaring
After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself.
Drama
UK|USA
2017
105 Minutes
Emma Thompson Fionn Whitehead Stanley Tucci Ben Chaplin Anthony Calf Jason Watkins Dominic Carter Eileen Walsh Rosie Cavaliero Nicholas Jones
judge husband teen boy parent jehovah's witnesses bleak emotional intense melancholy moving profound sad tender uneasy london united kingdom love family religious beliefs law
As her marriage crumbles, a judge must decide a case involving a teenage boy who is refusing a blood transfusion on religious principle.
Drama
UK
2018
108 Minutes
Richard Ashton Michelle Bonnard James Eeles Sam Gittins James Hinton Andrew Jefferson-Tierney Patrick Romer Justin Salinger Ella Smith Tony Way
photographer parent brother emotional engaging melancholy flat birmingham, england returning home childhood poverty confrontation reconciliation discovery 2010s
Photographer Richard Billingham returns to the squalid council flat outside of Birmingham where he and his brother were raised, in a confrontation and reconciliation with parents Ray and Liz.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
2006
168 Minutes
Matt Damon Angelina Jolie Alec Baldwin Tammy Blanchard Billy Crudup Robert De Niro Keir Dullea Michael Gambon Martina Gedeck William Hurt Timothy Hutton
cia agent beautiful woman father fbi agent colleague professor brooding tense solemn melancholy yale london berlin central america congo yale university conspiracy blackmail secret fraternity
The tumultuous early history of the Central Intelligence Agency is viewed through the prism of one man's life.
Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure
USA
2014
140 Minutes
Shailene Woodley Theo James Ashley Judd Jai Courtney Ray Stevenson Zoë Kravitz Miles Teller Tony Goldwyn Ansel Elgort Maggie Q Mekhi Phifer
teen girl rebel group leader brother teen boy father brooding cool disturbing thrilling suspenseful melancholy future city training area school chicago home group dynamics future
In a world divided by factions based on virtues, Tris learns she's Divergent and won't fit in. When she discovers a plot to destroy Divergents, Tris and the mysterious Four must find out what makes Divergents dangerous before it's too late.
Documentary, Drama, History
Italy
2019
92 Minutes
Helen Mirren Anna Migotto Anne Frank
anne frank jew nazi nazi collaborator holocaust survivor bleak chilling dark disheartening disturbing emotional engaging gripping incredible melancholy moving amsterdam concentration camp hideout holocaust
It is based on five women who did survive the Holocaust but shared her same fate of "deportation, suffering and being denied their childhood and adolescence," according to promotional materials.
Documentary
USA
2019
91 Minutes
man magician filmmaker documentarian entertainer bleak amusing gripping melancholy tense united states illness death life performance inspiration magic diagnosis drugs comeback
What begins as a documentary following the final tour of a dying magician - "The Amazing Johnathan" - becomes an unexpected and increasingly bizarre journey as the filmmaker struggles to separate truth from illusion.
Comedy, Romance, Drama
France|Belgium
2019
110 Minutes
Ana Girardot François Civil François Berléand Camille Cottin Simon Abkarian Marie Bunel Patrick D'Assumçao Zinedine Soualem
neighbor man woman amusing brooding cool melancholy sultry paris loneliness friendship depression dating love discovery rise 2010s
Rémy, a young Parisian with an unskilled job. Mélanie, a young she-Parisian who works in scientific research. Two depressive moods living in close proximity but strange to each other. Shall the two ever meet?
Drama
Austria
2019
108 Minutes
Valerie Pachner Pia Hierzegger Mavie Horbiger Michelle Barthel Marc Benjamin Dominic Marcus Singer Meo Wulf Axel Sichrovsky Grazyna Dylag Tom Hanslmaier
career woman schizophrenic boss colleague bleak brooding disturbing emotional melancholy powerful sad vienna germany mental breakdown career career vs. family work workplace politics workplace romance fall
A high-powered business consultant struggles to keep her professional and personal lives from colliding after her schizophrenic sister attempts suicide.