Here we've displayed a list of the best Somber films : Inception(2010), The Green Mile(1999), Scenes From a Marriage(1973), Charulata(1964), How to Die in Oregon(2011), The Boat(1981), They Shall Not Grow Old(2018), 2001: A Space Odyssey(1968), A Man Escaped(1956), Make Way for Tomorrow(1937), The Shop on Main Street(1965), The Sacrifice(1986) ... ...
Sci-Fi, Action, Mystery & Thriller
USA|UK
2010
148 Minutes
Leonardo DiCaprio Joseph Gordon-Levitt Elliot Page Tom Hardy Ken Watanabe Dileep Rao Cillian Murphy Tom Berenger Marion Cotillard Michael Caine Pete Postlethwaite
con artist architect chemist forger billionaire wife creative engaging suspenseful intricate somber subconscious mind los angeles paris japan morocco dreamworld dreams corporate espionage guilt
A thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O.
Fantasy, Drama
USA
1999
189 Minutes
Tom Hanks David Morse Michael Clarke Duncan Bonnie Hunt James Cromwell Michael Jeter Graham Greene Doug Hutchison Sam Rockwell Barry Pepper Jeffrey DeMunn
guard prisoner emotional somber powerful prison household louisiana nursing home death superhuman abilities execution murder mystery quest 1930s
The lives of guards on Death Row are affected by one of their charges: a black man accused of child murder and rape, yet who has a mysterious gift.
Drama
Sweden
1973
168 Minutes
Liv Ullmann Erland Josephson Bibi Andersson Jan Malmsjö Anita Wall Gunnel Lindblom Lena Bergman Wenche Foss
husband wife lover friend emotional somber sweden household cabin marital problems romance infidelity sex disillusionment love transformation fall 1970s
Scenes from a Marriage chronicles the many years of love and turmoil that bind Marianne (Liv Ullmann) and Johan (Erland Josephson) through matrimony, infidelity, divorce, and subsequent partners.
Drama
India
1964
117 Minutes
Soumitra Chatterjee Madhabi Mukherjee Sailen Mukherjee Shyamal Ghosal Gitali Roy Bholanath Koyal Suku Mukherjee Dilip Bose Joydeb Bankim Ghosh Subrata Sensharma
wife husband cousin writer newspaper owner brother-in-law somber calm touching sad india forest family home bedroom loneliness marital problems art infidelity betrayal family dysfunction
The lonely wife of a newspaper editor falls in love with her visiting cousin-in-law, who shares her love for literature.
Documentary
USA
2011
107 Minutes
patient physician politician wife widow somber disturbing gripping oregon hospital family home suicide cancer compassion death euthanasia escape transformation 2000s
In 1994 Oregon became the first state to legalize a terminally ill person's request to end his or her life with medication. At the time, only Belgium, Switzerland, and the Netherlands had ... See full summary »
War, Drama
West Germany
1981
150 Minutes
Jürgen Prochnow Herbert Grönemeyer Klaus Wennemann Hubertus Bengsch Martin Semmelrogge Bernd Tauber Erwin Leder Martin May Heinz Hoenig Uwe Ochsenknecht
captain reporter sailor soldier tense somber thrilling submarine underwater germany battle fatigue world war ii disillusionment military quest pursuit 1940s
The claustrophobic world of a WWII German U-boat; boredom, filth and sheer terror.
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
UK|USA
1968
139 Minutes
Keir Dullea Gary Lockwood William Sylvester Daniel Richter Leonard Rossiter Margaret Tyzack Robert Beatty
astronaut scientist fascinating profound somber spaceship space station outer space computers man vs. machine expedition technology metamorphosis discovery quest 21st century
After discovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, mankind sets off on a quest to find its origins with help from intelligent supercomputer H.A.L. 9000.
Action
France
1956
102 Minutes
François Leterrier Charles Le Clainche Maurice Beerblock Roland Monod Jacques Ertaud Roger Treherne Jean Paul Delhumeau Jean-Philippe Delamare Jacques Oerlemans Klaus Detlef
prisoner of war cellmate guard tense somber cool prison cell lyon, france fort escape war nazism freedom adventure quest 1940s
A captured French Resistance fighter during WWII engineers a daunting escape from a Nazi prison in France.
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.
Drama
Sweden|France|UK
1986
145 Minutes
Erland Josephson Allan Edwall Susan Fleetwood Valérie Mairesse Gudrún Gisladóttir Sven Wollter Filippa Franzen Tommy Kjellqvist
son wife father mail carrier middle-aged man boy somber dark fascinating solemn island family home countryside party seaside woods post-apocalypse nuclear war world war iii faith
At the dawn of World War III, a man searches for a way to restore peace to the world and finds he must give something in return.
Drama
Sweden
1972
95 Minutes
Liv Ullmann Harriet Andersson Ingrid Thulin Kari Sylwan Erland Josephson George Arlin Henning Moritzen Anders Ek
dying person suicidal person sister maid doctor priest brooding somber family home sweden mansion death family meaning of life infidelity suicide quest transformation 19th century
When a woman dying of cancer in early twentieth-century Sweden is visited by her two sisters, long-repressed feelings between the siblings rise to the surface.
Drama
USA
1960
127 Minutes
Spencer Tracy Fredric March Gene Kelly Florence Eldridge Dick York Harry Morgan Donna Anderson Elliott Reid Claude Akins Noah Beery Jr. Norman Fell
lawyer teacher reporter intense somber suspenseful witty courtroom tennessee court battles creationism vs. evolution lawsuit rescue rivalry 1920s
Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.
Drama
USA
1949
115 Minutes
Olivia de Havilland Montgomery Clift Ralph Richardson Miriam Hopkins Vanessa Brown Mona Freeman Ray Collins Betty Linley Selena Royle Paul Lees Harry Antrim
heiress father bachelor emotional sad somber household california deception heartbreak disillusionment father/daughter relationship fortune forbidden love sacrifice revenge 1880s
A young naive woman falls for a handsome young man who her emotionally abusive father suspects is a fortune hunter.
Drama
Italy|Soviet Union
1983
130 Minutes
Oleg Yankovsky Domiziana Giordano Delia Boccardo Laura De Marchi Patrizia Terreno Milena Vukotic Alberto Canepa
poet interpreter russian mystic mentally ill person pretty woman bleak somber dense emotional passionate hill tuscany, italy ruins church countryside village research journey homesickness
A Russian poet and his interpreter travel to Italy to research the life of an 18th-century composer.
Documentary
USA
2003
105 Minutes
secretary of defense president viet cong soldiers gen. william westmoreland vietnam vet chilling patriotic somber emotional vietnam washington, d.c. pentagon military base vietnam war politics communism government controversy war
The story of America as seen through the eyes of the former Secretary of Defense under President John F. Kennedy and President Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert McNamara.
Fantasy, Action, Adventure
USA
2017
137 Minutes
Hugh Jackman Patrick Stewart Dafne Keen Richard E. Grant Doris Morgado Boyd Holbrook Stephen Merchant Eriq La Salle Elise Neal Elizabeth Rodriguez Quincy Fouse
wolverine professor x young girl soldier brooding somber rousing gory unrestrained mexican-american border outpost forest car compound mentorship protection mortality aging discovery escape
In a future where mutants are nearly extinct, an elderly and weary Logan leads a quiet life. But when Laura, a mutant child pursued by scientists, comes to him for help, he must get her to safety.
Adventure, Drama
USA|Germany|UK
2006
138 Minutes
Leonardo DiCaprio Jennifer Connelly Djimon Hounsou David Harewood Arnold Vosloo Caruso Kuypers Michael Sheen Basil Wallace Ntare Mwine Stephen Collins Jimi Mistry
mercenary fisherman journalist rebel doctor soldier thrilling dark emotional gripping somber south africa motel jail mountain sierra leone diamond investigative journalism journey revolution
A fisherman, a smuggler, and a syndicate of businessmen match wits over the possession of a priceless diamond.
Drama
USA
1996
136 Minutes
Billy Bob Thornton Dwight Yoakam J.T. Walsh John Ritter Lucas Black Natalie Canerday James Hampton Robert Duvall Rick Dial Brent Briscoe Christy Ward
mentally challenged young boy mother boyfriend father somber powerful bleak endearing offbeat arkansas small town mental institution small-town life mental illness violence abuse redemption sacrifice rescue
Karl Childers, a simple man hospitalized since his childhood murder of his mother and her lover, is released to start a new life in a small town.
Drama
Russia
2003
110 Minutes
Ivan Dobronravov Vladimir Garin Konstantin Lavronenko Natalya Vdovina Galina Petrova Aleksey Suknovalov Lazar Dubovik Elizaveta Aleksandrova Lyubov Kazakova
father son teenager mother emotional dark somber uneasy russia small town car boat island abandonment absence reunion father/son relationship discovery growing up mystery
In the Russian wilderness, two brothers face a range of new, conflicting emotions when their father - a man they know only through a single photograph - resurfaces.
Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller
USA|UK|Canada|Hungary|Spain|Mexico
2017
164 Minutes
Ryan Gosling Harrison Ford Ana de Armas Sylvia Hoeks Robin Wright Jared Leto Mackenzie Davis Carla Juri Lennie James Dave Bautista Hiam Abbass
young man investigator police detective android old man brooding gripping profound somber thrilling suspenseful los angeles office apartment abandoned building desert secrets societal decay past crimes discovery
Young Blade Runner K's discovery of a long-buried secret leads him to track down former Blade Runner Rick Deckard, who's been missing for thirty years.
Drama
Italy|France|West Germany
1971
115 Minutes
Jean-Louis Trintignant Stefania Sandrelli Dominique Sanda Pierre Clémenti Gastone Moschin Enzo Tarascio José Quaglio
assassin wife professor driver blind person priest dark somber paris rome church family home highway car assassination fascism marriage transformation 1940s
A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
Drama
Sweden
1971
148 Minutes
Max von Sydow Liv Ullmann Eddie Axberg Svenolof Bern Aina Alfredsson Allan Edwall Monica Zetterlund Pierre Lindstedt Hans Alfredson Ulla Smidje Eva-Lena Zetterlund
farmer husband wife son daughter somber touching småland, sweden minnesota ship countryside farm river family farming america travel emigration class distinctions adventure
Småland, Sweden, mid-19th century. A farming family struggle with their rocky, unyielding land, and decide to embark on the arduous journey to new hope in America.
Romance, Drama
UK
1945
86 Minutes
Celia Johnson Trevor Howard Stanley Holloway Cyril Raymond Joyce Carey Everley Gregg Marjorie Mars Margaret Barton Dennis Harkin Valentine Dyall Nuna Davey
wife husband doctor friend somber mushy cafeteria train family home suburbia england infidelity marriage love forbidden love 1940s
Meeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband.
Drama
USA
1946
172 Minutes
Fredric March Myrna Loy Dana Andrews Teresa Wright Virginia Mayo Harold Russell Hoagy Carmichael Gladys George Steve Cochran
veteran wife amputee banker fiancée daughter powerful somber fascinating profound small town midwest family home war disillusionment world war ii love sacrifice discovery transformation
Three World War II veterans return home to small-town America to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.
Romance
USA
1948
90 Minutes
Joan Fontaine Louis Jourdan Mady Christians Marcel Journet Art Smith Carol Yorke Howard Freeman
pianist young woman husband son servant somber moving vienna family home hospital opera house apartment unrequited love betrayal affair dueling letter writing forbidden love discovery quest
A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember, who may hold the key to his downfall.
Drama
France|Japan
1959
92 Minutes
Emmanuelle Riva Eiji Okada Stella Dassas Pierre Barbaud Bernard Fresson
architect actress somber bleak powerful hiroshima, japan love loss memory death war discovery love 1950s
A French actress filming an anti-war film in Hiroshima has an affair with a married Japanese architect as they share their differing perspectives on war.
Comedy
USA
1941
91 Minutes
Joel McCrea Veronica Lake Robert Warwick William Demarest Franklin Pangborn Porter Hall Byron Foulger Margaret Hayes Robert Greig Eric Blore
director actress butler spinster warden tramp heartwarming hilarious somber powerful hollywood, calif. mansion train las vegas small town movie making chain gangs wealth mistaken identity love
A Hollywood director, John L Sullivan, sets out to experience life as a poor, homeless person in order to gain relevant life experience for his next movie.
Drama
USA|France
2008
110 Minutes
Mickey Rourke Marisa Tomei Evan Rachel Wood Mark Margolis Todd Barry Wass Stevens Judah Friedlander Ernest Miller
wrestler daughter fan stripper somber gripping gritty gym trailer wrestling ring strip club store father/daughter relationship romance comeback wrestling health aging fall quest
A faded professional wrestler must retire, but finds his quest for a new life outside the ring a dispiriting struggle.