Originally posted on r/MovieSuggestions on March 6, 2021. Changed list link to archive link due to the original link now being dead.
Inspired by a list from IMDb, curated by Dr. Unken (https://web.archive.org/web/20210306111226/https://www.imdb.com/list/ls031142976/), I am in search of other films that have a similar tone to the films in that list. You can recommend me anything, even if the film is the same from that list. They can be in any genre and the language can be English or a foreign language.
Examples of such films include:
- “Martyrs” (2008) (In French with English subtitles)
- “Funny Games” (1997) (In German with English subtitles)
- “Possessor” (2020)
- “We Need to Talk About Kevin” (2011)
- “You Were Never Really Here” (2017)
- “Dragged Across Concrete” (2018)
- “Green Room” (2015)
- “Manhunter” (1986)
- “Nightcrawler” (2014)
- “Kill List” (2011)
- “Enter the Void” (2009)
- “Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father” (2008)
- “Blue Ruin” (2013)
- “Requiem for a Dream” (2000)
- “Antichrist” (2009)
I’ve heard Studio Ghibli’s “Grave of the Fireflies” is really depressing. I love their movies, but I still haven’t been able to bring myself to watch that film yet.
The road is a pretty damn depressing movie
Threads (1984 BBC TV movie). Aired once, immediately banned and stayed that way for 40 years for being too disturbing. It’s movie about the death of hope, and how all that remains after is to hope for death. It follows an ordinary English family through the aftermath of a nuclear war, and makes “The Day After” look like a happy picnic in the park with rainbows by comparison.
Children of Men (2006)
Oldboy (Korean: 올드보이; RR: Oldeuboi; MR: Oldŭboi) is a 2003 South Korean neo-noir action thriller film directed and co-written by Park Chan-wook. A loose adaptation of the Japanese manga of the same name, the film follows the story of Oh Dae-su (Choi Min-sik), who is imprisoned in a cell which resembles a hotel room for 15 years without knowing the identity of his captor nor his captor’s motives. When he is finally released, Dae-su finds himself still trapped in a web of conspiracy and violence. (Taken from Wikipedia)
