Top Depressed Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Jodie Foster

Kali Reis

Fiona Shaw

Finn Bennett

True Detective (2014) TV Show

8.3 4.2K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery

Country: Mexico, United States of America

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 30

Audience: TV-MA

Story: An American anthology police detective series utilizing multiple timelines in which investigations seem to unearth personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within or outside the law.

Style: philosophical

Plot: philosophy, detective, investigation, anthology, murder, serial killer, police corruption, police detective, ...

Magical Girl Site (2018) TV Show

8.2 187 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, Mystery

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Audience: NR

Story: Aya Asagiri is a middle school girl who has problems both at school with bullying and at home from physical abuse by her brother. While browsing online, a website pops up on her computer featuring a creepy looking person. This person appears to take pity on her, and announces that she has granted Asagiri magical powers.

Style: psychological

Plot: supernatural, based on manga, anime, magical girl, depressed, horror

Serial Experiments Lain (1998) TV Show

8.2 646 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, Mystery

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 13

Audience: TV-14

Story: Lain—driven by the abrupt suicide of a classmate—logs on to the Wired and promptly loses herself in a twisted mass of hallucinations, memories, and interconnected-psyches.

Style: psychological

Plot: dementia, computer, internet, cyberpunk, cyberspace, angst, seinen, anime, ...

Cast

Megumi Ogata

Yuko Miyamura

Maaya Sakamoto

Megumi Hayashibara

Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time (2021)

8.2 963 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Drama

Country: Japan

Duration: 155 min.

Audience: NR

Story: In the aftermath of the Fourth Impact, stranded without their Evangelions, Shinji, Asuka and Rei find refuge in one of the rare pockets of humanity that still exist on the ruined planet Earth. There, each lives a life far different from their days as an Evangelion pilot. However, the danger to the world is far from over. A new impact is looming on the horizon—one that will prove to be the true end of Evangelion.

Style: surreal, philosophical

Plot: technology, dystopia, post-apocalyptic future, mecha, giant robot, battle, anime, the end, ...

Cast

Kim You-jung

Byeon Woo-seok

Park Jung-woo

Roh Yoon-seo

20th Century Girl (2022)

8.2 834 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: South Korea

Duration: 119 min.

Story: In 1999, a teen girl keeps close tabs on a boy in school on behalf of her deeply smitten best friend – then she gets swept up in a love story of her own.

Style: melancholy, intense, romantic

Plot: friendship, love triangle, coming of age, unrequited love, teenage girl, tearjerker, first love, city life, ...

Time: 1990s

Cast

Leonardo DiCaprio

Mark Ruffalo

Ben Kingsley

Max von Sydow

Shutter Island (2010)

8.2 26.0K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 138 min.

Audience: R

Story: World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.

Plot: island, based on novel or book, concentration camp, hurricane, investigation, psychiatric hospital, mental institution, escaped patient, ...

Time: world war ii, 1950s

Cast

Matt Ryan

Jerry O'Connell

Taissa Farmiga

Jason O'Mara

Justice League Dark: Apokolips War (2020)

8.2 1.6K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation

Country: United States of America

Duration: 90 min.

Audience: R

Story: Earth is decimated after intergalactic tyrant Darkseid has devastated the Justice League in a poorly executed war by the DC Super Heroes. Now the remaining bastions of good – the Justice League, Teen Titans, Suicide Squad and assorted others – must regroup, strategize and take the war to Darkseid in order to save the planet and its surviving inhabitants.

Plot: superhero, based on comic, hopeless, depressing, bitter, disrespectful, dc animated movie universe (dcamu)

Cast

Rebecca Ferguson

Common

Chinaza Uche

Ashley Zukerman

Silo (2023) TV Show

8.2 2.2K votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 30

Audience: TV-MA

Story: In a ruined and toxic future, thousands live in a giant silo deep underground. After its sheriff breaks a cardinal rule and residents die mysteriously, engineer Juliette starts to uncover shocking secrets and the truth about the silo.

Style: cynical, absurd

Plot: corruption, based on novel or book, post-apocalyptic future, dystopia, politics, disaster, hidden powers, silo, ...

Cast

Yuumi Kawai

Mizuki Yoshida

Yoichiro Saito

Kota Oka

Look Back (2024)

8.2 601 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama

Country: Japan

Duration: 58 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Popular, outgoing Fujino is celebrated by her classmates for her funny comics in the class newspaper. One day, her teacher asks her to share the space with Kyomoto, a truant recluse whose beautiful artwork sparks a competitive fervor in Fujino. What starts as jealousy transforms when Fujino realizes their shared passion for drawing.

Style: philosophical

Plot: friendship, elementary school, friends, school, based on manga, shounen, anime, complex, ...

Place: japan

Cast

Rakshit Shetty

Rukmini Vasanth

Sharath Lohitashwa

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Ramesh Indira

Sapta Sagaradaache Ello – Side A (2023)

8.1 38 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: India

Duration: 140 min.

Story: In the heart of 'Sapta Sagaradaache Ello’ resides an ardent love story between Manu and Priya. Set in 2010, the couple hails from a middle-class background. Circumstances land Manu in jail, putting his relationship with Priya in jeopardy.

Plot: depressing, adoring

Cast

Zhou Dongyu

Jackson Yee

Yin Fang

Huang Jue

Better Days (2019)

8.1 562 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance

Country: China, Hong Kong

Duration: 135 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A bullied teenage girl forms an unlikely friendship with a mysterious young man who protects her from her assailants, while she copes with the pressures of her final examinations.

Style: tense

Plot: affectation, bullying, thoughtful, bully victim, depressing, distressing, tragic

Doctor Slump (2024) TV Show

8.1 145 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 16

Audience: TV-14

Story: Once rivals in school, two brilliant doctors reunite by chance — each facing life’s worst slump and unexpectedly finding solace in each other.

Style: romantic

Plot: depression, workaholic, professor, friendship, romcom, rivalry, romance, teacher, ...

Cast

Jim Carrey

Kate Winslet

Kirsten Dunst

Mark Ruffalo

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

8.1 16.5K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: R

Story: Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.

Style: romantic

Plot: new york city, regret, jealousy, deja vu, amnesia, dreams, operation, relationship problems, ...

Time: 2000s

Cast

Marcello Mastroianni

Claudia Cardinale

Anouk Aimu00e9e

Sandra Milo

8½ (1963)

8.1 2.5K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Italy, France

Duration: 139 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by his doctors to rest, Anselmi heads for a luxurious resort, but a sorry group gathers—his producer, staff, actors, wife, mistress, and relatives—each one begging him to get on with the show. In retreat from their dependency, he fantasizes about past women and dreams of his childhood.

Style: lighthearted

Plot: dying and death, adultery, depression, individual, unsociability, screenplay, suicide attempt, missile, ...

Cast

Sigourney Weaver

Henry Czerny

Ryan Kelley

Austin Nichols

Prayers for Bobby (2009)

8.1 634 votes

Genre: Drama, History, TV Movie

Country: United States of America

Duration: 89 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Bobby Griffith was his mother's favorite son, the perfect all-American boy growing up under deeply religious influences in Walnut Creek, California. Bobby was also gay. Struggling with a conflict no one knew of, much less understood, Bobby finally came out to his family.

Plot: coming out, suicide, based on novel or book, parent child relationship, based on true story, grief, male homosexuality, tragic event, ...

Cast

Sarah Snook

Kodi Smit-McPhee

Jacki Weaver

Magda Szubanski

Memoir of a Snail (2024)

8.0 795 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama

Country: Australia

Duration: 94 min.

Audience: R

Story: Forcibly separated from her twin brother when they are orphaned, a melancholic misfit learns how to find confidence within herself amid the clutter of misfortunes and everyday life.

Plot: depression, difficult childhood, death of father, stop motion, foster family, adult animation, death in childbirth, broken family, ...

WorldEnd: What are you doing at the end of the world? Are you busy? Will you save us? (2017) TV Show

8.0 145 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-14

Story: The fleeting and sad story about little girls known as fairy weapons and an associate hero that survived. This is a world after it was attacked by unidentified monsters known as beasts and many of the species in the world, including humans, had been destroyed. The species that had managed to survived left the ground and were living on a floating island called Regal Ele. Willem Kmetsch wakes up above the clouds 500 years later and couldn’t protect the ones who he wanted to protect. Actually, he was living in despair because he was the only survivor.

Plot: saving the world, post-apocalyptic future, giant monster, anthropomorphism, hopeless, anime, based on light novel, depressing

Cast

Brie Larson

Jacob Tremblay

Joan Allen

Sean Bridgers

Room (2015)

8.0 9.7K votes

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Country: Canada, Ireland

Duration: 118 min.

Audience: R

Story: Held captive for 7 years in an enclosed space, a woman and her young son finally gain their freedom, allowing the boy to experience the outside world for the first time.

Plot: based on novel or book, escape, isolation, carpet, kidnapping, imprisonment, grandparents, hospital, ...

Cast

Andrew Lincoln

Danai Gurira

Pollyanna McIntosh

The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live (2024) TV Show

8.0 703 votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 6

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Rick and Michonne are thrown into another world, built on a war against the dead... And ultimately, a war against the living. Can they find each other and who they were in a place and situation unlike any they've ever known before? Are they enemies? Lovers? Victims? Victors? Without each other, are they even alive – or will they find that they, too, are the Walking Dead?

Plot: spin off, based on graphic novel, military, zombie apocalypse, depressed, critical, horror, cliché, ...

Cast

Yuya Yagira

Ayu Kitaura

Hiei Kimura

Momoko Shimizu

Nobody Knows (2004)

8.0 653 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Japan

Duration: 141 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.

Style: philosophical

Plot: sibling relationship, season, loss of loved one, neglect, family relationships, tokyo, japan, mother child separation, ...

Place: japan

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