Top Depressed Movies & TV Shows

DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story

Cast

Evan Peters

Richard Jenkins

Molly Ringwald

Michael Learned

DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (2022) TV Show

8.0 2.9K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 10

Audience: TV-MA

Story: This series examines the gruesome and horrific true crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer and the systemic failures that enabled one of America’s most notorious serial killers to continue his murderous spree in plain sight for over a decade.

Style: intense

Plot: deaf-mute, pedophilia, court case, necrophilia, alcoholism, based on true story, murder, serial killer, ...

Cast

Ingrid Bergman

Liv Ullmann

Lena Nyman

Halvar Bju00f6rk

Autumn Sonata (1978)

8.0 714 votes

Genre: Drama, Music

Country: Germany, Sweden

Duration: 93 min.

Audience: PG

Story: After a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter Eva. The pair have a troubled relationship: Charlotte sacrificed the responsibilities of motherhood for a career as a classical pianist. Over an emotional night, the pair reopen the wounds of the past. Charlotte gets another shock when she finds out that her mentally impaired daughter, Helena, is out of the asylum and living with Eva.

Style: intimate, intense

Plot: loss of loved one, marriage, pianist, invalid, mother daughter reunion, mother daughter relationship, introspective, dramatic, ...

March Comes In Like a Lion (2016) TV Show

8.0 141 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama

Country: Japan

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 44

Audience: TV-PG

Story: This is a gentle tale about people trying to regain something. And it is a tale of battle. Rei Kiriyama had lost his family in an accident when he was young. Now he is a 17-year-old pro shogi player who is burdened with deep loneliness. Rei lives alone in an old town in Tokyo, but after becoming acquainted with three sisters, Akari, Hinata and Momo, he begins to change little by little...

Plot: competition, depression, child prodigy, sports, high school, bullying, slice of life, dysfunctional family, ...

Cast

Emilia Clarke

Sam Claflin

Janet McTeer

Charles Dance

Me Before You (2016)

7.9 13.4K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Lou Clark, a directionless 26-year-old from the English countryside, takes a job at the local castle as a caregiver and companion to a wealthy young banker, Will Traynor. Wheelchair-bound from an accident two years prior, the once adventurous Will has all but given up — that is until Lou determines to show him that life is worth living.

Plot: depression, small town, based on novel or book, artist, wheelchair, romance, love, caretaker, ...

Place: england

Cast

Aya Okamoto

Yoshiaki Umegaki

Tohru Emori

Satomi Korogi

Tokyo Godfathers (2003)

7.9 1.5K votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama

Country: Japan

Duration: 92 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: On Christmas Eve, three homeless people living on the streets of Tokyo discover a newborn baby among the trash and set out to find its parents.

Plot: baby, drag queen, holiday, tokyo, japan, alcoholic, blunt, adult animation, ...

Cast

Bill Hader

Sarah Goldberg

Anthony Carrigan

Henry Winkler

Barry (2018) TV Show

7.9 1.2K votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 32

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A hit man from the Midwest moves to Los Angeles and gets caught up in the city's theatre arts scene.

Style: tense

Plot: post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), assassin, show business, depression, hitman, betrayal, dark comedy, los angeles, ...

Cast

Robert De Niro

Cathy Moriarty

Joe Pesci

Frank Vincent

Raging Bull (1980)

7.9 4.8K votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: United States of America

Duration: 129 min.

Audience: R

Story: The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.

Plot: new york city, jealousy, transporter, sports, brother, paranoia, violent husband, boxer, ...

Place: florida

Cast

Fernando Ramos da Silva

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Gilberto Moura

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Edilson Lino

Pixote (1980)

7.9 244 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: Brazil

Duration: 127 min.

Audience: R

Story: 10-year-old Pixote endures torture, degradation, and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of its members are murdered by policemen who frame Lilica, a 17-year-old trans hustler. Pixote helps Lilica and three other boys escape and they start to make their living by a life of crime which only escalates to more violence and death.

Style: intense

Plot: prostitution, lgbt, disturbed, gay theme, critical, depressing, complicated

Cast

Lauren Cohan

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Aimee Garcia

Jimmi Simpson

The Walking Dead: Dead City (2023) TV Show

7.9 743 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 22

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Maggie and Negan travel to post-apocalyptic Manhattan - long ago cut off from the mainland. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made it a world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror.

Plot: post-apocalyptic future, survival, zombie, spin off, based on graphic novel, manhattan, new york city

Cast

Ricky Gervais

Tom Basden

Kerry Godliman

David Bradley

After Life (2019) TV Show

7.9 1.1K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 18

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Tony had a perfect life. But after his wife Lisa suddenly dies, Tony changes. After contemplating taking his own life, he decides instead to live long enough to punish the world by saying and doing whatever he likes from now on.

Style: witty

Plot: suicide, depression, husband wife relationship, sadness, grief, dark comedy, grieving widower, widower, ...

Cast

Edward Chen

Tseng Jing-hua

Leon Dai

Wang Shih-sian

Your Name Engraved Herein (2020)

7.9 301 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: Canada, Taiwan

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: NR

Story: In 1987, as martial law ends in Taiwan, Jia-han and Birdy fall in love amid family pressure, homophobia and social stigma.

Plot: high school, jealousy, based on true story, coming of age, love, first love, lgbt, angst, ...

Time: 1980s

Cast

Kohji Moritsugu

Shoji Nakayama

Sandayuu Dokumamushi

Yuriko Hishimi

Ultraseven (1967) TV Show

7.9 125 votes

Genre: Action, Family, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 49

Story: In the not-too-distant future, the Earth finds itself constantly under attack from extraterrestrial threats. The Terrestrial Defense Force establishes the Ultra Garrison, a team of six elite members who utilize high-tech vehicles and weaponry. Joining their fight is the mysterious Dan Moroboshi, secretly an alien from the Land of Light in Nebula M-78, who transforms into his true form in times of crisis, Ultraseven.

Plot: monster, secret identity, hero, villain, superhero, alien, giant monster, dinosaur, ...

Cast

John Hurt

Christopher Benjamin

James Bolam

Nigel Hawthorne

The Plague Dogs (1982)

7.8 293 votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 103 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Two dogs, Rowf and Snitter, struggle to survive in the countryside after escaping from an animal research laboratory. They're pursued by search parties and then the military after rumours spread that they could be carrying the bubonic plague.

Plot: based on novel or book, fox, social commentary, dog, adult animation, research laboratory, animal cruelty, pets, ...

The Chi (2018) TV Show

7.8 220 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 8

Episodes: 88

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A relevant, timely and distinctive coming-of-age story following a half dozen interrelated characters in the South Side of Chicago. The story centers on Brandon, an ambitious and confident young man who dreams about opening a restaurant of his own someday, but is conflicted between the promise of a new life and his responsibility to his mother and teenage brother back in the South Side.

Style: absurd, intense

Plot: chicago, illinois, coming of age, depressing, cliché, mean spirited

Cast

Luna Wedler

Jannik Schu00fcmann

Luise Befort

Victoria Mayer

Close to the Horizon (2019)

7.8 507 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: Germany

Duration: 117 min.

Story: Jessica knows exactly what her life is supposed to look like and where it takes her. But then she meets Danny. He has a complicated past and could confuse all their plans. Jessica has to decide.

Plot: depression, based on novel or book, aids, pain, childhood trauma, based on true story, terminal illness, grief, ...

Cast

Logan Lerman

Emma Watson

Ezra Miller

Mae Whitman

The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)

7.8 11.3K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 103 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1991. High school freshman Charlie is a wallflower, always watching life from the sidelines, until two senior students, Sam and her stepbrother Patrick, become his mentors, helping him discover the joys of friendship, music and love.

Plot: school friend, depression, high school, friendship, based on novel or book, trauma, coming of age, freshman, ...

Time: 1990s

Cast

Jared Leto

Sarah Polley

Diane Kruger

Linh-Dan Pham

Mr. Nobody (2009)

7.8 6.3K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance, Science Fiction

Country: Belgium, Canada

Duration: 141 min.

Audience: R

Story: Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife and 3 children; one day, he wakes up as a mortal centenarian in the year 2092.

Style: shocking

Plot: time travel, surrealism, time, choice, free will, multiple storylines, curious, complex, ...

Time: 2090s

School Spirits (2023) TV Show

7.8 275 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Maddie, a teen stuck in the afterlife investigating her own mysterious disappearance, goes on a crime-solving journey as she adjusts to high school purgatory, but the closer she gets to discovering the truth, the more secrets and lies she uncovers.

Style: nostalgic, philosophical

Plot: supernatural, high school, based on graphic novel, lgbt, lgbt teen, speculative, curious, mysterious, ...

Cast

Eden Dambrine

Gustav De Waele

u00c9milie Dequenne

Lu00e9a Drucker

Close (2022)

7.8 1.0K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Belgium, France

Duration: 104 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Two 13-year-old boys spend an idyllic summer together, but their connection is put to the test when they become the subject of speculation at school.

Plot: friendship, suicide, forgiveness, male friendship, bullying, ice hockey, coming of age, grief, ...

One Day at a Time (2017) TV Show

7.8 198 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 46

Audience: TV-PG

Story: In a reimagining of the TV classic, a newly single Latina mother raises her teen daughter and tween son with the "help" of her old-school mom.

Plot: depression, feminism, family relationships, family drama, single mother, veteran, ex soldier, sitcom, ...

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