Top Depressed Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Brendan Fraser

Sadie Sink

Ty Simpkins

Hong Chau

The Whale (2022)

7.8 4.8K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 117 min.

Audience: R

Story: A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.

Plot: depression, nurse, missionary, bible, overweight man, based on play or musical, dying man, obesity, ...

Place: idaho

Cast

Koki Uchiyama

Ayumu Murase

Megumi Han

Ami Koshimizu

Devilman Crybaby (2018) TV Show

7.8 745 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 10

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Akira Fudo learns from his best friend Ryo Asuka that demons will revive and reclaim the world from humans. With humans hopeless against this threat, Ryo suggests combining with a demon. With this, Akira becomes Devilman, a being with the power of demon but with a human heart.

Style: whimsical

Plot: angel, philosophy, rape, shapeshifting, anti hero, bisexuality, politics, god, ...

Platoon (1986)

7.7 5.2K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, War

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 120 min.

Audience: R

Story: As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.

Style: suspenseful, intense

Plot: dying and death, helicopter, ambush, war crimes, village, mine, bunker, infantry, ...

Time: vietnam war

Cast

Tom Hanks

Mariana Treviu00f1o

Cameron Britton

Mack Bayda

A Man Called Otto (2022)

7.7 3.6K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: Sweden, United States of America

Duration: 126 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: When a lively young family moves in next door, grumpy widower Otto Anderson meets his match in a quick-witted, pregnant woman named Marisol, leading to an unlikely friendship that turns his world upside down.

Style: melancholy

Plot: friendship, based on novel or book, suicide attempt, flashback, remake, miscarriage, new neighbor, social media, ...

Cast

Louis Wolheim

Lew Ayres

John Wray

Arnold Lucy

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

7.7 937 votes

Genre: Drama, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 133 min.

Audience: NR

Story: When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.

Plot: friendship, army, based on novel or book, disillusion, steel helmet, patriotism, boot camp, battlefield, ...

Time: world war i

Place: germany

Cast

Felix Kammerer

Albrecht Schuch

Aaron Hilmer

Moritz Klaus

All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)

7.7 4.8K votes

Genre: Drama, War

Country: Germany

Duration: 147 min.

Audience: R

Story: Paul Baumer and his friends Albert and Muller, egged on by romantic dreams of heroism, voluntarily enlist in the German army. Full of excitement and patriotic fervour, the boys enthusiastically march into a war they believe in. But once on the Western Front, they discover the soul-destroying horror of World War I.

Style: shocking, intense

Plot: based on novel or book, infantry, tank, battle, brutality, period drama, german soldier, german army, ...

Time: world war i, 1910s

Cast

Scott Adsit

Ryan Potter

Daniel Henney

T.J. Miller

Big Hero 6 (2014)

7.7 16.7K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation

Country: United States of America

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: PG

Story: A special bond develops between plus-sized inflatable robot Baymax, and prodigy Hiro Hamada, who team up with a group of friends to form a band of high-tech heroes.

Plot: friendship, martial arts, hero, sibling relationship, superhero, talent, cartoon, villain, ...

Place: san francisco, california, tokyo, ...

Cast

Miguel u00c1ngel Silvestre

Max Riemelt

Jamie Clayton

Bae Doona

Sense8 (2015) TV Show

7.7 1.9K votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-MA

Story: One gunshot, one death, one moment out of time that irrevocably links eight minds in disparate parts of the world, putting them in each other's lives, each other's secrets, and in terrible danger. Ordinary people suddenly reborn as "Sensates."

Style: romantic

Plot: sexuality, identity, telepathy, secret agent, supernatural, conspiracy, superhuman, super power, ...

Haibane Renmei (2002) TV Show

7.7 128 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 13

Audience: TV-14

Story: A dream of falling from the sky...and then birth. Rakka is born from a large cocoon into the Old Home, greeted by a group of female beings with small wings on their backs and shining halos above their heads. Soon Rakka’s own wings grow, a halo is placed on her head and she is told that she must work in the nearby town of Grie. She soon realizes that the town and the entire world they live in are confined behind the Wall, a tall, impenetrable wall that none except the mysterious Toga are allowed to exit.

Style: psychological

Plot: suicide, angel, countryside, amnesia, afterlife, slice of life, tragedy, redemption, ...

Place: japan

Cast

Justin Theroux

Carrie Coon

Amy Brenneman

Christopher Eccleston

The Leftovers (2014) TV Show

7.7 1.2K votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 28

Audience: TV-MA

Story: When 2% of the world's population abruptly disappears without explanation, the world struggles to understand just what they're supposed to do about it. This is the story of the people who didn't make the cut.

Plot: based on novel or book, depression, police chief, disappearance, family, missing person, small town sheriff

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

Cast

Daniel Radcliffe

Emma Watson

Rupert Grint

Toby Jones

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)

7.7 20.5K votes

Genre: Adventure, Fantasy

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 146 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting an end to Voldemort's bid for immortality. But with Harry's beloved Dumbledore dead and Voldemort's unscrupulous Death Eaters on the loose, the world is more dangerous than ever.

Plot: witch, friendship, london, england, corruption, based on novel or book, escape, teleportation, ...

Cast

Daniel Radcliffe

Rupert Grint

Emma Watson

Jim Broadbent

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)

7.7 20.9K votes

Genre: Adventure, Fantasy

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 153 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Dumbledore tries to prepare Harry for the final battle with Voldemort while Death Eaters wreak havoc in both Muggle and Wizard worlds.

Plot: witch, dying and death, london, england, based on novel or book, magic, school of witchcraft, sequel, ...

Cast

Jared Harris

Lee Pace

Lou Llobell

Laura Birn

Foundation (2021) TV Show

7.7 1.7K votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 30

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Follow a band of exiles on their monumental journey to save humanity and rebuild civilization amid the fall of the Galactic Empire.

Style: tense

Plot: prophecy, based on novel or book, empire, distant future, space opera, aggressive, domineering, human clone, ...

Cast

Homayoun Ershadi

Abdolrahman Bagheri

Safar Ali Moradi

Mir Hossein Noori

Taste of Cherry (1997)

7.7 712 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Iran, France

Duration: 99 min.

Story: A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take on the job, but initially he has little luck. Eventually, Badii finds a man who is up for the task because he needs the money, but his new associate soon tries to talk him out of committing suicide.

Plot: depression, suicide, life and death, muslim, talking, nihilism, koran, teheran (tehran), ...

Cast

Ulrich Thomsen

Henning Moritzen

Thomas Bo Larsen

Paprika Steen

The Celebration (1998)

7.7 1.3K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Denmark, Sweden

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: R

Story: The family of a wealthy businessman gather to celebrate his 60th birthday. During the course of the party, his eldest son presents a speech that reveals a devastating secret that turns the night into a battle of truth and denial.

Style: intense

Plot: daughter, depression, infidelity, child abuse, suicide, parent child relationship, birthday, country house, ...

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Cast

Daniel Radcliffe

Rupert Grint

Emma Watson

Imelda Staunton

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)

7.7 20.9K votes

Genre: Adventure, Fantasy

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 138 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: When a new professor's methods leave Hogwarts unprepared to fight the rising tide of evil, Harry teaches students how to defend against the dark arts.

Plot: witch, dying and death, based on novel or book, court, magic, prophecy, loss of loved one, professor, ...

Aftersun (2022)

7.6 1.9K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: R

Story: Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories fill the gaps between camcorder footages as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the troubled man she didn't.

Style: bittersweet

Plot: hotel, depression, karaoke, tourist, vacation, swimming pool, coming of age, memory, ...

Place: turkey

Cast

Elle Fanning

Justice Smith

Alexandra Shipp

Kelli O'Hara

All the Bright Places (2020)

7.6 3.0K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: R

Story: Two teens facing personal struggles form a powerful bond as they embark on a cathartic journey chronicling the wonders of Indiana.

Plot: depression, suicide, indiana, usa, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), based on novel or book, loss, coming of age, ...

Cast

Adrien Brody

Marcia Gay Harden

James Caan

Christina Hendricks

Detachment (2011)

7.6 2.0K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long enough to form any semblance of sentient attachment.

Plot: depression, falsely accused, classroom, grandfather, unhappiness, animal abuse, dreary

Cast

Michael Dorman

Terry O'Quinn

Kurtwood Smith

Michael Chernus

Patriot (2015) TV Show

7.6 189 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 18

Audience: TV-MA

Story: To prevent Iran from going nuclear, intelligence officer John Tavner must forgo all safety nets and assume a perilous "non-official cover" -- that of a mid-level employee at a Midwestern industrial piping firm.

Style: melancholy, philosophical, suspenseful, romantic, whimsical

Plot: undercover, dark comedy, curious, dramedy, thoughtful, somber, spy thriller, reflective, ...

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