Top Depressed Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Alia Bhatt

Shah Rukh Khan

Kunal Kapoor

Angad Bedi

Dear Zindagi (2016)

7.0 259 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: India

Duration: 151 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Kaira, a young girl, faces problems in her relationships. She meets Dr Jehangir, who helps her resolve her issues with her parents and get a new perspective on life, which leads to her following her passion and an improvement in her love life.

Plot: depression, cinematographer, coming of age, psychologist

Cast

Elisha Williams

Dulu00e9 Hill

Saycon Sengbloh

Laura Kariuki

The Wonder Years (2021) TV Show

7.0 211 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 32

Audience: TV-PG

Story: A coming of age story set in the late 1960s that takes a nostalgic look at a black middle-class family in Montgomery, Alabama through the point-of-view of imaginative 12 year-old Dean. With the wisdom of his adult years, Dean’s hopeful and humorous recollections show how his family found their “wonder years” in a turbulent time. Inspired by the classic series of the same name.

Plot: alabama, remake, coming of age

Time: 1960s

Cast

Emma Suu00e1rez

Adriana Ugarte

Daniel Grao

Inma Cuesta

Julieta (2016)

7.0 918 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: Spain, United States of America

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: R

Story: The film spans 30 years in Julieta’s life from a nostalgic 1985 where everything seems hopeful, to 2015 where her life appears to be beyond repair and she is on the verge of madness.

Plot: depression, friendship, madrid, spain, lover, marriage, female friendship, autobiography, ...

The Buccaneers (2023) TV Show

7.0 131 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 16

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A group of fun-loving American girls burst onto the scene in tightly corseted 1870s London, kicking off an Anglo-American culture clash. Sent to secure husbands and status, the buccaneers' hearts are set on much more than that.

Plot: london, england, period drama, high society, costume drama, depressing, ambivalent, cliché, ...

Time: 1870s

Cast

Vijay Deverakonda

Shalini Pandey

Rahul Ramakrishna

Kamal Kamaraju

Arjun Reddy (2017)

7.0 120 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: India

Duration: 187 min.

Audience: R

Story: A brilliant but impulsive young surgeon spirals into self-destruction after a painful breakup, struggling to cope with love, loss, and the consequences of his own temper.

Plot: depression, self-destruction, drug addiction, break-up, alcoholic, impulsive, mentally unstable

Cast

Ryan Gosling

Michelle Williams

John Doman

Mike Vogel

Blue Valentine (2010)

7.0 3.5K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 112 min.

Audience: R

Story: Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in their marriage.

Style: shocking, romantic

Plot: depression, dancing, nurse, pennsylvania, usa, love at first sight, pregnancy, classroom, ...

Boston Blue (2025) TV Show

7.0 67 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 23

Audience: TV-14

Story: NYPD Detective Danny Reagan takes a job with the Boston PD and is paired with Detective Lena Silver, part of a law enforcement family comprised of District Attorney Mae Silver, Police Superintendent Sarah Silver, rookie cop Jonah Silver and Rev. Edwin Peters. Reagan hopes to reconnect with his son, Sean, in Boston.

Plot: boston, massachusetts, police, spin off, family, police procedural, depressing, cliché, ...

Cast

Sonequa Martin-Green

Doug Jones

Mary Wiseman

Anthony Rapp

Star Trek: Discovery (2017) TV Show

7.0 2.1K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 65

Audience: TV-14

Story: Follow the voyages of Starfleet on their missions to discover new worlds and new life forms, and one Starfleet officer who must learn that to truly understand all things alien, you must first understand yourself.

Plot: artificial intelligence (a.i.), space war, space travel, dystopia, exploration, prequel, space, alien, ...

The Enemy Within (2019) TV Show

6.9 128 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 13

Audience: TV-14

Story: Erica Shepherd is a brilliant former CIA operative, now known as the most notorious traitor in American history serving life in a Supermax prison. Against every fiber of his being but with nowhere else to turn, FBI Agent Will Keaton enlists Shepherd to help track down a fiercely dangerous and elusive criminal she knows all too well. While Shepherd and Keaton have different motivations for bringing the enemy to justice, they both know that to catch a spy… they must think like one.

Plot: spy, central intelligence agency (cia), fbi, criminal consultant, depressing, cliché

It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010)

6.9 2.5K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.

Plot: depression, suicide, based on novel or book, coming of age, teen movie, psychiatric ward, woman director, based on young adult novel

Cast

Billy Campbell

Karine Vanasse

Cardinal (2017) TV Show

6.9 167 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: Canada

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Detective John Cardinal attempts to uncover the mystery of what happened to the missing 13-year-old girl whose body is discovered in the shaft-head of an abandoned mine. At the same time, he comes under investigation by his new partner, Lise Delorme, a tough investigator in her own right.

Plot: detective, based on novel or book, depression, child murder, psychopath, serial killer, police corruption, ontario, ...

Place: canada

Being Mary Jane (2013) TV Show

6.9 54 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 51

Audience: TV-14

Story: Mary Jane Paul is a one-woman-show: a successful TV news anchor, and an entirely self-sufficient powerhouse who remains devoted to a family that doesn't share her motivation. Intense drama and unforgettable moments unfold as Mary Jane juggles her life, her relationships, her work, and commitments to her family.

Plot: tv news anchor, depressing, cliché

Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens (2020) TV Show

6.9 53 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 27

Audience: TV-14

Story: Nora Lin leans on her family as she navigates life and young adulthood in outer borough-NYC.

Plot: loser, drugs, family, sitcom, asian american, depressing, cliché, adult living at home

Cast

Yonas Kibreab

Remy Edgerly

Zoe Saldau00f1a

Brad Garrett

Elio (2025)

6.9 1.0K votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Elio, a space fanatic with an active imagination, finds himself on a cosmic misadventure where he must form new bonds with eccentric alien lifeforms, navigate a crisis of intergalactic proportions and somehow discover who he is truly meant to be.

Plot: villain, alien, coming of age, computer animation, eye patch, social outcast, aftercreditsstinger, beforecreditsstinger, ...

Cast

Marion Cotillard

Fabrizio Rongione

Catherine Salu00e9e

Pili Groyne

Two Days, One Night (2014)

6.9 1.0K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Belgium, France

Duration: 95 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Sandra is a young woman who has only one weekend to convince her colleagues they must give up their bonuses in order for her to keep her job — not an easy task in this economy.

Plot: depression, suicide attempt, female protagonist, unemployment, injustice, employer employee relationship, economic crisis, xanax, ...

Place: belgium

Cast

Chelsea Islan

Widika Sidmore

Hadijah Shahab

Baskara Mahendra

May the Devil Take You Too (2020)

6.9 71 votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Country: Indonesia

Duration: 109 min.

Story: Two years after escaping from demonic terror, a young woman is still haunted by unnatural vision. The dangers that await her and her friends are increasingly threatening.

Style: intense

Plot: ironic, depressing

Hotel Chevalier (2007)

6.9 925 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: France, United States of America

Duration: 13 min.

Audience: R

Story: In a Paris hotel room, Jack Whitman lies on a bed. His phone rings; it's a woman on her way to see him, a surprise. She arrives and the complications of their relationship emerge in bits and pieces. Will they make love? Is their relationship over? (A prequel to The Darjeeling Limited, 2007.)

Plot: hotel room, depression, paris, france, balcony, girlfriend, lovers, friends, ...

Cast

Nicholas Hoult

Toni Collette

J.K. Simmons

Chris Messina

Juror #2 (2024)

6.9 2.5K votes

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 114 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: While serving as a juror in a high profile murder trial, family man Justin Kemp finds himself struggling with a serious moral dilemma…one he could use to sway the jury verdict and potentially convict—or free—the accused killer.

Style: philosophical, suspenseful

Plot: jury duty, moral dilemma, murder trial, courtroom drama, depressing, apathetic, apologetic, empathetic

Cast

Christopher Lambert

Roxanne Hart

Clancy Brown

Sean Connery

Highlander (1986)

6.9 2.9K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: R

Story: He fought his first battle on the Scottish Highlands in 1536. He will fight his greatest battle on the streets of New York City in 1986. His name is Connor MacLeod. He is immortal.

Style: suspenseful, intense

Plot: new york city, martial arts, swordplay, immortality, sword, sword fight, fictional war, dark fantasy, ...

Place: scotland