Top Depressed Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Hugh Jackman

Rebecca Ferguson

Thandiwe Newton

Cliff Curtis

Reminiscence (2021)

6.5 2.0K votes

Genre: Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Nicolas Bannister, a rugged and solitary veteran living in a near-future Miami flooded by rising seas, is an expert in a dangerous occupation: he offers clients the chance to relive any memory they desire. His life changes when he meets a mysterious young woman named Mae. What begins as a simple matter of lost and found becomes a passionate love affair. But when a different client's memories implicate Mae in a series of violent crimes, Bannister must delve through the dark world of the past to uncover the truth about the woman he fell for.

Plot: miami, florida, drug addiction, new orleans, louisiana, flashback, murder, memory, ...

Pan Am (2011) TV Show

6.5 139 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 14

Audience: TV-PG

Story: In this modern world, air travel represents the height of luxury and Pan Am is the biggest name in the business. The planes are glamorous, the pilots are rock stars and the stewardesses are the most desirable women in the world. They're trained to handle everything from in-air emergencies to unwanted advances—all without rumpling their pristine uniforms or mussing their hair.

Style: nostalgic, romantic

Plot: parent child relationship, pilot, airplane, period drama, historical, airline, flight attendant, historical drama, ...

Time: 1960s

Cast

Natalie Portman

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Gina Rodriguez

Tessa Thompson

Annihilation (2018)

6.4 9.4K votes

Genre: Horror, Science Fiction

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: R

Story: A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.

Style: absurd

Plot: depression, quarantine, coma, based on novel or book, mutation, self-destruction, professor, dna, ...

Place: florida

Cast

Craig Sheffer

Sheryl Lee

Terence Stamp

Casey Siemaszko

Bliss (1997)

6.4 93 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: Canada, United States of America

Duration: 103 min.

Audience: R

Story: On his wedding day, Joseph nervously admits that his wife is not quite like other women. But his beautiful bride is more than just the "impulsive, compulsive, obsessive" woman he thinks he knows. And when Joseph discovers she is hiding troubling secrets, it sends them both on a sexual odyssey that will either destroy or redeem their relationship.

Plot: depression, dancing, child abuse, bondage, abusive father, frigidity, psychology, marriage, ...

The Smashing Machine (2025)

6.4 653 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, History

Country: United States of America

Duration: 123 min.

Audience: R

Story: In the late 1990s, up-and-coming mixed martial artist Mark Kerr aspires to become the greatest fighter in the world. However, he must also battle his opioid dependence and a volatile relationship with his girlfriend Dawn.

Style: intense

Plot: sports, drug addiction, biography, based on true story, mixed martial arts (mma), price of fame, sports drama, depressed, ...

Time: 1990s

Cast

Heather Donahue

Joshua Leonard

Michael C. Williams

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Bob Griffin

The Blair Witch Project (1999)

6.4 5.5K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 81 min.

Audience: R

Story: In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found.

Plot: witch, legend, camping, map, supernatural, wilderness, forest, maryland, ...

Cast

Ella Hunt

Jack Martin

Avantika

Will Angus

Not Suitable for Work (2026) TV Show

6.3 48 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 9

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Follow five work-obsessed twenty-somethings striving for professional success and, if they have time, personal happiness in Manhattan's most glamorous neighborhood, Murray Hill.

Plot: success, manhattan, new york city, twenty something

Cast

Julia Garner

Matthew Macfadyen

Makenzie Leigh

Kristine Froseth

The Assistant (2020)

6.3 535 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 88 min.

Audience: R

Story: A searing look at a day in the life of an assistant to a powerful executive. As Jane follows her daily routine, she grows increasingly aware of the insidious abuse that threatens every aspect of her position.

Plot: movie business, corporate world, employer employee relationship, personal assistant, woman director, abuse of power, metoo, workplace culture, ...

Harlan Coben's Lazarus (2025) TV Show

6.3 78 votes

Genre: Mystery

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 6

Story: Forensic psychiatrist Dr Joel 'Laz' Lazarus is forced to confront long-buried demons after his father Dr L dies in suspicious circumstances. At first assured his dad's death is a suicide, Laz is soon sucked into a world of murderous conspiracy, and a race to find the killer, by strange visions of people he knows to be dead.

Plot: suicide, murder, miniseries, psychological thriller, psychiatrist, depressed, thriller

Cast

Milly Alcock

Eve Ridley

Matthias Schoenaerts

Jason Momoa

Supergirl (2026)

6.2 464 votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: When an unexpected and ruthless adversary strikes too close to home, Kara Zor-El, aka Supergirl, reluctantly joins forces with an unlikely companion on an epic, interstellar journey of vengeance and justice.

Plot: galaxy, hero, superhero, villain, based on comic, space, female protagonist, heroine, ...

Cast

Barbara Ronchi

Fotinu00ec Peluso

Margherita Buy

Alessandro Tedeschi

Ten Minutes (2024)

6.2 76 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Italy

Duration: 102 min.

Story: Ten minutes a day can change the course of your day. Ten minutes doing something completely new can change the course of a life. This is what Bianca will discover in the midst of an existential crisis. New meetings, the discovery of special bonds and listening to those who have always loved us. Sometimes it doesn't take much to start over and this film teaches us this, through a warm and passionate story of rebirth.

Plot: depression, infidelity, self-discovery, female psychiatrist, family issues, life lessons

Cast

Sam Reid

Jacob Anderson

Assad Zaman

Joseph Potter

The Vampire Lestat (2026) TV Show

6.2 36 votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 7

Audience: TV-MA

Story: The Vampire Lestat goes on tour while being haunted by "muses" from his past. As the band's popularity grows, so does Lestat's influence over vampires & humans alike, leaving others to contend with Lestat's power in the face of the Great Conversion.

Plot: based on novel or book, vampire, interview, immortality, male homosexuality, rock band, lgbt, vinyl record, ...

Time: 2020s

Cast

Mu00e9lissa Boros

Tahar Rahim

Golshifteh Farahani

Emma Mackey

Alpha (2025)

6.2 125 votes

Genre: Drama, Horror, Science Fiction

Country: France, Belgium

Duration: 128 min.

Audience: R

Story: Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old lives with her single mom. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm.

Plot: coming of age, disease, pandemic, mother daughter relationship, body horror, depressing

Cast

Dan Stevens

Michael Sheen

Lucy Boynton

Mark Lewis Jones

Apostle (2018)

6.1 1.6K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Duration: 129 min.

Audience: R

Story: In 1905, a man travels to a remote island in search of his missing sister who has been kidnapped by a mysterious religious cult.

Plot: ransom, gore, cult, murder, religion, prophet, church, praying, ...

Time: 1900s

Place: wales

Galactica 1980 (1980) TV Show

6.1 104 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 10

Story: 30 years after the original Battlestar Galactica series. Upon reaching Earth, the inhabitants of the renegade starfleet take action when they realize earthlings aren't advanced enough to help battle the Cylons.

Style: absurd

Plot: space marine, sequel, cybernetic, battlestar galactica, depressing, demeaning

Cast

Elisha Cuthbert

Camilla Belle

Martin Donovan

Edie Falco

The Quiet (2005)

6.1 296 votes

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 96 min.

Audience: R

Story: After her widowed father dies, deaf teenager Dot moves in with her godparents, Olivia and Paul Deer. The Deers' daughter, Nina, is openly hostile to Dot, but that does not prevent her from telling her secrets to her silent stepsister, including the fact that she wants to kill her lecherous father.

Plot: daughter, depression, parent child relationship, deaf-mute, bullying, high school sports, attempted rape, incest, ...

Cast

Keke Palmer

Naomi Ackie

Taylour Paige

Poppy Liu

I Love Boosters (2026)

6.0 73 votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: R

Story: A group of shoplifters take aim at a cutthroat fashion maven by stealing from her stores and reselling them at a lower price — what they call 'fashion-forward philanthropy'.

Style: surreal, philosophical, lighthearted, absurd

Plot: department store, fashion designer, fashion, shoplifting, clothes, shoplifter, absurdism, inspirational, ...

Cast

Alia Bhatt

Vedang Raina

Manoj Pahwa

Vivek Gomber

Jigra (2024)

6.0 72 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: India

Duration: 155 min.

Audience: 15

Story: When Ankur is wrongfully imprisoned and sentenced to death in a foreign country, his steely sister Satya is driven by a lethal resolve to break him free.

Plot: depressing

Cast

Tatiana Maslany

Jake Johnson

Dolly de Leon

Jessy Hodges

Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed (2026) TV Show

5.8 33 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 10

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A newly divorced mom falls down a dangerous rabbit hole of blackmail, murder, and youth soccer.

Plot: blackmail, murder, dark comedy, divorced mother, thriller, depressing, pretentious

Cast

Thomasin McKenzie

Anne Hathaway

Shea Whigham

Sam Nivola

Eileen (2023)

5.8 405 votes

Genre: Crime, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: R

Story: During a bitter 1964 Massachusetts winter, young secretary Eileen becomes enchanted by Rebecca, the glamorous new counselor at the prison where she works. Their budding friendship takes a twisted turn when Rebecca reveals a dark secret — throwing Eileen onto a sinister path.

Style: dark, psychological

Plot: prison, sexual abuse, based on novel or book, winter, kidnapping, boston, massachusetts, female friendship, ...

Time: 1960s

Place: new england

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