Most Depressing Movies of all Time and Where to Watch Them

Requiem for a Dream takes us through the lives of four unparalleled individuals who are hooked to this heinous addiction of drugs such as heroin, pills, and cocaine. Despite their aspirations of immensity, they yield to their addictions. It is a straight downhill from there for them. We witness all the disastrous consequences resulting from their addiction. What happens next?

A young boy named Bruno lives with his family in Nazi Germany during the Second World War. They move to a countryside home after his father’s promotion, however, Bruno is unhappy in his new environment and becomes lonely. Bruno’s tutor attempts to instil Nazi propaganda into Bruno and his older sister, but the anti-Semitism idea of hatred for Jews puzzles Bruno. One day, while exploring the woods, Bruno comes across a concentration camp, which he previously thought was a farm. He meets another boy about his age across the wired fence named Shmuel, both blissfully unaware of the brutality around them.

Oskar Schindler, a member of the Nazi party arrives in Krakow where Germans are torturing and killing Jews. He looks forward to earning a fortune. With the help of his Jewish official, Itzhak Stern, he starts a factory to produce enamelware. When Amon Goth arrives in Krakow and starts ordering the killing of Jews and transportation to camps. Schindler makes a list of 800 employees to be prevented from transporting and convinces Goth with bribes and gifts.

Based on the New Testament, The Passion of Christ is an American biblical drama revolving around the final twelve hours before the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth. The story begins in the late hours of the night at the forested garden of Gethsemane, where the savior of humanity, Jesus has gone to pray while his disciples were sleeping. While he prays after the Last Supper, Satan in androgynous form appears, tempting Jesus to believe that none can bear the burden of God. Jesus starts sweating, and as soon as his sweat turns into blood, a serpent emerges from Satan's guise. Jesus hears his disciples calling for him and rebukes Satan by squeezing his head. Later, Judas Iscariot, another Jesuss disciples, betrays Jesuss identity. Judas performs miracles and publicly announces that he is The Son of God. As the guards of the city walls of Jerusalem arrest Jesus, a fight erupts. When Judas flees, the guards secure Jesus and beat him during the journey. Watch to see more new events unfold before the final crucifixion.

In 1941, Sussex, Virginia Woolf proceeds to drown herself in the river Ouse. Virginia suffers from depression and feels suffocated constantly living under the watchful eyes of those around her, while struggling to write her novel. In 1951, in America, Laura is a suburban housewife living with her husband and son Richie. Pregnant for the second time, Laura is miserable with her life and reads ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ to escape the mundane. In 2001, in New York City, Clarissa is throwing a party for her friend Richard, a writer who is about to receive an honorary award. A single day in the life of three women in different times and places delves deep into life and death.

Arthur, a mentally ill, socially depressed wanna-be comedian, tries to receive the attention and care of Gothams grim society. His own community smudges and considers him an abnormal human. Apart from getting beaten up, marginalised and mocked at every aspect of his life, Arthur comprehends that the only coherent joke is his own life! When his own circle disregards him, Arthur finds solace in insanity, with his retaliative and horrendous crimes against the same atrocious society which once showed no mercy on him. He ultimately becomes the clown-king of the city - THE JOKER. What insanity get the best of him?

Based on a true story, the movie relives the Hutu-Tutsi war where the Hutu militia tried to create a future generation free of Tutsi. The manager of a famous hotel, Paul Rusesabagina and his family witness genocide and the UN leaders refusal to help. With nowhere else to go, he decides to provide shelter for refugees in his hotel- Hotel des Mille Collines.

In 1947, in Brooklyn, an aspiring writer named Stingo meets a Polish woman named Sophie Zawistowska and her boyfriend Nathan Landau. Stingo learns Sophie is a holocaust survivor, and that both her father and her husband were killed in a German labor camp. She immigrated to America and met Nathan shortly after. Nathan works for a pharmaceutical company, he is extremely possessive and often gets jealous and physically abuses Sophie. Stingo discovers more about Sophie’s past and her brutal experience in Auschwitz. As Stingo and Sophie seem to grow closer, Nathan’s mental status grows violent.

12 Years A Slave is a real-life story that talks about the struggles of Solomon to break the chains of slavery that bounded him for twelve years. Back in 1853, a free man from New York, Solomon Northup, had a wife and children. Solomon is tricked, kidnapped and ultimately sold as a slave in New Orleans by two white men. William Ford, his first owner, is a kind man. He helps Northup by giving him a violin, but here Northup is robbed of his own name and given a different name, Platt. When Northup and the neighbouring carpenter happen to fight, Ford sells him to Epps despite Northup constantly claiming that he is a free man. At Epps, Solomon starts facing violence in the hands of the slave owner. He struggles hard to retain his self-respect amidst the chaos that surrounds him. For twelve long years, Solomon worked in different plantations as a slave under different slave owners. Solomon's willpower and hope to be free one day, encourage him to endure it all.

Frank is a longshoreman who also works as a cashier, and April is an aspiring actress. The two meet at a party and fall in love. The couple soon gets married and Frank gets a sales job for financial security. They move to a suburban house at 115 Revolutionary Road and soon welcome a child. Over the years their relationship becomes strained. April has let go of her dreams of becoming an actress, while Frank is tired of his dull job. To escape their dreary monotonous life April convinces Frank to move to Paris. As they prepare to leave Revolutionary Road, a sudden situation knocks on their door.

This film is an American historical drama, based on the true story of a severely deformed man Joseph Merrick, a 19th-century man living in London. The character playing Joseph, is given the name - John Merrick. John is a man of great intelligence and a kind heart but is mistreated, owing to his disfigurement. Popularly known as 'The Elephant Man', John is later rescued by a Victorian surgeon, Dr Treves.

Ben Sanderson is a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything in his life, including his career to alcoholism. Drowning in despair, Ben decides to spend the rest of his days in Las Vegas, drinking himself to death with the remaining of his fortune. Drunk driving on his way to Vegas, Ben nearly hits a woman who turns out to be a prostitute named Sera. Ben meets sera again, the two connect over their conversation and she tells him to move in with her. The two starts living together and promise not to interfere in each other’s business.

Set in 1935, Paul Edgecomb is in charge of death row, termed the Green Mile at Cold Mountain Penitentiary. The events at the prison take place during the Great Depression. John Coffey is found guilty of rape and murder of two white girls. As the movie progresses, Paul comes to believe that John possesses a special gift and is wrongly accused. The movie is an adaptation of the 1996 novel written by Stephen King.

Behrani, an Iranian immigrant buys a California bungalow, thinking he can fix it up, sell it again, and make enough money to send his son to college. However, the house is the legal property of former drug addict Kathy. After losing the house in an unfair legal dispute with the county, she is left with nowhere to go. Wanting her house back, she hires a lawyer and befriends a police officer. Neither Kathy nor Behrani have broken the law, so they find themselves involved in a difficult moral dilemma.

Keller Dovers world turns upside down when he finds out that his 6-year-old daughter and her friend are missing. When the police seem to have failed to uncover the kidnappers and find the girls, Keller sets out to search for them himself. His ceaseless efforts bring him closer to figuring out the whole situation while he puts his own life at risk.

After going through some trouble, Brandon Teena, who is a young transgender man, moves to a small town in Nebraska. He soon makes some new friends and starts dating a woman named Lana Tisdel. However, Brandon’s friends, including Lana, are unaware that he is transgender. Brandon gets arrested for a past issue and gets put into the women’s section in the prison. When Lana inquires about the situation, an anxious Brandon lies about being born as a hermaphrodite, but Lana assures him that she loves him anyway. Meanwhile, some of their friends discover Brandon’s transgender identity, and things take a violent turn.

Set in Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father; at home, she must wait hand and foot on her mother, an angry woman who abuses her emotionally and physically. School is chaotic and Precious has reached the ninth grade with good marks and a secret; She can't read.

Margaret Maggie Fitzgerald, a waitress from Ozarks, Missouri, wants to be trained as a boxer. She contacts Frankie Dunn, a legendary retired boxer and trainer to train her. Initially, he refuses due to the fact that Maggie is too old to train. However, his friend Eddie 'Scrap-Iron' Dupris persuades him to train her. Frankie and Maggie train together developing a father-daughter relationship due to the fact that Frankie is distant from his daughter and Maggie is distant from her family. Maggies career takes off but after a fatal incident in the ring, she asks one last favor from Frankie.

Robin Ramzinski is a professional wrestler with the ring name Randy ‘the ram’. Randy was very popular in the 80s when he was in his prime. Now, way past his prime years, Randy works part-time at a supermarket and wrestles on weekends for independent wrestling promotions. Randy often gets bullied by his manager at work, who likes to humiliate him for his wrestling career. Randy meets a woman named Cassidy at the strip club that he visits frequently, and she too is past her younger days but continues to work as a stripper. Randy soon gets the opportunity to fight an old opponent which could revive his past glory. However, his physical health is a concern.

After spending years in Life Insurance Company, Warren Schmidt decides to retire. He barely adjusts to his new life and finds himself useless. When his wife dies, life becomes worse. At her funeral, he meets his daughter, Jeannie and her fiancée Randall, waterbed salesmen. Schmidt dislikes him and tells his daughter that she can find someone much better. She refuses and goes back. Left to live alone, Schmidt stops taking care of himself. He discovers secret love letters in his wife’s closet. Disgusted with everything, he decides to change his life. He embarks on a journey in his motor home, to Winnebago, to stop his daughter’s wedding.

Randle McMurphy is a criminal sentenced for multiple assaults and rape attempt. Frustrated with all the heavy prison work, he starts 'acting' in a very crazy and vile manner. Soon the authorities decide to shift him to a mental institution and he aims to stay there till the end of his sentence with ease. Soon he discovers doctors are planning several tests to prove him normal and a Nurse Mildred Ratched, who enjoys the pain and submission of the patients in the institution.

Based on the best selling autobiography by Irish expat Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the poverty endemic in the slums of pre-war Limerick. The film opens with the family in Brooklyn, but following the death of one of Frankie's siblings, they return home, only to find the situation there even worse. Prejudice against Frankie's Northern Irish father makes his search for employment in the Republic difficult despite his having fought for the IRA, and when he does find money, he spends the money on drink.

The Pianist is about a renowned musician wrestling his way out during the onset of World war ll. The terrific war separates him from his family but he manages to slip off from the circumstance. In order to survive, he wanders and struggles his way through the war by secretly hiding, hunting for a morsel and looking out for a roof. This film speaks volume on the terrible holocaust period and the do-or-die situation of the people affected.

Banker Andy Dufresne is charged for the murder of his wife and her love despite his claim of innocence. He is sentenced to lifetime imprisonment and transferred to the Shawshank State Penitentiary. Over several years, a friendship brews between him and another inmate Ellis Red Redding. Andy believes in hope. But Red believes otherwise. He tells Andy it is good and bad to have hope. The film is based on Stephen Kings novel Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption.

American History X is an interesting tale which delves deep into the dark world of crime. It tells the story of two brothers, Derek and Danny, and their respective encounters of the crime-driven world. Their Father, Dennis, was killed by drug dealers while fighting a fire. This creates a great impact on the older son, Derek, and he eventually becomes a leader of a Neo-Nazi activist group. Soon after he faces severe consequences and serves a three-year sentence in prison. After returning, Derek's ideas have changed and now his sole motive is to stop his brother, Danny, from committing the same mistake. Derek desperately tries to stop his brother from falling into the trap.

The movie describes the journey of Chiron from childhood to adulthood. Being homosexual, Chiron has a hard time at school where his schoolmates bully him. Back home, his mother neglects him since drugs have a tight grip on Chirons mother. Throughout his childhood, he feels unguided and feels better when Juan helps him. He finds love when he meets Kevin. As he grows older, things seem to fall apart again. After a violent incident at school, he is sent to Juvenile Hall. Will his life fall back into place?

This is a movie woven around the relationship of a mother and her son who have spent 5 years of their lives in captivity in an enclosed space. After years of juggling, they finally muster up the courage to step outside of this room, allowing the boy to experience the outside world for the first time. His life changes as he realizes that there is more to this world than the room he had been residing in all his life.

The McAllans and the Jacksons are two families living in Mississippi, one white and one black in the aftermath of World War II. They have to put aside their racial differences and cope up with their life full of poverty and troubles after the war. The Jacksons led by Hap are tenant farmers on the McAllans land. Tensions start to build between the families due to the constant presence of McAllan Grandfather and rise of PTSD in Jamie McAllan who is haunted by memories of the war. Will they survive the harsh realities of life or will the differences between the families lead to their respective ends?

Twenty-two-year-old Oscar Grant III is a young man living in Hayward, California. On first January 2009, Oscar and some of his acquaintances get detained by the BART police after a fight at the Fruitvale BART station. The previous day, Oscar wakes up and decides to work on his new year’s resolution to be a better person and start a better life. Oscar tries to set things straight with his girlfriend and tries to get his job back at a grocery store. He contemplates selling marihuana but soon gives up the idea. It was supposed to be the beginning of a fresh start for Oscar, but things take him to an abrupt end.

Lee Daniels The Butler is an American movie inspired from the life of Eugene Allen, an African-American who served as a Butler in the White House for almost thirty-four years. The Butlers main protagonist is Cecil Gaines. The movie begins as an old Cecil Gaines looks back at the story of his life. He grew up in a cotton plantation and was trained to be a house servant there. He lost his parents at a tender age. Cecil started working in a pastry shop and gained necessary soft skills from Maynard, the master-servant at the shop. Fate takes Cecil to Washington, D.C. where he gains a position in a popular hotel. After serving in the hotel for long, Cecil is ultimately appointed as a Butler in the White House. During his long service, Cecil witnesses various important political as well as social occurrences of the time. The film is a beautiful remembrance of Cecils life as a butler, serving the American presidents in different times-The Civil Rights Movement, The Vietnam War, the Great Depression. He served a long list of American presidents Truman, Eisenhower, J.F. Kennedy, L.B. Johnson, Nixon, G. Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, GW Bush & Barack Obama.

Andrew Beckett is a respectable and sought after senior associate at the largest corporate firm in Philadelphia. Andrew is gay and is suffering from AIDS. He hides all this from his firm while fighting a huge case. But soon a lesion appears on Becketts forehead because of Kaposis sarcoma, a rare skin disease that happens only to people with AIDS. This pushes Andrew to work from home for a few days. He does all the paperwork and sends it to the firm. The next day he is fired by the firms partners. Andrew believes his sexuality and disease to be the reason behind this. Therefore he decides to file a case against the firm. Andrew hires Joe Miller, a homophobic African-American lawyer to defend him in court. Philadelphia is an awe-inspiring tale of resilience and courage that explicitly talks about the homophobia and discrimination homosexual people face. The film also explores the taboo around AIDS and the social exclusion of HIV positive patients face in society.

Documented since the birth of Truman Burbank, The Truman Show is a live show directed by the visionary producer Christof who intends on filming every moment and movement of Trumans life. Truman is the main protagonist of the show and every other character in his life is an actor. All of these were being recorded without his knowledge until one day he begins to sense that something wasnt right. The film takes one on a comical journey of how Truman acts on his realization.

In 1991 New York, a young girl named Alyssa witnesses her mothers murder while waiting in the subway. Ten years later, Ally is a student at NYU and lives with her father Neil who is a detective. Meanwhile, Tyler Hawkins is struggling with depression since his parents divorced after his older brothers suicide. Tyler dislikes his father Charles, and feels very protective of his younger sister Caroline. Tyler gets into a fight outside a pub and Neil takes him into custody. When Charles bails him out of jail, Tyler gets furious and tells Charles he will return the money. Later, Tylers roommate Aiden sees Neil with Alyssa and convinces Tyler to play with Alyssas heart to take revenge on Neil. Tyler starts dating Alyssa and learns his sister is getting bullied in school. As they try to work things out in their lives, a big incident shocks the world.

In Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Agent and a very seasoned game tracker named Cory Lambert find a dead body. Due to the winter season, the dead body gets frozen in the snow. Soon its discovered that the dead body is that of an eighteen year old young native American girl named Natalie Hanson. The frozen dead body lacks footwear or any proper attire suitable for the cold Wyoming winters. Natalies body is away from any buildings in the localities and has a huge bloodstain on her groin. This seems to be a federal crime and the F.B.I. appoints this case to a courageous yet very inexperienced agent named Jane Banner. The F.B.I. officer however ends up teaming with the local wildlife Service agent Cory to solve the mysterious murder of Natalie. Natalies autopsy comes back showing signs of sexual violence and blunt traumas on her body. Can Cory and Jane solve this mystery of Natalies murder?

Have you ever seen a movie and lost the sense of the fact that youre watching it on a paper-thin screen in the 21st century? Roma is such a movie with a sensitive and strong story of a woman who lives a challenging life with her four children after her husband leaves her. This movie will not let you leave your seats without finishing it and you will definitely grow a sense of belonging towards the movie. It is a visual marvel by directorAlfonso Cuarn.

Dean, a school dropout and a hopeless romantic works for a moving company while Cindy is studying pre-med. When the pair start dating, Cindy discovers that she is pregnant but the child is unlikely to be his. Dean and Cindy make things work but flash forward a few years later, everything doesnt seem rosy anymore. Watch a couple madly in love struggle not to fall apart.

A young woman named Martha loses her baby at home birth and this makes her life miserable as the loss becomes unbearable for her. The situation brings cracks in the relationships with her loved ones and she struggles hard to deal with the loss and settling her emotions. She was the one who wanted a home birth and the tragic incident which ensued due to her decision also brings legal implications. Gradually, she builds herself up and tries to live her life while grappling with a heart-wrenching loss.

During a violent thunderstorm in Maine, David Dayton, his wife Stephanie, and their pre-teen son Billy take shelter in the basement. The next day they notice a thick mist advancing over the nearby lake. David and Billy go to the supermarket with their neighbor Brent Norton to stock up on supplies. At the store, they see police cars racing and a man rushes into the supermarket warning them about the danger surveying the mist. Soon, the mist completely envelops the supermarket, leaving them trapped. One of the shoppers goes outside to fix the generator in the mist, where he is dragged by a creature with tentacles into the mist. David and Ollie take charge of the store, barricading the entrances and windows but a woman leaves to go home to her kids. In the horror, the group has to do all they can to survive the most veiling monsters.

Trish, Helen, and Joy are sisters. Trish is a housewife with three children. Her husband Bill is a psychiatrist but Trish is unaware that Bill is a paedophile. Meanwhile, Helen is a successful writer and the object of envy for many others. However, she is unhappy with her life and feels no one actually likes her for who she is inside. She is curious about an unknown man who often calls her. The youngest sister Joy leaves her old job and becomes a teacher at an immigration education centre, although, she soon loses her enthusiasm in her new job as well. Meanwhile, the sister’s parents are preparing for a divorce. Each character searches happiness in different ways.

Brothers is a psychological thriller war film based in Afghanistan and Denmark. The story revolves around two brothers and their family. The elder one is a US Marine deployed in Afghanistan, where he is presumed dead after the news of his helicopter crashing reaches the family. The younger brother is left with the responsibility of his brother's family, right as he is released from prison for an armed robbery. The story depicts the post-war stress and its damaging effects faced by the elder brother when he returns and is left to face another reality after his traumatic experiences.

Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even though he is separated from his parents and in a hostile environment, Jamie maintains his dignity and youthful spirits, providing a beacon of hope for the others held captive with him.

'Good Will Hunting' is a thought-provoking narrative of a math prodigy Will (Matt Damon), a janitor at MIT. Wills talent comes out to the world when he secretly solves a few difficult problems that the whole class of MIT top talent can't solve. The Math professor notices this and tries to help Will by introducing him to his psychiatrist friend Sean (Robin Williams). The movie is the story of Will, a self-destructing rebel and how his prof, his psychiatrist, best friend & his love help him find himself, his capabilities and use his talent to the fullest potential. These two lines appropriately define him: 'Some people can never believe in themselves unless someone believes in them. And Some, never know how much they can have until they discover how much they can give.'

This is a psychological thriller that includes two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, all working together to track down a serial killer who rationalizes his crimes as a release for the worlds ignorance of the 7 deadly sins. David Mills is a rookie Detective who is accompanied by a veteran Detective, William Somerset and together they trace each and every step of the killer as they come closer to a ghastly fate that neither of them could have imagined.