On the Bowery (1956), Zama (2017), The Shadow of Violence (2019), The Circle (2000), Under the Sand (2000), Sugar (2008), Licensed to Kill (1997), Casa Grande (2014) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Disheartening movies.
Storyline: Filmmaker Lionel Rogosin turns his camera on the homeless "bums" who frequent New York City's Bowery area.
Plot Keywords: homeless person, thief, bum, alcoholic, disheartening, shocking, powerful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the 18th century, a highly-placed servant of the Spanish crown who is obsessed with petty grudges and fantasies plots his transfer to Buenos Aires.
Plot Keywords: officer, governor, villager, boy, king, bandit, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A former boxer cares for his autistic son while working as an enforcer for a family of drug dealers in rural Ireland.
Plot Keywords: crime boss, enforcer, father, boxer, brooding, disheartening, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Two women in Iran are given temporary leave from prison and attempt to flee to one of the women's hometown, but are caught by police. Meanwhile, one of their friends who has escaped jail is pregnant and in need of an abortion. "The Circle" tells the story of each of these women by shifting back and forth between them.
Plot Keywords: woman, friend, husband, prostitute, prisoner, pregnant woman, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: For many years, Marie and Jean have happily spent their vacation together in the Landes region of western France. But this summer, while Marie naps on the beach, her husband goes swimming and vanishes without a trace. Tenaciously and disquietingly, Marie keeps the memory of her husband alive, often speaking of him as if he never disappeared. An offbeat study of the grieving process that will ring true for anyone who has gone through a similar personal loss.
Plot Keywords: husband, mother, professor, widow, friend, love interest, disheartening ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Like many young men in the Dominican Republic, 19-year-old Miguel "Sugar" Santos (Algenis Perez Soto) dreams of winning a slot on an American baseball team. Indeed, his talents as a pitcher eventually land him a slot on a single-A team in Iowa, but culture shock, racism and other curveballs threaten to turn Sugar's dream sour.
Plot Keywords: coach, baseball player, baseball pitcher, farmer, mother, friend, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In this documentary, homosexual filmmaker Arthur Dong interviews men who were imprisoned for slaying gays. Dong, who was physically attacked because of his own sexuality in the 1970s, tries to ascertain the convicts' motives -- why they would commit such heinous crimes. Some prisoners express remorse for their acts of violence, while others believe the murders they committed were justified. The interviewees include a U.S. military officer, a devout Christian and a petty thief.
Plot Keywords: prisoner, military officer, christian, thief, homosexual, documentarian, disheartening ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A teenager struggles to transcend the limitations of his upper middle-class life.
Plot Keywords: teen boy, teen girl, parent, maid, servant, amusing, cool ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A simple Parisian's (John Malkovich) love of children involves him in a Nazi scheme to kidnap boys and train them as SS troops during World War II.
Plot Keywords: frenchman, recruiter, powerful, disheartening, bavaria, training camp, third reich ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This documentary begins with an unusual detail that came from the 14th Amendment: Under constitutional law, corporations are seen as individuals. So, filmmaker Mark Achbar asks, what type of person would a corporation be? The evidence, according to such political activists as Noam Chomsky and filmmaker Michael Moore and company heads like carpet magnate Ray Anderson, points to a bad one, as the film aims to expose IBM's Nazi ties and these large businesses' exploitation of human rights.
Plot Keywords: noam chomsky, activist, expert, ceo, michael moore, frightening, disheartening ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A 60-year-old man in Chad, resentful of his lot in life, can only contribute his son's services to the war effort.
Plot Keywords: father, son, mother, manager, soldier, disturbing, disheartening ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In this hand-drawn animated tale, elderly married couple Hilda (Peggy Ashcroft) and Jim Bloggs (John Mills) have their quiet, simple lives in the English countryside interrupted when they learn of an impending nuclear attack. Not completely understanding the gravity of their situation, Hilda and Jim react archaically and insufficiently after the attack -- and the film takes a dark turn as the radiation begins taking its toll on the unsuspecting couple.
Plot Keywords: retiree, wife, husband, amusing, disheartening, sad, sussex, england ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An image maker (Peter Boyle) grooms the son (Robert Redford) of a political boss (Melvyn Douglas) for a token bid in a U.S. Senate race.
Plot Keywords: lawyer, campaign manager, senator, father, disheartening, brash, fascinating ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: One chilly night, on a Paris bridge, a girl leans out over the Seine with tears in her eyes, contemplating the icy waters below. Suddenly, a stranger with a penetrating gaze emerges out of the darkness, a man who will change her life. It is Gabor, a once brilliant but now fading performer in need of a partner. He has set his sights on this luckless but oddly alluring Adele, a girl with nowhere to go who is shifting nervously on the edge of a decision.
Plot Keywords: young woman, performance artist, stranger, groom, love interest, sultry, disheartening ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Filmmaker James D. Scurlock examines the outrageous practices that consumer-lending and credit-card companies use to rack up huge profits while bleeding customers dry. Interviews include a woman declared dead by the credit bureaus and two Minneapolis entrepreneurs who use debtors' personal information to humiliate them into paying up.
Plot Keywords: loan shark, real estate agent, telemarketer, student, mother, emotional, disheartening ...
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