Casa Grande (2014), Dogs Don't Wear Pants (2019), Islands in the Stream (1977), My Dinner With Hervé (2018), Roger Waters: Us + Them (2019), Where Is Kyra? (2017), Loving Vincent (2017), Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind (2020) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Melancholy movies.
Storyline: Inseparable best friends and cousins Autumn and Skylar precariously navigate the vulnerability of female adolescence in rural Pennsylvania. When Autumn mysteriously falls pregnant, she's confronted by conservative legislation without mercy for blue-collar women seeking an abortion. With Skylar's unfailing support and bold resourcefulness, money to fund the procedure is secured and the duo board a bus bound for New York state to find the help Autumn needs.—Mae Moreno
Plot Keywords: teen girl, friend, teen boy, parent, doctor, bleak, chilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based on the best-selling pair of memoirs from father and son David and Nic Sheff, Beautiful Boy chronicles the heartbreaking and inspiring experience of survival, relapse, and recovery in a family coping with addiction over many years.
Plot Keywords: father, son, ex-wife, drug addict, doctor, addict, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: From a screenplay by Shia LaBeouf, based on his own experiences, award-winning filmmaker Alma Har'el brings to life a young actor's stormy childhood and early adult years as he struggles to reconcile with his father through cinema and dreams. Fictionalizing his childhood's ascent to stardom, and subsequent adult crash-landing into rehab and recovery, Har'el casts Noah Jupe and Lucas Hedges as Otis Lort, navigating different stages in a frenetic career. LaBeouf takes on the daring and therapeutic challenge of playing a version of his own father, an ex-rodeo clown and a felon. Artist and musician FKA Twigs makes her feature-film debut, playing neighbor and kindred spirit to the younger Otis in their garden-court motel home. Har'el's feature narrative debut is a one-of-a-kind collaboration between filmmaker and subject, exploring art as medicine and imagination as hope.
Plot Keywords: child actor, father, therapist, family, confident, dark, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After fun-loving Jacek is disfigured in an accident at work, he becomes the first person in Poland to receive a face transplant, which leads to his status as a national hero and martyr.
Plot Keywords: worker, patient, emotional, melancholy, workplace, poland, transformation ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Terminally ill actor Julián wants to spend his final days tying up loose ends. When childhood friend Tomás pays him an unexpected visit, the two men set out to finalize funeral arrangements, settle accounts and find a home for Julián's beloved dog.
Plot Keywords: terminally ill person, childhood friend, actor, cousin, pet owner, dog, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Meet David Crosby in this portrait of a man with everything but an easy retirement on his mind.
Plot Keywords: musician, creative, emotional, engaging, fascinating, melancholy, moving ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A former hip hop executive decides whether to make public her rape by one of the most powerful men in the music industry.
Plot Keywords: music executive, music producer, musician, friend, journalist, dark, disheartening ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Martin Ward is a cove fisherman, without a boat. His brother Steven has re-purposed their father's vessel as a tourist tripper, driving a wedge between the brothers. With their childhood home now a get-away for London money, Martin is displaced to the estate above the picturesque harbour. As his struggle to restore the family to their traditional place creates increasing friction with tourists and locals alike, a tragedy at the heart of the family changes his world.
Plot Keywords: fisherman, brother, tourist, love interest, local, brooding, melancholy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A closeted young man goes home for the holidays and struggles to reveal his dire circumstances to his conservative family.
Plot Keywords: closeted homosexual, texan, aids patient, confident, emotional, melancholy, texas ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A documentary examining the 2014 shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke and the cover-up that ensued. After the police initially declared the shooting as justified, journalists and activists fought for footage of the event to be released, sending the Chicago Police Department and local Chicago government officials into upheaval as the community demanded justice.—SHOWTIME
Plot Keywords: teenager, murder victim, murderer, police captain, police officer, investigator, lawyer ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In a world difficult to comprehend, Nathan struggles to connect with those around him - most of all his loving mother - but finds comfort in numbers. When Nathan is taken under the wing of unconventional and anarchic teacher, Mr. Humphreys, the pair forge an unusual friendship and Nathan's talents win him a place on the UK team at the International Mathematics Olympiad. From suburban England to bustling Taipei and back again, Nathan builds complex relationships as he is confronted by the irrational nature of love.
Plot Keywords: math prodigy, teen boy, mother, teen girl, classmate, teacher, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: During a self-imposed exile in Arles and Auvers-Sur-Oise, France, Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh develops his unique, colorful style of painting. While grappling with religion, mental illness and a tumultuous friendship with French artist Paul Gauguin, van Gogh begins to focus on his relationship with eternity rather than the pain his art causes him in the present.
Plot Keywords: painter, paul gauguin, priest, melancholy, profound, france, countryside ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After the shy and reclusive Christian loses his job, he starts to work for a wholesale market. Bruno from the Beverage aisle takes him under his wing and quickly becomes a fatherly friend to him. He shows him the ropes and patiently teaches him how to operate the fork lift. In the aisles he meets "Sweets"-Marion. He is instantly smitten by her mysterious charm. The coffee machine becomes their regular meeting point and the two start to get to know each other. But Marion is married and Christian's feelings for her seem to remain unrequited, especially when Marion does not return to work one day. Christian slowly becomes a member of the wholesale market family and his days of driving fork lifts and stacking shelves mean much more to him than meets the eye.—Beta Film GmbH
Plot Keywords: employee, coworker, amusing, melancholy, supermarket, new job, relationships ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Movie version of the BBC TV play that first addresses some of the major social issues of the day. A girl from a rich family in Chelsea is bored and decides to go "slumming" in depressed Battersea. She gets a flat and starts working in a factory and makes some friends there. One of her friends is pregnant but abortion is illegal ...—Steve Crook <steve@brainstorm.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: wealthy woman, worker, friend, colleague, emotional, melancholy, disheartening ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Following a banal incident in her local village, 8-year old girl Shula is accused of witchcraft. After a short trial she is found guilty, taken into state custody and exiled to a witch camp. At the camp she takes part in an initiation ceremony where she is shown the rules surrounding her new life as a witch. Like the other residents, Shula is tied to a ribbon which is attached to a coil that perches on a large truck. She is told that should she ever cut the ribbon, she'll be cursed and transformed into a goat.
Plot Keywords: girl, witch, police officers, accuser, outcast, bleak, brooding ...
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