The Browning Version (1951), The Seventh Seal (1957), Indestructible (2007), Buffet Froid (1979), Dragon (2011), The Offence (1973), Lights in the Dusk (2006), Mr. Sardonicus (1961) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Grim movies.
Storyline: Andrew Crocker-Harris, a classics teacher at an English school, is afflicted with a heart ailment and an unfaithful wife. His interest in his pupils wanes as he looks towards his final days in employment.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: drama, british, classic, black and white, education, teacher, school ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Knight and his squire are home from the crusades. Black Death is sweeping their country. As they approach home, Death appears to the knight and tells him it is his time. The knight challenges Death to a chess game for his life. The Knight and Death play as the cultural turmoil envelopes the people around them as they try, in different ways, to deal with the upheaval the plague has caused.
Plot Keywords: existential, philosophical, medieval, death, religion, faith, despair ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A monastery high atop the mountains of northwest China ... the living room of a family confronted with terminal illness ... the office of renowned neurologist Oliver Sacks ... the Wailing Wall of Jerusalem... Indestructible portrays an epic journey of self-discovery for filmmaker and single father Ben Byer as he battles the incurable and fatal neuro-degenerative disease, ALS. A cinematic adventure filled with extraordinary characters and breathtaking landscapes, beautifully shot by Academy Award nominee Roko Belic (Genghis Blues), Byer takes a visually stunning global quest to survive as he begins to understand the power of the human condition. An extraordinary self-portrait of a man confronted with life's ultimate challenge, Indestructible goes deep within the human experience for a fascinating, funny and inspiring story of the conflict between hope and fate.—ALS Film Fund
Plot Keywords: action, adventure, sci-fi, superhero, comic book adaptation, violence, antihero ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Black comedy about solitude and the dehumanization of the modern world, through the adventures of three men. First introduced is Alphonse Tram, an unemployed young man. His only neighbour is the police chief-inspector Morvandieu. Then a third man appears: he is Alphonse's wife's murderer... Bizarre and unreal.—Yepok
Plot Keywords: black comedy, absurd, crime, french film, surrealism, satire, mystery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A papermaker gets involved with a murder case concerning two criminals leading to a determined detective suspecting him and the former's vicious father searching for him
Plot Keywords: action, martial arts, crime, drama, mystery, revenge, detective ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In Sidney Lumet's harrowing portrayal of police brutality, Detective Sergeant Johnson's been on the police force for 12 years. In that time, the number murders, rapes, and other felony crimes he's investigated has left a terrible mark on his psyche. His bottled-up anger and rage finally explodes whilst interviewing Baxter - a suspect in a series of brutal attacks on young girls, Throughout the interview, Johnson brutally beats Baxter, and reveals the state of his own mind's probably no better than some of the offenders who've comitted the crimes which disgusted Johnson originally.—David Claydon <dc6212@bristol.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, drama, psychological, police, interrogation, violence ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Koistinen is a sad sack, a man without affect or friends. He's a night-watchman in Helsinki with ideas of starting his own business, but nothing to go with those intentions. He sometimes talks a bit with a woman who runs a snack trailer near his work. Out of the blue, a young sophisticated blonde woman attaches herself to Koistinen. He thinks of her as his girlfriend, he takes her on her rounds. She's in league with a crook who's planning a jewel robbery, and Koistinen is their patsy. Will he ever wise up?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: crime, film noir, finland, loneliness, social outcast, grim, realism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A search for a winning lottery ticket in his dead father's grave causes Sardonicus' face to freeze in a horrible grimace, until he forces a doctor to treat his affliction--with even more grotesque results! The audience gets an opportunity to vote--via the "Punishment Poll"--for the penalty Sardonicus must pay for his deeds...—M.E. Nelson
Plot Keywords: horror, gothic, black-and-white, 1960s, psychological thriller, revenge, atmospheric ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Carl Panzram is sent to Leavenworth Prison for burglary. While there, he is brutally beaten by a guard. Neophyte guard Henry Lesser feels sympathy for Panzram, befriends him, and gets him to write his life story. Lesser learns that Panzram's past is much more violent than he thought, but also that he's capable of being a much better person than the rest of the prison staff believes - or so Lesser thinks.—Jon Reeves <jreeves@imdb.com>
Plot Keywords: crime, biography, drama, history, true story, prison, murder ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Sisters Francine and Kath run a rundown farm left them by their parents. Kath is a single mother whose primitive and swaggering boyfriend, Buto has an unpredictable and sometimes violent disposition. She loves him, but his past behavior has earned Francine's enmity, and she's not at all happy when Kath announces that Buto has finally asked for her hand in marriage. Meanwhile, Lek, a stranger and hired hand on a neighboring farm, takes a shine to Francine.
Plot Keywords: drama, british, independent film, rural setting, social realism, poverty, working class ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A montage of stories about U.S. soldiers fighting in the Iraq conflict, focusing on the modern forms of media covering the war.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: war, iraq war, documentary style, mockumentary, military, war crimes, violence ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents in 1970s Hamburg.
Plot Keywords: violence, crime, thriller, horror, true story, serial killer, german film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young man's struggle to survive in the aftermath of a deadly undead outbreak during the American Civil War.
Plot Keywords: horror, zombie, post-apocalyptic, historical, western, drama, survival ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A rookie crime reporter (Andrew Garfield) becomes intrigued by a missing-child case that mirrors that of a series of child abductions and murders that took place in previous years.
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, mystery, drama, dark, violence, investigation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Young lovers Ruth and Jimmy find their quiet lives in Sheffield, England, threatened when the Soviet Union and United States go to war.
Plot Keywords: nuclear war, apocalypse, survival, disaster, societal collapse, cold war, uk ...
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