A List of 26 Dark Movies Guaranteed to Shake Your Emotions
The most common movies in cinema are dark movies that blend drama, pain and fear. In this content, movies that are darker than each other and have the possibility of depressing the viewer are listed.
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1. Requiem For A Dream (2000)
Four Coney Islanders' lives are shattered when their drug-fueled utopia and addiction deepens. The film follows the tragic stories of these hopeful Brooklyn residents as they deal with psychosis, drug addiction and prostitution. This Darren Aronofsky movie can cause emotional outbursts in the audience.
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly
2. The Elephant Man (1980)
A Victorian surgeon rescues a man who has been mistreated and severely disfigured while trying to make a living as a sideshow freak. Behind the man's monstrous exterior, a kind, intelligent and nuanced person emerges.
Director: David Lynch
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft
3. Irreversible (2002)
The events of a traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in an underpass tunnel.
Director: Gaspar Noé
Cast: Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Albert Dupontel
4. Dancer In The Dark (2000)
An Eastern European immigrant to the US who loves musicals must cope with the gradual loss of her eyesight. She also has to prevent her son's illness. She finds solace in singing, but her solace is jeopardized when she realizes she is being persecuted as an immigrant.
Director: Lars von Trier
Cast: Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse
5. The Passion of the Christ (2004)
The movie tells the story of the last twelve hours of the life of Jesus of Nazareth on the day of his crucifixion in Jerusalem. One day Jesus of Nazareth gets up from his last supper and enters the last 12 hours of his life. Devastatingly depressing and humanly inhuman, this is the ultimate suffering inflicted on one person.
Director: Mel Gibson
Cast: Jim Caviezel, Monica Bellucci, Maia Morgenstern
6. Lilya 4-Ever (2002)
Sixteen-year-old Lilja and her only friend, young Volodja, live in Russia and dream of a better life. One day Lilja falls in love with Andrej, who goes to Sweden and invites her to start a new life.
Director: Lukas Moodysson
Cast: Oksana Akinshina, Artyom Bogucharskiy, Pavel Ponomaryov
7. The Seventh Continent (1989)
A European family planning to escape to Australia seem to be immersed in their daily routine but are disturbed by small events. However, behind their seemingly calm and repetitive existence, they are actually planning something sinister.
Director: Michael Haneke
Cast: Birgit Doll, Dieter Berner, Leni Tanzer
8. 12 Years a Slave (2013)
In the pre-war United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is kidnapped and sold into slavery. The film powerfully depicts the horror of belonging to a 'different skin color' while simultaneously challenging the perspective of ownership in material and spiritual terms.
Director: Steve McQueen
Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Kenneth Williams, Michael Fassbender
9. Antichrist (2009)
A heartbroken couple retreats to their cabin in the woods, hoping to mend their broken hearts and troubled marriage, but nature gets in the way and things take a turn for the worse.
Director: Lars von Trier
Cast: Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Storm Acheche Sahlstrøm
10. Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
A little boy and his little sister struggle to survive in Japan during World War II. The movie is the most depressing animated movie ever made. From the very beginning, the plot emotionally exhausts the viewer.
Director: Isao Takahata
Voiced by: Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Akemi Yamaguchi
11. Prisoners (2013)
When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, the police pursue multiple leads, but in the end Keller Dover takes matters into his own hands. The movie is as sad as it is emotionally exhausting. It's the story of a man struggling against despair because he can't find his daughter.
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis
12. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
The lives of a group of completely different contestants intertwine in an inhumanly grueling dance marathon. Set during the Great Depression, the film takes a journey through the desperate lives of the poor. A twist of fate brings them all together in a dance marathon where the winner receives $1,500. When the dance begins, the manipulative host uses the contestants as bait to organize a show. The dancers are humiliated and exploited until one dies of a heart attack.
Director: Sydney Pollack
Cast: Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Susannah York
13. Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
Ben Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who has lost everything to alcoholism, comes to Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There he meets prostitute Sera and strikes an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact.
Director: Mike Figgis
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands
14. Precious (2009)
Around 1987, in New York City's Harlem, an overweight, abused, illiterate young woman pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in the hopes of steering her life in a better direction.
Director: Lee Daniels
Cast: Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Paula Patton
15. Schindler's List (1993)
In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually begins to worry about his Jewish workforce after witnessing persecution by the Nazis.
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley
16. Amour (2012)
Georges and Anne are a couple in their eighties. They are cultured, retired music teachers. Their daughter, also a musician, lives with her family in England. One day Anne suffers a stroke and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.
Director: Michael Haneke
Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert
17. The Mist (2007)
A freak storm unleashes a species of bloodthirsty creatures on a small town where the people of a small town hide in a supermarket and fight for their lives.
Director: Frank Darabont
Cast: Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Laurie Holden
18. Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager, hosts more than a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against Hutu militias in Rwanda, Africa.
Director: Terry George
Cast: Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Joaquin Phoenix
19. Thirst (2009)
Inspired by Émile Zola's Thérèse Raquin, the film follows a priest who falls in love with his friend's wife after a failed medical experiment leads him to vampirism and is forced to abandon his ascetic path.
Director: Park Chan-wook
Cast: Song Kang-ho, Kim Ok-bin, Hee-jin Choi
20. All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
The movie is about a young German soldier's horrific experiences and tribulations on the western front during the First World War. The life of Paul Bäumer, a German soldier who, after enlisting in the German Army with his friends, finds himself at risk in the face of the realities of war and his hopes of becoming a hero are shattered.
Director: Edward Berger
Cast: Felix Kammerer, Albrecht Schuch, Aaron Hilmer
21. Vortex (2021)
The film is about the last days of an elderly couple suffering from dementia. In Vortex, Gaspar Noé offers a deeply personal perspective from which he also reflects on his own mortality.
Director: Gaspar Noé
Cast: Dario Argento, Françoise Lebrun, Alex Lutz
22. Happening (2021)
Based on the novel by Annie Ernaux, the film tells the story of a literature student trying to end an unwanted pregnancy in 1963, when abortion was not yet legal in France.
Director: Audrey Diwan
Cast: Anamaria Vartolomei, Kacey Mottet Klein, Luàna Bajrami
23. Brazil (1985)
Sam Lowrey, a bureaucrat, is one of the people living in a dystopian society in a world that has evolved into a highly futuristic and dark atmosphere. But as he chases after the woman of his dreams, he becomes an enemy of the state.
Director: Terry Gilliam
Cast: Jonathan Pryce, Kim Greist, Robert De Niro
24. The Tribe (2014)
A deaf boy enrolls in a boarding school for children like him. Faced with the violent and criminal antics of some of the other boys and girls, he struggles to fit in and join the 'tribe'.
Director: Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi
Cast: Hryhoriy Fesenko, Yana Novikova, Rosa Babiy
25. Frantz (2016)
In the aftermath of World War I, a young German grieving the death of his fiancée in France meets a mysterious Frenchman who visits her grave to leave flowers.
Director: François Ozon
Cast: Pierre Niney, Paula Beer, Ernst Stötzner
26. Dogtooth (2009)
The movie is about the lives of a mother, father and three adolescent children living in the countryside. Living in an isolated area outside the city, the family has closed themselves off from the outside world. The Greek couple has built a prison for their children.
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Cast: Christos Stergioglou, Michele Valley, Angeliki Papoulia
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