Pessimistic Movies

Val has reached a place where he feels the only way out is to end things. But he considers himself a bit of a failure—his effectiveness...

A view of the end-of-the-century Mexican family. A father who comes back home after a long absence, but who would rather be somewhere else. A...

“My plan was to die before the money ran out,” says 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price, but things didn’t go...

Arthur Bishop is a veteran hit man who, owing to his penchant for making his targets' deaths seem like accidents, thinks himself an artist. It's made...

Charles drifts through politics, religion and psychoanalysis, rejecting them all. Once he realises the depth of his disgust with the moral and...

The untold true story: The rise and fall of the greatest funk band ever, Parliament Funkadelic.

Max is preparing an architecture and landscape competition for the city of Marseille. He is confident, his project is daring but pioneering. The oral...

Ted Kennedy's life and political career become derailed in the aftermath of a fatal car accident in 1969 that claims the life of a young campaign...

This moving documentary chronicles the last year in the life of Robert Eads, a trans man dying of ovarian cancer. We're introduced to several...

Pablo confesses a crime to Anders, who has a hidden agenda.

Inside the secret world of Sergei Pugachev, a Russian oligarch, and his British partner Countess Alexandra Tolstoy, mother to their three children.

In a world populated entirely by puppets who are unaware of their condition, a young couple finds themselves aimlessly wandering through an amusement...

A general who devoted his life to the communist cause, retires, only to find that his household is in disarray, his grown children money-grubbing,...

On the tragedy of birth.

Tiffany Chambers' world is upended one morning when a woman confronts her with evidence that they are married to the same man. Now they have six...

At the beginning of the 20th century, thousands of refugees fleeing droughts took shelter in Natal, but in the provincial capital they were met with...