Melancholy Movies

With formal rigour and subtly playing with genre, body and soul, this story of knots and liberation follows Lilian, who is as inscrutable as her...

A mother and daughter spend a night together after the daughter reveals that she will kill herself by the end of it.

Improvised over the course of a single night in Paris, this short film follows Fanny and Alexis, who meet by chance on a warm August evening. Fanny...

Literary icon Joan Didion reflects on her remarkable career and personal struggles in this intimate documentary directed by her nephew, Griffin Dunne.

A few minutes in the life of two people: a young woman who has her whole life in front of her and an old man ill with asthma who has only one more...

A likeable, married high school teacher spirals out of control when a student in his class begins unintentionally reminding him of his doomed first...

When a government official disappears in the London tunnels, after several reports of missing people in the same location, Scotland Yard start to...

Lola, a woman consumed by loneliness after losing everyone in her life, finds solace in reliving Christmas morning every day with her mannequin son,...

Bobby Deerfield, a famous American race car driver on the European circuit, falls in love with the enigmatic Lillian Morelli, who is terminally ill.

Lin Hsiao-yang tries to keep her family together while working as a waitress at Kentucky Fried Chicken and going to night school. With no mother and...

Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke. But when he...

Before leaving for Rome with his mother, five year old Natan is taken by his father, Jorge, on an epic journey to the pristine Chinchorro reef off...

The film follows a rebellious teenager on leave from the Marines who falls in love with a female musician. The relationship is threatened when she...

Sam loves facts. He wants to know about UFOs and horror movies and airships and ghosts and scientists, and how it feels to kiss a girl. And because...

The last moments of a suicidal teenager as he remembers all the pain and torment of his unfortunate life.

An outwardly normal schoolteacher preys on suicidal women to slake his overwhelming thirst for human blood.

Three best friends ditch their high school prom dance. The night that follows unravels their hidden and suppressed desires which cast a glimpse of...

Ozzy Taylor, a charismatic high school teen, discovers he can't control his intrusive thoughts of suicide, setting off a life-changing shift in his...

Sonder is a trilingual (in English, Hindi, and Punjabi) mood piece about the ordinariness of life. It is a celebration of the seemingly simple,...

A filmmaker, reeling from the death of her famous father, falls down the rabbit hole of a charismatic homeless man who becomes the subject of her...