Melancholy Movies

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

From the segregated American South to the fashion capitals of the world, operatic fashion editor André Leon Talley's life and career are on...

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

A pleasant drive through a countryside is filled by melancholy as unpleasant memories surface.

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...

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...

The sinister ghost of the Queen of Spades is out for blood, her victims the students of an old boarding school shrouded in gloomy rumors. Exploring...

Archi, a local politician’s daughter, and Parshya, a fisherman’s son, fall in love resulting in violence between the families due to the...

Bunny, an elderly rabbit who uses a walker, is in her kitchen one night baking a cake. A pesky and persistent moth bangs about the kitchen. Nothing...

In the not too distant future, a man without hope attempts to save the life he was hired to end with HELPER, a world changing technology that allows...

After feeling that he does not belong to the world around him, he withdraws into himself in an inner world in which he lives through books and...

Two Navy fighter pilots find themselves in the midst of a forbidden relationship throwing their lives and careers into disarray.

A dying 15-year-old boy draws stories of an invincible superhero as he struggles with his mortality.

"At that time (late 1992), I made a film for British television, Channel 4, called Las Soledades, the name of a long poem by Góngora. It was...

In order to recreate a picture taken in 1974, during the inauguration of São Paulo subway, Pedro meets two school friends he had not seen for...

In South Boston, where Irish roots run deep and Catholic tradition reigns, two brothers face similar hardships but lead far different lives. While...

After struggling and finally conceiving a child, Roxy and Vinnie Ventola, a successful television writing couple, learns that their newborn has AIDS....

When a charismatic teenager falters under constant pressure from his parents and school, he makes a potentially deadly mistake.

Desperate to simmer down his bubbling anxiety, a stressed-out line cook enters a contest and seeks to complete one simple objective: bake the best...

After failing to find success as a writer in New York City, Jim slinks back to his family's home in the Midwest to lick his wounds. But his visit is...