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82 Best Depressing Movies To Watch

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Find the best depressing movies to watch, from our mood category. Like everything on agoodmovietowatch, these depressing movies are highly-rated by both viewers and critics.

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On the Count of Three (2021)

7.1

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A darkly comic tale following two best friends on the last day of their lives

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Ratcatcher (1999)

7.7

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A haunting, dreamlike character study set in a dead-end Glasgow neighborhood

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Pieces of a Woman (2020)

7.0

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An unnerving but honest look at childbirth, partnership, and grief

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The Nightingale (2018)

7.1

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An unsettling but important social horror from the director of The Babadook

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Retablo (2017)

7.0

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A quiet but potent coming-of-age drama

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Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995)

7.3

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A painfully realistic coming-of-age tale

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Mass (2021)

8.5

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A microscopic and unrelenting look at grief and healing

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Prophet’s Prey (2015)

8.4

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An incisive documentary on Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints cult leader Warren Jeffs

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Elle (2016)

7.1

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An always-excellent Isabelle Huppert powers this thrilling French revenge film

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Microhabitat (2017)

7.4

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Challenging self-preservation in a profit-oriented world

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A Sun (2019)

8.6

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A searing but poetic drama about class and family set in modern Taiwan

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Quo Vadis Aida? (2020)

8.2

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A difficult and alarmingly timely portrayal of the Srebrenica massacre

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