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Have you got the tissues ready? Some of the most memorable watches are the ones that tug at our heart strings. Here are the best depressing movies to stream right now.

Baby Reindeer

8.5

Comedian Richard Gadd gets deeply personal in this deeply troubling, but incredibly honest miniseries

3 Body Problem

7.1

Benioff and Weiss team up with Alexander Woo and Netflix for an ambitious adaptation of the ambitious Chinese science fiction novel

Parasyte: The Grey

7.2

Humans become hosts for terrifying, tentacled aliens in this thrilling Korean spinoff

The Program: Cons, Cults and Kidnapping

7.3

Victims of abuse reclaim their stories in this horrifying but illuminating documentary about the troubled teen industry

One Day

7.8

An intimate, bittersweet adaptation that gives justice to David Nicholl’s novel

The Americans

8.9

One of TV's greatest character studies, where thrilling spy intrigue meets densely written family drama

Beef

9.3

A searing look at repression and rage in modern-day America

The Fall of the House of Usher

7.8

Mike Flanagan takes Edgar Allan Poe’s short story into an anti-rich Succession-like miniseries

Normal People

9.1

A drop-dead gorgeous romantic drama too nuanced to fit into a plot description

The Railway Men – The Untold Story of Bhopal 1984

7.0

Four fictional railroad workers rise to the occasion in this depiction of India’s worst industrial disaster

Kaala Paani

8.3

A Hindi survival thriller series that turns a simple pandemic into a multilayered meditation on utilitarianism, nature, and India’s mainlander-islander dynamics

Phoenix: Eden17

8.5

A short yet powerful anime adaptation of one arc of the unfinished classic Space Age manga

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Have you got the tissues ready? Some of the most memorable watches are the ones that tug at our heart strings. Here are the best depressing movies to stream right now.

Baby Reindeer

3 Body Problem

Parasyte: The Grey

The Program: Cons, Cults and Kidnapping

One Day

The Americans

Beef

The Fall of the House of Usher

Normal People

The Railway Men – The Untold Story of Bhopal 1984

Kaala Paani

Phoenix: Eden17

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