Movies and TvShows featuring "despondency" theme.

The Devil, Probably is a 1977 movie that delves into the story of a teenage boy who is disillusioned with the state of the world. He engages in destructive behavior, such as shoplifting and drug abuse, as a way to cope with his feelings of hopelessness and meaninglessness. The movie provides a realistic portrayal of a young man's struggle with depression and his search for meaning in a seemingly apathetic and indifferent society.

Jab We Met is a romantic comedy about a bubbly girl who meets a depressed businessman on a train. Their journey together leads to unexpected happiness, calamity, and ultimately love.

Diabolical French capitalist Paul Reynard is forced to leave Irene, his bride of one year, when he is arrested for the crimes of forgery and embezzlement and sentenced to a penal colony off the coast of South America.

A novelist, haunted by her dark past, returns to her hometown to investigate a series of gruesome murders. As the investigation unfolds, she unravels a web of deception and psychological abuse, leading her down a terrifying path of terror and violence.

A Skin Too Few: The Days of Nick Drake is a haunting documentary that delves into the life and music of the talented singer-songwriter. Through interviews, archival footage, and poetic narration, it explores Drake's struggles with depression, social isolation, and his tragic death at a young age. The film also highlights his unique guitar riffs, melancholic lyrics, and the timeless beauty of his albums.

A prostitute is thrown out of her house by her alcoholic father, and her scheming brother-in-law tries to devise a plan to marry her off and make some money in the process.

This drama is based on a novel and incomplete screenplay by the late Maria Luis Bemberg. In 1930s Argentina, wealthy Sebastian (Antonio Birabent) leaves his Buenos Aires home for the family estate on the pampas. His family, concerned for his physical and mental health, arranges for Sebastian's childhood friend Juan (Walter Quiroz) to check on Sebastian's situation. Juan finds the highly erratic Sebastian caught in a doomed relationship with the Danish daughter of religious sect members. Unfortunately, Juan also becomes obsessed with the young woman, and Sebastian's suspicions increase.

The film’s hero, Ilyich, cannot understand what’s wrong with him. Ilyich is a for- mer “mole”, an external observation agent in the KGB, then FSB. A skilled instructor. Now he is retired. From loneliness, he continues to watch those who catch his attention and curiosity. The doctor diagnoses him with empty sella syndrome (the syndrome of an empty Turkish Seat), which poses no danger for society... One day new neighbours move in, a young couple of musicians, and Ilyich’s life changes...

Silent Ones is a drama film that follows a Hungarian woman who becomes despondent after a car accident that claims her little brother's life. Filled with despair and hopelessness, she sets out on a solitary journey, navigating through her own loneliness and darkness. The film showcases the emptiness and futility she experiences as she tries to find solace in a bleak and desolate landscape.

Joan is loved by a young man of the village and they are married. In a few weeks the husband, a soldier, is sent to the war-front along with his three brothers. Word is received that her husband has been killed in battle and Joan's first impulse is suicide by she is pregnant and her prospective motherhood makes her realize her new responsibility. The military authorities start a movement to get the young women of the country to marry departing soldiers, so that the empire may have another generation of fighting men. Word is received that the King is to pass through their village and Joan organizes the women in a general protest against the war. She leads them all, dressed in black, in a long procession to meet the Monarch. The soldiers threaten to shoot her unless she turns the women back, buy Joan comes face-to-face with the ruler and kills herself, as her message from the women that they refuse to make another generation victims of a ruthless militarism.

MORGENRØDE takes place at the beginning of a new eon, in a water polluted world years after a global fall. Where the legacy of what was, has been quenched and world understanding must take shape again. Surrounded by an endless hazy and drab, bleak desert we follow two survivors who eye each other with the same mutual depraved suspicion as they contemplate their inhospitable surroundings.