Movies and TvShows featuring "disheartening" theme.

Po is gearing up to become the spiritual leader of his Valley of Peace, but also needs someone to take his place as Dragon Warrior. As such, he will train a new kung fu practitioner for the spot and will encounter a villain called the Chameleon who conjures villains from the past.

A grieving woman in a secluded forest encounters a killer who injects her with a paralytic drug. As her body shuts down, her fight for survival begins.

As the world falls, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers into the hands of a great biker horde led by the warlord Dementus. Sweeping through the wasteland, they encounter the citadel presided over by Immortan Joe. The two tyrants wage war for dominance, and Furiosa must survive many trials as she puts together the means to find her way home.

Princess Merida defies a custom that brings chaos to her kingdom. With the help of a witch's spell, she accidentally turns her mother into a bear. Together, they must mend their relationship and find a way to reverse the curse before it becomes permanent.

Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021) follows a group of survivors as they navigate through the dark and dangerous city of Raccoon City, which is plagued by a zombie outbreak. With limited resources and time running out, they must find a way to escape and uncover the truth behind the outbreak.

Alice is appointed to save her beloved Mad Hatter from deadly grief by travelling back to the past, but this means fatally harming Time himself, the noble clockwork man with the device needed to save the Hatter's family from the Red Queen. Alice navigates through Wonderland, reuniting with old friends and encountering challenges along the way. She must use the powerful Chronosphere to travel through time and alter past events, facing the consequences of changing history. With the clock ticking, Alice races against Time and battles the Red Queen to restore order and save her friend's family. The journey tests her resilience and determination while exploring themes of friendship, loyalty, and the power of self-belief.

Set in 1910s New Orleans, 'Pretty Baby' follows the story of a 12-year-old girl who is introduced to the world of prostitution. As she navigates through the challenges of her surroundings, she discovers her own sexuality and explores the power dynamics of lust and attraction. The film tackles themes of innocence, exploitation, and the exploration of sexuality.

Love Story is a tragic romance about a wealthy Harvard student and a working-class girl who fall in love and face numerous challenges, including class differences and a terminal illness.

A family's getaway to a luxurious rental home takes an ominous turn when a cyberattack knocks out their devices, and two strangers appear at their door. They soon discover that the blackout is part of a government conspiracy, and as chaos ensues, they must navigate the collapse of civilization and find a way to survive. The story is filled with suspense, distrust, and the search for answers in a world on the brink of collapse.

Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial. The movie explores their complex relationship, the impact of the Holocaust, and the moral questions surrounding Hanna's actions. The story is told through flashbacks, revealing the intense love affair between Michael and Hanna, and their ultimate separation. The trial forces Michael to confront his own complicity and come to terms with the truth.

Paul Matthews, a family man and professor, discovers that he is appearing in other people's dreams. Initially becoming a celebrity, his dream-selves turn violent, forcing him to navigate his newfound stardom.

A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents in suburban Detroit in the mid 1970s. The story takes place in affluent Grosse Pointe, Michigan, in 1974, as four neighborhood boys reflect on their neighbors, the five Lisbon sisters. The film begins with the suicide attempt of the youngest sister, Cecilia, as she slits her wrist in a bath. The family therapist Dr. Horniker suggests that Cecilia may have a problem with feeling neglected and advises her parents to pay more attention to her and their other children. After Cecilia's death, the Lisbon parents become even more overprotective, isolating their daughters from the community. Lux, one of the sisters, forms a secret relationship with the school heartthrob Trip Fontaine, but he abandons her after having sex. The sisters are then punished and confined to their house. Lux continues to have anonymous sexual encounters on the roof of the house. The boys across the street, who are obsessed with the sisters, eventually discover that all the sisters have killed themselves in a suicide pact. Devastated, their parents flee the neighborhood, and the community acts as if the Lisbon family never existed. The boys are left haunted by the mystery of the Lisbon sisters' suicides and will spend the rest of their lives trying to unravel it.

In the small town of Castle Rock, a friendly St. Bernard named Cujo contracts rabies and becomes a vicious killer while trapping a mother and her son in their car.

In a future where humanity is preparing to attack an alien race, Ender Wiggin is chosen to lead the fight. He undergoes rigorous training and faces challenges, eventually discovering the true nature of the enemy.

Hen and Junior, who live a peaceful life on their family farm, face upheaval when an unexpected stranger arrives at their doorstep with a life-changing offer. They must now decide whether to sacrifice their relationship and personal identity for a chance at survival in a new and uncertain world.

An honest New York cop named Frank Serpico blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him. Frank Serpico (Al Pacino) covered in blood and slumped in the backseat of a police car as it races to a hospital with lights and sirens blaring. He has just been shot in the face. The rest of the movie tells the story of Serpico's career up to this moment, starting with him becoming a police officer in 1960. He is very idealistic and believes in non-brutal methods to catch criminals. Serpico also refuses to join in on police corruption, specifically that which involves shaking down and taking payoffs from gambling and drug dealing organizations. His refusal to take bribes earns him the suspicion of his fellow officers throughout the majority of the precincts to which he is assigned. Additionally, Serpico finds trouble fitting in due to his embrace of the counterculture of the 1960s: He moves to Greenwich Village, grows his hair and beard long to the point where he must maintain a plainclothes appearance, and associates with a more left-wing crowd that is distrusting of the NYPD. At first Serpico tries appealing to his bosses about the corruption, but gets nowhere. He enlists a highly-connected fellow officer, Bob Blair (Tony Roberts) in his fight against corruption, but not even he can crack the city administration's general indifference. His campaign and the resulting complications and harassment within the department take a toll on his mental health and his relationship with fiancee Laurie (Barbara Eda-Young), who ultimately leaves him. After meeting a sympathetic police inspector who agrees to assist him with both disrupting the gambling rackets and later calling attention to the problem by going to the New York Times, he is transferred to narcotics, as he has always wanted. However, he finds himself in an even more corrupt and hostile atmosphere than before, where he has mostly enemies and almost no allies due to the reputation he has garnered. As a result, he is shot in the face during a raid on a heroin lab due to his fellow officers' reluctance to come to his aid. After being left for dead and eventually discovered by two uniformed officers, the story takes over from the beginning and shows a recuperating Serpico being tended to by his family and few remaining friends as well as being anonymously harassed with hate mail. At the end of the film, Serpico testifies to the Knapp Commission on police corruption. The film ends with him waiting to board a ship; despite being promoted to detective (a lifelong ambition of his) and being decorated by the department for "conspicuous bravery in action" (along with the two officers who abandoned him during the drug raid) he resigns from the NYPD and emigrates to Switzerland.

An unusually intense storm pattern catches some commercial fishermen unaware and puts them in mortal danger. In September 1991, the swordfishing boat, The Andrea Gail, returns to port in Gloucester, Massachusetts, with a poor catch. Desperate for money, Billy Tyne (The Captain), convinces the crew to join him for one more late season fishing expedition. They head out past their usual fishing grounds, leaving a developing thunderstorm behind them. Initially unsuccessful, they head to the Flemish Cap, where their luck improves. At the height of their fishing, the ice machine breaks; the only way to preserve their catch is to hurry back to shore. After debating whether to sail through the building storm or to wait it out, the crew decide to risk the storm. However, between the Andrea Gail and Gloucester is a confluence of 2 powerful weather fronts and a hurricane, which the crew of Andrea Gail underestimate. After repeated warnings from other ships, the Andrea Gail loses her antenna, forcing a fellow ship to call in a Mayday. An Air National Guard rescue helicopter responds, but after failing to perform a midair refuel, the helicopter crew ditch the aircraft before it crashes, and all but one of the crew members are rescued by a Coast Guard Vessel, The Tamaroa. The Andrea Gail endures various problems; with 40-foot/12 meter waves crashing on to the deck, a broken stabilizer ramming the side of the ship, and two men are thrown overboard. The crew decide to turn around to avoid further damage by the storm. After doing so, the vessel encounters an enormous rogue wave. After attempting and failing to ride over the wave, the stricken fishing vessel capsizes and sinks. Only Bobby Shatford manages to get out of the boat; however, he has no chance of surviving. He is last seen all alone among the waves. Back at shore, a memorial ceremony is carried out while friends and family worry and wait for a ship that never comes home.

In the year 2285, Admiral Kirk oversees a simulator session of Captain Spock's trainees. Driven by revenge, the genetically engineered tyrant Khan Noonien Singh plans to use the Genesis Device as a weapon. Kirk and his crew must stop Khan and save the galaxy.

Eden tells the story of a Korean-American teenager who is abducted and forced into sex trafficking in 1994. Through immense strength and determination, she manages to escape from her captors and find her way back to freedom. This gripping film explores the dark world of human trafficking and the resilience of the human spirit.

Two F.B.I. Agents with different styles investigate the disappearance of civil rights activists in 1960s Mississippi. As they dig deeper, they uncover a web of racism, violence, and corruption.