10 Movies to Understand Hopeless Cinema

Today we are going to bring you sad movies for you to watch. This list brings powerful movies, with emotional stories, but that always lead us down sad paths.

10 – The Man from London (2007)A switchman at a seaside railway witnesses a murder but does not report it after he finds a suitcase full of money at the scene of the crime.

9 – Requiem for a Dream (2000)

The hopes and dreams of four ambitious people are shattered when their drug addictions begin spiraling out of control. A look into addiction and how it overcomes the mind and body.

8 – Leviathan (2014)

In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man’s arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.

7 – The Turin Horse (2011)

A monumental windstorm and an abused horse’s refusal to work or eat signal the beginning of the end for a poor farmer and his daughter.

6 – Winter Light (1963)

A Swedish pastor fails a loving woman, a suicidal fisherman and God. A masterpiece from Ingmar Bergman’s career.

5 – The White Ribbon (2009)

Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years just before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. The abused and suppressed children of the villagers seem to be at the heart of this mystery.

4 – Kids (1995)A controversial portrayal of teens in New York City which exposes a deeply disturbing world of teenages and substance abuse. The film focuses on a forbidden reckless, freckle-faced boy named Telly, whose goal is to have relations with as many different girls as he can. When Jenny, a girl who has had relations only once, tests positive for a something bad, she knows she contracted the disease from Telly. When Jenny discovers that Telly’s idea of relations is to only have these with young women, and is continuing to pass the disease onto other unsuspecting girls, Jenny makes it her business to try to stop him.

3 – The Road (2009)

A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough to crack stones, and, when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the warmer south, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there.

2 – L’Eclisse (1962)

This romantic drama by Michelangelo Antonioni follows the love life of Vittoria, a beautiful literary translator living in Rome. After splitting from her writer boyfriend, Riccardo, Vittoria meets Piero, a lively stockbroker, on the hectic floor of the Roman stock exchange. Though Vittoria and Piero begin a relationship, it is not one without difficulties, and their commitment to one another is tested during an eclipse.

1 – A Separation (2011)A married couple are faced with a difficult decision – to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer’s disease.