Melancholy Movies

An incoherent film diary.

A husband and wife are locked inside a single hotel room with a stranger named Ploy. Subtle suspicions build up to jealousy as the young woman...

Mr. Königsberg is the owner of a small paper business. Despite a satisfying life, he is haunted by a vague melancholy and suffers from a...

After feeling that he does not belong to the world around him, he withdraws into himself in an inner world in which he lives through books and...

A comedy which concerns the struggles of an ambitious department store sales clerk who is caught up in New York high society.

On the last days of his life, while succumbing to alcoholism in a hospital, famed writer Lima Barreto chronicles his trajectory story as a black,...

In the wake of Glasgow’s rapid deindustrialization and economic decline in the 90s, a young Fraser falls victim to knife crime and is indelibly...

Sonder is a trilingual (in English, Hindi, and Punjabi) mood piece about the ordinariness of life. It is a celebration of the seemingly simple,...

A tender, melancholic night is experienced through the eyes of three women as they struggle to find themselves in this ever-changing jungle of...

Trapped in his nostalgia and haunted by the impermanence of things, a sad little ghost is unable to pass through the liminal space he occupies.

A haunting and tender fable of innocence, wonder, and the passage of time, "Everkeep" follows Odette, a lonely girl who dwells in the vast, enchanted...

The Prophet Joseph Smith is dead, killed by a mob. Enemies of the LDS Church think the church will die with Joseph. In fact, that danger is a real...

In 'Quédate' we meet Ana, a young prostitute, who has a disturbing encounter with Manuel, a lonely man who seeks consolation for a painful...

In the mid-20th century, in a forested valley between Italy and Yugoslavia, a stingy widower befriends a young woman and helps her depart across the...

As the sun begins its descent, time seems to stand still.

Making the most of the family home while her parents are away, 22-year-old Nicole is enjoying a peaceful summer with her best friend...

"Andha Yug"—literally 'Age of Blindness'—is an allegorical play written in the aftermath of the Partition of India by Shri Dharamvir...

Bunny, an elderly rabbit who uses a walker, is in her kitchen one night baking a cake. A pesky and persistent moth bangs about the kitchen. Nothing...

While walking through the woods at dusk, a man makes a disturbing discovery.