Despair Movies

The lives of a matriarch, her two sons, and her niece are never the same again as they come to terms with an indiscretion in the family. A pivotal...

Tokyo, 1890. Through avarice, a series of misunderstandings, and failures of courage, the engagement of Kan-ichi (a student) and Miya (the daughter...

After a phone call ends in despair, a young woman faces a fatal decision.

A group of people believe the city is a maze and are obsessively searching for the lost exit.

On Christmas Eve, a former thief, recently released from prison, stops a forlorn, destitute, despairing young woman from committing suicide. She's...

"The Hart of London" is an endlessly layered tour de force. It explores life and death, the sense of place and personal displacement, and the...

Magnus once had a girlfriend and a kid. But his girlfriend now has somebody new. And so now Magnus has his classic car, and a bar. Everything about...

Nina, an end-of-teenage orphan with mental problems, starts a new job as a garden cleaner when she meets Toni. They fell in love with each other, but...

Arthur Dichter thinks he is dying of insomnia, but the reality is much more frightening. In this surreal puzzle film, Dichter turns from his wife to...

Reece tries to find the courage to come out to his family and friends.

They gave the smugglers all their money and risk their life on their journey across borders: Three women from a small town in Moldavia, living now in...

Black and white animation: Words, thoughts... a shout. A cliff to jump from. But things don't end there.

In a waiting room in the space between the living and the beyond, an unlikely pair sits impatiently for their final reckoning.

The film follows a simple structure, and shows the drug-related degradation of five youths (Jake, Tracey, Jessica, Alice, Oreo) during the course of...

Shot over the course of 18 months in New York City's Lower East Side, METHADONIA sheds light on the inherent flaws of legal methadone treatments for...

A desolate man is tempted to perform a dark ritual that promises to end his suffering.

A man loses himself in melancholic euphoria.

Tere travels to sell her napkins with her daughter Flor, who loses one of her new shoes. Tere is forced to leave her alone for a moment, a fact that...

Impressions of a turbulent period in youth.

An animation, based on a comic about nonexistent eyebrows.