Bleak, bleak cinema please

[scarletlion]

I love me some bleak cinema. I've seen the usual ones that get mentioned like Happiness, Salo, The War Zone, most Haneke films.

I'm talking about some hidden gems. I recently saw, and loved these:

-Werewolf (2017)
-Submarino
-Safe Place
-lilyah 4 ever
-Let me Fall
-Christiane F
-Pixote
-Uzak
-Snowtown
-Hean-On
-A Short Film about Killing


Who can recommend me similar?

[DR Herbert West]

Dead Ringers
Possessor
The Adventures of Pluto Nash
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Edmond

[scarletlion]

Originally Posted by DR Herbert West

Dead Ringers
Possessor
The Adventures of Pluto Nash
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Edmond

Thanks, seen all of those apart from Pluto Nash, which I shall explore.

[LescotF]

Climax is pretty bleak. It has a French director, I think.
The bleakest film I remember seeing is Spanish, I saw it with the English title Kidnapped.

[scarletlion]

Originally Posted by LescotF

Climax is pretty bleak. It has a French director, I think.

Noe. Think he's Argentinian. Great film.

The bleakest film I remember seeing is Spanish, I saw it with the English title Kidnapped.

Thanks - will investigate

[AKORIS]

Testament (1983)

Pink Floyd The Wall


and.... I think the Pluto Nash suggestion above was meant to be a joke....

[scarletlion]

Originally Posted by AKORIS

Testament (1983)

Saw that faiurly recently, pretty much loved it.

Pink Floyd The Wall

Don't think I've seen it all the way through.

and.... I think the Pluto Nash suggestion above was meant to be a joke....

I see. way over my head.

[frogmort]

Maybe not a 'hidden gem', but I really like The Road 2009.



Been meaning to check out The Rover 2014 too.

[Mothravka]

A Place in the World (2001)
Come and See (1985)
Cries and Whispers (1972)
Damnation (1988)
Dead Man's Letters (1986)
Demons (1971)
Double Suicide (1969)
Frost (1997)
Naked (1993)
Noisy Requeim (1988)
Ossos (1997)
Satantango (1994)
Utopia (1983)
Winter Light (1963)
Woman in the Dunes (1964)

[Rayjaymay]

Breaking the Waves and Melancholia by Lars Von Trier.

[Monterey Jack]

Blow Out.

[cheez avenger]

Martyrs (the original, not the shitty remake)
The Divide
Frontier(s)
A Serbian Film
Se7en
I Saw the Devil
Irreversible
Cure

[Foggy]

Originally Posted by scarletlion

Thanks, seen all of those apart from Pluto Nash, which I shall explore.

I think Pluto Nash is a joke one, certainly bleak but not in that way.

Lynn + Lucy (2019)
An Elephant Sitting Still (2018)
Dark River (2017)
It Comes At Night (2017)
November (2017)
Super Dark Times (2017)
The Childhood of a Leader (2015)
Blind (2014)
Miss Violence (2013)
Kelly + Victor (2012)
Beyond the Hills (2012)
Kotoko (2011)
Dreams of a Life (2011)
The Arbor (2010)
Confessions (2010)
Poetry (2010)
Polytechnique (2009)
La Zona (2007)
Spider (2002)
Ratcatcher (1999)
Cure (1997)
Gummo (1997)
Ponette (1996)
The Addiction (1995)
The Rapture (1991)
Elephant (1989)
Landscapes in the Mist (1988)
River’s End (1986)
Threads (1984)
The Cremator (1969)


Hopefully I’ve hit a few in there you’ve not seen yet.

[bradnoyes]

I'm not familiar with all the movies in the OP and I wish I had a larger library of hidden gems in my head, but a few movies I recall that I would certainly classify as bleak (as in they left me devastated for at least a few days) were:

Incendies (most of Denis Villenueve's early work, really)
Grave of the Fireflies
Aftersun
In Cold Blood
Jacob's Ladder

[White Dang]

I guess watch Melancholie der Engel. It's pretty bleak.

[The Sovereign]

Ironweed

[RFK]

In a Glass Cage
Mouchette
Requiem for a Dream
Los Olvidados
Affliction
Naked
The Plague Dogs
Out of the Blue
Dancer in the Dark
Der Todesking
Witchfinder General
Combat Shock
Seconds

[Doc Samson]

Originally Posted by DR Herbert West

Dead Ringers
Possessor
The Adventures of Pluto Nash
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Edmond

[Michael1989]

Eden Lake

[scarletlion]

Originally Posted by Foggy

I think Pluto Nash is a joke one, certainly bleak but not in that way.


Super Dark Times (2017)
The Childhood of a Leader (2015)
Kelly + Victor (2012)
Beyond the Hills (2012)
Dreams of a Life (2011)
La Zona (2007)
Spider (2002)
The Addiction (1995)
The Rapture (1991)
Elephant (1989)
Landscapes in the Mist (1988)
River’s End (1986)


Hopefully I’ve hit a few in there you’ve not seen yet.

Thanks, I've not seen these ones, will add. Some of the others are in my top 50 of all time.