Depression Drama Movies

List of the best depression drama movies selected by visitors to our site: Joker, Tully, Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot, Detachment, It's Kind of a Funny Story, Demolition, Minamata, Silver Linings Playbook, Collateral Beauty, Blue Jasmine.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 8.4
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration02:25

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrecomedy, drama, detective
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:11

Marlo, a mother of three including a newborn, is gifted a night nanny by her brother. Hesitant to the extravagance at first, Marlo comes to form a bond with the thoughtful, surprising, and sometimes challenging nanny named Tully.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy, drama, biography
CountryFrance, USA
Duration01:50

On the rocky path to sobriety after a life-changing accident, John Callahan discovers the healing power of art, willing his injured hands into drawing hilarious, often controversial cartoons, which bring him a new lease on life.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:38

A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long enough to form any semblance of sentient attachment.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:41

A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:10

An emotionally desperate investment banker finds hope through a woman he meets in Chicago.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama, biography
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, United Arab Emirates, Japan

A movie about reporter W. Eugene Smith and his research on mercury poisoning in Minamata, Japan, resulting in severe neurological symptoms.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:00

    After spending eight months in a mental institution, a former teacher moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:23

    Retreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see how these things interlock and how even loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:34

    Jasmine French used to be on the top of the heap as a New York socialite, but now is returning to her estranged sister in San Francisco utterly ruined. As Jasmine struggles with her haunting memories of a privileged past bearing dark realities she ignored, she tries to recover in her present. Unfortunately, it all proves a losing battle as Jasmine's narcissistic hangups and their consequences begin to overwhelm her. In doing so, her old pretensions and new deceits begin to foul up everyone's lives, especially her own.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredrama
    CountryFrance, USA, Mexico, Morocco, Japan
    Duration02:23

    Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:25

    A small town girl is caught between dead-end jobs. A high-profile, successful man becomes wheelchair bound following an accident. The man decides his life is not worth living until the girl is hired for six months to be his new caretaker. Worlds apart and trapped together by circumstance, the two get off to a rocky start. But the girl becomes determined to prove to the man that life is worth living and as they embark on a series of adventures together, each finds their world changing in ways neither of them could begin to imagine.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, short
    CountryUSA, France, India
    Duration01:32

    Three American brothers who have not spoken to each other in a year set off on a train voyage across India with a plan to find themselves and bond with each other -- to become brothers again like they used to be. Their "spiritual quest", however, veers rapidly off-course (due to events involving over-the-counter pain killers, Indian cough syrup, and pepper spray).

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:33

    After his older brother passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to deal with a tragic past that separated him from his family and the community where he was born and raised.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration01:44

    A witty, romantic, and very dangerous love story about chance meetings, instant attractions, and casual betrayals. Two couples disintegrate when they begin destructive adulterous affairs with each other.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryUSA, Republic of Ireland, France, Iceland, Mexico, Belgium, United Kingdom, Hong Kong
    Duration02:04

    Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genredrama, adventure, family
    CountryFrance, Germany, South Africa, Luxembourg, Monaco, USA
    Duration01:38

    A young girl from London moves to Africa with her parents where she befriends a lion cub.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:49

    Everyone deserves a great love story. But for seventeen-year old Simon Spier it's a little more complicated: he's yet to tell his family or friends he's gay and he doesn't know the identity of the anonymous classmate he's fallen for online.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

    A stage director and an actress struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal extremes.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Canada, South Africa, USA
    Duration01:54

    Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara, he feels like a fraud: he hasn’t really tasted life, and yet he’s offering advice to patients who are just not getting any happier. So Hector decides to break out of his deluded and routine driven life. Armed with buckets of courage and child-like curiosity, he embarks on a global quest in hopes of uncovering the elusive secret formula for true happiness. And so begins a larger than life adventure with riotously funny results.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:36

    Charlie Simms is a student at a private preparatory school who comes from a poor family. To earn the money for his flight home to Gresham, Oregon for Christmas, Charlie takes a job over Thanksgiving looking after retired U.S. Army officer Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade, a cantankerous middle-aged man who lives with his niece and her family.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrecomedy, drama, family
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:53

    When Pete and Ellie decide to start a family, they stumble into the world of foster care adoption. They hope to take in one small child but when they meet three siblings, including a rebellious 15 year old girl, they find themselves speeding from zero to three kids overnight.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, China
    Duration02:26

    A faded television actor and his stunt double strive to achieve fame and success in the film industry during the final years of Hollywood's Golden Age in 1969 Los Angeles.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:32

    A down-on-his-luck crab fisherman embarks on a journey to get a young man with Down syndrome to a professional wrestling school in rural North Carolina and away from the retirement home where he’s lived for the past two and a half years.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:12

    A look at the life of Cecil Gaines who served eight presidents as the White House's head butler from 1952 to 1986, and had a unique front-row seat as political and racial history was made.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
    Duration01:41

      Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:25

      Stevie is a sweet 13-year-old about to explode. His mom is loving and attentive, but a little too forthcoming about her romantic life. His big brother is a taciturn and violent bully. So Stevie searches his working-class Los Angeles suburb for somewhere to belong. He finds it at the Motor Avenue skate shop.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrethriller, drama, biography, history
      CountryUSA

      A tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths due to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything — his future, his family, and his own life — to expose the truth.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:58

      An IRS agent with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrecomedy, drama, family
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:04

      Benjamin has lost his wife and, in a bid to start his life over, purchases a large house that has a zoo – welcome news for his daughter, but his son is not happy about it. The zoo is in need of renovation and Benjamin sets about the work with the head keeper and the rest of the staff, but, the zoo soon runs into financial trouble.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genremelodrama, drama, crime, music
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:41

        A tight-knit group of New York City street dancers, including Luke and Natalie, team up with NYU freshman Moose, and find themselves pitted against the world's best hip hop dancers in a high-stakes showdown that will change their lives forever.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genredrama, western
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:32

        A legendary Native American-hating Army captain nearing retirement in 1892 is given one last assignment: to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory back to his Montana reservation.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA, France
        Duration01:38

        Set in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a fraud.

        Markimdb: 7.4
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:34

        A California high school student plans to escape from her family and small town by going to college in New York.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:42

        A young and devoted morning television producer is hired as an executive producer on a long-running morning show at a once-prominent but currently failing station in New York City. Eager to keep the show on air, she recruits a former news journalist and anchor who disapproves of co-hosting a show that does not deal with real news stories.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genredrama, biography
        CountryUSA, China, Canada
        Duration01:55

        Young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the U.S. Court of Appeals and overturn a century of sex discrimination.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genredrama, biography, history
        CountryGermany, France, Luxembourg, United Kingdom, USA
        Duration01:05

        A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend that draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody ever escaped from.

        Markimdb: 8.2
        Genredrama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:57

        The series centers on 17-year-old Joshua "J" Cody, who moves in with his freewheeling relatives in their Southern California beach town after his mother dies of a heroin overdose. Headed by boot-tough matriarch Janine "Smurf" Cody and her right-hand Baz, who runs the business and calls the shots, the clan also consists of Pope, the oldest and most dangerous of the Cody boys; Craig, the tough and fearless middle son; and Deran, the troubled, suspicious "baby" of the family.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genredrama
        CountrySpain, Thailand, USA
        Duration01:49

          In December 2004, close-knit family Maria, Henry and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand. But the day after Christmas, the idyllic holiday turns into an incomprehensible nightmare when a terrifying roar rises from the depths of the sea, followed by a wall of black water that devours everything in its path. Though Maria and her family face their darkest hour, unexpected displays of kindness and courage ameliorate their terror.

          Markimdb: 7.3
          Genremelodrama, drama
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom
          Duration01:54

          A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.

          Markimdb: 7.4
          Genredrama, sport
          CountryUSA, Hong Kong
          Duration02:27

          Billy "The Great" Hope, the reigning junior middleweight boxing champion, has an impressive career, a loving wife and daughter, and a lavish lifestyle. However, when tragedy strikes, Billy hits rock bottom, losing his family, his house and his manager. He soon finds an unlikely savior in Tick Willis, a former fighter who trains the city's toughest amateur boxers. With his future on the line, Hope fights to reclaim the trust of those he loves the most.

          Markimdb: 7.1
          Genrecomedy, drama
          CountryUSA

          Scott has been a case of arrested development ever since his firefighter father died when he was seven. He’s now reached his mid-20s having achieved little, chasing a dream of becoming a tattoo artist that seems far out of reach. As his ambitious younger sister heads off to college, Scott is still living with his exhausted ER nurse mother and spends his days smoking weed, hanging with the guys — Oscar, Igor and Richie — and secretly hooking up with his childhood friend Kelsey. But when his mother starts dating a loudmouth firefighter named Ray, it sets off a chain of events that will force Scott to grapple with his grief and take his first tentative steps toward moving forward in life.

          Markimdb: 7.5
          Genredrama, biography
          CountryUSA

          Directed by Clint Eastwood and based on true events, "Richard Jewell" is a story of what happens when what is reported as fact obscures the truth. "There is a bomb in Centennial Park. You have thirty minutes." The world is first introduced to Richard Jewell as the security guard who reports finding the device at the 1996 Atlanta bombing-his report making him a hero whose swift actions save countless lives. But within days, the law enforcement wannabe becomes the FBI's number one suspect, vilified by press and public alike, his life ripped apart. Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a concert, only to be falsely suspected of the crime by sloppy FBI work and sensational media coverage.

          Markimdb: 7.2
          Genrecomedy, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:01

          A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.

          Markimdb: 7.7
          Genremelodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:13

          Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a patient named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.

          Markimdb: 7.6
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, family, sport
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:44

          A family dog—with a near-human soul and a philosopher's mind—evaluates his life through the lessons learned by his human owner, a race-car driver.

          Markimdb: 7.5
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
          CountryUSA, Germany

          The quirky staff of an American magazine based in 1970s France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.

          Markimdb: 8
          Genredrama, biography, history
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Australia
          Duration01:58

          The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie') reluctantly assumes the throne. Plagued by a dreaded stutter and considered unfit to be king, Bertie engages the help of an unorthodox speech therapist named Lionel Logue. Through a set of unexpected techniques, and as a result of an unlikely friendship, Bertie is able to find his voice and boldly lead the country into war.

          Markimdb: 7.4
          Genredrama, detective, biography
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration00:40

          After the sudden death of ex-Secret Intelligence Service man Alexander, his wife Alison investigates when mysteries from her husband's past come knocking.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genredrama, adventure, family
          CountryUSA, Canada

          Buck is a big-hearted dog whose blissful domestic life is turned upside down when he is suddenly uprooted from his California home and transplanted to the exotic wilds of the Yukon during the Gold Rush of the 1890s. As the newest rookie on a mail delivery dog sled team—and later its leader—Buck experiences the adventure of a lifetime, ultimately finding his true place in the world and becoming his own master.




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