Sad Netflix Movies

List of the saddest movies from Netflix, selected by visitors to our site: Don't Look Up, Marriage Story, El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, The Help, Colonia, The Book Thief, The Judge, We Bought a Zoo, The Age of Adaline, The Professor and the Madman.

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

Genrefantastic, comedy, drama
CountryUSA

Two low-level astronomers must go on a giant media tour to warn humankind of an approaching comet that will destroy planet Earth.

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: 7.3
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration02:17

In the wake of his dramatic escape from captivity, Jesse Pinkman must come to terms with his past in order to forge some kind of future.

Markimdb: 8
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration02:26

Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help"; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.

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: 7.5
Genredrama, military
CountryUSA, Germany
Duration02:11

While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refuge is being sheltered by her adoptive parents.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration02:22

    A successful lawyer returns to his hometown for his mother's funeral only to discover that his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder.

    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: 7.2
    Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration02:32

    After 29-year-old Adaline recovers from a nearly lethal accident, she inexplicably stops growing older. As the years stretch on and on, Adaline keeps her secret to herself until she meets a man who changes her life.

    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: 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: 7.3
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:00

    After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?

    Markimdb: 8.3
    Genredrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA

    A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages. As he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.

    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: 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: 7.9
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryItaly, France, USA, Brazil
      Duration02:09

      Elio Perlman is spending the summer with his family at their vacation home in Lombardy, Italy. When his father hires a handsome doctoral student, the curious 17-year-old finds himself developing a growing attraction to the young man.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:56

        In this captivating Depression-era melodrama, impetuous veterinary student Jacob Jankowski joins a celebrated circus as an animal caretaker but faces a wrenching dilemma when he's transfixed by angelic married performer Marlena.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:40

        Inspired by a true story, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis, and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.

        Markimdb: 7.8
        Genredrama, biography, sport
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:54

          The Fighter, is a drama about boxer "Irish" Micky Ward's unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His Rocky-like rise was shepherded by half-brother Dicky, a boxer-turned-trainer who rebounded in life after nearly being KO'd by drugs and crime.

          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: 8.2
          Genrecomedy, drama, crime, biography
          CountryUSA
          Duration03:00

            A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.

            Markimdb: 6.9
            Genredrama, western, crime
            CountryFrance, Spain, Romania, Belgium, USA
            Duration01:56

            Oregon, 1851. Hermann Kermit Warm, a chemist and aspiring gold prospector, keeps a profitable secret that the Commodore wants to know, so he sends the Sisters brothers, two notorious assassins, to capture him on his way to California.

            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: 7.2
            Genremelodrama, drama
            CountryUnited Kingdom, New Zealand, USA, India, Australia
            Duration02:40

            A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.

            Markimdb: 7.2
            Genrecomedy, drama, biography
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:07

            George W. Bush picks Dick Cheney, the CEO of Halliburton Co., to be his Republican running mate in the 2000 presidential election. No stranger to politics, Cheney's impressive résumé includes stints as White House chief of staff, House Minority Whip and defense secretary. When Bush wins by a narrow margin, Cheney begins to use his newfound power to help reshape the country and the world.

            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: 7.1
              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: 6.7
              Genrecomedy, drama
              CountryUSA
              Duration02:30

              A world-weary college professor is given a life-changing diagnosis and decides to throw all pretense and conventions to the wind and live his life as boldly and freely as possible with a biting sense of humor, a reckless streak and a touch of madness.

              Markimdb: 7.1
              Genredrama, adventure, biography
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:55

              A woman with a tragic past decides to start her new life by hiking for one thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail.

              Markimdb: 7.3
              Genredrama
              CountryUSA, Germany

              A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the western United States after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.

              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
              Genrecomedy, drama
              CountryUSA
              Duration02:10

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

              Markimdb: 6.7
              Genrethriller, drama, adventure, crime
              CountryUSA
              Duration02:31

              Kenny Wells, a modern-day prospector, hustler, and dreamer, is desperate for a lucky break. Left with few options, Wells teams up with an equally luckless geologist to execute a grandiose, last-ditch effort: to find gold deep in the uncharted jungle of Indonesia.

              Markimdb: 6.2
              Genreaction, drama, family, sport
              CountryUSA, China
              Duration02:20

              12-year-old Dre Parker could have been the most popular kid in Detroit, but his mother's latest career move has landed him in China. Dre immediately falls for his classmate Mei Ying but the cultural differences make such a friendship impossible. Even worse, Dre's feelings make him an enemy of the class bully, Cheng. With no friends in a strange land, Dre has nowhere to turn but maintenance man Mr. Han, who is a kung fu master. As Han teaches Dre that kung fu is not about punches and parries, but maturity and calm, Dre realizes that facing down the bullies will be the fight of his life.

              Markimdb: 8.1
              Genredrama, sport
              CountryUSA
              Duration02:20

              The youngest son of an alcoholic former boxer returns home, where he's trained by his father for competition in a mixed martial arts tournament - a path that puts the fighter on a collision course with his estranged, older brother, an ex-marine with a tragic past.

              Markimdb: 7.5
              Genrecomedy, drama, biography, history
              CountryUnited Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, USA
              Duration01:55

              England, early 18th century. The close relationship between Queen Anne and Sarah Churchill is threatened by the arrival of Sarah's cousin, Abigail Hill, resulting in a bitter rivalry between the two cousins to be the Queen's favourite.

              Markimdb: 7.8
              Genredrama, biography, history
              CountryUSA
              Duration02:32

              The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history – the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big.

              Markimdb: 7.2
              Genredrama, adventure, crime, biography
              CountryUSA, Czech Republic, Spain
              Duration01:00

              Henri “Papillon” Charrière, a safecracker from the Parisian underworld, is wrongfully convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, where he forges a strong friendship with Louis Dega, a counterfeiter who needs his protection.

              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: 7.9
              Genrecomedy, drama
              CountryUSA
              Duration02:29

              A father living in the forests of the Pacific Northwest with his six young kids tries to assimilate back into society.

              Markimdb: 7.5
              Genrethriller, drama, crime
              CountryUSA, France
              Duration01:30

              An ambitious lobbyist faces off against the powerful gun lobby in an attempt to pass gun control legislation.

              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: 8.5
              Genredrama, music
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:46

              Under the direction of a ruthless instructor, a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection at any cost, even his humanity.

              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: 7.2
              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: 6.8
              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: 7.7
              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: 7.5
              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, melodrama, drama, music
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:41

                  A long lost music producer finds a singer-songwriter right about the moment he has given up all hope on life.




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