Sad TV Shows

The list of the saddest TV shows selected by visitors of our site: The Handmaid's Tale, True Detective, 13 Reasons Why, Black Mirror, The Method, Blue Gender, Olive Kitteridge, For Life, Gurren Lagann, The Beatles Anthology.

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

Markimdb: 8.4
Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:46

Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship. A TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel.

Markimdb: 8.9
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:00

An American anthology police detective series utilizing multiple timelines in which investigations seem to unearth personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within or outside the law.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:04

After a teenage girl's perplexing suicide, a classmate receives a series of tapes that unravel the mystery of her tragic choice.

Markimdb: 8.8
Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration00:43

    A contemporary British re-working of The Twilight Zone with stories that tap into the collective unease about our modern world.  Over the last ten years, technology has transformed almost every aspect of our lives before we've had time to stop and question it. In every home; on every desk; in every palm - a plasma screen; a monitor; a smartphone - a black mirror of our 21st Century existence.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryRussia
    Duration02:47

    The main character is an extraordinary and mysterious person, at the same time, he (Rodion Meglin) is an outstanding inspector. Rodion is used to work alone in order to keep the secrecy of his unusual method. Young graduate Esenya Steklova is eager to get the internship with the glorious investigator but she could hardly expect the challenges she would face while working with Rodion. Together they investigate the cruelest crimes that took place in the history of Russian criminality.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrehorror, fantastic, melodrama, drama, adventure, cartoon, anime
    CountryJapan

    In the 2030s Earth has been overrun by the Blue, which are mutated insect-like creatures that kill and harvest humans for food. Most of the surviving human race has moved to Second Earth, a huge spaceship that orbits the planet. Yuji and Marlene must work together to reach Second Earth and fight against the Blue.

    Markimdb: 8.3
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration03:59

    A look at a seemingly placid New England town that is actually wrought with illicit affairs, crime and tragedy, all told through the lens of Olive, whose wicked wit and harsh demeanor mask a warm but troubled heart and staunch moral center. The story spans 25 years and focuses on Olive's relationships with her husband, Henry, the good-hearted and kindly town pharmacist; their son, Christopher, who resents his mother's approach to parenting; and other members of their community.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genredrama, crime, biography
    CountryUSA

    A prisoner becomes a lawyer, litigating cases for other inmates while fighting to overturn his own life sentence for a crime he didn’t commit.

    Markimdb: 8.3
    Genrefantastic, action, comedy, drama, cartoon, music, anime
    CountryJapan
    Duration00:25

    In the distant future, people build their homes and raise domestic animals in subterranean caverns. As a result, they live in fear of the occasional earthquake and cave-in, and have been for hundreds of years. Jeeha is one such village. One day, a boy named Simon happens to find a small, shiny drill whilst digging to expand the village. At the same time, Kamina, a guy who believes that there is another land above the village, persuades a gangster to break through the ceiling in order to leave the cavern. Suddenly, an earthquake occurs and the ceiling collapses, followed by a big robot breaking through the ceiling. Kamina is now sure that there is a world above them. Recklessly, he begins to fight against the robot. At that moment, another person appears from the land above. It is a girl by the name of Yoko. With a rifle in hand, she had been tracking the robot. However, all she could do was distract it. Then, Simon shows what he had found to Kamina and Yoko. It`s a mysterious robot whose head is also its body.

    Markimdb: 9.1
    Genredocumentary, music
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    A documentary series on the career of The Beatles.

    Markimdb: 9.4
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:47

    When Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live, he becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting desire to secure his family's financial future at any cost as he enters the dangerous world of drugs and crime.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA

    The Affair explores the emotional effects of an extramarital relationship between Noah Solloway and Alison Lockhart after the two meet in the resort town of Montauk in Long Island. Noah is a New York City schoolteacher with one novel published (book entitled A Person who Visits a Place) and he is struggling to write a second book. He is happily married with four children, but resents his dependence on his wealthy father-in-law. Alison is a young waitress trying to piece her life and marriage back together in the wake of the tragic death of her child. The story of the affair is told separately, complete with distinct memory biases, from the male and female perspectives.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrehorror, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:43

    Thousands of dead people have risen from their graves and nearly destroyed Britain. A cure has been found - but can the treated zombies be rehabilitated back into living society?

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrehorror, fantastic, drama
    CountryUSA

    After a mysterious disease begins transforming people into vampires, Dr. Luther Swann is pitted against his best friend, now a powerful vampire leader.

    Markimdb: 8.7
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:55

    A darkly comic look at members of a dysfunctional L.A. family that run a funeral business.  When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of their family-owned funeral home continues to be at least as challenging as--and far less predictable than--the one inside.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom

    Young computer engineer Lily Chan investigates the secretive development division of her employer, a cutting-edge tech company based in San Francisco, which she believes is behind the murder of her boyfriend.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:05

    The peaceful alien invasion of Earth by the mysterious “Overlords,” whose arrival begins decades of apparent utopia under indirect alien rule, at the cost of human identity and culture.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genredrama, family
    CountryUSA

    Five brothers and sisters are determined to stay together following the tragic loss of their parents.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genremelodrama, cartoon, anime
    CountryJapan

    Based on an illustration book by Naka Fukamachi. The anime offers heartwarming peeks at the lives of close couples and families.

    Markimdb: 8.5
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryCanada, USA
    Duration01:36

    A thriller set two hundred years in the future following the case of a missing young woman who brings a hardened detective and a rogue ship's captain together in a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.

    Markimdb: 8.8
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryFrance, USA
    Duration00:47

    The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into the heart of the surrounding woodland and his very own soul.

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:43

      Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.

      Markimdb: 8.2
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
      CountryCanada, USA

      The Outer Limits is an anthology of self-contained episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end.

      Markimdb: 7.9
      Genrefantastic, drama
      CountryUSA

      Explore an aspirational world where NASA and the space program remained a priority and a focal point of our hopes and dreams as told through the lives of NASA astronauts, engineers, and their families.

      Markimdb: 8.3
      Genrefantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama, adventure, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration00:43

      Stripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay alive. But the island holds many secrets.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrefantastic, action, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA

      Set twenty years after the events of Star Trek Nemesis, we follow the now-retired Admiral Picard into the next chapter of his life.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genredrama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration00:43

      Low Winter Sun is an American television drama series developed by Chris Mundy, starring Mark Strong and Lennie James. The series premiered on August 11, 2013, on AMC, with the first season consisting of ten episodes. It is based upon the 2006 British two-part miniseries of the same name.

      Markimdb: 8.4
      Genredrama, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration00:46

      The murder of a young boy in a small coastal town brings a media frenzy, which threatens to tear the community apart.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:00

      400 years after the extinction of the human race, a small group of humans are revived by an alien civilization. The colony of revived humans encounter struggles with the aliens who extinguished humankind centuries before, while trying to understand and get along with the mysterious aliens who revived them.

      Markimdb: 9.3
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:00

      Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between good and evil are routinely obliterated.

      Markimdb: 8.1
      Genredrama
      CountryItaly, France, Spain, United Kingdom, USA

      As Pope Pius XIII hangs between life and death in a coma, charming and sophisticated moderate English aristocrat Sir John Brannox is placed on the papal throne and adopts the name John Paul III. A sequel series to “The Young Pope.”

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryAustralia, United Kingdom, New Zealand, USA
      Duration05:00

      A woman haunted by her past, Detective Robin Griffin, investigates complex and unsettling cases.

      Markimdb: 8
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration00:25

      In his first HBO stand-up comedy special, Ramy Youssef shares candid anecdotes about his life as an Egyptian-American comedian, writer, actor and director.

      Markimdb: 8.4
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryDenmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany
      Duration00:55

      The Killing is a Danish police procedural set in the Copenhagen main police department and revolves around Detective Inspector Sarah Lund and her team, with each season series following a different murder case day-by-day and a one-hour episode covering twenty-four hours of the investigation. The series is noted for its plot twists, season-long storylines, dark tone and for giving equal emphasis to the story of the murdered victim's family alongside the police investigation. It has also been singled out for the photography of its Danish setting, and for the acting ability of its cast.

      Markimdb: 8.7
      Genreaction, fantasy, drama, cartoon, anime
      CountryJapan
      Duration00:23

      Guts, a man who calls himself "The Black Swordsman" looks upon his days serving as a member of a group of mercenaries, the Band of the Hawk, nicknamed "the Grim Reaper of the Battlefield." Led by an ambitious, ruthless, and intelligent man named Griffith, together they battle their way into the royal court, and are forced into a fate that may change their entire lives.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrecomedy
      CountryRussia

      Collection of satirical sketches, telling about the decent inhabitants of the Patriarchal Ponds and their obscene stories. The series includes touching, outrageous and full of love intimate stories that are not accepted to speak out loud.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrecomedy
      CountryRussia

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      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genredrama
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration00:45

      An assassin with a secret, Mia's life is changed forever by a letter from her ex.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryCanada
      Duration01:32

      Between is the story of a town under siege from a mysterious disease that has wiped out everybody except those 21 years old and under. The series explores the power vacuum that results when a government has quarantined a 10-mile diameter area and left the inhabitants to fend for themselves.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA

      In a world mostly wiped out by the plague and embroiled in an elemental struggle between good and evil, the fate of mankind rests on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abagail and a handful of survivors. Their worst nightmares are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg, the Dark Man.

      Markimdb: 8.2
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:36

      David Haller, AKA Legion, is a troubled young man who may be more than human. Diagnosed as schizophrenic, David has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals for years. But after a strange encounter with a fellow patient, he’s confronted with the possibility that the voices he hears and the visions he sees might be real.

      Markimdb: 7.9
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
      CountrySweden

      Set in a parallel universe, Real Humans imagines a world where robots have become so human that they're barely distinguishable from real humans and follows the resulting emotional effects on two families as well as the trials of a group of robots who have attained free will and want their freedom from human ownership.

      Markimdb: 8.9
      Genredrama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:43

      Five teens from Harlem become trapped in a nightmare when they're falsely accused of a brutal attack in Central Park.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrehorror, fantasy, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration00:42

      Young Nancy Drew makes plans to leave her hometown for college after high school graduation, but finds herself drawn into a supernatural murder mystery.

      Markimdb: 8.5
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryRepublic of Ireland

      Marianne and Connell weave in and out of each other’s lives in this exploration of sex, power and the desire to love and be loved. Adaptation of Sally Rooney’s best-selling novel.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrecomedy, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:13

      Dud is a deadbeat but charming ex-surfer who joins a fraternal order hoping to reclaim the simple, happy lifestyle he lost when his father died. Through the Lodge and his newfound connection with the other members, Dud will come to find the missing sense of purpose in his life and confront his deepest fears and greatest hopes.

      Markimdb: 7.9
      Genremelodrama, drama, family
      CountryUSA
      Duration00:43

      The story of two teenage girls who discover they were accidentally switched as newborns in the hospital. Bay Kennish grew up in a wealthy family with two parents and a brother, while Daphne Vasquez, who lost her hearing at an early age due to a case of meningitis, grew up with a single mother in a working-class neighborhood. Things come to a dramatic head when both families meet and struggle to learn how to live together for the sake of the girls.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, adventure, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:58

      After a massive alien artifact lands on Earth, Niko Breckinridge leads an interstellar mission to track down its source and make first contact.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:35

      Tales of science fiction, fantasy and the occult, exploring humanity's hopes, despairs, prides and prejudices in metaphoric ways. Next stop ahead The Twilight Zone.




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