Melancholy Movies

Jacob & Amelia grapple with the loss of their unborn child.

A metaphorical love story about the dream of peace, freedom and solidarity in Europe, with the reality of right-wing politics and terror trying to...

A César nominated short animation about the impact on a small-town clerk by the arrival of a female hitch-hiker.

Anna is a 45 years old woman, living alone with her mother in the center of Tbilisi. One night, Anna's life takes a different turn, when at the...

A kitten and a young boy live in a small fisherman's hut. The boy's father calls him Little Hawk. The threesome are poor but happy, and the father...

For 17 years, from the age of about six or seven, Kathy Chu keeps a diary. It's a complete fiction, denying disappointments (when her older sister...

A cargo plane pilot is trapped alone with his ship in Earth's orbit due to a nuclear war. Until one day he finds a connection with someone else in...

A group of friends from a summer village. Over the past few years, they've been seeing each other less and less. Bruna invites them to lunch to...

The man who isolates himself from the world to delve deeply into his thoughts. Searching less for answers and more for memories that can bring him...

A hitman does one last job to get home before he deteriorates completely.

A new-to-town carer forms an unlikely bond with her first patient, an elderly man with onset dementia, and together they find ways to reconcile with...

A boy is going on an exchange to Canada but doesn’t know why he’s decided to do so.

Henry is a slacker floating through young adulthood earning a measly income from selling his body as a human punching bag. Meanwhile he wonders if...

Some words were left unspoken by two lovers before one of them departed. In desperation, one decided to go back in time to a specific moment in the...

mens·beeld (het; o; meervoud: mensbeelden) A "Mensbeeld" is a well-thought-out and coherent representation of what it means to be human....

A short film about the dreams of the past and the realities of the future

Just after stealing the urn containing the ashes of her deceased lover, Paloma, a drag queen, meets Mike, a quiet and gloomy trucker.

The Fenestration of Suburbia is a melancholic social documentation of a cold Canadian suburb.