Melancholy Movies

Arlo is a recent college graduate disillusioned with the reality of adulthood. When he takes off work to attend an absurd amount of funerals, he...

Three high school students deal with mental health struggles throughout the school day before Thanksgiving.

"Terry" tells the story of 21-year old amputee Terry Fox who attempted to run across Canada with only one leg. Unfortunately, he only made it to...

A young man returns to a place that no longer feels like home. Along the way, old melodies echo through memories he can’t outrun.

Four inversions of an increasingly melancholic relationship

Romantic novelist Edith Hope so horrifies her friends that they banish her to the solitude of a Swiss hotel. She decides to work out her exile by...

A documentary on three families struggling to survive in Brazil.

Simbiso, a determined 17-year-old girl from a rural village, carries the weight of raising her younger siblings after losing their parents. When she...

When a mother and son with a caustic history reunite to pack-up their old house, sparks fly as long-buried secrets are revealed, and it might fall...

Something Like Summer traces the tumultuous relationship of Ben and Tim, secret high school sweethearts who grow over the years into both adulthood...

'It's Alright Now' tells the story of how a childhood accident in 1968 changes the lives of three kids forever and creates an inseparable bond.

Two sisters and their male counterparts struggle with the negative influences of their youths over a 50-year period.

Soon after learning of the death of his mother Pérola, Mauro returns to his old family home in Bauru (São Paulo, Brazil). A look back...

When an 80 year old intellectual is confronted with issues of old age and death, she reminisces the death of her mother that happened 30 years...

After a chance encounter with someone from his past, a solitary man in New York reflects on lost connections, memory, and the quiet ache of growing...

Aurora and Bernardo are experiencing moments of happiness, but their joy is interrupted by the onset of war.

A few minutes in the life of two people: a young woman who has her whole life in front of her and an old man ill with asthma who has only one more...

On the last days of his life, while succumbing to alcoholism in a hospital, famed writer Lima Barreto chronicles his trajectory story as a black,...

In his motor home, while drinking too much wine, an old “Shlappsteur” (a luxury event waiter) shares anecdotes about the job that ate up...

Maria and Suzy try to find themselves within their confusing relationship after a fateful night, struggling to overcome the indifference they both...