• Memento
• Black swan
• Event horizon
• The fountain
• Pan's labyrinth
• Requiem for a dream
• A scanner darkly
• Vatel

I can't believe nobody has mentioned 12 Monkeys. It checks all 3 marks including having "fate" as an integral part of the plot.

• The Road

• Van Diemen's Land

• Valhalla Rising

• The Proposition

• Threads

Have you seen the TV glow? I saw the TV glow.

The new Resident Evil movie.

Iron Lung

On the other hand Hallmark makes twenty new films a year with the same plot. They're hollow, but full of hope and lighthearted. You could probably make the argument that that is a pretty cynical way to produce art in itself. But frankly if I want something to make me want to kill myself, I think that's probably better than bleak depressioncore films way too up their own ass about the depravity of man, I already see that enough in the news

If zis were un American film I would have a gun, and perhaps a little car chase. But it is French.

Merde.

Spoilers for a 2018 movie

I'm not a horror fan, so my opinion probably isn't worth much, but I found the ending to Hereditary unsatisfying not because evil wins, but because the supernatural aspect made it completely ridiculous and removed all fear.

I think a much better ending would've been leaning into the family history of psychosis instead of the paranormal. Because real people actually have schizophrenia and get psychosis, which is legitimately terrifying because it can happen to anyone at any time.

I don't know about movies but the Edgerunners series is pretty good

This genre used to be my jam pre-transition (veering between gut punch and lay-down-and-die melancholy), but these days i need a buddy to watch them with, if i watch them at all...

Off the top of my head:

• Niagra, Niagra
• Requiem for a Dream
• Pi
• Sophie's Choice
• Grave of the Fireflies
• Revolutionary Road
• Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Must be a cold day in hell 'cause I apparently like something Sonic is saying. lol

The Electric State

Enough of this normie shit, let's get to the real, hardcore bleakness 💀

• The Seventh Continent
• Wake in Fright
• The Turin Horse
• The Celebration
• The Vanishing (1988)

I can keep going if people want more.

'Kids'. And if you want to continue after that, 'Christiane F.'

Fuck that noise.

Reality is already bleak enough. Don't need it when I try to escape it.

Life (2017)

Just stop the movie at the cliffhanger at the end of act 2 when the hero gets knocked out/almoat killed/gives up/etc. Stop the movie then.

Example: Good Will Hunting - there's a part near the end when Will says FUCK YOU to everyone around him and storms off. Stop there, and don't let the movie conclude where Will caves to everyone's terrible demands that he leaves town and goes after the girl.

Just saw Wild Horse Nine in theaters. Absolutely worth a watch!

People need the movie fantasy that the bad guys don't win.

Melancholia is the bleakest movie I’ve ever seen.

The most fun movie to deal with bleakness is Gamera 3: Revenge of Irys

Early black mirror episodes.

The Human Centipede, Funny Games, Plague Dogs