Melancholy Movies

Lola, a woman consumed by loneliness after losing everyone in her life, finds solace in reliving Christmas morning every day with her mannequin son,...

Jan-Erik Widgren meets the lonely Bertha Olsson, a woman struggling with alcoholism. Though Bertha is already linked to Caligula, Jan-Erik's...

Alex's obsession with their favorite anime character Angelic Kitty Miracle-chan offers them a chance to experiment with their sense of identity, but...

As the winter grows harsh, a woman pens a letter to a lover who has yet to write back.

After 50 years of marriage, Wayne, an octogenarian with Alzheimer's, seeks a forbidden love from his youth.

After ending a decade-long relationship, Matías experiences a year of empty parties, disconnected sex, and conversations with the ghost of his...

An elderly piano teacher recently diagnosed with terminal cancer lives in fear of death. But her real fear is who will take care of her cat, her only...

A tender, melancholic night is experienced through the eyes of three women as they struggle to find themselves in this ever-changing jungle of...

On Christmas Eve, Alexandre, a lonely young man burdened by his own emotional defenses, invites Guilherme—a male escort who has just been...

A man steadily bashes through the snow. He disappears and the trees, covered in white, shift and show a beautiful array of hidden colors. A poetic,...

In Appalachia during the Great Depression, a young woman bears her brother’s baby. Her brother leaves the nameless infant in the woods to die,...

A Light, Heartwarming, and conflict-less film on School Nostalgia with a poetic touch in its narration.

"At that time (late 1992), I made a film for British television, Channel 4, called Las Soledades, the name of a long poem by Góngora. It was...

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

In 1974, 24 year-old Francis Wetherbee, a bank teller who is the subject of small-town envy and gossip, disappears from her hometown of Smithville,...

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...

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,...

With the local refinery closing, the town of Grangemouth is thrown into limbo.

Based on actual events about the harsh realities of teenagers living life in a group home (where over 100,000 American juveniles live each year). The...