Top rated dark and depressing movies with an artistic approach

Check out today’s highest ranked dark and depressing movies with an artistic approach! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best dark and depressing movies with an artistic approach, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 The Golden Glove (2019)

A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.

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2019-02-21 | Crime / Thriller

Cast

Jonas Dassler, Margarethe Tiesel

Rating

rating icon 6.952
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    brutal killing
  2. Ranked #1 for
    evoking
  3. Ranked #1 for
    unpleasant

Trailer

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2 A Good Woman Is Hard to Find (2019)

The recently widowed mother of two, Sarah, is desperate to know who murdered her husband in front of her young son, rendering him mute. Coerced into helping a low-life drug dealer stash narcotics stolen from the local Mr. Big, she's forced into taking drastic action to protect her children, evolving from downtrodden submissive to take-charge vigilante.

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2019-10-25 | Thriller / Crime

Cast

Sarah Bolger, Edward Hogg

Rating

rating icon 6.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    different approach
  2. Ranked #2 for
    perfectly watchable
  3. Ranked #2 for
    shattering climax

Trailer

A Good Woman Is Hard to Find trailer
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3 Vesper (2022)

After the collapse of Earth's ecosystem, Vesper, a 13-year-old girl struggling to survive with her paralyzed Father, meets a mysterious Woman with a secret that forces Vesper to use her wits, strength and bio-hacking abilities to fight for the possibility of a future.

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2022-08-17 | Science Fiction / Drama

Cast

Raffiella Chapman, Eddie Marsan

Rating

rating icon 6.409
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    post-apocalyptic future
  2. Ranked #1 for
    slimy cast
  3. Ranked #1 for
    plot hinges

Trailer

Vesper trailer
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4 Nomadland (2021)

A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the western United States after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.

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2021-01-29 | Drama

Cast

Frances McDormand, David Strathairn

Rating

rating icon 7.215
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    rootless character
  2. Ranked #2 for
    shortlisted
  3. Ranked #2 for
    overrated

Trailer

Nomadland trailer
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5 The Humans (2021)

Erik Blake has gathered three generations of his Pennsylvania family to celebrate Thanksgiving at his daughter’s apartment in lower Manhattan. As darkness falls outside and eerie things start to go bump in the night, the group’s deepest fears are laid bare.

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2021-11-24 | Drama

Cast

Richard Jenkins, Jayne Houdyshell

Rating

rating icon 6.113
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    heavy dialogue
  2. Ranked #1 for
    talky
  3. Ranked #2 for
    bumping at night

Trailer

The Humans trailer
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6 Vortex (2022)

Lui, a struggling author with a heart condition, and his wife Elle, a retired psychiatrist, find their idyllic life shattered when Elle begins to succumb to the effects of dementia.

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2022-01-27 | Drama

Cast

Dario Argento, Françoise Lebrun

Rating

rating icon 7.154
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    innovative technique
  2. Ranked #2 for
    unmistakable acting
  3. Ranked #2 for
    cross-cut editing

Trailer

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7 Honeyland (2019)

When nomadic beekeepers break Honeyland’s basic rule (take half of the honey, but leave half to the bees), the last female beehunter in Europe must save the bees and restore natural balance.

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2019-07-26 | Documentary

Cast

Hatidzhe Muratova, Nazife Muratova

Rating

rating icon 8.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    unrepeatable
  2. Ranked #1 for
    with miserable existence
  3. Ranked #2 for
    mesmerizing

Trailer

Honeyland trailer
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8 Spencer (2021)

During her Christmas holidays with the royal family at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England, Diana decides to leave her marriage to Prince Charles.

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2021-11-04 | Drama / History

Cast

Kristen Stewart, Jack Farthing

Rating

rating icon 6.832
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    painful
  2. Ranked #1 for
    vocal inflection
  3. Ranked #2 for
    sympathetic portrayal

Trailer

Spencer trailer
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9 Shifter (2020)

A young woman struggles with the painful and gruesome side effects of an experiment with time travel gone wrong that causes her to lose control and shift through time at random.

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2020-03-06 | Horror / Science Fiction

Cast

Nicole Fancher, Ashley Mandanas

Rating

rating icon 4.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    super-smart
  2. Ranked #1 for
    most captivating
  3. Ranked #2 for
    credible performance

Trailer

Shifter trailer
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10 American Factory (2019)

In post-industrial Ohio, a Chinese billionaire opens a new factory in the husk of an abandoned General Motors plant, hiring two thousand blue-collar Americans. Early days of hope and optimism give way to setbacks as high-tech China clashes with working-class America.

Info

2019-08-21 | Documentary

Cast

Junming 'Jimmy' Wang, Sherrod Brown

Rating

rating icon 7.167
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    post-modernism
  2. Ranked #1 for
    very demanding
  3. Ranked #1 for
    happy camper

Trailer

American Factory trailer
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