[Request] Bleak/desolate/dreary looking movies. Basically where you seldom see the sun shine. - eviltoast

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Hi there,

I hope my title as well as the examples shown in the picture get the idea across of what I’m looking for. Doesn’t matter what the genre is, I am just looking for movies which are shot in this grim lighting.

Also, for fun, try and guess which movies the pictures come from.

Answer

Suspiria (2018)

Black Swan

The Road

  • mihnt@lemmy.ca
    11·
    6 months ago

    ‘Dark City’ count?

    ‘Paper Man’ is pretty depressing that I remember and I think it’s tone is overall cloudy except for a few bits.

      • mihnt@lemmy.ca
        9·
        6 months ago

        Ok, in that case, ‘Sucker Punch’ is gloomy as fuck. Best to watch the extended cut of that for proper context.

        ‘Watchmen’, ‘A Scanner Darkly’, ‘Above the Shadows’, ‘The Matrix’, and the Blade Runner flicks.

        All I can think of at the moment.

    • lemmyng@lemmy.caEnglish
      7·
      6 months ago

      Children of Men

      This was the first thing that came to mind.

      Requiem for a Dream

      Fuck you for reminding me that this depressing film exists.

      • mihnt@lemmy.ca
        4·
        6 months ago

        Requiem for a Dream

        Literally mentioned this film yesterday when someone asked if Jared Leto had been in anything successful.

      • Drusas@kbin.run
        2·
        6 months ago

        I remember the movie as being practically traumatizing the first time I watched it and then I didn’t watch it again for like two decades. I watched it again last year and was surprised that it’s not nearly as bad as I remembered it being. I guess movies have shifted so much in the traumatizing direction that Requiem for a Dream has been outmatched.

        Or maybe I just remembered it well enough that it didn’t shock so much.

  • SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world
    6·
    6 months ago

    Judge Dredd

    Ink (2009) (an… interesting low budget film that does pull off alot visually speaking). It’s hard hard to explain but the depth/tones, both acoust and visually, of the scenes is used to convey plot elements that become clearer as time goes on.

    Metalhead episode of Black Mirror. Not a movie but definitely along the lines of what you’re describing

  • notfromhere@lemmy.ml
    4·
    6 months ago
    • Pandorum
    • eXistenZ
    • Avalon
    • Sin City
    • Sleepers
    • V for Vendetta
    • Sleepy Hollow
    • Spawn
    • Pi
    • The Ninth Gate
    • Saw
    • The Machinist
    • Alien (1979)
    • Road to Perdition
    • The Salton Sea
    • Secret Window
    • The Crow
    • Fat Tony@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      6 months ago

      The Ninth Gate

      Just finished it, I liked it! You didn’t mention this was also one of the most comfy movies out there. 😁

  • livus@kbin.social
    4·
    6 months ago

    Winter’s Bone

    Frozen River

    Melancholia

    Seven

    Dark City

    La Haine

    Nil By Mouth

    The Road

    The Mist

    Double Indemnity (a lot of noir really but that’s one that comes to mind)

    • Fat Tony@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      6 months ago

      Damn, you weren’t kidding O_o

      Remember kids, if you’re going to shave your sister’s pubic hair. You should never use scissors 😀👍

  • Optional@lemm.ee
    2·
    6 months ago

    The Night of the Hunter

    M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder

    Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari

    I think you will love all of these

    On board / Gemide

    Uzak

    Once upon a time in Anatolio

    Someone already mentioned Nil By Mouth

    The House That Jack Built

    Winter Sleep

    Dunno : Trainspotting ?

    A newer one : Banshees of Inisherin

  • Funkmaster-Hex@kbin.social
    2·
    6 months ago

    The Road and Angela’s Ashes. Actually, unless it’s a comedy or a cartoon saloon production most Irish movies fall into this category. I’m thinking of the wind that shakes the barley, black 47, Michael Collins, the crying game, and kind of on in the name of the father. There are many more.