Despair Movies

When Martin, a former GDR citizen, is released from jail, he lately becomes confronted with the consequences of the German re-unification.

On Christmas Eve, a former thief, recently released from prison, stops a forlorn, destitute, despairing young woman from committing suicide. She's...

Keiser, the lead singer of a former rock group won't put up with approaching old age and decides to call his old band members together. Keiser's...

The film follows a simple structure, and shows the drug-related degradation of five youths (Jake, Tracey, Jessica, Alice, Oreo) during the course of...

In July 1942, during the Vel’ d’Hiv’ Roundup of Jewish families in Paris, 13 year old Tauba Birenbaum and her parents, who are...

Arthur Dichter thinks he is dying of insomnia, but the reality is much more frightening. In this surreal puzzle film, Dichter turns from his wife to...

Magnus once had a girlfriend and a kid. But his girlfriend now has somebody new. And so now Magnus has his classic car, and a bar. Everything about...

After a phone call ends in despair, a young woman faces a fatal decision.

Shot over the course of 18 months in New York City's Lower East Side, METHADONIA sheds light on the inherent flaws of legal methadone treatments for...

"The Hart of London" is an endlessly layered tour de force. It explores life and death, the sense of place and personal displacement, and the...

They gave the smugglers all their money and risk their life on their journey across borders: Three women from a small town in Moldavia, living now in...

Nina, an end-of-teenage orphan with mental problems, starts a new job as a garden cleaner when she meets Toni. They fell in love with each other, but...

The lives of a matriarch, her two sons, and her niece are never the same again as they come to terms with an indiscretion in the family. A pivotal...

In a waiting room in the space between the living and the beyond, an unlikely pair sits impatiently for their final reckoning.

An animation, based on a comic about nonexistent eyebrows.

Tere travels to sell her napkins with her daughter Flor, who loses one of her new shoes. Tere is forced to leave her alone for a moment, a fact that...

Impressions of a turbulent period in youth.

A man loses himself in melancholic euphoria.