Best Depressing Movies & TV Series

Looking for the best depressing movies and TV series? These 120 are the highest-rated on 3eyedraven, weighted by vote count so a handful of glowing reviews never beats a proven favourite.

The Wire 2002 ★ 8.6

Stranger Things 2016 ★ 8.6

Neon Genesis Evangelion 1995 ★ 8.6

Banana Fish 2018 ★ 8.6

Dark 2017 ★ 8.4

True Detective 2014 ★ 8.3

Ikiru 1952 ★ 8.3

Shutter Island 2010 ★ 8.2

Justice League Dark: Apokolips War 2020 ★ 8.2

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004 ★ 8.1

Six Feet Under 2001 ★ 8.1

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer 1961 ★ 8.4

Room 2015 ★ 8.0

Better Days 2019 ★ 8.1

Prayers for Bobby 2009 ★ 8.1

DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story 2022 ★ 8.0

Me Before You 2016 ★ 7.9

Autumn Sonata 1978 ★ 8.0

The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity 1959 ★ 8.2

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love 1959 ★ 8.1

Raging Bull 1980 ★ 7.9

Nobody Knows 2004 ★ 8.0

Mr. Nobody 2009 ★ 7.8

Platoon 1986 ★ 7.8