Despair Movies

Tasmania, 1954: Slovenian migrant Melita abandons her husband and young daughter, Sonja. Sonja's distraught father perseveres with his new life in a...

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

Sophie and Otto Bentwood are a middle-aged, middle class, childless Brooklyn Heights couple trapped in a loveless marriage. He is an attorney, she a...

Impressions of a turbulent period in youth.

A group of people believe the city is a maze and are obsessively searching for the lost exit.

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...

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

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

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...

A man loses himself in melancholic euphoria.

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...

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...

A family man becomes innocently involved in an embezzlement.

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...

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...

Reece tries to find the courage to come out to his family and friends.

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.