Pessimism, nihilism, misanthropy, and many other terms have already been used to define humanity's hopelessness about itself and its future.
It is no coincidence that, precisely in this very particular century, cinema began to develop with greater force and, as it could not fail to happen, soon the artists dedicated to the cinematic art began to express, through their films, their pessimistic visions about the fate of humanity.
The following list contains films that deal with each of these different levels of despair: the one that comes from the horrors of the war, the death of ideology and religious faith, and pessimistic views on the direction of a society in the face of an increasingly individualistic and competitive worl
