Misanthropic movies.

Dogville Melancholia Don’t Look Up (it was hilarious how quickly I started rooting for the meteor, heh) The Proposition Margin Call The King Tide

Babe. Edit Humans don’t come off great in that film.

I Stand Alone 1998

The seventh Continent also from Austria (Haneke)

In the Company of Men (1997)

If you dig the clinical, 'unblinking' misery of Seidl’s Hundstage, you definitely need to watch his documentary 'Animal Love' (Tierische Liebe). Werner Herzog famously said he'd 'never looked so directly into hell' after seeing it. Also, check out Michael Haneke. He’s the other master of Austrian discomfort The Seventh Continent' is basically the final boss of misanthropic cinema. It captures that same suffocating, suburban dread you found in Hundstage

I'll suggest Filth. I haven't seen it but I read the book, and am given to understand that the movie is faithful to its spirit

Bugonia

I know its just plain old nihilism, but I'm going to say 'fight club'.

try any Dennis Potter series/ or films. "Brimstone and Treacle", the original TV version will put you in your place. Or Alan Clarke's "Scum" [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scum\_(film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scum_(film))

Aniara. Without giving too much away, it's a science fiction film where a ship full of colonists is knocked off course and they are unsure if or when they'll reach their destination and social structures on board the ship begin to get more chaotic/frayed. It had probably the most bleak ending I've ever seen with the exception of maybe Melancholia. Edit: Also watch Possessor

Kubrick's **A Clockwork Orange** is unstinting in its condemnation of humanity's moral and societal failures. Even the film's ethical exemplar, the Prison Chaplain, is seen to be a blinkered dupe and ultimately an ineffectual fool.

Thank you for smoking. God Bless America.

All of Todd Solondz movies. I've seen them described as anti-humanist, and they're pretty funny at times. I liked Happiness, Storytelling and Palindromes a lot.

[Idiocracy](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1_tt_7_nm_0_in_0_q_idio)

Have you heard of Werner Herzog? If not, you're in for the ride of your life. [Werner Herzog on the natural beauty of the Amazon Jungle](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvbxh2rLcdo). He speaks to man's weakness, among other things. He's not misanthropic, *strictly speaking*, but his documentaries will definitely force you to question what you understand it is to be human and what humanity's place in the world is.

if you want something that will really make you wanna die you can even try this treat [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodbye\_Uncle\_Tom](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodbye_Uncle_Tom)

Dragged Across Concrete

Seidl's right up there — saw all three Paradise movies in theaters and didn't have a great time. One not a lot of people have seen: Isabella Eklöf's film Holiday. It is BRUTAL and unflinching, and definitely needs a trigger warning for sexual assault, so tread lightly. It's very provocative and yes, I would say, misanthropic.

If there is a showing of Bela Tar's Satantango near you, definitely worth watching, it's an all day affair and it's bleak as f***.

Aloners (2021)

La série de Rod Serling, THE TWILIGHT ZONE, a clairement une vision hautement pessimiste de l'Humanité, surtout les 3 premières saisons

Taxi Driver

The central theme of No Country for Old Men is that things will invariably continue to get worse because humans are shit, so get out of the rat race as soon as you can. There Will Be Blood has a central theme that the best path to success in our world is sociopathy. The Plague Dogs is pretty much about how humans are the real plague on the world.

The Avatar films are very misanthropic when you think about it.