13 Movies That Have Little Hope For Humanity

4. Synecdoche, New York

Charlie Kaufman's mind-boggling dark comedic drama follows a theatre director, Caden Cotard (a brilliant Phillip Seymour Hoffman), as he faces a major existential crisis in the middle of prepping an insanely ambitious play.

Caden's life begins to unravel as his romantic relationships routinely break down alongside his body, which is afflicted by a crippling, non-specific ailment.

Add on top of this the realism of Caden's play blurring the line between reality and fiction, and eventually he disappears, quite literally, into his work.

How It Ends: An aged Caden speaks with one of the actresses in his play, and as he expresses a desire to do something other than the play, the play's new director issues him one final command through an earpiece: die.

The film speaks plainly about the collective human fear of mortality through some painful yet poetic dialogue, presenting little hope for the individual ability to transcend death.

However, like Melancholia, there's also an unexpectedly comforting quality to its straight-faced bleakness.