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Bleak Cinema from Chantal Akerman to Michael Haneke is too often forgotten in discussions. Here we remember some of the great works of this "genre"

Timestamps (Selected Filmography):
0:00 Elephant (Dir: Gus Van Sant)
4:09 Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Dir: Chantal Akerman)
8:31 Ali: Fear Eats The Soul (Dir: Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
12:09 The Match Factory Girl (Dir: Aki Kaurismaki)
16:23 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (Dir: Michael Haneke)
20:31 Still Life (Dir: Sohrab Shahid Saless)
23:36 Western (Dir: Valeska Grisebach)
28:12 Ratcatcher (Dir: Lynne Ramsay)