What is Melancholia about?
Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.
Does it have a happy ending? (spoiler-safe)
No. Brace yourself.
A mysterious planet approaches Earth, intensifying the surreal and bleak melancholy between two estranged sisters.
Dreamlike. A full-attention watch that takes its time. Emotionally it is devastating.
Streaming on Peacock, Kanopy (free), Fandango at Home (free) and Tubi (free).
Melancholia parents guide
It stays inside its R, with moderate sex and nudity, and no real violence.
- Scare
- Not scary
- Jump scares
- None noted
- Gore
- No gore
- Violence
- No real violence
- Sex and nudity
- Moderate
- Moderate means a sex scene or nudity on screen, even brief, or sexual violence that is described or implied but never shown.
- Language
- Moderate
- Some strong profanity, a few f-words.
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Cast and crew
Directed byLars von Trier
StarringKirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Alexander Skarsgård, Cameron Spurr, Stellan Skarsgård
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Melancholia is on our Slow burns, Drama on Peacock, Sci-fi on Peacock, Sci-fi on Tubi and Sci-fi on Kanopy lists.
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