Movies with the Darkest, most depressing endings.

[john_rambo]

Right away, do not read this thread if you do not want any spoilers... there will be spoilers... lots of them... so i do not want to hear any complaints... kapeesh?(i know thats probably spelt wrong... but i do not care)

Anyway the one I thought of immediately was Sweeney Todd... there really is no relief at the end of that one... it just kind of ends in the most depressing way possible. basically here it is in 10 seconds

Hes avenging his wife's death

She's Not really dead

He kills a weird lady who turns out to be his wife

Pushes Mrs Lovett in a fire

Little kid kills him

They live happily every after

[ilovemovies]

Arlington Road
Se7en
The Mist
Identity

[God of War]

Alien 3 - They all die except Norris.
The Descent - Only Sarah survives.
The Thing. Only Mac and Chiles make it.
Star Wars 6 - Vader is born and the rest of the universe suffers. :(
The Mist - Wow. I'm still shaken from this movie [good call, ilm]
The Fog [1979]
Rogue
Gabriel

Shit, there's loads.

[bonoferox]

Terminator 3 - Nuclear Holocaust

Empire Strikes Back - Hated seeing Han being frozen as a kid

Unbreakable - Needs a sequel

[Derek237]

Alien 3 - They all die except Norris.

http://artfiles.art.com/images/-/Chuck-Norris-Photograph-C12141670.jpeg


As if that comes as a surprise.

[john_rambo]

http://artfiles.art.com/images/-/Chuck-Norris-Photograph-C12141670.jpeg


As if that comes as a surprise.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Chuck Norris vs Aliens.... now that would be a movie... too bad it would only be 3 tenths of a second long... Chuck Norris would just eat the Aliens.

[athf1980]

The Mist
American History X

[Frank the Tank]

Do The Right Thing (Dammit, they killed Radio Raheem)
Boyz N The Hood
Menace II Society
Oldboy
25th Hour
Mysterious Skin

[Cronos]

Requiem For A Dream

[Mikey Sx2]

Session 9

[Le_Big_Mac]

Requiem for a Dream
Chinatown
Midnight Cowboy
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
The Mist
Beneath the Planet of the Apes
The Deer Hunter

[blk_flower]

chinatown and boyz n the hood really get to me

do the right thing is up there too

[bigred760]

Se7en
Ran

[echo_bravo]

Requiem For A Dream

Totally agree.

After seeing the last fifteen minutes of that film for the first time, I felt like I was detoxed.

[ivana]

7
Chinatown
Rosemary's Baby
The Unbreakable

[Boner X-Ray]

A little film called A Better Place.

[Badbird]

Terminator 3 - Nuclear Holocaust

Just what I was going to say. I couldn't believe they actually went there. For a big budget movie that was pretty ballsy - and really depressing!

[blk_flower]

I thought T3's ending was just the biggest dissapointment out of that whole movie then again I hated the entire thing so it could all care less.

I woke last night with the ending of mullholand dr playing, that ending was a downer too.

[john_rambo]

Yeah I forgot about night of the living dead... that one just comes out of nowhere... lol

[Lady Stardust]

I thought T3's ending was just the biggest dissapointment out of that whole movie then again I hated the entire thing so it could all care less.


It's couldn't care less. Sorry pet peeve of mine.

[tbone]

The Mist
Requiem For a Dream
Chinatown

[terrestrial]

Requiem for a Dream
Chinatown
Midnight Cowboy
Se7en
Ran
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Deer Hunter
Don't Look Now
The Old Man and the Sea
Ascenseur pour l'échafaud
Hombre
Das Boot
Boys Don't Cry

there are so many.....


In a Way so real important characters donot survive.
13th Warrior
Serenity

[blk_flower]

It's couldn't care less. Sorry pet peeve of mine.
nah that's fine I often become distracted by the red dotted lines under my spelling errors.

[Jig Saw 123]

The Mist
Requiem for a Dream
Identity
Sweeney Todd: the demon barber of fleet street
Saw
Titanic
The Wicker Man (original)
Donnie Darko
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
American Beauty
Mystic River

[Crailer]

Chinatown
The Wicker Man (original)
Dancer in the Dark
Eraserhead

[martyds761]

A.I. Artificial Intelligence


That movie ruined his career to me. Poor kid.

[Antonio141]

DONNIE DARKO
ALIEN 3
BLOW OUT

[EliotNess]

Brazil...whole movie about surviving the death grip of bureaucracy, rising above and being a hero, and (at least in Gilliam's cut) the government tortures and kills the guy and his dreams. Cold.

[jaw2929]

American History X

The House of Sand & Fog

The Mist

Requiem for a Dream

Arlington Road

[darknite125]

Pan's Labyrinth
Grave of the Fireflies
Edward Scissorhands
the Mist
Sweeney Todd
Requiem for a Dream
House of Sand and Fog

[Gordon]

http://www.rim101.net/pictures/xrm0502b.jpg

[WhatsInaName]

Everything I had in mind is already listed. But damn if that ending to The Mist isn't heart wrenching.

Other effectively depressing endings:

Se7en
Requiem for a Dream
Arlington Road

[MidnightAngel]

21 Grams
The Crime of Padre Amaro
Million Dollar Baby
Philadelphia
Amores Perros

[Double-Oh-Zero]

Whilst I wanted to avoid the obvious ones, I couldn't help it with the first few on my list...

Se7en
Million Dollar Baby
Mystic River
No Country For Old Men
Pan's Labyrinth
Man on Fire (sort of)
Sunshine
The Thing
The Wages of Fear
Army of Shadows
The French Connection
Brazil (Director's Cut)
The Machinist
Straw Dogs
Taxi Driver

[terrestrial]

Forgot Easy Rider......

[TheREELaddict]

Oddly enough, inspired (if one can call it that) by THE MIST, and all the bleak film endings that hit us in the last year or so, I decided I'd try to come up with a Top 15 list of the bleakest endings (in my opinion) over here (http://thereeladdict.com/reel-list-the-top-15-bleakest-film-endings-part-one/).

Most of the ones on the list are actually one's you guys listed here already though.

[Big Boss]

The Perfect Storm
Million Dollar Baby
The Descent (The unrated international ending-really fucked!)
The Mist
A Boy and his Dog
Saving Private Ryan
The Fly
Hotel Rwanda
The Green Mile
Pay It Forward
Schlindler's List
Babel (for the Mexican Lady and the little Japanese girl)
Crash (for Don Cheadle's character)
Road to Perdition

[overwatch]

Mystic River is always so depressing.

[John Galt]

The Last American Virgin - MAN what a goddamn downer

[PSUDelVec]

Great picks all. I'd like to throw in The Great Silence. Brilliant spaghetti western.

[scottmushroom]

Leaving Las Vegas

recently Marley and Me.......what the hell?!?!? I never read the book and thought the movie would be funny!

[Euclid]

Dr. Zhivago - Dr. Zhivago's final farewell.
Blade Runner - Roy Batty and Deckard's rooftop conversation.
Bambi - Death of Bambi's mother.
The Bridges of Madison County - Francesca Johnson's crossroads decision.
Road To Perdition - Michael Sullivan's death and the narration of Sullivan Jr.
Legends of the Fall - William Ludlow writing on his pad to his son.
The Green Mile - Botched execution /
The Shawshank Redemption - Brooks suicide.
Saving Private Ryan - Grave visit / Miller's death / Miller's company finding a family in one of the buildings / Omaha landing / Narrator reading the letter e.t.c.
Schindler's List - Oskar Schindler on the value of money / Little girl in the red coat / Gas chambers e.t.c.
Sophie's Choice - Sophie's Choice
I Am Legend - Robert Neville mercy killing his dog.
Million Dollar Baby - Frankie Dunn's visit to Maggie.
The Passion of the Christ - Crucifixion.
Philadelphia - Final scene of Beckett at home meeting family.
The Pianist - Szpilman wondering through the streets finding his piano.
12 Monkeys - Entire sequence of Cole's death.
Platoon - Elias death while the helicopter pulls away.
Dead Man Walking - Penn's capital punishment.
Gladiator - Maximus dying.
Into the Wild - Lonley death.
The Kite Runner - Amir reading Omar's letter.

[hoojib127]

Dr. Zhivago - Dr. Zhivago's final farewell.
Blade Runner - Roy Batty and Deckard's rooftop conversation.
Bambi - Death of Bambi's mother.
The Bridges of Madison County - Francesca Johnson's crossroads decision.
Road To Perdition - Michael Sullivan's death and the narration of Sullivan Jr.
Legends of the Fall - William Ludlow writing on his pad to his son.
The Green Mile - Botched execution /
The Shawshank Redemption - Brooks suicide.
Saving Private Ryan - Grave visit / Miller's death / Miller's company finding a family in one of the buildings / Omaha landing / Narrator reading the letter e.t.c.
Schindler's List - Oskar Schindler on the value of money / Little girl in the red coat / Gas chambers e.t.c.
Sophie's Choice - Sophie's Choice
I Am Legend - Robert Neville mercy killing his dog.
Million Dollar Baby - Frankie Dunn's visit to Maggie.
The Passion of the Christ - Crucifixion.
Philadelphia - Final scene of Beckett at home meeting family.
The Pianist - Szpilman wondering through the streets finding his piano.
12 Monkeys - Entire sequence of Cole's death.
Platoon - Elias death while the helicopter pulls away.
Dead Man Walking - Penn's capital punishment.
Gladiator - Maximus dying.
Into the Wild - Lonley death.
The Kite Runner - Amir reading Omar's letter.

Uh, at least half of these occur somewhere in the middle of the film in question. : ?

[DaMovieMan]

Just saw this one recently and it crippled me a little,

4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days

[Sgizzy316]

Se7en is what first came to mind but there are a lot of good suggestions on this thread