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Movies with a Bleak Ending: Summaries & Endings Explained
4,121 movies with a bleak ending, each with a full plot summary, timeline, character guide and the ending explained. Combine filters to narrow it down.
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Blue Cat Blues
1956 · Animation
They Won’t Believe Me
1947 · Drama
Secret Ceremony
1968 · Thriller
Station Six-Sahara
1963 · Drama
Where Danger Lives
1950 · Thriller
Our Lady of the Turks
1968 · Drama
Massacre Gun
1967 · Action
The Road to Ruin
1934 · Drama
The Forest of Love: Deep Cut
2020 · Drama
A Feud in the Kentucky Hills
1912 · Drama
Caliphate
2020 · Drama
Twilight of a Woman’s Soul
1913 · Drama
I’m Sorry, I Love You
2004 · Drama
Blonde
2001 · Drama
Picnic at Hanging Rock
2018 · Mystery
The Hollow Crown: Richard II
2012 · Drama
The Seventh Continent (1989)
Drama
Frankenstein
1931 · Drama
The Servant
1964 · Drama
Sunset Boulevard
1950 · Drama
The Bride of Frankenstein
1935 · Drama
Vertigo
1958 · Mystery
Brute Force
1947 · Drama
The Brain That Wouldn't Die
1962 · Sci-Fi
Niagara
1953 · Thriller
Dead Ringer
1964 · Drama
The Curse of Frankenstein
1957 · Sci-Fi
The Public Enemy
1931 · Drama
White Heat
1949 · Action
The Bad Seed
1956 · Drama
Woman of the Year
1942 · Drama
Spider Baby or, the Maddest Story Ever Told
1967 · Horror
Reflections in a Golden Eye
1967 · Drama
Native Son
1951 · Drama
Fail-Safe
1964 · Drama
Cult of Chucky
-1 · Thriller
Nightmare Alley
1947 · Drama
A Streetcar Named Desire
1951 · Drama
The Postman Always Rings Twice
1946 · Drama
Planet of the Apes
1968 · Adventure
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