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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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Grafted
2025 · Drama
Rose
2025 · Comedy
Omaha
2025 · Drama
I Am the End of the World
2025 · Comedy
The Damned
2025 · Drama
Bloody Axe Wound
2024 · Comedy
Strange Frequencies: Taiwan Killer Hospital
2024 · Horror
Viduthalai: Part II
2024 · Action
Outbreak
2024 · Horror
Blood Debt
2024 · Horror
Hounds
2024 · Crime
Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin.
2024 · Drama
Some Nights I Feel Like Walking
2024 · Drama
Keeper
2024 · Documentary
Black Cab
2024 · Horror
No Other Land
2024 · Documentary
Absolution
2024 · Action
Cellar Door
2024 · Thriller
Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End
2024 · Sci-Fi
Don’t Open the Door
2024 · Horror
Smile 2
2024 · Horror
Rumours
2024 · Comedy
Joker: Folie à Deux
2024 · Crime
The Visitor
2024 · Comedy
V/H/S/Beyond
2024 · Horror
It's What's Inside
2024 · Comedy
The Forest Hills
2024 · Drama
Apartment 7A
2024 · Horror
Straight On till Morning
2024 · Horror
The Substance
2024 · Drama
Sector 36
2024 · Thriller
Subservience
2024 · Sci-Fi
Dream Eater
2024 · Horror
The Wasp
2024 · Thriller
Strange Darling
2024 · Horror
Greedy People
2024 · Comedy
Stream
2024
The King Tide
2024 · Drama
Rob Peace
2024 · Biography
The Mouse Trap
2024 · Comedy
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