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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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G.I. Samurai
1979 · Action
The Legacy
1979 · Horror
Scum
1979 · Crime
Apocalypse Now
1979 · Action
Caligula
1979 · Drama
Parts: The Clonus Horror
1979 · Horror
Immacolata and Concetta: The Other Jealousy
1979 · Drama
The Driller Killer
1979 · Drama
The Brood
1979 · Sci-Fi
Over the Edge
1979 · Drama
Zulu Dawn
1979 · Drama
Quadrophenia
1979 · Drama
The Third Generation
1979 · Comedy
Killer Nun
1979 · Horror
The Evictors
1979 · Horror
Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens
1979 · Comedy
Long Weekend
1979 · Mystery
Hospital of the Transfiguration
1979 · War
Tourist Trap
1979 · Horror
Journalist
1979 · Drama
Dominique
1979 · Mystery
The Marriage of Maria Braun
1979 · Drama
Screams of a Winter Night
1979 · Horror
The Bermuda Triangle
1979 · Thriller
Sinhasan
1979 · Drama
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1978 · Sci-Fi
The House of the Dead
1978 · Action
I Spit on Your Grave
1978 · Thriller
Aval Appadithan
1978 · Drama
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
1978 · Drama
Vayanadan Thampan
1978 · Action
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Sleeping Dogs (Never Lie)
1978
Go Tell the Spartans
1978 · War
The Grapes of Death
1978 · Horror
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
1978 · History
Damien: Omen II
1978 · Horror
Absolution
1978 · Mystery
Despair
1978 · Thriller
Martin
1978 · Drama
Maro Charitra
1978 · Drama
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