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Bleak Movies: Summaries & Endings Explained
681 bleak movies, each with a full plot summary, timeline, character guide and the ending explained. Combine filters to narrow it down.
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Wild Rovers
1971 · Action
Wake in Fright
1971 · Thriller
10 Rillington Place
1971 · Thriller
Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
1970 · Thriller
Trash
1970 · Drama
Many Wars Ago
1970 · Drama
Soldier Blue
1970 · Western
The Revolutionary
1970 · Drama
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
1970 · Drama
The Grasshopper
1970 · Romance
Beneath the Planet of the Apes
1970 · Action
Mandabi
1970 · Drama
Doctor Who and the Silurians
1970 · Adventure
Zabriskie Point
1970 · Drama
And God Said to Cain
1970 · Horror
Spartacus
1960 · Adventure
All Quiet on the Western Front
1930 · Drama
Easy Rider
1969 · Drama
Baltic Skies
1960 · Drama
The River of Love
1960 · Romance
Claudelle Inglish
1961 · Drama
The Gangster
1947 · Crime
Mouchette
1967 · Drama
Too Much, Too Soon
1958 · Drama
The Seventh Companion
1967 · Drama
Brink of Life
1958 · Drama
King and Country
1964 · Drama
Black Gravel
1961 · Thriller
1984
1956 · Drama
Goodbye Earth
2024 · Drama
The Lower Depths
1937 · Drama
High School Big Shot
1959 · Drama
Scott of the Antarctic
1948 · Adventure
You Only Live Once
1937 · Crime
On the Night of the Fire
1939 · Drama
The Carabineers
1963 · War
Waterloo Bridge
1931 · War
Goké, Body Snatcher from Hell
1968 · Horror
The Long Day’s Dying
1968 · Drama
Pitfall
1962 · Crime
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