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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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Beautiful Beings
2023 · Drama
No Bears
2022 · Drama
The Son
2022 · Drama
All Quiet on the Western Front
2022 · Action
Project Skyquake
2022 · Drama
The Great Silence
2022 · Drama
Unruly
2022 · Drama
Dirty, Difficult, Dangerous
2022 · Drama
Sherdil: The Pilibhit Saga
2022 · Drama
Next Sohee
2022 · Thriller
Leila’s Brothers
2022 · Drama
Pleasure
2022 · Drama
The Ravine
2022 · Thriller
Charlotte
2022 · Animation
Nitram
2022 · Drama
Gold
2022 · Action
The Wasteland
2022 · Drama
Silent Night
2021 · Drama
Prayers for the Stolen
2021 · Drama
Warning
2021 · Sci-Fi
At Close Range
2021 · Drama
Farha
2021 · Drama
Rhino
2021 · Drama
The Great Silence
2021 · Drama
The East
2021 · Drama
Settlers
2021 · Sci-Fi
Legend of Destruction
2021 · History
Biriyaani
2021 · Drama
The Seventh Day
2021 · Horror
Safer at Home
2021 · Thriller
Beginning
2021 · Drama
Identifying Features
2021 · Drama
Janowar
2021 · Crime
The Road to Mandalay
2021 · Drama
The Dark and the Wicked
2020 · Horror
Superdeep
2020 · Horror
Godforsaken
2020 · Horror
2067
2020 · Sci-Fi
Lovers
2020 · Drama
Johaar
2020 · Drama
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