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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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Makala
2018 · Documentary
The Captain
2018 · Drama
The Night Eats the World
2018 · Horror
The Skin of the Wolf
2018 · Drama
Winter Brothers
2018 · Drama
King Lear
2018 · Drama
The Day After
2018 · Drama
Avengers: Infinity War
2018 · Action
The Farm
2018 · Horror
Zama
2018 · Drama
Parole
2018 · Action
Journey's End
2018 · Drama
Ravenous (Les Affamés)
2018 · Sci-Fi
Utøya: July 22
2018 · History
Boys Cry
2018 · Crime
The Great Silence (1968)
2018 · Western
Happy End
2017 · Drama
Loveless
2017 · Drama
The War Game
2017 · Drama
The Jade Pendant
2017 · Drama
Slovo House
2017 · Documentary
First They Killed My Father
2017 · Biography
Apostasy
2017 · Drama
The Wound
2017 · Drama
Planetarium
2017 · Drama
The Untamed
2017 · Sci-Fi
Rakka
2017 · Horror
It Comes at Night
2017 · Mystery
Aftermath
2017 · Drama
Here Alone
2017 · Sci-Fi
Tu Pug Imatuy
2017 · Drama
Waiting for the Barbarians
2017 · Drama
Alone in Berlin
2017 · Drama
A Different American Dream
2017 · Documentary
I, Daniel Blake
2016 · Drama
Purano Dunga
2016 · Drama
Mirzya
2016 · Drama
Deserted
2016 · Drama
The Road to Mandalay
2016 · Drama
Some Nights I Feel Like Walking
2016
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