Question:
Which great movie(s) do you recommend that doesn't have a happy ending?
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2011-03-10 15:34:48 UTC
Which great movie(s) do you recommend that doesn't have a happy ending?
Twelve answers:
MystMoonstruck
2011-03-10 21:35:02 UTC
Forgive me if I repeat any titles. There are too many already listed to remember!



Requiem for a Dream ~ This is listed elsewhere, but I'll name it, too, as it has one of the bleakest endings of any movie I've ever seen.

Count Yorga, Vampire and its sequel The Return of Count Yorga (as I recall)

Planet of the Apes (1968) and Beneath the Planet of the Apes

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Madame Bovary ~ various versions

Anna Karenina ~ various versions

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

A Walk with Love and Death

Anne of the Thousand Days

John Carpenter's The Thing

Camille ~ various versions

Wuthering Heights (1939)

Romeo and Juliet (1968)

Dirty Mary Crazy Larry

Gone with the Wind

Dark Victory (1939)

The Way We Were

Bonnie and Clyde

Lady Jane (1986)

Duel in the Sun

Untamed Heart

Forever Amber

On the Beach

Charly (1968)

Awakenings

Miracle Mile

Gallipoli
Rosie-doll Too
2011-03-10 23:42:50 UTC
American Beauty

Pay it Forward

Seven

Seven Pounds

Babel

Requiem for a Dream

American History X

The Usual Suspects

The Reader

Revolutionary Road

Most post-apocalyptic movies

plenty of movies about the Holocaust

The Mist
David
2011-03-10 23:49:06 UTC
Au revoir les enfants

Barry Lyndon

Bright Star

The Deer Hunter

In the Mood for Love

Match Point

Never Let Me Go
anonymous
2011-03-10 23:48:14 UTC
Menace II Society

Friday Night Lights
anonymous
2011-03-10 23:36:18 UTC
Remember Me

My Sisters Keeper

The Boy In the Striped Payjamas

The Cove ( dolhin slaughter, a very moving documentary)





sorry that's all i can think of right now



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Cleo Shmidt
2011-03-10 23:40:24 UTC
Revolutionary Road

Titanic

The Reader

Moulin Rouge!

Black Swan

Shutter Island

The Notebook - (will make you cry, but not entirely sad)

Saving Private Ryan
Bellagravia
2011-03-10 23:40:24 UTC
The Prestige

The Reader!!
Hassan
2011-03-10 23:36:21 UTC
Law Abiding Citizen - Must watch

Dark Knight
?
2011-03-12 23:22:19 UTC
LISTEN TO YOUR HEART (they could have waited to kill him off. she got her hearing back...then he dies!???)

THE BUCKETLIST (i guess it wasn't supposed to have a happy ending though)

THELMA & LOUISE (crazyness)

GONE BABY GONE (i was soooo ticked wih the way they ended that!)

WICKERMAN (bs)

LEAVING (should've shot him instead)

THE LOST SERIES!!! (don't get me started on why i hated the ending of that)

T H E G O L D E N C O M P A S S (i'm still waiting for them to finish that damn movie)

THE MIST!!!! (made me soooo mad!)

THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS (that just wasn't even right!)
anonymous
2011-03-10 23:36:29 UTC
Monty Python and the holy grail
?
2011-03-11 00:03:19 UTC
The Last American Virgin
?
2011-03-10 23:38:47 UTC
the notebook is so good,but sad at the end


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