Good movies with unhappy endings.

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  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
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  • Solat13
    Solat13 Posts: 6,996
    Chinatown
    - Busted down the pretext
    - 8/28/98
    - 9/2/00
    - 4/28/03, 5/3/03, 7/3/03, 7/5/03, 7/6/03, 7/9/03, 7/11/03, 7/12/03, 7/14/03
    - 9/28/04, 9/29/04, 10/1/04, 10/2/04
    - 9/11/05, 9/12/05, 9/13/05, 9/30/05, 10/1/05, 10/3/05
    - 5/12/06, 5/13/06, 5/27/06, 5/28/06, 5/30/06, 6/1/06, 6/3/06, 6/23/06, 7/22/06, 7/23/06, 12/2/06, 12/9/06
    - 8/2/07, 8/5/07
    - 6/19/08, 6/20/08, 6/22/08, 6/24/08, 6/25/08, 6/27/08, 6/28/08, 6/30/08, 7/1/08
    - 8/23/09, 8/24/09, 9/21/09, 9/22/09, 10/27/09, 10/28/09, 10/30/09, 10/31/09
    - 5/15/10, 5/17/10, 5/18/10, 5/20/10, 5/21/10, 10/23/10, 10/24/10
    - 9/11/11, 9/12/11
    - 10/18/13, 10/21/13, 10/22/13, 11/30/13, 12/4/13
  • PiCTuReKePT
    PiCTuReKePT Posts: 311
    big fish
  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    all (mostly) great flicks mentioned thus far, especially requiem for a dream...!


    few others off the top of my head:

    sophie's choice
    out of africa
    the english patient
    carrington
    the wings of the dove
    Stay with me...
    Let's just breathe...


    I am myself like you somehow


  • Phantom Pain
    Phantom Pain Posts: 9,876
    One of my favorite movies of all time

    Legends of the Fall

    I see Brad Pitt has had a few with sad endings
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  • Solat13
    Solat13 Posts: 6,996
    A River Runs Through It
    - Busted down the pretext
    - 8/28/98
    - 9/2/00
    - 4/28/03, 5/3/03, 7/3/03, 7/5/03, 7/6/03, 7/9/03, 7/11/03, 7/12/03, 7/14/03
    - 9/28/04, 9/29/04, 10/1/04, 10/2/04
    - 9/11/05, 9/12/05, 9/13/05, 9/30/05, 10/1/05, 10/3/05
    - 5/12/06, 5/13/06, 5/27/06, 5/28/06, 5/30/06, 6/1/06, 6/3/06, 6/23/06, 7/22/06, 7/23/06, 12/2/06, 12/9/06
    - 8/2/07, 8/5/07
    - 6/19/08, 6/20/08, 6/22/08, 6/24/08, 6/25/08, 6/27/08, 6/28/08, 6/30/08, 7/1/08
    - 8/23/09, 8/24/09, 9/21/09, 9/22/09, 10/27/09, 10/28/09, 10/30/09, 10/31/09
    - 5/15/10, 5/17/10, 5/18/10, 5/20/10, 5/21/10, 10/23/10, 10/24/10
    - 9/11/11, 9/12/11
    - 10/18/13, 10/21/13, 10/22/13, 11/30/13, 12/4/13
  • mole1985
    mole1985 Posts: 1,119
    dissidentman wrote:
    The Wicker Man


    That's an awful way to die...

    Original or re-make?
    Dublin 2006
    Katowice 2007
    London 2007
  • releaselauren
    releaselauren Posts: 384
    "Atonement" -- sad sad sad

    "Gone with the Wind" -- come on Scarlett O'Hara, you could have been nicer to Rhett!

    "LOTR: Return of the King" -- come back Frodo!

    :(


    Now I am depressed. Thanks.
    "you shall be released" ~ EV
  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Doctor Zhivago" both end in sad ways.
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • gobrowns19
    gobrowns19 Posts: 1,447
    cutback wrote:
    the first movie that popped into my head was dead poets society.....the end is really sad, yet inspirational at the same time....i don't know but that was a first thought....:)

    I agree. This was the first movie I thought of. But could you imagine at the end if no one stood up? :eek:
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  • TrixieCat
    TrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    releaselauren wrote:
    "Atonement" -- sad sad sad

    "Gone with the Wind" -- come on Scarlett O'Hara, you could have been nicer to Rhett!

    "LOTR: Return of the King" -- come back Frodo!

    :(


    Now I am depressed. Thanks.
    I know....it killed me that Frodo had to leave. :(
    No fair.
    That was really sad.

    Casablanca....get on the plane with her!!!!!!!!
    Bridges of Madison County.....get out of the truck!!!!!!!!!!
    AI...that poor little 'boy'
    Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
    And I don't feel right when you're gone away
  • ledvedderman
    ledvedderman Posts: 7,762
    "Arlington Road"
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  • failedpersephone
    failedpersephone Posts: 3,424
    RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:
    I always felt an overwhelming sadness at the end of every sesame street episode...

    If they were only longer perhaps more people would be alive today.
    yeah...I hear you.


    Requiem for a dream is the one that really pops into my head.

    what about SHANE? I love the iconic ending to that movie.
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  • halszka123
    halszka123 Posts: 1,109
    i agrree about "Requiem for a dream" and "Braveheart" (but I think "The passion of the Christ" of Mel G. is deeper and sadder).

    For me also:
    "Imaging Argentina" and "Bordertown" (both with Antonio Banderas - full respect!), "Voces innocentes", "Crash" (2004), and recently "Reign o'er me". I was confused after "XXY" and sooooo unhappy & crashed after "8 mm"
    And strange ending in "Breaking the waves" (Lars von Trier, 1996)...moving
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  • SPEEDY MCCREADY
    SPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 26,963
    The Wizard of Oz.....

    i dont know if it was an unhappy ending....but i know for a fact it was a bullshit ending...

    that bitch Dorothy should have been charged with 2 counts of involuntary manslaughter.....and her ass should have been thrown in prison...
    Take me piece by piece.....
    Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    Donnie Darko

    Pan's Labyrinth
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison
  • jamie uk
    jamie uk Posts: 3,812
    SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:
    The Wizard of Oz.....

    i dont know if it was an unhappy ending....but i know for a fact it was a bullshit ending...

    that bitch Dorothy should have been charged with 2 counts of involuntary manslaughter.....and her ass should have been thrown in prison...

    Ah, I saw the Wicked last week (the musical) I was relieved after all these years to find out they did all live happily ever after, even the wicked witch of the west!! Who wasn't really wicked as it turns out, just misunderstood, and a victim of small minded racists. She ran off to live with the scarecrow in a secluded castle....ahhhhh, happy ending after all.


    Oh back to thread, Titanic was good, but not happy. The boat sank and most of them died :(
    I came, I saw, I concurred.....
  • reeferchief
    reeferchief Posts: 3,569
    jamie uk wrote:
    Ah, I saw the Wicked last week (the musical) I was relieved after all these years to find out they did all live happily ever after, even the wicked witch of the west!! Who wasn't really wicked as it turns out, just misunderstood, and a victim of small minded racists. She ran off to live with the scarecrow in a secluded castle....ahhhhh, happy ending after all.


    Oh back to thread, Titanic was good, but not happy. The boat sank and most of them died :(

    Leonardo Di Caprio died, if that aint a happy ending what is?
    Can not be arsed with life no more.
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:
    The Wizard of Oz.....

    i dont know if it was an unhappy ending....but i know for a fact it was a bullshit ending...

    that bitch Dorothy should have been charged with 2 counts of involuntary manslaughter.....and her ass should have been thrown in prison...


    what the hell are you talking about? dorothy killed no one. IT WAS ALL A DREAM! :p:D
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  • jamie uk
    jamie uk Posts: 3,812
    reeferchief wrote:
    Leonardo Di Caprio died, if that aint a happy ending what is?

    That's harsh man ! But at least he got to see Kate's rozzers!!! I mean, if he never worked again, he coulda been a happy bum :D

    *TRIES TO THINK OF ANOTHER MOVIE*
    Oh, Forest Gump was pretty sad at the end wasn't it?
    I came, I saw, I concurred.....

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