February 2, 2010
What Are Some Good Films That Dont Have A Happy Ending?
I get fed up with films having happy endings all the time.
Any films where the man doesn’t get the woman or where the good guys lose for a change.
Some real life films i suppose.
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Comments on What Are Some Good Films That Dont Have A Happy Ending?
Definitely Requiem For A Dream
Into the Wild
Primal Fear (really awesome ending )
The Boy In Striped Pyjamas
Boys Don’t Cry
Candy (One of Heath Ledgers last roles)
Romeo & Juliet (1996)
Scarface
Donnie Darko
Resident Evil
Man On The Moon
The Butterfly Effect
Braveheart
Troy
Gladiator (although you could count Maximus’ afterlife as happy)
K’ PAX
Dead Man
The Messenger: The Story Of Joan Of Arc
Philadelphia
Gangs Of New York
The Departed
Blood Diamond
The Devils Rejects
easy rider – one flew over the cookoos nest – crank – midnight cowboy – rebel without a cause – the last detail – cooley high – escape from sobibor (the best one) – sands of iwo jima (john wayne gets killed) – the green berets ( john wayne is in it, but he lives, that other good guy dies at the end )
‘Das Boot’ (German 1981)
‘The Thin Red Line’ (1998)
‘Downfall’ or ‘Der Untergang’ (German 2004)
‘Training Day’ (2001)
‘Match Point’ (2005)
Atonement – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0783233/
It’s so beautiful, but too sad!
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0914798/
Saddest ending I’ve ever seen
Romeo and Juliette
Love Story
Dances with Wolves
Million Dollar Baby (top pick, great film, ending not happy)
Thelma & Louise
Boys don’t cry
Candy
Braveheart
Philadelphia
The Devils Rejects
Scarface
Marley & Me
Sweet November
The Dead Zone
The Shinning
The Skeleton Key
The descent
Lovers of the arctic circle
American History X
Brassed Off
Imitation of Life
Armageddon
American Beauty
if only
life as a house
titanic
man on fire
leon
daisy
romeo + juliet
gladiator
legends of the fall
The Departed
Reservoir Dogs
Taxi Driver
The Machinist
Funny Games
Green Street Hooligans
easy rider
Dances with Wolves
Saving Private Ryan
Into The Wild
Romeo & Juliet
requiem for a dream. wonderful movie; nice and depressing.
I am legend
that clint eastwood movie Gran Torino
the break up
donnie darko
the notebook
nights in rodanthe
titanic
The best one for me that doesnt have a happy ending is Seven. Thats an awsome film
Reservoir Dogs
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
the recent cute romantic drama ’500 days of summer’
The mist! definately not a happy ending, a good one though.
Passion of the Christ
The Green Mile
Saving Private Ryan
Requiem For A Dream
Isn’t “where the red fern grows” supposed to br like really sad?it is pretty sad.Why dont you watch tht?