Great Movies Without Happy Endings (18 pics)

1

Oldboy
Perhaps the most well-known Korean film in America, Oldboy tells the story of a man who is kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years without knowing why. When Oh Dae-Su is released, he's told he must find his captor within five days.

2

The Machinist
An industrial worker (Christian Bale), who hasn't slept in a year, begins to doubt his own sanity.

3

Million Dollar Baby
This Best Picture winner shows the inspiring story of a woman (Hilary Swank) who is determined to become a professional boxer with the help of a hardened trainer (Clint Eastwood). Unlike other boxing movies, when Swank's character takes a hit so hard it puts her in the hospital, a comeback is truly impossible.

4

No Country for Old Men
Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and more than two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande.

5

Amadeus
The life, success, and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was insanely jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him.

6

Requiem For A Dream
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep.

7

Cabin in the Woods
Five friends go for a break at a remote cabin, where they get more than they bargained for, discovering the truth behind the cabin in the woods.

8

Parasite
In this Oscar-winning film, greed and class discrimination threaten the newly formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan.

9

Gladiator
A former Roman General (Russell Crowe) sets out to exact vengeance against the corrupt emperor who murdered his family and sent him into slavery.

10

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Many Holocaust movies have bleak endings and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is no exception. Through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a German concentration camp, a forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.

11

The Green Mile
The lives of guards on Death Row are affected by one of their charges: a black man accused of child murder and rape, yet who has a mysterious gift.

12

Gone Girl
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, Nick (Ben Affleck) sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

13

The Wrestler
A faded professional wrestler (Mickey Rourke) must retire, but finds his quest for a new life outside the ring a dispiriting struggle.

14

Grave Of The Fireflies
A young boy and his little sister struggle to survive in Japan during World War II.

15

Se7en
Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives.

16

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
This prequel film focuses on the daughter of an Imperial scientist joins the Rebel Alliance in a risky move to steal the plans for the Death Star. Star Wars fans knew how this film would end, but it still hurt all the same.