The Most Devastating Movie Endings Ever
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- Опубліковано 15 чер 2024
- Not all movies have happy endings. When we walk into a horror movie or a suspense thriller, we brace ourselves because we know what we got ourselves into. But when it's an action movie or even a drama, an unhappy ending can be quite devastating - especially if we didn't see it coming.
However, regardless of the genre, a devastating ending can linger in our lives even after a movie ends. When audiences invest in characters that they somehow grew to love, it can be devasting if they are abruptly taken away.
Movies are powerful mediums that blur the line between fiction and reality, so here are the most devastating movie endings of all time.
#Movies #Films #Horror
Back to the Blue Bayou | 0:00
Maggie's last moments | 1:19
Grizzly Man | 2:46
An enchanting old ruin | 3:38
Abandoned | 5:04
What could've been | 6:24
Logan's last stand | 7:14
The snap | 9:20
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Not including *The Mist* in this list is a crime against humanity.
EXACTLY!!!!
I was sure Mist was number one rofl.....
Do not worry, its on every other list of endings ever made
That what i thought would be number one.
My thoughts exactly, that ending was beyond brutal
I know everyone has their own pick, but I think The Boy in the Striped Pajama's ending is the definition of devastating.
You know what, you nailed it
I definitely remember watching that multiple times when I was younger. I even remember crying like a lil bytch each and every time. But I honestly can't remember how it ends now. But, judging by the ache I felt in my chest when I read ur comment, I'll have to assume it was traumatic... At least until I watch it again as an adult.
Oompf. This. We watched this in class for a film study and everyone was either speechless or sobbing in the end. I'm still haunted by this film to this day.
@@ren09rn I watched it in middle school actually, and the teacher just went ahead and skipped to the credits because we all knew what was coming, and some of them outright left the room in horror so she couldn't continue without them present. I didn't even see the actual ending until years later on Netflix.
Agree. People give that movie a lot of crap for being “inaccurate,” but I enjoyed it for what it was and was devastated at the end.
The Boy In The Striped Pajamas has the real darkest ending in film history. Prove me wrong.
The Mist
The Mist is worse actually
The mist
Graves of Fireflies
@@ghostly606 Umm Pajama ends with two kids being forced into a the shower and smoked to death then the father finally realizing that his actions have caused the death of many children like his own son and the realization that he cannot atone for what he's done
The end of “The Imitation of Life” always makes me cry. It’s so damn sad that she spends her life resenting her mother for the color of her skin and doesn’t realize how much she loves her until her mom dies. When she runs up to that hearse and opens the doors to cry on her mom’s casket... it’s the most heartbreaking thing I’ve ever seen.
"The Mist", number one without question. People left that movie, including myself, physically shaking...
the biggest "WTF!?" i've ever dropped at the cinema
@@danirodriguez1147 Even the more devastating when a child is involved, a young man we got to like and know as the film develops.
I saw in a hotel room by myself. I called my husband crying and upset for 2 hours.
@@test2112. Jennifer, anyone who has a spouse or a child and saw the end if this movie would understand how you felt.
@George Wodicka - I saw it childless and still single, at 47, and I was blown apart. I respectfully, but strongly, resent this viewpoint.
The ending of 2007's "The Mist" is way darker and more devastating than any on this list.
never watched the mist even though i own the movie i think lol what happens in it as im to scared to watch it XD
The group of survivors decide it would be better to kill themselves rather than be devoured by the monsters. And so they do, only to find out seconds later that the military has resolved the problem.
Thomas Jane's screaming as the film fades to black omg.....scarred me.
The mist was shit!
@@andrewbest1449 oh damn why was that not on the list lol
Million Dollar Baby is quite possibly the most heartbreaking movie I’ve ever watched
Was bigtime depressing
Agree.... "Mo Cuishle"
The ending of Million Dollar Baby makes me cry every time I see it.
The movie was Old Yelled not as I spelled it, typo mistake.
When Clint Eastwood directs a movie you damn well know you will shed a tear. Gran Torino always gets me.
Gran Torino, A Perfect World, Bridges of Madison County, Honkytonk man are all Eastwood movies that me make me cry maybe more than Million Dollar baby...
GRAN TORINO
Marianna Aymerich Oh man, I completely forgot about A Perfect World. That one hit me right in the feels.
That scene got me by surprise
“Not even the devil wants her” savage
Why can't I find this movie anywhere??
Its on shudder
Or atleast it was when i saw it
frank brackett try looking it up as “The Blackcoat’s Daughter”. I watched it on Amazon prime video awhile ago and it was listed as that
It's called February, on Netflix x
Think what you will, Boys Don't Cry has the one of the most gut wrenching endings ever.
Because it's a true story it's twice as tragic. Same thing with Open Water and The Perfect Storm.
Hilary Swank for ya.
Grave of the Fireflies was a great movie, but I can never watch it again and especially the ending.
That's one of the animes I make people watch when they say cartoons are just for kids. Every time,every single time they come back saying they were wrong.
That movie is especially devastating when you try to rewatch the beginning and you just cant do it. It's so sad
I've never even watched it before and I can never watch it again.
We don't speak of that movie. I cried at the scene where Setsuko dies, and it was very heartbreaking for me. One thing that's especially devastating for me is the fact that if you try and watch to the end, you just can't do it. And this is why I think animals are better than humans.
I have watched it many times, It's my way of torturing myself 😂
Dude, what about The Mist or The Green Mile??? This list is lazy :/
Dude, the Green mile is a good ending story, I think you understand that story very wrong, good people got what they wanted, and bad people got what they deserved, Coffey never forgets about twins' death, he wanted to die and get away from this brutal world, the real killer of the twins Wild Bill in the end shot dead, the sadist Percy took warden wife's disease lost his mind and sent to a mental ward. That book is a odd one for Stephen King, he didn't use his usuall morally ambiguous lead method, but rather split good and evil right in half, Coffey is pure good, warden is somewhat that, Wild Bill and Percy are pure evil, the movie didn't tell all the book but didn't change much either, you should rewatch it.
Luis Moran That is correct sir.
The thing unique thing about "The Mist" is that the final scene, in the car, leaves you gasping, crying, and in my case also physically shaking. THEN, about a minute later, the very-end scene delivers ANOTHER punch to the gut in some ways almost more devastating. I have never left a quieter, more shaken theater in my life. Not a great movie, but a good one, with an ending you will NEVER forget.
@@therocklau liu travis I completely agree with this.
Though I have to say -- when it comes to generally saying "devastating endings" it does deserve a place on this list on the fact that Clarke Duncan and Hanks (and everyone actually) in their amazing acting, mixed with the excellent wring shows us how ugly the majority of humans are and how the truly good ultimately will usually fail.... to even the point of welcoming death to get away from it. That alone, I think makes it's suitable for the most. Imo this list is kinda BS.
@Luis Moran I think adding the mist to this list would be more lazy, although everyone agrees it should be here the reason could be that EVERYONE agrees it should be on here lol, that film is on everybodies list for sad endings already, to find 5 more besides that one takes a little bit more research. Just a thought though
Any movie where we watch a dog die onscreen.
I hate dogs. Killed a few. Shed no tears.
4ever Young i- fuckin what?
@@4everyoung818 stop trying to act edgy we know you go gaga for dogs
@@4everyoung818 i also hate dogs, I've never killed any but I still hate them
5 years ago. A puppy was death cause of a thug. It triggered a retired assassin.
Later on many people died.
You missed "The Predator" 2018's ending when Fox killed the franchise.
When disney bought fox; it was over. Disney is the dearth of all good things.
bobby harvill Not Really... They Would Not Butcher Some Franchise Unless They've Intervene The Production Or They Force Them To Do So... Or Get A Bad Director Like Rian Johnson
they still make a shit ton of money like the last jedi did.
and also i didnt see anyhting wrong with the predator i mean its cool that a super smart kid could hack alien tech
Will Huey You mean a young victim of vaccines saves the world from Aliens, in a movie brought to you by Big Pharma. Lol
The ending of Blackcoat’s Daughter, truly shook me. I’ve felt alone many times in my life, but never to the point of true and utter desolation. Emma Roberts, you’re a jewel!🙌🏼💯
maybe take a breath between picks
The lack of transition is jarring.
I thought no one noticed, thanks for the comforting same train of thought.
This.
Word.
I thought I was the only one who noticed the lack of transitions.
Man on fire: i walked out of the cinema broken, shattered...crying, i needed him to survive. Denzel was wonderful.
Boy in the striped pajamas: i thought i might die throughout the film it was brutal (obviously) and emotional...but the ending... was obliterating.
Missing...
Interstellar?
The ending for Interstellar was more... Poignant. He survives somehow and is reunited with his daughter. He promised her he would come back. She then sends him off to find Anne Hathaway's character before living out the rest of her time surrounded by her family. The film ends on a somewhat sad but hopeful note.
I watched Boy in the Striped Pajamas in school. The whole grade was terrified at the end. Yikes.
@@Emryth-eb4zq You hit the nail on the head with Poignant. I could not imagine the sorrow I would feel if I've been gone for months to find out it has been like 80 years, when I return to see my little girl on her deathbed. Missing her entire life actually has me fighting back tears as I type this (I have 2 little girls)
Man on fire easily the best performance of his career
@@Charmer4856 I wish ... you had ... more time. Best Denzel scene ever.
Bridge to Terabithia....
mic drop
Daniel Elzeisa
*childhood flashbacks*
Damn you whyyy
That ending was horrible. Its a bloody children's films.
SecretsOfTime Travel 🤣🤣🤣
Took my kid niece to see this at the cinema and I sobbed like a baby she looked at me like I was insane and I was an absolute mess
it was the wrong movie to watch next to a stranger on a flight from germany to the US. who thought having that in-flight was a good idea?
Hugh Jackman as Logan defined my love of superheroes as a kid. Seeing him go was sad, because he had been Wolverine literally my entire life, and I was literally watching my favorite superhero die, never to come back like in the comics. I was able to hold it together until she had to tip that fuckin cross over and I cried a little bit.
I felt like this when Iron Man died...
🤮🤮🤮
How about the Mist?that was a dark ending he killed he’s own friends and family but found out it was the military coming instead of the monsters
RAZR- X I don’t think we watched the same movie
I watched the Mist and definitely agree that it should had been on this list.
I should have gone to spec savers 😂 didn’t see this comment and said the same thing
Thanks for spoiling it then!
Totallynotmatt bro the movie was Made like in 2007 How have you not seen it yet Its sooo Good
Having not seen the video yet, if Bridge to Terabithia isn't on this list, it isn't an accurate one.
one of those movies i've only seen once because once it's enough with such a sad ending
That book was one of my favorites as a child. I saw it as sad but somewhat redemptive for the main character after his friend’s death.
Right? It's all fun and games, oh, such a cute a sweet movie and then, bang! Right on the feels, man!
But this is about devastating endings. Bridge to T was devastating in the middle.
I took my niece. Told her my allergies were acting up, that's why my eyes were watering.
What about requiem for a dream seriously that’s like the saddest or top 3 saddest endings ever
And the most disturbing
Lisa L I’ll point you towards the boy in the striped pajamas, saddest movie I have ever seen
Ellipticstorm 54 the sight of Jared Leto crying in the infirmary bed still haunts me
@@marlaerwin3610 me, too.
@@johnnyjumper5936 The Lovely Bones is one of the saddest in my opinion.
"Whats in the box?! Tell me whats in the box?!?!"
Se7en. This should be the top list. Just rewatched it. And what's weird, I felt so scared, burdened and guilty. And the feeling heightened when it's closer and closer to the scene where Mills come to the realisation of what's the 'thing' in that box. You won't feel this unless you already knows the DEVASTATING ending
I would agree but Pitt's acting there destroyed the illusion for me.
I can't believe that Se7en wasn't included on this list. That ending still gets me to this day. When UPS showed up with that box, I knew what was in it, but at the same time, I didn't want to believe it.
Seven. Yep, I would put that on my top ten list for sure.
Pandora
What made Logan all the more heartbreaking was the fact that Yukio in the secon Wolverine Film told him he will die with his heart in his hands. And Laura, beeing his heart, hold his hand when he died.
How about Buried with Ryan Reynolds? Everyone who saw it wanted him to be saved....
My first thought. It had 4 devastating endings in one movie, one worse than the other.
“Buried With Ryan Reynolds”. Wasn’t that the title of “The Making Of The Green Lantern” documentary? At least Deadpool altered the timeline and Put the Mandela Effect on that movie. Which movie? Exactly!
The problem was: I knew it had very good ratings at imdb, so after the first (pretty mediocre) half I knew he was going to die... 🙂
Jackman shouldve got oscar for logan... it was a beautiful movie
So many missing and that could replace this list. “The mist” , that ending is horrifying
The saddest ending is watching list list and not seeing these films on it:
The Champ (1979)
The Mist
The Green Mile
Old Yeller
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Add "Where The Red Fern Grows"
They were on previous lists
Well, theres always a part 2 of this video
Yea the mist was pretty depressing
Jesse Kern Man The Champ was super sad watching it as a kid.
For me, it's the ending of SOMEWHERE IN TIME starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour. 😭😭😭😭
For me, Somewhere in Time had a gut punching ending in recent memory. Beautiful, but ultimately..... Sad
For me Hachi A Dog's Tale has the most devastating movie ending ever. It's so damn sad...
Title is 'The Most Devastating Movie Endings Ever'. Requiem For A Dream is not included. Dafuq.
They sure need to redo the damn video.
I'll never watch that movie again.
Yeah dafuq ya notta I'm sayin yo
Infinity War wasnt that bad, it would have been more devastating if they hadn't revealed it was going to be 2 parts years beforehand.
Your right
Just imagine that...
Feige says in an interview: infinity war will be the climax of 10 years worth of story telling” without mentioning part 2...
We would be a lot more devastated than we already are... a man can dream
STV 003 there won’t be a part 2. Thanos will definitely be the villain of Avengers 4, but it’s not going to be Infinity War Part 2.
R*bin it's a pt 2. it'll be a direct sequel, like how bvs is basically MoS pt 2. Also like pirates pt 2 and 3
XOVO that’s not how sequels work.
Are you kidding me? Have you even seen “The Road?” 🤔🤔
Agree
Yeah this list seems to lack quite a few films to be honest.. the road and the mist 🤔
Yes I've seen the road, I drive on it every day
Arlington Road, No Country for Old Men, actually this list in this video is pretty slim, not even Old Yeller.
Geezus this movie had me all in my feelings.... hard to watch bc of the realism smh
American History X has in my opinion one of the most devastating and yet most realistic “that’s life anything could happen” endings I’ve ever experienced as much as I was sad about Danny I eventually realized that it was fitting shows a teachable moment in that even if you claim redemption it doesn’t change your past decisions or those you effected good or bad from coming back
What they did with Logan is nothing short of spectacular and something rarely Hollywood does: they went with a completely different direction with a sequel and embraced a character's tragic arc. Logan was an emotional roller-coaster. Yes, Wolverine is my favorite X-Men. At times, his stoicism is saturated in his personality. However, deep down he has a large heart. The way he takes care of Dr. Xavier is beyond admirable.
The Avenger films, along with Galaxy of the Gaurdians, and Spiderman, for the most part have been fun. Nothing too emotional. Even when everyone was fading away, I didn't feel a tug of emotion. But yes, when they showed Peter Parker, the way Iron Man was embracing me. All of sudden, I had to hold back tears. I understood both characters in the back of mind superficially but that scene was so raw.
For devastating endings, documentaries or biopics should not be on the same list as works of fiction. A devastating ending that actually happened in real life to real people is completely different from a devastating ending made up by writers that happens in a fictional world to fictional characters. Both can be devastating, but they're not in the same category at all.
If documentaries counted then none would top Dear Zachary
i mean, sure it's more terrible that something happened for real. but unless you knew the people who lived that real story your emotional reaction to it will be very similar to your reaction to fictional characters because you will bond with the characters only through what you see of them in the movie/documentary. in fact while watching a documentary you will think ' oh how terrible, this story is so sad, can't believe is real how awful' . your favorite character from your favorite tv show that you've been watching for years dying or suffering will normally affect you more just because you had more time to actually bond with the character since everything about them was laid out for you in the show to make watchers feel like they know the character personally.
@@acurseofconstantobstacle5603 Dear Zachary still haunts me! I watched it shortly after it's release. I honestly did not see that coming. That was utterly brutal.
Why not? If you don't know the true story the doc is following you have no idea how it will end. It will therefore hit just as hard if not harder because it actually happened. As someone else already brought up Dear Zachary i will use that example. When i saw that i didn't know how it would end and to find out what happened was crushing. I cried like a baby for like a half hour.
Infinity War wasn't devastating at all, considering that we all knew it was coming and that most if not all of them are going to come back to life...
You knew that most of the heros were going to die at the end of the movie when you went in? Gotta call bs on that one my guy.
@@GoingMach5 you do realise that theyre based on a comic right?
so that the whole story already existed right?
or are you not smart enough to understand such a concept?
@@112523 but not many people reads comics dude! So it was surprise to most of the people.
Loki. Vision. Original gamora.
If you didn't cry at least once, you have no soul. SCREW IT, I WAS BAWLING MY EYES OUT
Call me lame, but Marley & Me made me "ugly cry" like no other....except maybe Titanic. And I knew how both were going to end beforehand.
Dawn Duffy me too
Sameeeee
I still can't see Marley and me without ugly crying lol and I was on Titanic so you can imagine how I feel about that movie........
Anything where an animal dies is just too much for me now.
Hachi: A dog's tale
One that got to me so bad that I haven't really watched it since the first time I saw it was Buried with Ryan Reynolds.
That ending was so dark.
Million dollar baby missed me up big time.
Omg, never saw it and I am crying threw the vid right now. So ao,sad.
@@laurajones1832 me too! Im sobbing rn and i have never even seen it
Maggie could have just refused medical treatment . Not as cool but much easier
7 Seven's ending was pretty bad.
"I DONT WANNA GO MR. STARK "
*Nothing* will ever, EVER get me like the tragic endings to “Brokeback Mountain” and “Million Dollar Baby” 💔
What about American history X
I cried so hard about the ending of that movie 😭
great film, great performances, yeah should be there on the list
What happeneds?
Galaxy Dragons Derrick Vinyard. Who went to prison for involuntary Manslaughter turned his life around for the sake of his family mainly his brother Danny who was following the wrong path in his footsteps towards like maybe 10-15 min till the end he and his brother took down everything tht reminded them of their racist past. Derrick takes his brother Danny to school where Danny is seen in the bathroom confronted by the guy in the first part of the movie who’s actually the brother of the boy Derrick killed and shoots Danny dead in cold blood and during the last scene u can see Derrick holding his dead little brother in his arms as he’s weeping. One of my all time favorite movies(2nd on my list)
Call me heartless. I really didn’t feel bad at the end of that movie. It didn’t catch me off guard. It just happened. Then it was over.
Guy tries to become one with grizzly bears.. what the hell did you think was going to happen?
I always wanted to become one with a mushroom cloud I hope it turns out OK for me
He became one with the grizzly bears...Through its stomach.
How stupid did he have to be?
The end of Requiem for a Dream is a thousand times more devastating than any of these movies.
Irreversible is pretty soul destroying.
Oh God, Irreversible is to me the most excruciating movie ever.
The Bridge On The River Kwai. The ending was just stunning.
Requiem for a dream?
Harry Hain COULDN'T AGREE MORE, BROTHER. That movie got a solid 10/10 from me. 💯👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿 truly a masterpiece.
Is that the movie about all them degenerate drug addict perverts??
@@JusticeforLiberty Erm....they turned into drug addicts, but nothing about being perverts or degenerates. The other half of the movie was a bout the mom and how the doctor ended up basically giving her speed in a pill toted as a way to lose weight and she ended up getting addicted to it. She ended up slowly going insane and ended up in a mental institution. Was very very sad.
Totally agree! I saw this in the theaters twice. The friend I was with the second time left the theater at the end and went and promptly puked her guts out. That last scene with the music is savage AF!
Movie was a masterpiece but it was so devastating I never wanna see it again.
Sorry, but I lived in Alaska. Anyone who gets that close to the bears is asking for trouble. Grizzly Man was a preventable tragedy if he had listened to the locals.
He and his girlfriend were both eaten. Apparently audio of the attack was caught on his camera
@@tedgovostis7351 Yes, you're right. His girlfriend encouraged him in this dangerous behavior - and she ended up meeting the same fate.
Well, he wanted to show mankind's place in nature, and indeed he did. With our brains and our hands we can create civilizations and weapons that can kill the strongest predators. But if we take away those things and refuse to use our brains at all like this guy did, then we're just prey. Duh.
He stayed too long, into a period he was warned against.
He was mentally ill, had a history of drug use and psychological episodes. Wouldn't listen. The movie is like watching a man's decent into madness.
Haven't seen anyone mention 'Never Let Me Go'. I know it wasn't a massive box ofice release, but there are few films that end more devastatingly than that... utterly heartbreaking.
THIS
Great movie too. As a storyline, it hasn't been done to death and is very moving. And I don't even think it's unrealistic.
The ending of Sgt Ryan where the former soldier quivering asks his wife while he stood at the graveside, did she think he had led a good life to keep his promise had so much meaning to me. It left a lump in my throat. The Movie was Saving Sgt Ryan.
umm okay. I didn't know Groot called Rocket dad!!! I'm crying all over again
“Would You Rather (2013)” has a super devastating ending.
I didn't feel a thing for Infinity War. Great movie but it's hard to care knowing most will be back
Lovely bones had a devistating ending. They bever find the child's body. Throughout the entire movie you are hoping it will end wel but it bever really does
Man on Fire gets me every time.
Sorry but Logan was just much more devastating than Infinity War
The list is in a random order.
Golden Gamer-5915 exactly.
No it's actually the other way around
agree, but infinity war is not devastating in the least
SpankMeSanta LOL a comedy? have u seen the movie? peter begged for his life in Tony’s arms and loki got choked to death so hard his blood vessels popped. and u just said it’s a comedy
What about Pay It Forward the ending had me in tears???
Just thinking about the song "Calling All Angels" and all those cars driving to his house gets me choked up a little.
What an odd looking fellow
These endings are definitely not that devastating.
You're missing "The Mist", and most importantly "Dancer In The Dark" that movie got me crying for HOURS. It's entirely depressing but the ending just wreck me.
Space cowboys when Hawk flies himself to the moon only the lonely 😭😏
And what about The Mist (2007) or the A Serbian Film (2010)?
A serbian film is too contraversal
DJ Tron or Dawn of the Dead (2004)
I thought about The Mist as soon as i read the video title
But they included Avengers Infinity War, which we all know, is going to be completely undone next year.
The Mist has been done to death... Then the army arrives.
You forgot the ending of Arlington Road. Talk about a gut punch.
" So this is what it feels like "
That broke me. Logan was the only superhero film which has made me cry.
I am surprised the motion picture, "Seven," was not on the list?
What's in the box?
I'v'e been crying since the end of Dancer in The Dark, and that was 18 years ago. I doubt I'll stop anytime soon as well. I challenge anyone to watch the entire movie till the end and not feel destroyed beyond what any media should be capable of achieving...
How about the korean movie Old Boy, I think nothing was as emotionally devastating as that ending
Denzel, my favorite actor, did a phenomenal job in Man on Fire
Come on no Green Mile, No Marley and Me, No The Mist 🤔🤔
One flew over the cuckoo's nest gave me depression for a week.
For me the most painful death in infinity war was Gamora's.
Gamora isn`t dead. That fall wouldn`t kill her, if you had watched the 2 guardian films, she has suffered far worse injuries and survived, a fall wouldn`t kill her.
The sacrifice was him willing to kill her, not the death itself. If I`m wrong then it is just bad film making.
MrNadefodder kid, did you see her green blood splattered all over the ground when they showed her body? It was in the head area so we can only assume her skull shattered...I think she’s dead...or at least for now
While Infinity War is, and will always be one of my favorite movies of all-time, with a devastating ending, NOTHING, and I mean NOTHING, will be as shocking and devastating as the last 5 minutes of "The Mist". I never heard more "no, noo, nooooo's!!! in a theater. It's THAT shocking, without ANY gore shown, just implied.
Kale Chip Krunch she is going to come back. I’m rolling my eyes that anyone thinks otherwise
TheSphinx I think she might, though I’m not sure of anything at this point. Think about it. The Russo Brothers are gonna do the thing we least expect, right? Well what if, and I know this won’t happen, but it seems like something they’d do, they’re all dead. I know I know, they wouldn’t kill off their money makers, but some part of me just thinks this all seems off. When they say, “they’re not coming back,” we all know they are. But what if they don’t. What if that’s what they want us to think? Idk just a theory (and yes I know they’re coming back)
The movie ending that makes me cry every time is "'night, Mother." A woman spends an entire evening with her mother doing mundane things but all the while she is explaining to her mother that she has no reason to live and is going to kill herself that night. Anne Bancroft is fantastic as the mother pleading with her daughter (Sissy Spacek) to see the happiness in life.
Based on
a Pulitzer prize-winning play.
Why not "would you rather"? The twist at the end of that movie is pretty devastating giving the accounts of the entire movie.
Everyones talking about movies that are pretty good, but the saddest one for me is Life Is Beautiful. It's a Italian Comedy-Drama that takes place in WW2.
The main characters family is Jewish, snd they get taken away to a concentration camp. The main guy, Guido, pretends it's a game for his son Giosue.
Anyways, Giosue nearly dies in the gas chambers but survives because he hid away, thinking it was a bath and he hated baths.
At the end of the movie, the people try to run away. Guido says that it's the last part of the game, and the winner gets a tank. He hides his son and dresses uo as a woman to find his wife and daughter, when he gets cornered.
The shoulders take him to a alley, where they pass his son who's hiding. He tells his son to stay there and come out when it's the morning. Then the scene cuts to seeing flashes and hearing bullets.
The next day the boy comes out to see the camp in ruins, and American soldier's ride in on tank's.
I swear my writing doesn't even come close to the movie the ending made me *CRY* and I didn't even cry during Boy in The Striped Pajamas.
You're a gem for this. This movie explores so many emotions and themes. The love the father had for his son is so unparalleled. You just wanted them to escape the inevitable. It was breathtaking hearing those gunshots although you knew they were coming. This is a cinematic masterpiece in my opinion. Thanks for the reminder.
Kittykat Black I love that movie! My class watched it in 8th grade and it always stayed in my heart. I watch it about every three years. Their romance was so amazing to me and the movie is so tragic
Life has a pretty grim twist ending, I'm surprised that didn't make it
The Mist, Dancers in The Dark, The Boy in The Stripe Pajamas, Requiem of a Dream...
No mention of Arlington Road? That had a devastating ending.
No one ever mentions that movie on any lists. That's one of the worst endings ever
My top 10:
1. West Side Story
2. Requiem for a Dream
3. Brokeback Mountain
4. The Mist
5. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
6. Fruitvale Station
7. Threads
8. Leave No Trace
9. Longtime Companion
10. Bonnie and Clyde
Sunset Blvd., The Usual Suspects, etc.
La La Land’s ending seriously had me heartbroken. I’ve never been so emotionally invested into a movie lol I was legitimately heartbroken for a week. That night, I cried in my sleep. Hahaha
What about the Green Mile and The Mist, my man like where were they and besides the avengers infinity War really wasn't that sad it was funny
Ice_ Wallow how could you say infinity war was funny??
if you didnt cry during infinity war you have no soul. SCREW IT I WAS BAWLING MY EYES OUT
Funny you say! Well you wouldn't be laughing if that was happening in real life and you could get disintegrated into dust.
Ice_ Wallow The Green Mile book AND movie had me in tears.
The green mile was sad and depressingly stirring, as the Tom Hanks character is cursed to live on and know when people are going to die for how long?
I havent watched this but The Mist’s ending better be here
Broke Back Mountain: "Jack, I swear". Devastating.
The Mist man the Mist. Number one in my books
Love that The Blackcoat’s Daughter is listed here. That ending did stay with me.
aniara has a really depressing ending as well. The film only gets darker and darker with each second. The last scene showing the empty ship and everyone has turned to dust really haunts me
Hey! The Mist!
Logan was sad
Regarding not adding The Mist: The ending of The Mist has been covered so thoroughly in other Looper and What Culture videos -- I think the creators thought that giving it a run once again would generate a few snickers. That said, it's probably the most unexpected/devastating/WTF/heartwrenching ending of any modern movie.
I think Jack Mercer's death scene in 4Brothers is one of the most devastating.
*Selena.. still have PTSD from that.*
You're not serious. Are you? You have PTSD from the *movie* ?
frauleinmona Nah lol, that movie just the only movie to make me cry like a baby to this day.
@Deandre LOL HA! You had me going there for awhile! Sometimes it's hard to tell on the internet when somebody is being facetious and when they're being sincere. But, yeah. That movie was very sad. So beautiful and talented Selena was. And too young to die. There are a couple of her songs that I really, really like.
Omg yes
It was sad but you knew it was coming, so not entirely shocking.
You lost me at Grand Budapest 😹
This list is a joke.
And not a very funny joke at that.
The fact that you had Avengers number 1 is clear pandering
The fact that it is on the list at all is a tragedy.
@@mikeforrest5912you are more correct than I ever could be
The ending of infinity war is not devastating, the entire end game movie is!
I guess I'm the only one who feels nothing at the end of Infinity War. It's not even sad in the slightest. Even Toy Story is sadder and more emotional than that. Logan, The Mist, Atonement, The Descent were some of the most devastating movie endings I've seen.
The Descent is a great choice, very nihilistic
1:13 “where are you going”
I’m going to the Allstate facility to check up on people’s insurance.
In other words no movie before 2010?
Mask or The Seventh Sign..both got me back in the day...or The Champ.
Personally, the logan ending is probably the most resonant and stoic movie endings in the last few years. It's very poetic, and very tear jerking, but beautiful nonetheless. Logan has always been in pain, with his life, his actions, the people in his life, and around him. He seems to always have hurt people who tried to help him, but he finally gets to meet the only end that he deserves, killing people trying to hurt the things he loves. He dies in the process of doing this, but that is always his only escape. Something that most men who have the ability to change situations feel, that death is their only escape for those things, as impending situations that need a catalyst will always find them. That's why Logan and it's ending, may be sad because we don't get anymore wolverine, but it's beautiful because Logan is put to rest/peace while also allowing for a bright future to grow because of his actions.
"There's blood everywhere and you're holding your own heart in your hand"
Treadwell was asking for it, he was mauled to death on Kodiak island if I remember correctly, and Kodiak grizzlies are know to grow to almost 12 feet tall when on their hind legs. Those bears were only trying to figure out if he was predator or prey, and to them, he was prey
And his bullshit ended up costing his girlfriend her life as well....
If you’re allowing real things, like Grizzly Man, United 93 should have been mentioned.
As for fiction, you left off Atonement.
"Man on Fire" is one of the most powerful movies I have ever seen. The ending is not devastating, it is utterly redemptive in that Greasy willingly gives his life to save the little girl that he loves with all his heart. There could be no other ending to this movie. For all the undercover death, pain and suffering Greasy has created in his career, this is the only way he can save himself. And save himself he does with the highest sacrifice possible, his life.