Bad ending movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant bad ending movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out bad ending, suspense, serious, suspenseful, realistic and psychological films and TV shows about / with death, blood, murder, danger, macabre, husband wife relationship, violence, survival, deadly and twists and turns plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Horror genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as bad ending: The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016), Funny Games (2007), Eden Lake (2008), Chronicle (2012), Se7en (1995), The Mist (2007), Revolutionary Road (2008), Dom Hemingway (2013), Buried (2010), Frozen (2010).

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The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Father and son coroners receive a mysterious unidentified corpse with no apparent cause of death. As they attempt to examine the beautiful young "Jane Doe," they discover increasingly bizarre clues that hold the key to her terrifying ...
Style: scary, suspense, dark, bad ending, suspenseful ...
Plot: supernatural, witch, supernatural horror, autopsy, morgue, demon, witchcraft, corpse, dead woman, mutilation, supernatural power, murder ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, year 2017
Place: salem massachusetts, new england
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 6.5
 103K
Funny Games (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France, UK, Austria, Germany, Italy
Duration: 111 min.
Story: When Ann, husband George and son Georgie arrive at their holiday home they are visited by a pair of polite and seemingly pleasant young men. Armed with deceptively sweet smiles and some golf clubs, they proceed to terrorize and torture the ...
Style: psychological, scary, disturbing, brutal, bad ending ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, hostage, torture, psychopath, home invasion, murder, danger, bad guy wins, maniac, brutality, kidnapping, torment ...
Time: year 2007, year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
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 6.7
 94K
Eden Lake (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Eden Lake is a relentlessly tense and immaculately paced horror-thriller about modern youth gone wild. When a young couple goes to a remote wooded lake for a romantic getaway, their quiet weekend is shattered by an aggressive group of local kids. ...
Style: suspense, brutal, slasher, scary, bleak ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: survival, torture, camping, forest, fear, youth, gory, chase, murder, strong violent content, sadistic horror, danger ...
Time: year 2008, year 2000, 21st century
Place: england, united kingdom, britain
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 7.0
 263K
Chronicle (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Three high school students make an incredible discovery, leading to their developing uncanny powers beyond their understanding. As they learn to control their abilities and use them to their advantage, their lives start to spin out of control, and ...
Style: bad ending, suspense, stylized, intense, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, superhero, telekinesis, supernatural, adolescence, found footage, levitation, outcast, supernatural ability, bullying, friendship, teenage life ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, future, year 2000, 21st century
Place: seattle, washington d.c., usa, tibet
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 8.6
 1.8M
Se7en (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. ...
Style: detective, surprise ending, suspenseful, disturbing, neo noir ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: serial killer, investigation, twists and turns, psychopath, police, psychology, mind game, murder, insanity, police investigation, macabre, maniac ...
Time: 90s, year 1995, 20th century
Place: los angeles, america, iran, persia, usa ...
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 7.1
 338K
The Mist (2007)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other people. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten ...
Style: twist ending, atmospheric, psychological, bad ending, scary ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, monster, apocalypse, stephen king, creature, fear, trapped, survival horror, religious fanatic, giant monster, chaos and mayhem, small town ...
Time: year 2007, distant future, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, maine
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Revolutionary Road (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.
Style: bad ending, depressing, heartbreaking, crying, bleak ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: adultery, marriage, abortion, mental illness, infidelity, dysfunctional family, depression, death of wife, under the surface, family problems, cheating wife, midlife crisis ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1955, year 2008, 20th century ...
Place: usa, new york, paris france, connecticut
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 6.1
 28K
Dom Hemingway (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After spending 12 years in prison for keeping his mouth shut, notorious safe-cracker Dom Hemingway is back on the streets of London looking to collect what he's owed.
Style: talky, stylized, witty, bad ending, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: redemption, dark humor, safecracker, crime gone awry, dysfunctional family, bank robbery, sex scene, temperamental, criminal heroes, hopes, caper, money ...
Time: y2k, year 2013, 21st century
Place: england, france, europe, french riviera, london
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 7.0
 168K
Buried (2010)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, UK, France, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, bad ending, surprise ending ...
Audience: adult
Plot: survival, trapped, buried alive, confined, isolation, claustrophobia, terrorist, captivity, twists and turns, panic, desperation, race against time ...
Time: year 2010, 20th century, 2010s, year 2006, 2000s ...
Place: iraq, middle east
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 6.2
 80K
Frozen (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Three skiers are stranded on a chairlift and forced to make life-or-death choices that prove more perilous than staying put and freezing to death.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, scary, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, isolation, stranded, snow, survival horror, frostbite, ski resort, animal attack, winter, mountain, youth, danger ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: utah, antarctic
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 5.2
 8K
Funhouse (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story: When 8 celebrities from around the globe are invited to compete in an online reality show, they soon realize that they are playing for their very lives, as those voted off suffer horrific consequences, broadcast live to the entire world.
Style: scary, bad ending, twist ending, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: isolation, game of death, torture, survival, psychopath, video surveillance, game, sadism, trapped, held captive, characters killed one by one, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
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House of Sand and Fog (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Behrani, an Iranian immigrant buys a California bungalow, thinking he can fix it up, sell it again, and make enough money to send his son to college. However, the house is the legal property of former drug addict Kathy. After losing the house in an ...
Style: bad ending, depressing, emotional, psychological, bleak ...
Plot: life is a bitch, depression, tragedy, eviction, immigrant, justice, tragic event, suicide, american dream, character study, complex characters, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 2003, 70s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: san francisco, persia, bay area, usa, california
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 5.3
 7K
Hostile (2017)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: France, USA, Belgium
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Juliette, a lone survivor of an apocalyptic era, fights to survive against hunger, thirst, a broken leg and strange disturbing creatures that only comes out at nighttime.
Style: suspense, twist ending, tense, bad ending, brutal ...
Plot: post apocalypse, apocalypse, virus, end of the world, survivor, mutant, suicide, infected, humanity, danger, human nature, loneliness ...
Place: new york
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 3.2
 38K
Slender Man (2018)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In a small town in Massachusetts, four high school girls perform a ritual in an attempt to debunk the lore of Slender Man. When one of the girls goes mysteriously missing, they begin to suspect that she is, in fact, his latest victim.
Style: bad ending, suspense, scary, psychological, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, urban legend, evil spirit, kidnapping, teenager, friendship, teenage protagonist, small town, woods, teenage girl, evil, monster ...
Time: 2010s
Place: massachusetts
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Dead Mountain: The Dyatlov Pass Incident (2020)
Genre: Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: Russia, 1959. A KGB major investigates the mysterious deaths of a group of nine student hikers in the Ural Mountains. Troubled by his past as a WWII veteran, he has a sixth sense and death seems to follow him around as he digs deeper into the ...
Style: bad ending, harsh, serious, gloomy, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, death, uncover truth, student, missing person, investigation, natural disaster, danger, rocky mountains, hiking, escapades, group of friends ...
Time: year 1959, 1950s, 20th century
Place: russia, soviet union
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The Great Gatsby (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story: An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche ...
Style: stylized, sentimental, bad ending, romantic, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night, adult
Plot: obsession, high society, social differences, love triangle, loneliness, love story, millionaire, unfulfilled love, love and romance, love, destructive relationship, infidelity ...
Time: 1920s, year 2013, 90s, 1900s, 2010s ...
Place: new york, usa, los angeles, long island, midwest
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No One Would Tell (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Laura Collins (Shannen Doherty), single mom to daughter Sarah (Matreya Scarrwener), has had a history of rocky relationships, so when Sarah begins dating the popular and charismatic Rob Tennison (Callan Potter), Laura is thrilled with what she sees. ...
Style: bad ending, rough, suspense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: emotional abuse, physical abuse, abusive boyfriend, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, domestic violence, relationships, high school, mother daughter relationship, trial, best friend, brutality, murder ...
Place: usa
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 6.5
 209K
Secret Window (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his ...
Style: psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, suspense, dark ...
Plot: psychology, insanity, twists and turns, split personality, stephen king, losing-it hero, isolation, paranoia, macabre, murder, mental illness, plot twist ...
Time: year 2004, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: mississippi, usa, tennessee, new york state
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 6.7
 263K
The Grey (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: An oil drilling team struggles to survive after a plane crash strands them in the wilds of Alaska. Hunting them is a pack of wolves that sees them as intruders.
Style: suspenseful, bad ending, harsh, tense, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, wilderness, animal attack, snow, hunting, wolf, dangerous animal, stranded, forces of nature, air disaster, struggle for survival, wolf attack ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: alaska, usa
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Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Despondent over a painful estrangement from his daughter, trainer Frankie Dunn isn't prepared for boxer Maggie Fitzgerald to enter his life. But Maggie's determined to go pro and to convince Dunn and his cohort to help her.
Style: emotional, touching, sad, depressing, bad ending ...
Audience: girls' night, kids, family friendly, adult
Plot: boxing, underdog, female boxer, female protagonist, determination, mentor protege relationship, athlete's life, human spirit, female athlete, euthanasia, boxing trainer, strong female lead ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, europe, las vegas, london ...
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 7.2
 317K
Insomnia (2002)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
Style: neo noir, psychological, atmospheric, detective, psychological thriller ...
Plot: small town, police investigation, murder, investigator, investigation, character study, police, police corruption, insomnia, guilt, psychopath, snow ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: alaska, persia, usa
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 6.4
 302K
Alien: Covenant (2017)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, the crew of the colony ship 'Covenant' discovers what is thought to be an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world – which has its sole inhabitant the ...
Style: bad ending, futuristic, suspense, enigmatic, dark ...
Plot: alien, creature, space travel, outer space, extraterrestrial, robot, alien life-form, androids, monster, human versus alien, space exploration, survival ...
Time: future, year 2017, 2010s, near future, 22nd century
Place: space western
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The Luzhin Defence (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Based upon the novel by Vladimir Nabokov, a chess grandmaster travels to Italy in the 1920s to play in a tournament and falls in love.
Style: atmospheric, melancholic, intellectual, bad ending, sincere ...
Plot: chess, asperger's syndrome, obsession, prodigy, genius, relationships, eccentricity, loneliness, love story, mentally unstable, supportive spouse, contests and competitions ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: italy
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Message in a Bottle (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A woman finds a romantic letter in a bottle washed ashore and tracks down the author, a widowed shipbuilder whose wife died tragically early. As a deep and mutual attraction blossoms, the man struggles to make peace with his past so that he can move ...
Style: touching, romantic, sincere, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: love, sailing, love story, destiny, haunted by the past, single parent, anonymous letter, love letter, grief, women, father son relationship, bittersweet ...
Time: year 1999, 2010s, 90s
Place: north carolina, virginia, chicago, usa, new york
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 6.4
 57K
Before I Fall (2017)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Samantha Kingston has everything. Then, everything changes. After one fateful night, she wakes up with no future at all. Trapped into reliving the same day over and over, she begins to question just how perfect her life really was.
Style: bad ending, suspense, teen, sweet, meditative ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: time loop, teenager, female protagonist, friendship, bullying, strong female character, dying repeatedly, public humiliation, stereotypes, mean girl, redemption, death ...
Time: year 2017
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 7.1
 258K
Valkyrie (2008)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Japan, UK
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a ...
Style: factual, bad ending, tense, captivating, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: world war two, nazi, nazism, war, nazi germany, hitler, conspiracy, resistance, german soldier, politics, wehrmacht, espionage ...
Time: 1940s, year 2008, year 1944, year 1943, 20th century
Place: germany, berlin germany, europe, bavaria, tunisia ...
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American Horror Story (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: American Horror Story is an anthology horror drama series.
Style: anthology, psychological, atmospheric, scary, tense ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: supernatural, serial killer, ghost, witch, haunted house, evil force, danger, death, insanity, vampire, mental institution, witchcraft ...
Time: 2000s, 20th century, year 2013, 80s, year 2011 ...
Place: new orleans, los angeles, usa, massachusetts, florida ...
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The Tie That Binds (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: John Netherwood and his wife Leann are fugitives who are both wanted for murder. They have a young daughter named Janie and they want her back.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, bad ending, intense, serious ...
Plot: adoption, fugitives, children, family relations, wanted, haunted by the past, parents and children, custody, criminal heroes, rivalry, obsession, little girl ...
Time: 90s
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The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) (2011)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Inspired by the fictional Dr. Heiter, disturbed loner Martin dreams of creating a 12-person centipede and sets out to realize his sick fantasy.
Style: sadistic, disturbing, scary, controversial, bad ending ...
Audience: adult
Plot: torture, psychopath, macabre, serial killer, gory, violence against women, sexual abuse, bad guy wins, brutality, mad scientist, sadism, pervert ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: europe, germany
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 6.1
 51K
Cujo (1983)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.
Style: tense, suspense, scary, natural horror, serious ...
Plot: dog, rabies, dangerous animal, macabre, boy, monster, stephen king, blood, creature feature, brutality, killer dog, survival ...
Time: 80s
Place: maine
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