Leaving Las Vegas, Falling Down
That is impossible to answer. Some of my favorites.
No Country for Old Men
Unforgiven
Apocalypse Now
Falling Down
The Exorcist
2001
Saving Private Ryan
The Shinning
Number one that jumps into my mind is "Brokeback Mountain" I might add to this with more thought, but definitely not replace it.
best movie without traditional ending? I gotta think on that one.
Edward Scissor Hands
Armageddon
I'll add more as I think of them
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The Road with Viggo Mortensen
American History X
Planet of the Apes (original film with Chuck Heston)
The Graduate
The ending tricks you and makes you think that it’s going to be a happy one. Then the camera holds, their smiles fade, and they slowly come to realize that there is no happiness at the end of this story. That final shot makes the film.
Anything by Hitchcock or Kubrick would fit this category as well, especially Psycho or Eyes Wide Shut.
Some, but not all, Coen brother films (No Country for Old Men, Fargo, True Grit).
Melancholia was beautiful and brilliant but as is typical for a film by Lars Von Trier, it’s way too cynical and depressing for me to take seriously.
I can’t think of a good tagline so this will have to do. Suggest a better one for me?
Harold and Maude
The graduate
Gone with the wind
American psycho
Heather's
Filth
The children's hour
Marley and Me (one of the only films to bring a tear to my eyes)
Road to Perdition with Tom Hanks
Doctor Strangelove: Or How I learned to Stop Worrying and love the Bomb. Could there be a less traditional happy ending? The entire world gets destroyed.
The Usual Suspects has been listed by multiple other people, but it deserves to be mentioned because it is one of the best movies ever made.
Upgrade- Newer film that I doubt many people saw, but not only is the ending dark, but you can extrapolate an even darker future after that ending.
'Dead Man'. It's by a relatively obscure yet interesting filmmaker named Jim Jarmusch.
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