Many of us are already used to Hollywood finals. In this case, you do not have to wait for any trick. Bad guys must be punished, lovers get married, the secret dreams of the main characters are fulfilled. However, films with a tragic end are capable of truly affecting the most subtle tricks of the soul. Such tapes often end unhappily, as is often the case in life. In this article, we will talk about several films that cannot leave anyone indifferent in the finale.
American Beauty
One of the most famous films with a tragic end is the drama by Sam Mendes, American Beauty. The film received high marks from viewers and film critics. She won 5 Oscars, including in the nomination "The Best Movie".
At the center of the story is the story of 42-year-old Lester Burnham, who is experiencing a midlife crisis. He is annoyed by his wife and work, his daughter, a high school student, is increasingly moving away from him.
The main thing for him is unwillingness to continue to live as hypocritically as he had before. Then Lester falls in love with his daughter's girlfriend.
In the final, Leicester is killed by Colonel Fitts, who mistakenly decided that the main character had sex with his son. Burnham dies, but there is a faint smile on his face. In the last moments of his life, he looked at family photography, suddenly realizing that his life was not meaningless and empty, as he believed before. He understands that he sincerely loves his wife and daughter. This is a film with a tragic end to tears, which is worth seeing for everyone.
"Moulin rouge!"
The theme of death is present in the melodrama Baz Lurman "Moulin Rouge!". In 2001, the musical won two Oscars.
This is a film with a tragic end, which tells about the poor poet Christian, who falls madly in love with the cabaret star "Moulin Rouge". Satin is a famous courtesan and actress. The cabaret leadership sets before it the task of seducing the duke, so that he finances the next theatrical production.
At the same time, Satin herself falls in love with the poet, involves him in work on the play. In the ending of this film about love with a tragic end, the girl dies in the arms of Christian from consumption.
"Silence of the Lambs"
Thriller Jonathan Demmee “Silence of the Lambs” has become one of the most famous films about the serial killer. The FBI is looking for a maniac called Buffalo Bill, who strips the skin of the women he killed.
Having lost track, law enforcement officers turn for help to former psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter, who became a cannibal killer. He is currently under guard in a mental hospital. A young agent, Clarice Starling, goes to talk with him.
During these sessions, Lecter begins to play a cunning psychological game. For example, she agrees to help only on the condition that Clarice will reveal to him the secret details of his life. In exchange, he draws attention to details that help to get on the trail of a maniac.
Claris figures out the culprit She arrives at the house where the attacker lives. In the final scene, an FBI agent kills a maniac in a dark basement, focusing on the sound of the gun trigger cocking it.
However, the ending is still shocking. Claris discovers that Lecter has broken free. He is ready to continue to kill.
"Monstro"
Fantastic thriller Matt Reeves, shot in a pseudo-documentary style, is also included in the list of films with a tragic end. The tape begins at a party in New York. In the midst of fun throughout the city, light disappears.
Climbing onto the roof of the house, the heroes observe the destruction of several skyscrapers, next to which the Statue of Liberty falls. The source of destruction is a giant monster with a height of 45 meters. Presumably, he crawled out of the ocean.
People hastily evacuated from the city. The main character Rob, instead of escaping, goes to his girlfriend Beth, with whom he quarreled at the beginning of the party, she went home. Beth lives near the epicenter of destruction. Once in place, Rob and his friends discover that the lower floors of her high-rise building are already destroyed. They decide to climb onto the roof from a nearby skyscraper.
Beth is found in an apartment unconscious with a metal pin that sticks out of her hand. However, they do not have time to fly in a military helicopter. At the last moment, a monster catches up with friends. Rob and Beth, the only survivors, are hiding under a bridge in Central Park.
While recording their farewell message on camera, the bridge collapses. Apparently, an atomic bomb was dropped on Manhattan to get rid of the monster. This is a tragic movie. One of the best in its genre.
Donnie Darko
In the top of the tragic films, you should definitely mention the mystical thriller of Richard Kelly "Donnie Darko".
It tells about a high school student (the main character), who once leaves the house on the orders of a man with an ominous grin in a suit of a huge rabbit. He calls himself Frank.
Frank tells Donnie Darko when the world will end. The next morning he wakes up on a golf course, and returning home, he finds out that the engine of an airplane that crashed nearby fell directly on his room.
The denouement comes on the eve of Halloween. The main character stays at home with his older sister. Everyone else is leaving. They have a costume party to which the masked guests come. Donny receives a message from Frank, recalling that today is exactly the day when the end of the world should happen.
This is a paranoid drama, which has a large number of fans after its release on the screens. The final is disappointing: the main character sacrifices himself in order to save his family, and to escape from the temporary loop into which he was drawn.
"Requiem for a Dream"
In the list of films with a tragic end to tears, one should dwell on the psychological drama of Darren Aronofsky's “Requiem for a Dream”. This is a difficult and relevant story about love, betrayal, betrayal and dependence.
The main characters are Sarah and her son Harold. Harold's friend Tyrone and his girlfriend Marion. Sarah is an elderly widow who spends all her time watching television in her small apartment on Brighton Beach. Most of all, she loves shows about people who managed to lose weight by sitting on a diet or refusing junk food. She herself consumes too many calories.
Her son is a drug addict. Harold appears in the apartment from time to time to pick up the TV and turn it over to a pawnshop. Sara constantly buys him.
The heroes have to endure many trials, but the film does not end with anything good for them. Harold goes to jail. His gangrene begins, his arm is amputated. Marion goes to an orgy, where he has sex with a woman to get the next dose.
Sarah, addicted to amphetamines, enters a madhouse. Tyrone suffers from withdrawal in a prison where guards mock him.
"Cherbourg umbrellas"
This is a film about love with a tragic end. Although no one dies in the finals, the audience sees how unfortunate the fate of all his heroes has been.
Before us is the story of the relationship between the saleswoman of Umbrellas Genevieve and auto mechanic Guy. Their feelings are mutual, but war separates young people.
While Guy is at the front, things with Genevieve and her mother go badly - they are on the verge of ruin. The salvation is the appearance of the jeweler Roland Kassar, who falls in love with a girl. Genevieve does not love him, moreover, she is expecting a child from Guy. At the same time, letters from Algeria rarely come. Tormented by the unknown, she begins to doubt whether the young man remembers her at all. Letters do not come at all when Guy enters the hospital. But Genevieve does not know this.
The girl marries a jeweler. In the finals, they meet at a gas station where the main character works. They are left alone for a few minutes. They assure each other that they are happy. Each has its own family. And then they part, so that they will never meet again, knowing that only the relationship between them was true love.
"Green Mile"
This is a film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Stephen King, which has become a real cult. The film received 4 Academy Award nominations.
It tells about an unusual prisoner named John Coffey. He is in prison awaiting execution.
The audience sincerely empathizes with the main character, but everything ends tragically for him. The sentence is carried out.
"Dancing in the dark"
This is the psychological musical drama of Lars von Trier, which also ends with the execution of the death sentence.
The main character is Selma, who suffers from a disease that deprives her of vision. She in every possible way hides from those around that she already practically does not see anything.
The policeman from whom she rents a room peeps where she hides the money accumulated for the operation. The attempt to steal ends with a conflict, during which Selma kills an orderly. She is being arrested. In the final, she is sentenced to be hanged.