10 Awesome Movies Where The Bad Guy Wins

5. Envy's A Killer... - Seven

We've learned not to expect joyous, happy endings from David Fincher, and Seven is without doubt the most searingly downbeat of the lot, ending with the antagonist not only defeating the protagonist on a visceral level, but an ideological, psychological one as well. When two homicide detectives (Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman) begin chasing the tail of a serial killer, they soon realise that the killings each appear to relate to one of the seven deadly sins, such as a man who was force-fed to death reflecting gluttony.

At the film's climax, a man named John Doe (Kevin Spacey) hands himself into the police, saying that he will confess to the killings if the police will escort him to the location of the last two corpses.

At the remote location, a box is delivered to the two detectives, and inside is the severed head of Pitt's wife (Gwyneth Paltrow), who at the time had been pregnant with their child. If this represents the sixth sin, envy, then Pitt's subsequent rage-fuelled murder of Doe is wrath, completing Doe's "masterpiece" and in death, allowing him to beat the protagonist in every way imaginable.