10 Bleak Movies With Unexpectedly Happy Endings

For those of you out there who think the whole holiday season can go ram it, Bad Santa is the Christmas movie for you. Bleak doesn't necessarily have to mean depressing, it just means it has to have a grim outlook for how everything is going to go for the people involved, or even that they deserve the horrible things that happen and will happen to them. Enter Bad Santa, a bleak as all hell black comedy about a con man Santa and his elf partner in crime.

There is no indication that this movie is going to end anywhere close to happy. Mostly because there's no indication that this movie feels anything but contempt for the players involved. But lo and behold, this film carves out something actually pretty close to a happy ending, though still tinged with a cynical edge.

Yeah, the main character gets filled with bullets on a little boy's porch, but he survives at least. And on top of that, his corrupt partners get sent to prison, the kid he was mentoring throughout the movie gets the present he always wanted, and he gets cleared of all crimes due to the force not wanting to admit that they shot Santa a few dozen times.

And of course, the little boy learns the true meaning of Christmas: kicking bullies in the balls.