13 Movies That Have Little Hope For Humanity

5. The Road

Post-apocalyptic movies are generally no picnic, and John Hillcoat's adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's devastating survival drama is one of the bleakest ever made.

The Road focuses on a man (Viggo Mortensen) and his young son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) as they traverse a world ravaged by a non-specific extinction event. They eke out a hopeless life scavenging what they can while attempting to avoid other hostile survivors.

As anyone who's read a McCarthy novel knows, the guy has a pretty low view of humanity on a global scale, and The Road is no exception.

Though the movie omits arguably the ugliest part of the book - where the man and boy stumble upon a baby being roasted on a spit - it's still an intensely depressing look at how humans would deal with one another if society as we know it crumbled.

How It Ends: The man dies, leaving his son on his own. The boy is approached by a family who insist they're "good guys", though the movie keeps it ambiguous as to whether they can really be trusted.

If you truly believe this family wanted to help the boy, then you can argue it does possess a small glimmer of hope, but let's be honest, they probably killed and ate the boy 10 minutes after the movie ended.

And even if not, in a world governed by so much selfish violence, are "good" people really going to last long anyway?