20 Most Intense Movie Endings Of All Time

5. The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas (2008)

If you were (un)lucky enough to watch this searing Holocaust drama in the cinema, you probably remember how everybody left the screening in stunned, depressed silence. And with damn good reason.

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas begins as an oddly charming film about a young German boy, Bruno (Asa Butterfield), bonding with a Jewish lad, Shmuel (Jack Scanlon), who lives inside a concentration camp while both are unaware of the true nature of the facility.

Eventually, Bruno sneaks inside the camp to help Shmuel search for his father, after which both boys are herded into a gas chamber and killed along with hundreds of other Jews, in an utterly horrifying sequence that's all the more effective for its lack of graphic detail.

As a potent testament to all the innocence lost in one of humanity's greatest atrocities, it might even leave you so shell-shocked you actually forget to cry. The imagery, the music and the performances, however, are impossible to forget.