20 Unluckiest Movie Characters Ever
5. Larry Gopnik - A Serious Man 
Like Oharu, Larry exists in a world that revolves around causing him maximum amounts of misfortune. His wife leaves him, his brothers life falls apart, his kids seem to hate him a bit, and the last we see of the poor guy is him receiving a very ominous sounding phone call from his doctor. He turns to his faith to guide him, but the rabbis he consults just make him more confused and baffled about the meaning of the world around him. Thus we have A Serious Man, an undeniably brilliant dark comedy from the mind-tanks of the Coen Brothers.
4. Ricardo Morales - The Secret In Their Eyes
The Secret in Their Eyes (another wonderful film) is loosely centred on the murder of a young woman, although its more to do with how the case shapes the characters as people. One of these characters is Ricardo Morales, the young womans husband. Much like Oslo, August 31st, the characters misfortune comes not from his uniquely awful situation, but rather the representation of this situation in the film, and how it gives the viewer a more powerful insight into the characters pain. The death of his wife leaves Ricardo a shell of a man. He knows the face of the man who did it, and spends his days sitting in a train station just waiting for him to come through. As he tells another character about his habit, his body language and tone suggest that he does it more out of habit than out of genuine passion, as if he feels no driving emotions anymore, and instead has a vague sense of duty to the dead.