20 Utterly Devastating Movie Endings No One Saw Coming

Every single aspect of any given film is important, but is there any more so than the story's ending? You could have a perfect beginning, and an outstanding middle, but if the conclusion is a let down then that's potentially all audiences will ever remember.

One of the best ways to get the final moments to stick in an audience's mind is to bring something to the table that is so shocking, it's almost automatically the first thing spoken about when all is said and done. And it doesn't hurt if it's emotionally crushing, either.

We all go to the cinema to feel something, otherwise there would be no point to it. Be it happy, amused, intrigued, astounded, or scared, audiences want the emotion drawn out of them, and the same goes for heart-crushing sadness, even when it's not exactly expected.

Half or even more of the main characters have died within a single moment, sacrifices have been made to ultimately mean less than nothing, and legacies have been continued in the most poignant of ways, all of which would need a viewer made of stone and then some not to be moved by.

By their very definition, dystopian stories are supposed to be bleak. This is a world that has gone so wrong that killing children on a televised game show is the only way to survive poverty, or hordes of zombies roam the streets ready to kill any brain that still thinks.

Snowpiercer arguably has one of the more unique premises, in that society has been reduced to a train, ever-moving through a new ice age. However, as if that wasn't bad enough, said train has been divided, quite literally by class, with the elite in comfort at the front, and the poor crammed into the back.

The events of the movie tell how Curtis Everett (Chris Evans) and those he shares the tail section of the train with rise up and fight against their rich oppressors, and ultimately they are victorious and bring the train to a halt, though only two people are shown to actually leave to embrace the desolate world outside.

The first thing they see in the snow is a polar bear, which means that life did not die out on the planet as they were all led to believe. A gut punch certainly, but when you factor in that they were most likely attacked by that bear once the credits had started rolling, you have an ending that is arguably bleaker than the story before it.