Films where "the bad guys" win (spoilers!)

[Lady Zhuge]

In the majority of films, the protagonist comes out on top, but what are some movies in which the tables end up turned?

Feel free to add to the list:

The Usual Suspects
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Memento
Hannibal
Rosemary's Baby
Arlington Road
Se7en
Primal Fear
Saw
The Empire Strikes Back
Secret Window
Chinatown
Raise the Red Lantern
Funny Games

[mind_wander]

Silence of the Lambs Trilogy

[pemberly]

The Ring and The Grudge movies.

[Banh Mi]

Friday 13th
Hero - depending on who you see as the bad guy
Old boy

[PJ]

This rarely happens in kung fu movies, but one rare instance where it happened--notoriously--is in the 1983 Shaw Brothers movie Usurpers of the Emperor's Power. The movie ended with the good guys being slain by the bad guys, and the bad guys laughing off. It's a particularly offbeat ending because when the "heroes" died, there wasn't any sad or heroic music playing, or a long take or slow motion focusing in on them, or anything like that; they just died and the movie was like: "we don't care".

Another one: Lust Caution.

[pemberly]

bram stoker's dracula.

[Surferket]

SPL starring Sammo and Donnie Yen

[PJ]

Infernal Affairs starring Andy Lau and Tony Leung.

[Cesare]

Shaolin Mantis (telling a good guy from a bad guy is a difficult matter when it comes to that film, but pretty much *everyone* who can be at one point or the other considered a good guy dies in the end, while the one indisputable villain wins).

Il grande silenzio (The Great Silence) - one of the best (if not the best - sorry, Sergio) spaghetti westerns I have seen. There exists an alternative good ending, but I have never seen that one - the original ending is very bleak, with the bad guys (and they really are the bad guys of the most despicable sort) walking off without any sort of punishment and with the loot.


Surferket: Dunno - SPL seems more like a tie to me.

[Surferket]

Donnie Yen's character died but Sammo's character lived even though he lost his wife and son.

Surferket: Dunno - SPL seems more like a tie to me.

[Lady Zhuge]

Identity (depends on how you want to interpret the very end with the truck driving off the road though, I guess)
Don't Look Now
Match Point
Angel Heart
Swimming with Sharks

[Bubblegum]

Terminator 3.

[Lady Zhuge]

Fallen
(Tiiiiiime is on my side... - sing it)

The Mothman Prophecies

Sleepaway Camp

[xJadedx]

Death Note. In my mind, Light will always have won. Stupid must make good-triumph-over-evil plot.

[ByTmE]

Correct me if I'm wrong:

"Mr. Brooks" with Kevin Costner and Demi Moore
"Versus" with Tak Sakaguchi...of course we didn't know this until later!
"The Talented Mr. Ripley" Matt Damon! Amazing soundtrack!
"Jeepers Creepers" ugh
"House of 1000 Corpses" Rob Zombie duh
"The Skeleton Key" with Kate Hudson, freaky
"Zodiac"[?] Jake Gyllenhal? Pretty dark and based on a true story

...goes to check movie collection..

[remember_Cedric]

Correct me if I'm wrong:

"The Talented Mr. Ripley" Matt Damon! Amazing soundtrack!
"Jeepers Creepers" ugh
"Zodiac"[?] Jake Gyllenhal? Pretty dark and based on a true story

...goes to check movie collection..

I think one and three are correct in my vague memory. Yes, Jake Gyllenhal and Robert Downey Jr (as Paul something....)

I wanna catch Jeepers Creepers, forgot about this movie totally!

[Lady Zhuge]

The Prestige - sort of. It depends on whom you see as the lesser of two evils and how you define "win."

[Lady Zhuge]

Pet Sematary. Yikes.

[remember_Cedric]

Pet Sematary. Yikes.

Pet Cemetery? That old horror film, right? If that's the one, I've watched that when I was younger.

[Lady Zhuge]

Pet Cemetery? That old horror film, right? If that's the one, I've watched that when I was younger.

It's Pet Sematary. And yes, it's an old horror film based on an old Stephen King novel.