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Top 50 Movies About Fucked-Up Lives That Don't Get Better — MT

---- some people just don't have luck in this life. ----
They are raw, very real and can serve as a reminder: "there is much worse out there, i am the lucky one".
These are the films where the characters start broken, lost, or spiraling—and stay that way until the final moment. No magical healing, no sudden self-awareness, no redemption arc tied up with a bow. Stories like this are rare, but they carry a specific emotional truth: some lives don't resolve in clean lines. Watching them can be strangely grounding if you've ever felt stuck yourself.
In psychology, this kind of storytelling mirrors "radical acceptance"—the reminder that not every chapter ends with clarity, and not every person finds their way in time. These movies allow you to explore chaos, self-destruction, and unresolved pain safely, without glamorizing i
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Red Rocket (2021)
Red Rocket (2021)
1
Spun (2002)
Spun (2002)
2
Drifters (2015)
Drifters (2015)
3
Biutiful (2010)
Biutiful (2010)
4
Pieta (2012)
Pieta (2012)
5
Binti (2021)
Binti (2021)
6
A Fortunate Man (2018)
A Fortunate Man (2018)
7
Tales From the Golden Age (2009)
Tales From the Golden Age (2009)
8
The Good Boss (2021)
The Good Boss (2021)
9
My Man (1996)
My Man (1996)
10
This Is England (2006)
This Is England (2006)
11
Gone Baby Gone (2007)
Gone Baby Gone (2007)
12
Topside (2022)
Topside (2022)
13
Collateral (2004)
Collateral (2004)
14
Parasite (2019)
Parasite (2019)
15
The Enormity of Life (2021)
The Enormity of Life (2021)
16
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)
17
The Skeleton Twins (2014)
The Skeleton Twins (2014)
18
Lost Girls (2020)
Lost Girls (2020)
19
System Crasher (2019)
System Crasher (2019)
20
Nocturnal Animals (2016)
Nocturnal Animals (2016)
21
Oldboy (2013)
Oldboy (2013)
22
Secret in Their Eyes (2015)
Secret in Their Eyes (2015)
23
Dark Places (2015)
Dark Places (2015)
24
Memento (2000)
Memento (2000)
25
Everything Must Go (2010)
Everything Must Go (2010)
26
Girl in the Picture (2022)
Girl in the Picture (2022)
27
You Resemble Me (2021)
You Resemble Me (2021)
28
A Ghost Story (2017)
A Ghost Story (2017)
29
The Promised Land (2023)
The Promised Land (2023)
30
Divines (2016)
Divines (2016)
31
Bad Behaviour (2023)
Bad Behaviour (2023)
32
Promising Young Woman (2020)
Promising Young Woman (2020)
33
Manchester by the Sea (2016)
Manchester by the Sea (2016)
34
Light of My Life (2019)
Light of My Life (2019)
35
Euphoria (TV Series) (2019)
Euphoria (TV Series) (2019)
36
The Dead Don't Hurt (2023)
The Dead Don't Hurt (2023)
37
Vanishing of Sidney Hall (2017)
Vanishing of Sidney Hall (2017)
38
Forgotten (2017)
Forgotten (2017)
39
I Saw the TV Glow (2024)
I Saw the TV Glow (2024)
40
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