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New York City is under attack by a monster and an evacuation is underway, but, of course, the protagonists manage to make things more complicated. From being smashed by the monster's tail, to helicopter crashes, almost everyone dies in this movie.
A group of students get lost in the Black Hills woods while trying to film a documentary about a witch. It turns out the Blair Witch got the best of them.
A group of survivors takes refuge in a mall during a zombie outbreak. They then try to figure out a way to escape the undead, but to no avail. The ending is somewhat ambiguous, but pretty much everyone dies.
What do you when you're alone and an asteroid is on a collision course for Earth? You try to find someone to fall in love and then die with, together with the rest of the entire human race, of course.
Trying to cheat death is no easy task in this movie. So much so that everyone dies. And they do so in pretty gruesome ways, including being decapitated, and squashed by a plane’s landing gear.
Apocalyptical events strike as a group of friends are trapped in a house. Notable deaths include being impaled by a street lamp and being eaten by cannibals.
A plane carrying an oil drilling crew crashes in Alaska. One dies from the wounds, one freezes to death, and another drowns. As for the rest of the crew, they are killed by hungry wolves.
Planet Melancholia collides with Earth and kills everyone. Before this happens though, one of the characters kills himself with his horses.
A group of friends get stranded in a small town, where they visit a waxworks museum, and pretty much everyone dies. A famous scene includes one of the characters having his Achilles tendon cut, being coated in wax, and having part of his face pulled off. Ouch!
A group of survivors of a virus outbreak are getting on with their lives, when a woman changes their fate. Everyone dies in the end.
William Blake (Johnny Depp), who's on the run after killing a man, meets a Native American man called Nobody (Gary Farmer), and they both embark on a journey. They both end up dying, and so do most people around them.
An ape detonates a nuclear bomb, wiping out all life on Earth. A bit sad and nihilistic, but there you have it.
Only two characters get to live another day in this neo-noir crime thriller starring an all-star cast, including Christopher Walken, Wesley Snipes, David Caruso, and Laurence Fishburne.
This film is about the journey of a German army soldier and his company during the First World War. Many characters die in battle, while others are believed to do so in the end, when the camera fades into a cemetery and the movie ends.
It's 2057 and the Sun is dying. A group of astronauts go there and try to save humanity. Most of the crew is killed by their crazy captain, but the others end up dying anyway. Earth is saved in the end though.
This classic road drama film starring Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda also ends tragically. They all die.
This Stanley Kubrick movie revolves around an American Brigadier and a group of politicians discussing whether or not to deploy a nuclear bomb on the Soviet Union. In the end, multiple nuclear bombs are detonated across the globe, probably wiping out the entire human race.
This horror classic sees a bullied teenager taking revenge on the people who humiliated her. She starts a fire during prom where dozens die, crucifies her mother, and a lot more. Carrie dies in the end, too. One character, however, survives.
A group of teenagers head for a, well, cabin in the woods. It goes without saying that they didn't have a great time. Only two characters, Dana and Marty, survive.
Starring A-list actors such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, and Mark Wahlberg, this Martin Scorsese film kills off nearly everyone by the end. Mark Wahlberg's character, Sergeant Dignam, is the only survivor.
Tarantino's twist on the Western genre sees eight people trying to take shelter in a cabin during a blizzard in Wyoming. Every single one of them dies.
Both the heroes and the villain die in this 'Star Wars' spin-off. Princess Leia, Darth Vader, and Tarkin did survive though.
This Quentin Tarantino classic revolves around a group of six criminals planning a heist. In the end, only one survives. He does get arrested though.
A train carries the last of humanity during a snowy apocalypse. Everyone, except two characters, die in the film.
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Zombies; they're never good company, right? Not only does mostly everyone die in this movie, but there are some pretty gruesome deaths in this horror classic, too. These include burning to death inside a truck, and being eaten alive by the undead.
The vast majority of the 300 Spartan soldiers die in the end, including the main character, Leonidas (Gerard Butler). And so do hundreds of Persian soldiers.
This classic directed by Sam Peckinpah sees most members of a bandit gang perishing during violent shoot-outs.
This film adaptation of of William Shakespeare's play ends with most people dead. Only Horatio (Nicholas Farrell) and a few others make it.
This classic gangster movie has Tony Montana (Al Pacino) killing dozens of people. He too dies in the end, of course. In fact, only a few people survive, including his ex-wife Elvira (Michelle Pfeiffer) and drug lord Alejandro Sosa (Paul Shenar).
In this James Bond spoof, 007 is on a mission to stop the evil SMERSH organization. Bond's duplicitous nephew, Jimmy Bond, swallows an atomic pill, and the blast wipes out everyone inside the casino.
Sure, there are many movies where the bad guys win, but that doesn't necessarily mean that everyone in the film dies. However, this does happen in some movies, and several of these deaths are really gruesome, too! In this gallery, we bring you a list of films where pretty much everyone dies, except for a few characters... occasionally.
Click through and get to know the movies where (almost) everyone dies.
Movies where (almost) everyone dies
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Sure, there are many movies where the bad guys win, but that doesn't necessarily mean that everyone in the film dies. However, this does happen in some movies, and several of these deaths are really gruesome, too! In this gallery, we bring you a list of films where pretty much everyone dies, except for a few characters... occasionally.
Click through and get to know the movies where (almost) everyone dies.