Learn English – Common antonyms to “happy ending”

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I know you may specify to something like tragic, open end to describe actually what the end is like.

But do English critics/reviewer in movie magazines use a common term for movies with bad/evil endings or simply refer to them as no happy ending (as most movies have to have a happy ending) to classify such films? I mainly ask as I need some proper keywords to find those rare films.

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There are some good answers here, but nothing quite on the nose, so I'll make my own humble contribution:

Does it at least have a happy ending?

Nope...it's pretty much a downer ending.

This is obviously much less formal than these other answers, but it's what I would use in normal American English speech.

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