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* The German movie ''Der Blaue Engel'' (''[[
** To be fair, the professor in "Der Blaue Engel/The Blue Angel" kind of had it coming. The film portrays him as a cliched evil teacher from hell at the start of the film, and his downfall itself is centered on the fact that he only goes to the nightclub to catch his underage students there in order to further torment them by way of busting them for sneaking into a nightclub.
** It's clear at the beginning that he's a pretty lonely guy, and you see it once it pet bird dies. Guess this makes him a [[Jerkass Woobie]]?
** He is not particularly evil, he is just as severe as you can expect from a teacher of that era.
* [[Stanley Kubrick]] film [[Paths of Glory]]. When soldiers in WWI refuse to continue with an impossible attack, their superiors decide to make an example of them. [[It Gets Worse]]: {{spoiler|the commanding general orders an artillery strike upon his own men}}. It gets even worse: {{spoiler|when the men fail from achieving their goal, the General orders three men to be picked to be summarily executed by firing squad.}} Colonel Dax (Kirk Douglas) attempts to save his own men. It gets even worse: {{spoiler|the men are shot, even though Dax successfully defends them in the justice. Instead, the general is sacked.}} The worst of all:
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]: In Fellowship of the Ring'':
** The Fellowship is at one point bracing themselves for an attack by a large horde of orcs. Boromir peers out the door and (after narrowly dodging two arrows) utters the line "They have a cave troll."
** And after fighting off said orcs + troll, another example occurs shortly after ''that''. Hearing more orcs on the way, the Fellowship flees, but eventually they end up completely surrounded by another, much larger horde. The two sides square off against one another, and just as it looks like they're about to fight...a loud roar is heard in the distance and the entire horde of orcs flees in terror.
* ''[[No Country for Old Men]]'': It's bad enough that {{spoiler|Llewelyn Moss, the protagonist of the story, gets caught in the motel and is shot to death}}. And then {{spoiler|that [[Complete Monster|rotten scum bastard Chigurh]] hunts down the protagonist's widow and kills her too}}. Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, {{spoiler|Chigurh, after killing Mrs. Moss, successfully evades the area with the cash in hand and disappears, but not before breaking his arm in a car wreck}}. Last, but not...uh...best...{{spoiler|the sheriff vaguely reminisces on his attempt to bring the villain to justice and admits defeat}}.
** It's based on a [[Cormac McCarthy]] book. It Getting Worse is practically his trademark.
* ''[[Trading Places]]'' does this to Winthorpe. After being used to a luxurious lifestyle his whole life, he is framed for embezzlement and loses all of his money and friends. Later, after committing several crimes at a banquet, he is out on the street wearing a filthy Santa costume. Then a dog whizzes on him. [[Cue the Rain|Then the sky whizzes on him (i.e. it starts raining).]] He tries to commit suicide, but his gun jams... then fires accidentally when he throws it away, breaking a window and scaring (just scaring, hopefully) a poor cat.
** The kicker ''really'' comes when he learns that his bosses put him through the ordeal ''for a bet''! The money they bet with? {{spoiler|''One dollar''}}!
* ''[[The Descent (
* Pretty much the entirety of the Australian [[Made for TV Movie]] ''[[Scorched]]'' can be described as "and then [[It Got Worse]]".
* ''[[The Mist]]''. The final ten or so minutes. {{spoiler|David Drayton survives the horrors of a past few days, escapes with his son and three other people, sees his wife killed by spiders from hell, only to get stuck in the mist in the middle of nowhere, without fuel and with a gun. Then they all decide to kill themselves, so David kills them all, including his 10-year-old son, only to discover that the gun only had four bullets, leaving only him still alive. He THEN discovers 1.5 minutes later that the mist is beginning to clear and the army is successfully battling the creatures from the mist. Two things make this scene particularly depressing -- he sees the woman with kids whom he refused to help in the beginning of the movie and the Dead Can Dance song "The Host of Seraphim" is playing during the whole scene.}}
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*** [[Hilarious in Hindsight|Bane is the villain of the next movie.]] [[Be Careful What You Wish For|It is a possibility!]]
* [[Scanners|Darryl Revok]]'s backstory.
* Mrs. Terrain's declining health -- "there's been a little complication with my complication" -- in [[Brazil (
** And on that note, the entire movie itself. {{spoiler|Any time [[It Gets Better]] is a [[Hope Spot]] whose sole purpose is to make the protagonist fall from that much higher}}.
* ''[[Schindler's List]]'' is a steady descent to hell for the Jews in Poland, even when some of them say that things cannot get any worse, ''they do''.
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** It's more of a [[Bittersweet Ending]] if anything. {{spoiler|While Precious escaped the hell her parents put her through and her education kept improving, getting infected with HIV puts a damper on her victory. And yet, even the HIV hasn't kept her spirits down entirely. In some sense, things get better for her}}.
* [http://www.lovehkfilm.com/ LoveHKFilm] uses the phrase "IT ALL GOES TO HELL" to describe things in an HK movie taking a sudden and dramatic turn for the worse.
* ''[[Requiem for
* The short film ''The Dance Of Jim Beam'' lives off this trope. The main character's day starts off bad and gets worse- by the end of it, he's lost several fingers, a substantial amount of money and his wife.
* The feature film version of Shane Acker's award-winning short film 9 does this at least twice. At least.
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*** At least there's a [[Hope Spot]] where Junior and Godzilla reunited and- {{spoiler|Oh, wait, Destoroyah just brutally killed Junior and is now tormenting the mourning Godzilla. Oh, and Godzilla's grief has caused him to go into a meltdown.}}
* ''[[House of 1000 Corpses]]'' is just one [[It Got Worse]] moment after the other. To sum it up: The good guys do not win.
* ''[[Kick
* ''[[Alatriste]]'' (the movie, not the books) is two hours of "The lead character has really hit bottom now. Wait, there's more?"
* It's amazing that Star Wars: A New Hope isn't on here. Bad enough that the heroes find themselves trapped in the detention area with stormtroopers crowding through ''the only exit'' and have to resort to throwing themselves in to the garbage compactor, but then a horrible sewer monster starts swimming around them.
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* ''[[The Cat in
** Watching it, ironically, is also an example. The movie is ripe with unfunny and/or crude jokes from the first minute, and then [[Monster Clown|The Cat]] shows up...
** For the record: The Cat is played by Mike Myers - and is as scary as [[Halloween (
* The Wind That Shakes The Barley: Set in Ireland, 1920. The British are committing atrocities against the Irish. [[La Résistance|The Resistance]] is fighting back. [[It Got Worse|Yeah...]]
* If you've never seen ''[[Falling Down]]'', watch it. This movie is quite possibly the best example of this trope. It paints the picture of just how much one man can take before he has a complete mental breakdown and crosses the [[Moral Event Horizon]]. The main character even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] this when he {{spoiler|calls his wife after killing the surplus store owner}}.
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* A filmography example. Lars Von Trier has described his film Melancholia as the ''first'' of his films to have a sad ending. Note that previous Lars films had such [[Sarcasm Mode|happy]] endings as -- [[Dogville|An entire town being slaughtered after systematically torturing a woman]] and [[Anti Christ|A man murdering his wife after she is driven crazy by grief]], among others. Reassuring.
* Basically any time the ''[[Mystery Team]]'' follows a lead.
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