And they lived happily ever after ...

The prince married the princess and as the sun set he strode away with her on his white steed and they lived happily ever after. This has been the ending of most of the fairy tales I know.
This is wonderful for a fairy tale ending but when it comes to movies I have grown sick of this ending. May be the movie makers want the audience to leave with a "happy" feeling, but ..uummhumm .. I definitely would have liked the otherwise ending for many movies. On numerous occasions I have thought, "If the movie ends here it would be great", but it was not to be. I have lost count of movies where by chance, luck, coincidence or fate, whatever you call it, the prince meets the princess. I have complained many times to my room mate about this who could only symathize with me.
However, there are also movies which end on a realistic note. They seem to have some honesty in them. These is something in these movies that touches your heart whether or not they have a happy ending. If you always liked fairy tale endings watch these movies for a change.

La Vita è bella (Life is Beautiful)
City of God
Dirty Pretty Things
Mr and Mrs Iyer
Aap Ki Kasam
Roman Holiday

There are many more which I cannot recollect. Here are some movies which come close:
Casablanca
Braveheart
Schindler's list
Moulin Rouge
Anand
Mera Naam Joker

If I were to rate them ... its thumbs up, five star, and ten on ten.