If you take the ending as the literal ending of the film then Irreversible's ending must count as one of the happiest. Everything is serene and perfect. I think if that film was ordered in the way things happen chronologically I would have felt a whole lot worse afterwards.
I didn't know the story of Into the Wild when I saw it, and was totally gutted by that.
Agreed with Closer - I can't remember feeling more galled at the end of a film.
Some others off the top of my head are Bonnie and Clyde, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Heavenly Creatures.
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