The late authorCormac McCarthywas one of the preeminent chroniclers of the American condition.

These are the six films by Cormac McCarthy, listed based on the darkness of their content.

It’s rife with details of murder, assault, and necrophilia, making it a difficult read.

No Country for Old Men - 2007 - poster

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Two cowboys looking ahead in All the Pretty Horses - 2000

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Two men sit on a kitchen table in silence in The Sunset Limited

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Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem) is bloodied up in ‘No Country for Old Men’

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A man holding a rifle in the woods in Child of God - 2013

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The Man (Viggo Mortensen) and Boy (Kodi Smit-McPhee) wander the post-apocalyptic waste in ‘The Road.'

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Brad Pitt and Michael Fassbender talking in The Counselor

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No Country for Old Men

The Road