Heartless (2024)

Jamie Morgan lives with a large heart-shaped birthmark that covers almost half of his face. At twenty-five he earns a living as a photographer, sharing a cramped studio with his older brother and his brother's son, Lee. Jamie's childhood isolation and years of bullying leave him socially awkward and still a virgin; he keeps to himself, nursing a stubborn wish for connection. One day at the studio he meets Tia, an aspiring model, and a fragile hope for intimacy begins to take shape.

While Jamie develops a roll of film from a session, he notices a face staring at him through the darkened window of a nearby house. The face unnerves him, so he follows a suspicious figure down an alley to the edge of a park. There he finds a group of hooded youths clustered around a fire; their high, shrilly cries cleave the night. One of the hooded figures fixes on Jamie and shrieks; when the hood is peeled back momentarily Jamie glimpses a lizard-like demonic visage beneath it, full of rows of pin-like teeth. Over the following days Jamie learns about a series of savage attacks in the neighborhood: buildings and cars torched with Molotov cocktails, bodies left charred. A televised news segment shows a small Asian girl who witnessed one of the assaults; she insists the attackers did not wear masks because the demonic faces themselves were real.

Jamie's neighbor A.J., whom Jamie has been befriending, turns up at the studio with a brutal wound across his torso that looks clawed; later, pieces of A.J.'s dismembered body are discovered scattered around the neighborhood. The terror moves closer to Jamie's home. One afternoon, while Jamie is walking with his elderly mother, the same hooded gang attacks them in the street. The attackers surround them, and the gang douses Jamie's mother in accelerant and sets her ablaze; she is immolated while Jamie struggles, pinned and beaten, and then left for dead as the assailants disappear into the night. The neighborhood learns that several of the arson murders have been carried out with Molotov cocktails, and Jamie's battered body is taken to a hospital.

Unconscious under fluorescent lights, Jamie slips into a dream in which a man tells him he has been waiting. A phone call with that same voice later directs Jamie to an apartment where an older man who calls himself Papa B lives with a pale girl called Belle. Belle resembles the Asian child who appeared on television. Papa B offers Jamie a bargain: in return for Jamie committing periodic acts of vandalism to sow chaos in the streets, Papa B will remove Jamie's heart-shaped birthmark. When Jamie accuses him of orchestrating the attack that killed his mother, Papa B admits that he arranged it to deliver Jamie into his hands. Despite the horror of that confession Jamie accepts; he shakes Papa B's hand and agrees to the deal.

The initiation Papa B prescribes is literal and extreme. Jamie is instructed to immolate himself with a Molotov cocktail as a ritual of rebirth. Following instructions, Jamie drenches himself in accelerant and sets himself alight; he survives the burn, and in the aftermath pulls away blistered, burned skin to reveal smooth, unblemished flesh beneath. At first the bargain appears to bring the promised relief. Jamie grows more confident and spends a day with Tia in the park where his deceased father once taught him to use a camera. He flirts with the possibility of a normal life and the two become lovers.

The arrangement soon curdles. Papa B's organization sends a brutal enforcer known only as the Weapons Man to ensure compliance; Papa B retracts the earlier promise and imposes a new, horrific demand. Jamie must not only vandalize but also kill. Papa B orders that Jamie learn to extract a victim's heart, literally ripping it from a living person. The Weapons Man tortures Jamie to coerce him into following orders; under duress Jamie agrees and is forced to commit the first murder. He hunts down a street hustler and, as Papa B required, kills the hustler by tearing the beating heart from the man's chest with his hands. That act stains Jamie with blood and guilt and marks the shift from coercion to compulsion in Papa B's hold.

After that killing Jamie returns to Tia; their relationship deepens and offers him brief solace. Meanwhile Belle, who had been beaten by Papa B in a fit of fury, arrives at Jamie's apartment and takes up residence. She begins calling Jamie "Dad" and, with blunt practicality, tells him that the only way to keep himself and Belle alive is to comply with Papa B's demands. Belle frames murder as a grim necessity; she urges Jamie to accept the work as protection against retribution. Papa B, enraged at Belle's apparent betrayal in leaving him, escalates his pressure: he demands that Jamie's next victim must be someone close--Tia.

Tensions explode when Tia asks Jamie to put a photo album into the studio safe. During that quiet moment the truth about Tia's early intentions surfaces: she and Lee had planned to use her access to steal jewelry from Jamie's late mother's safe. Tia confesses that the theft was meant to help Lee but that she had come to love Jamie genuinely and had abandoned the plan emotionally even if not entirely in action. The revelation turns trust into crisis. A violent struggle erupts in the studio as Lee, Tia, Jamie and outside enemies collide over the safe and the hidden jewelry. In the chaos a bullet is discharged; Tia is struck and falls, dying from the gunshot wound. The shot is accidental, the result of the scuffle and panic in the room, and her death silences Jamie's last fragile happiness.

During the same confrontation Lee is grievously injured by a gang leader known as She. She wields a prosthetic metallic claw where a hand has been severed, and the claw tears into Lee, leaving him seriously wounded and bleeding. After Lee collapses, Jamie is pursued by She into the alleyways. Jamie fights She in a brutal struggle; he overcomes the gang leader and kills him during the fight. After She dies Jamie studies the mark the claw left on a nearby wall and recognizes it as the same pattern that had been carved into A.J.'s flesh earlier. That recognition ties the gang's violence together in Jamie's mind.

Following the deaths and injuries, Jamie warns Belle that she must flee to save herself; he begs her to go and protect whatever small life remains. Belle, who had appeared at his side in earlier scenes, vanishes--one moment present, the next absent. Jamie returns to his bathroom and steps in front of a mirror. To his shock his heart-shaped birthmark has reappeared, covering the same portion of his face it always had. He realizes with a new clarity that the birthmark was visible even during the days he courted Tia, and the resurfacing makes him question whether Papa B ever truly removed it. Driven by that discovery, Jamie confronts Papa B's minions at their headquarters and fights them off in hand-to-hand skirmishes. The assaults are chaotic and violent; Jamie dispatches several attackers but, when a hulking form reveals Papa B in a larger, monstrous guise--his true demonic form--the vision overwhelms Jamie and he retreats from the apartment.

Jamie then awakens on an interior floor with a dizzy, raw sense of dislocation and staggers outdoors into the street. On the pavement lie several crude fabric masks shaped into toothy grins; hooded figures ring him, but their masks are ordinary sacks, not the hyper-realistic demonic faces Jamie believed he had seen. He remembers walking and speaking with Belle, but now he finds himself talking to nothingness; wherever Belle had stood there is empty air. As the situation clarifies, a gang member picks up a Molotov cocktail and hurls it at Jamie. The glass bottle arcs through the dark and shatters against his shirt; fuel soaks into his clothing and explodes into flame. Jamie is engulfed in fire.

As he burns, Jamie flails and staggers through the corner of the street, clutching at charred fabric and skin. In his final moments he envisions his father standing nearby; the imagined father speaks, telling him that "you can only see the stars in the blackness of the night." Jamie's breathing slows, and the flames consume him. His body is reduced to a burning silhouette on the pavement as bystanders scatter and hooded attackers recede into the shadows. Light blooms and then dissolves into a field of stars in the night sky. The sequence ends with that sky of stars mirroring the words Jamie's father spoke; the film closes as the brilliant points of light hang over the scorched alley where Jamie's life dies in flame. The narrative leaves open whether the removal of the birthmark, Papa B's bargains, Belle's guidance, and the demonic visions were anything more than illusions layered over the brutal facts of arson, assault, and coercion that lead to Jamie's death.

Short ending: Jamie is burned alive by a gang member, and as he dies, he welcomes death while remembering a childhood moment with his father. In the final image, the memory and reality blur together, and the story closes on the night sky and its bright stars.

Expanded ending, scene by scene:

In the last stretch of the film, Jamie is trapped in a violent moment with the gang member who attacks him. The confrontation turns fatal when Jamie is incinerated, and his body gives way to the fire. There is no rescue at the end of that struggle; the attack finishes with Jamie dying on the spot.

As Jamie is dying, his mind turns back to an earlier memory from when he was a boy. He remembers being with his father, hearing him speak about beauty shining even more clearly when darkness is at its deepest. His father's words focus on the idea that the night has to be truly dark before the stars can be seen fully.

That memory does not stay separate. It shifts into the present as Jamie, in his final moments, imagines himself embracing his dead father. The film presents this as Jamie's last emotional movement, with death no longer something he resists but something he accepts.

Jamie's fate is death by fire.

The gang member's fate is tied directly to that final act of violence; he is the person who incinerates Jamie, and the ending leaves him as the agent of Jamie's destruction.

Jamie's father is already dead before the ending, and he appears only through memory and the emotional image that closes over Jamie's final moments.

The last shot moves away from the characters and rests on the bright stars in the night sky, ending the story on that visual of darkness and light.

I can't confirm a post-credit scene for the 2024 movie Heartless from the provided results, because none of the search results are actually about that film. The results mostly point to unrelated titles like Heart Eyes, Inside Out 2, and other "Heartless" songs or pages, so there isn't enough reliable evidence here to say whether Heartless has one.

If you want, I can still help if you share the film's country, director, cast, or original title, since "Heartless" is too ambiguous to identify confidently from the available results.

Heartless centers on Haro, with Mariana and Lucía also among the main characters, and additional key figures including Óscar, Inspectora Gándara, Rodrigo, Fer, Miguel Arrieta, Lupe, Madre María, Oliver, Javier, and Razvan appearing in the story world.

Haro and Mariana are positioned as core figures in the series, with their relationship forming a central thread among the ensemble of characters listed for the 2024 production.

Lucía is one of the principal characters in Heartless, appearing across the series alongside Haro, Mariana, and Óscar as part of the main dramatic ensemble.

Inspectora Gándara is part of the investigative side of the story, suggesting a law-enforcement role tied to the central conflict involving Haro and the wider case around him.

Óscar is listed among the series' main characters, indicating that he is involved in the core interpersonal and plot developments rather than functioning as a background figure.

No -- the 2024 film titled Heartless is not family friendly. It is described as adult-oriented, unrelenting, and "definitely not family viewing," with graphic horror elements and a bleak tone.

Potentially objectionable or upsetting content for children or sensitive viewers includes:

• Graphic violence and gore, including blood and terrifying imagery.
• People burning to death and other violent, disturbing scenes.
• Strong language, with very frequent profanity including "f--k" and "f--king."
• Sexual situations, though no graphic nudity is shown.
• A generally dark, despairing mood centered on moral corruption, human desperation, and emotional horror.

If you want, I can also give you a very short "age suitability" recommendation like "okay for teens / not okay for teens" in one line.