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Most Memorable Movie endings for you

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DoloresODonovan · 15/02/2025 21:29

not necessarily the best, iconoc, cleverest, unexpected,

Billy Elliott
Some Like it Hot
ELvira Madigan
Thelma and Louise
The Duellists
Jean de Florette
Melancholia
Zulu - the retreat
Dr Zhivago
le Boucher
Solaris
Withnail & I
The Graduate
Local Hero
Days of Heaven

possibly many more

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scalt · 15/02/2025 21:31

Quatre Cents Coups (rather improperly translated as "The 400 Blows"). One of cinema's most famous endings.

JustWalkingTheDogs · 15/02/2025 21:32

The boy in the striped pyjamas
The skeleton key
Them

Grumpyoldpersonwithcats · 15/02/2025 21:36

Several of those already mentioned but to add

Birdy. I had abolutely no idea that it would end thr way it did.
Kind Hearts and Coronets

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The sixth sense, I just didn't see it coming.

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Enigma
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The sixth sense
Goodnight Mr tom (my fave)

Wonderwall23 · 15/02/2025 22:01

The original Railway Children
Primal Fear
Shawshank Redemption
The Green Mile

DustyGrapevine · 15/02/2025 22:07

The original Planet of the Apes

FabuIous · 15/02/2025 22:10

A Perfect World
Sommersby

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The Way We Were
The Bridges of Madison County

lemonmeringuepie1997 · 15/02/2025 22:11

The Village

merrymelodies · 15/02/2025 22:11

The first one that springs to mind is Carrie.

fandjango · 15/02/2025 22:11

The Notebook! lots of sobbing 😭

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DoloresODonovan · 15/02/2025 22:11

scalt · 15/02/2025 21:31

Quatre Cents Coups (rather improperly translated as "The 400 Blows"). One of cinema's most famous endings.

O yes, stood in the ocean, I’d forgoten this melancholy ending

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I'llBuyThatForADollar · 15/02/2025 22:12

Se7en

BewitchedBotheredandBewildered · 15/02/2025 22:13

Thelma and Louise.

DollopOfFun · 15/02/2025 22:16

Not for any drama, but just for the warm fuzzies:

My Fair Lady ('Eliza! Where the devil are my slippers?!')

Monsters Inc ('Kitty!!')

SwimminginGin · 15/02/2025 22:16

The Usual Suspects

AnneShirleysNewDress · 15/02/2025 22:16

Arrival, Shutter Island, The Skeleton Key and District 9.

ChocAuVin · 15/02/2025 22:16

Lost in Translation

LillyPJ · 15/02/2025 22:17

Still Life (Eddie Marsan starred). The ending was heart-stopping and so moving, me and my partner both gasped and had tears in our eyes.

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DoloresODonovan · 15/02/2025 22:18

I guessed this would happen- that you would all come up with film endings I had forgotten about -
some I’m unfamiliar with so will check them out tomorrow, thanks

boy in the striped pyjamas - harrowing

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LillyPJ · 15/02/2025 22:19

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.