Most unforgettable movie conclusions for you

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not always the best, iconoclast, most clever, surprising,

Billy Elliot
Some Enjoy it Warm
ELvira Madigan
Thelma and Louise
The Duellists
Jean de Florette
Melancholia
Zulu - the getaway
Dr. Schiwago le Boucher Solaris
Withnail and I
The Graduate Local Hero Days of Heaven

potentially many additional

Oooh, yes. Love both of those.

I loved how they used the speech from Soylent Green in the fabulous Drop Dead Gorgeous. It was so bizarre.

Charle Bronson is sadly almost forgotten, yet he was great in the right role. Jan Michael Vincent too, but he was a bit sad ultimately.

@LuncheonInThePark I went though a lengthy phase of reading books with unexpected endings, so always came to "expect the unexpected". Nowadays I tend to avoid books which tout the endings/psycholical thrillers as they're generally a letdown. I sound pretentious, but it's just that at one one stage I was reading 5/6 books a weeks, and I tend to go from reading one genre for ages and then to another genre.

My mum, however, could generally pick the endings in most films. She had set formulas for it.

I can't remember what it's called but in the film a woman realises her rapist (and father of her twins) is actually her son that was adopted at birth.

Yes, I read a John Marrs book a few days ago that everyone had been raving about. But I had it figured out within the first 2 chapters so it was very disappointing!

Tempted to ask what your Mum's formula is, but I like being shocked so probably best I don't know!

Seven
Shutter Island
Fight Club (surprised me and I remembered the twist but I had forgotten the actual ending until I re-watched it recently)
The Wizard of Oz (Judy Garland version)
Moon
As someone else mentioned the end of Planet of the Apes when you see the Statue of Liberty...
Terminator
Mostly these are where you come away thinking oh hell no!!

My first thought was the film Lion. Just when I thought I couldn't sob anymore there was real life footage when the credits started rolling that was so emotional.

Agree with Billy Elliot too

Yes Lion was incredibly moving. Likewise Philomena.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Carrie (1976). When her arm comes out of the ground at the end I nearly ended up on my wife's lap in the cinema.
I'd also second Soylent Green, Edward G Robinson's last film and Casablanca when Bogart shoots the Nazi officer.

Agree with the suggestions above of
Les Diaboliques
Usual Suspects
Wicker Man
Some Like it Hot.

I'll add Birdy. (1984 Alan Parker film)

That was a nightmare for me. I was stunned at how hopeless I felt.

Not the end of the film, but the plot twist in The Crying Game had the whole audience stunned when I saw it.

I watched it a few years later on DVD with DH who hadn't got a clue what it was about. He was equally stunned.

I mentioned Brighton Rock, well if anyone wants to watch Richard Attenborough as a really nasty piece of work its on this afternoon at 2.15 on Talking Pictures.

Seven Pounds. I cried in the cinema and I'm not usually a fan of Will Smith.

Sixth Sense
Shutter Island
The Others
Conclave
Dead of Winter

oh yes indeed Conclave does go in a direction that wouldn’t even enter your head!

Indeed. The perfec ending to a perfect film. (Of its time).

Sixth Sense
Shutter Island
Usual suspects

The Blair Witch Project.

I agree. I watched it again recently it’s very disturbing and wished i hadn’t

Changeling (not The Changeling) 😥

Billy Elliot is a beautiful ending to a harsh gritty film

I really liked the ending of The Sopranos i thought it was very clever way to end such a fantastic series

Joyeux Noël.

As a heads-up, and without giving away vital plot points, this is NOT a feelgood Christmas film. I've never cried so much in my life as I did at the end of this one.