Shawshank Redemption and The Breakfast Club come to mind. Love the feel-good-I-can-do-anything endings.

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I know this movie pops up all over but Requiem for a Dream.. realistic no fluffy everybody ends up ok bollocks, and makes you think WTF! dont do drugs

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2001, Clockwork Orange, and The Sixth Sense.

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werd. ya Shawshank above all imho.. but Heat, Gladiator, Boondock Saints, Rules of Engagement and Braveheart come mighty close for me.

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American Psycho. Did Patrick Bateman kill those poeple or was it all in his head?

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lol ya wut a trip, kinda like a Donnie Darko twister!

gunna be watching that to get all warmed up for The Dark Knight fosho

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no country for old men.

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The Usual Suspects Donnie Darko (as mentioned) Momento

edit:oh yeah and SAW

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even though i thought the movie was pretty lame, i thought hitman had a pretty surprising ending.

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Vanilla Sky.

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[quote=Steve Graham;622704]I know this movie pops up all over but Requiem for a Dream.. realistic no fluffy everybody ends up ok bollocks, and makes you think WTF! dont do drugs[/quote]

was gonna say this movie. in the format of a story, the hero wins, in this movie, the hero is drugs, and the antagonist is humanity. in the end, drugs wins all 4 battles and shows how it really behaves.

and ellen bursten made me ball my eyes out at the end of that movie. she deserved the best actress award for this.

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south park's imagination land.

best comedic ending to a movie. ever.

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Cool Hand Luke

Gattaca

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Usual Suspects for sure. That last scene with the closeup of Spacey's leg ... that was just sublime.

Seven would be a close second for the intense drama and dread.

I love Shawshank Redemption as a movie but the ending is kinda ok to me.

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Um any movie with a twist. Love those. Just when u think you have it figured out boom.you don't. Signs & Basic come to mind

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The Usual Suspects Definitely Seven is way up there, The Sixth Sense even though I did get it.

My favourite was an old Kevin Costner, from the days when he was still gorgeous:lol:, No Way Out. A couple of really well done sex scenes as well.:)

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^ lol. old movie. he has sex with gene hackman, didn't he? ;)

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It is indeed an old movie . :lol: Definitely stands the test of time though. Gene Hackman??

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yah, he was in the movie.... i remember the cover of it!!! useless information.

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Any discussion of great movie endings begins and ends with "The Usual Suspects" IMO. Absolutely gangbusters... :RockOn:

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PRIMAL FEAR

When will I see you again? - That's up to the courts now. I don't want you to worry. I'm gonna stay on top of this, OK? Thank you. - Give me a call if you need to. - I will. - Mr Vail? - Yeah. Will you t-tell Miss Venable I'm sorry? Tell her I hope her neck is OK. Yeah. - What did you just say? - What? You told me you don't remember. You black out. So how do you know about her neck? Well, good for you, Marty. I was gonna let it go. You were looking so happy just now. I was thinking... To tell you the truth, I'm glad you figured it. 'Cause I have been dying to tell you. I just didn't know who you'd wanna hear it from. Aaron or Roy, Roy or Aaron.

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^^ yup primal fear is up there as well!

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trainspotting

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yeah. usual suspects was on last night. I think it may be the only movie where the bad guy gets away. fucking great. i still cheer when spacey is walking down the street and goes from gimp to soze. ace. plus the way his driver/kobayashi looks at him when he gets in the car says like a 1000 words.

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[QUOTE=Garrick;622932]yah, he was in the movie.... i remember the cover of it!!! useless information.

[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3f/No_Way_out.jpg/200px-No_Way_out.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] I had forgotten him:lol:

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seven top movie,ive seen it 50 times already

usual suspects very good too

1 thats not been said "the others" nicole kidman

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Jacobs Ladder had a pretty decent ending...

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the thread is about the BEST not pretty decent, lol

I agree, Jacobs Ladder to this day is one of my fave mind fucks of a movie

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^^Second that!

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Has to be Carlito's Way:!:

Although someone might argue that Carlito's fate is actually being telegraphed in the beginning of the movie ... the suspense towards the ending is simply uncomperable.

Extreme performances, as well as Pacino's most convincing character make this a must-watch-film

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the second lord of the rings when Gandalf is riding down the hill with the riders of Rohan following him. that is always a scene that charges me up.

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Thought the ending to The Prestige was kickass - one of those "should have seen it coming the whole way" type finishes. Memento had a really solid ending (or beginning?) as well. Both done by Christopher Nolan, not surprisingly.

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the scence from forrest gump where is talking to her grave......

i cannot watch that movie from start to finish and not cry at that scene.

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The [I]Life of Brian[/I] had a good ending too...

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just looked through my movie collection... he's some of the more memorable endings of things that haven't been mentioned yet:

AZUMI! It's pretty unrealistic but the last ~15 minutes is just pure awesome :lol:

The Last King of Scotland was way intense. The ending made me squirm bigtime

City of God probably deserves "best movie" more than "best movie endings" but I think it also finished off perfectly

Broken Flowers wasn't nearly as intense or surprising as others but Bill Murray did it a lot of justice

Tideland was fucked from beginning to end... I think that the ending is the only way that the movie could've possibly made me feel like it was complete

Tsotsi had a good ending, but the alternate baby bottle scene is epic.

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Donnie Brasco had a great ending as well

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Crying Game

although technically its the best middle of a movie - not the end!

but yea - Seven and U Suspects are both phenomenal endings.

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I like the Godfather... When Michael Corleone settles all family business..... and everyone gets killed

Oh and Scarface when he "takes em all to fuckin hell"