What was the best movie ending?

THE TRUMAN SHOW

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Jim Carrey in The Truman Show is brilliant, and the film has one of the best movie endings ever.

Truman was adopted, and his entire life broadcasts as a reality TV show in a made-up world around him.

THERE WILL BE BLOOD

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Following one man’s ambition for wealth at all costs, There Will Be Blood (2007) tells a story of family, hatred, and religion. Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, and Ciarán Hinds.

It’s a period-time drama highlighting Southern California’s late 19th and early 20th-century oil boom.

Rewatch the bowling alley scene.

MEMENTO

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Nolan’s Memento (2000) tells a twisty story of a man experiencing Anterograde amnesia. Leonard’s (Guy Pearce) short-term memory loss prevents him from creating new memories.

His last memory is of his wife dying, and he is out for vengeance.

HEAT

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Michael Mann’s Heat (1995) features an ensemble cast led by Al Pacino and Robert De Niro.

It follows the conflict between a detective, a career criminal, and his thieving friends.

After unknowingly leaving a clue behind at a heist, the LAPD turns up the Heat.

THE MIST

Based on Stephen King’s 1980 novella of the same name, The Mist (2007) tells a captivating story about small town Bridgton, Maine. An unknown bloodthirsty species of monsters hiding in the mistiness of a freak storm that brought them in.

The city holds up in a grocery store, and the townspeople split into two groups.

The ending is darker than in any King’s book. However, Stephen King was receptive to the change.

THE SIXTH SENSE

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M. Night Shyamalan’s The Sixth Sense (1999) follows a child psychologist (Bruce Willis) who helps a young boy (Haley Joel Osment) with his frightening ability to see dead people.

It’s filled with spine-tingling moments and one of the most blindsiding endings in film history.

WHIPLASH

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Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash (2014) follows a jazz drummer and music student Andrew Neiman (Miles Teller), and his ambition to be the best. But his instructor Terence Fletcher (J.K. Simmons), abrasively pushes Andrew to his limits.

THE USUAL SUSPECTS

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The Usual Suspects (1995) follows the interrogation of a two-bit con man and a gun massacre on a ship docked in Los Angelos.

Roger “Verbal” Kint (Kevin Spacey) tells his story through narration and flashbacks of how he’s one of only two disaster survivors. It’s a story of crime Lord Keyser Söze and his control over five criminal companions.

SOME LIKE IT HOT

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The American comedy classic Some Like It Hot (1959) stars Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon.

The film follows two musicians who witness a mob crime. So they disguise themselves as women to escape the mafia.

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST

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Based on Ken Kesey’s novel of the same name, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) stars Jack Nicholson and is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest movies ever.

A criminal (Nicholson) is admitted to a mental institution after winning an insanity plea. But unfortunately, Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher) is a sadistic woman. So he rallies the frightened patients to rebel.

The ending is still one of the most talked about.

FIGHT CLUB

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Based on Chuck Palahniuk’s novel of the same name, Fight Club (1999) has an unbelievable ending and subsequent cult following.

It follows an unnamed narrator (Edward Norton) who hates his nine-to-five and is discontent with life.

INCEPTION

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Christopher Nolan’s Inception (2010) introduces dream-sharing technology that allows the plantation of ideas in another person’s mind.

The plot follows a professional thief (DiCaprio) with a tragic past who has the inverse task of using this technology in the subconscious of a C.E.O.

FALLEN

The film Fallen (1998) is one of Denzel Washington’s most underrated films. Although, it’s amassed a cult following. It follows a homicide detective (Washington) who witnesses a serial killer’s execution.