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The scene in the café at the end of The Dark Night Rises.


 
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Time Bandits


 
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The Italian Job (the proper one)

"Hang on lads, I've got a great idea"


 
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Seven.


 
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Interstellar, just awesome.


 
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The over the top glam stupidity of Strictly Ballroom.


 
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office space.


 
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Leon


 
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Brazil


 
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The Usual Suspects


 
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Dr Strangelove


 
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Northville Cemetry Massacre


 
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Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels.
Pulp Fiction.


 
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Pitch Black
Homicide
The Thing


 
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Superman II


 
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A Very British Coup


 
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Michael Clayton


 
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The five-point-Palm exploding-heart technique - kill bill 2


 
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Arlington Road


 
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Cross of Iron


 
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Michael Clayton

One of my all-time favorite movies.

The Shawshank Redemption
Fight club

But my favorite ending is probably the Godfather..........

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The closing scene of iron sky was surprisingly good.


 
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+1 for Leon.


 
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Braveheart. 😉


 
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+1 Usual Suspects


 
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Thelma and Louise - now that was a hell of a drop-off..

Casablanca

The Sting


 
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Excalibur by John Boorman

braveheart 😆


 
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Japanese film - Fish Story. Amazing film all tied together by the finale


 
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Depends on my mood. To name just a few, and adding to some already listed: Bicycle Thieves.. The Outlaw Josey Wales... There Will Be Blood... It's a Wonderful Life... or Withnail & I


 
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Rocky II 🙂


 
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The five-point-Palm exploding-heart technique - kill bill 2

That was a terrible ending chiefly because it was so obviously going to BE the ending.


 
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Gran Torino.


 
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Gone Girl.
Sixth Sense


 
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Seven
Night of the Living Dead (original)
The Descent
Masque of the Red Death
Hot Fuzz
Apocalypse Now


 
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The Vanishing.


 
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O Brother Where Art Thou (bonafide!)

Planet Of The Apes (Heston). As a kid of course, saw it at cinema with no spoilers!

Shawshank Redemption. Perfect cheese yet somehow just great nonetheless. Was in a prison of a kind myself when first saw it, yet hope prevailed and saw me through an 18 yr struggle. Vindication for 'cheese'. It helped.


 
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joshvegas - fair point. Still rate it though 😀


 
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Point break
Unforgiven
True Romance


 
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True Romance also
Garden State


 
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+1 for The Descent.
You think you're heading right for a clichéd ending...


 
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Get Carter
No Country For Old Men
Nebraska
True Grit

🙂


 
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Once Upon a Time in the West

Zulu


 
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American Graffiti


 
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Some Like It Hot.


 
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Fight Club + Pixies "Where is my mind?" closing track. Almost as good as Apocalypse Now and the Door's "This is the end" opening.


 
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+1 Arlington Road.

And I'll add - The Mist


 
Posted : 27/07/2015 6:39 am
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The Mist

Yes, I was glad when it ended too.

Most of mine have been posted already.


 
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The Bedford Incident:

"Don't worry, the Bedford will never fire first, but If he fires one, I'll fire one..."
"Fire one!"
[b]Whoosh[/b]


 
Posted : 27/07/2015 8:42 am
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Not the best ever of course, but the end of "The Gallows" is great. Shame the rest of the film is garbage!


 
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They really should have left it there.

Raiders of the Lost Ark

+1 for Some Like it Hot and Godfather.


 
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True Romance

Lucky Number Slevin

The Graduate


 
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Kingsman. 😉


 
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Bridge over the River Kwai

Kind Hearts and Coronets.


 
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Some good ones above, but for me one of the best is:-

Heat


 
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Excellent suggestions so far,

I'll add

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid


 
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The Good, The Bad and the Ugly.

Though to be fair the whole lot is good.


 
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Raiders of the Lost Ark

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Casablanca for me


 
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Sixth Sense

Back to the Future - especially as the 2nd one was quite a long time coming.

The original Planet of the Apes.


 
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Ending to Heat is pretty predictable IMO, I also found Pacino's character a lot less likeable than De Niro's.


 
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Bladerunner (not the director's cut) edit...the version that ends as the lift doors close


 
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American Beauty


 
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Funny Games (original austrian version)

The first film to truly turn cinema (and our expectations from movies) completely on its head for me.


 
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Sixth sense
Apocalypto
All is lost
Perfect storm
Withnail and I


 
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Get Carter

Lost in translation


 
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The Crying Game 😯


 
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The first ones I thought off have already been mentioned, so I'll add, Dusk Till Dawn. Just cause it's not what you expect.


 
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The Searchers


 
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Without a doubt, the one that still blows me away now, and the one that properly gave me shivers the first time I saw it is the Wickerman (original)

Oh, that and Dirty Dancing of course...c'mon, she gets the boy n everything!

Point Break ending is a classic, although the soundtrack has a lot to do with it.


 
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Meet Joe Black - saying goodbye to your children? Tears every time.
Philadelphia - see above.
Schindlers List - makes you think.
Lots of those already mentioned for more uplifting endings.


 
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No apologies for shouting:

NO WAY OUT

80's Costner cheese, but tell me Im wrong...........


 
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iamsporticus, you beat me by 1 minute!!!!

So, "No Way Out", seconded by me. Brilliant ending that I never saw coming.

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PLATOON


 
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12 Angry Men
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Frost/Nixon
A Very Long Engagement
Star Wars V: A New Hope


 
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I agree with The Graduate.
Also
The Great Dictator or City Lights.


 
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Cinema Paradiso. Besides being the best film ever made, the ending is just a complete work of art. Brings together a theme that runs through the film and knocks you for six at the end. Sublime. Don't be put off by subtitles. It's an incredible piece of work and deserved all of the awards bestowed on it over the years. Director's cut is the one to get as the abbreviated version misses out quite a lot. Google it and I'm sure that you'll see loads of great reviews. Don't go through life never having seen it. Masterpiece.


 
Posted : 27/07/2015 7:07 pm
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The end of the Shawshank Redemption was a sop to US audiences. It should have finished when Red got on the bus. It's like the end of AI. Brilliant with him at the bottom of the lake, stupid the next 5 minutes. And I feel the same way about the last 20 minutes of Interstellar!

So I'm not just being grumpy. Layer Cake, proper ending.


 
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Agree with every word Alex says about Shawshank. Good film, not great.


 
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Toy Story 3?

Geniunly brilliant way to end the franchise, and make me cry in front of my kids.


 
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