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Showdown Ending

Get out of the shower, on your bike and round up the usual suspects, ’cos baby you’re gonna miss that plane. We want the films that left your jaw on the floor when the credits rolled. Whether it’s a gimmick, gotcha, twist, cathartic tear-fest, quiet realization or total shocker, which movies absolutely nailed the ending? We’re looking for final scenes that changed the genre and/or cliffhangers that altered film history. The main criteria is that the ending has to have been one hundred percent earned. I’m finished!

  • The Third Man
  • Notorious
  • The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
  • Jules and Jim
  • The Muppet Movie
  • In a Lonely Place
  • City Lights
  • Some Like It Hot
  • Stalker
  • The Apartment
  • It's a Wonderful Life
  • The Godfather
  • It Happened One Night
  • Only Angels Have Wings
  • The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
  • Double Indemnity
  • Casablanca
  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  • The Asphalt Jungle
  • The Bridge on the River Kwai
  • The Graduate
  • McCabe & Mrs. Miller
  • Taxi Driver
  • Apocalypse Now
  • Star Wars: The Last Jedi
  • La La Land
  • Sorry to Bother You
  • Sing Street
  • Love & Mercy
  • The Royal Tenenbaums
  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
  • Being John Malkovich
  • Unforgiven
  • Amadeus
  • My Neighbor Totoro