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