Top 5 Movie Endings

[guyferguson]

This is a good topic. Most of my favourites have been mentioned, but i want to bring up Bicycle Thieves again. The unresolved endings of Italian Neorealism always do it for me. Particularly Umberto D., which remains one of the most moving films i have ever seen.

Also, for the novelty of it, i'll throw in Irreversible. The way the park scene at the end contrasts with the tone of the film up until that point is truly jarring. Also that sunlight/strobe thing at the end literally almost made me throw up the first time i saw it.

 

[bobyoung7]

Godfather 3
The Boy In The Striped Pajamas
The Sixth Sense
The Usual Suspects
The Green Mile

 

[countdemoney]

American Graffiti
Shane

 

[Cigarboy]

There will be Blood.... "I'm Finished!"

 

[lefty]

Caught this on the weekend. Ben Vereen, Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange and Fosse Fosse Fosse. I had forgotten how great this ending is.
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[yarnsforth]

Lone Star
Once Upon a Time in America
Groundhog Day
Trading Places
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

 

[Amorfous]

Vanishing Point

 

[Asch]

I don't think these ones have been mentioned:

The Lives of Others
City Lights
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The 400 Blows
Annie Hall
The China Syndrome
Wait Until Dark
Vertigo


Already mentioned:

Citizen Kane
The Graduate
The Squid and the Whale
Heat
The Wild Bunch

 

[StephenHero]

Originally Posted by Asch

The Lives of Others

"No. It's for me."

Great choice.

 

[deliciosrster]

Originally Posted by Asch

The Lives of Others
archetypal hollywood ending but I like it never the less

 

[dport86]

Originally Posted by deliciosrster

archetypal hollywood ending but I like it never the less

If you think that LIVES OF OTHERS has an archetypal h'wood ending you should try working in H'wood.

Some not mentioned yet I believe:

THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY
RIFIFI
400 BLOWS
NAKED