Films with Great Endings

No doubt I have forgotten many, but here are 20 films with brilliant closure. Whether it be through a surprise twist (such as The Usual Suspects and The Sixth Sense), a horrific final image (The Wicker Man, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer), by leaving the viewer intrigued (The Thing, The Convesation) or whether it is just left ambiguous (Blade Runner: Directors Cut).

1. The Thing (1982)

2. The Usual Suspects (1995)

3. The Planet of the Apes (1968)

4. The Wicker Man (1973)

5. Se7en (1995)

6. Spoorloos [The Vanishing] (1988)

7. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1990)

8. Blade Runner (1982)

9. The Sixth Sense (1999)

10. The Conversation (1974)

11. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

12. Don't Look Now (1973)

13. Memento (2000)

14. Brazil (1985)

15. Dr Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

16. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

17. Casablanca (1942)

18. The Game (1997)

19. Fargo (1996)

20. The Departed (2006)