Top 10 Movie Endings

Top 10 Movie Endings

A shocking twist in a movie can make even the worst movie exciting. Now some movies are built around twists, and this can be either really good or really bad, Typically a good ending requires the twist to be plausable and make sense within the plot. The following list includes some of the best movie endings ever conceived. Each has been selected for their own unique, memorable ending.

 The Sixth Sense The Sixth Sense
PG-13, Bruce Willis, 1999

The Sixth Sense tells the story of Cole Sear, a troubled, isolated boy who claims to be able to see and talk to the dead, and an equally troubled child psychologist who tries to help him.

 
Friday the 13th Friday the 13th
R, Kevin Bacon, 1980

Friday the 13th concerns a group of teenagers who re-open an abandoned camp site years after a young boy drowned in a lake located nearby. One by one, the teens fall victim to a mysterious killer.

 
Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
PG, Mark Hamill, 1983

The Galactic Empire is planning to crush the Rebel Alliance with a second Death Star while the Rebel fleet simultaneously prepares to launch a full-scale attack on this new space station. Luke confronts Darth Vader in a climactic duel before the evil Emperor Palpatine.

 
Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes
PG-13, Charlton Heston, 1968

Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon, Taylor finds himself among the hunted and his life in the hands of a benevolent chimpanzee scientist.

 
Sleepaway Camp Sleepaway Camp
R, Mike Kellin, 1983

Sleepaway Camp is about Angela, a shy and sullen young girl. One summer her aunt Martha sends her and her cousin Ricky to Camp Arawak.Soon after their arrival, a series of bizarre and increasingly violent accidents begins to claim the lives of various campers.

 
Big Fish Big Fish
PG-13, Ewan McGregor, 2003

Will Bloom returns to his family home in Alabama, having spent the past three years not talking to his father Edward. Dying, Edward recounts his life story in his own unique, exaggerated way.

 
Psycho Psycho
R, Anthony Perkins, 1960

Psycho is a 1960 suspense/thriller that depicts the encounter between a secretary, Marion Crane, who is in hiding at a motel after embezzling from her employer, and the motel's owner, Norman Bates, and the aftermath of their encounter.

 
The Wizard of Oz The Wizard of Oz
G, Judy Garland, 1939

Dorothy Gale who lives on a Kansas farm dreams of a better place "somewhere over the rainbow." After being struck unconscious during a tornado by a window, Dorothy dreams that she, her dog Toto, and the farmhouse are transported to the magical Land of Oz.

 
The Butterfly Effect The Butterfly Effect
R, Ashton Kutcher, 2004

Evan Treborn, who suffered severe traumas as a boy and a teenager, blacks out frequently, often at moments of high stress. Evan finds that when he reads from his adolescent journals, he travels back in time, and is able to essentially "redo" parts of his past...

 
Vanilla Sky Vanilla Sky
R, Tom Cruise, 2001

David Aames is a spoiled child who has no realization of his wealth or luck. Inhereting his fathers company after both parents were killed in a road accident some years prior, David meets a girl whom his friend brings to a lavish house party one night and instantly falls in love with her.

 
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