Top 100 Best Movies With Twist Endings
There is one general belief about movie making that goes with the proverb "All Is Well If End Is Well". Hollywood is pioneer in making movies with suspense endings or unusual climax.
Many Notable directors like Alfred Hitchcock, Christopher Nolan, M. Night Shayamlan worked in the thriller genre and produced some classic suspense films.So, I thought of making a list of Top 100 Mystery Movies that have Twist Endings. It may happen that while one movie amuses a person,the others may not like it.So, I tried to keep up the best movies which were praised by all. Hope you will enjoy reading about the best movies with twists.
This is the list of 100 best movie endings.SPOILER ALERT : Plot of the films is discussed.
If you find any of your favorite movie missing then do let me know in comments.
Many Notable directors like Alfred Hitchcock, Christopher Nolan, M. Night Shayamlan worked in the thriller genre and produced some classic suspense films.So, I thought of making a list of Top 100 Mystery Movies that have Twist Endings. It may happen that while one movie amuses a person,the others may not like it.So, I tried to keep up the best movies which were praised by all. Hope you will enjoy reading about the best movies with twists.
This is the list of 100 best movie endings.SPOILER ALERT : Plot of the films is discussed.
If you find any of your favorite movie missing then do let me know in comments.
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- DirectorM. Night ShyamalanStarsBruce WillisHaley Joel OsmentToni ColletteMalcolm Crowe, a child psychologist, starts treating a young boy, Cole, who encounters dead people and convinces him to help them. In turn, Cole helps Malcolm reconcile with his estranged wife.Dr. Malcom Crowe is a child Psychologist, Who After A Mishap With his child patient Start Working On A 9 Year Old Boy Cole Sear.The Boy Claims That He See Ghosts. Step By Step Dr. Crowe gain trust of Cole and both develop a mutual relationship. Crowe suggest cole to help the dead people he see and Cole,after overcoming his fear do so. After overcoming his ghostly visions Cole helps the doctor to find the reality of his life, his wife's changed behaviour and about the mishap.
- DirectorBryan SingerStarsKevin SpaceyGabriel ByrneChazz PalminteriThe sole survivor of a pier shoot-out tells the story of how a notorious criminal influenced the events that began with five criminals meeting in a seemingly random police lineup.A robbery take place on a ship and a faceless figure identified as "Keyser Soze" shot a man 'Keaton' and set the ship on fire.The only two survivors, a Hungarian and a man named 'verbal kint', are investigated separately.Verbal,under police custody starts telling a story that begins 6 weeks before the incidence about how he and 4 other criminals Dean Keaton, Michael Mcmanus, Fred Fenster and Todd Hockney were brought together in a police lineup.The 5 find a quick success when they loot a police van for mcmanus fence "Redfoot". After that they are forced by an unidentified man "keyser soze" through his lawyer "kobayashi" to stop a deal of soze rivals hungarians onb a ship.Kobayashi tells them that they have directly or indirectly crossed soze's path and to spare their lives soze wants them to work for him.After getting one of their partner fenster killed due to his attempt to runaway the remaining 4 accept to work for soze.During Ship Robbery all 3 except verbal are killed by unidentified figure.The Officer accept the fact that verbal was spared because he was crippled and keaton is keyser soze, who is still alive.Verbal is allowed to leave.
- DirectorDavid FincherStarsBrad PittEdward NortonMeat LoafAn insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soap maker form an underground fight club that evolves into much more.An Unnamed insomniac "Narrator" narates about his life and how much he is fed up of following system.On arriving home from one of his business trips, he find out his house burned and destroyed.He calls Tyler durden,a soap salesman,whom he befriended on the flight and ask for help.They develop a mutual friendship which grows with sharing house,girls and a fight club.Tyler durden being fed up of system turns fight club into a project to destroy the system to which narrator disagrees.The narrator's effort to save fight club,to Stop Tyler Durden Leads Him To His True Identity.
- DirectorChristopher NolanStarsGuy PearceCarrie-Anne MossJoe PantolianoA man with short-term memory loss attempts to track down his wife's murderer.Now Here is a movie which have more than one twist.Leonard An Ex- Insurance agent is now suffering from a short term memory disease,A condition in which he is unable to store new memories in his mind.According to him, he got this disease on the night when his wife was raped and murdered and one of the rapist hit on his head. According to police there was only one rapist but Lenny believes that there were two.The story proceeds with Lenny in search of the other rapist "John g" using his system of notes, Polaroid photos, and tattoos. His Investigation is both altered and supported by Natalie, Teddy, Sammy Jankis and an unknown phone caller. The Film Is shown in two different sequence or phases. As each sequence begins,The audience is unaware of the preceding events, just like Leonard, thereby giving the viewer a sense of his confusion. That's why, like Lenny, even viewers are not sure about who is helping or who is using Lenny thus making twist in each scene.
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsLeonardo DiCaprioEmily MortimerMark RuffaloTeddy Daniels and Chuck Aule, two US marshals, are sent to an asylum on a remote island in order to investigate the disappearance of a patient, where Teddy uncovers a shocking truth about the place.A Patient out of 66 patients escaped from Ashecliff Hospital at shutter island. U.S. marshall Teddy Daniels is asked to investigate the case with his newly appointed assistant chuck. with the progress of plot teddy got impression that mind surgeries are being performed at island's light-house to have total mind control over criminal patients.Although The patient who escaped is caught but teddy is forced to find out the truth. The Truth of his new assistant, of andrew laedis, of doctor john cawley, of ward c these leads him to find the truth of shutter island and his own reality.
- DirectorFrank DarabontStarsTim RobbinsMorgan FreemanBob GuntonOver the course of several years, two convicts form a friendship, seeking consolation and, eventually, redemption through basic compassion.
- DirectorTerry GilliamStarsBruce WillisMadeleine StoweBrad PittIn a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet.In 1996 whole world comes under attack of unknown virus,destroying 99% human population.After 39 years in 2035,The remaining population is fighting to survive,living underground..A Convict (James Cole) is planned to transport back to 1996 from the futurist 2035,to find out about the origin of an unknown virus which is believed to be spread by "Army Of Twelve Monkeys". The convict is mistakenly sent to 1990 where he meets Dr. Kathryn Railly,a psychiatrist and Jeffery Goines in a mental institution.Jeffery is Son of famous scientist and James suspects him as the leader of 12 Army.James focuses on Jeffery and his mysterious plans.
- DirectorDavid FincherStarsMorgan FreemanBrad PittKevin SpaceyTwo detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives.
- DirectorAlejandro AmenábarStarsNicole KidmanChristopher EcclestonFionnula FlanaganIn 1945, immediately following the end of Second World War, a woman who lives with her two photosensitive children on her darkened old family estate in the Channel Islands becomes convinced that the home is haunted.
- DirectorJames MangoldStarsJohn CusackRay LiottaAmanda PeetStranded at a desolate Nevada motel during a nasty rain storm, ten strangers become acquainted with each other when they realize that they're being killed off one by one.
- DirectorChristopher NolanStarsLeonardo DiCaprioJoseph Gordon-LevittElliot PageA thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O., but his tragic past may doom the project and his team to disaster.
- DirectorNeil BurgerStarsEdward NortonJessica BielPaul GiamattiIn turn-of-the-century Vienna, a magician uses his abilities to secure the love of a woman far above his social standing.
- DirectorChristopher NolanStarsChristian BaleHugh JackmanScarlett JohanssonAfter a tragic accident, two stage magicians in 1890s London engage in a battle to create the ultimate illusion while sacrificing everything they have to outwit each other.Two Magicians,One Destination, To be the best magician in the world.Angler was equally amused,amazed and jealous to find out that his fellow rival magician Alfred is able to do a transportation trick in which he throw a ball and close the door and with in no time opens the door from other end and catch the ball. To deeply study this trick angler takes the help of scientist tesla, who with an electricity trick is able to make a transporting machine.A machine in which the double will appear at other but in order to work the first have to die.The story proceeds with Anger, jealousy and rivalry between the two magician and creating a confusion and excitement on viewer's mind.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsAnthony PerkinsJanet LeighVera MilesA Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.A Theft, An Isolated Motel, Innocent Motel owner, Unseen Mother, Murder in Shower These All Things Make Alfred Hitchcokc's Psycho A Real Thrill.The movie give sudden shocks with its progress.The Shower scene is one of the most thrilling scene in cinematic history.Norman Bates is shown afraid of her mother. But the twist at the end give goose bumps.
- DirectorDavid FincherStarsMichael DouglasDeborah Kara UngerSean PennAfter a wealthy San Francisco banker is given an opportunity to participate in a mysterious game, his life is turned upside down as he begins to question if it might really be a concealed conspiracy to destroy him.
- DirectorM. Night ShyamalanStarsSigourney WeaverWilliam HurtJoaquin PhoenixA series of events tests the beliefs of a small isolated countryside village.
- DirectorFranklin J. SchaffnerStarsCharlton HestonRoddy McDowallKim HunterAn astronaut crew crash-lands on a planet where highly intelligent non-human ape species are dominant and humans are enslaved.After 2000 years voyage at light speed an astronauts ship crash land at an unknown planet. The captain of crew suggest that they are 320 light years away from earth but admits he is not sure. The crew later find out that the planet is inhabited by the apes who dominates human-beings. Thinking Taylor and his crew as other mute human beings they attack the crew and kills Taylor's crew mates. Taylor got himself in a situation that he bid his life to find out about the talking apes, the mute human beings and the strange planet he was on.
- DirectorGregory HoblitStarsRichard GereLaura LinneyEdward NortonAn altar boy is accused of murdering a priest, and the truth is buried several layers deep.
- DirectorM. Night ShyamalanStarsBruce WillisSamuel L. JacksonRobin WrightA man learns something extraordinary about himself after a devastating accident.
- DirectorRichard KellyStarsJake GyllenhaalJena MaloneMary McDonnellAfter narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a man in a large rabbit suit who manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.
- DirectorJoel SchumacherStarsJim CarreyVirginia MadsenLogan LermanWalter Sparrow becomes obsessed with a novel that he believes was written about him, as more and more similarities between himself and his literary alter ego seem to arise.
- DirectorBrad AndersonStarsChristian BaleJennifer Jason LeighAitana Sánchez-GijónAn industrial worker who hasn't slept in a year begins to doubt his own sanity.
- DirectorGuy RitchieStarsRobert Downey Jr.Jude LawRachel McAdamsDetective Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson engage in a battle of wits and brawn with a nemesis whose plot is a threat to all of England.
- DirectorTaylor HackfordStarsKeanu ReevesAl PacinoCharlize TheronAn exceptionally-adept Florida lawyer is offered a job at a high-end New York City law firm with a high-end boss--the biggest opportunity of his career to date.
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesJoseph CottenDorothy ComingoreFollowing the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'