The End: Memorable Movie Endings

By: Acerk21

Whether it be in the form of confusion, shock, depression, inspiration, or an epiphany, the type of movies I tend to enjoy are those meant to make the audience feel something at the end. Below is a list of the most memorable movie endings that I could think of. These films have always stayed with me, specifically the endings.

The Lower Depths


Il Posto


On the Waterfront


The Heiress


Sunset Blvd


Late Spring

(Favorite Type of Movie Ending: Inconclusive and Depressing)

• 01
  The Lower Depths
  Akira Kurosawa
• 02
  Il posto
  Ermanno Olmi
• 03
  On the Waterfront
  Elia Kazan
• 04
  I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
  Mervyn LeRoy
• 05
  Chinatown
  Roman Polanski
• 06
  Notorious
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 07
  The Heiress
  William Wyler
• 08
  Seconds
  John Frankenheimer
• 09
  Viridiana
  Luis Buñuel
• 10
  The 400 Blows
  François Truffaut
• 11
  Sunset Blvd.
  Billy Wilder
• 12
  Aguirre, the Wrath of God
  Werner Herzog
• 13
  Angels with Dirty Faces
  Michael Curtiz
• 14
  Bicycle Thieves
  Vittorio De Sica
• 15
  Late Spring
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 16
  Nights of Cabiria
  Federico Fellini
• 17
  All About Eve
  Joseph L. Mankiewicz
• 18
  Manhattan
  Woody Allen
• 19
  The Verdict
  Sidney Lumet
• 20
  The Purple Rose of Cairo
  Woody Allen
• 21
  When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
  Mikio Naruse
• 22
  Knife in the Water
  Roman Polanski
• 23
  Gone with the Wind
  Victor Fleming
• 24
  Only Yesterday
  Isao Takahata
• 25
  Millennium Actress
  Satoshi Kon
• 26
  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  Michel Gondry
• 27
  Grand Illusion
  Jean Renoir
• 28
  The Graduate
  Mike Nichols
• 29
  High and Low
  Akira Kurosawa
• 30
  Dodsworth
  William Wyler
• 31
  It Happened One Night
  Frank Capra
• 32
  Chungking Express
  Wong Kar-wai
• 33
  Fallen Angels
  Wong Kar-wai
• 34
  Splendor in the Grass
  Elia Kazan
• 35
  The Godfather
  Francis Ford Coppola
• 36
  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  Miloš Forman
• 37
  The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
  Robert Ellis Miller
• 38
  The Third Man
  Carol Reed
• 39
  All About Lily Chou-Chou
  Shunji Iwai
• 40
  After Life
  Hirokazu Kore-eda
• 41
  Memories of Murder
  Bong Joon-ho
• 42
  The Candidate
  Michael Ritchie
• 43
  Letter from an Unknown Woman
  Max Ophüls
• 44
  The Conformist
  Bernardo Bertolucci
• 45
  Summer Palace
  Lou Ye
• 46
  The Wayward Cloud
  Tsai Ming-liang
• 47
  The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
  Joseph L. Mankiewicz
• 48
  Caged
  John Cromwell
• 49
  Kings Row
  Sam Wood
• 50
  White Heat
  Raoul Walsh
• 51
  3-Iron
  Kim Ki-duk
• 52
  Fail-Safe
  Sidney Lumet
• 53
  Eyes Without a Face
  Georges Franju
• 54
  Stalag 17
  Billy Wilder
• 55
  Make Way for Tomorrow
  Leo McCarey
• 56
  Cinema Paradiso
  Giuseppe Tornatore
• 57
  Five Graves to Cairo
  Billy Wilder
• 58
  Love in the Afternoon
  Éric Rohmer
• 59
  Now, Voyager
  Irving Rapper
• 60
  To Each His Own
  Mitchell Leisen
• 61
  Mother
  Mikio Naruse
• 62
  My Night at Maud's
  Éric Rohmer
• 63
  To Be or Not to Be
  Ernst Lubitsch
• 64
  The Apartment
  Billy Wilder
• 65
  Only Angels Have Wings
  Howard Hawks
• 66
  It's a Wonderful Life
  Frank Capra
• 67
  Casablanca
  Michael Curtiz
• 68
  Strawberry Shortcakes
  Hitoshi Yazaki
• 69
  Atonement
  Joe Wright
• 70
  Floating Clouds
  Mikio Naruse
• 71
  The Passionate Friends
  David Lean
• 72
  Lost in Translation
  Sofia Coppola
• 73
  Planet of the Apes
  Franklin J. Schaffner
• 74
  The Story of Qiu Ju
  Zhang Yimou
• 75
  No Man's Land
  Danis Tanović
• 76
  The Wicker Man
  Robin Hardy
• 77
  Stella Dallas
  King Vidor
• 78
  A Face in the Crowd
  Elia Kazan
• 79
  Three on a Match
  Mervyn LeRoy