# Recommend me (heh, heh) movies with surprise endings/plot twists **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 27, 2003, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-heh-heh-movies-with-surprise-endings-plot-twists/221304 "2003-12-27T20:55:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-heh-heh-movies-with-surprise-endings-plot-twists/221304/21 "2003-12-28T04:41:25Z")
How about **Stolen Summer**? I didn’t expect that ending, anyway… **Lulu on The Bridge** has an interesting twist. ---
**Author:** ![Arcite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@Arcite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arcite)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-heh-heh-movies-with-surprise-endings-plot-twists/221304/22 "2003-12-28T04:44:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jack Batty \* > \*\*[_No Way Out_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093640/) with Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman and Sean Young. > > It’s a pretty good movie for the genre, and I did not see the ending coming at all. It’s hard to recommend as a “surprise ending” movie, because saying that it has a surprise ending is sort of spoiler in itself.\*\* Heh… **randwill** made the same point. I hear ya, because my favorite type of “surprise” movie is one in which the very existence of a surprise is unknown to the viewer until the twist is revealed… or at least it would be if there were no buzz about the movie. But hey, how often does one see a movie without having heard anything at all about it? You’d basically have to walk into the video store and pull a random title you’d never heard of off the shelf. I mean, there was a TON of buzz about _The Sixth Sense_, but I wouldn’t say going into it knowing there was going to be a surprise ending (but not knowing what it was) spoiled it for me. After all, I wasn’t smart enough to see it coming. 😉 _Deathtrap_ I actually saw on stage without knowing a movie had been made out of it. It would be interesting to see Michael Caine and Christopher Reeve in those roles, though. I enjoyed _Sneakers_, _The Shawshank Redemption_, and ---
**Author:** ![Gadfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aeb1de/32.png) [@Gadfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadfly)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-heh-heh-movies-with-surprise-endings-plot-twists/221304/23 "2003-12-28T04:44:40Z")
I had Fight Club slightly spoiled for me. The surprise still comes, echoing in your brain like an eons-long stampede. ---
**Author:** ![Arcite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@Arcite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arcite)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-heh-heh-movies-with-surprise-endings-plot-twists/221304/24 "2003-12-28T04:48:04Z")
Darn, I wasn’t done. I enjoyed _Sneakers_, _The Shawshank Redemption_, and _Signs_, but they’re more what I would describe as films in which a certain revelation makes what you’ve been seeing so far make more sense, or makes everything seem to come together, not so much as films in which a twist which cuts to the very core of the plot comes out of left field. Thanks for all the suggestions, guys. I’m writing all this down. ---
**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-heh-heh-movies-with-surprise-endings-plot-twists/221304/25 "2003-12-28T06:54:42Z")
**Versus** is a cheerfully absurd violent horror-comedy with undead, samurai, Yakuza, and combinations thereof–a la the Evil Dead films only with wacky Japanese gangsters instead of The Bruce. But the epilogue scene adds a surprising amount of subtext to quite a few exchanges that happened before it. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-heh-heh-movies-with-surprise-endings-plot-twists/221304/26 "2003-12-28T07:04:49Z")
**Body Heat** is full of twists right to the end. Great script. ---
**Author:** ![nuthinboutnuthin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/96bed5/32.png) [@nuthinboutnuthin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nuthinboutnuthin)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-heh-heh-movies-with-surprise-endings-plot-twists/221304/27 "2003-12-28T08:02:17Z")
**CARRIE** I still havent gotten over that “surprise” part and probably NEVER will… ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-heh-heh-movies-with-surprise-endings-plot-twists/221304/28 "2003-12-28T08:35:47Z")
I’d have to say **The Boondock Saints** , which didn’t really have a surprise ending so much as a rather dramatic reveal just before the ending. It brought tears to my eyes. Anyone who has seen the movie should know what I’m talking about. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-heh-heh-movies-with-surprise-endings-plot-twists/221304/29 "2003-12-28T10:49:49Z")
If you can find a copy, ther’s a 1976 film called **From Noon Till Three** starring Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland that starts out like a conventional western, then takes several strange turns. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-heh-heh-movies-with-surprise-endings-plot-twists/221304/30 "2003-12-28T10:57:24Z")
I’d suggest Angel Heart, but I may have spoiled it on another thread. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-heh-heh-movies-with-surprise-endings-plot-twists/221304/31 "2003-12-28T11:14:27Z")
One film seems quite ordinary, with the exception of the excellent performances all the way through, until the very end – which has the most amazing and puzzling ending I’ve ever seen in one brief scene. **Places in the Heart** (with Sally Field, Danny Glover, Ed Harris, Lindsay Crouse, Amy Madigan) ---
**Author:** ![kmg365](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ec9cab/32.png) [@kmg365](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kmg365)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-heh-heh-movies-with-surprise-endings-plot-twists/221304/32 "2003-12-28T13:27:05Z")
These four films have absolutely shocking plot twists in them and are among my favorite: _ **High Crimes,** _ starring Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman; _ **Along Came a Spider,** _ starring Monica Potter and Morgan Freeman. _ **Double Jeopardy,** _ starring Ashley Judd _ **The Shawshank Redemption,** _ starring Tim Robbins & Morgan Freeman. Basically you can bet than anything with Morgan Freeman is generally outstanding… ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-heh-heh-movies-with-surprise-endings-plot-twists/221304/33 "2003-12-28T15:08:46Z")
I rented a good one yesterday. Chaos (Hideo Nakata) It’s a Japanese movie with subtitles, but the dialogue isn’t hard to follow. ---
**Author:** ![Gilligan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Gilligan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gilligan)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-heh-heh-movies-with-surprise-endings-plot-twists/221304/34 "2003-12-28T16:05:34Z")
I would add **Arlington Road** and **Memento** , without saying why so not to spoil anything for you. ---
**Author:** ![Tusculan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-heh-heh-movies-with-surprise-endings-plot-twists/221304/35 "2003-12-28T16:21:03Z")
_The Game_ might qualify. I enjoyed it very much, anyway. After you’ve seen it, you might want to check out the alternative ending, listed on IMDB. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-heh-heh-movies-with-surprise-endings-plot-twists/221304/36 "2003-12-28T17:34:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ianzin \* > **Wild Things** , starring Matt Dillon, Kev Bacon and Denise Richards, is pretty much the ultimate plot twist movie, and is available to rent just about everywhere. > > Unfortunately it means sitting through some steamy sex scenes featuring a very undressed Denise Richards, but try not to let that spoil your enjoyment too much. And remeber, if anyone walks in while you’re watching one of these scenes, you rented the movie for the plot twists, the plot twists, honestly, the plot twists… While I echo your thoughts on **Denise Richards** , how could you not mention **Neve Campbell**?! :eek: P.S. The David Mamet film I referred to earlier is **‘House of Games’** , not House of Cards. (There is a magician who specialises in card tricks in the cast - maybe that threw me…) ---
**Author:** ![Tusculan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-heh-heh-movies-with-surprise-endings-plot-twists/221304/37 "2003-12-28T19:29:54Z")
**glee** : I thought you were refering to that excellent television series about Francis Urquhart: it did have sort of a twist at the end. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-heh-heh-movies-with-surprise-endings-plot-twists/221304/38 "2003-12-28T19:36:58Z")
FisherQueen- you got my first pick. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE ends on quite the surprise note. ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-heh-heh-movies-with-surprise-endings-plot-twists/221304/39 "2003-12-29T00:31:46Z")
**Mulholland Dr.** of course. ---
**Author:** ![Amicusbovae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Amicusbovae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amicusbovae)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-heh-heh-movies-with-surprise-endings-plot-twists/221304/40 "2003-12-29T07:38:57Z")
I highly recommend \Diggstown\ and \Dead Again\. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-heh-heh-movies-with-surprise-endings-plot-twists/221304.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-heh-heh-movies-with-surprise-endings-plot-twists/221304.md?page=3)