A Random Match Cut List: Best Final Scenes

[transmogrifier]

Not climaxes, not final acts - the best absolute last scene of a movie.

Go!

1. Before Sunset (2004)

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2. Thirst (2009)

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[Melville]

3. Beau Travail

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[Melville]

4. Stroszek

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[Dukefrukem]

5. the Departed

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[Melville]

6. Ordet

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[Dukefrukem]

7. Pulp Fiction

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[Mysterious Dude]

8. Bicycle Thieves

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[Mysterious Dude]

9. The Graduate

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[Yxklyx]

10. Nights of Cabiria

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[Dead & Messed Up]

11. No Country for Old Men (first one that came to mind)

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[Yxklyx]

12. L'eclisse

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[Mysterious Dude]

13. Ugetsu

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[Mysterious Dude]

This thread is making me cry.

[Yxklyx]

14. Seven

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[Yxklyx]

This thread is making me cry.

It's hard to find cheerful great scenes.

[Ezee E]

Great thread.

[Dukefrukem]

15. Inception

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[Dead & Messed Up]

16. City Lights

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[Melville]

17. It's a Wonderful Life

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[Dukefrukem]

18. Army of Darkness

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[Yxklyx]

19. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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[Russ]

This thread is making me cry.

20. Yearning

Clips of the final scene (Hideko Takamine running, stopping and staring) are interspersed throughout this short tribute.


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[Yxklyx]

21. Gold Diggers of 1933

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[Mysterious Dude]

22. The Great Dictator

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[MadMan]

23. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966, Leone)

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I couldn't find the finale to my preferred choice on Youtube, so I went with a good second pick.

[amberlita]

16. City Lights

Yup. This is my choice. So I'll mention an underappreciated gem...

24. Big Night

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[Fezzik]

25. In the Mood For Love (2000, Wong)

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[chrisnu]

26. The Straight Story (1999, Lynch)

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[Dead & Messed Up]

27. X - the Man With the X-Ray Eyes (skip ahead to 14:45 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nooO9Pon6Kg#t=0h14m45s ))

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[Winston*]

27. Time Bandits

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[Winston*]

28. Memories of Murder

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[Winston*]

29. The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover

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30. Boogie Nights (1997)

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31. La Haine (1995)

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Love that very last shot of Memories of Murder.

[dreamdead]

32. The Awful Truth

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[chrisnu]

33. Safe (1995, Haynes)

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[Yxklyx]

I'd add the final scene of A Year of the Quiet Sun but can't find a video for it online.

[Yxklyx]

34. Magnolia
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[endingcredits]

35. Nostalghia (Tarkovsky, 1983)

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[endingcredits]

Au Hasard Balthazar (Bresson, 1966)

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[Russ]

37. Aguirre, The Wrath of God

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[Russ]

38. Gallipoli

"What are your legs?"
"Springs. Steel Springs."
"What are they going to do?"
"Going to hurl me down the track."
"How fast can you run?"
"As fast as a leopard."
"How fast are you going to run?"
"As fast as a leopard."
"Right. Then let's see you do it."


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[Russ]

39. Trilogy of Terror


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[MadMan]

40. The Third Man (1949, Carol Reed)

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[Derek]

41. The Life of Brian (Terry Jones, 1979)

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[Derek]

42. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)

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[Derek]

42. Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954)

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[Winston*]

43. The King and The Mockingbird

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[Spinal]

44. Songs from the Second Floor

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