Random Best Movies with Twist Endings (24 items)

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  (#10) Memento

  • Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, Jorja Fox, Stephen Tobolowsky, Callum Keith Rennie, Thomas Lennon, Mark Boone Junior, Marianne Muellerleile, Harriet Sansom Harris, Larry Holden, Russ Fega, Kimberly Campbell

  There really is no reason why we should trust the memories of a man with brain damage. But yet, when Leonard (Guy Pearce) tells us that he's trying to catch the man who murdered his wife, we take his word. Until the end (which is actually the beginning of the narrative), when it's revealed that Leonard may have in fact been the one who accidentally killed his wife, and now he's chasing a killer that doesn't exist, just to have something to do.
  
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  (#3) The Usual Suspects

  • Kevin Spacey, Benicio del Toro, Gabriel Byrne, Stephen Baldwin, Giancarlo Esposito, Kevin Pollak, Pete Postlethwaite, Clark Gregg, Chazz Palminteri, Dan Hedaya, Peter Greene, Suzy Amis, Paul Bartel, Christopher McQuarrie, Louis Lombardi, Christine Estabrook, Michelle Clunie, Cástulo Guerra, Frank Medrano, Ron Gilbert, Vito D'Ambrosio, Bert Williams, Dave Powledge, Phillipe Simon, Jaime Campos, Carl Bressler, Scott B. Morgan, Jack Shearer, Smadar Hanson, Michael McKay, Michael Robert Nyman, Peter Rocca, Robert Elmore, Grace Sinden, Billy Bates, Ken Daly, Morgan Hunter, Gene Lythgow, Bob Pennetta, John Gillespie

  Who is the ruthless criminal genius Keyser Soze? No way is it that bumbling, handicapped, feeble criminal Verbal Kint, who can barely look the detective in the eye during questioning. Oh wait, yeah it is. Kevin Spacey earned an Academy Award with his trickery, and The Usual Suspects is widely considered the greatest twist ending of the modern day neo-noir.
  
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  (#11) Planet of the Apes

  • Charlton Heston, Linda Harrison, James Whitmore, Maurice Evans, Kim Hunter, Army Archerd, Felix Silla, James Bacon, Norman Burton, Billy Curtis, Jerry Maren, Woodrow Parfrey, James Daly, Paul Lambert, Wright King, Frank Delfino, Buck Kartalian, Harry Monty, Irvin Koszewski, Lou Wagner, David Chow, Gene O'Donnell, Joe Tornatore, Eldon Burke, Robert Gunner, Buddy Douglas, George Sasaki, John Michael Quijada, Steve Merjanian, Priscilla Boyd, Cass Martin, Jeff Burton, William Graeff Jr., Smokey Roberds, Norma Jean Kron, Emory Souza, Jane Ross, Dianne Stanley, Erlynn Mary Botelho, Dave Rodgers, Chuck Fisher, Robert Lombardo

  The 1968 sci-fi classic Planet of the Apes certainly had audiences asking WTF at the end. Three astronauts from earth crash land on a planet inhabited by primates. They rule in a distant world 2,000 years in the future (or so it seems), where humans are inferior beings.

  The big reveal in Act III shows us an image of The Statue of Liberty. It was earth after all.
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  (#9) Saw

  • Danny Glover, Monica Potter, Shawnee Smith, Dina Meyer, Michael Emerson, Cary Elwes, Tobin Bell, Ken Leung, Leigh Whannell, Makenzie Vega, Benito Martinez, Mike Butters, Paul Gutrecht

  Two unfortunate men are held captive in a dirty room, chained by their ankles. There is a dead body between them. They discover they are victims of the Jigsaw Killer. In order to survive and assure loved ones will remain unharmed, one man must kill the other. The twist reveals that the dead man in the middle of the room is really quite alive and well. He is the Jigsaw Killer.
  
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  (#2) Seven

  • Brad Pitt, Gwyneth Paltrow, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, R. Lee Ermey, Charles S. Dutton, John C. McGinley, Richard Schiff, Richard Roundtree, Mark Boone Junior, Leland Orser, Michael Massee, Richard Portnow, Bob Stephenson, John Cassini, Reg E. Cathey, Peter Crombie, Emily Wagner, Endre Hules, Richmond Arquette, Lennie Loftin, Hawthorne James, Daniel Zacapa, Alan Migicovski, George Christy, Andrew Kevin Walker, Dominique Jennings, Harris Savides, Gene Borkan, Shannon Wilcox, Alfonso Freeman, Lexie Bigham, Charles A. Tamburro, James Deeth, Heidi Schanz, Michael Reid MacKay, Brian Evers, Tudor Sherrard, David Correia, Duffy Gaver, Pamala Tyson, Evan Mirand, Bob Collins, Paul Eckstein, Rachel Flanagan, Mario Di Donato, Julie Araskog, Grigori, Martin Serene, Jimmy Dale Hartsell, John Santin, Beverly Burke, William Davidson, Ron Blair, Cat Mueller, Bob Mack, Charline Su, Harrison White, Sarah Reinhardt

  “What’s in the box? What’s in the box?” John Doe (Kevin Spacey) completes his serial killing spree of following the seven deadly sins by forcing Detective Mills (Brad Pitt) to shoot him, when it’s revealed in a jaw-dropping twist that he decapitated Mills's wife (Gwyneth Paltrow) out of envy.
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  (#17) American Psycho

  • Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto, Josh Lucas, Chloë Sevigny, Samantha Mathis, Cara Seymour, Justin Theroux, Guinevere Turner. Reese Witherspoon

  This is a twist ending that will come with some controversy. We watch Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) murder several people in American Pyscho. We also watch Bateman slowly lose his mind through the progression of the narrative. At the end of the movie, when the dead bodies are gone, we question whether or not Bateman actually murdered anyone.

  Was it all just the delusion of a psychopath, or is he actually a killer? It's a twist with an open-ending, although some people think they have it all figured out.

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