Films with unpredictable and surprise twist endings, mostly thrillers, mystery and Sci-Fi. The list is ordered by my personal rating sorted ascending. I recommend every single movie, even the first one that is the weakest IMHO.
M | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
36 Metascore
Æon Flux is a mysterious assassin working for the Monicans, a group of rebels trying to overthrow the government. When she is sent on a mission to kill the Chairman, a whole new mystery is found.
Director: Karyn Kusama| Stars: Charlize Theron, Frances McDormand, Sophie Okonedo, Marton Csokas
Votes: 132,270 | Gross: $25.86M
MA | 95 min | Thriller
A rich man's wife goes on a trip to a cabin with her husband. He's preoccupied with business and leaves early. A man she meets offers to kill her husband. He's crazy and she leaves. He later tracks down the couple.
Director: Amy Holden Jones| Stars: Halle Berry, Christopher McDonald, Peter Greene, Clive Owen
Votes: 3,460 | Gross: $8.54M
M | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An heiress who's been shut inside her apartment building for nearly two decades is forced to confront her fears after one of her neighbors is killed and a detective arrives to begin the investigation.
Director: George Gallo| Stars: Selma Blair, Amy Smart, Kevin Pollak, Jason Antoon
Votes: 10,951
M | 115 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
47 Metascore
A small wooden box arrives on the doorstep of a married couple, who know that opening it will grant them a million dollars and kill someone they don't know.
Director: Richard Kelly| Stars: Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Frank Langella, James Rebhorn
Votes: 94,864 | Gross: $15.05M
MA15+ | 95 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
65 Metascore
Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.
Director: Rodrigo Cortés| Stars: Ryan Reynolds, José Luis García-Pérez, Robert Paterson, Stephen Tobolowsky
Votes: 167,599 | Gross: $1.03M
MA15+ | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
31 Metascore
An accountant is introduced to a mysterious sex club known as The List by his lawyer friend. But in this new world, he soon becomes the prime suspect in a woman's disappearance and a multi-million dollar heist.
Director: Marcel Langenegger| Stars: Hugh Jackman, Ewan McGregor, Michelle Williams, Bruce Altman
Votes: 40,675 | Gross: $4.60M
MA15+ | 104 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
50 Metascore
Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures twenty-four hours into the future, and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop.
Director: Bradley King| Stars: Danielle Panabaker, Matt O'Leary, George Finn, John Rhys-Davies
Votes: 48,695
M | 109 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
31 Metascore
A journalist goes undercover to ferret out businessman Harrison Hill as her childhood friend's killer. Posing as one of his temps, she enters into a game of online cat-and-mouse.
Director: James Foley| Stars: Halle Berry, Bruce Willis, Giovanni Ribisi, Richard Portnow
Votes: 50,890 | Gross: $23.98M
MA15+ | 140 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
53 Metascore
Ballerina Dominika Egorova is recruited to 'Sparrow School,' a Russian intelligence service where she is forced to use her body as a weapon. Her first mission, targeting a C.I.A. agent, threatens to unravel the security of both nations.
Director: Francis Lawrence| Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Charlotte Rampling
Votes: 199,835 | Gross: $46.87M
MA15+ | 92 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
41 Metascore
A woman wakes up every day, remembering nothing as a result of a traumatic accident in her past. One day, new terrifying truths emerge that force her to question everyone around her.
Director: Rowan Joffe| Stars: Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Anne-Marie Duff
Votes: 83,569 | Gross: $2.96M
M | 102 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
53 Metascore
In 1921, England is overwhelmed by the loss and grief of World War I. Hoax exposer Florence Cathcart visits a boarding school to explain sightings of a child ghost. Everything she believes unravels as the 'missing' begin to show themselves.
Director: Nick Murphy| Stars: Rebecca Hall, Dominic West, Imelda Staunton, Lucy Cohu
Votes: 68,644
M | 101 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
Eight candidates for a highly desirable corporate job are locked together in an exam room and given a final test with just one seemingly simple question. However, it doesn't take long for confusion to ensue and tensions to unravel.
Director: Stuart Hazeldine| Stars: Adar Beck, Gemma Chan, Nathalie Cox, John Lloyd Fillingham
Votes: 124,195
MA15+ | 131 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
82 Metascore
An accidental discovery near a doctor's estate stirs up some painful memories eight years after his wife's hideous murder, and now, things are bound to take a turn for the unexpected. Does the good doctor know more than he's letting on?
Director: Guillaume Canet| Stars: François Cluzet, Marie-Josée Croze, André Dussollier, Kristin Scott Thomas
Votes: 57,653 | Gross: $6.18M
MA15+ | 128 min | Action, Crime, Drama
51 Metascore
As a math savant uncooks the books for a new client, the Treasury Department closes in on his activities, and the body count starts to rise.
Director: Gavin O'Connor| Stars: Ben Affleck, Anna Kendrick, J.K. Simmons, Jon Bernthal
Votes: 315,733 | Gross: $86.26M
R | 113 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
61 Metascore
A private investigator is hired by a man who calls himself Louis Cyphre to track down a singer named Johnny Favorite. But the investigation takes an unexpected and somber turn.
Director: Alan Parker| Stars: Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet, Charlotte Rampling
Votes: 94,948 | Gross: $17.19M
MA | 103 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
46 Metascore
Two strangers awaken in a room with no recollection of how they got there, and soon discover they're pawns in a deadly game perpetrated by a notorious serial killer.
Director: James Wan| Stars: Cary Elwes, Leigh Whannell, Danny Glover, Ken Leung
Votes: 462,163 | Gross: $56.00M
MA15+ | 105 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
74 Metascore
A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage for handicapped children. Before long, her son starts to communicate with an invisible new friend.
Director: J.A. Bayona| Stars: Belén Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Roger Príncep, Mabel Rivera
Votes: 162,723 | Gross: $7.16M
MA | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
64 Metascore
A mysterious man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts his childhood: how his religious fanatic father received visions telling him to destroy people who were in fact "demons."
Director: Bill Paxton| Stars: Bill Paxton, Matthew McConaughey, Powers Boothe, Matt O'Leary
Votes: 90,091 | Gross: $13.10M
MA15+ | 129 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
80 Metascore
A retired legal counselor writes a novel hoping to find closure for one of his past unresolved homicide cases and for his unreciprocated love with his superior - both of which still haunt him decades later.
Director: Juan José Campanella| Stars: Ricardo Darín, Soledad Villamil, Pablo Rago, Carla Quevedo
Votes: 220,601 | Gross: $6.39M
M | 98 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
53 Metascore
A bereaved woman and her daughter are flying home from Berlin to America. At 30,000 feet, the child vanishes, and nobody will admit she was ever on the plane.
Director: Robert Schwentke| Stars: Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Sean Bean, Kate Beahan
Votes: 170,748 | Gross: $89.71M
MA15+ | 94 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
52 Metascore
With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person he believes to be responsible for the death of his family in the death camp to kill him himself.
Director: Atom Egoyan| Stars: Christopher Plummer, Kim Roberts, Amanda Smith, Martin Landau
Votes: 27,545 | Gross: $0.64M
M | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
72 Metascore
A transient young man breaks into empty homes to partake of the vacationing residents' lives for a few days.
Director: Kim Ki-duk| Stars: Lee Seung-yun, Jae Hee, Hyuk-ho Kwon, Joo Jin-mo
Votes: 57,890 | Gross: $0.24M
M | 92 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
35 Metascore
Soon after moving into their seemingly idyllic new home, a family learns of a brutal crime committed against former residents of the dwelling.
Director: Jim Sheridan| Stars: Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz, Naomi Watts, Elias Koteas
Votes: 68,897 | Gross: $21.28M
R | 114 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
36 Metascore
Psychologist Margaret Matheson and her assistant study paranormal activity, which leads them to investigate a world-renowned psychic who has resurfaced years after his toughest critic mysteriously passed away.
Director: Rodrigo Cortés| Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Robert De Niro, Cillian Murphy, Elizabeth Olsen
Votes: 65,190 | Gross: $0.05M
M | 97 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
67 Metascore
Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet's power problems.
Director: Duncan Jones| Stars: Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey, Dominique McElligott, Rosie Shaw
Votes: 374,237 | Gross: $5.01M
M | 98 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
65 Metascore
A policeman and his doctor wife have some marriage problems and the son blames the mother. For his job, the policeman investigates a case of a missing boy. The possible kidnapping looks like some cases from a few years ago.
Director: Adam Randall| Stars: Helen Hunt, Jon Tenney, Owen Teague, Judah Lewis
Votes: 64,948
M | 101 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
74 Metascore
In 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.
Director: Alejandro Amenábar| Stars: Nicole Kidman, Christopher Eccleston, Fionnula Flanagan, Alakina Mann
Votes: 390,002 | Gross: $96.52M
MA15+ | 138 min | Mystery, Thriller
63 Metascore
Teddy 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.
Director: Martin Scorsese| Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Emily Mortimer, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley
Votes: 1,433,869 | Gross: $128.01M
MA15+ | 153 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
70 Metascore
When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts.
Director: Denis Villeneuve| Stars: Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Melissa Leo
Votes: 795,378 | Gross: $61.00M
M | 129 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
63 Metascore
After 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.
Director: David Fincher| Stars: Michael Douglas, Deborah Kara Unger, Sean Penn, James Rebhorn
Votes: 424,796 | Gross: $48.32M
R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
64 Metascore
A wealthy New York City investment banking executive, Patrick Bateman, hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he delves deeper into his violent, hedonistic fantasies.
Director: Mary Harron| Stars: Christian Bale, Justin Theroux, Josh Lucas, Bill Sage
Votes: 702,227 | Gross: $15.07M
MA15+ | 97 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
69 Metascore
For his final assignment, a top temporal agent must pursue the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time. The chase turns into a unique, surprising and mind-bending exploration of love, fate, identity and time travel taboos.
Directors: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig| Stars: Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook, Noah Taylor, Madeleine West
Votes: 301,742 | Gross: $0.07M
M | 129 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
75 Metascore
In 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.
Director: Terry Gilliam| Stars: Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt, Joseph Melito
Votes: 642,588 | Gross: $57.14M
M | 113 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
88 Metascore
After 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.
Director: Richard Kelly| Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Mary McDonnell, Holmes Osborne
Votes: 842,966 | Gross: $1.48M
MA | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
76 Metascore
The 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.
Director: Bryan Singer| Stars: Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, Chazz Palminteri, Stephen Baldwin
Votes: 1,136,047 | Gross: $23.34M
MA | 90 min | Mystery, Thriller
64 Metascore
Stranded 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.
Director: James Mangold| Stars: John Cusack, Ray Liotta, Amanda Peet, John Hawkes
Votes: 264,895 | Gross: $52.16M
MA15+ | 129 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
76 Metascore
A police detective, a bank robber, and a high-power broker enter high-stakes negotiations after the criminal's brilliant heist spirals into a hostage situation.
Director: Spike Lee| Stars: Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Christopher Plummer
Votes: 394,260 | Gross: $88.51M
PG | 105 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
81 Metascore
Aspiring musician Miguel, confronted with his family's ancestral ban on music, enters the Land of the Dead to find his great-great-grandfather, a legendary singer.
Directors: Lee Unkrich, Adrian Molina| Stars: Anthony Gonzalez, Gael García Bernal, Benjamin Bratt, Alanna Ubach
Votes: 578,941 | Gross: $209.73M
M | 107 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
64 Metascore
Malcolm 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.
Director: M. Night Shyamalan| Stars: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette, Olivia Williams
Votes: 1,041,767 | Gross: $293.51M
M | 132 min | Drama
64 Metascore
In the high-stakes world of political power-brokers, Elizabeth Sloane is the most sought after and formidable lobbyist in D.C. But when taking on the most powerful opponent of her career, she finds winning may come at too high a price.
Director: John Madden| Stars: Jessica Chastain, Mark Strong, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Michael Stuhlbarg
Votes: 81,725 | Gross: $3.50M
M | 149 min | Mystery, Thriller
46 Metascore
A murder inside the Louvre, and clues in Da Vinci paintings, lead to the discovery of a religious mystery protected by a secret society for two thousand years, which could shake the foundations of Christianity.
Director: Ron Howard| Stars: Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Jean Reno, Ian McKellen
Votes: 455,739 | Gross: $217.54M
M | 148 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
74 Metascore
A 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.
What movie has the best surprise ending?
Best Twist Ending Movies.
American Beauty [1999] R | 122 min | Drama. ... .
The Prestige [2006] PG-13 | 130 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi. ... .
The Shawshank Redemption [1994] R | 142 min | Drama. ... .
The Usual Suspects [1995] R | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery. ... .
Memento [2000] ... .
Whiplash [2014] ... .
Fight Club [1999] ... .
Reservoir Dogs [1992].
What is a movie that has an unexpected ending?
“The Sixth Sense” [1999] Night Shyamalan, for better or worse. A critical hit and commercial success, to this day when people want to facetiously spoil a twist ending, they'll let you know that Bruce Willis is dead the whole time in “The Sixth Sense.” Or, really, like 95 percent of the time.
Which movie has the best ending?
25 Movies with Perfect Endings.
1 The Shawshank Redemption [1994] Columbia Pictures..
2 Stand by Me [1986] Columbia Pictures. ... .
3 The Sixth Sense [1999] Buena Vista Pictures Distribution. ... .
4 The Godfather [1972] Paramount Pictures. ... .
5 Rocky [1976] United Artists. ... .
6 Field of Dreams [1989] ... .
7 Casablanca [1942] ... .
8 Se7en [1995] ... .
What movie has the biggest plot twist?
Here's 12 Movies With The Most Unexpected Plot Twists.
Sleepy Hollow..
Glass Onion..
Gone Girl..
Knives Out..
Psycho..
Shutter Island..
The Sixth Sense..
Split..