fairly grim movies that end with characters bursting into dance

spoilers ahead if you care about knowing that movies end with characters bursting into dance

beau travail is the obvious biggie here
another round
and i was just rewatching inland empire and i had forgotten it ends with a big dance party

shrek

oh i thought that said fairly “grimm”

O Lucky Man!

killers of the flower moon

American Honey

It's not really a "grim" film, but it's funny how the end credits to Married To The Mob play over a full-on Freed Unit At MGM homage.

The Seventh Seal

Its not the actual end of the movie, but in the climax of the otherwise terrible 2000s action movie Gamer the film stops cold for the villain to do a full length song & dance production number to "I've Got You Under My Skin" with henchmen dancers and everything

Fellini 8½ (kind of, iirc)

Its not the actual end of the movie, but in the climax of the otherwise terrible 2000s action movie Gamer the film stops cold for the villain to do a full length song & dance production number to "I've Got You Under My Skin" with henchmen dancers and everything

― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Monday, 18 November 2024 20:58 (five minutes ago) link

i've never seen this movie but i've watched this sequence on YouTube maybe 10 times, it's incredible

Scrooged

the end credits to Married To The Mob play over a full-on Freed Unit At MGM homage.

Had to check this, and it's not really full-on, and there's just a few dance steps, and it's the beginning of the deleted scenes montage that the credits actually play against...but the vibe is there.

is slumdog millionaire grim enough?

Does Inland Empire count as grim? I can't make any sense of it, but I think it ends with a dance.

Mentioned in OP. I think you could fairly call it fairly grim

Sorry, missed that.

Simón del desierto - not grim imo but it doesn't seem to matter

Zatōichi (2003) - def not grim but best dancing

Gold Diggers of 1933

Pennies from Heaven

Would been even grimmer if they hadn't cut the part where they actually hang Steve Martin.

I got to see a screening of this around 2000 with Steve Martin and Jessica Harper in attendance. They said it was the first time they'd seen the movie with an audience that liked it.

Fish Tank

Neither super grim but can add
Simon of the Desert
All That Jazz

Missed that someone already did Simon under its Spanish title so can add
Stroszek.

Altman: The Long Goodbye, and if 8½ does count, then maybe Brewster McCloud too.

Salo was supposed to end with a big dance party as the credits rolled but Pasolini decided it didn't work. There's a YouTube video with photos from the set.

Although as it stands, it does end with a dance scene.

I have no memory of Inland Empire ending with a dance sequence, only that I had friends over to watch it and I don't think they've ever quite forgiven me. Maybe we didn't make it to the finish line?

Fish Tank--good one!

there’s something about mary

Not at the end, and not exactly Busby Berkeley, but---I do heart Bande à part (do not watch dance sequence out of context well I warned ya).

The awful Emilia Sanchez.

Perez?

Pérez, yeah

Tarr's Almanac of Fall, though even the dancing is fairly grim here.

Feel like Fassbinder did this at least once.

Jancsó also, though the dance usually climaxes in a massacre before the end of the film.

Feel like Fassbinder did this at least once.

...I think it was Whity?

Rachel Getting Married certainly got the grim arms: girl braces herself, goes to family wedding, gets eyes like, "You got some nerve, evil skank"--no matter how much rehab, it's the shit you can't take back (my basic def ov noir) However, eventually, even as bad stuff goes on, incl. from black sheep girl, who still has a mouth on her, the music, amazing music, of the improvising wedding band---they're a band now---*also* pushes back--'til I feel like there must be dancing, the music is dancing, the people and the mouths are moving.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Not exactly "bursting" but Sorcerer

Sid and Nancy

Tropic Thunder isnt grim but that dance scene at the end by Tom Cruise certainly is.

mountains may depart

beau travail is the obvious biggie here

Maybe obvious but it's one of my all time fave movie scenes and I watch it on youtube every few months because it's so perfect.

_Feel like Fassbinder did this at least once._


...I think it was _Whity_?

Maybe obvious but it's one of my all time fave movie scenes and I watch it on youtube every few months because it's so perfect.

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 19 November 2024 12:14 (two hours ago) link

oh it's amazing

Jersey Boys

Dancing Christopher Walken in final scene for bonus grim

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvQSk6j_PGs

Fellini's Casanova ends with Casanova embracing and dancing a little with the mechanical woman from earlier in the film.

TV series rather than a movie, but Giri/Haji, just before its conclusion, has the main cast suddenly do an interpretive dance of the plot up to that point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvYBaiJ1KQM

Re: Beau Travail

Maybe obvious but it's one of my all time fave movie scenes and I watch it on youtube every few months because it's so perfect.

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 19 November 2024

yes! it was unexpected but was perfect

i vaguely remember from my childhood that Ernest Scared Stupid ends with dancing

Admittedly, it is pretty grim to be scared stupid.

I don't really remember if it's grim or ends with a dance sequence, but I was trying to remember the name of Holy Motors for days. Then I watched Furiosa on a plane and they used the phrase "holy motors" and eureka.

Clockwork Orange

Do I have to watch White Noise to find out if it qualifies?

To Have and Have Not

Mads Mikkelsen boozing it up and bursting into dance at the end of Another Round