best final scene of a movie

i'm lamestream but No Country For Old Men

it's a little try-hard, faux deep, not believable, but still gets me every time

Kubrick's The Killers is a good one.

Cache

The James Woods movie Cop (based on a James Elroy novel) is mostly forgettable but has an incredible ending.

Agree on NCFOM!

Just watched Profession: Reporter and that definitely qualifies.

Land Before Time

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/4f/7e/3c/4f7e3c89ce70e6533c6bc112ac2c8ce6.jpg

cheese eating rat

Just watched Profession: Reporter and that definitely qualifies.

For Americans, that's The Passenger.

and Josh, it's The Killing.

obv 2001

and Strangelove, Paths of Glory, and Barry Lyndon

here to do my duty and say the third man but also

notorious
a serious man
perfume: the story of a murderer
double indemnity (don't much like this movie; LOVE "closer than that, walter")
the godfather's good, always love a wipe.

and if morbs is listing every kubrick movie then fuck it, jack in the photograph IS deep

I have a soft spot for endings that literalize the movie's title, a la There Will Be Blood and Drag Me To Hell.

and Josh, it's The Killing.

It is! I blame the phone. The Killers is the Burt Lancaster noir with two different versions, right?

The Conversation and Godfather II are both pretty great. The Searchers ... lots of great endings!

The Bicycle Thief

The Vanishing is definitely the one I think about the most

I love the ending of I Am Love, (not the mid-credits slow-motion shot of the two-of-them in the grotto), but when Tilda is seen stalking across the grounds through the window in the background, and bursts in the door, and then runs upstairs and the housekeeper is throwing clothes on the bed, and then bawling, and then Tilda's wearing something vaguely frumpy, and then she locks eyes with her secret lesbian daughter, and they clutch their hearts, and the camera runs out to where Tilda was standing a second before and turns and looks out the front door but she's gone

vertigo is one of old lunch's if you assume his acrophobia was cured in the middle of the movie but has just come back

xp Oh yeah and Harmonielehre blasting through the whole thing it's just great

Agree about I Am Love!

Kubrick is kind of his own category here, but my choice in that category is Eyes Wide Shut, although the last shot of Barry Lyndon is great.

As for recent movies, the last few scenes of The Lost City of Z are gorgeous.

I love the ending gag of Sherlock Jr, Buster looking to the screen for cues on what to do in a final scene

Colonel Blimp, the military band getting louder and louder

The Third Man ftw.

https://dirkmalcolm.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/aguirre-the-wrath-of-god-1972.jpg

I feel like I should say The Florida Project just for trolling, but instead I'll say the one that The Florida Project keeps reminding me of, which is Corneliu Porumboiu's The Treasure. Anyone seen that?

The Vanishing is definitely the one I think about the most

http://cdn-static.denofgeek.com/sites/denofgeek/files/images/306529.jpg

The mist

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fZIZ_60MfHA/TjjAjVFC89I/AAAAAAAABZ0/97lOGeWQFsk/s1600/Some%2BLike%2BIt%2BHot%2B9%2BEnding.jpg

It seems unfair to say Stalker as that movie has the best everything else, just about, but Stalker

And if we're shamelessly boosting our faves, best Bunuel closing scene is IMPOSSIBLE. Maybe slightly favour Fernando Rey going for the fridge

Okay, bizarro, you've convinced me to finally give in to my sister's entreaties and watch Iron Giant over the holidays. Had no idea Donald Sutherland was even in it.

And and the end of C&JGB. All the best films have the best endings. It's not fair. Will have to think of crap films with great endings now. Pierrot Le Fou is a good film with s great ending maybe

The jerry Lewis film that ends with the set being dismantled

Dangerously close to Monty Python & the Holy Grail there wins

And holy mountain! Lewis did it 1st tho

I did not know that!

Fassbinder, "Fox and His Friends". Really life affirming that one <--- irony.

The mist yep dunno if the movie even earned it but

Stroszek
All That Jazz

Kiss Me Deadly (original ending)

http://sensesofcinema.com/assets/uploads/images/directors/02/kissme2.jpg

Okay, bizarro, you've convinced me to finally give in to my sister's entreaties and watch Iron Giant over the holidays. Had no idea Donald Sutherland was even in it.

if memory serves, Lewis film is The Patsy

the Olsen & Johnson vehicle Crazy House, in which one of them does to the romantic leads what the Marx Bros would've liked to do.

Another recent one: Personal Shopper!

Ordet
Sunrise
Black Moon
All that Heaven Allows

videodrome

two animal related ones:

Umberto D
Au Hasard Balthazar

yeah I thought of poor old Balthazar

I think a lot of my favorite movies have something closer to a final movement (not quite an act) or series of scenes--rather than a discrete "final scene." 2001 is probably the paradigm for this.

Minions - because I couldn't wait for that shit to be over!

(Seriously. a second vote for All That Jazz.)

3 Women

3 men and a baby

when Ted Danson masturbates in front of the baby, classic

I believe that was actually a cardboard cutout of Danson masturbating

another Antonioni: L'eclisse

Nostalghia

I dont remember that scene fellas

aguirre otm

Make Way for Tomorrow
Kiss Me Deadly
The 400 Blows
L'eclisse
The Godfather
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Fury
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Last Bolshevik
Escape from L.A.
Dogville
Before Sunset
Burn After Reading
A Serious Man
Drag Me to Hell

Burn After Reading was a thought I had :)

A.I. Artificial Intelligence goes on the list too.

https://i.imgur.com/bVcPqyI.jpg

death in venice is a good one

This always struck me as better representing the morbid ideal of psycho rather than the super hokey scooby doo villain unmasking/explanation scenes before it.
http://pics.imcdb.org/0is179/psychomarion2ndendkd8.3808.jpg

Lukas Moodysson has a knack for endings

Fucking Åmal / Show Me Love ends with two girls, out of the closet in love for the first time, drinking chocolate milk together and giggling

Tillsammans /Together is a family reunification that looks like this — http://www.michael-nyqvist.com/together7x.jpg

I genuinely thought of Show Me Love!!

Another recent one: Personal Shopper!

my all time favorite final scene / shot is Synecdoche, New York. it’s not even close. Was speechless & in a daze for an hour afterward. Shares something v important with the ending of Personal Shopper, a choice I’m surprised more filmmakers don’t use.

devil's backbone has a gd final scene/shot imo

Clue

still think that was legitimately one of the coolest cinematic gimmicks ever pulled, shame something like that wouldn't work today

The Purple Rose of Cairo is a proper gutpunch of an ending

Songs from the Second Floor has a great ending.

https://youtu.be/-s-e799o37w

First thought is The Third Man, but on second thought the goodbye to all that optimistic Americanism is a bit tired for my personal taste.

Wilder's endings are pretty, pretty good.

withnail
aguirre
cook thief wife lover (i am remembering the dinner procession as the last scene, if i'm wrong then strike this one)
the devils

tp the return has trumped them all though. but it's not a movie.

xp i just watched Some Like It Hot for the first time last week & didn't know about the famous final line & started cackling to myself