Surprise ending movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant surprise ending movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out surprise ending, twist ending, psychological, twisted, psychological thriller and suspense films and TV shows about / with twists and turns, plot twist, murder, mysticism, mind game, blood, puzzle, murder mystery, flashback and death plots mostly in Thriller, Mystery and Drama genres shot in USA, Spain, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as surprise ending: The Invisible Guest (2016), Exam (2009), Now You See Me (2013), Source Code (2011), An Inspector Calls (2015), Triangle (2009), The Body (2012), The Loft (2014), A Perfect Getaway (2009), Prisoners (2013).

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The Invisible Guest (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story: "The Invisible Guest” turns on a young businessman who wakes up in a hotel room locked from the inside with the dead body of his lover next to him. He hires a prestigious lawyer, and over one night they work together to clarify what happened ...
Style: surprise ending, suspense, psychological, twist ending, mind blowing ...
Plot: uncover truth, lawyer, infidelity, lie, interrogation, murder suspect, evidence, death, blackmail, moral dilemma, strong female character, suspect ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016
Place: iberian peninsula, barcelona, spain
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 6.8
 125K
Exam (2009)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The final candidates for a highly desirable corporate job are locked together in an exam room and given a test so simple and confusing that tension begins to unravel.
Style: psychological, surprise ending, suspense, mind bending, twist ending ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: mind game, survival, plot twist, twists and turns, psychology, surveillance, confinement indoors, psychologist, ambition, intrigue, rivalry, pandemic ...
Time: year 2009, future
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 7.2
 703K
Now You See Me (2013)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: An FBI agent and an Interpol detective track a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances and reward their audiences with the money.
Style: surprise ending, clever, entertaining, suspense, intellectual ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, boys' night, adult
Plot: heist, twists and turns, fbi, scheme, perfect crime, outsmarting, bank robbery, con artists, teamwork, cons and scams, mind game, thief ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: las vegas, new orleans, new york, paris france, usa ...
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 7.5
 547K
Source Code (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, France, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens wakes up in the body of an unknown man, discovering he's involved in a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train. He learns he's part of a top-secret experimental program that enables ...
Style: surprise ending, suspense, clever, mind bending, thought provoking ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, chick flick
Plot: time loop, time travel, train, alternate reality, parallel universe, memory, twists and turns, save the day, destiny, changing the past or future, bomb, terrorism ...
Time: future, year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa, somalia, afghanistan, illinois
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An Inspector Calls (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A mysterious Inspector investigates the wealthy Birling family and their dinner guests following the suicide of a young woman.
Style: surprise ending, serious, thought provoking, talky, realistic ...
Plot: twists and turns, plot twist, investigation, inspector, uncover truth, introspection, law enforcement, family problems, haunted by the past, suicide, justice, rich and poor ...
Time: 1910s, year 1912, 20th century, edwardian era
Place: england, britain, united kingdom
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 6.9
 129K
Triangle (2009)
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The story revolves around the passengers of a yachting trip in the Atlantic Ocean who, when struck by mysterious weather conditions, jump to another ship only to experience greater havoc on the open seas.
Style: twist ending, psychological, surprise ending, suspense, scary ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: time loop, twists and turns, ship, time travel, supernatural, ghost ship, isolation, ocean, insanity, gory, time paradox, macabre ...
Time: year 2009, 1930s, 20th century, 2000s, year 1932 ...
Place: oceania, miami, florida, caribbean
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 7.6
 72K
The Body (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A woman’s body disappears mysteriously from the morgue without a trace. Police inspector Jaime Peña investigates the strange occurrence with the help of Álex Ulloa, the widower of the missing woman.
Style: surprise ending, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, detective ...
Plot: twists and turns, murder, investigation, uncover truth, missing person, adulterous husband, car accident, mistress, morgue, vengeance, adultery, haunted by the past ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: spain, barcelona
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 6.3
 60K
The Loft (2014)
Genre: Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Belgium, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: For five men, the opportunity to share a penthouse in the city -- in which to carry on extramarital affairs -- is a dream come true, until the dead body of an unknown woman turns up. Realizing that her killer must be one of their group, the men are ...
Style: surprise ending, twist ending, suspenseful, suspense, sexy ...
Plot: twists and turns, murder mystery, adultery, murder, infidelity, adulterous husband, unfaithful husband, uncover truth, sex scene, cheating wife, husband wife relationship, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, san diego california
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A Perfect Getaway (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: For their honeymoon, newlyweds Cliff and Cydney head to the tropical islands of Hawaii. While journeying through the paradisaical countryside the couple encounters Kale and Cleo, two disgruntled hitchhikers and Nick and Gina, two wild but ...
Style: surprise ending, suspenseful, tense, suspense, twist ending ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: serial killer, twists and turns, murderous pair, psychopath, honeymoon, wilderness, danger, island, paranoia, vacation gone wrong, murder, survival horror ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: hawaii, usa, oceania
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 8.1
 800K
Prisoners (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story: 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. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family?
Style: psychological, twist ending, suspenseful, atmospheric, bleak ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, adult
Plot: kidnapping, investigation, serial killer, twists and turns, revenge, vigilantism, police investigation, brutality, torture, police, vigilante, cop ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, bolivia, georgia, usa, boston
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The Usual Suspects (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an ...
Style: neo noir, surprise ending, twist ending, clever, confusing ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: twists and turns, plot twist, heist, master criminal, organized crime, criminal, manipulation, gangster, great ending, interrogation, murder mystery, whodunit ...
Time: 20th century, year 1995, 80s, 90s, year 1981
Place: new york, los angeles, hungary, turkey, north america ...
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 7.4
 303K
Predestination (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Predestination chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from committing their crimes. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must stop the one criminal that has ...
Style: surprise ending, clever, confusing, philosophical, mind bending ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, family friendly, adult
Plot: time travel, time loop, plot twist, time machine, twists and turns, time paradox, parallel universe, changing the past or future, existentialism, transgender, intersex, mission ...
Time: year 1975, future, 2010s, 1940s, year 2014 ...
Place: usa, new york, peru, cleveland ohio
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Lucky Number Slevin (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, UK, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Slevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses. Under constant watch, Slevin must try not to get killed by an infamous assassin and come up with an idea of how to get out of his current dilemma. ...
Style: surprise ending, clever, neo noir, suspense, twisted ...
Audience: boys' night, girls' night
Plot: twists and turns, hitman, revenge, assassin, mistaken identity, organized crime, disorder, justice, mafia, vengeance, secrets, mysterious character ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, year 1979, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city
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 7.1
 197K
Side Effects (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.
Style: psychological, surprise ending, suspense, captivating, clever ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: mental illness, psychiatrist, depression, murder, patient, sleepwalking, deception, twists and turns, mental institution, life turned upside down, psychiatry, doctor ...
Time: year 2013, future, 2010s, year 2004, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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 7.3
 266K
Identity (2003)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.
Style: twist ending, suspense, scary, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, twists and turns, murder mystery, mental disorder, investigation, psychology, murderer, mental illness, motel, split personality, psychopath, rainstorm ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: nevada, usa, florida
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 6.3
 156K
Devil (2010)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A group of people trapped in a elevator realizes that the devil is among them.
Style: scary, surprise ending, psychological, suspenseful, twist ending ...
Plot: devil, supernatural, elevator, group of strangers, police investigation, supernatural horror, confined, trap, stranded, isolation, investigation, trapped in an elevator ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, year 2000, 21st century
Place: philadelphia, usa
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 6.3
 171K
Flightplan (2005)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A claustrophobic, Hitchcockian thriller. A bereaved woman and her daughter are flying home from Berlin to America. At 30,000 feet the child vanishes and nobody admits she was ever on that plane.
Style: surprise ending, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: airplane, twists and turns, kidnapping, missing child, conspiracy, female protagonist, family relations, flight attendant, little girl, mother daughter relationship, airplane accident, grief ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: berlin germany, persia, newfoundland, new york, germany
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 6.0
 69K
Dream House (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Publisher, Will Atenton quits a lucrative job in New York to relocate his wife, Libby and their daughters to a quaint town in New England. However, as they settle into their home the Atentons discover that a woman and her children were murdered ...
Style: surprise ending, twist ending, suspenseful, tense, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, haunted house, twists and turns, plot twist, memory loss, insanity, murder, family relations, mental patient, riddles and clues, nervous breakdown, danger ...
Time: year 2011, year 2000, 21st century
Place: new england, usa
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 5.8
 39K
Passengers (2008)
Genre: Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After a plane crash, a young therapist, Claire, is assigned by her mentor to counsel the flight's five survivors. When they share their recollections of the incident -- which some say include an explosion that the airline claims never happened ...
Style: surprise ending, suspense, twist ending, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: afterlife, survivor, supernatural, tragedy, love and romance, love affair, psychology, plot twist, airplane crash, female protagonist, catastrophe, hidden truth ...
Time: year 2008, 20th century, 21st century
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 7.7
 245K
Primal Fear (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: An arrogant, high-powered attorney takes on the case of a poor altar boy found running away from the scene of the grisly murder of the bishop who has taken him in. The case gets a lot more complex when the accused reveals that there may or may not ...
Style: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, tense, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: mental illness, twists and turns, plot twist, trial, courtroom drama, psychology, lawyer, murder, courtroom, psychopath, corruption, manipulation ...
Time: 90s, future, year 1996, 20th century
Place: chicago, usa
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 7.5
 205K
Upgrade (2018)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A brutal mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed in the hospital and his beloved wife dead. A billionaire inventor soon offers Trace a cure — an artificial intelligence implant called STEM that will enhance his body. Now able to walk, Grey finds that ...
Style: futuristic, surprise ending, thought provoking, tech noir, neo noir ...
Audience: date night
Plot: cyberpunk, artificial intelligence, murder, surgery, microchip, revenge, nanotechnology, cyborgs, technology, super computer, dystopia, distopia ...
Time: future, near future, 2010s
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The Skeleton Key (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.
Style: twist ending, surprise ending, suspense, suspenseful, gothic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: plot twist, occult, ghost, supernatural, twists and turns, voodoo, witchcraft, macabre, supernatural horror, ritual, rite, black magic ...
Time: year 2005, year 2000, 2000s, 20th century, 1920s
Place: new orleans, louisiana
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 7.7
 426K
The Game (1997)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a coldhearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad -- a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nearly a nanosecond, ...
Style: psychological, surprise ending, suspense, twist ending, neo noir ...
Audience: adult
Plot: twists and turns, mind game, manipulation, psychology, game, uncover truth, life turned upside down, existentialism, scheme, disorder, life & death, surveillance ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place: san francisco, usa, bay area, california, seattle ...
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 6.6
 23K
Fermat's Room (2007)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Four mathematicians who do not know each other are invited by a mysterious host on the pretext of resolving a great enigma. The room in which they find themselves turns out to be a shrinking room that will crush them if they do not discover in time ...
Style: surprise ending, scary, suspense, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: mathematics, riddles and clues, locked in a room, mind game, isolation, game of death, science, trapped, puzzle, mathematician, room, survival ...
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 8.1
 1.1M
Gone Girl (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story: With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
Style: psychological, suspense, surprise ending, clever, twist ending ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, boys' night ...
Plot: twists and turns, murder mystery, missing person, psychology, infidelity, manipulation, investigation, femme fatale, adultery, marriage, missing wife, psychopath ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 2000s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: peru, america, usa, new york, manhattan new york city ...
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 6.6
 276K
The Village (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alter the community forever.
Style: surprise ending, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, clever ...
Audience: date night, teens, girls' night
Plot: plot twist, forest, isolation, psychology, twists and turns, utopia, village, mysterious place, autumn, small town, village life, blind character ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 1890s, 19th century, 18th century ...
Place: pennsylvania, philadelphia, new england
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 6.3
 150K
The Visit (2015)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The terrifying story of a brother and sister who are sent to their grandparents' remote Pennsylvania farm for a weeklong trip. Once the children discover that the elderly couple is involved in something deeply disturbing, they see their chances ...
Style: suspense, twist ending, surprise ending, suspenseful, mockumentary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: murder, elderly, danger, kids in trouble, siblings relations, found footage, sibling relationship, farm, grandmother granddaughter relationship, family relations, parents and children, basement ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place: philadelphia, usa, pennsylvania
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 7.6
 391K
The Others (2001)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA, France, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in ...
Style: twist ending, surprise ending, scary, suspense, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: ghost, haunted house, supernatural, afterlife, nightmare, twists and turns, mansion, supernatural horror, mysterious character, haunting, spiritualism, macabre ...
Time: year 2001, 1940s, year 2000, year 1945, 20th century ...
Place: persia, america, europe, english channel, england
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 8.4
 1.3M
Memento (2000)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Suffering short-term memory loss after a head injury, Leonard Shelby embarks on a grim quest to find the lowlife who murdered his wife in this gritty, complex thriller that packs more knots than a hangman's noose. To carry out his plan, Shelby ...
Style: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, neo noir ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: memory loss, amnesia, vengeance, plot twist, memory, murder, twists and turns, revenge, paranoia, whodunit, psychology, haunted by the past ...
Time: year 2000, future, year 2001, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: los angeles, california, iran, america, usa
Is relevant ?
 8.6
 1.8M
Se7en (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. ...
Style: detective, surprise ending, suspenseful, disturbing, neo noir ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: serial killer, investigation, twists and turns, psychopath, police, psychology, mind game, murder, insanity, police investigation, macabre, maniac ...
Time: 90s, year 1995, 20th century
Place: los angeles, america, iran, persia, usa ...
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