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List of ambiguous ending movies
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Overwhelmed by a world he can no longer control, a quarrelsome worker in his fifties tries to preserve the integrity of his neighbourhood...
Style:
ambiguous ending, light, touching, captivating, humorous ...
Plot:
friendship, group of friends, gay slur, father son relationship, murder, mayor, suicide, loss of father, dark humor, friendship between men, mentor, chase ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
prague, central europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Markus is a handsome and respectable architect who has a secret: he is a pedophile. Despite feeling disgust of himself, Markus can't help but feel attracted to young boys. When he thinks he won't be able to suppress his deepest feelings, ...
Style:
ambiguous ending, tense, psychological, suspense, crying ...
Plot:
pedophile, gay lead character, lgbt teen, little boy, pedophilia, sexual attraction, boy, psychotherapy, co worker co worker relationship, identity crisis, depression, architect ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
central europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An Australian film about a hard-partying Sydney ad man who seeks to start a new chapter in his life.
Style:
lgbt cinema, ambiguous ending, psychological, tense, humorous ...
Plot:
sex scene, gay, lgbt, friendship between men, social satire, family relations, family conflict, alcoholics anonymous, alcoholic, gay friend, support group, father son relationship ...
Place:
australia, sydney australia
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
It's four years later, and a new group of students has been placed in Saturday detention at the infamous and prestigious Crestview Academy. When Siouxsie, sophomore 'undercrust,' crashes the party to avenge her sister's death, a ...
Style:
non-linear, ambiguous ending, humorous, suspense, slasher ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
high school student, dark humor, drug addict, student, female protagonist, serial killer, cynical man, conspiracy, murder, bossy woman, father son relationship, teenage boy ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Finland
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Kim, Bella and Momo are three fourteen-year-old girls who discover a fantastic flower with magic qualities: by drinking its nectar they are transformed into boys and they enter a new world. At first they enjoy their newly found freedom, but soon ...
Style:
psychological, ambiguous ending, contemplative, unusual plot structure, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
gender bending, coming of age, friendship, unrequited love, desire for fame, lgbt, transsexual, lgbtq, youth, school, love triangle, marijuana ...
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A harmless game of "Truth or Dare" among friends turns deadly when someone—or something—begins to punish those who tell a lie—or refuse the dare.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, slasher, scary, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
truth or dare, game, group of friends, supernatural horror, danger, survival, demon, murder, characters killed one by one, college, supernatural, rivalry ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
usa, tijuana mexico, big ben london, london, tokyo ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Three friends on a wilderness excursion must outrun a white collar criminal hellbent on retrieving his cash, but soon their greed turns them against each other. A modern re-telling of Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948).
Style:
suspense, ambiguous ending, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
betrayal by friend, hidden money, wilderness, greed, survival, criminal, group of friends, friendship, chase, young adult, wanted, friendship gone bad ...
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Mirai Fukuin (lit. The Future's Gospel) is a side story of Kara no Kyoukai novel series. It is divided into two parts, Möbius ring, and Möbius Link.
Style:
anime, dark drama, children's story, ambiguous ending, adult animation
Audience:
kids
Plot:
mature, supernatural, urban setting, terrorist attack, blood, flashback, supernatural power, predicting the future, multiple personality disorder, fortune telling, acceptance, sabotage ...
Time:
2010s, future, year 1998, 90s
Place:
japan
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France, Germany, Italy, Czech Republic
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
Borgia is a French-German-Czech historical drama television series created by Tom Fontana. The show recounts the Borgia family's rise to power and subsequent domination of the Papal States during the Renaissance.
Borgia debuted in Italy via ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, rough, costume drama, sensual ...
Plot:
renaissance, vatican, european history, italian history, political intrigue, power struggle, politics, historical character, pope, duke, church, brother sister sex ...
Time:
middle ages, 15th century, 16th century, medieval times
Place:
italy, rome italy, naples italy, europe, france ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
"CLOSE-UP" is a dramatic feature film told through the eyes of a failed Philadelphia actor who has succumbed to drug addiction. Our story follows him during the Holidays as he desperately tries to regain everything he has lost in his life; ...
Style:
ambiguous ending, psychological, suspenseful, touching, contemplative ...
Plot:
social realism, husband wife relationship, addiction, divorce, father daughter relationship, violence, washed up star, fame, father daughter estrangement, drug, drug addiction, fired from the job ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, philadelphia, los angeles
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA, India
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Centered around the 2002 massacres in Gujarat, the film tells the story of a happy family that is torn apart by the loss of their son Parzan.
Style:
enigmatic, ambiguous ending, captivating, sincere, disturbing ...
Plot:
racism, injustice, boy in peril, torture, religious intolerance, child's point of view, family in danger, hallucination, rage, innocence, racial discrimination, islam ...
Place:
india
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Two brothers, both with troubled paths, find themselves in the middle of one last bank job.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, realistic, serious, ambiguous ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
robbery, sibling relationship, crime gone awry, going straight, disorder, haunted by the past, hopes, criminal heroes, heist, brother brother relationship, bank robber, death of brother ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, louisiana, new orleans
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When a group of tourists on a New Orleans haunted swamp tour find themselves stranded in the wilderness, their evening of fun and spooks turns into a horrific nightmare.
Style:
slasher, horror comedy, slasher horror, sexy, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
swamp, serial killer, gory, backwoods, killer, survival horror, survival, supernatural, urban legend, trap, manic, halloween ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new orleans, louisiana, usa, southern usa
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178
Genre: Crime
Country: Russia
TV show
Style:
suspense, ambiguous ending, suspenseful, thought provoking, realistic ...
Plot:
prison escape, prison, investigation, brother brother relationship, gangster, state affairs, death sentence, law enforcement, danger, murder, friendship, chase ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In the near future, breathable air is nonexistent. Virtually all of humanity has disappeared, and those chosen to reestablish society reside in a controlled state of suspended animation. Two engineers tasked with guarding the last hope for mankind ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, ambiguous ending, dark, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
isolation, bunker, science, humanity, freezing, distopia, dystopia, disaster, post apocalypse, contamination, apocalypse, trapped ...
Time:
future, 2010s
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630
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Odessa, August 1970. A heat wave. The city is full of tourists. Boris, a journalist and foreign affairs specialist, and his eight-year-old son Valeri arrive from Moscow to visit Boris’ in-laws, Grigori Iosifovich and Raisa Irovna Davidov. But on ...
Style:
talky, ambiguous ending, realistic, emotional, social ...
Plot:
ordinary people, family problems, family drama, parents and children, husband wife relationship, love interest, brawl, parent child relationship, older man younger woman relationship, age difference, cholera, heat wave ...
Time:
year 1970, 70s
Place:
ussr, odessa ukraine, soviet union, ukraine
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Based on true and tragic events in the life of Vitaly Kaloyev, an architect and family man. In 2002, his wife and children die in a mid-air collision along with 70 other people, mostly children. Vitaly is one of the first people to discover the ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, bleak, ambiguous ending, realistic ...
Plot:
grief, tragedy, revenge, moral ambiguity, justice, airport, depression, death of child, tragic event, plane crash, loss, biopic ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
switzerland, russia, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Argentina
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In 1960, a team of Israeli secret agents is deployed to find Adolf Eichmann, the infamous Nazi architect of the Holocaust, supposedly hidden in Argentina, and get him to Israel to be judged.
Style:
period piece, costume drama, ambiguous ending, historical drama, tense ...
Plot:
war criminal, mossad, nazi hunter, world war two, holocaust, nazi, mission, world war, israeli, chase, manhunt, secret agent ...
Time:
year 1960, 1940s, year 1939, year 1954, year 1945 ...
Place:
israel, argentina, buenos aires argentina, germany, tel aviv israel ...
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A couple on a road trip through America encounter a terrifying dark force older than the country itself. An evil that transforms loved ones into someone terrifying, the entity has left a trail of murdered families going back hundreds of years.
Style:
suspense, ambiguous ending, enigmatic, rough, twist ending ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
supernatural horror, eye, evil, supernatural power, supernatural, supernatural being, dark secret, unsolved mystery, twists and turns, couples, love, mysterious event ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Jayakrishna is a dark-skinned guy who falls head over heels on Deepu but keeps his feelings to himself. As time passes by, a gang in his college beats him up and this issue brings Deepu closer to him. Slowly the friendship turns into love and this ...
Style:
ambiguous ending, satirical, psychological, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
relationship problems, love affair, relationships, couple relations, family relations, in love, star crossed lovers, social problems, dysfunctional family, forbidden love, racial slur, male female relationship ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
india
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153
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Norway
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A teenager wakes up near a cliff, injured and unable to remember how he got there. He is chained to a man in a suit and there is a gun gaffer-taped to each of their hands. An unknown person soon sends them shocking instructions of what they must do ...
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, psychological, thought provoking, ambiguous ending ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, desperation, kidnapping, coercion, social problems, suicidal thoughts, unhappy, trapped, grieving mother, captivity, terminal illness, loss of child ...
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507
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Two young people from opposing families fall in love and reawaken the vendetta from years ago in a mountain village in Crete.
Style:
ambiguous ending, thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot:
family problems, love interest, competitor, forbidden love, love and romance, in love, couple relations, love affair, parents and children, rivalry, eccentric family, star crossed lovers ...
Place:
greece
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
The story of Daniel Jones, lead investigator for the US Senate’s sweeping study into the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program, which was found to be brutal, immoral and ineffective. With the truth at stake, Jones battled tirelessly to ...
Style:
political, political thriller, uplifting, ambiguous ending, psychological ...
Plot:
politics, cia, torture, investigation, corruption, justice, truth, u.s. government, whistleblower, war crime, government corruption, humiliation ...
Time:
2010s, september 11 2001, 2000s, year 2019
Place:
washington d.c., san francisco
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
When a rising high school football player from South Central L.A. is recruited to play for Beverly Hills High, the wins, losses and struggles of two families from vastly different worlds - Compton and Beverly Hills - begin to collide. Inspired by ...
Style:
thought provoking, captivating, emotional, ambiguous ending, inspirational ...
Plot:
american football, high school football, male objectification, high school, father son relationship, coach, football team, rise to the top, stubbornness, family problems, sport team, rivalry ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
beverly hills
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Ireland, UK, Belgium, Finland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Trying to escape her broken past, Sarah O’Neill is building a new life on the fringes of a backwood rural town with her young son Chris. A terrifying encounter with a mysterious neighbour shatters her fragile security, throwing Sarah into a ...
Style:
dark, spooky, scary, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot:
forest, doppelganger, boy, house, nightmare, spell, son, folk horror, evil child, photograph, killer child, female warrior ...
Place:
ireland, europe
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884
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Forced to flee his home in Honduras, Óscar seeks asylum in the United States, only to find himself trapped in the immigration system.
Style:
suspense, rough, ambiguous ending, suspenseful, touching ...
Plot:
escape, undocumented immigrant, immigration, fear, violence, breakup, gang, arrest, court, tattoo, child protagonist, border ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
usa, central america
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Parent and child journey through the outskirts of society a decade after a pandemic has wiped out half the world's population. As a father struggles to protect his child, their bond—and the character of humanity—is tested.
Style:
apocalyptic, bleak, ambiguous ending, suspenseful, touching ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, child in peril, father daughter relationship, forest, girl, survival, immunity, virus, epidemic, distopia, post apocalyptic, fight ...
Time:
year 2019
Place:
persia
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Three friends making a web series about their town discover that their neighbors are being killed and replaced by creatures who are perfect copies of their victims.
Style:
scary, suspense, disturbing, bleak, ambiguous ending ...
Plot:
supernatural, cocoon, alien invasion, alien, nudity, doppelganger, danger, chaos, good versus evil, friendship, youth, death ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In 1984, a young programmer begins to question reality as he adapts a dark fantasy novel into a video game. A mind-bending tale with multiple endings.
Style:
psychedelic, mind bending, tech noir, psychological, non-linear ...
Plot:
computer, programmer, free will, alternate reality, flashback, time travel, computer game, video game, repeated scene, cyberpunk, time loop, conspiracy ...
Time:
80s, near future, 2010s, year 1984
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A young boy finds a powerful otherworldly weapon, which he uses to save his older adoptive brother from a crew of thugs. Before long, the two of them are also pursued by federal agents and mysterious mercenaries aiming to reclaim their asset.
Style:
suspense, brutal, ambiguous ending, social, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
brother brother relationship, teenage boy, abusive parent, murder, motel, burglary, brother, coming of age, teenager, shooting, adopted son, released from prison ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
nevada, iowa, las vegas, nebraska, detroit
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