Powerful ending movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant powerful ending movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, suspense, thought provoking, complex and interesting films and TV shows about / with powerful ending, storytelling, death, mentor, dialogue, twists and turns, loneliness, redemption, murder and friendship plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as powerful ending: The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Seven (1995), The Best Offer (2013), The Fool (2014), Gone Baby Gone (2007), Jungle (2017), The Adjustment Bureau (2011), The Boy and the Beast (2015), Perras (2011), Arrival (2016).

List of powerful ending movies

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Framed in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, ...
Style: clever, uplifting, inspirational, touching, twist ending ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, teens, kids, family friendly ...
Plot: prison, prison escape, freedom, friendship between men, hopes, friendship, corruption, human spirit, justice, prison life, life, stephen king ...
Time: 1940s, 1950s, 90s, year 1994, 2010s ...
Place: usa, maine, columbus ohio, persia, iran ...
Is relevant?
 8.6
 2.0M
Seven (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: suspenseful, surprise ending, neo noir, detective, bad ending ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: serial killer, investigation, twists and turns, psychopath, psychology, mind game, police investigation, police, police detective, sin, maniac, murder ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place: los angeles, usa, persia, iran, america ...
Is relevant?
 7.8
 136K
The Best Offer (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Virgil Oldman is a world renowned antiques expert and auctioneer. An eccentric genius, he leads a solitary life, going to extreme lengths to keep his distance from the messiness of human relationships. When appointed by the beautiful but emotionally ...
Style: twist ending, surprise ending, psychological, atmospheric, enigmatic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: twists and turns, art, painting, art collector, loneliness, forgery, art theft, collector, obsession, age difference, solitude, young woman ...
Time: year 2013, y2k, 2010s, 18th century, 21st century
Place: vienna, europe, berlin germany, prague, italy
Is relevant?
 8.0
 18K
The Fool (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 116 min.
Story: The Fool is a movie about a simple plumber. An honest man, he is up against an entire system of corrupted bureaucrats. At stake are the lives of 800 inhabitants of an old dorm that is at risk of collapsing within the span of the night.
Style: harsh, atmospheric, realistic, bleak, serious ...
Plot: fighting the system, apartment building, courage, injustice, society, tragedy, moral dilemma, dishonesty, violence, small town, lone hero, plumber ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 90s, 21st century
Place: russia, soviet union
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 7.6
 309K
Gone Baby Gone (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that ...
Style: twist ending, suspense, surprise ending, neo noir, thought provoking ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: kidnapping, private detective, twists and turns, investigation, conspiracy, violence, moral dilemma, police investigation, death, murder mystery, moral ambiguity, missing child ...
Time: year 2007, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: boston, massachusetts, usa
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 6.7
 70K
Jungle (2017)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A mysterious guide escorts an enthusiastic adventurer and his friend into the Amazon jungle, but their journey turns into a terrifying ordeal as the darkest elements of human nature and the deadliest threats of the wild force them to fight for ...
Style: atmospheric, suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: survival, jungle, wilderness, nature, alone, wilderness survival, adventurer, survivor, amazon rainforest, rescue, raft, river ...
Time: year 2017, 20th century, 80s, year 1981, year 1980
Place: bolivia, south america, andes mountains
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The Adjustment Bureau (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A man glimpses the future Fate has planned for him – and chooses to fight for his own destiny. Battling the powerful Adjustment Bureau across, under and through the streets of New York, he risks his destined greatness to be with the only woman ...
Style: romantic, mind bending, philosophical, cerebral, psychological ...
Audience: teens, date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: destiny, alternate reality, power of love, fall in love, fictional reality, politics, changing the past or future, foreknowledge, creator, supernatural, mind control, forbidden love ...
Time: future, year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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The Boy and the Beast (2015)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Kyuta, a boy living in Shibuya, and Kumatetsu, a lonesome beast from Jutengai, an imaginary world. One day, Kyuta forays into the imaginary world and, as he's looking for his way back, meets Kumatetsu who becomes his spirit guide. That ...
Style: anime, touching, breathtaking, intense, poignant ...
Plot: mentor, training, beast, destiny, martial arts, furry, friendship, loneliness, fantasy world, orphan, japanese schoolgirl, good versus evil ...
Time: 2010s
Place: japan, tokyo
Is relevant?
 5.6
 1K
Perras (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Something terrible is happening in class 3A at Calmecatl Junior High. No one can leave the classroom until the guilty party is found. This is the device that gives us a glimpse of the ethics, games, esthetics and eroticism of these girl-women. It is ...
Style: erotic, suspense, brutal, thought provoking, suspenseful ...
Plot: sex scene, friendship, teenager, powerful ending, character study, human nature, manipulation, marital problem, humiliation, sexuality, social differences, moral ambiguity ...
Is relevant?
 7.9
 852K
Arrival (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.
Style: psychological, philosophical, intellectual, reflective, twist ending ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, adult
Plot: first contact, alien, female protagonist, linguist, ufo, extraterrestrial, alien contact, time, alien invasion, creature, science, alien race ...
Time: year 2016, future, 2010s
Place: montana, china, america, massachusetts, venezuela ...
Is relevant?
 8.4
 192K
The Night Of (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: After a night of partying with a female stranger, a man wakes up to find her stabbed to death and is charged with her murder.
Style: suspense, clever, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot: murder, courtroom, murder investigation, murder mystery, jail, lawyer, justice, drug, investigation, brutality, relationships, love story ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
Is relevant?
 7.5
 208K
The Abyss (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, exciting, suspense, visually stunning ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: ocean, ufo, underwater, first contact, disaster, sea, submarine, space and aliens, survival, heroic mission, alien encounter, alien ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1989, future
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 32K
Antebellum (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Successful author Veronica finds herself trapped in a horrifying reality and must uncover the mind-bending mystery before it's too late.
Style: brutal, psychological thriller, suspense, slasher, frightening ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: slavery, brutality, racism, plantation, captivity, justice, powerful ending, humanity, writers, interracial rape, black, female warrior ...
Time: 2020s, future, 19th century, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., virginia, north carolina, louisiana, new orleans
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The Best Is Yet to Come (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Following a huge misunderstanding, two friends always decide to tackle everything to make up for lost time.
Style: tragicomedy, thought provoking, sentimental, touching, sincere ...
Plot: friendship between men, friendship, life, friends, best friend, life philosophy, philosophy, powerful ending, humour, inspiration, human relationship, illness ...
Is relevant?
 6.7
 635
The Passion (2008)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Follows Christ's last days and crucifixion.
Style: serious, realistic, thought provoking, harsh, biblical
Plot: jesus, crucifixion of jesus, religion, controversy, crucifix, bible, culture clash, death, life philosophy, powerful ending, false accusation, brutality ...
Place: holy land, jerusalem
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Amazon Hot Box (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: An innocent college student must fight for her life inside a jungle prison with an evil wardress who uses voodoo experiments and a torture machine.
Style: sexy, suspenseful, serious, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot: woman with a gun, women in prison, prison, problem, battles, cross country trip, desperation, survivor, amazon rainforest, human spirit, friendship, human nature ...
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Two Sentence Horror Stories (2017)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 20 min.
TV show
Story: An anthology series featuring updated tales of horror and haunting for the digital age, inspired by the viral fan fiction of two sentence horror stories.
Style: anthology, philosophical, realistic, thought provoking, slasher ...
Plot: eye, technology, loneliness, technology gone awry, human nature, social decay, life is a bitch, computers and web, multiple storylines, powerful ending, life philosophy, twists and turns ...
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Most Dangerous Game (2020)
Genre: Short, Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 7 min.
TV show
Story: Desperate to take care of his pregnant wife before a terminal illness can take his life, Dodge Maynard accepts an offer to participate in a deadly game where he soon discovers that he's not the hunter - but the prey.
Style: suspense, psychological thriller, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: game of death, most dangerous game, human prey, mission of murder, game, life & death, struggle for survival, danger, threat to kill, cruelty, chases and races, chase ...
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Jim Jefferies: Freedumb (2016)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Returning for a second Netflix comedy special, Jim Jefferies unleashes his famously ferocious black humor to a packed house in Nashville, Tennessee.
Style: philosophical, political, funny, stylized, talky ...
Plot: stand up comedian, politics, brutality, life & death, greed, idealism, corruption, religion, culture clash, conspiracy, obsession, life philosophy ...
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Gangs of Wasseypur (2012)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India, France
Duration: 321 min.
Story: Shahid Khan is exiled after impersonating the legendary Sultana Daku in order to rob British trains. Now outcast, Shahid becomes a worker at Ramadhir Singh's colliery, only to spur a revenge battle that passes on to generations. At the turn of ...
Style: tense, serious, rough, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Plot: revenge, gangster, macabre, organized crime, vengeance, brutality, gang, blood, abuse, greed, small town, criminal heroes ...
Time: year 2012, year 1989, year 1941, y2k, year 1990 ...
Place: india, middle east, asia
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 5.9
 6K
Raw Meat (1972)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: There's something pretty grisly going on under London in the Tube tunnels between Holborn and Russell Square. When a top civil servant becomes the latest to disappear down there Scotland Yard start to take the matter seriously. Helping them are ...
Style: slasher, grindhouse, detective, underground horror, black comedy ...
Plot: cannibalism, serial killer, cannibal, subway, missing person, american abroad, exploitation, feral man, gory, eating human flesh, railway, characters murdered one by one ...
Time: year 1972, 20th century, 70s
Place: scotland yard, london, europe, united kingdom, england
Is relevant?
 7.6
 127K
West Side Story (1961)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story: In the slums of the upper West Side of Manhattan, New York, a gang of Polish-American teenagers called the Jets compete with a rival gang of recently immigrated Puerto Ricans, the Sharks, to "own" the neighborhood streets. Tensions are ...
Style: romantic, stylized, tear jerker, neo noir, aesthetic ...
Audience: date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: forbidden love, rivalry, tragic love, dance, street gang, gang, broadway, interracial relations, shakespeare, racism, dancing, love story ...
Time: 1950s, 20th century, year 1961, 50s, 1930s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, empire state building manhattan new york city
Is relevant?
 6.6
 12K
High Art (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A young female intern at a small magazine company becomes involved with a drug-addicted lesbian photographer, both of whom seek to exploit each other for their respective careers, while slowly falling in love with each other.
Style: sexy, erotic, sensual, sexual, independent film ...
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, drug addiction, photography, addiction, photographer, lesbian sex, lesbian teen, lgbtq, sexuality, lesbian love, drug ...
Time: year 1998, 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, usa
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Bob Roberts (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Mock documentary about an upstart candidate for the U.S. Senate written and directed by actor Tim Robbins. Bob Roberts is a folksinger with a difference: He offers tunes that protest welfare chiselers, liberal whining, and the like. As the ...
Style: mockumentary, political, witty, cynical, satirical ...
Plot: political satire, election campaign, politics, satire, journalism, political campaign, manipulation, republican, conspiracy, senator, ambition, campaign ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: pennsylvania, usa, nicaragua, new york
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Manon of the Spring (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In this, the sequel to Jean de Florette, Manon (Beart) has grown into a beautiful young shepherdess living in the idyllic Provencal countryside. She plots vengeance on the men whose greedy conspiracy to acquire her father's land caused his ...
Style: touching, atmospheric, thought provoking, saga, anthology ...
Plot: revenge, female nudity, haunted by the past, spring, provincial life, wedding, cave, rural setting, rabbit, xenophobia, harmonica, marriage ...
Time: year 1986, 20th century, 1920s
Place: france, provence, europe, paris france
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Jean de Florette (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In a rural French village, an old man and his only remaining relative cast their covetous eyes on an adjoining vacant property. They need its spring water for growing their flowers, and are dismayed to hear that the man who has inherited it is ...
Style: atmospheric, emotional, independent film, realistic, feel good ...
Audience: teens
Plot: farm, village life, inheritance, hunchback, water, greed, conspiracy, countryside, life is a bitch, society, parents and children, village ...
Time: year 1986, 20th century, 1920s, 19th century
Place: provence, france, europe, paris france
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Sophie's Choice (1982)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity ...
Style: depressing, sad, serious, heartbreaking, crying ...
Audience: date night
Plot: holocaust, world war two, against humanity, nazi, concentration camp, relationships, writers, wartime life, passion, melancholy, obsession, tragedy ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1982, 1930s, year 1947 ...
Place: poland, new york, middle east, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
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The Crying Game (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Irish Republican Army member Fergus (Stephen Rea) forms an unexpected bond with Jody (Forest Whitaker), a kidnapped British soldier in his custody, despite the warnings of fellow IRA members Jude (Miranda Richardson) and Maguire (Adrian Dunbar). ...
Style: sexy, suspenseful, psychological, controversial, enigmatic ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: transgender, tragic love, terrorism, gender, kidnapping, lgbtq, hostage, sexuality, transsexual, haunted by the past, transvestite, interracial romance ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: northern ireland, ireland, london, england, europe
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 8.1
 469K
Platoon (1986)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story: As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.
Style: realistic, disturbing, epic, rough, suspense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: vietnam war, military, soldier, battlefield, battles, squad, jungle warfare, combat, jungle, anti war, violent, conflict ...
Time: year 1967, year 1986, year 1968, 60s, 20th century
Place: vietnam, southeast asia, the philippines, america, asia ...
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Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Bonnie and Clyde is based on the true stories of the gangster pair Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow who in the 1930s began robbing banks in U.S. cities until they were eventually killed. The film is a major landmark in the aesthetic movement known as ...
Style: road movie, controversial, suspenseful, disturbing, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: lovers on the run, on the run, heist, bank robbery, fugitives, gang, true crime, bank robber, shootout, great depression, love and romance, crime spree ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1967, 60s
Place: texas, oklahoma, missouri, midwest, usa ...
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