 | The Sword of Doom - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $23.49 / Used from: $12.95 Every movie should end like this one!
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 | The Hired Hand
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $4.36 This ending (accompanied by Bruce Langhorne's wonderful music) will stay with you for a long time.
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 | Runaway Train
Buy used from: $4.27 As haunting and memorable as movie endings can get. (PS All of you out there who wanted to watch a model train go "boom" are idiots!)
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 | Throne of Blood - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $28.49 / Used from: $19.49 Can you kids say 'immolation'? I knew that you could!
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 | Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Buy new: $8.49 / Used from: $8.00 WOW! Thank you Werner. This is another example of how all movies should end.
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 | Salesman - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $35.99 / Used from: $24.60 'Join the force and get a pension...' Trust me on this one.
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 | Naked - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $29.99 / Used from: $21.24 Go Johnny Go!...as our friends across the pond are fond of saying...Brilliant!
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 | Paths of Glory
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $1.65 If you hit the pause button just as Kirk is talking to the sergeant at the end, you can give the men a couple of extra 'more' minutes.
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 | Beau Travail
Buy used from: $16.95 Have you ever watched a flick and said to yourself..."This movie would be perfect if it ended right now?" Well this film did it. Nice call Claire.
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 | Koyaanisqatsi - Life Out of Balance
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.14 Spinning and burning. Although I think that 'Powaqqatsi' is the best film of the trilogy, this one has the best ending.
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 | Broken Flowers
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $0.22 Just when I thought Jim was about to ruin the entire film...he makes a nice recovery.
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 | The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $4.13 No good deed goes unpunished. Burton's finest screen performance.
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 | Stalker: A Film by Andrei Tarkovsky
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $20.25 Did she just do what I think she did? Tarkovsky and Lynch are the best at making those dreamlike films.
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 | Bad Company
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $3.95 This is one of the best westerns ever made, and yet almost no one has seen it. A very realistic film with a very satisfying ending.
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 | Man Bites Dog - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $24.49 / Used from: $12.42 This ending must be good, they copied it in Blair Witch.
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 | Five Easy Pieces
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $5.38 Karen who? Smooth Jack, smooth.
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 | McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $9.25 Is that what you would call a pipe dream? Another great 70's western. Altman's best film. Beatty's best film.
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 | Stroszek
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $18.87 One bummer of a Thanksgiving.
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 | Two-Lane Blacktop - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $32.49 / Used from: $26.75 When in doubt, ambiguity is always best.
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 | Breaker Morant (Masterworks Edition)
Buy used from: $9.31 'A man's foes shall be they of his own household.' You can carve that in stone.
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 | The Thing (Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $4.40 'Gee, that was a rough couple of days...now let me have a swig.' (PS This nice ending does NOT let you off the hook for 'Escape from L.A.' Mr Carpenter!)
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 | The Duellists
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $7.95 Now you just watch that river go by and think about what you have done young man!
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 | 1984
Buy used from: $26.84 Outflank schmank. You da man BB!
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 | Solaris - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $28.99 / Used from: $16.95 Although I enjoyed the US version as well, I have to give the nod to Tarkovsky for a truly disturbing ending.
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 | Midnight Cowboy
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $3.78 Lots of coconuts on them thar' trees.
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 | Farewell My Concubine
Buy used from: $11.67 It's great when you can spot an ending coming a mile away and yet it still has the power to move you.
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 | The French Connection Collection Box Set (1 & 2)
Buy used from: $11.89 French Connection II's ending...now THAT'S an exclamation point!
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 | Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $4.47 The 'anti-Shane' ending.
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 | Taste of Cherry - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $16.47 Yes dear viewer, you have been manipulated. (But in a good way!)
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 | Cross of Iron (Widescreen Special Edition)
Buy new: $28.99 / Used from: $19.92 Eins, Zwei, Drei...
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 | The Purple Plain
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $6.31 Here is yet another obscure old film that had a perfect fade out.
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 | Lost in Translation
Buy new: $8.49 / Used from: $0.49 Wow, this movie didn't make any sense, didn't have any plot, and just ended at an arbitrary point...gee, just like real life, huh? Arigato Sofia.
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 | The Killing
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $5.88 I loved the 'Synchronized Law Enforcement Door Opening'. Is that an Olympic sport yet?
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 | The Apple
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $5.14 Wow! This movie was...wow. I mean to say that...wow. The ending was...wow.
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 | Tora! Tora! Tora!
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $1.96 Sleeping giant? Why don't you just go ahead and rain on everyone's parade Yamamoto san!
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 | Soylent Green
Buy used from: $6.99 You just can't go wrong with Beethoven's Pastoral. I also want to give a nod to Chuck Heston for doing a bunch of sci-fi films back when most big stars wouldn't even consider it.
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 | Scarecrow
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $6.35 A forgotten gem of a film. I think that 1967-1977 was the best decade ever for American cinema. Discuss.
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 | Glengarry Glen Ross
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $4.99 Blue skies frigging smiling at me. Nothing but frigging blue skies do I see.
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 | King Rat
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $4.69 Stuff THAT in your tanker's beret Grey! A perfect adaptation of the novel. This along with The Last Detail and Stalag 17 is one of the best movies about enlisted men.
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 | The Border
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $4.64 I'll meet ya' halfway toots! I hope this will cover me for those hubcaps.
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