The Sixth Sense – Bruce Willis’s character is dead the whole time.
Fight Club – Tyler Durden and the narrator are the same person.
The Empire Strikes Back (Star Wars series) – Darth Vader is Luke’s father.
Avengers: Endgame (MCU) – Iron Man dies, Black Widow sacrifices herself, and Captain America retires.
The Usual Suspects – Verbal is Keyser Söze.
Titanic – The ship sinks, Jack dies, Rose survives and throws the necklace into the ocean.
Harry Potter series – Voldemort is defeated, Snape was loyal, Dumbledore dies, and Harry lives.
Inception – The ending is ambiguous; the top keeps spinning, leaving reality in question.
The Matrix series – Neo is “The One,” dies in the end to save both humans and machines.
Lord of the Rings trilogy – Frodo destroys the Ring, Mordor falls, Aragorn becomes king, Gollum, Boromir, and Saruman die.
Se7en – The killer’s final victim is Tracy, whose head is in the box.
Shutter Island – DiCaprio's character is actually a patient on the island.
Psycho – Norman Bates is the killer, impersonating his dead mother.
The Prestige – Borden has a twin; Angier uses cloning.
Donnie Darko – Donnie dies in the original timeline to save others.
Gone Girl – Amy fakes her own kidnapping and murder.
The Departed – Everyone important dies except one cop.
La La Land – Mia and Sebastian don’t end up together.
Oldboy – The protagonist unknowingly has sex with his daughter.
Interstellar – Cooper enters a tesseract and manipulates time to save humanity.
Whiplash – Andrew finally earns Fletcher’s approval in a brutal performance.
Requiem for a Dream – All four protagonists end up destroyed emotionally and physically.
The Others – The family are all ghosts.
The Mist – The protagonist kills his group to spare them only for the military to arrive seconds later.
Black Swan – Nina stabs herself and dies after a perfect performance.
Atonement – Cecilia and Robbie die; their happy ending was fiction.
Arrival – Louise sees her future daughter’s death but chooses to have her anyway.
Primal Fear – The stuttering altar boy faked his disorder to win the case.
The Godfather series – Michael becomes the new Don, loses his soul, and dies alone.
Toy Story 3 – Andy gives away his toys to a new child, and they nearly all die in an incinerator.
Joker (2019) – Much of what we see may be imagined; Arthur becomes a symbol of chaos.
Hereditary – Charlie’s death triggers a demonic possession; Peter becomes Paimon.
Parasite – The poor family infiltrates a rich household, leading to a violent tragedy.
Coco – Hector is actually Miguel’s great-great-grandfather, not the famous musician.
The Dark Knight trilogy – Batman fakes his death, and Robin is hinted to take over.
No Country for Old Men – Moss dies off-screen; the killer escapes, and justice is never served.
The Truman Show – Truman discovers his life is a TV show and escapes.
Blade Runner (original + 2049) – Deckard may be a replicant; in 2049, K dies helping Deckard reunite with his daughter.
12 Monkeys – James witnesses his own death as a child; the apocalypse still happens.
1917 – One soldier dies; the message is delivered just in time to prevent a massacre.
The Lion King – Mufasa dies, Scar is defeated, Simba becomes king.
Dune (2021 + Part Two) – Paul becomes the Kwisatz Haderach, defeats the Harkonnens, and begins a jihad.
The Silence of the Lambs – Hannibal escapes and contacts Clarice after the case is solved.
Jaws – The shark is killed by Brody with an exploding air tank.
The Green Mile – John Coffey is executed despite his innocence; he performs miracles.
Bohemian Rhapsody – Freddie Mercury is diagnosed with AIDS and performs one final show.
The Social Network – Facebook is a massive success but leaves Zuckerberg friendless.
The Hunger Games series – Katniss kills Coin instead of Snow; Prim dies.
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Zero’s entire story is one of loss; the hotel becomes a memory.
Everything Everywhere All At Once – Evelyn embraces every version of herself to save her daughter and the multiverse.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon – Jen lets herself fall from the mountain and dies; Li Mu Bai dies from poison.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Benjamin ages backward and dies as a baby in Daisy’s arms.
Slumdog Millionaire – Jamal wins the game and reunites with Latika; everything was fate.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind – Joel and Clementine erased each other but choose to start over.
The Revenant – Glass survives the wilderness and gets revenge on Fitzgerald.
The Imitation Game – Alan Turing cracks the Enigma, is later chemically castrated, and dies by suicide.
Inside Out – Sadness saves the day; Riley learns it's okay to feel multiple emotions at once.
The Florida Project – Moonee is taken by child services as she escapes to Disney World with a friend.
Memento – Leonard has been lying to himself and already found his wife’s killer.
The Babadook – The Babadook can’t be destroyed; the mother keeps it locked in the basement.
Pan’s Labyrinth – Ofelia dies but enters a magical afterlife as a princess.
Snowpiercer – The train is a closed system of oppression; the few survivors walk out into the frozen world.
The Shape of Water – Elisa is resurrected by the Amphibian Man; they escape together.
The Big Short – Everyone ignores the financial warnings; the housing market crashes.
American Beauty – Lester is killed by his neighbor after finding personal peace.
Promising Young Woman – Cassie is murdered, but her plan brings her killer to justice posthumously.
The Iron Giant – The Giant sacrifices himself to save the town; he begins reassembling himself later.
Bridge to Terabithia – Leslie dies in an accident; Jesse learns to cope through imagination.
The Last of the Mohicans – Cora’s sister dies by suicide; Magua is killed in revenge.
Children of Men – Theo dies after helping deliver humanity’s first child in years.
The Fountain – Time, death, and reincarnation blur as Tom ultimately accepts mortality.
Contagion – The virus began from a bat and a pig; the outbreak was entirely preventable.
The Blair Witch Project – The characters disappear; the ending suggests supernatural involvement.
District 9 – Wikus turns into a prawn and awaits rescue from the aliens.
The Notebook – The old couple are actually the young lovers; they die together in bed.
Midnight in Paris – Gil chooses to stay in Paris, leaving behind his fiancée and the modern world.
The Farewell – Nai Nai survives much longer than expected; the family’s lie worked.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness – Wanda becomes the villain and sacrifices herself (possibly).
The Lego Movie – The world is controlled by a real-world father’s imagination; Emmet breaks free.
A Quiet Place Part II – The daughter uses her hearing aid to fight the aliens; humanity has hope.
The Conjuring series – The Warrens survive multiple hauntings; many stories are “based on real events.”
It Chapter Two – The Losers defeat Pennywise by making him feel small and powerless.
The Ring – The curse spreads unless you copy the tape; Rachel escapes but dooms others.
Scream series – The killers constantly change, but often include friends or family; Sidney survives all.
Twilight series – Bella becomes a vampire, and the final battle turns out to be a vision.
Deadpool series – Deadpool loses Vanessa but alters the timeline; he mocks the X-Men universe.
Logan – Logan dies protecting a new generation of mutants.
The Fault in Our Stars – Augustus dies instead of Hazel, reversing expectations.
The Croods – The family survives the end of their world and finds a new home.
The Butterfly Effect – In the director’s cut, Evan dies in the womb to prevent all harm.
The Man from Earth – John is a 14,000-year-old immortal and may be Jesus.
The Illusionist – Eisenheim fakes his death to escape with Sophie.
Cloverfield – The monster kills almost everyone; the footage ends abruptly.
The Menu – Everyone dies except Margot, who escapes by appealing to the chef’s humanity.
The Witch – Thomasin joins the witches after her entire family dies.
The Machinist – Trevor is haunted by guilt and caused a fatal accident; he turns himself in.
The Lovely Bones – Susie watches her family from the afterlife; her killer dies alone.
Sin City – Multiple characters die violently; the city remains corrupt and brutal.
The Book of Eli – Eli is blind, and the Bible he protects is in Braille.
The Lobster – The ending is ambiguous; David may blind himself to stay with his lover.