Best Plot Twists/Surprise Endings

A growing list of movies that we feel have excellent plot twists and stunning surprise endings. As always, reader feedback will help this list continue to grow and improve!

• The Usual Suspects


• Fight Club


• The Game


• Se7en


• 12 Monkeys


• The Omega Man


• Mulholland Drive


• The Ring


• The Crying Game


• The Others


• A Simple Plan


• Fargo


• Arlington Road


• Empire strikes Back


• The Sixth Sense


• Presumed Innocent


• Old Boy


• Pulp Fiction


• Donnie Darko


• Twilight Zone the Movie


• Unbreakable


• The Village


• Psycho


• Rosemary’s Baby


• Scream, 2, and 3


• Fallen


• Memento


• Shattered


• Planet of the Apes


• Soylent Green


• Saw


• Vanilla Sky


• L.A. Confidential


• Primal Fear


• The Devil’s Advocate


• Basic Instinct


• Saw II


• What Lies Beneath


• Identity


• The Negotiator


• The Skeleton Key


• Frequency


• Wild Things


• Stir of Echoes


• I Know What You Did Last Summer


• Frailty


• Secret Window


• Taking Lives


• Basic


• Copycat


• Kiss the Girls


• Holes


• Dead Again


• High Tension


• Urban Legend


• Bloodwork


• Reindeer Games


• F/X


• The Lost Boys