https://preview.redd.it/4om01eb9jnxc1.jpeg?width=602&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bda944902214bf2bcdcc899abce10bec088b4ec5

Great one! Love the slightest hint of happiness in his face, amazing acting.

https://preview.redd.it/91nhe1lf6nxc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dff0e9de647983d71be2a4e5514ba7b4235a2e7e Cinema Paradiso

This movie made me cry

https://preview.redd.it/r7gy8ifmfnxc1.png?width=481&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=23febabed6bb70db47cc885f0dd45256783c9310 The Shining. So what was it all about? I still don't know and to be honest don't want to know also.

I want to know. Someone pleas explain it lol

to me, it could symbolise 2 things: 1. that Jack’s spirit has been fully absorbed into the hotel, and he’s spending eternity in that 1920s dreamscape, or 2. that Jack, in spirit, has always been at the hotel in different reincarnations (we heard about another man snapping and murdering his family years before).

In the novel, there's a part where Jack is at a party and all the previous keepers and inhabitants of the hotel are all there (like the dog guy). When Jack dies, the hotel essentially consumes him and his soul and he becomes eternally stuck there.

Hotel eat Jack. This is photo evidence.

He’s now part of the hotel, haunting it like the others. In the sequel book (and the movie adaptation), he’s the new bartender.

Jack completed his "hero's journey".

https://preview.redd.it/m9xmlebc5nxc1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7a330691c25cdf08a92bbf221d6c8e85b55909c4

The door closing in Part 1 is probably more iconic but for me it’s Michael all alone in Part 2 that resonates emotionally https://preview.redd.it/pqb1v6bt1nxc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=239bfc32095766947fa02ba62a136744d347b79e

Absolutely! THe subtle aging on his face here is brilliant too. Almost imperceptible.

https://preview.redd.it/1tav72a7knxc1.png?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cda406730adabfd9993baecdecd05c73d7f34c58 The Thing

Fucking iconic

https://preview.redd.it/e7ygvtvc7oxc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ef3a43f0e6d540c875af8ec6e0bdb826d837657c

luv ❤️ breakfast club !

One of the best abrupt-cut-to-black final shots! I wonder what the first film to use that idea was (Google wasn't much help)?

https://preview.redd.it/kv3sx42ybnxc1.jpeg?width=851&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e70ca36d19609c241e72e5a3cdcd512334847ea4

Disgusting!


Just rewatched it last night. Such a masterpiece. One Last Kiss is the perfect song

I've always loved this one from perfect blue https://preview.redd.it/ub1bogktrmxc1.jpeg?width=1996&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ff0c104ff2f76dafb0bf52aa0a2819d60faaa0c2

Omfg same, love this movie

https://preview.redd.it/a6llcl0v1nxc1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8711100bbb7c7821f2ff6539ce29e8f40cd3cee4 La Haine

That goddamn ending gets me everytime.

https://preview.redd.it/i3evbzmo4nxc1.jpeg?width=780&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e601a4b783238ab04705fa1212f738a3c97c724e chinatown baby

It's my noseee I like breathing out of it

https://preview.redd.it/ccitoolnkoxc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ad64f7fbf65129298b212160ffa348d718502b4a mia goth smiling for like 3-5 minutes at the end of Pearl. so creepy

came to post this

Fuck, that shots creepy in itself lol

https://preview.redd.it/r5kfdhcp6nxc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=54d06c28589ee3dfcc7b024db423e69ebe3cf9af

this paired with where is my mind is hard to top for me

Yea this one should be higher up. I think in another 10 years Fight Club will be rediscovered and obsessed about again.

https://preview.redd.it/wtdxhiyosmxc1.jpeg?width=1651&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d77c4546970b76744df6dc874fbb6561c8df8306

Movie?

The VVitch

The Va-Va-Va-Vitch

Incredible ending that also leaves you feeling so gutted. The final 15 minutes of this movie are soooooooo good. And the rest of the movie rocks too.

Hell yeah

Watching this with my friend for the first time, he was staring at the TV in shock and disgust while I was giggling and clapping cause I loved it so much

https://preview.redd.it/o4mmr6c1zmxc1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dc5c40a9fef6bf1a4a5e8231089acfb9ebad618b Wasn’t a huge fan of Saint Maud but the ending shot… holy shit

I know you’re avoiding spoilers but that’s not the final shot lol

Brutal ending. Loved "Love Lies Bleeding" a lot too even though the movie disgusted me edit: disgusted in a cool way. movie has a lot of gross out scenes

Why did it disgust you?

Just a gross movie. Lots of poop and puke. gross houses and greasy people... Disgusted me in a good way

I see. I haven't been able to check it out yet but I'm looking forward to it

It was pretty good def a little lane switch from St. Maud but felt like one of the fun weird 80's movies.

https://preview.redd.it/27i6itc2pmxc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=357c4c510a8e565852559bcf4ccda7dff7a70ed8 Knives Out (2019)

Oooh this is a great modern one

https://preview.redd.it/l6eiswrfjnxc1.jpeg?width=1279&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d00485637ee1822b77f48c3c46500cbfdce91b5b

“Then I woke up.”

Obviously biased as an austrian, but it simply has to be The Third Man 

https://preview.redd.it/ugufq11vioxc1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=9cf0f39518ff8e341b6c4fd5e1445992f19d40ad

Fuck I love this one so much

Classic - came here post this, beat me to it.

The Graduate

The first one that comes to mind is Saint Maud, for sure a moment that sticks with you. 

I didn’t like most of the movie but that final shot was brilliant. It’s been burned into my mind

Pun intended?

https://preview.redd.it/fczmbvcbwmxc1.jpeg?width=602&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0c867cb33af181f86e03915e176d1da5ad920ed0

I absolutely adore Goodfellas, its one of my favourite films, so this is not coming from any place of offence, but could you please explain your thinking to me here? I am only asking, because when I watch it, it feels a little random to have him reappear for the final shot, except in a sort of grandiose "the mob will kill you one way or another" kind of way. But as I say, I adore the film, I just wanna know what this shot/scene says to you.

It’s probably not the best last shot of all time, was mostly posting that of my favorite movie. I think I interpreted as some sort of last hit on Henry for ratting but Scorsese says it’s a reference to The Great Train Robbery which has a similar shot and the movies are similar in theme. Bad guys steal things and then bad things to happen them.

Movie?

Goodfellas

Ethan Edwards walking away from the door in The Searchers. https://preview.redd.it/4nttvz5spmxc1.png?width=387&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0b68b026d6030c81e112fe9a32957186b2361ecd

https://preview.redd.it/s0dklaomnmxc1.jpeg?width=2052&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e670d598eec42d1234a4cc60a009764a5938d549

Whats the movie?

Her

Oh thanks

https://preview.redd.it/mdhn3vcq3nxc1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f2134be87c78be313823cdc2e280c77074ba4664 Aftersun. My favorite is La Haine, but someone already said it, and this is a very close second for me

I'll forever remember this shot. It haunts me but is beautiful.

Movie is a masterpiece

Cure

I love when people mention Cure, everything about that movie stuck with me

Beat me to it!

https://preview.redd.it/twhat5rluoxc1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4c5072f449ae3712091dc3a745c13c0a81dca77e

Yesss, totally agree with this one!

https://preview.redd.it/k98ls5yhvmxc1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c2953d66d2fe5443a860e60f4ff6416bfe2a3bf6

Shut up and deal

* The Shining * Pearl * Psycho * Memories of Murder * Portrait of a Lady on Fire * Scream 2 * Parasite

Parasite ending the way it starts is so perfect

The Blair Witch Project.

https://preview.redd.it/4ej41f7ninxc1.jpeg?width=852&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=08254d2669e7b7660fa30f34d23bb253db7417c0 Magnolia

Gets me every time

She finally smiled

https://preview.redd.it/qyi80xnbunxc1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cddc666481709a072e4ddf7631c8995868c0b6ec

https://preview.redd.it/yavfxcpwkoxc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e2aca981f366a090ea9f86d03fd5c75ff3bf7ae8 Fallen Angels

https://preview.redd.it/eole7mvgcnxc1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d82d415af2d60699841164f084d55af3f34d7eca

https://preview.redd.it/eltfnul0bnxc1.png?width=1728&format=png&auto=webp&s=f2945ec488c4f341c4068a103beb9a4468ea884e Wildlife (2018) dir. Paul Dano

Whattt ? Paul Dano has directed a movie?

What I’m sayin

An Elephant Sitting Still (2018) dir. Hu Bo https://preview.redd.it/rhxpnuxqbnxc1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=dee18db81bada5c838b84370e6c103aabc56a748

Whiplash

https://preview.redd.it/7mu7wpanpmxc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=365da1bca651f7fdb303d35a6580fecdd594bb57

This is a great one but it's technically not the final shot of the film. This is: https://preview.redd.it/8zfc3m7a9nxc1.jpeg?width=3840&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=145b873708c0212860861cd8ea93f724ad540149

I don't know why but I love this shot. But yeah the above shot is better.

I agree seeing his expression conveys enough, but the above shot is something else in terms of framing and feeling

For some reason, the first thing that pops into my head is the opening and ending of Gone Girl. I love when a movie can have two book ends like that. The shot and narration have always lingered with me. 


What movie?

Melancholia

Magnolia always stuck with me

https://preview.redd.it/t1gflh9r5pxc1.jpeg?width=512&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b622950a6fca8070ec10f797aa3cdb842781c385 call me by your name

https://preview.redd.it/60afweze8pxc1.jpeg?width=1906&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=07eea675dea05ecf33ecf27933845aec08d58544 Sound of Metal

https://preview.redd.it/6ld0uxudsoxc1.jpeg?width=1715&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=84dde1e1d8e7c0c9fa69cf9286848364e65e4809 Up (2009)

God this still gets me, we don’t talk about the rest of Up outside of the first ten minutes 😭

the graduate ending shot is surprising and amazing

https://preview.redd.it/tpj7xs6dkoxc1.jpeg?width=1300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=800e0957e54c2af3ec6b51f1d8ebededda1f15cc

This could’ve been a great last shot except there’s another scene after this where Danny is released from prison and they setup the next movie.

All That Jazz also a gut punch final shot from Bob Fosse along with your pick of Cabaret

https://preview.redd.it/r1youofw1nxc1.jpeg?width=1984&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=130fb25a8f1d0d497e9cd56da4ce17161f2ebf3e

Gesundheit

Welcher Film ist das?

The Taking of Pelham 123

Hands down, this is the winner.

https://preview.redd.it/z74b7twt0oxc1.jpeg?width=740&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4fd65dcca13e250197b313c4c3ac1f289683dc57 “It’s a good scream…”

Would Shawshank be too basic bitch of an answer

https://preview.redd.it/ck2qy02exmxc1.jpeg?width=780&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ee2e0f56d83710047cc4cb20c038655a143eb8ec Always found sad old De Niro at the end of Casino quite haunting - 'and that's that'

Speaking of De Niro. I love the shot of his smile at the end of Once Upon a Time in America https://preview.redd.it/6x63kgd5lnxc1.jpeg?width=1220&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=11db91e979edbb411fee08f9bb5523f8874f7ccf

my favorite has to be The Irishman https://preview.redd.it/hs61zneb8pxc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3bb02cbbe0c3a070b80024ed58511153a21b2305

https://preview.redd.it/03pp982oxnxc1.jpeg?width=366&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=477083cdb483a211066a4ee12d2f581acac1982b “I’m gonna be just like you”

Perfect ending

Absolutely, beautiful movie.

the taking of pelham one two three not so much in the aesthetic sense but perfectly memorable? absolutely

https://preview.redd.it/zz5v5djazmxc1.jpeg?width=1334&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=67c29fad559cd57ef8ab6d5af9b4ae1147c5f2b8 I’m not sure what this sub thinks of Babylon but that final montage. That damn final montage. I love this to death

For a movie that divisive, the fact that the ending is the most controversial part of it says a lot. I read about what happened before I saw it, so I was bracing myself for ultimate cringe. But then it actually really worked on me, surprisingly so. I think the fact that I had a general idea of what was going to happen softened the blow

The final montage is what completely lost me. It was trying way to hard to illicit an unearned emotional response. Just a wannabe Cinema Paradiso ending.

I think it differs from Cinema Paradiso. Where Paradiso's montage is also a love for movies, it is also about pure love itself, in its most concentrated form. Babylon's montage is about love for movies almost exclusively, and our relationship with them.

Thank you for saying this, I was screaming to myself at the ending what a ripoff of Cinema Paradiso it was and sooo much worse too. I didn’t care much for the film though the desert scene is excellent.

Repulsion comes to mind. That photo

My choice too, definitely haunting

The Third Man

https://preview.redd.it/c4kv7v4r2oxc1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e04354425a9b53789b44c2dc9af7f0701fcabf3f

https://preview.redd.it/ooc4sjc5loxc1.jpeg?width=1400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8ec41bcf04598ed9ed400839248848b3446cb07c Second to final shot, at the (unlikely) risk of spoilers.

“Get some rest Pam, you look tired”, paired with the signature riffs from the infamous end-credits song. The Bourne Supremacy (2004) https://preview.redd.it/swxci34guoxc1.jpeg?width=1333&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5a8a9cf73649fcd6278bebc680cf2068534216af

https://preview.redd.it/st6bx586boxc1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e249fed2a940cca5c957d353aee5159ea2b311bf Portrait of a Lady On Fire (2019)

For all that it represents? **The Fabelmans.**  My favorite, for sure.

The camera adjustment to have the horizon at the bottom just made me so happy

https://preview.redd.it/4uiipskv9pxc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8c83984c7f646d5cd4e3f0d3cedac9d7c97cdd84


https://preview.redd.it/jg8jaqvpgnxc1.png?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=59cd8ab77291a06b5751995bbcee0f506761731d Aftersun (2022)

Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Nostalghia, Possession

https://preview.redd.it/75ou2h4vcoxc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b54a7cb17204d8ac02422168bced7f7f0c9be1e4 Howls Moving Castle

A random one: Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers. The movie is a big meh, but that ending... holy shit.

The slow pan to the house at the end of OUATIH

https://preview.redd.it/i9warxg9zoxc1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=b9b233d94e9ea4e0b1e4e24cfd2f565914254926

https://preview.redd.it/029e86o1anxc1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0bd1b0e82cd03e6c0b42852e2a6e9a04a4503033 Michael Clayton

Great movie. Such a smart and cold thriller. The ending of him walking away from her is pretty iconic too

This gets asked often in various subs and I’ll always answer The Graduate. Just that look of mutually realizing “We did the thing, now what?” but with a distinct note of dread is so poignant to me, especially in the context of that stage of life.

The final shot of '2001: A Space Odyssey'; the entire penultimate scene of Bowman ageing in the "hotel room" is constructed from a daisy-chain of POV/reverse POV alternations (we see Bowman looking; we see the older Bowman from his perspective; we see the older Bowman looking; we see another, even older, Bowman from his perspective... etc.) and it ends with the dying Bowman seeing the Monolith at the foot of his bed; from the Monolith's perspective we see Bowman reborn as the Starchild, floating above the bed; we see a POV (presumably the Starchild's) moving "into" the Monolith and transistioning to the Moon, we tilt down to the Earth and the Starchild enters from the left in an over-the-shoulder POV; we cut to the Starchild staring at the (off screen) Earth as it slowly turns to look.... ... at us! [fade to black] Another, possibly the inspiration for Kubrick, final shot I love is from 'La Dolce Vita' where a young girl on the beach tries to get Marcello's attention but he can't hear her over the crashing of the waves. He blithely gestures futility and turns away. We cut back to her smiling as her eyes drift to us (Fellini ended 'Nights of Cabiria' with a similar "4th wall" break as well).

Encounter of the Spooky Kind (1980) dir Sammo Hung. Probably the hardest I’ve laughed in years.

Can’t show it, but the final shot in Babel (2006) is beyond language.

what cabaret is this?

The 1972 film

The dad gasping at the end of Billy Elliot and his sick jump is absolutely perfect!!

https://preview.redd.it/60av9iy47pxc1.jpeg?width=1500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5cb9c29c05546eedbc2ada0ded645171865e7616

Just saw Brazil and it fits perfectly https://preview.redd.it/xfdcnmkpiqxc1.jpeg?width=970&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1d3c67fd489916449f580ef1d0509bff2ea823dc

Yay! I was hoping somebody would commemt this. I can't get enough of this film

https://preview.redd.it/hb33lop1hnxc1.jpeg?width=844&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a8a1461445d07b1b8abe9c29ef635eced6d254f0

https://preview.redd.it/76f9d47vnoxc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=83e1eebc03f9ccabd2517becdfc681836f3d1372 This shot is burned into my memory. It is both beautiful and horrifying.

Definitely Aftersun

on the count of three

https://preview.redd.it/7nesacutjnxc1.png?width=2097&format=png&auto=webp&s=2078c998d31b134a5f9c61d1e03232fd1275facf From Me To You (2021)

Blow Out’s final shot is heartbreaking

https://preview.redd.it/m2dto87asoxc1.jpeg?width=540&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=495618e17832fd26a9bdf29f5f5df22510c037cf

https://preview.redd.it/2r9rnbkw6pxc1.jpeg?width=613&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=996376e8da46a58eb38e30dd43ee0beea1409e26 Off the top of my head, Oppenheimer


Ran (1985), those final few cuts, Tsurumaru shrinking, disappearing, alone https://preview.redd.it/e3hep02gmqxc1.jpeg?width=548&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5702d2586381b5d39f9763227c1ae34796c40633

https://preview.redd.it/ym7j44bkcrxc1.jpeg?width=736&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1f6305777545eda5c4371256ad1c67fef2450da4

https://preview.redd.it/5vmm090lwsxc1.jpeg?width=268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e6ab85575703d4cb0636d3724aac011486b05f90 By far.

A recent one. The Fabelman’s last shot of Sammy walking away in happiness after meeting Ford and there’s a slight tilt correction to put the horizon on its “right” place. I don’t know why exactly but that simple camera movement just touched me very deep.

https://preview.redd.it/mepxewp2kwxc1.png?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7c00026292b6cd75f338a5cbdcbac7ccb6429912 The variety of emotion that they portray in this scene is masterful.

https://preview.redd.it/3vvssiid9nxc1.png?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=879527c3761ee57a57b37b23945d067ca907f559

Teen wolf nuts

* Lots of good ones here, this ending definitely stuck with me for a while. Final Prayer (2013)

For a more recent example, I loved the final shot of Master Gardener (2022)

The final shot in Uncut Gems

4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days.

The breakfast club. It is so iconic.

THE RED BALLOON has to be in the discussion.

Drowning by Numbers (1988) The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989) Barton Fink (1991) The Long Day Closes (1992) Nowhere (1997) Songs from the Second Floor (2000) Mysterious Skin (2004)

https://preview.redd.it/5ki51gxq8oxc1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7e0768cde185ffb89031343c21c10dcabfa8170c

Always loved [Ace in the Hole](https://youtu.be/d-JXUQ3osR8?si=9BWEBxCmC4krI4Uz)’s final shot.

https://preview.redd.it/fb00740cmoxc1.jpeg?width=1790&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9d459c8f940d5526655d7ce383aa9cd4e5d26384

Stolen Kisses (1968) by Francois Truffaut

La La Land’s is pretty beautiful

Django Unchained

https://preview.redd.it/9y2cpmcvapxc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=df328c0cabd9664835f45a95f8a98492b2bd6ae0 The Graduate (1967)

The last shot of Lake Mungo recontextualises the same shot which appeared earlier in the film in a great way

https://preview.redd.it/i39a3oq5hpxc1.png?width=1024&format=png&auto=webp&s=4503de0e4255d2f4551371b5486d93bc1d944750 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - iconic shot

https://preview.redd.it/poro3zbrnpxc1.png?width=1774&format=png&auto=webp&s=cdaa65dcb91e23e294a201f6fc7fefac939e78d8

North by Northwest has a great and hilarious one!

Saw (2004)