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The Shining and A Perfect Getaway.

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Brainiac: "The Crying Game" is a great choice, but I'm going to keep that as number 2 and stick with Titanic.

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Shawshank Redemption Not so much of a surprise ending, just had to see the movie again after seeing the second half - and saw it all in a completely different light.

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Holiday On The buses.

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Seven

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Departed, The Mist, Gran Torino, Casino, God Father (Marlon Brando character died of natural cause), Avatar (Sully died & reincarnated),Matrix 3 the ending, Star Wars (Luke's father & Darth Vader passing away), Batman Dark Knight, and many more.

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Don't forget about The Maltese Falcon or Casablanca. For more modern flicks, The Usual Suspects. I actually shuddered.

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For movies it is difficult, but for literature it is pretty much everything I read on JT. :P

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Memento (director Christopher Nolan, who also did The Prestige which Yongyang mentioned). Guy Pierce in the lead role ... a great film!

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Freeway II: Confessions Of A Trick Baby

Not really a twist, but I enjoy watching Trans-Sexual Paedophile Witches getting pistol whipped and baked in an oven.

Call it a fetish.

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Zatoichi was a good one. I also didn't see the ending of the Fight Club coming at all- quite rare for a Hollywood movie.

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For me:

Totoro. That sandal scene gets me every time. Mei lives!

Yay トトロ! Beautiful movie and I hope my daughter remebers the times we saw it together when I pass on.

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Pulp Fiction, with John Travolta and Uma Thurman dancing the Twist.

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Or maybe it was "The Love Guru": The unexpected twist is that it was supposed to be a comedy.

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How about the end to Beat Takeshi's "Zatoichi"? The head of the criminal gang was not who you expected, AND Riverdance turned out to be Japanese!

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2001: A Space Odyssey.

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Usual Suspects

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"The Sound of Music: The Director's Cut"

Boy, I didn't see that coming... :(

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Old Boy!! Total Recall.

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Old Boy

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Jacob's Ladder, Black Christmas, Soylent Green, The Omega Man

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a very light one, like Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

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Evil Dead 3.

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Old Boy, The Mist and my last one, The Prestige.

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The Planet of the Apes. (Original)

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The Usual Suspects

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"Saw"

Which one?

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"The Flintstones in Las Vegas"

Har!

How about "A Fish Called Wanda"?

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"The Empire Strikes Back"

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How about "The Game"?

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Primer

this will twist your noodle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CC60HJvZRE

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Korean movies Brotherhood and Silmido

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A Tale of Two Sisters

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sixth sense for sure!

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seven

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Triumph of the Will. (spoiler: hitler dies!)

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The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie

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Mulholland Drive i could not understand it

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Mulholland Drive

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How about "The Crying Game?"

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The Flintstones in Las Vegas

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the director of THE SIXTH SENSE repeated himself too often, as he also did that same type of surprise ending in movies like "Unbreakable", "Signs" and "The village".

Other good movies with surprise ending: Mad detective (hong kong movie from 2007: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0969269/ )

Profondo Rosso (Deep Red) by Dario Argento.

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Fight Club!

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The Empire Strikes Back

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Sixth sense or The Others or Saw.

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To add to the great ones already named:

The sequel to Jean de Florette (which must be seen as it sets everything up) called Manon of the Spring.

Also: Run Lola Run.
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Any of the Rocky movies. Just kidding!

No Way Out

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Same here "The Sixth Sense"

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Sixth Sense.

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Romeo Is Bleeding. Lena Olin is the perfect fatal-s.o.b. woman in this movie.

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Body Heat.

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