Movies with an unexpected ending

List of the best movies with an unexpected ending, selected by visitors to our site: Identity, Psycho, The Departed, Knives Out, The Game, The Others, Shutter Island, Fight Club, The I Inside, The Prestige.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrethriller, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:31

    Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.

    Markimdb: 8.5
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:49

    When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother. The place seems quirky, but fine… until Marion decides to take a shower.

    Markimdb: 8.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, Hong Kong
    Duration02:31

    To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises through the police ranks. But both sides soon discover there's a mole among them.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA

    When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan's dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of red herrings and self-serving lies to uncover the truth behind Harlan's untimely death.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrethriller, drama, adventure, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:09

    In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a coldhearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad -- a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nearly a nanosecond, Nicholas finds himself consumed by a dangerous set of ever-changing rules, unable to distinguish where the charade ends and reality begins.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountrySpain, USA, France, Italy
    Duration01:44

    Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in the face of strange events and disturbing visions.

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:18

    World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.

    Markimdb: 8.8
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, Germany
    Duration02:11

    A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:30

    Simon Cable wakes up in a hospital bed, confused and disoriented. He soon discovers from doctors that he has amnesia and is unable to remember the last two years of his life. Cable investigates what has happened to him and slowly pieces together his enigmatic past.

    Markimdb: 8.5
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:05

      A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.

      Markimdb: 8.5
      Genrethriller, comedy, drama
      CountrySouth Korea
      Duration01:07

      All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genremelodrama, drama, detective, military
      CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
      Duration02:00

      As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:10

      An arrogant, high-powered attorney takes on the case of a poor altar boy found running away from the scene of the grisly murder of the bishop who has taken him in. The case gets a lot more complex when the accused reveals that there may or may not have been a 3rd person in the room. The intensity builds when a surprise twist alters everyone's perception of the crime.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:03

      Lake Tahoe, 1969. Seven strangers, each one with a secret to bury, meet at El Royale, a decadent motel with a dark past. In the course of a fateful night, everyone will have one last shot at redemption.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA, Japan
      Duration02:43

      Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he never could have imagined.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
      CountrySpain, Mexico
      Duration01:45

        A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. Before long, her son starts to communicate with a new invisible friend.

        Markimdb: 8.1
        Genrethriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:29

          With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

          Markimdb: 8
          Genrethriller, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:43

            A ballet dancer wins the lead in "Swan Lake" and is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan - Princess Odette - but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan.

            Markimdb: 6
            Genrethriller, drama, detective
            CountryUSA

            A young couple, find themselves becoming interested in the sex life of their neighbors across the street. What starts as an innocent curiosity turns into an unhealthy obsession.

            Markimdb: 5.7
            Genrehorror
            CountryItaly

            Five carpoolers travel in a motorhome to reach a common destination. Night falls, and to avoid a dead animal carcass, they crash into a tree. When they come to their senses, they find themselves in the middle of nowhere. The road they were traveling on has disappeared and there is only a dense, impenetrable forest and a wooden house in the middle of a clearing, which they discover is the home of a spine-chilling cult.

            Markimdb: 7.2
            Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:05

            After getting in a car accident, a woman is held in a shelter with two men, who claim the outside world is affected by a widespread chemical attack.

            Markimdb: 7.8
            Genredrama, military, history
            CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
            Duration01:30

            When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware of Shmuel's fate as a Jewish prisoner or the role his own Nazi father plays in his imprisonment, Bruno embarks on a dangerous journey inside the camp's walls.

            Markimdb: 6.8
            Genrethriller, detective
            CountryUnited Kingdom
            Duration01:41

            The final candidates for a highly desirable corporate job are locked together in an exam room and given a test so simple and confusing that tension begins to unravel.

            Markimdb: 6
            Genremelodrama, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:57

            Robert Redford stars as billionaire John Gage, who offers a down-on-his-luck yuppie husband (Woody Harrelson) $1 million for the opportunity to spend the night with the man's wife (Demi Moore).

            Markimdb: 8.1
            Genrethriller, drama, western, crime
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:02

              Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the violent pursuit of money and justice collide.

              Markimdb: 6.3
              Genrethriller, comedy, crime
              CountryUSA, United Kingdom

              A court-appointed legal guardian defrauds her older clients and traps them under her care. But her latest mark comes with some unexpected baggage.

              Markimdb: 6.4
              Genrefantastic, drama
              CountryUnited Kingdom, Hungary, USA

              2038: George Almore is working on a true human-equivalent AI, and his latest prototype is almost ready. This sensitive phase is also the riskiest as he has a goal that must be hidden at all costs—being reunited with his dead wife.

              Markimdb: 6.4
              Genrethriller, detective
              CountryUSA
              Duration02:23

              A woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution where she is confronted by her greatest fear.

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              Genredrama
              CountrySouth Korea, Kazakhstan

              In Almaty, a sheltered and chaste woman named Din sees her life intertwined with the experiences of a prostitute who looks like her.

              Markimdb: 5.2
              Genrefantastic, action, adventure
              CountryUSA, China, Canada, Mexico
              Duration02:23

              Autobots and Decepticons are at war, with humans on the sidelines. Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried in the secrets of the past, in the hidden history of Transformers on Earth.

              Markimdb: 7
              Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure
              CountryUSA
              Duration02:27

              Just when his time under house arrest is about to end, Scott Lang once again puts his freedom at risk to help Hope van Dyne and Dr. Hank Pym dive into the quantum realm and try to accomplish, against time and any chance of success, a very dangerous rescue mission.

              Markimdb: 6.9
              Genreaction, comedy
              CountryUSA, United Kingdom
              Duration02:06

              The world's top bodyguard gets a new client, a hit man who must testify at the International Court of Justice. They must put their differences aside and work together to make it to the trial on time.

              Markimdb: 7.5
              Genreaction, thriller, crime
              CountryUSA, China
              Duration01:37

                John Wick is forced out of retirement by a former associate looking to seize control of a shadowy international assassins’ guild. Bound by a blood oath to aid him, Wick travels to Rome and does battle against some of the world’s most dangerous killers.

                Markimdb: 6.5
                Genreaction, thriller, comedy, adventure, crime, detective
                CountryUSA, France
                Duration02:25

                One year after outwitting the FBI and winning the public’s adulation with their mind-bending spectacles, the Four Horsemen resurface only to find themselves face to face with a new enemy who enlists them to pull off their most dangerous heist yet.

                Markimdb: 6.9
                Genreaction, drama, crime
                CountryKazakhstan
                Duration01:20

                Story of a man named Sayan, that had to live through harsh 1990's and make tough decisions.

                Markimdb: 7.7
                Genrethriller, drama, crime
                CountryUSA, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany
                Duration01:50

                Slevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses. Under constant watch, Slevin must try not to get killed by an infamous assassin and come up with an idea of how to get out of his current dilemma. A film with many twists and turns.

                Markimdb: 8.2
                Genrefantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:47

                A psychological thriller about an eight year old boy named Cole Sear who believes he can see into the world of the dead. A child psychologist named Malcolm Crowe comes to Cole to help him deal with his problem, learning that he really can see ghosts of dead people.

                Markimdb: 6.8
                Genrethriller, drama, detective
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:35

                Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and also finds Henry's mother -- even though Henry has said that he murdered both of his parents. As reality starts to contradict fact, Sam spirals into an unstable mental state. Then he finds a clue as to how and when Henry may try to kill himself, and races to try to stop him.

                Markimdb: 6.3
                Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                CountryUSA, Germany, Canada

                An FBI agent tracks a serial killer with the help of three of his would-be victims - all of whom have wildly different stories to tell.

                Markimdb: 6.5
                Genredrama, crime, detective
                CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Malta
                Duration01:39

                Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.

                Markimdb: 8.6
                Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                CountryUSA
                Duration02:07

                Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. Sommerset researches each sin in an effort to get inside the killer's mind, while his novice partner, Mills, scoffs at his efforts to unravel the case.

                Markimdb: 7.8
                Genrethriller, drama, crime
                CountryItaly
                Duration02:11

                Virgil Oldman is a world renowned antiques expert and auctioneer. An eccentric genius, he leads a solitary life, going to extreme lengths to keep his distance from the messiness of human relationships. When appointed by the beautiful but emotionally damaged Claire to oversee the valuation and sale of her family’s priceless art collection, Virgil allows himself to form an attachment to her – and soon he is engulfed by a passion which will rock his bland existence to the core.

                Markimdb: 8
                Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
                CountryUSA
                Duration02:09

                In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990 instead of 1996, he's arrested and locked up in a mental hospital. There he meets psychiatrist Dr. Kathryn Railly, and patient Jeffrey Goines, the son of a famous virus expert, who may hold the key to the mysterious rogue group, the Army of the 12 Monkeys, thought to be responsible for unleashing the killer disease.

                Markimdb: 6.6
                Genrethriller, drama
                CountryUSA

                Nothing is as it seems when a woman experiencing misgivings about her new boyfriend joins him on a road trip to meet his parents at their remote farm.

                Markimdb: 8.3
                Genremelodrama, detective, film noir
                CountryUSA
                Duration02:09

                A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.

                Markimdb: 6.5
                Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:24

                While undergoing heart surgery, a man experiences a phenomenon called ‘anesthetic awareness’, which leaves him awake but paralyzed throughout the operation. As various obstacles present themselves, his wife must make life-altering decisions while wrestling with her own personal drama.

                Markimdb: 5.7
                Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:59

                After a spectacular crash-landing on an uncharted planet, brash astronaut Leo Davidson finds himself trapped in a savage world where talking apes dominate the human race. Desperate to find a way home, Leo must evade the invincible gorilla army led by Ruthless General Thade.

                Markimdb: 8.5
                Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                CountryUSA, Germany
                Duration01:46

                Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an explosion in San Pedro harbor – leaving few survivors. Verbal lures his interrogators with an incredible story of the crime lord's almost supernatural prowess.

                Markimdb: 6.9
                Genreaction, thriller, comedy, crime, detective
                CountryUSA
                Duration02:08

                Max and Annie's weekly game night gets kicked up a notch when Max's brother Brooks arranges a murder mystery party -- complete with fake thugs and federal agents. So when Brooks gets kidnapped, it's all supposed to be part of the game. As the competitors set out to solve the case, they start to learn that neither the game nor Brooks are what they seem to be. The friends soon find themselves in over their heads as each twist leads to another unexpected turn over the course of one chaotic night.

                Markimdb: 8
                Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                CountrySpain
                Duration01:49

                "The Invisible Guest” turns on a young businessman who wakes up in a hotel room locked from the inside with the dead body of his lover next to him. He hires a prestigious lawyer, and over one night they work together to clarify what happened in a frenetic race against time.




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