Greatest endings

[Mr.E]

1. Planet of the Apes
2. Beneath the Planet of the Apes
3. Night of the Living Dead
4. The original AOD ending
5. Omega Man (the Christ pose was classic Heston)

[Mr_Vindictive]

1. Fight Club-Jack does everything he can only to find out that his efforts are meaningless.

2. Donnie Darko-This one always brings a tear to my eye.  Not only is the ending itself a serious "mindf**k" but it is also extremely sad.  The shots of each character with Gary Jules' cover of Mad World playing always brings a tear to my eye.

3. The Sentinel-By far one of the freakiest endings to any film to come out in the 70s.  Actual malformed humans were used for the ending.  All of the demons from hell are real people.

4. The Game-This film threw me for a loop the first time I saw it.  So many twists in the very end.  Perfect.  David Fincher, you are a God.

5. Session 9-Rented this one a few weeks ago, and I haven't stopped raving about it since.  Amazing brute force ending that made me want to kill myself.  Not a happy one, but by far one of the most powerful endings I have ever seen in my life.

[Neville]

1) "Blow Up" by Brian DePalma. Wondeful movie, and one of the best endings I have ever seen.

2) "Carlito's way", another DePalma film.

3) "Chinatown". The most bitter ending I have ever seen in a classic movie.

4) "Duel in the sun". Do I need to explain?

5) "Screamers" (1995). Many people feel cheated by the ending, but I feel it makes quite a lot of sense. It is a movie where machines and humans fight for the survival of their species, and what ends up deciding the fate of mankind is a human, emotional act.

[AndyC]

Seconds - Rock Hudson finds out where the cadavers come from. Great ending.

Count me as one of the people who felt cheated by Screamers. The movie was, for the most part, pretty faithful to Dick's original story, but the ending was entirely bass ackwards to the original. For those who might be confused, this was not the Screamers with the fish men.

[Mr.E]

I think the action leading up to th udden ending is what really strikes a chord with the viewer.

[The Burgomaster]

In no particular order:

* INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (the Donald Sutherland version)

* RACE WITH THE DEVIL

* ROSEMARY'S BABY

* THE WILD BUNCH

* PHANTASM

* PLANET OF THE APES (as previously mentioned)

* SECONDS (as previously mentioned)

* NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (as previously mentioned)

* FUNNY GAMES

* THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY

[Kirk]

Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry

All-around great film.

[dean]

the ending to adaptation was great in my opinion, or at least the five minutes or so before the end.

[Fearless Freep]

I liked Screamers but didn't care for the ending...one two many "suprise, we're not over yet!"

[Rob Phillips]

Screamers? The Indi Sci Fi flick with the intelligent, homicidal robots?

Loved the movie, teddy bear ending was only bad part.

Liked end of:

Cemetary Man
AOD (both endings)
Clerks (original ending, guy gets shot closing store)
28DL (1st ending crashing gate, happy ending was too sappy)
AI (Yeah I know, but the 1st ending was good, should not have had anything after)
Every Sean Connery & Roger Moore James Bond Movie ever made!
Night of LD (original 1969)
Six String Samurai
Relic (that monster was Dead forever!)
Any Peter Cushing / Christopher Lee Hammer movie circa 1965 - 1971 movie (for exactly the opposite of last item)
French Connection
Big Jake

Best Ending:

Monty Python's Life of Brian and Meaning of Life (tied, but I did like the crucified guys sings "always look on the bright side of life" while doing a cancan!)

Rob

[The Burgomaster]

Kirk wrote:

"Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry"

I totally agree. I've been waiting very impatiently for a DVD release!

Also - VANISHING POINT (which is available on DVD in some countries outside the U.S., but it's pretty expensive . . . I just sold my VHS copy on Ebay)

[Feathertop]

I vote for PRINCE OF THE CITY. That last look at Treat Williams' pained face conveys VOLUMES about the true heroism of doing what your conscience tells you to do even if it invites the contempt of your fellows.  
I also vote for the HBO movie GOTTI, with that subhuman piece of filth ending up in a cell where he belonged yet still spouting his grotesquely delusional praise of himself while the distorted image of him in the mirror shows us the real monster within.  
A SOLDIERS STORY with Howard Rollins and  Adolph Caesar  also gets my vote. In this day of increasing race baiting I love the moving ending where Rollins's character struggles to contain his outrage at the murder Denzel Washington's character committed while asking: "Who gave you the right to decide...the right to JUDGE...who is FIT to be a Negro...and who is not?"
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD and CHINATOWN were already mentioned, but I love those endings too.  
And of course I love the "WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED" ending to the classically bad movie THE MUMMY AND THE CURSE OF THE JACKALS but for all the wrong reasons...

[Neon Noodle]

Se7en.

I didn't see this ending coming because it was too dark to imagine. David Fincher really drove this one home. It's hard to watch now that I'm a father.

[Callysto]

I would have to say one of the best endings I have seen to a movie by far goes to :

Wanted:Dead or Alive with Rutger Hauer and Gene Simmons

[Dunners]

the castle of cagliostro
young frankenstein
the road to perdition
blazzing saddles
army of darkness
spider man