Shubhabrata Dutta
While every movie comes to an end, the ending adds to the film’s overall effect because that can either give the audience a sense of completion or incompleteness. While both can be good or bad, a twist makes it worthwhile. Filmmakers have often applied the twisted ending method to add to the film’s plot or reveal a long-awaited truth that surprises the viewers. In this article, we bring you a list of top movies with a twist ending available on Amazon Prime.
11. The Final Wish (2018)
Directed by Timothy Woodward Jr., ‘The Final Wish’ follows struggling law school graduate Aaron Hammond (Michael Welch), who returns home to provide comfort and care to his mourning mom, Kate (Lin Shaye), after the passing of his father. As he reconnects with his old friends, he realizes his desires are coming true, which may or may not be connected to his father’s antique urn.
However, the desires have horrifying consequences, too. Is this also a doing of the urn or whatever is inside? Unless it is already out. With a reasonably interesting plot, ‘The Final Wish’ uses horror tropes well and effectively incorporates themes of death and detachment. To find out what’s there inside the urn, you can watch the movie here.
10. The Wall (2017)
Directed by Doug Liman, ‘The Wall’ stars John Cena and Aaron Taylor-Johnson as US Staff Sergeant Shane Matthews, a sniper, and his spotter Sergeant Allen “Ize” Isaac, respectively. Set during the Iraq War, the film follows the two soldiers who are sent to investigate a pipeline construction site. After waiting for 22 hours, they realize that the site is clear, only to be targeted by an enemy sniper who shoots and kills Matthews. All by himself, Isaac has to take cover while trying to spot the sniper without revealing himself. A battle of patience and wit, ‘The Wall’ will also test your patience. The final twist comes as a surprise. You can stream the film here to find out what that is.
9. Charade (1963)
For Regina Lampert, the murder of her husband isn’t what’s worrisome; it is that she is now being chased, along with her new lover Peter Joshua, by a trio of her late husband’s World War II friends who are looking for the cash that they and her husband stole together. However, there is more to Peter than meets the eye of Regina or the viewers. Funny, enthralling, engaging, and gorgeous, thanks to the lead actors, ‘Charade’ offers an apt twist ending. This one is a classic directed by Stanley Donen, starring Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant, Walter Matthau, Thomas Chelimsky, and James Coburn. You can watch it here.
8. Coherence (2013)
It only takes a comet for things to go horribly wrong, right? Well, that’s what happens with eight friends who are having a dinner party when Miller’s Comet passes by and causes a power blackout in the whole neighborhood. Amid strange occurrences, the people try to find out what’s going on when they end up coming face to face with their doppelgangers. Not knowing who is who, the group encounters perhaps the most dangerous choices: whom to believe and whom to not. Directed by James Ward Byrkit, ‘Coherence’ is a puzzle. If you want to solve it, you can watch it here.
7. The Body (2012)
Directed by Oriol Paulo, this Spanish (‘El cuerpo’) twisted mystery drama shows what happens after the body of middle-aged Mayka Villaverde, wife of Alex Ulloa, who now lives with his girlfriend Carla, disappears from the morgue. Inspector Jaime Pena is brought in to investigate the case. As events unfold, it is revealed that the pasts of Pena and Alex are connected by a tragedy that occurred ten years ago, one that has a role to play in the disappearance of Mayka’s body. But how? To find out, you have to watch ‘The Body’ till the end because that is where the twist hits. You can do so right here.
6. Bones And All (2022)
Directed by Luca Guadagnino, this is a story of two cannibals in a world where there are more like them, people who feed on other people. As the two embark on a long journey across 1980s America, they are subjected to horrors that are too much for them, and they even end up being a part of the horrors. They cannot outrun themselves or their nature, which keeps them from each other. Starring Timothée Chalamet, Taylor Russell, Mark Rylance, Chloë Sevigny, and Michael Stuhlbarg, ‘Bones And All’ is a gruesome film that offers a painful twist at the very end. Whether you can keep watching is up to you. You can stream it here.
5. All The Old Knives (2022)
Starring Chris Pine and Thandiwe Newton, this spy thriller with a well-executed twist ending is directed by Janus Metz Pedersen, based on Olen Steinhauer’s 2015 novel of the same name. Most of the film takes place in a restaurant. It follows the conversation between CIA officer Henry Pelham (Pine) and retired CIA officer Celia Harrison-Favreau (Newton), both of whom are former lovers. The backstory is a hijack that led to the death of all the passengers onboard and that someone from CIA Vienna shared intel with the terrorists on the plane. Since Celia was stationed there, Henry has been sent to interview/interrogate her, too. While this seems to be the case, the truth is something totally different, which is what makes for a twist in the ending. You can watch the film here.
4. Donnie Darko (2001)
Richard Kelly’s ‘Donnie Darko’ can be found in any twisted-movies list ever. The film centers on Donald “Donnie” Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal), a troubled teen who has visions of a man-sized rabbit prophesying the end of the world. Soon, Donnie begins to doubt his reality and the people around him. The question is: Is he right, or is it all a figment of his imagination, in which case he seems to be either hallucinating or schizophrenic? With themes of time travel and mental health at its center, ‘Donnie Darko’ is bound to take the viewer by surprise, especially with its twisted end that both unwinds and tangles. You can watch it here.
3. Saltburn (2023)
Director Emerald Fennell takes us on a mind-bending erotic ride full of twists, including a big one at the end. We follow Oliver Quick, who is invited by his new attractive friend Felix Catton at the University of Oxford to spend the summer at the latter’s mansion named Saltburn. Quick’s experiences with Felix’s eccentric family, whose unorthodox standards of posh living start to take a toll on him, and we find him slowly blending with the surrounding environment that is underscored by his attraction and desires. The change that Oliver goes through is what follows. The cast includes Barry Keoghan as Oliver Quick and Jacob Elordi as Felix Catton, along with Rosamund Pike, Archie Madekwe, Alison Oliver, and Carey Mulligan. You can stream ‘Saltburn’ here.
2. Goodnight Mommy (2014)
This underrated German psychological thriller follows 10-year-old twin brothers Elias and Lukas, whose mother has just got cosmetic facial surgery, and her whole face is bandaged, with the only visible parts being her eyes and mouth. As the days pass, the boys become increasingly confused about whether the woman is their mother or someone else, someone scary. The film itself showcases the mother in the same way, one that is surreal and inhuman. However, the truth revealed at the end is entirely unrelated to the mother but to the twin brothers. ‘Goodnight Mommy’ stars Elias Schwarz, Lukas Schwarz and Lukas Schwarz. You can watch it here.
1. Memento (2001)
Director Christopher Nolan’s second feature film, ‘Memento’ uses a non-linear narrative to show how a man named Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce), suffering from anterograde amnesia (the inability to form new memories as a result of brain damage), tries to find out the man who killed his wife Catherine (Jorja Fox). The only way for him to remember stuff is by taking Polaroids, writing notes on them, and tattooing important things and clues on his body. The film takes place over a single day, and we get to see how Leonard tracks down the culprit whose name, as is tattooed on his body, is JOHN G. A mind-bending psychological drama with a brilliant twist at the end, ‘Memento’ proved Nolan’s filmmaking mastery long back. You can watch it here.
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