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EW's list of the greatest movie finales of all time. These movies have epic endings that make watching the movie even more memorable than it already was.For the full article and photo gallery go to: http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20246950_20263257_20050438_9,00.html

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Rank   Name Release Directed by Genre(s) Actor(s)
  1. 1
    The Hangover EW.com's Good Movies With Great Finales Film picture

    The Hangover

    2009
    Todd Phillips
    Comedy, Screwball comedy
    Gillian Vigman, Sondra Currie, Carrot Top, Heather Graham, Justin Bartha, Dan Finnerty, Mike Epps, Rachael Harris, Chuck Pacheco, Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, Jeffrey Tambor, Rob Riggle, Ed Helms, Ian Anthony Dale, Ken Jeong, Mike Tyson, Matt Walsh, Sasha Barrese More
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  2. 2
    The 40-Year-Old Virgin EW.com's Good Movies With Great Finales Film picture

    The 40-Year-Old Virgin

    2005
    Judd Apatow
    Comedy, Romance Film, Romantic comedy, Sex comedy
    Steve Carell, Shelley Malil, Seth Rogen, Catherine Keener, Brianna Brown, Jonah Hill, Kat Dennings, Leslie Mann, Paul Rudd, Romany Malco, Jane Lynch, Jordy Masterson, Chelsea Smith, Carla Gallo, Jenna Fischer, Gerry Bednob, Elizabeth Banks, Erica Vittina Phillips, Kevin Hart More
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  3. 3
    Reservoir Dogs EW.com's Good Movies With Great Finales Film picture

    Reservoir Dogs

    1992
    Quentin Tarantino
    Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Crime Fiction, Crime Thriller, Indie, Gangster More
    Michael Sottile, Steve Buscemi, Lawrence Tierney, Tim Roth, Randy Brooks, Chris Penn, Edward Bunker, Quentin Tarantino, Michael Madsen, Harvey Keitel, Kirk Baltz, Steven Wright More
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  4. 4
    Lost in Translation EW.com's Good Movies With Great Finales Film picture

    Lost in Translation

    2003
    Sofia Coppola
    Drama, Comedy, Romance Film, Romantic comedy, Indie, Romantic drama
    Anna Faris, Diamond Yukai, François Du Bois, Fumihiro Hayashi, Gregory Pekar, Akiko Takeshita, Bill Murray, Ryuichiro Baba, Giovanni Ribisi, Akira Yamaguchi, Hiroko Kawasaki, Kazuyoshi Minamimagoe, Scarlett Johansson More
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  5. 5
    Some Like It Hot EW.com's Good Movies With Great Finales Film picture

    Some Like It Hot

    1959
    Billy Wilder
    Comedy, Black-and-white, Romance Film, Romantic comedy, Screwball comedy, Sex comedy More
    Joe E. Brown, Tony Curtis, Tom Kennedy, Billy Gray, Jack Lemmon, Grace Lee Whitney, George Raft, Paul Frees, Nehemiah Persoff, Marilyn Monroe, Pat O'Brien, Mike Mazurki, Harry Wilson, George E. Stone, Edward G. Robinson Jr. More
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  6. 6
    Valley Girl EW.com's Good Movies With Great Finales Film picture

    Valley Girl

    1983
    Martha Coolidge
    Comedy, Romance Film, Romantic comedy
    Deborah Foreman, E.G. Daily, Lee Purcell, Joanne Baron, Frederic Forrest, Colleen Camp, Nicolas Cage, Tony Plana, Cameron Dye, Michael Bowen, Michelle Meyrink, Richard Sanders, Heidi Holicker, Joyce Hyser, Tina Theberge More
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  7. 7
    The Third Man EW.com's Good Movies With Great Finales Film picture

    The Third Man

    1949
    Carol Reed
    Drama, Black-and-white, Psychological thriller, Mystery, Thriller, Suspense, Film adaptation, Film noir More
    Ray Browne, Brookes Kyle, Hedwig Bleibtreu, Harold Ayer, Paul Hardtmuth, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Erich Ponto, Peter Fontaine, Paul Hörbiger, Ernst Deutsch, Leo Bieber, Robert Brown, Alexis Chesnakov, Paul Birch, Annie Rosar, Martin Boddey, Joseph Cotten, Carol Reed, Guy De Monceau, Noel Gallagher, Karel Štěpánek, Bernard Lee, Michael Godfrey, Eric Pohlmann, Charles Irwin, Jack Arrow, Trevor Howard, Nelly Arno, Harry Belcher, Walter Hertner, Geoffrey Keen, Lee Strasberg, Herbert Halbik, Lily Kann, Alida Valli, Gordon Tanner, Hannah Norbert, Siegfried Breuer, \tFrederick Schreicker, Paul Carpenter, Vernon Greeves, Jenny Werner, Hugo Schuster, Ernst Ulman, Orson Welles, Madge Brindley, Reed De Rouen, Jack Faint, Martin Miller , Helga Wahlrow More
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  8. 8
    Boogie Nights EW.com's Good Movies With Great Finales Film picture

    Boogie Nights

    1997
    Paul Thomas Anderson
    Drama, Comedy, Period piece, LGBT, Indie
    Melora Walters, Ricky Jay, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Philip Baker Hall, Don Cheadle, Burt Reynolds, Julianne Moore, Heather Graham, John C. Reilly, Mark Wahlberg, William H. Macy, Robert Ridgely, Nicole Ari Parker, Luis Guzmán, Joanna Gleason, Alfred Molina, Thomas Jane More
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  9. 9
    Manhattan EW.com's Good Movies With Great Finales Film picture

    Manhattan

    1979
    Woody Allen
    Comedy, Black-and-white, Romance Film, Romantic comedy, Indie, New Hollywood More
    Wallace Shawn, Mariel Hemingway, Damion Scheller, Meryl Streep, Woody Allen, Karen Ludwig, Anne Byrne, Michael O'Donoghue, Michael Murphy, Diane Keaton More
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  10. 10
    A League of Their Own EW.com's Good Movies With Great Finales Film picture

    A League of Their Own

    1992
    Penny Marshall
    Drama, Comedy, Sports
    Jon Lovitz, Geena Davis, Tom Hanks, Robert Stanton, Rosie O'Donnell, Freddie Simpson, David Strathairn, Anne Ramsay, Don S. Davis, Ann Cusack, Téa Leoni, Lori Petty, Bitty Schram, Renee Coleman, Eddie Jones, Madonna, Megan Cavanagh, Garry Marshall, Bill Pullman, Tracy Reiner More
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  11. 11
    White Heat EW.com's Good Movies With Great Finales Film picture

    White Heat

    1949
    Raoul Walsh
    Drama, Black-and-white, Thriller, Crime Fiction, Crime Thriller, Gangster, Film noir More
    Edmond O'Brien, Wally Cassell, Fred Clark, Steve Cochran, James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Margaret Wycherly, John Archer More
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  12. 12
    The Karate Kid EW.com's Good Movies With Great Finales Film picture

    The Karate Kid

    1984
    John G. Avildsen
    Drama, Family, Martial arts, Action, Adventure, Action/Adventure, Sports, Romance Film, Teen, Family Drama, Coming of age More
    Ralph Macchio, William Zabka, Ron Thomas, Dana Andersen, Tony O'Dell, William Bassett, Larry B. Scott, Chad McQueen, Israel Juarbe, Rob Garrison, Elisabeth Shue, Pat Morita, Martin Kove, Randee Heller, Andrew Shue More
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  13. 13
    North by Northwest EW.com's Good Movies With Great Finales Film picture

    North by Northwest

    1959
    Alfred Hitchcock
    Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Action/Adventure, Romance Film, Suspense, Airplanes and airports, Spy More
    Jessie Royce Landis, Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Ellenstein, Eva Marie Saint, Phillip Coolidge, James Mason, Josephine Hutchinson, Martin Landau, Leo G. Carroll, Adam Williams, Ed Binns, Cary Grant, Edward Platt, Philip Ober, Ken Lynch More
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  14. 14
    Pride & Prejudice EW.com's Good Movies With Great Finales Film picture

    Pride & Prejudice

    2005
    Joe Wright
    Drama, Costume drama, Period piece, Romance Film, Romantic drama, Film adaptation More
    Jena Malone, Carey Mulligan, Rosamund Pike, Judi Dench, Peter Wight, Matthew Macfadyen, Keira Knightley, Tamzin Merchant, Claudie Blakley, Rupert Friend, Brenda Blethyn, Kelly Reilly, Talulah Riley, Donald Sutherland, Simon Woods, Tom Hollander, Penelope Wilton More
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  15. 15
    The Killing EW.com's Good Movies With Great Finales Film picture

    The Killing

    1956
    Stanley Kubrick
    Drama, Black-and-white, Thriller, Crime Fiction, Suspense, Film noir, Heist More
    Elisha Cook Jr., Jay C. Flippen, Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Marie Windsor More
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  16. 16
    The Bourne Ultimatum EW.com's Good Movies With Great Finales Film picture

    The Bourne Ultimatum

    2007
    Paul Greengrass
    Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Martial arts, Action, Action/Adventure, Crime Fiction, Film adaptation, Spy More
    Matt Damon, Daniel Brühl, Colin Stinton, Julia Stiles, Scott Glenn, Joey Ansah, David Strathairn, Corey Johnson, Tom Gallop, Joan Allen, Albert Finney, Edgar Ramirez, Paddy Considine More
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  17. 17
    Saw EW.com's Good Movies With Great Finales Film picture

    Saw

    2003
    James Wan
    Psychological thriller, Thriller, Horror, Slasher, Indie, Short Film
    Katrina Mathers, Paul Moder, Dean Francis, Leigh Whannell
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  18. 18
    A History of Violence EW.com's Good Movies With Great Finales Film picture

    A History of Violence

    2005
    David Cronenberg
    Drama, Thriller, Crime Thriller
    Maria Bello, Viggo Mortensen, Stephen McHattie, Ed Harris, William Hurt, Ashton Holmes, Peter MacNeill, Greg Bryk, Kyle Schmid, Gerry Quigley, Aidan Devine, Sumela Kay More
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  19. 19
    The Godfather Part II EW.com's Good Movies With Great Finales Film picture

    The Godfather Part II

    1974
    Francis Ford Coppola
    Drama, Crime Fiction
    Robert Duvall, Richard Bright, Michael V. Gazzo, James Caan, Richard Matheson, Harry Dean Stanton, Dominic Chianese, Bruno Kirby, John Cazale, Joe Spinell, Roman Coppola, Tom Rosqui, Sofia Coppola, Talia Shire, G. D. Spradlin, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Lee Strasberg, Giuseppe Sillato, Peter Donat, Frank Sivero More
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  20. 20
    The Others EW.com's Good Movies With Great Finales Film picture

    The Others

    2001
    Alejandro Amenábar
    Drama, Period piece, Mystery, Thriller, Horror, Supernatural, Suspense
    Michelle Fairley, Christopher Eccleston, Alakina Mann, Eric Sykes, Nicole Kidman, Fionnula Flanagan, James Bentley, Elaine Cassidy, Keith Allen, Alexander Vince More
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  21. 21
    Taste of Cherry EW.com's Good Movies With Great Finales Film picture

    Taste of Cherry

    1997
    Abbas Kiarostami
    Drama, World cinema
    Homayoun Ershadi, Safar Ali Moradi, Hossein Noori, Afshin Khorshid Bakhtiari, Abdolrahman Bagheri More
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