There is also another movie I saw a long while ago and was about a younger man who raped and killed a women and they catch the man who does it and most the movie revolves around the psychologist talking to the murderer and he comes to believe he in a way has multiple personalities and some other things wrong with him. and In the end the man is walking away and refers to the psychotic personality and it is revealed that there was none or something like that. I know this is very confusing but I'm trying to remember a movie from at least 10 years ago and can't remember much but it was surprising. Any ideas on title?

I'm pretty sure you're talking about Primal Fear, Colburn. I haven't seen it in years myself, but that sounds about like what I remember.

Excellent choices all, Kenji.

How 'bout Soylent Green, No Way Out, Unbreakable and two that everyone should see but few have: dot the i and Nine Queens.

Oh, yes! How could I forget "NO WAY OUT"!?!?

And, Soylent Green....yeah, I was surprised when I realized Soylent Green was... :crossedlips:

I'm pretty sure you're talking about Primal Fear, Colburn. I haven't seen it in years myself, but that sounds about like what I remember.

You are exactly right. I'll have to go back and rewatch it but from what I remember it was a pretty good movie and good twist.

The UK's Times Online named their choices for Best Film Twists Ever.

"The most powerful tool in cinema is the perfect twist, those vertiginous seconds when the bottom falls out of your seat and you are no longer sure whether to trust your eyes."

The films mentioned are:

Great Expectations
The Empire Strikes Back
Rosemary's Baby
The Wicker Man
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
Fight Club
Planet of the Apes
The Sixth Sense
The Crying Game
Rebecca
Blade Runner
The Shining
The Usual Suspects
The Prestige
The Others
Jacob's Ladder
Dead Man's Shoes
Sunset Boulevard
Vertigo
Psycho
Dr. Strangelove
Kiss Me Deadly

The article itself is FULL of spoilers, so click at your own risk here.

A couple of movies that weren't big box office but that I thought had really good twists are Arlington Road starring Jeff Bridges and Fallen starring Denzel Washington.

Anybody else have a nominee or two for best film twists ever?

Webby, I don't quite understand what a "twist" means here. If it means an
insight into another character =within= the film, I gotta go with Charles Chaplin's masterpiece CITY LIGHTS. When the formerly blind flower-seller realizes who made it possible for her to see.

The Game, with Michael Douglas, had a series of terrific twists.

Shawshank Redemtion was a pleasant example. When the chess piece went through the poster,...

I just stumbled on this thread and i read the Crying Game up top. That movie without a doubt had THE biggest twist. I wont mention what that twist is for respect of those who have not seen the movie.

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Sixth Sense, Way of the Gun, Unbreakable and Memento, for me.

As t4terrific mentioned earlier, The Game with Sean Penn, is one of my favorites.

Here's a few no one has mentioned yet:

M. Night Shyamalan's The Villiage

The Others (w/Nicole Kidman)

Dark City (w/Kiefer Sutherland)

The UK's Times Online named their choices for Best Film Twists Ever.

"The most powerful tool in cinema is the perfect twist, those vertiginous seconds when the bottom falls out of your seat and you are no longer sure whether to trust your eyes."

The films mentioned are:

Great Expectations
The Empire Strikes Back
Rosemary's Baby
The Wicker Man
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
Fight Club
Planet of the Apes
The Sixth Sense
The Crying Game
Rebecca
Blade Runner
The Shining
The Usual Suspects
The Prestige
The Others
Jacob's Ladder
Dead Man's Shoes
Sunset Boulevard
Vertigo
Psycho
Dr. Strangelove
Kiss Me Deadly

The article itself is FULL of spoilers, so click at your own risk here.

A couple of movies that weren't big box office but that I thought had really good twists are Arlington Road starring Jeff Bridges and Fallen starring Denzel Washington.

Anybody else have a nominee or two for best film twists ever?

I'm not sure if this is a "twist' or not...

But how about the final scene of Charles Chaplin's masterpiece CITY LIGHTS?

SPOILERS!

SPOILERS!

YOW! MONSTROUS SPOILERS!



I TOLD YEZ!



See, gang, the Little Tramp befriends a blind flower girl. He's trying to get the money for an operation to give her sight.

Finally, he succeeds. And is looking through the window at her flower shop. Her helper sees him. "I think you have an admirer." The flower girl who's regained her sight has a good heart too. She brings a flower and a quarter out to the tramp. But in giving them to him, she feels, knows his hand...

"You?"
"You can see now?"
"Yes, I can see now."

The only thing Einstein and I have in common: it made us both cry.

Check it out. It really smokes the soul.