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Top 30 Most Satisfying Movie Endings of All Time

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Sometimes we can get what we want! Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the most successful, emotionally complete, and/or triumphant finales on film. There’s also a major spoiler warning for the following movies. Our countdown includes movies "Rocky", "The Matrix", "The Dark Knight Rises" and more! Did we forget another ending that wowed you? Let us know in the comments below.

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20 Comments

@seantlewis376 2 years ago (edited)

"My friends, you bow to no one," is the only of the LOTR endings that brought tears to my eyes.
Another one for this list could have been Saving Private Ryan's final scene in the cemetery at the marker for the captain. After the "Earn this" from a dying soldier, Ryan comes back decades later with his family to ask if he did.

@TLBeatrice13 2 years ago

Shawshank ❤ still gives me goosebumps 😊

@JackPark-b9q 2 years ago

Shawshank is a perfect film with the perfect ending. No debate.

@user-em6ie2be7x 2 years ago

The Fugitive - after everything he went through Richard Kimble finally clears his name.

@trinaq 2 years ago

"In case I don't see ya, Good afternoon, good evening and good night." Such a powerful closing line, and it's so cathartic of Truman to finally take his life into his own hands, defying his creators who had trapped him for decades.

@Michael-dy2lb 2 years ago

They missed the greatest end to the best movie ever, The Princess Bride, the grandfather agreeing to come back the next day to read the book to his grandson again. "As you wish." The perfect end to a perfect movie.

@AdamG1983 2 years ago

Fun fact: Robin William's "Son of a bitch stole my line" at the end of Good Will Hunting was improvised

@hectorsmommy1717 2 years ago

One of the most uplifting and satisfying endings for me is the end of Schindler's List. When the newly freed Jews walking in the field morphs into those still alive today (at the time of filming) plus their descendants with the scroll telling us how many are alive because of Oskar Schindler just demonstrates how much one flawed human being can accomplish when they choose to do good. Add on the scene at his grave in Israel with the "Schindler Jews" and the actors who portrayed them leaving a memorial and I was blubbering like a baby.

@mr.decencykeepinitreal6348 2 years ago

The ending for ‘Avengers: Endgame’ was indeed perfect.

@DesertDawg-oq5fg 2 years ago

16:30 Christopher Nolan has stated many times that both the ending of “inception” and “Dark Knight Rises” are reality. Cobb gets to be with his kids and Bruce Wayne survives and goes into retirement. The endings are purposefully ambiguous, but he has clarified that it is reality.

@theminingassassin16 2 years ago

The Truman Show had the perfect ending. It didn't show us everything, but it didn't need to. We know that Truman went on to be free and live his life without being used as a puppet.

@brokenbridge6316 2 years ago

I have very fond memories of watching "Return of the Jedi" for the first time. Me and my Dad watched it in his home on his VCR. He sat on the couch. I laid on a bean bag chair while we watched. It was very satisfying to watch it with him. God Rest Him.

@vasilijetmusic 2 years ago (edited)

Okay but The Dark Knight Rises ending... I'm happy the fact Bruce is alive tho, even if Batman is dead, Bruce is still successful and faithful to his own work!

@nicholasharvey1232 2 years ago

Can't believe "It's a Wonderful Life" didn't make this list! It has one of the most memorable climaxes in movie history.

@farfaraway4285 2 years ago

HP book ending is much more satisfying. Hear Harry take him apart, showing him no respect and Voldemort killed by his rebounded curse and hitting the floor with “mundane finality”, that’s the real satisfying ending. I say “hear” because the audiobooks are so awesome, that they’ve replaced the movies in my mind.

@scottflint4916 2 years ago

E.T. makes me cry every time and yes you got me on this

@kennethwilliams615 2 years ago

Field of Dreams. Having a catch with dad and all the people coming.

@justapeacefulmanwhosbornin7291 2 years ago

The ending of ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ = VERY GOOD.
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

@FilmandTVFan 2 years ago

It’s A Wonderful Life, The Best Years Of Our Lives, The Apartment, Singin In The Rain and Breakfast At Tiffany’s are some quintessential classic Hollywood films with endings that are both satisfying and cathartic ❤