Among hundreds of thousands of films, sometimes you come across those that after their ending you need to come to your senses for a while, because no one expected such a denouement. We offer you to look at the best of them.
The Life of David Gale (2003)
The plot of the detective story revolves around Professor David Gale, sentenced to death. His whole life went downhill at one point. First, he loses his job because of one of the students who was expelled for poor academic performance. The girl decided to take revenge on Professor Gale and accused him of rape.
Falling into despair, he begins to drink heavily until he again begins to communicate with his university colleague Constanza. Having become activists, they oppose the death penalty. But something terrible happens: Constance is killed, and David is blamed for this, for which he receives capital punishment.
The Girl on the Train (2017)
The film tells the story of lonely Rachel, who commutes to work every day from the suburbs by train. She drives by a beautiful cottage where, as it seems to her, the ideal couple lives.
One day, the main character becomes the only witness to a crime, as a result of which a girl from the cottage disappears. However, the police refuse to believe Rachel because she likes to drink from the bottle.
Prisoners (2013)
In a quiet provincial town, in fact, everything is not so simple and rosy. Neighbors Dovere and Birch celebrate Thanksgiving together. At the end of the celebration, they discover that both of their little daughters have disappeared. This event causes quite a stir in the city.
And very soon, tired of the unknown, parallel to the police search, the father, distraught with grief, begins his own, albeit difficult, investigation. And it is his actions that will reveal everything that the small town previously preferred to remain silent about.
Mystic River (2003)
The film begins in 1975 of the last century. Then three eleven-year-old boys Sean, Jimmy and Dave came to the attention of a pedophile. As a result, only Dave became a victim.
Thirty years later, Jimmy’s daughter was murdered, and Sean, who had become a police officer, was assigned to lead the investigation. The evidence and psychological profile pointed to Dave: he had been abused as a child, and the girl’s blood was found in his car.
Flightplan (2005)
Kylie Pratt and her young daughter Julia board a plane in Berlin for the long flight to New York. Three hours later, Kylie wakes up in her chair and realizes her daughter is gone and begins looking for her. The search turns out to be fruitless.
Passengers begin to claim that they did not see the girl on board at all. With every minute, Kylie plunges deeper into the nightmare. Everyone around her takes her for something other than who she is. But this does not in any way affect her confidence in her own rightness.
Insomnia (2002)
Two Los Angeles detectives fly to Alaska to investigate the murder of a young girl who was beaten to death. Despite the fact that the entire Alaska Police Department is inclined to believe that the girl was killed by a classmate and her rejected admirer, the experienced detective Dormer immediately understands that he needs to look for “bigger fish.”
He sets a trap for the killer, but while chasing him in the fog, he mistakenly kills his partner Eckhart. Dormer decides not to confess to this crime, as it later turns out, for many reasons.
Wicker Park (2004)
Matthew and Lisa are a happy couple in love, they have been together for three months. But distance gets in the way of this love. Matthew is offered a job in New York and tells Lisa that he wants her to come with him. She promises to think for a while and disappears.
A few years later, he and his new bride come to New York. In one of the countless restaurants, he meets a girl who is incredibly similar to Lisa. Old feelings flare up with renewed vigor, and Matthew loses his head – now he must track down his former lover and find out the truth behind her mysterious disappearance.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
The psychological thriller tells the story of a journalist, he and his assistant are trying to solve a case that no one could solve before him. Popular investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbe Salander must unravel a complicated case that took place 40 years ago on an island owned by the client who ordered the investigation.
His niece has disappeared, and the oligarch believes that someone from his close circle killed her. A journalist and a hacker with tattoos quickly get on the trail of the criminals, but they could not even imagine what an unexpected turn this case would take.
Best Offer (2012)
Virgly Oldman runs an auction house and is one of the world’s best art historians. He achieved universal recognition as the best expert in painting. Thanks to this, Virgly and his partner Billy Whistler carry out fraud. They buy original paintings, passing them off as copies. Oldman keeps all these masterpieces of art in a secret room in his house.
One day Virglia asks to evaluate the antiques that she received from my parents, a mysterious girl named Claire. She suffers from an unusual illness, and therefore hides her appearance, communicating only through the door. While assessing the girl’s inheritance, Oldman finds parts of an ancient mechanism. Enlisting the help of engineer Robert, he tries to restore it in order to unravel the ancient mystery.
Gone Girl (2014)
The relationship between Amy and Nick seemed ideal to those around her, but now that Amy has suddenly disappeared, the investigation is constantly finding new evidence that confirms that she was afraid of Nick and what could happen to her. People from all over the district are ready to help in the search for the missing woman and together put together, like a mosaic, those parts of her hidden life that can tell about what happened to her.
Amy’s personal diary, revealing all her suspicions and fears, evidence left throughout the house and testifying not in favor of her husband, the police, seeing only Nick as the only suspect, are people ready to search for the truth or do they intend to prove the guilt of the inconsolable husband at any cost? The press manages to create a frightening image of Nick every day, and the public no longer doubts that only he could be the reason for the unsolved disappearance of his wife.
