Top 5 Movies That Begin With The End

The main criteria here was that the device of using the ending at the beginning had to be integral to the movie. I gave myself a lot of leeway and I'm including bookends here as well – mostly because it was too hard to differentiate.

Top 5

Fight Club
Citizen Kane
Memento
Lawrence of Arabia
Stand By Me

Honorable Mention

Amores Perros
Clue
Double Indemnity
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Never Let Me Go
Outsiders, The
Pan's Labyrinth
Ping Pong (not the end – but end of second act)
Pulp Fiction
Raging Bull
Remember the Titans
Sunset Blvd.
Titanic (even though I hate the book ends of this film)
Usual Suspects

Best of the Rest

12 Monkeys
500 Days of Summer
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
American Beauty
Basketball Diaries
Catch Me If You Can
Gattaca
Interview with a Vampire
Irreversible
Milk
Rashomon
Serpico
Slumdog Millionaire
Ladder 49


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