With hundreds of movies released every year, filmmakers have to brainstorm ways to give audiences an ending they’ve never seen before. Some B-town movies are so beautifully written that even though the plot is predictable, the ending leaves the audience in shock. Here are some of the best movies with unexpected endings on Netflix.
The 6 best movies on Netflix with endings you never saw coming:
1. Beautiful Dilruba comes again
- Cast: Taapsee Pannu, Vikrant Massey, Sunny Kaushal
- IMDb Rating: 5.8/10
- Genre: Crime/Drama/Mystery
- Director: Jaiprad Desai
- Release Year: 2024
The sequel of the 2021 film Haseen Dilruba is as interesting and entertaining as the first film. Then came Haseen Dilruba revolving around a couple who are joined by love but cannot live together due to their past crimes. The woman pretends to fall in love with another man and marries him. They hatch another plot inspired by a novel to murder him. But despite it being shown that the pair fell victim to their own scheme, they managed to escape together. It was also eventually revealed that the man they were trying to kill was the son of a murder mystery writer.
2. Darlings
- Cast: Alia Bhatt, Shefali Shah, Vijay Verma, Roshan Mathew
- IMDb Rating: 6.6/10
- Genre: Dark Comedy
- Director: Jasmeet K. rein
- Release Year: 2022
Darlings depicts the life of a mother and daughter who struggle to break free from their toxic lives and find love in unexpected places. Fed up with her alcoholic and abusive husband, the daughter tries to kill her husband but at the last moment realizes that she is becoming just like him. But when he tries to take revenge on her, he himself dies a tragic death.
3.mm
- Cast: Kriti Sanon, Pankaj Tripathi, Sai Tamhankar, Manoj Pahwa, Supriya Pathak, Evelyn Edwards
- IMDb Rating: 7.8/10
- Genre: Comedy/Drama
- Director: Laxman Utekar
- Release Year: 2021
This National Award winning film shows how a woman who becomes a surrogate for money falls in love with the unborn child. Finally in Mimi, he gives up his dream and his desire to take care of her.
4. Mother
- Star Cast: Sridevi, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Akshaye Khanna
- IMDb Rating: 7.2/10
- Genre: Drama/Thriller
- Director: Ravi Udayawar
- Year of Release: 2017
Mom is a crime thriller that shows how a mother can go to any extent to protect her child. An ordinary school teacher wants to take revenge for her daughter’s harassment. When she finally hears the word ‘mom’ from her stepdaughter, she pulls the trigger and punishes the abuser.
5. Devil
- Artists: Ajay Devgan, R. Madhavan, Jyotika, Janaki Bodiwala
- IMDb Rating: 6.5/10
- Genre: Psychological Thriller
- Director: Vikas Bahl
- Release Year: 2024
The next name on this list of the best movies with unexpected endings on Netflix is Satan. It describes a father’s struggle to free his daughter and several others from the clutches of an evil man who possesses little girls in order to gain power and rule the world. But his father becomes the reason for his plan failing. While the police think that Wicked has disappeared, he is found in a separate chamber of the father’s house who punishes and torments him every day.
6. Amar Singh Chamkila
- Star Cast: Diljit Dosanjh, Parineeti Chopra
- IMDb Rating: 7.8/10
- Genre: Docudrama
- Director: Imtiaz Ali
- Release Year: 2024
Amar Singh Chamkila features Diljit Dosanjh playing the role of the ‘Elvis of Punjab’, who became a celebrity due to the controversial lyrics written in his songs. While their songs were one of the causes of the couple’s tragic death, in the end we see that the cop who came to arrest them was also a fan of their music.
Well, that concludes this list of the best movies with unexpected endings on Netflix. Do you have anything to add? let us know!
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