10 Best Unscripted Movie Endings Ever

10. You're Okay - Captain Phillips (2013)

Paul Greengrass's re-telling of the 2009 Maersk Alabama hijacking comes to a head when the eponymous Captain Rich Phillips (Tom Hanks) is saved from the Somali pirates holding him for ransom and ushered aboard the USS Bainbridge to receive medical attention.

Though this scene seems well planned and rehearsed, especially when you notice the brilliance of Hanks's harrowing performance as Phillips breaks down, the truth is the whole thing was filmed as an improvisation, complete with real life medics who were thrown into the scene at the last minute. According to Hanks:

"We went down there — and we had the actual crew of the ship that we were shooting on — and said, 'What would you do to someone that came in here?' And they said, 'Well, we'd lay them down here, and we'd do this and this and this.' Paul said, 'Well, shall we give a try?' We shot it — I don't know, four or five times, I guess. We had, literally, the crew of the infirmary. They didn't know they were going to be in a movie that day."

Considering the raw emotion of the scene, its origins really are something to marvel over.