10 Movies Where The Last Scene Is The Best

10. Se7en

David Fincher's Se7en boasts one of the most gut-wrenching climaxes to any film, well, ever.

After serial killer John Doe (Kevin Spacey) turns himself in, he directs Detectives Mills (Brad Pitt) and Somerset (Morgan Freeman) to the desert, where they're delivered a box.

Somerset opens the box and tells an increasingly agitated Mills to stay back, while Doe tauntingly informs him that he paid a visit to his pregnant wife Tracy (Gwyneth Paltrow), and as representing the sin of envy, decapitated her and placed her head in the box.

Somerset then desperately attempts to get an incensed Mills to step away from Doe, reminding him that killing Doe will effectively allow him to win, competing the one remaining sin: wrath.

But an enraged Mills promptly shoots Doe numerous times, ending the film on a jaw-droppingly bleak note, before Somerset signs off with the unforgettable quote:

"Ernest Hemingway once wrote, 'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.' I agree with the second part."

We then abruptly cut to the end credits, and that's all she wrote. It's an ending that, while totally shocking and "edgy," so perfectly ties the movie's themes up in a neat, if brutal, bow.