20 Amazing Movie Plot Twists That Never Get Talked About

20. Faraday Gets Framed For The Bombing - Arlington Road

Arlington Road is one of the most nimbly crafted, downright tense thrillers of the 1990s, revolving around a college professor, Michael Faraday (Jeff Bridges), who comes to believe that his neighbours, Oliver and Cheryl Lang (Tim Robbins and Joan Cusack), are actually part of a terrorist cell.

The are-they-aren't-they of it all resolves in the climax when we learn that Faraday's suspicions were indeed correct, yet anything but a happy ending is awaiting him after this discovery.

In the climax, Faraday tries to prevent the Langs from blowing up the FBI HQ, and is in turn tricked into driving the very car into the building which contains the actual bomb. The bomb goes off, killing Faraday and many inside the FBI HQ, before a closing newscast reveals that Faraday was blamed for the bombing, his motive believed to be revenge for the previous death of his FBI agent wife in the line of duty.

The Langs pulled off a perfect frame-up job, then, tragically leaving Faraday's son Grant (Spencer Treat Clark) an orphan who believes his father was a terrorist, just as the Langs ship off to another neighbourhood to repeat the same scheme again. Brutal isn't even the word.