10 Films That Should Have Ended Ten Minutes Earlier

9. The Riot Club

After An Education looked at the rigmarol of getting into university and One Day dealt with a relationship forged at graduation, Lone Scherfig decided to fill in the gaps. Well, sort of. Unlike her previous films, the characters of The Riot Club are as far removed from the semi-ordinary people of the Danish director's other English-language efforts. An exclusive club at Oxford populated by who they deem best and brightest (read: richest), the society's modus operandi is to go around showing just how much money they have and how they don't give a toss.

The film centres on one of the Club's signature dinners, where they go to a local establishment, get obscenely drunk and trash the place, paying the owner off there and then. Scherfig's film is based on the stageplay Posh (which premiered months before the current Tory government, whose top brass were part of the real life Bullingdon Club, came into power) that keeps the focus tied to the one night in question (bar a final epilogue).

On screen, however, that's just an extended second act, with the play's ending turned into a drawn out finale tying things up in a point. You feel a more experienced screenwriter would have had the confidence to get the major beats of these pre- and post-raucous moments into the night itself.