10 Movies That Only Make Sense At The End

Alfonso Cuarón's fantastic coming-of-age road film follows two young pals, Julio (Gael García Bernal) and Tenoch (Diego Luna), who head off on a road trip through rural Mexico with a beautiful older woman, Luisa (Maribel Verdú).

Though the earlier passages of the film suggest that Luisa decides to join the boys because of her husband's recent infidelity, something still feels a little off about the whole thing.

There's a clear, unspoken sadness about Luisa, yet the full extent of this isn't made clear until the film's end, set a year after the sex-filled, debauched road trip has come to an end.

When Julio and Tenoch have a chance encounter the next year, it's revealed that Luisa died of cancer a month after their trip, and that she was aware of her prognosis during her time with the boys.

It's a bombshell of a revelation which takes a sexy, boyish fantasy scenario and elevates it to something more truthful and honest, of a woman wishing to truly live as her time on Earth runs out.