10 Movies That Were Great Until Their Final Scene

9. Love Is Strange

The Film: When long-term partners Ben (John Lithgow) and George (Alfred Molina) marry, George is fired from his job and the pair are forced to live with friends at opposite sides of New York to make ends meet while they search for a smaller apartment. Ira Sachs' film is sweetly romantic, and it becomes achingly so as the feature moves along - as Ben and George spend more time apart, the desire to see them back together again grows. Finally, they get their apartment.

Where It All Goes Wrong: Ben dies off-screen, meaning the audience is not just denied the possibility of seeing him and George together again, or of seeing them attain that thing the couple waited so long to attain, but Sachs kills one of his leads off so callously the viewer doesn't even get a last glimpse of him. It feels oddly harsh to end with George alone in the apartment he wanted to share with his husband, almost as though the director was hoping to wring those last few tears out of the viewer just because he could.