8 "Great" Movies You Actually Only Remember For The Plot Twist

What People Remember About The Movie: "There's that scene with the stadium, isn't there? That was cool. The twist at the end... well, it turns out the guy they've been looking for has been locked up for years. Can't remember the rest, though."

Recently remade into an unnecessary Hollywood flop starring Nicole Kidman, Julia Roberts and Chiwetel Ejiofor, the original Argentine version of The Secrets in Their Eyes is considered by many to be a modern classic of world cinema. And coming away from the film for the first time, that is sure to feel like an appropriate declaration, so powerful and unexpected is the final plot twist.

But that doesn't excuse the fact that the majority of The Secrets in Their Eyes, save for one awesome scene set at a stadium during a football game, shot in what appears to be one take, has all the durability of an episode of Law & Order. In the moment, it might seem thrilling, but none of the procedural aspects have any staying power: compare them to those in a film like Zodiac, and you get the point.

In this case, the revelation - that Irene has been keeping the guy who murdered her daughter in a makeshift cell all along - is such a shock that Juan José Campanella's film feels weightier than it is. But, really, what can you recall, save for its ending?