Films with satisfying endings

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Hoosiers

Gene Hackman's players of the Hickory basketball team go on to win the state championship.

Frozen

Elsa is able to thaw the kingdom of Arendelle and even helps Olaf survive in the summer with his own personal flurry. Hans is sent back to the Southern Isles to face punishment, Arendelle cuts off trade with 'Weaseltown' and their fearful, paranoid duke. Anna and Elsa reconcile.

Secretariat

Secretariat beats Sham to win the Triple Crown.

Curse of Chucky

Andy Barclay (played by Alex Vincent) blows away Chucky with a shotgun in the after-credits ending after telling his mom doesn't want any more surprises for his birthday. A Woody Woodpecker episode is on the TV.

One of my favourite endings was to John Carpenter's The Thing. The Thing has a recurring motif concerning how to spot an imitation. In the words of Childs earlier in the film, "If I was a perfect imitation, how would you know I was really me?" The film gives us clues on how to spot an imitation, and when Childs shows up in the final scene, the film doesn't spell anything out. Is Childs an imitation? We need to piece it together using subtle clues placed through out the film. It's satisfying because I like puzzle's, but the thoughtful defiance exhibited by Mac right up to the final scene is also cathartic in a way. You rarely have protagonists in horror films that are this thoughtful

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Now, to the subject at hand.... I agree with the posters who posted these movies:

The Shawshank Redemption
Smokey and the Bandit
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (The original version, of course.)
Twister

I would also add:

(These are your typical "And they all lived happily ever after" movies.)

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (I'm sorry, but this is one of my all-time favorite movies.)
King Ralph

Open Range

Boss and Charley defeat Baxter and his men. Charley proposes to Sue.

The Guns of Navarone

The two powerful German guns are destoryed and the six Allied destoryers safely reach the 2000 British solders marooned on a island.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

HYDRA is defeated and Captain America helps the Winter Soldier remember who he was.

"Pollyanna"

At the end, the whole town turns-up to support Pollyanna, as she has done for them.

Mulholland Drive, actually the first time I saw it I didn't like it. It took me waiting 4 years and watching it again to really enjoy it. When I watched it again the ending felt so complete, like it tied the whole dream together in a nice neat little bowed packed.

A Separation.

That, and I really enjoyed the part where President Sawyer invites John Cale onboard Marine One for the ride to the hospital, saying "Special Agent Cale! I'm not leaving without my protection." Even Emily is invited aboard, and of course all of them get to do "the thing."

X-Men: Days of Future Past

The dystopian future is prevented, the Sentinel project is cancelled, Bolivar Trask is arrested, and Wolverine wakes up in a revised timeline and sees everyone who died, including Jean Grey and Cyclops, alive!

How to Train Your Dragon 2

Hiccup reunites with his mother, defeats Drago, and sets all the dragons free.

Groundhog Day

Bill Murray breaks the time loop a changed man, and he wakes up to find Rita still with him.