History TheReveal / LiveActionFilms

* ''Film/WerewolvesWithin'': Cecily [[spoiler:is a werewolf who came to Beaverfield in hopes of finding the perfect hunting grounds. She's tried it before in other towns, but it would always end up in the papers. She's counting on the people of Beaverfield being to distrustful of each other to really look into it and figure out she's a killer]].

* ''Film/WonderWoman2017'': Two for the prices of one.

* ''Film/Saw3D'' ends with Lawrence Gordon, the sole surviving protagonist of the first film, being revealed to be the one confirmed [[NiceGuy good egg]] out of Jigsaw's apprentices, as the only two apprentices that appeared before then, Amanda and Hoffman, were both cold-blooded killers who greatly exaggerated (and sometimes even flouted) Jigsaw's legacy. Both Amanda and Hoffman were executed in their last films: Amanda is killed by one of Jigsaw's victims after she threatened the life of the nurse that was treating Jigsaw, and Hoffman was left to die without even the faintest hope in the same room Gordon had previously been imprisoned in by Jigsaw, with Gordon himself acting on Jigsaw's orders (Jigsaw put a contract out on anyone who [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes harms his loved ones--especially Jill Tuck, his wife]]). [[PreMortemOneLiner "Game over."]]

* ''Film/TheMatrix'':

* ''Film/MissionImpossible'':
** There are not one but two major reveals in the first ''Film/MissionImpossible'' movie -- that Phelps is alive after being presumed KIA on a mission, and later that [[spoiler:he and Claire are working together against Ethan]].

* ''Film/{{Chinatown}}''. She's her sister. ''And'' [[ParentalIncest her daughter.]]

* ''Film/{{Antebellum}}'': [[spoiler: This film ''doesn't'' take place in the pre-Civil War South, but in 21st-century America. The "plantation" is actually a white-supremacist theme park called Antebellum, which gives white people the chance to live out their racist fantasies with kidnapped African-Amercans as its "slaves".]]

* ''Film/{{Antebellum}}'': [[spoiler: This film ''doesn't'' take place in the pre-Civil War South, but in 21st-century America. The plantation is actually a bunch of white supremacists playing out their sick fantasy with kidnapped African-Amercans as their "slaves".]]

** The all-time most famous is "[[LukeIAmYourFather No, I am your father]]" from ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', as well as the revelation that Leia is his sister in the next movie. Vader's status as Luke's father was actually a reveal to near everyone, even those involved in the production, considering only a very select few knew about it up until near the film's release. Even Creator/DavidProwse, the actor within the suit, did not know the truth. The line he spoke while filming, believing it would be the final line, was "''Obi-Wan'' killed your father." ''That'' would have been [[MindScrew pretty screwy]], too and in fact, is in a way also MetaphoricallyTrue. A sign of the pre-Internet times the movie was released in: "LukeIAmYourFather" was actually revealed first in the [[AllThereInTheManual novelization]] of the [[TheFilmOfTheBook movie]]... which was released two months prior to the movie itself.

* ''Film/Hayride2'': Ol' Pitchfork, or rather, R.W. Rayborn, is actually Steven's grandfather. Morgan, his father, ran off with Rayborn's daughter, Steven's mother, because Rayborn was an AbusiveParent.

* ''Film/{{Evidence}}'': After an entire movie's worth of looking through and analyzing footage recovered from the scene of a mass murder to try and identify the killer, the investigators realize [[spoiler:the footage they've been watching was edited and planted by the killer specifically to throw them off and waste their time while they got away. And also there were actually two killers taking turns in the same outfit, and also also those two killers were the "survivors" of the massacre, one of whom the cops had just let go.]]

** ''Film/BatmanBegins'': Henri Ducard [[spoiler:was the leader of the League of Shadows all along; "Ra's al-Ghul" is just a title passed down by leaders of the League. He's also TheManBehindTheMan to Dr. Crane and the Falcone family, and he's planning to use Crane's fear gas to drive Gotham into anarchy]].
** ''Film/TheDarkKnight'': Officers Wuertz and Ramirez [[spoiler:are crooked cops in the Joker's employ. They were the ones responsible for Harvey and Rachel's capture]].
** ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'': "Miranda Tate" is actually [[spoiler:Ra's al-Ghul's daughter Talia, the new leader of the League of Shadows. She was the one who escaped from the Middle Eastern prison as a child, not Bane]].

* In ""Film/DesktopDesperadoes'', [[spoiler:Alex, the antagonist obsesses over kidnapping Pointer and utilising his abilities for nefarious criminal purposes but it's later revealed he was in fact Pointer 95, Pointer's obsolete sibling who was also intent on transferring Pointer's data from his body into his with no regard for Pointer's life]]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc1tr1cwiZs

* ''Film/FishStory'' has several, owing to its AnachronicOrder: The missing minute of the song is the lead singer breaking down and asking if this will ever be heard by anyone. The WordSaladLyrics are the result of a poor translation job on an english-language novel. The record store employee is the son of Gekirin's manager. The college student failed to save the girl, but bought her the opportunity to save them both. The champion of justice was their son, who takes back the ship from the terrorist cult. The student on board the ship is a mathematical genius who calculates the trajectory of the missiles to blow up the comet.

* Midway through ''Film/{{Gravity}}'', a character who had quite obviously very much died earlier in the movie, mysteriously comes back - something you don't expect from what had been until then fairly realistic fiction. Dr. Stone has a long and important conversation with the character, who refuses to say how he came back. [[spoiler: Because he never did - she's [[HelpfulHallucination imagining]] the whole conversation, you only learn after the conversation is over.]]

* In the French film ''Film/HeLovesMeHeLovesMeNot'' (which stars Audrey Tautou), the first half is a whimsical unrequited love story, getting a bit creepy, and then as the LoveInterest is being taken away to prison, the film rewinds and you see it from his point of view--he's met this [[ClingyJealousGirl strange woman]] once or twice in passing and doesn't know who all the love notes are coming from. It turns out she's mentally ill with "[[StalkerWithACrush erotomania]]," and is ultimately institutionalised.

** ''Film/TheAvengers2012'': The Other's boss--and the true leader of the Chitauri army--is ''ComicBook/{{Thanos}}''.

** There are not one but two major reveals in the first ''Film/MissionImpossible'' movie - that Phelps is alive after being presumed KIA on a mission, and later that [[spoiler:he and Claire are working together against Ethan]].

** ''Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol'' - Intelligence analyst William Brandt isn't just a mere analyst; he's also a highly-trained field agent who was once tasked with guarding Ethan's wife, whom he supposedly failed to protect, which is why he is very reluctant to take up field missions again. At the end of the film, it's revealed that [[spoiler: she's alive and well; Ethan has been hiding her from his enemies for quite a while.]]
** ''Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation'' - The Syndicate is actually [[spoiler: a proposed [=MI6=] black operation that was rejected by the British PM, but that the head of [=MI6=] authorized anyway. Also, the director of the CIA is not a total InspectorJavert]].

* In ''Film/{{Moon}}'', neither of the two men claiming to be Sam Bell is the real deal--they're just two clones out of countless hundreds of them that are kept stockpiled at the mining station with implanted memories so that they can be used as slave labor. Each clone is designed with a three-year lifespan (hence, Sam's three-year contract with the mining company) and each one is killed at the end of his tenure so that the next clone can be awoken. Also, that creepy HAL-esque robot with the smiley face and Kevin Spacey's voice? It's totally not evil.

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* In ''Film/ABeautifulMind'', the Reveal is that John Nash [[ItWasHisSled has schizophrenia]] and has been imagining all the spy work he was been doing for the government - along with several of the other characters.
* Parodied in ''Film/AShotInTheDark'', where it's revealed that [[spoiler: all but one supporting character introduced in the film is either a murderer or a blackmailer.]] In addition, [[spoiler: the killer of those four bystanders was Dreyfus, who was attempting to kill Clouseau, having been driven to insanity by Clouseau's incompetence. He tries to car-bomb Clouseau in the climax, but the Ballons and their staff inadvertently take it instead... Of course, [[NonFatalExplosions due to a certain franchise policy,]] it wouldn't have killed ''Clouseau'' either anyway.]]

* [[ItWasHisSled One of the most famous]] is from ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes'', in which the eponymous planet turns out to be [[EarthAllAlong an Earth devastated by nuclear war]]. And George Taylor, TheHero of the film, only finds this out upon seeing the ruins of the Statue of Liberty.