History Bookends / LiveActionFilms

* ''Film/MaxKeeblesBigMove'' begins with him dreaming about being chased on his bicycle by the ice cream man. In the end, he's being chased by the ice cream man for real.

* ''Film/TheOtherBoleynGirl'': Starts and ends with 3 children playing in a meadow.
* ''Film/{{Outlander}}'': AvertedTrope, where even though the final version of the film ends with a VikingFuneral, a deleted alternate opening was actually originally going to begin with one too.

* PlayedForDrama in ''Film/TheSeductionOfMimi'': The film begins in rural Sicily, with a scene of a man driving up to a group of quarry workers — one of whom is Mimi, the film's main character — to do some political canvassing, [[spoiler:or so it might seem to the viewer. However, it soon becomes clear that the canvasser was actually a ''[[TheMafia picciotto]]'' threatening the workers that they'll [[IOwnThisTown never work in this town again]] unless they vote for the local Mafia's preferred candidate. Furthermore, the ballots cast in the election are ''not'' actually secret, so they're able to follow through on their threat, thus forcing Mimi[[note]]who voted for the opposing candidate, in defiance of the threat[[/note]] to move to Turin in search of work.]] The film's ending sequence starts with a shot-for-shot recreation of the opening scene, with one key difference: [[spoiler:this time, it's '''Mimi himself''' who's threatening the workers into voting for the Mafia's candidate]].[[note]]This serves to show just how much he's betrayed his earlier (politically left-wing) ideals, due to the Mafia having used "carrot and stick" coercion tactics on him, in order to get him to join them.[[/note]]

* PlayedForDrama in ''Film/TheSeductionOfMimi'': The film begins in rural Sicily, with a scene of a man driving up to a group of quarry workers — one of whom is Mimi, the film's main character — to do some political canvassing, [[spoiler:or so it might seem to the viewer. However, it soon becomes clear that the canvasser was actually a ''[[TheMafia picciotto]]'' threatening the workers that they'll [[IOwnThisTown never work in this town again]] unless they vote for the local Mafia's preferred candidate. Furthermore, the ballots cast in the election are ''not'' actually secret, so they're able to follow through on their threat, thus forcing Mimi[[note]]who voted for the opposing candidate, in defiance of the threat[[/note]] to move to Turin in search of work.]] The film's ending sequence starts with a shot-for-shot recreation of the opening scene, with one key difference: [[spoiler:this time, it's '''Mimi himself''' who's threatening the workers into voting for the Mafia's candidate]].[[note]]This serves to show just how much he's betrayed his earlier (politically left-wing) ideals, due to the Mafia having used "carrot and stick" corercion tactics on him, in order to get him to join them.[[/note]]

* ''Film/{{Valentine}}'' starts with Dorothy Wheeler framing her classmate Jeremy Melton for sexual assault. It ends with [[spoiler:Jeremy framing Dorothy for mass murder.]]