40 Movies With Twist Endings on Netflix That Will Leave You Shook

Atonement begins as a story of forbidden love between Cecilia and Robbie. When Cecilia's little sister Briony catches her with Robbie, the younger girl tells a horrible lie which lands Robbie in prison. He ends up fighting in World War II as a result, while Cecilia becomes a nurse. In the end, an older Briony visits the couple to apologize for what she did when she was younger, but they turn her away — or at least that's what seems to happen until it's revealed old Briony actually wrote their story as a book with a happy ending because the star-crossed couple died in the war without ever reuniting.