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** ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'' begins and ends by showing stained-glass windows depicting the characters.
** Similar to the ''Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron'' example below, ''[[Brother Bear]]'' begins and ends with an eagle (representing the late Sitka) in the sky.
** ''[[The Emperor's
** At the very beginning of ''[[The Aristocats]]'', we see Toulouse growling and hissing just right before Marie and Berlioz's piano lesson, and at the end of the film, just right after Thomas O'Malley and his alley cat friends rescue Duchess and her kittens and send Edger the butler to Timbuktu, we see Toulouse growling and hissing again.
** ''[[Mulan]]'': Little Brother the dog leading the chickens.
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* ''[[The Darjeeling Limited]]'' begins and ends with people running to get on a train as it pulls away from the station.
* ''[[The Sound of Music]]'' opens with panoramic views of the mountains, then zooms onto Maria (Julie Andrews) singing ecstatically how "the hills are alive with the sound of music!" before she rushes back to the nearby abbey. The movie ends with Maria and her new family, having escaped the Nazis at the same abbey, hiking through the same mountains towards the safety of the border. As the soundtrack sings "Climb Ev'ry Mountain", the camera pulls back to another panorama of those mountains.
* At the beginning of ''[[Star Trek II: The
** Similarly, ''[[Star Trek V: The
** In the 2009 ''[[Star Trek (film)|Star Trek]]'', a scene near the end of the first act features a special assembly of the Starfleet Academy, then immediately cutting to a scene of the Captain of the ''Enterprise'' addressing his crew before the depart. The end of the movie features another special Academy assembly and once again cuts right to the Captain of the ''Enterprise'' addressing his crew before they take off.
* ''Charly'', based on the book ''[[Flowers for Algernon]]'', begins and ends with Charlie Gordon playing on a swing in a playground.
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* The film ''[[Temple Grandin]]'' begins and ends with Temple looking right into the camera and saying "My name is Temple Grandin!" While in the beginning, she was standing in front of a closed room, at the end it's in front of a wide-open sky.
* The first and last shot in the movie ''[[Daybreakers]]'' is that of a bat flying overhead.
* ''[[X2: X-
* ''[[I Robot]]'' has a scene at the end that serves as a perfect mirror for the drawing Sonny made to show Spooner his dream, although YMMV on whether or not this counts, as the scene where Sonny creates the drawing is more towards the film's middle.
** Also, it's worth pointing out that, when Sonny first creates the drawing, Spooner and Calvin assume the man in the picture is him, but Sonny says it's Spooner. At the end of the film, the man leading the robots to freedom turns out to indeed be {{spoiler|Sonny.}}
* ''[[The Prestige]]'': Every magic trick consists of three parts, or acts...
* ''[[Going the Distance]]'' has in the beginning and towards the end, Dan contemplating that there are no baby pigeons in New York and Garrett playing Pac Man at the bar.
* ''[[DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story]]'' begins and ends with a commercial for a successful gym.
* A subtle one in ''[[Enchanted]]'' was that the first song sung in the film contained the lyrics "I've been dreaming of a true love's kiss." The last song sung by Carrie Underwood in the [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]] contained the lyrics "I've been dreaming of a true love's kiss."
* ''The Last Picture Show'' opens on a shot of the Royal Theater and pans left along Anarene’s main street. The closing shot of the film is the exact reverse -- the camera pans right and pauses on the {{spoiler|closed and shuttered}} movie house before [[Fade to Black|fading to black.]]
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* The plot of ''Metropolitan'' is set in motion when the protagonist shares a cab with the other main characters, after they refuse to steal it from him. Late in the movie, he hails a cab, in the process stealing it from another person he barely notices.
* ''[[Mystery Team]]'' begins and ends with the eponymous trio getting a new case.
* The first piece of music that plays during the end credits of ''[[
** In the first book, Harry arrives at the Dursleys when he was just a baby, brought there by Hagrid on Sirius' bike. In the last book, Harry leaves the Dursleys when he was an adult, being taken away by Hagrid on Sirius' bike. Hagrid even lampshades this.
** Also, near the end of the first movie, Harry hugs Hagrid. Near the end of the last movie, they embrace again.
* ''[[Shinjuku Incident]]'' has [[Jackie Chan]]'s character save detective Kitano from drowning in the sewer near the beginning, and ends with Kitano trying to save Chan from dying in the same way.
* The [[Transformers (film)|live-action ''Transformers'' films]] actually does this twice: In the first film, we see two Decepticons named [[Scary Scorpions|Scorponok]] and [[Dirty Cop|Barricade]], who only appear during the first half of this film, and they both disappear about halfway. However, Scorponok eventually returns during the climax of ''Revenge of the Fallen'', and Barricade does the same in ''Dark of the Moon'', where they are both immediately killed off.
** Each film also begins and ends with Optimus' narration. Had the line not been cut, the ending of the third film would have even reflected the closing line of the first (the ''Dark of the Moon'' line survives in the novelization):
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