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* ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'''s AwardBaitSong "Let It Go" ends with Elsa closing the door of her ice palace, separating herself from all of civilization. It's used as part of a larger theme of doors and gates separating people, both for good and for bad.

* ''Film/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader'' ends with a door closing on the picture of the Dawn Treader, presumably symbolising the end of Edmund and Lucy's adventures in Narnia.
* The ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' series does this multiple times with the same door of the same bathroom:
** The [[Film/SawI first film]] ends with [[spoiler:the Jigsaw Killer saying "Game over" before closing the bathroom door, leaving Adam to die]].
** The [[Film/SawII second film]] ends with [[spoiler:Amanda saying "Game over" before closing the bathroom door, leaving Eric to die]].
** The [[Film/Saw3D seventh film]] ends with [[spoiler:Dr. Gordon saying "Game over" before closing the bathroom door, leaving Hoffman to die. [[ArcWords Noticing a pattern here?]]]]
** The [[Film/{{Jigsaw}} eighth film]] ends with [[spoiler:Logan saying "I speak for the dead!" before closing the milking room door, after Halloran had died.]]
* ''Film/TheCandidate'', in which one-time idealist Bill [=McKay=] wins election to the Senate, but sells his soul in the process. After the famous line "what do we do now?", Bill's campaign workers burst into the suite and more or less drag Bill and Marvin out of the room. The door closes behind them, leaving the hotel room empty and silent. Roll credits.

* A the end of the 1984 film ''The Stone Boy'', about a boy who accidentally shoots & kills his older brother and the family's grief, there is a shot of the surviving brother and his father closing the barn doors, seen from the inside.

* At the end of ''Film/TheGodfather'', after Michael lies to Kay about not being responsible for killing his brother-in-law, we see the door shut on Kay as Michael is being proclaimed the new Don.
* ''Film/{{Goodfellas}}'' ends with Henry Hill closing the door of his new witness protection house.
* At the end of ''Film/TheSearchers'', a happy family reunion occurs inside a house, but Ethan realizes there is NoPlaceForMeThere and wanders off to the background desert. Ethan is left literally out of the picture as the door of the house closes and "The End" appears.
* At the end of ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'', the title character and his love interest walk through a door to hyperspace and it closes behind them.
* ''Film/EventHorizon'' ends with the door closing to the sleep chamber deck as Starck screams uncontrollably from the stasis nightmare she's had as the rescue crew try fruitlessly to calm her.
* The film of ''Theatre/DonGiovanni'' ends with a servant closing the palace's doors.

* The original ending of ''Film/TwentyEightDaysLater''. Test audiences however assumed it meant the surviving protagonists were doomed, so a happier ending was filmed showing they had survived the ZombieApocalypse.
* At the end of ''Film/{{Hud}}'', AntiHero[=/=]VillainProtagonist Hud watches his nephew Lonnie walk away. Now all alone after having driven everyone off, Hud gives a dismissive wave and closes the screen door to the kitchen. TheEnd.
* ''Film/{{Breach}}'': After Eric runs into Hanssen on the elevator and assures him that he'll pray for him, the elevator doors close. Cue FadeToBlack.
* ''Film/JackRyanShadowRecruit'': As Ryan is lead in to give his briefing to the president, the camera pulls back as the office door shuts.
* ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'' proper ends with Merlin closing the monitor panels of his MissionControl computer console, [[spoiler:so as to discreetly avoid watching Eggsy having RescueSex with Princess Tilde]]. But this is quickly followed up by TheStinger.
* ''Film/BeyondAReasonableDoubt'' ends with Tom being denied a pardon for his murder conviction--the governor finds out at the last second, literally as he's about to sign the paper, that Tom is guilty after all. The film ends with Tom being led out of the office by a prison guard as the door shuts behind him.
* ''Film/TheTrumanShow'' has a variation. The in-universe show ends with a shot of Truman walking up a staircase and through the door that leads out of the studio and into reality. This isn't the last shot of the film, as it's followed by scenes of other characters reacting to the end of the show -- but it is the last the real audience, as well as the in-universe audience, sees of Truman. Once he's left the show, Truman gets to live the rest of his life without anyone watching.
* ''How to Murder Your Wife'' ends with the butler sheepishly closing the door on the audience as he is about to [[spoiler:possibly have sex with the mother of his employer's wife]].

* ''Film/HouseOnHauntedHill1959'' ends with a door to the house closing by itself, accompanied by weird sounds.

May overlap with any of various types of {{Discretion Shot}}s. Opposite and possible {{BookEnd|s}} to the OpenDoorOpening. A type of HatAndCoatShot. Compare and contrast with OffIntoTheDistanceEnding.

May overlap with any of various types of {{Discretion Shot}}s. Opposite and possible BookEnd|s to the OpenDoorOpening. A type of HatAndCoatShot. Compare and contrast with OffIntoTheDistanceEnding.

May overlap with various types of {{Discretion Shot}}s. Opposite of and may form BookEnds with the OpenDoorOpening. A type of HatAndCoatShot. Compare and contrast with OffIntoTheDistanceEnding.

* ''Film/TheTakingOfPelhamOneTwoThree'' subverts this trope by [[spoiler:having Mr. Green - the last surviving hijacker, who has been sneezing throughout the whole subway train heist - escort the two cops who were questioning him out of his apartment. Just as he closes the door, he sneezes one last time... cue Walter Matthau (whose character has heard that particular sneeze before) opening the door very slowly and giving Mr.Green the stink-eye.]]

* ''Film.HouseOnHauntedHill1959'' ends with a door to the house closing by itself, accompanied by weird sounds.

* ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' did this many times throughout the series, including the series finale.

* ''Film/HowToMurderYourWife'' ends with the butler sheepishly closing the door on the audience as he is about to [[spoiler: possibly have sex with the mother of his employer's wife ]].
* ''Film/SicarioDayOfTheSoldado'' ends with this, when [[spoiler: Alejandro asks Miguel if he wants to become a sicario.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants''": The episode where Plankton fails to see what the Krabby Patty is made from for the secret formula ends this way.

* ''Film/TheGodfather'''s final shot is homaged in the ending of a mafia-themed episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', with Lisa in the role of Kay. Subverted as the door opens again to reveal Michael is playing with his toys.

* The episode where [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants Plankton]] fails to see what the Krabby Patty is made from for the secret formula ends this way.

* The [[Film/SawI first]] ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' movie ends with the Jigsaw Killer saying "[[ArcWords Game over]]" before closing the bathroom door, leaving Adam to die. [[spoiler:Dr. Gordon also does this to Hoffman in the final shot of the [[Film/Saw3D seventh movie]].]]

* Series/{{Seinfeld}} did as well, when Jerry and Elaine are dumped as prospective godparents for a couple's child, who choose Kramer. They go across the hall to talk to him, and shut the door ''exactly'' (with the FadeToBlack) as was done in Film/TheGodfather.

* The very last line of the Christmas special ''WesternAnimation/TheRapsittieStreetKidsBelieveInSanta'' is for Nicole's father to loudly order someone to close the front door of his house.

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* At the end of ''Film/{{Hud}}'', AntiHero / VillainProtagonist Hud watches his nephew Lonnie walk away. Now all alone after having driven everyone off, Hud gives a dismissive wave and closes the screen door to the kitchen. TheEnd.

May overlap with various types of {{Discretion Shot}}s. Opposite of and may form BookEnds with the OpenDoorOpening. Compare and contrast with OffIntoTheDistanceEnding.

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* ''Webcomic/OneOverZero'' ends this way, with a HappyEnding where everyone is BackForTheFinale. Those who died during the comic's run were resurrected get turned into humans (except the RunningGag, which gets turned into a fish). The door in question is a dimensional door between the world of the comic (which will be destroyed) and the real world.

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* This is also the ending of the comic strip ''ComicStrip/ElNegroBlanco''

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* The ''Inner Sanctum'' radio show ended with the creaking door slamming shut.
** Ditto ''Radio/CBSRadioMysteryTheater''.

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* ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'' ends with Sweeney slamming a door after he has walked through it.
* Act One of ''Theatre/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' ends with this. The Golden Ticket tour group enters the mysterious factory through a heavy metal door; Willy Wonka follows them in and, after BreakingTheFourthWall to invite the audience inside as well, he slams it shut.
* Henrik Ibsen's ''Theatre/ADollsHouse'' ends with Nora slamming the door behind her as she [[LeavingYouToFindMyself leaves her husband and family]].

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* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' for the N64 had a variation on this. After defeating Master Hand on Classic, the camera zooms out to reveal the room from the title sequence, followed by the screen going black to the sound of a door shutting. Cue credits.
* Defeat another faction by force in ''VideoGame/SidMeiersAlphaCentauri'', and you get to see one: the defeated faction leader [[PowerFloats levitating]] in a sphere of ElectricTorture. Bloodcurdling scream. Blast door with the defeated faction's logo slamming shut, closing off the victim from view mid-scream.
* The GameOver sequence in ''[[VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry3DixieKongsDoubleTrouble Donkey Kong Country 3]]'' has this.
* ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsII'' ends with the PlayerCharacter taking their seat on the Throne of Want, which is basically a kiln with a chair inside, and the door closing on them.
* ''VideoGame/MarioParty'' ''8'' has this in one minigame; the minigame starts with a door opening to find Player 1 in a room full of clocks. The winner, however, will be shown for the minigame end scene, where all of the clocks start ticking. After a while on the results screen in Party Mode, the door is then shown to be closing.
* ''VideoGame/ProjectXZone'' ends with [[OriginalGeneration Kogoro and Mii]] walking into the latter's mansion for a drink of tea as the doors are closing.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', choosing to stay with Toriel at the end of the True Pacifist ending results in one of these. [[spoiler:If you did a Genocide run at any point beforehand, though, there's one more RevealShot before the cut to black.]]

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* ''Webcomic/OneOverZero'' ends this way, with a HappyEnding where everyone is BackForTheFinale. Those who died during the comic's run were resurrected get turned into humans (except the RunningGag, which gets turned into a fish). The door in question is a dimensional door between the world of the comic (which will be destroyed) and the real world.

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* ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'''s "Straight to Heart" had ended with the door closing on the audience.

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