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Point of no return (disambiguation)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ183461
Source-derived summary

The point of no return is the moment after which adverse consequences would commit one to a course of action.

Point of no return may also refer to:

Film

Point of No Return, a 1990 Hong Kong film starring Jacky Cheung

Point of No Return (1991 film) or Touch and Go, a Hong Kong film

Point of No Return (1993 film), an American adaptation of the 1990 French thriller film La Femme Nikita

Point of No Return (1995 film), an Australian film

Point of No Return, a 2000 Hong Kong film featuring Joe Ma

Point of No Return, a 2018 film starring Steven Berkoff

Music

Point of No Return (ballet), a musical piece by Juan Maria Solare

Point of No Return (band), a Brazilian band

Albums

Point of No Return (Frank Sinatra album), 1962

Point of No Return (Keyshia Cole album), 2014

Point of No Return (Shareefa album), 2006

Point of No Return (Systems in Blue album) or the title song (see below), 2005

Point of No Return (World Saxophone Quartet album) or the title song, 1977

Point of No Return, an unreleased album by 3LW

Point of No Return (Havok EP) or the title song, 2012

Point of No Return (Mr. Envi' EP), 2013

Songs

"Point of No Return" (Centory song), 1994

"Point of No Return" (Exposé song), 1985

"Point of No Return" (Nu Shooz song), 1986

"Point of No Return" (Systems in Blue song), 2005

"Point of No Return", by Duran Duran from Astronaut

"Point of No Return", by Electric Light Orchestra from Mr. Blue Sky

"Point of No Return", by Gene McDaniels

"The Point of No Return", by Immortal Technique from Revolutionary Vol.

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This entry incorporates text from Point of no return (disambiguation)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.