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Movies with Complex, Mind-Bending Plots: Summaries & Endings Explained
3,156 movies with complex, mind-bending plots, each with a full plot summary, timeline, character guide and the ending explained. Combine filters to narrow it down.
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An Evening in Paris
1967 · Drama
Train of Events
1949 · Drama
Kitchen
1966
Hotel
1967 · Drama
Andha Naal
1954 · Mystery
Eager to Live
1953 · Drama
Anthony Adverse
1936 · Drama
Island in the Sun
1957 · Romance
The Exterminating Angel
1962 · Drama
Happy Ever After
1954 · Comedy
The Murderer Lives at Number 21
1942 · Thriller
King Cat
1967 · Adventure
All My Good Countrymen
1969 · History
Death Laid an Egg
1968 · Crime
Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
1939 · Mystery
The Heart of a Queen
1940 · Drama
Jhuk Gaya Aasman
1968 · Drama
The Case of the Howling Dog
1934 · Mystery
Bizarre, Bizarre
1937 · Comedy
Teesri Manzil
1966 · Thriller
The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes
1935 · Thriller
WandaVision
2021 · Mystery
Conflagration
1958 · Drama
The Perils of Pauline
1967 · Adventure
Ooty Varai Uravu
1967 · Drama
Twin Husbands
1933 · Drama
Homicidal
1961 · Horror
Dreams That Money Can Buy
1947 · Drama
Hotel Paradiso
1966 · Comedy
Macunaima
1969 · Fantasy
Repulsion
1965 · Horror
Pierrot le Fou
1965 · Romance
Crossroads
1942 · Drama
The Murderers Are Coming
1942 · Drama
The Hawks and the Sparrows
1966 · Comedy
The Bed Sitting Room
1969 · Comedy
Ocean’s Eleven
1960 · Crime
Theorem
1968 · Drama
The Trial
1962 · Mystery
The Brothers Karamazov
1969 · Drama
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