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Movies with Moderately Complex Plots: Summaries & Endings Explained
20,066 movies with moderately complex plots, each with a full plot summary, timeline, character guide and the ending explained. Combine filters to narrow it down.
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World's Greatest Dad
2009 · Drama
Fifty Dead Men Walking
2009 · Drama
Five Minutes of Heaven
2009 · Drama
The Baader Meinhof Complex
2009 · Action
The Over the Hill Band
2009
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Love on Line (LOL)
2009 · Comedy
The Headless Woman
2009 · Drama
The Bridge to Nowhere
2009 · Crime
District 9
2009 · Action
Life Partner
2009 · Drama
Degrassi Goes Hollywood
2009 · Music
Bandslam
2009 · Drama
Turning Point
2009 · Thriller
Raging Phoenix
2009 · Action
4th Period Mystery
2009 · Mystery
Red River
2009 · Drama
Bran Nue Dae
2009 · Drama
Accomplices
2009 · Drama
Julie & Julia
2009 · Biography
Yang Yang
2009 · Drama
I Sell the Dead
2009 · Horror
Cold Souls
2009 · Drama
Neel Akasher Chandni
2009 · Romance
Funny People
2009 · Drama
Love Aaj Kal
2009 · Comedy
Malai Malai
2009 · Family
Flame and Citron
2009 · Drama
Thirst
2009 · Drama
Lorna's Silence
2009 · Drama
Adam
2009 · Drama
American Cowslip
2009 · Comedy
One Night in Supermarket
2009 · Crime
Modhi Vilayadu
2009 · Romance
McDull, Kung Fu Kindergarten
2009 · Comedy
Shrink
2009 · Drama
Orphan
2009 · Drama
In the Loop
2009 · Comedy
Batgirl: Year One
2009 · Animation
Overheard
2009 · Drama
Tidal Wave
2009 · Thriller
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- Dark Movies Grim worlds, moral grey zones and heavy atmospheres.
- Movies with a Happy Ending Stories that leave you smiling when the credits roll.
- Mind-Bending Movies Confusing, twisting stories you need to watch twice.
- Fast-Paced Movies No slow scenes: the story never stops moving.
- Slow-Burn Movies Patient storytelling that builds to something big.
- Tense Movies Edge-of-your-seat suspense from start to finish.
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- Emotionally Heavy Movies Movies that make you cry and stay with you.
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