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Movies with Moderately Complex Plots: Summaries & Endings Explained
20,038 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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Badlands
1973 · Drama
Mean Streets
1973 · Drama
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
1973 · Drama
Hex
1973 · Horror
Isn’t It Shocking?
1973 · Mystery
John the Violent
1973
Illumination
1973 · Drama
The Spook Who Sat by the Door
1973 · Drama
Charley Varrick
1973 · Crime
The Spirit of the Beehive
1973 · Fantasy
Stateline Motel
1973 · Crime
The Assassination of Matteotti
1973 · History
No Place to Hide
1973 · Thriller
I Don’t Know Much, But I’ll Say Everything
1973 · Comedy
The Pyx
1973 · Horror
The Student Teachers
1973 · Thriller
The Pedestrian
1973 · Drama
High Plains Drifter
1973 · Mystery
Happy Mother’s Day, Love George
1973 · Thriller
A Doll’s House
1973 · Drama
High Crime
1973 · Crime
American Graffiti
1973 · Drama
The Mansion of Madness
1973 · Horror
No, the Case Is Happily Resolved
1973 · Thriller
The Day of the Jackal
1973 · Drama
Gehri Chaal
1973 · Thriller
The MacKintosh Man
1973 · Thriller
Lady Ice
1973 · Thriller
Death Smiles on a Murderer
1973 · Horror
Kazablan
1973 · Drama
The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing
1973 · Romance
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
1973 · Drama
Live and Let Die
1973 · Action
Indian Summer
1973 · Comedy
Battle for the Planet of the Apes
1973 · Action
The Legend of Hell House
1973 · Horror
The Hireling
1973 · Drama
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
1973 · Mystery
England Made Me
1973 · Drama
The Candy Snatchers
1973 · Crime
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