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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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Duck, You Sucker
1972 · Action
Toys Are Not for Children
1972 · Drama
Apna Desh
1972 · Action
The Other
1972 · Drama
The Possession of Joel Delaney
1972 · Horror
Tower of Evil
1972 · Horror
Hammersmith Is Out
1972 · Drama
Jeremiah Johnson
1972 · Adventure
St. Michael Had a Rooster
1972 · History
Dear Dead Delilah
1972 · Horror
We Won’t Grow Old Together
1972 · Drama
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
1972 · Comedy
The Iron Crown
1972 · Horror
Who Killed the Prosecutor and Why?
1972 · Thriller
Taming of the Fire
1972 · Drama
The Hassled Hooker
1972 · Mystery
Bawarchi
1972 · Family
Bangarada Manushya
1972
The Carey Treatment
1972 · Crime
Cool Breeze
1972 · Action
Antony and Cleopatra
1972 · Drama
The Water Margin
1972 · Action
Buck and the Preacher
1972 · Action
The Merchant of Four Seasons
1972 · Drama
Tales from the Crypt
1972 · Horror
What Have You Done to Solange?
1972 · Horror
Bombay to Goa
1972 · Romance
All the Colors of the Dark
1972 · Horror
The New Land
1972 · Western
Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
1972 · Comedy
Seven Blood-Stained Orchids
1972 · Thriller
My Dearest Senorita
1972 · Drama
The Seagull
1972 · Drama
Cabaret
1972 · Drama
Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?
1972 · Thriller
There's Always Vanilla
1972 · Drama
The Countess of Corfu
1972 · Comedy
Pakeezah
1972 · Music
The Glass House
1972 · Drama
Sanjog
1972 · Drama
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