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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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Vanishing Point
1971 · Action
THX 1138
1971 · Sci-Fi
When Eight Bells Toll
1971 · Adventure
Bastard, Go and Kill
1971 · Western
Buddha Mil Gaya
1971 · Thriller
The Revolutionary
1971 · Action
Yuma
1971 · Western
Sharapanjara
1971 · Drama
Death in Venice
1971 · Drama
The Sporting Club
1971 · Comedy
Taking Off
1971 · Drama
The Pursuit of Happiness
1971 · Drama
Cold Turkey
1971 · Comedy
Girl Slaves of Morgana Le Fay
1971 · Horror
The Night Visitor
1971 · Mystery
Little Murders
1971 · Comedy
Doctors’ Wives
1971 · Drama
How to Frame a Figg
1971 · Comedy
Countess Dracula
1971 · Drama
Mehboob Ki Mehndi
1971
Kati Patang
1971 · Drama
Zachariah
1971 · Western
A Severed Head
1971 · Comedy
You Are a Widow, Sir
1971 · Comedy
Dasara Bullodu
1971
The Night God Screamed
1971 · Crime
Preacherman
1971 · Comedy
Caravan
1971 · Music
Swamp Girl
1971 · Drama
Barbara the Fair with the Silken Hair
1970 · Family
There Was a Crooked Man...
1970 · Comedy
Brancaleone at the Crusades
1970 · Adventure
Claire’s Knee
1970 · Romance
Husbands
1970 · Drama
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
1970 · Drama
Jane Eyre
1970 · Drama
A Man Called Sledge
1970 · Western
Flap
1970 · Comedy
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
1970 · Drama
Perfect Friday
1970 · Crime
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