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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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Road to Salina
1970 · Drama
Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
1970 · Thriller
The McKenzie Break
1970 · Drama
The Sidelong Glances of a Pigeon Kicker
1970 · Comedy
The Twelve Chairs
1970 · Drama
I Start Counting
1970 · Thriller
Waterloo
1970 · Drama
Le Cercle Rouge
1970 · Thriller
Deadlock
1970 · Western
On the Comet
1970 · Adventure
Equinox
1970 · Horror
The Blood Rose
1970 · Horror
Pieces of Dreams
1970 · Romance
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970 · Action
How Awful About Allan
1970 · Horror
Violent City
1970 · Thriller
R.P.M.
1970 · Drama
Five Easy Pieces
1970 · Drama
And Soon the Darkness
1970 · Mystery
The Executioner
1970 · Thriller
Leo the Last
1970 · Comedy
Fragment of Fear
1970 · Thriller
Tchaikovsky
1970 · Music
The Strawberry Statement
1970 · Romance
The Breach
1970 · Thriller
WUSA
1970 · Drama
Macho Callahan
1970 · Western
Soldier Blue
1970 · Western
Diary of a Mad Housewife
1970 · Comedy
Goodbye Gemini
1970 · Horror
La Piscine
1970 · Drama
Barquero
1970 · Western
You Can’t Win ’Em All
1970 · War
Something For Everyone
1970 · Crime
The Man Who Haunted Himself
1970 · Drama
30,000 Miles Under the Sea
1970 · Animation
Joe
1970 · Crime
The Revolutionary
1970 · Drama
They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
1970 · Thriller
Judy
1970 · Horror
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