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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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If a Man Answers
1962 · Comedy
The Country Girl
1954 · Drama
Champagne for Caesar
1950 · Comedy
Angels with Dirty Faces
1938 · Drama
Kisses for My President
1964 · Comedy
The Walls of Jericho
1948 · Drama
Hangmen Also Die!
1943 · Drama
The Curse of the Living Corpse
1964 · Horror
Fight, Zatoichi, Fight
1964 · Adventure
The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown
1957 · Comedy
Pickpocket
1959 · Drama
Compulsion
1959 · Thriller
The Cat Creeps
1946 · Horror
Target: Harry
1969 · Mystery
The Toy Wife
1938 · Drama
The Bowery
1933 · Drama
Highway Dragnet
1954 · Drama
Violent Saturday
1955 · Crime
Everything Goes Wrong
1960 · Crime
The Sleeping Tiger
1954 · Thriller
No More Orchids
1932 · Drama
Kalathur Kannamma
1960 · Romance
The Last Time I Saw Paris
1954 · Drama
The Sex of Angels
1968 · Thriller
The Good Die Young
1954 · Thriller
Demetrius and the Gladiators
1954 · History
Arizona
1940 · Western
Two Loves
1961 · Drama
I Wake Up Screaming
1941 · Mystery
But Not for Me
1959 · Comedy
La Bandera
1935 · Drama
Just Before Dawn
1946 · Mystery
1984
1956 · Drama
The Washington Masquerade
1932 · Romance
Teenage Doll
1957 · Crime
Stars
1959 · Drama
Della
1964 · Drama
Country Hotel
1957 · Comedy
The Tall Target
1951 · History
Bride of the Regiment
1930 · Romance
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