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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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No Time to Be Young
1957 · Mystery
One Sunday Afternoon
1933 · Comedy
Down Three Dark Streets
1954 · Thriller
The Flame of New Orleans
1941 · Comedy
L’Immortelle
1963 · Mystery
This Property Is Condemned
1966 · Drama
Luv
1967 · Romance
Goodbye Earth
2024 · Drama
Keep Your Powder Dry
1945 · Drama
Quatermass and the Pit
1967 · Horror
The Man Between
1953 · Thriller
The Lower Depths
1937 · Drama
Renegade Girl
1946 · Western
The Daydreamer
1966 · Adventure
The Angel Wore Red
1960 · Drama
Orders to Kill
1958 · War
Queen Bee
1955 · Drama
The Jungle Princess
1936 · Action
The Hard Way
1943 · Drama
Convoy
1940 · Drama
The Office Wife
1930 · Drama
The Talk of the Town
1942 · Drama
You’re a Big Boy Now
1966 · Comedy
The Thin Red Line
1964 · War
Picnic on the Grass
1959 · Comedy
The Man Who Cheated Himself
1950 · Crime
Trooper Hook
1957 · Western
Too Late for Tears
1949 · Thriller
Night Life of the Gods
1935 · Comedy
The Lawless
1950 · Drama
I Deal In Danger
1966 · Drama
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
1964 · Comedy
We’re in the Money
1935 · Comedy
The Revenge of Ivanhoe
1965 · Adventure
U47 - Kapitänleutnant Prien
1958 · War
Targets
1968 · Drama
The Mouthpiece
1932 · Drama
The Great War
1959 · War
Peppermint Frappé
1967 · Drama
Cardinal Richelieu
1935 · Romance
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