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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 Winter Comes
1947 · Drama
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
1939 · Drama
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
1949 · Comedy
Things to Come
1936 · Drama
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
1945 · Thriller
This Other Eden
1959 · Drama
Model for Murder
1959 · Drama
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
1951 · History
The Gay Deceivers
1969 · Comedy
The Barbarian and the Geisha
1958 · Romance
The Black Abbot
1963 · Crime
You Can’t Buy Luck
1937 · Romance
The Madonna’s Secret
1946 · Drama
Shield for Murder
1954 · Drama
The Man in Grey
1943 · Romance
Hard Contract
1969 · Romance
Kismet
1944 · Romance
Betrayed
1954 · Drama
Staircase
1969 · Drama
Passport to Shame
1958 · Drama
Lawyer Man
1932 · Drama
The Last Gangster
1937 · Thriller
The Housekeeper’s Daughter
1939 · Comedy
Freedom Radio
1941 · War
Le Million
1931 · Music
Chicago Deadline
1949 · Drama
The Flame Within
1935 · Drama
Impact
1949 · Mystery
Underworld U.S.A.
1961 · Crime
Girl Trouble
1942 · Comedy
Juarez
1939 · History
The Miracle
1959 · Drama
Khartoum
1966 · War
Goliath and the Dragon
1960 · Adventure
The Silk Express
1933 · Thriller
Bhog
2025 · Drama
Red Mountain
1951 · Western
Brahmachari
1968 · Comedy
Hunting Rifle
1961 · Drama
Lost Horizon
1937 · Adventure
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