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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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Inside Straight
1951 · Drama
The Big Broadcast of 1938
1938 · Comedy
Women in War
1940 · War
Banjo on My Knee
1936 · Comedy
Sitting on the Moon
1936 · Drama
The Chase
1966 · Drama
Murder by Television
1935 · Thriller
When I Am Dead and White
1967 · Comedy
Who’s Been Sleeping in My Bed?
1963 · Comedy
Untamed Youth
1957 · Music
Can-Can
1960 · Music
The Love-Ins
1967 · Drama
My Name Is Julia Ross
1945 · Mystery
The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case
1943 · Crime
Gabriel Over the White House
1933 · Romance
The Black Dakotas
1954 · Romance
Mickey One
1965 · Drama
Bardelys the Magnificent
1926 · Drama
Reap the Wild Wind
1942 · Action
Tomorrow at Seven
1933 · Crime
The Big Fisherman
1959 · Drama
Two and Two Make Six
1962 · Comedy
Missamma
1955 · Comedy
Of Human Bondage
1946 · Romance
Black Cat Mansion
1958 · Horror
The Girl in Black Stockings
1957 · Crime
San Francisco
1936 · Drama
The Rain People
1969 · Drama
The Hanged Man
1964 · Thriller
Diary of a Chambermaid
1964 · Drama
Jail Bait
1954 · Crime
Circus of Horrors
1960 · Horror
The Sun Shines Bright
1953 · Drama
The Mad Magician
1954 · Horror
César
1936 · Drama
Springfield Rifle
1952 · Western
Blindfold
1966 · Thriller
Dicen que soy mujeriego
1949 · Comedy
Lulu Belle
1948 · Drama
Women in the Wind
1939 · Adventure
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- Mind-Bending Movies Confusing, twisting stories you need to watch twice.
- Fast-Paced Movies No slow scenes: the story never stops moving.
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