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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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The Strange Case of Doctor Rx
1942 · Mystery
The Possessors
1958 · Drama
Captain Clegg
1962 · Horror
French Cancan
1955 · Music
In Like Flint
1967 · Action
The Magic Box
1951 · Drama
Verboten!
1959 · War
Within Our Gates
1920 · Romance
The Square Peg
1958 · War
Penelope
1966 · Comedy
Incubus
1966 · Horror
Merrily We Go to Hell
1932 · Romance
The Snow Woman
1968 · Horror
Return of the Fly
1959 · Horror
The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
1940 · Comedy
Sense and Sensibility
2008 · Drama
Mere Huzoor
1968
Hollywood Cavalcade
1939 · Comedy
The President’s Analyst
1967 · Comedy
The Magic Serpent
1966 · Action
The Cowboy Quarterback
1939 · Comedy
Chain of Events
1958 · Drama
The Frozen Dead
1966 · Horror
Mine Own Executioner
1947 · Drama
Winter Kept Us Warm
1965 · Romance
The List of Adrian Messenger
1963 · Thriller
The Fuller Brush Girl
1950 · Comedy
Coral Reefs
1939 · Adventure
Sapphire
1959 · Thriller
The Big Show
1961 · Drama
Terror at Midnight
1956 · Drama
No Man of Her Own
1950 · Crime
Diary of a Country Priest
1951 · Drama
Streets of Laredo
1949 · Western
The Crowded Day
1954 · Drama
How Sweet It Is!
1968 · Comedy
Time Without Pity
1957 · Crime
The Rebel
1961 · Comedy
The Buccaneer
1938 · Adventure
Woman on the Run
1950 · Thriller
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