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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 Falcon Takes Over
1942 · Mystery
Tobacco
1962 · Drama
Story of a Prostitute
1965 · Drama
None Shall Escape
1944 · War
A Royal Scandal
1945 · Drama
Mexicanos al Grito de Guerra
1943 · Drama
Murder on Dante Street
1956 · Drama
Peking Express
1951 · Action
Top of the World
1955 · Adventure
Tread Softly Stranger
1958 · Crime
Toni
1935 · Drama
Seven Thunders
1957 · War
Somewhere in the Night
1946 · Thriller
The Brigand of Kandahar
1965 · Adventure
Kitty Foyle
1940 · Romance
Night in Paradise
1946 · Drama
The Devil Is a Woman
1935 · Comedy
Gran Casino
1947 · Music
Bale Pandiya
1962 · Comedy
The Lone Wolf Returns
1935 · Mystery
Run for Cover
1955 · Drama
The Flight That Disappeared
1961 · Thriller
Framed
1947 · Crime
Garden of the Moon
1938 · Romance
First Comes Courage
1943 · War
Aag
1948 · Drama
Home from the Hill
1960 · Drama
They Got Me Covered
1943 · Comedy
The Abominable Snowman
1957 · Adventure
Mister Cory
1957 · Drama
Alice in Wonderland
1949 · Animation
Rope of Sand
1949 · Thriller
The Long, Hot Summer
1958 · Drama
Line of Demarcation
1966 · Drama
Where the Sidewalk Ends
1950 · Drama
The Dybbuk
1937 · Drama
Paris After Dark
1943 · War
Because They’re Young
1960 · Drama
Rough Shoot
1953 · Crime
The Unknown Man
1951 · Drama
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