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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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Pittsburgh
1942 · Drama
Illegal
1955 · Crime
Hard, Fast and Beautiful
1951 · Drama
Dragonwyck
1946 · Drama
Vice Squad
1953 · Crime
Desire in the Dust
1960 · Crime
The Secret Invasion
1964 · War
Penny Points to Paradise
1951 · Comedy
Bob le Flambeur
1956 · Action
The Last Sunset
1961 · Drama
The Saint In Palm Springs
1941 · Crime
Manpower
1941 · Crime
Parthal Pasi Theerum
1962 · Drama
Operation Cross Eagles
1968 · War
Thérèse Raquin
1953 · Romance
The Rich Are Always with Us
1932 · Drama
Cry of the City
1948 · Drama
The Unguarded Moment
1956 · Crime
Der brænder en ild
1962 · Family
The Wife Takes a Flyer
1942 · Romance
What a Way to Go!
1964 · Comedy
Something Weird
1967 · Horror
Tea and Sympathy
1956 · Drama
The Blue Max
1966 · War
The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan
1953 · Drama
Nobody Waved Goodbye
1964 · Drama
Seven Thieves
1960 · Crime
Possessed
1931 · Romance
My Outlaw Brother
1951 · Western
Terror by Night
1946 · Crime
Guns at Batasi
1964 · Drama
Captain from Castile
1947 · Adventure
Munimji
1955 · Romance
Seven Days Ashore
1944 · Romance
The Black Torment
1964 · Horror
The Sand Pebbles
1966 · War
Amrapali
1966 · Romance
The Woman in Red
1935 · Drama
The Black Sheep of Whitehall
1942 · Comedy
Eye of the Devil
1966 · Horror
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