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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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Gift Horse
1952 · Drama
No Questions Asked
1951 · Drama
Dogora
1964 · Horror
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
1969 · Drama
The Velvet Touch
1948 · Thriller
A Man Alone
1955 · Romance
Doctor X
1932 · Mystery
Major Dundee
1965 · Western
Arizona Bushwhackers
1968 · Western
A Modern Hero
1934 · Romance
Let’s Kill Uncle
1966 · Horror
Holiday
1930 · Romance
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1960 · Adventure
The Committee
1968 · Music
The Strange Woman
1946 · Drama
Actors and Sin
1952 · Comedy
The Circus Queen Murder
1933 · Drama
Late Autumn
1960 · Drama
Liane, Jungle Goddess
1956 · Adventure
The Girl on a Motorcycle
1968 · Romance
Human Desire
1954 · Crime
Little Old New York
1940 · History
Scotland Yard Investigator
1945 · Mystery
Step Lively
1944 · Music
Framed
1930 · Crime
Calling Dr. Death
1943 · Thriller
The Diary of a Chambermaid
1946 · Comedy
The Atomic City
1952 · Drama
Sylvia
1965 · Romance
The Last Frontier
1955 · Western
The Town Went Wild
1944 · Comedy
The Girls
1968 · Drama
Coney Island
1943 · Comedy
Easy Living
1949 · Drama
The Karate Killers
1967 · Action
I Aim at the Stars
1960 · Drama
We’ve Never Been Licked
1943 · Romance
Psycho
2020 · Drama
Chains
1949 · Drama
Seven Doors to Death
1944 · Romance
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