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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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Cry Danger
1951 · Crime
China Girl
1942 · War
Above Us the Waves
1955 · War
The Strange Door
1951 · Thriller
Side Street
1949 · Crime
The Detective
1968 · Crime
Brainwashed
1960 · Drama
Up the Junction
1968 · Drama
Different Fortunes
1956 · Drama
The Hour Before the Dawn
1944 · Drama
Vanity Fair
1932 · Drama
Katariina ja Munkkiniemen kreivi
1943 · Romance
Caravan
1946 · Adventure
Action in Arabia
1944 · Drama
The Last Man to Hang
1956 · Drama
Young Bess
1953 · Drama
Lady from Louisiana
1941 · Drama
Paris Underground
1945 · Drama
Mystery Junction
1951 · Crime
July Rain
1967 · Drama
Off Limits
1952 · Comedy
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
1931 · Drama
The Merry Widow
1952 · Music
The Woman in Green
1945 · Crime
The Halfway House
1944 · Fantasy
The Boston Strangler
1968 · Crime
Waltz War
1933 · Comedy
Sylvia and the Ghost
1946 · Fantasy
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1956 · Drama
King of Kings
1961 · History
Fists in the Pocket
1965 · Drama
That Lady in Ermine
1948 · Comedy
Time Table
1956 · Crime
Black Magic
1949 · Horror
Rasputin and the Empress
1932 · History
My Man and I
1952 · Drama
Paramanandayya Sishyula Katha
1966 · Comedy
Genghis Khan
1965 · History
Pay or Die!
1960 · Crime
The Desert Song
1943 · Romance
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