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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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Victim
1962 · Drama
Eye of the Cat
1969 · Horror
A Raisin in the Sun
1961 · Drama
The Lavender Hill Mob
1951 · Comedy
The Racers
1955 · Drama
100 Rifles
1969 · Adventure
Don't Bother to Knock
1952 · Drama
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
1952 · Adventure
The Snake Pit
1948 · Drama
Niagara
1953 · Thriller
Hold Back the Dawn
1941 · Drama
Wings
1929 · Action
Road to Utopia
1946 · Adventure
The Major and the Minor
1942 · Comedy
Paint Your Wagon
1969 · Drama
I Walk Alone
1948 · Drama
A Foreign Affair
1948 · Drama
Desire
1936 · Comedy
Medium Cool
1969 · Drama
Bedtime Story
1964 · Comedy
Scream of Fear
1961 · Thriller
Dead Ringer
1964 · Drama
Stage Fright
1950 · Mystery
A Fine Madness
1966 · Drama
Christmas in Connecticut
1945 · Comedy
White Heat
1949 · Action
Young Man with a Horn
1950 · Biography
The Bad Seed
1956 · Drama
The Sea Wolf
1941 · Adventure
The Man Who Came to Dinner
1942 · Comedy
They Died with Their Boots On
1942 · War
Romance on the High Seas
1948 · Comedy
The Horn Blows at Midnight
1945 · Fantasy
David Copperfield
1935 · Adventure
Boys' Night Out
1962 · Comedy
BUtterfield 8
1960 · Drama
Sweet Bird of Youth
1962 · Drama
Bombshell
1933 · Drama
A Tale of Two Cities
1935 · Drama
The V.I.P.s
1963 · Drama
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