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Movies with Simple, Easy-to-Follow Plots: Summaries & Endings Explained
18,081 movies with simple, easy-to-follow 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 Knife
1961 · Drama
The World, the Flesh and the Devil
1959 · Drama
Band Waggon
1940 · Music
Days of Glory
1945 · Documentary
Forbidden Paradise
1924 · Comedy
Woman Haters
1934 · Comedy
Pather Panchali
1955 · Drama
Rootin’ Tootin’ Rhythm
1937 · Western
The River of Love
1960 · Romance
City for Conquest
1940 · Drama
The Girl Rush
1955 · Comedy
The Foundling
1939 · Comedy
East of the River
1940 · Drama
Two Thousand Maniacs!
1964 · Horror
Whoops, I’m an Indian!
1936 · Western
Teacher’s Beau
1935 · Comedy
They Shall Have Music
1939 · Family
O.S.S.
1946 · Thriller
The Perfect Furlough
1958 · Romance
A Thunder of Drums
1961 · Western
The Sap from Syracuse
1930 · Romance
Fright Night
1947 · Comedy
Miracle of the White Stallions
1963 · Family
Smiley
1956 · Comedy
Siamo tutti inquilini
1953 · Comedy
The Wackiest Ship in the Army
1960 · War
Sky Giant
1938 · Romance
You Must Be Joking
1965 · Comedy
The Fighting Lady
1944 · Documentary
Stanley and Livingstone
1939 · Adventure
On the Bowery
1956 · Documentary
Battle Fever J
1979
Return of the Frontiersman
1950 · Western
Deliver Us from Evil
1966 · Drama
The Phantom Stagecoach
1957 · Western
They Were So Young
1954 · Crime
The Wild World of Batwoman
1966 · Crime
Block Busters
1944 · Comedy
Please Turn Over
1959 · Comedy
The Oscar
1966 · Drama
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