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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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Walk Into Paradise
1956 · Adventure
A Time to Love and a Time to Die
1958 · Drama
Judge Hardy and Son
1939 · Comedy
The Man in the Back Seat
1961 · Crime
Man in the Moon
1960 · Romance
From Hell It Came
1957 · Horror
The Mating Season
1951 · Comedy
Snow Fall
2024 · Drama
Do Re Mi
1966 · Comedy
The First Traveling Saleslady
1956 · Western
Innocent Sinners
1958 · Drama
The Dancing Masters
1943 · Comedy
Putty Tat Trouble
1951 · Comedy
I Accuse My Parents
1944 · Drama
Sorrowful Jones
1949 · Comedy
That Man from Rio
1964 · Action
Lady in a Jam
1942 · Western
Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise
1939 · Comedy
Harold and the Purple Crayon
1959 · Animation
Second Chance
1953 · Drama
On the Night of the Fire
1939 · Drama
Atomic Train
1999 · Drama
Time Out for Lessons
1939 · Comedy
Smilin’ Through
1932 · Drama
Laugh and Get Rich
1931 · Comedy
The Young and the Brave
1963 · War
Stowaway
1936 · Adventure
A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed
1958 · Crime
Brave Little Tailor
1938 · Animation
Mickey’s Circus
1936 · Comedy
Legion of the Lawless
1940 · Western
Captain Fracasse
1961 · Adventure
A Canterbury Tale
1944 · Drama
The Lost Missile
1958
She Went to the Races
1945 · Comedy
Hindle Wakes
1952 · Romance
The Beast
1996
Penny Princess
1952 · Romance
Flight Angels
1940 · Drama
The Flute Concert of Sans-souci
1930 · History
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