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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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Badman’s Territory
1946 · Action
Five Little Peppers And How They Grew
1939 · Family
Keep ’Em Flying
1941 · Comedy
Show Biz Bugs
1957 · Animation
Get Yourself a College Girl
1964 · Comedy
Swing Shift Cinderella
1945 · Animation
Yu-Gi-Oh!
1998 · Family
The Mummy’s Ghost
1944 · Horror
Champion Without Crown
1946 · Drama
Red River Robin Hood
1942 · Western
There Is Such a Lad
1964 · Comedy
Professor Beware
1938 · Comedy
The Little Hut
1957 · Comedy
My Sister Eileen
1942 · Comedy
Phantom from Space
1953 · Horror
Jamaica Inn
1939 · Thriller
Bachelor Apartment
1931 · Drama
Johnny Tremain
1957 · Drama
The Cruel Sea
1953 · Drama
That Tender Age
1964 · Drama
Little Giant
1946 · Comedy
The Duke of West Point
1938 · Drama
The Bridge at Remagen
1969 · Action
The Lady Pays Off
1951 · Romance
The Road to Berth
1962 · Drama
Ambush at Cimarron Pass
1958 · War
Niagara Falls
1941 · Comedy
Harum Scarum
1965 · Romance
The Astounding She-Monster
1957 · Horror
The Years Between
1946 · Romance
Rhythm on the Range
1936 · Western
Betty Boop’s Bizzy Bee
1932 · Comedy
Time Bomb
1953 · Thriller
Diplomaniacs
1933 · Comedy
Duffy’s Tavern
1945 · Music
I Was an American Spy
1951 · Drama
Elmer Elephant
1936 · Comedy
Hearts in Bondage
1936 · Drama
Bored of Education
1936 · Comedy
Frontier Pony Express
1939 · Western
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