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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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Nightmare in Chicago
1964 · Drama
Union Station
1950 · Thriller
An Italian in America
1967 · Comedy
Carnival in Costa Rica
1947 · Music
Halls of Montezuma
1951 · Drama
She
1965 · Romance
Station Six-Sahara
1963 · Drama
The Quick Gun
1964 · Western
Forbidden
1949 · Drama
The Notorious Lone Wolf
1946 · Action
Bye Bye Birdie
1963 · Music
Design for Leaving
1954 · Animation
Flying Tigers
1942 · Action
Toto and the Women
1952 · Comedy
The Rare Breed
1966 · Western
More Dead than Alive
1969 · Western
Where Danger Lives
1950 · Thriller
The Squaw Man
1931 · Drama
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
1965 · Comedy
Let’s Go Collegiate
1941 · Romance
Massacre Gun
1967 · Action
Variety Lights
1950 · Comedy
The Broken Star
1956 · Romance
The War Lover
1962 · Drama
Forty Winks
1930 · Animation
The Road to Ruin
1934 · Drama
Ace in the Hole
1942 · Comedy
Black Girl
1966 · Drama
Sheriff of Tombstone
1941 · Action
Son of Django
1967 · Western
Meet Me at the Fountain
1904 · Comedy
Live Telecast
2021 · Mystery
Revolutionens datter
1918 · Romance
Wished on Mabel
1915 · Comedy
The White Slave Trade
1910 · Drama
Mirages
1916 · Romance
Atlantis
1913 · Drama
The Fugitive
1910 · War
That Fatal Sneeze
1907 · Comedy
I Don’t Want to Be a Man
1918 · Comedy
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