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Emotionally Heavy Movies: Summaries & Endings Explained
19,818 emotionally heavy movies, each with a full plot summary, timeline, character guide and the ending explained. Combine filters to narrow it down.
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My Dinner with Hervé
2018 · Drama
This Teacher
2018 · Drama
Being Impossible
2018 · Drama
Halloween
2018 · Mystery
The Guilty
2018 · Drama
On Her Shoulders
2018 · Biography
Debi
2018 · Mystery
A Season in France
2018 · Drama
What They Had
2018 · Drama
The Night Comes for Us
2018 · Action
Galveston
2018 · Action
The Super
2018 · Thriller
Fail State
2018 · Documentary
Azali
2018 · Drama
Aanakallan
2018 · Comedy
Irina
2018 · Drama
Sandakozhi 2
2018 · Family
The Thinning: New World Order
2018 · Horror
Antrum
2018 · Horror
First Man
2018 · Biography
Bad Times at the El Royale
2018 · Drama
Beautiful Boy
2018 · Biography
Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer
2018 · Drama
The Kindergarten Teacher
2018 · Drama
After Everything
2018 · Drama
Apostle
2018 · Drama
I Still See You
2018 · Thriller
Look Away
2018 · Thriller
22 Chaser
2018 · Drama
Vada Chennai
2018 · Action
Cut Off
2018 · Crime
Kayamkulam Kochunni
2018 · Drama
Terrified
2018 · Horror
22 July
2018 · Biography
The Happy Prince
2018 · Biography
More Than Blue
2018 · Drama
Ten Years Japan
2018 · Drama
Asandhimitta
2018 · Drama
The Red Phallus
2018 · Drama
Zabardast
2018 · Documentary
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