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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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The Teacher
2017 · Drama
Apocalypse Now Now
2017 · Fantasy
Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya: Vow in the Snow
2017 · Drama
Sekigahara
2017 · Drama
Death Note
2017 · Action
Beach Rats
2017 · Drama
The Villainess
2017 · Action
Red Christmas
2017 · Thriller
Bushwick
2017 · Action
Arjun Reddy
2017 · Drama
Babumoshai Bandookbaaz
2017 · Thriller
Cult of Chucky
2017 · Thriller
Vivegam
2017 · Thriller
The Toymaker
2017 · Horror
Marjorie Prime
2017 · Sci-Fi
What Happened to Monday
2017 · Action
Gook
2017 · Drama
Shot Caller
2017 · Drama
6 Days
2017 · Action
The Monster Project
2017 · Action
Rocky Mental
2017 · Drama
The Wound
2017 · Drama
Once Upon a Time
2017 · Drama
A Taxi Driver
2017 · Action
Good Time
2017 · Drama
Annabelle: Creation
2017 · Mystery
Ingrid Goes West
2017 · Drama
In This Corner of the World
2017 · Drama
Nocturama
2017 · Drama
The Glass Castle
2017 · Biography
Pilgrimage
2017 · Adventure
The Veil
2017 · Action
Planetarium
2017 · Drama
Open Water 3: Cage Dive
2017 · Drama
Bedeviled
2017 · Thriller
Dhananjoy
2017 · Drama
Jaya Janaki Nayaka
2017 · Romance
Mass Leader
2017
Taramani
2017 · Drama
Nene Raju Nene Mantri
2017 · Action
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- Emotionally Heavy Movies Movies that make you cry and stay with you.
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