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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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Mirzya
2016 · Drama
Bilal: A New Breed of Hero
2016 · Action
The Red Pill
2016 · Documentary
Phantasm: Ravager
2016 · Fantasy
Under the Shadow
2016 · Thriller
The Siege of Jadotville
2016 · Action
The Greasy Strangler
2016 · Thriller
13th
2016 · Crime
The Alchemist Cookbook
2016 · Drama
Face 2 Face
2016 · Drama
Gehenna: Where Death Lives
2016 · Horror
Jaguar
2016 · Action
ID2: Shadwell Army
2016 · Drama
The Intestine
2016 · Drama
Deepwater Horizon
2016 · Action
Doddmane Hudga
2016 · Drama
Denial
2016 · Biography
Operation Mekong
2016 · Action
Beyond
2016 · Action
Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden
2016 · History
Dearest Sister
2016 · Drama
Bad Black
2016 · Action
The Free World
2016 · Drama
I.T.
2016 · Drama
The Dressmaker
2016 · Drama
Chronic
2016 · Drama
The Age of Shadows
2016 · Action
Goat
2016 · Drama
Closet Monster
2016 · Drama
Sweet, Sweet Lonely Girl
2016 · Horror
Well
2016 · Drama
Hacker
2016 · Action
Broadcast Signal Intrusion
2016 · Drama
A Silent Voice: The Movie
2016 · Romance
Snowden
2016 · Action
Blair Witch
2016 · Thriller
Pink
2016 · Thriller
The Devil's Dolls
2016 · Thriller
ARQ
2016 · Sci-Fi
The Good Neighbor
2016 · Thriller
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