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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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Digging Up the Marrow
2015 · Biography
Fireman
2015 · Thriller
Zhongkui: Snow Girl and the Dark Crystal
2015 · Romance
An Inspector Calls
2015 · Comedy
Hidden
2015
Fifty Shades of Grey
2015 · Drama
Temper
2015 · Crime
Girl House
2015 · Thriller
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus
2015 · Thriller
Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
2015 · Drama
Demonic
2015 · Thriller
1944
2015 · War
Jupiter Ascending
2015 · Action
Amityville Death House
2015 · Horror
Shamitabh
2015 · Thriller
The Other Man: F.W. de Klerk and the End of Apartheid
2015 · Biography
Outcast
2015 · Action
The Voices
2015 · Thriller
Rahasya
2015 · Thriller
Isai
2015 · Thriller
Khamoshiyan
2015 · Horror
Wild Card
2015 · Action
Alien Outpost
2015 · Action
The Loft
2015 · Thriller
Yennai Arindhaal
2015 · Thriller
Halik sa Hangin
2015 · Drama
Timbuktu
2015 · Drama
They Look Like People
2015 · Drama
Bitter Lake
2015 · Documentary
The Boy Next Door
2015 · Thriller
Pataas
2015 · Action
Picket 43
2015 · War
Baby
2015 · Action
The Resurrection of Jake The Snake
2015 · Documentary
The Atticus Institute
2015 · Drama
Against the Sun
2015 · Adventure
Cake
2015 · Drama
The Humbling
2015 · Drama
Killers
2015 · Action
Mommy
2015 · Drama
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