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Emotionally Heavy Movies: Summaries & Endings Explained
19,724 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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Leviticus
2026 · Horror
Girls Like Girls
2026 · Drama
Maddie's Secret
2026 · Comedy
Rose of Nevada
2026 · Drama
Disclosure Day
2026 · Action
The Furious
2026 · Action
Savage House
2026 · Comedy
Carolina Caroline
2026 · Crime
Another World
2026 · Animation
Pressure
2026 · Drama
Backrooms
2026 · Horror
Tuner
2026 · Crime
Passenger
2026 · Horror
Is God Is
2026 · Drama
Blue Film
2026 · Drama
Deep Water
2026 · Action
Hokum
2026 · Horror
Animal Farm
2026 · Animation
One Spoon of Chocolate
2026 · Action
Omaha
2026 · Drama
Over Your Dead Body
2026 · Action
Apex
2026 · Action
Normal
2026 · Action
Wasteman
2026 · Crime
Lee Cronin's The Mummy
2026 · Horror
Amrum
2026 · Drama
Mother Mary
2026 · Drama
Toaster
2026 · Comedy
Faces of Death
2026 · Horror
Thrash
2026 · Horror
The Drama
2026 · Comedy
Our Hero, Balthazar
2026 · Comedy
They Will Kill You
2026 · Action
Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice
2026 · Action
Pretty Lethal
2026 · Action
Project Hail Mary
2026 · Drama
Two Prosecutors
2026 · Biography
Reminders of Him
2026 · Drama
Saipan
2026 · Biography
Slanted
2026 · Comedy
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