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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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Shocker
1989 · Thriller
Elves
1989 · Horror
A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon
1989 · Action
Fat Man and Little Boy
1989 · Biography
Next of Kin
1989 · Action
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
1989 · Thriller
The Architecture of Doom
1989 · Documentary
Crimes and Misdemeanors
1989 · Drama
Drugstore Cowboy
1989 · Drama
An Innocent Man
1989 · Action
The Punisher
1989 · Action
A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story
1989 · Drama
Beyond the Door III
1989 · Horror
Johnny Handsome
1989 · Drama
Kala Bazaar
1989 · Action
Blood and Sand
1989 · Romance
Black Rain
1989 · Action
Spider’s Web
1989 · Drama
A Dry White Season
1989 · Drama
If They Tell You I Fell
1989 · Romance
Sea of Love
1989 · Crime
Old Gringo
1989 · Romance
Fire and Rain
1989 · Drama
A City of Sadness
1989 · Drama
Sweetie
1989 · Drama
Where the Spirit Lives
1989 · Drama
Kickboxer
1989 · Action
Dr. Caligari
1989 · Horror
Jagratha
1989 · Crime
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
1989 · Crime
Chanakyan
1989 · Thriller
Things
1989 · Horror
The Bounty Hunter
1989 · Crime
Romero
1989 · Drama
Wired
1989 · Comedy
Romero
1989 · Drama
The Package
1989 · Action
Millennium
1989 · Sci-Fi
Casualties of War
1989 · Drama
Bilangin ang Bituin sa Langit
1989 · Drama
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