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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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Bright Lights, Big City
1988 · Drama
Frequent Death
1988 · Thriller
The Tracker
1988 · Action
God Bless the Child
1988 · Drama
Paap Ki Duniya
1988 · Adventure
Dominick and Eugene
1988 · Drama
D.O.A.
1988 · Mystery
Little Nikita
1988 · Drama
Masquerade
1988 · Drama
Howling IV: The Original Nightmare
1988 · Horror
A Short Film About Killing
1988 · Crime
Prison
1988 · Drama
Contagion
1988 · Thriller
Taffin
1988 · Action
Shame
1988 · Drama
Frantic
1988 · Drama
The Possessed
1988 · Drama
Daisy
1988 · Romance
Oru CBI Diary Kurippu
1988 · Thriller
Born to Defence
1988 · Thriller
Kung-Fu Master!
1988 · Drama
The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission
1988 · Adventure
The Big Blue
1988 · Drama
Aparan
1988 · Mystery
Shoot to Kill
1988 · Action
School Daze
1988 · Drama
Au Revoir les Enfants
1988 · Drama
Slugs
1988 · Horror
Cop
1988 · Crime
The Serpent and the Rainbow
1988 · Thriller
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
1988 · Drama
Faceless
1988 · Horror
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
1988 · Thriller
Nekromantik
1988 · Drama
Shahenshah
1988 · Action
The Black Monk
1988 · Romance
Yesterday
1988 · Drama
Braddock: Missing in Action III
1988 · Action
Stranger on My Land
1988 · Drama
Vicharana
1988 · Thriller
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