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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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One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
1942 · Drama
The Well
1951 · Drama
Ransom!
1956 · Thriller
No Orchids for Miss Blandish
1948 · Crime
The Red Lanterns
1963 · Drama
Inside Straight
1951 · Drama
The Barbarian
1933 · Romance
The Chase
1966 · Drama
When I Am Dead and White
1967 · Comedy
The Stalking Moon
1968 · Western
Two Stage Sisters
1964 · Drama
The Love-Ins
1967 · Drama
Double Door
1934 · Drama
Gabriel Over the White House
1933 · Romance
Inner Sanctum
1948 · Thriller
The Old Guard
1960 · Comedy
Tomorrow, the World!
1944 · Drama
Night Unto Night
1949 · Drama
Of Human Bondage
1946 · Romance
San Francisco
1936 · Drama
The Rain People
1969 · Drama
Diary of a Chambermaid
1964 · Drama
Jail Bait
1954 · Crime
Circus of Horrors
1960 · Horror
The Mad Magician
1954 · Horror
Tempest
1958 · History
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
1933 · Mystery
Conquest
1937 · History
Night Into Morning
1951 · Drama
Love Under the Crucifix
1962 · Drama
Umberto D.
1952 · Drama
Before I Hang
1940 · Crime
Madame Bovary
1949 · Drama
Two Women
1960 · War
A Hatful of Rain
1957 · Drama
Everybody Go Home!
1960 · Comedy
Vendetta of a Samurai
1952 · Action
Two Half-Times in Hell
1961 · War
Odette
1950 · Drama
Matango
1963 · Drama
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