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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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Bugles in the Afternoon
1952 · Western
The Terror of the Tongs
1961 · Crime
The Proud Valley
1940 · Drama
Women in Love
1969 · Romance
Another Time, Another Place
1958 · Romance
Reform School Girl
1957 · Drama
Inadmissible Evidence
1968 · Drama
Affair in the Snow
1968 · Romance
Thieves’ Highway
1949 · Thriller
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
1960 · Drama
Dangerous to Know
1938 · Drama
Anpadh
1962
The Scent of Incense
1964 · Drama
The Old Maid
1939 · Drama
The Damned
1947 · Thriller
Homicidal
1961 · Horror
Arch of Triumph
1948 · Drama
Edge of Fury
1958 · Thriller
Danger Route
1967 · Action
Jack McCall, Desperado
1953 · Western
Bluebeard
1944 · Horror
Torpedo Run
1958 · War
Town Without Pity
1961 · Drama
Destiny’s Son
1962 · Action
Pigs and Battleships
1961 · Crime
Warpath
1951 · Western
Do Badan
1966
Invitation to a Gunfighter
1964 · Western
Supernatural
1933 · Horror
Men Are Not Gods
1936 · Drama
The Criminal
1960 · Crime
Decision at Sundown
1957 · Western
The General Died at Dawn
1936 · Drama
Shockproof
1949 · Thriller
The Colossus of New York
1958 · Horror
The Fire Within
1963 · Drama
The Pride and the Passion
1957 · Romance
Repeat Performance
1947 · Fantasy
Side Street Story
1950 · Comedy
These Thousand Hills
1959 · Western
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