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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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Amar
1954 · Romance
No Way to Treat a Lady
1968 · Thriller
The Prisoner
1955 · Drama
Khamoshi
1969 · Drama
Ten Little Indians
1965 · Mystery
Chuka
1967 · Action
The 7th Dawn
1964 · War
Carol for Another Christmas
1964 · Drama
Hour of the Wolf
1968 · Drama
Gift Horse
1952 · Drama
No Questions Asked
1951 · Drama
The Lark
1964 · War
Doctor X
1932 · Mystery
Major Dundee
1965 · Western
Liebelei
1933 · Drama
A Modern Hero
1934 · Romance
Ten Thousand Days
1967 · Drama
The Strange Woman
1946 · Drama
The Circus Queen Murder
1933 · Drama
The Girl on a Motorcycle
1968 · Romance
Human Desire
1954 · Crime
Les Dames du bois de Boulogne
1945 · Romance
Framed
1930 · Crime
Sylvia
1965 · Romance
The Last Frontier
1955 · Western
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
1961 · Drama
A Thousand and One Nights
1969 · Drama
We’ve Never Been Licked
1943 · Romance
Psycho
2020 · Drama
Chains
1949 · Drama
Angel Baby
1961 · Drama
Taxi for Tobruk
1961 · Drama
The Mountain Road
1960 · Drama
Riot in Cell Block 11
1954 · Drama
Ek Phool Do Mali
1969
The World’s Greatest Sinner
1962 · Drama
Scared to Death
1946 · Thriller
Germany, Year Zero
1948 · Drama
Ramrod
1947 · Western
Iru Kodugal
1969 · Drama
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