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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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Men and Beasts
1962 · Drama
A Cottage on Dartmoor
1929 · Crime
This Sporting Life
1963 · Drama
Cruel Story of Youth
1960 · Drama
Caught
1949 · Drama
Now I’ll Tell
1934 · Drama
Damaged Lives
1933 · Drama
Eros + Massacre
1969 · Drama
Tribute to a Bad Man
1956 · Western
This Night I’ll Possess Your Corpse
1967 · Horror
Guns for San Sebastian
1968 · Western
Dharmputra
1961 · Drama
Across the Wide Missouri
1951 · Western
China Girl
1942 · War
Above Us the Waves
1955 · War
The Strange Door
1951 · Thriller
Side Street
1949 · Crime
The Detective
1968 · Crime
Ittefaq
1969 · Mystery
Brainwashed
1960 · Drama
Duel of Champions
1961 · History
The Hour Before the Dawn
1944 · Drama
The Ghost of Frankenstein
1942 · Horror
Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
1952 · Drama
Paulina Is Leaving
1969 · Drama
The Verdict
1946 · Crime
Hands of a Stranger
1962 · Thriller
Paris Underground
1945 · Drama
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
1931 · Drama
Angels One Five
1952 · War
Our Friends in the North
1996 · Drama
The Woman in Green
1945 · Crime
Obsession
1949 · Mystery
The Boston Strangler
1968 · Crime
Fort Yuma
1955 · Western
Camille 2000
1969 · Drama
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1956 · Drama
Foreign Intrigue
1956 · Thriller
King of Kings
1961 · History
Fists in the Pocket
1965 · Drama
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