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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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Touch of Evil
1958 · Drama
The Incredible Shrinking Man
1957 · Sci-Fi
The Blue Angel
1930 · Drama
Gun Crazy
1950 · Drama
Death Rides a Horse
1969 · Western
Elevator to the Gallows
1961 · Drama
Suddenly, Last Summer
1960 · Drama
Safe in Hell
1931 · Drama
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1962 · Drama
The Longest Day
1962 · Action
Doctor Zhivago
1965 · Drama
Sands of Iwo Jima
1950 · Action
Witness for the Prosecution
1958 · Drama
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1958 · Drama
The Man Who Knew Too Much
1956 · Drama
Cape Fear
1962 · Drama
The Informer
1935 · Drama
The Body Snatcher
1945 · Thriller
Cimarron
1931 · Drama
Flying Leathernecks
1951 · Action
A Face in the Crowd
1957 · Drama
Splendor in the Grass
1961 · Drama
Baby Doll
1956 · Drama
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1956 · Sci-Fi
Django
1966 · Action
Midnight Cowboy
1969 · Drama
The Stranger
1946 · Drama
Out of the Past
1947 · Drama
Notorious
1946 · Drama
King Kong
1933 · Adventure
Bambi
1942 · Drama
Rashomon
1951 · Drama
El Cid
1961 · Adventure
The Magnificent Seven
1960 · Action
The Great Escape
1963 · Adventure
The Seventh Seal
1958 · Drama
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
1951 · Drama
The Big House
1930 · Drama
Rebecca
1940 · Drama
Spellbound
1945 · Mystery
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