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Movies with a Sad Ending: Summaries & Endings Explained
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The House of Mirth
2000 · Drama
Before Night Falls
2000 · Biography
Pollock
2000 · Biography
Ghaath
2000 · Drama
Kippur
2000 · Drama
The Envy of Gods
2000 · Romance
Faust: Love of the Damned
2000 · Fantasy
Dancer in the Dark
2000 · Drama
Joint Security Area
2000 · Action
Fiza
2000 · Drama
One Hundred Steps
2000 · History
Autumn in New York
2000 · Drama
Aimee & Jaguar
2000 · Drama
Mazha
2000
$pent
2000 · Drama
Two Women
2000 · Drama
Rififi (re-release)
2000 · Drama
The Perfect Storm
2000 · Action
The Big Picture
2000 · Drama
Butterfly Tongues
2000 · Drama
Faithless
2000 · Romance
Kadosh
2000 · Drama
Paranoid
2000 · Crime
Boys Don’t Cry
2000 · Crime
Brown's Requiem
2000 · Drama
Flowers for Algernon
2000 · Drama
Beat
2000 · Drama
Eye of the Beholder
2000 · Mystery
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
2000 · Drama
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To Die (Or Not)
2000
All the King’s Men
1999 · War
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
1999 · Biography
Felicia's Journey
1999 · Drama
Shool
1999 · Action
Bangkok Dangerous
1999 · Drama
Jakob the Liar
1999 · Drama
American Beauty
1999 · Drama
Earth
1999 · Drama
Troublesome Night 6
1999 · Horror
The Hunley
1999 · Action
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