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Intense Movies: Summaries & Endings Explained
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Scream and Scream Again
1970 · Horror
The Kremlin Letter
1970 · Thriller
The Reckoning
1970 · Drama
Bloodstained Clan of Honor
1970 · Action
The Molly Maguires
1970 · Drama
Witchhammer
1970 · Horror
Rider on the Rain
1970 · Mystery
Last of the Mobile Hot Shots
1970 · Drama
The Dunwich Horror
1970 · Horror
Jeevan Mrityu
1970 · Drama
Visibility Zero
1970 · Drama
The Looking Glass War
1970 · Thriller
Cleopatra
1963 · Biography
Mutiny on the Bounty
1962 · Adventure
Ben-Hur
1959 · Adventure
Spartacus
1960 · Adventure
2001: A Space Odyssey
1968 · Adventure
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963 · Action
Fantasy Island
2020 · Drama
West Side Story
1961 · Drama
The Guns of Navarone
1961 · Action
A Star Is Born
1954 · Drama
The Robe
1953 · History
The Searchers
1956 · Adventure
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1943 · Adventure
The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957 · Adventure
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1964 · Thriller
All Quiet on the Western Front
1930 · Drama
Casablanca
1943 · Drama
Psycho
1960 · Mystery
Easy Rider
1969 · Drama
Urge to Kill
1960 · Crime
Shadow on the Wall
1950 · Crime
Destination Murder
1950 · Crime
Baltic Skies
1960 · Drama
Paratroop Command
1959 · Drama
Frankie and Johnny
1966 · Comedy
Blood of Dracula
1957 · Horror
Hangover Square
1945 · Thriller
Tobruk
1967 · History
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