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Intense Movies: Summaries & Endings Explained
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The City of the Dead
1960 · Horror
The Yellow Mountain
1954 · Western
Beyond the Forest
1949 · Thriller
Lilith
1964 · Drama
Passage to Marseille
1944 · Adventure
Breathless
1960 · Crime
Madhumati
1958 · Mystery
Angels with Dirty Faces
1938 · Drama
Hangmen Also Die!
1943 · Drama
The Curse of the Living Corpse
1964 · Horror
Fight, Zatoichi, Fight
1964 · Adventure
Compulsion
1959 · Thriller
The Set-Up
1949 · Drama
The Last Challenge
1967 · Western
Portrait of Alison
1955 · Drama
Hot Rods to Hell
1967 · Action
Highway Dragnet
1954 · Drama
Violent Saturday
1955 · Crime
The Girl from Rio
1969 · Action
Somewhere I’ll Find You
1942 · Romance
Everything Goes Wrong
1960 · Crime
The Sleeping Tiger
1954 · Thriller
Tarzan’s Greatest Adventure
1959 · Adventure
No More Orchids
1932 · Drama
Darby’s Rangers
1958 · War
Odds Against Tomorrow
1959 · Thriller
The Sex of Angels
1968 · Thriller
The Good Die Young
1954 · Thriller
Demetrius and the Gladiators
1954 · History
Tizoc
1957 · Drama
The Purple Monster Strikes
1945 · Action
I Wake Up Screaming
1941 · Mystery
La Bandera
1935 · Drama
Just Before Dawn
1946 · Mystery
1984
1956 · Drama
The Mark of Cain
1947 · Crime
The Washington Masquerade
1932 · Romance
Teenage Doll
1957 · Crime
The Tall Target
1951 · History
No Time to Be Young
1957 · Mystery
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