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Slow Burn Movies: Summaries & Endings Explained
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Leopardi
2014 · History
Jamie Marks Is Dead
2014 · Drama
Dead Within
2014 · Drama
Munnariyippu
2014 · Drama
Love Is Strange
2014 · Drama
A Master Builder
2014 · Drama
Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater
2014 · Biography
Boyhood
2014 · Drama
As It Is in Heaven
2014 · Drama
Closed Curtain
2014
Secret Sharer
2014 · Drama
Unrelated
2014 · Drama
A Summer's Tale
2014 · Drama
In the Absence of the Sun
2014 · Romance
Nightingale
2014 · Drama
The Amazing Catfish
2014 · Drama
Gyeongju
2014 · Drama
The Moment
2014 · Thriller
Anna
2014 · Drama
Away From Here
2014 · Drama
The Incident
2014 · Horror
Whitewash
2014 · Drama
Ida
2014 · Drama
Only Lovers Left Alive
2014 · Drama
Hateship Loveship
2014 · Drama
Under the Skin
2014 · Sci-Fi
Ilo Ilo
2014 · Drama
Healing
2014 · Drama
Breathe In
2014 · Drama
Gang of Ghosts
2014 · Horror
It Felt Like Love
2014 · Drama
Tommy
2014 · Thriller
Enemy
2014 · Mystery
The Trip to Bountiful
2014 · Drama
The Face of Love
2014 · Drama
Helium
2014 · Drama
The Lunchbox
2014 · Drama
In Secret
2014 · Drama
Blind Massage
2014 · Drama
River of Fundament
2014
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