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Slow Burn Movies: Summaries & Endings Explained
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Floating Skyscrapers
2013 · Drama
The Oxbow Cure
2013 · Drama
Hawaii
2013 · Romance
To the Wonder
2013 · Drama
Goynar Baksho
2013 · Comedy
The Face of Another
2013 · Drama
A Long and Happy Life
2013 · Drama
Brother’s Keeper
2013 · Drama
Thale
2013 · Mystery
Upstream Color
2013 · Sci-Fi
Lootera
2013 · Drama
Vanishing Waves
2013 · Sci-Fi
Compound Fracture
2013 · Thriller
Everyone’s Going to Die
2013 · Drama
Beyond the Hills
2013 · Drama
The Unspeakable Act
2013 · Drama
The Butterfly’s Dream
2013 · History
Bless Me, Ultima
2013 · Drama
Nobody’s Daughter Haewon
2013 · Drama
Like Someone in Love
2013 · Drama
Yesterday Never Ends
2013 · Drama
Jîn
2013 · War
David
2013 · Drama
Night Across the Street
2013 · Drama
With You, Without You
2013 · Drama
Listen… Amaya
2013 · Drama
Yossi
2013 · Drama
Nation Estate
2013
Tokyo Family
2013 · Drama
Birders: The Central Park Effect
2013 · Documentary
I Am Not a Hipster
2013 · Drama
Annayum Rasoolum
2013 · Drama
Before the Revolution
2013 · History
Tabu
2012 · Drama
Ludwig II
2012 · Drama
Aquí y Allá (Here and There)
2012 · Drama
Amour
2012 · Drama
Evil Things
2012 · Horror
Hyde Park on Hudson
2012 · Biography
Parked
2012 · Drama
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