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Slow Burn Movies: Summaries & Endings Explained
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The Tree
2009
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2008 · Drama
Buddenbrooks
2008 · Drama
Doubt
2008 · Drama
Dean Spanley
2008 · Drama
Hunger
2008 · Drama
True Women for Sale
2008 · Drama
Paul VI: The Pope in the Tempest
2008
Arizona Sky
2008 · Romance
A Christmas Tale
2008 · Drama
Ek Vivaah… Aisa Bhi
2008 · Romance
Synecdoche, New York
2008 · Drama
Fatso
2008 · Comedy
Johnny Got His Gun
2008 · Drama
I've Loved You So Long
2008 · Drama
Let the Right One In
2008 · Drama
Heartbreak Library
2008 · Romance
Sisters on the Road
2008 · Drama
Through a Glass, Darkly
2008 · Drama
Ballast
2008 · Drama
Nights in Rodanthe
2008 · Drama
My Dear Enemy
2008 · Comedy
Universalove
2008 · Drama
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
2008 · Drama
Tear This Heart Out
2008 · Drama
Forgiveness
2008 · Drama
The Beautiful Person
2008 · Comedy
A Year Ago in Winter
2008 · Drama
Genova
2008 · Romance
Heaven on Earth
2008 · Drama
Lovely, Still
2008 · Drama
God on Trial
2008 · Drama
Vinyan
2008 · Horror
Melancholia
2008 · Drama
Aakasha Gopuram
2008 · Drama
Henry Poole Is Here
2008 · Drama
The Sun and the Moon
2008 · Drama
Elegy
2008 · Drama
Fireflies in the Garden
2008 · Drama
Brideshead Revisited
2008 · Drama
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