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Slow Burn Movies: Summaries & Endings Explained
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Before I Forget
2008 · Drama
Terribly Happy
2008 · Thriller
Gulabi Talkies
2008 · Drama
The Stone Angel
2008 · Drama
Eel Girl
2008 · Horror
Live and Remember
2008 · War
Medicine for Melancholy
2008 · Drama
Brick Lane
2008 · Drama
Lake Mungo
2008 · Thriller
The Edge of Heaven
2008 · Drama
Liverpool
2008 · Drama
Four Nights with Anna
2008 · Crime
XXY
2008 · Drama
Mister Lonely
2008 · Drama
Ploning
2008 · Drama
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
2008 · Drama
The Visitor
2008 · Drama
Extraordinary Stories
2008 · Drama
Water Lilies
2008 · Drama
My Blueberry Nights
2008 · Drama
Flight of the Red Balloon
2008 · Drama
The Way We Are
2008 · Drama
Alexandra
2008 · Drama
Shutter
2008 · Mystery
The Curse of Steptoe
2008 · Drama
Paranoid Park
2008 · Drama
The Unforeseen
2008 · Documentary
The Duchess of Langeais
2008 · Drama
In Love We Trust
2008 · Drama
Fine, Totally Fine
2008 · Drama
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
2008 · Drama
Still Life
2008 · Drama
Antaheen
2008 · Romance
The Hide
2008 · Thriller
The Orphanage
2007 · Drama
Youth Without Youth
2007 · Drama
Onbadhu Roobai Nottu
2007
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2007 · Biography
Soul of a Demon
2007 · Drama
Starting Out in the Evening
2007 · Drama
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