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Slow Burn Movies: Summaries & Endings Explained
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The Red Spectacles
1987 · Action
East of Ipswich
1987 · Drama
Dark Eyes
1987 · Drama
Year of Enlightment
1986 · Drama
Manon of the Spring
1986 · Drama
Tree Without Leaves
1986 · Drama
Inside Out
1986 · Drama
When the Wind Blows
1986 · War
Shadow Play
1986 · Mystery
The Last Days of Patton
1986 · Drama
Man Facing Southeast
1986 · Drama
Sleepwalk
1986 · Mystery
Nakhakshathangal
1986 · Drama
’Round Midnight
1986 · Drama
The Green Ray
1986 · Drama
Jean de Florette
1986 · Drama
Miss Mary
1986 · Drama
Through Main Street with an Orchestra
1986 · Romance
Dust in the Wind
1986 · Drama
The Sacrifice
1986 · Drama
Parting Glances
1986 · Drama
The Trip to Bountiful
1986 · Drama
Out of Africa
1985 · Biography
Fool for Love
1985 · Drama
Thinkalazhcha Nalla Divasam
1985 · Drama
The Pied Piper
1985 · Fantasy
Smooth Talk
1985 · Drama
Dreamchild
1985 · Drama
A Zed & Two Noughts
1985 · Drama
Oriana
1985 · Drama
Vagabond
1985 · Drama
Death of a Salesman
1985 · Drama
Mudhal Mariyathai
1985 · Drama
The Time to Live and the Time to Die
1985 · Drama
Night on the Galactic Railroad
1985 · Drama
Sugarbaby
1985 · Drama
Hour of the Star
1985 · Drama
Taipei Story
1985 · Drama
The Laundromat
1985 · Drama
Chidambaram
1985 · Drama
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