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Slow Burn Movies: Summaries & Endings Explained
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The Seventh Continent (1989)
Drama
The Servant
1964 · Drama
La Dolce Vita
1961 · Comedy
Vertigo
1958 · Mystery
The Story of a Three-Day Pass
1968 · Drama
The Old Man and the Sea
1958 · Adventure
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1969 · Drama
Shakespeare Wallah
1966 · Drama
The Entertainer
1960 · Drama
Reflections in a Golden Eye
1967 · Drama
Rachel, Rachel
1968 · Drama
The Nun's Story
1959 · Drama
Hud
1963 · Drama
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1966 · Drama
Who's That Knocking at My Door?
1968 · Drama
The Misfits
1961 · Drama
The Haunting
1963 · Horror
The End of Summer
1962 · Drama
Ikiru
1956 · Drama
Cléo from 5 to 7
1962 · Drama
Salesman
1969 · Drama
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962 · Drama
Bambi
1942 · Drama
The Seventh Seal
1958 · Drama
Wild Strawberries
1959 · Drama
The Big House
1930 · Drama
Rebecca
1940 · Drama
Through a Glass Darkly
1962 · Drama
An Autumn Afternoon
1964 · Drama
Au hasard Balthazar
1966 · Drama
Persona
1967 · Drama
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1945)
1945 · Drama
Black Narcissus
1947 · Drama
Red Beard
1968 · Drama
Separate Tables
1958 · Drama
On the Beach
1959 · Sci-Fi
The Innocents
1961 · Horror
Brief Encounter
1946 · Drama
8½
1963 · Drama
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