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Movie Summaries & Endings Explained from 1959 and Earlier
4,692 movies from 1959 and earlier, each with a full plot summary, timeline, character guide and the ending explained. Combine filters to narrow it down.
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Svengali
1931 · Horror
Forbidden
1949 · Drama
The Notorious Lone Wolf
1946 · Action
Design for Leaving
1954 · Animation
Flying Tigers
1942 · Action
Toto and the Women
1952 · Comedy
Red Planet Mars
1952
The Golden Hawk
1952 · Adventure
Where Danger Lives
1950 · Thriller
The Squaw Man
1931 · Drama
Doctors Don’t Tell
1941 · Drama
Let’s Go Collegiate
1941 · Romance
Forbidden
1953 · Romance
Variety Lights
1950 · Comedy
The Broken Star
1956 · Romance
Deception
1946 · Music
Forty Winks
1930 · Animation
The Road to Ruin
1934 · Drama
The Exile
1931 · Drama
Something Always Happens
1934 · Romance
Ace in the Hole
1942 · Comedy
Attack
1956 · Drama
Mexican Spitfire at Sea
1942 · Comedy
Sheriff of Tombstone
1941 · Action
Meet Me at the Fountain
1904 · Comedy
Revolutionens datter
1918 · Romance
The Delicious Little Devil
1919 · Comedy
Judex
1916 · Crime
Wished on Mabel
1915 · Comedy
The White Slave Trade
1910 · Drama
The Star Prince
1918 · Drama
Mirages
1916 · Romance
Atlantis
1913 · Drama
A Timely Interception
1913 · Drama
The Miracle
1912
A Feud in the Kentucky Hills
1912 · Drama
The Female of the Species
1912 · Drama
The Fugitive
1910 · War
What the Daisy Said
1910 · Romance
The White Slave Trade
1910 · Crime
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