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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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Ivanhoe
1953 · Adventure
Pride and Prejudice
1940 · Drama
Waterloo Bridge
1940 · Drama
Tortilla Flat
1942 · Drama
Random Harvest
1942 · Drama
Good News
1947 · Sport
Brigadoon
1954 · Fantasy
The Yearling
1947 · Drama
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
1949 · Sport
They Were Expendable
1945 · Drama
Lust for Life
1956 · Biography
Another Thin Man
1939 · Mystery
Keeper of the Flame
1942 · Drama
The Broadway Melody
1929 · Drama
Lassie Come Home
1943 · Adventure
The Great Ziegfeld
1936 · Drama
Till the End of Time
1946 · Drama
Julie
1956 · Drama
Hondo
1953 · Drama
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
1957 · Biography
Checkpoint
1957 · Drama
Too Many Crooks
1959 · Comedy
Land of the Pharaohs
1955 · Adventure
The Shaggy Dog
1959 · Fantasy
Old Yeller
1957 · Adventure
A Lion Is in the Streets
1953 · Drama
Some Came Running
1958 · Drama
An Affair to Remember
1957 · Drama
Under Capricorn
1949 · Drama
The Blood of a Poet
1933 · Fantasy
Knights of the Round Table
1954 · Action
Guys and Dolls
1955 · Comedy
The Wild One
1954 · Drama
The Skin Game
1931 · Drama
The One That Got Away
1958 · Adventure
Native Son
1951 · Drama
Anchors Aweigh
1945 · Fantasy
The Caine Mutiny
1954 · Drama
3:10 to Yuma
1957 · Drama
From Here to Eternity
1953 · Drama
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