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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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Knight Without Armour
1937 · Adventure
Life Dances On
1937 · Romance
Going Hollywood
1933 · Music
The Geisha Boy
1958 · Comedy
Brink of Life
1958 · Drama
Track of the Cat
1954 · Drama
The Song of the Scarlet Flower
1938 · Drama
The Bachelor Father
1931 · Drama
Guilt Is My Shadow
1950 · Crime
Nadodi Mannan
1958 · Action
Sock-a-Bye Baby
1942 · Comedy
Racket Busters
1938 · Crime
Exclusive Story
1936 · Crime
No Place to Go
1939 · Drama
The Sheepman
1958 · Western
The Senator Was Indiscreet
1947 · Comedy
Git Along Little Dogies
1937 · Romance
We’re Not Married!
1952 · Romance
The Angry Red Planet
1959 · Adventure
Safari
1956 · Adventure
Nau Do Gyarah
1957
The Benny Goodman Story
1956 · Drama
Holiday for Lovers
1959 · Comedy
Shivering Sherlocks
1948 · Comedy
Cluny Brown
1946 · Comedy
The Keys of the Kingdom
1944 · Drama
Kiss Me Kate
1953 · Music
Four Mothers
1941 · Romance
Highway 13
1948 · Mystery
Immensee
1943 · Drama
False Alarms
1936 · Comedy
Rabbit Rampage
1955 · Family
D.O.A.
1949 · Crime
Hoosier Schoolboy
1937 · Drama
Porky in Wackyland
1938 · Comedy
Up in Mabel’s Room
1944 · Comedy
Yodelin’ Kid from Pine Ridge
1937 · Western
State’s Attorney
1932 · Drama
Titanic
1953 · Drama
House of Bamboo
1955 · Drama
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