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Tense Movies: Summaries & Endings Explained
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Die Screaming Marianne
1971 · Drama
The Anonymous Heroes
1971 · Comedy
Godzilla vs. Hedorah
1971 · Action
The Seven Minutes
1971 · Drama
Gamera vs. Zigra
1971 · Family
Shaft
1971 · Action
Klute
1971 · Mystery
Le Mans
1971 · Action
The Anderson Tapes
1971 · Action
Drive, He Said
1971 · Comedy
Rickshawkaran
1971 · Drama
Big Jake
1971 · Western
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
1971 · Action
The Cat o' Nine Tails
1971 · Mystery
The Glass Ceiling
1971 · Mystery
Billy Jack
1971 · Action
Valdez Is Coming
1971 · Western
Vanishing Point
1971 · Action
When Eight Bells Toll
1971 · Adventure
Bastard, Go and Kill
1971 · Western
Buddha Mil Gaya
1971 · Thriller
The Revolutionary
1971 · Action
Yuma
1971 · Western
Raid on Rommel
1971 · Action
The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh
1971 · Mystery
Anubhav
1971 · Drama
Caravan
1971 · Music
Weekend of Terror
1970 · Thriller
Run, Simon, Run
1970 · Action
Flap
1970 · Comedy
The McKenzie Break
1970 · Drama
I Start Counting
1970 · Thriller
The House That Would Not Die
1970 · Horror
Waterloo
1970 · Drama
Trog
1970 · Horror
The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
1970 · Drama
Bigfoot
1970 · Horror
Le Cercle Rouge
1970 · Thriller
Deadlock
1970 · Western
Cannon for Cordoba
1970 · Western
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