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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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The Woman of the Town
1943 · Western
Cause for Alarm!
1951 · Thriller
The Romance of Rosy Ridge
1947 · Drama
The Lawless
1950 · Drama
Make Me an Offer!
1954 · Comedy
Patterns
1956 · Drama
Our Gang Follies of 1936
1935 · Comedy
The Drum
1938 · War
Dragoon Wells Massacre
1957 · Western
Gonzales’ Tamales
1957 · Comedy
We’re in the Money
1935 · Comedy
U47 - Kapitänleutnant Prien
1958 · War
Elevator to the Gallows
1958 · Crime
The Girl Can’t Help It
1956 · Romance
The Mouthpiece
1932 · Drama
The Great War
1959 · War
High School Big Shot
1959 · Drama
Meet Boston Blackie
1941 · Crime
Sappy Bull Fighters
1959 · Comedy
Cardinal Richelieu
1935 · Romance
Three Men on a Horse
1936 · Comedy
Tweet Tweet Tweety
1951 · Animation
The Garden of Women
1954 · Drama
Santa Fe Passage
1955 · Western
Abbott and Costello Go to Mars
1953 · Comedy
The White Reindeer
1952 · Horror
Didi
1937 · Drama
Back from the Dead
1957 · Horror
Kings Go Forth
1958 · War
Desire Under the Elms
1958 · Drama
Two Tickets to Broadway
1951 · Music
He Ran All the Way
1951 · Crime
Once a Doctor
1937 · Drama
Chef Donald
1941 · Comedy
Paying Guest
1957 · Crime
The Dragon’s Blood
1958 · Adventure
The Return of Dracula
1958 · Horror
The Last of the Mohicans
1936 · History
Cairo Station
1958 · Crime
The Adventures of Hajji Baba
1954 · Romance
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