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Tense Movies: Summaries & Endings Explained
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The Skin Game
1931 · Drama
The One That Got Away
1958 · Adventure
The Caine Mutiny
1954 · Drama
Fail-Safe
1964 · Drama
3:10 to Yuma
1957 · Drama
Zulu
1964 · Drama
Plan 9 from Outer Space
1959 · Sci-Fi
Fantastic Voyage
1966 · Adventure
The Day the Earth Stood Still
1951 · Sci-Fi
Lifeboat
1944 · Drama
The War of the Worlds
1953 · Action
To Catch a Thief
1955 · Mystery
Stalag 17
1953 · Drama
The Blob
1958 · Sci-Fi
Wait Until Dark
1967 · Thriller
The Wrong Man
1957 · Drama
Dial M for Murder
1954 · Mystery
To Have and Have Not
1945 · Adventure
North by Northwest
1959 · Action
Point Blank
1967 · Drama
Where Eagles Dare
1969 · Action
The Lady Vanishes
1938 · Mystery
El Dorado
1967 · Drama
Planet of the Apes
1968 · Adventure
One Million Years B.C.
1967 · Adventure
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1966 · Drama
The Sons of Katie Elder
1965 · Western
You Only Live Twice
1967 · Action
Saboteur
1942 · Thriller
The Young Racers
1963 · Action
The Manchurian Candidate
1962 · Drama
Dr. No
1963 · Action
From Russia with Love
1964 · Action
Thunderball
1965 · Action
The Cincinnati Kid
1965 · Drama
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
1954 · Adventure
Rope
1948 · Drama
Village of the Damned
1960 · Sci-Fi
High Noon
1952 · Action
Inherit the Wind
1960 · Biography
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