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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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Teacher’s Beau
1935 · Comedy
This Is My Affair
1937 · Crime
They Shall Have Music
1939 · Family
O.S.S.
1946 · Thriller
The Perfect Furlough
1958 · Romance
The Sap from Syracuse
1930 · Romance
Fright Night
1947 · Comedy
Island of Lost Women
1959 · Adventure
A Coy Decoy
1941 · Comedy
The Road Back
1937 · War
Smiley
1956 · Comedy
Siamo tutti inquilini
1953 · Comedy
Sky Giant
1938 · Romance
Smashing the Rackets
1938 · Drama
The Cranes Are Flying
1957 · Romance
The Fighting Lady
1944 · Documentary
Stanley and Livingstone
1939 · Adventure
On the Bowery
1956 · Documentary
An Angel from Texas
1940 · Romance
The Beat Generation
1959 · Crime
Exclusive
1937 · Drama
Return of the Frontiersman
1950 · Western
Evening – Night – Morning
1920 · Drama
The Phantom Stagecoach
1957 · Western
They Were So Young
1954 · Crime
Block Busters
1944 · Comedy
Please Turn Over
1959 · Comedy
In the Meantime, Darling
1944 · War
The San Francisco Story
1952 · Western
How to Make a Monster
1958 · Horror
Mr. Winkle Goes to War
1944 · Comedy
Comin’ ’Round the Mountain
1936 · Western
Satan Met a Lady
1936 · Mystery
Pin Up Girl
1944 · Romance
Hold That Woman!
1940 · Comedy
Rififi
1955 · Crime
The Wise Little Hen
1934 · Animation
Westward the Women
1951 · Western
36 Hours to Kill
1936 · Romance
Bullet Scars
1942 · Crime
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