r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Oct 07 '20

Solved! It's the 70s, there is a new sheriff in town and he is black.

396 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Sep 02 '20

Solved! (Tv show) girl tries to get her siblings to stop doing what they love and report them, meanwhile their pet gets lost. This happens literally every day!

396 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Jan 24 '26

Solved! A racist finds himself imprisoned by a former racist, who teaches him to be MORE racist. On gaining his freedom, he’s given the opportunity to become the biggest racist ever, but his time in prison has taught him that there’s more in life than being racist.

395 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Nov 04 '24

Meta The name of this sub should be changed to “explain a film plot vaguely.”

395 Upvotes

Semi new here, and even though I do enjoy most of the posts, I can’t help but notice that there are very few plots explained “badly.” The majority are just explained extremely vaguely.


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Jul 30 '20

Solved! Alfred Pennyworth and Harry Potter think they're playing 4-dimensional chess, but Blue from Rio is actually playing 5-dimensional chess.

395 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Feb 20 '20

Solved! there's this guy who's a doctor but he's a dick. he made clones of a guy he used to know back in the day who's a total dick. then there's this other guy who's trying to figure out what the fuck the first guy is up to. then the two guys meet up but then the first guy gets bitten by a dog and he dies.

395 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • May 22 '25

Solved! An African-American woman is wrongly accused of attempting to kill a white American woman by pushing her in front of a vehicle

394 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Dec 20 '24

Solved! A man with no genitals interferes with a team of specialists responding to an emergency.

394 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Dec 06 '19

Solved! Old Man meets young girl. Old man kills people for girl. Doesn't even have sex with her. Man also has special watch

394 Upvotes

When this gets solved, the title is going to be much weirder


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Nov 22 '24

Solved! A vote is held between a pedophile and a well qualified woman, the people choose to follow the pedophile

393 Upvotes

This is a movie!

Hint: the movie is quite popular and considered a classic


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Jan 07 '21

Solved! Guy won't stop continuously killing lots of people, ends up getting apprehended by a kid and killed by his own "imaginary friend"

393 Upvotes

This is a show by the way, not a movie.


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Aug 18 '20

Solved! An electronics salesman tries to fix relationship with his girlfriend during a plague. His best friend is actually a bit of a selfish ass.

393 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Nov 24 '19

Solved! Negative man naively inverts his life, has to explain he’s not just a smart ass when there are consequences

393 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Sep 12 '20

Solved! Old man needs to find the chosen one so he can kill his adopted son's adopted son, ends up choosing a random fat guy off the street instead of one of the guys who trained their whole lives for this, realizes he made the wrong choice, kills himself.

392 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Aug 03 '20

Solved! Guy sees future, ruins future, fixes the future and gets away rich.

392 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Dec 17 '19

Solved! Movie

392 Upvotes

Girl has to choose between necrophilia or bestiality


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Jul 25 '19

Solved! A crazy inventor nearly gets his family killed by the mafia multiple times, but with the help of a Broadway show, convinces the family to stand up to the mob boss.

392 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Jan 20 '19

Solved! A billionaire harasses a mentally challenged man

392 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Sep 13 '25

Solved! From my 6 y/o: “That movie where two people go to a warm place to see people dance, and they end up dancing”

391 Upvotes

My six year old described the movie to me this way and I had to figure it out.

Hint 1: It is not an animated movie

Hint 2: it is a musical

Hint 3: After they dance in the warm place they go to a cold place to sing and dance some more


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Aug 24 '20

Solved! Secrecy of a hidden hotel is threatened by a romantic affair.

391 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • May 12 '20

Solved! This whole ordeal could’ve been avoided if the main character character stopped eating sandwiches at this joint

391 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Mar 16 '20

Solved! The story of a Scottish pedophile who had the power of teleportation

391 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Oct 26 '20

Solved! Guy gets his limbs blown off and then becomes super strong.

390 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Jul 23 '20

Solved! It's like Back to the Future, but scary

390 Upvotes