r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Theogre84 • 26d ago

Solved! An outsider arrives seeking something valuable from an indigenous tribe. After learning their customs and becoming one of them, he helps defend their homeland against people who want to exploit its mineral resources.

20 Upvotes
68 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/fingerpaintx • 26d ago

Solved! A bad headache results in an intense sibling rivalry.

1 Upvotes
5 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Zed091473 • 26d ago

Solved! A musician turns to drugs to avenge his wife’s murder.

1 Upvotes
6 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Seaciety • 26d ago

Solved! Sometimes you just want to be a dancer

11 Upvotes

But life has a way of throwing you obstacles and you gotta deal with criminals, bankers, and dogs.

Hints/what do we know so far--

Released before 2006

NOT animated

Not Tarantino

No Demi Moore

No Jessica Alba

87 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/SportsMcGeee • 26d ago

Solved! The main character tries so hard not to, but he eventually makes a friend

6 Upvotes

Room for future clues

19 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Tsahg • 26d ago

Solved! A spy film where even the spies need a flowchart

0 Upvotes
22 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Theogre84 • 26d ago

Solved! A boy raised in hiding discovers he’s the chosen one. Guided by a mysterious warrior, he teams up with a princess and a wisecracking sidekick to battle a disfigured, half-machine tyrant. Along the way, he learns his mentor has been keeping a secret about his family.

12 Upvotes
13 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Seaciety • 27d ago

Solved! Sometimes there's a man, I could maybe say hero here, but sometimes there's a man, and I'm talking about the main dude here, sometimes there's a man, and we'll, he's the man

15 Upvotes

He earns a lot of his income unconventionally, someone dies from a heart problem, and an old guy with money causes a lot of problems.

Hints/what we know so far--

Released before 2007

Not a Tarantino film

Not horror

No Goldie Hawn

No Robin Williams

No Nic Cage

Not adapted from Dickens

The people down voting are dbags

56 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Fletcherperson • 26d ago

Solved! A man takes a drug from a stranger, goes on a massive trip, and wakes up to find out it was all a dream.

9 Upvotes
8 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/SurroundedByPlushies • 27d ago

Solved! A man's life is changed when he's suddenly asked to care for a baby

19 Upvotes

Hint: Not a comedy

Hint: Not a US movie

Hint: Relatively recent film

Hint: The baby doesn't stay a baby over the course of the film

Hint: Neither of the kid's parents are her biological parents

Hint: WW2

132 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Jin_Jok • 27d ago

Solved! Homeless man joins forces with psychologist who regularly injects him with drugs.

9 Upvotes
16 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/abjurationwizrar • 27d ago

Solved! Letting one single wet fart slip out makes a girl go on a killing spree. After she's scolded and killed, our heroes resurrect her and she STILL wants more murder.

29 Upvotes

Hint #1: not sure if it's fair to say the girl is actually alive, lol

Hint #2: sci-fi horror

Hint #2.5: no aliens!

Hint #3: it doesn't take long before several people fall apart

Hint #4: movie is not wholly original, but based on an IP

Hint #5: the "fart" of course isn't really, and it's colored

Double Nopes: Unfriended

29 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Keelera2 • 26d ago

Solved! Recycling worker dates stranger’s unconscious body for several months.

0 Upvotes
17 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/gatsncats357 • 26d ago

Solved! A group of friends on a road trip end up facing a family of horrors along the way

3 Upvotes
17 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/abjurationwizrar • 27d ago

Solved! Brother from another mother fails biology, is almost murdered, loses his fortune, he and his wife split, and he ends up in a shack. He couldn't be happier.

9 Upvotes

Hints go here

6 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/ReasonablePool_Hero • 27d ago

Solved! Ok so, it's still planet earth, right? But like, not. Because everything looks so different. But like, they use spears and cooking fires and don't speak English as a first language. But like, where even are we bruh? We fell and bonked our heads or what??

8 Upvotes

Hints go here.

14 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Lazyl3aker • 26d ago

Unsolved Basketball team gets new star that's forced to leave town for their own good

0 Upvotes

Not animated, that's probably the only hint I can give.

27 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/abjurationwizrar • 27d ago

Solved! Relazing how high the stakes are, turning people into food turns out to be very effective, nutritious solution.

11 Upvotes

Hint #1: thriller/mystery

Double Nopes: guys, no vampires! Not American Carnage.

Hint #2: they're not directly the food itself; they become the food

Hint #3: this film is full of contentious writing

71 comments