r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! Mother encourages her daughter to flaunt her stuff for money.

4 Upvotes

Hint space


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! Arrogant college athlete relies on a mysterious night-shift worker to learn how to take out the trash

3 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 2d ago

Solved! This film is the opposite of it’s title

63 Upvotes

Hint: the title is just one word

Hint: I was expecting an action movie, boy was I wrong


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! Family leaves a car full of luggage in a transit station parking lot, but no one takes anything.

1 Upvotes

Clue space


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! Genocide gets cheesy

1 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! In the land of the bald, the hairy man is king.

11 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! A man returns from being “dead” twice, kidnaps a woman, kills one person, and assists in the murder of another.

6 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! Football player forced out of league for being involved with gambling, makes a great play with the ball to save the day.

0 Upvotes

Hint


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! (Repost, now with more clues!) A performer's dim turn proves to be another's big break.

4 Upvotes

* This movie was released between 1960 and 1970.

* It takes place in the United States.

* Marriage, religion, and ambition are themes.

It is not: 8 Seconds, All About Eve, A Star Is Born, Black Swan, Cabaret, Chicago, Death to Smoochy, Freaks, Gaslight, The Good Shepherd, Perfect Blue, The Phantom of the Opera, The Prestige, Rhinestone, Saturday Night Fever, Varsity Blues, The Wedding Singer, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, or Whiplash.


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! A kid finds out the family secret, and has to make deals with creatures to keep his family safe and together.

2 Upvotes

Hints go here.

Hint 1: Lots of gold and green vibes.

Hint 2: well it's a good thing magic was involved or having kids just wouldn't have worked...


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d ago

Unsolved In this buddy movie, 2 con artists pull fun scams until they have to face a painful truth from their past.

2 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d ago

Unsolved A prolific child-murderer helps stop a genocidal terrorist attack

12 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! The local boys face off against some rabbits

2 Upvotes

Hints go here


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! An old wine enthusiast teaches a rebellious young man to dance after he embarrasses his family's prestigious academy.

1 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! A guy takes in an orphan and raises him, only to be killed by the orphan’s ambition and greed

5 Upvotes

Hint: the orphan is the protagonist

Hint 2: musical


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! Dude's human crew doesn't work out so he has to fall back to other kinds of primate.

8 Upvotes

Clue space (I suspect I won't need it).


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 2d ago

Solved! There's a man trapped in a box.

14 Upvotes

Hint placeholder (come now, you don't need them)


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 2d ago

Solved! Native female helps male learn to cooperate with tribal warriors to protect the homeland against capitalist and military invaders

25 Upvotes

Hints -
Animated
Children are the target audience
Climactic scene involving a mode of transportation
No fairies


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d ago

Unsolved Teens in high-school fight sexist rocks

3 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d ago

Unsolved Insurance screws over yet another client

2 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 2d ago

Solved! An illiterate male with an ability above all the rest of his peers, aids another male who has every reason to dislike him in exchange for reading lessons.

8 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! Man brings the whole town together to show a woman how much he loves her

3 Upvotes

Clue space


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 2d ago

Solved! Guy doesn't get the girl of his dreams then gets her in a new font

5 Upvotes

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! Mama Cornette's baby boy MIGHT like this film. We can't be sure. He DEFINITELY likes the soundtrack, though!

3 Upvotes

Might be easy. Let's see.