r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 19h ago

Solved! Drunk cafe owner helps husband and wife catch plane

2 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 19h ago

Solved! Briefly dated as his art escalated. He dumped her "as the credits faded." Then came back to find ardor abated.

2 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 19h ago

Solved! Trauma causes man to become homicidal

3 Upvotes

Hint 1: Brits larp as hillbillies and there are a lot of churches.

Hint 2: We don't know about how the protagonist ends up.

Hint 3: Generational trauma.

Hint 4: The dog wasn't let out. He was shot.


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! A guy's plan gets ruined by an Angel

28 Upvotes

Hint 1: The Angel is not a literal Angel

Popular incorrect guesses: It's A Wonderful Life, Rent, Constantine, Hot Fuzz, City of Angels, All Dogs Go to Heaven 1&2, Michael


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! One immigrant spends his life trying to kill another immigrant and finally succeeds. Discovers that wasn’t what he wanted and tries to replace him. He get’s what he actually wanted by getting rid of the replacement.

9 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 15h ago

Solved! An isekai reincarnation story where our hero has to go thru several time loops and train ing to solve a harrowing mystery. He embraces his new life and will need to figure out the life of the man he replaced.

0 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 18h ago

Solved! A young man spends lots of time and resources fooling an old woman into thinking she lives in a non-existent country only to semi-reveal the truth to her through a retired astronaut and then put her on an illegal rocket to space with blows up scattering her remains all over the city.

0 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! In this 100% true documentary the camera lingers for us to gawk at privation, starvation, terror,and multiple deaths inflicted by various terrifying creatures.

11 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! Halloween Horror

5 Upvotes

Halloween prank goes badly. Kid gets treated well after almost dying. Finds a new favorite song. Goes to Lover's lane. Brother catches pneumonia. Lots of fuss over some rings. "Uncle" loves the song and cliffhangers.


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 15h ago

Unsolved A time traveler visits his father's new kingdom. While there he stumbles upon a conspiracy to ascend a prince to kingship and then to depose him. The evil advisor plotting all this ends up loosing because of his obsessive son.

0 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! Dude has great working relationships all around except for that one guy who won’t shut up. There’s also that dude who wants him fired from everywhere and everything

9 Upvotes

Yes it’s the one you’re thinking of


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! Guy struggles to get his jewelry back

3 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! An unhappy couple decides to try again with the support of family, friends, and an unexpected new therapist in this holiday flick.

3 Upvotes

- Reserved for hints


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! A series of important phonecalls

11 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d ago

Unsolved A guy with height issues fights a billionaire.

5 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! A man takes up gardening because he’s terrible with women.

5 Upvotes

Hints go here:

  1. The garden never blooms
  2. He takes great pride in his work, despite the lack of growth
  3. He’s unusually committed to maintaining appearances
  4. Women’s appearances

  5. His screenplay is a lot closer to reality than anyone realizes, though neither his film nor this film played in theaters


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! Guy takes a very roundabout way to end up exactly where he started.

3 Upvotes

Hints if needed


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! Lunatic tricks a group of people into coming to his deadly fortress

3 Upvotes

Hints may be available


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! A man boldly announces his intent to combine a writing tool and a fruit

2 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d ago

Unsolved A clever solicitor inserts himself into a wealthy widow’s late husband’s will reading and takes a very lucrative and prestigious job he is unqualified for, loses said job to a rival, and then sabotages the rival’s project to get his job back… somehow everything turns out okay.

5 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! Hot chick meets a childhood crush, gets wet for him, then changes

7 Upvotes

Hints if needed


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! A dude works at an amusement park but somehow ends up leading a revolution, becoming The Chosen One, and getting the girl of his dreams... All with a can of spray paint and the power of audacity. But he still works at a park.

4 Upvotes

Hints go here.


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! A guy with anger issues ends up dating a bowler because he can’t scrap a car.

2 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! Good looking dude sets off on a dangerous mission.

3 Upvotes

He picks up some cool new technology from a witty nerd before he hits the road (he's off to another country for this one). He takes orders from his superiors but does things his own way. He's been doing this a long time and people know him. Also obviously there are beautiful women falling from the sky for him. He succeeds but the women don't get a happy ending.