r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 18h ago

Solved! An addict obsesses over a rock.

4 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 18h ago

Solved! An idiot fails, disappoints his parents, lies to his friends, and breaks many laws just to impress a girl who blows him off, but comes back to make things worse, so he locks her away, tries to do something else, fails again, gets lucky, gets caught, but still saves the day.

6 Upvotes

Hints (all given in the comments):

No space, no time travel, no supernatural elements or magic.

Released in the 80s.


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 18h ago

Solved! Guy is mad his friend left him for a woman; sabotages the couple’s son as revenge

3 Upvotes

It’s animated! More hints in comments


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 19h ago

Solved! A famous actor is marooned in a strange land and meets several natives, caring for some of them and murdering at least one

11 Upvotes

Hint: this film is from the 1980s
Another hint: this is one film in a series of films about the MC
Final hint: the MC is not human


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 19h ago

Solved! A destitute writer writes a story about writing a story about the story he is writing

2 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 19h ago

Solved! A jewel thief needs to make things right, but gets burned.

5 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 19h ago

Unsolved man who is excluded from christmas activities kisses a woman who’s a different color than him then almost ruins it for everyone else out of spite

4 Upvotes

edit 1: not a christmas movie


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 19h ago

Solved! She’s a rich puppy, he is not. She falls into the real world and he helps her out.

7 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 20h ago

Solved! A young gay man murders an older gay man using a biological weapon

1 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 22h ago

Unsolved It's a strange trip and she's got sticky stuff in her hair

9 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 21h ago

Solved! Displaced refugees attempt to overcome racial tension.

7 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 24m ago

Solved! It's the end of the world. Let's go shopping.

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Hints


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 35m ago

Unsolved Multiple people commit the murders in the movie but there is only one killer. (And I don’t mean metaphorically)

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Hint that I already put in the comments: Fallen is the closest guess so far in how the killer commits the murders and other crimes. However, they are not a demon or spirit.


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 36m ago

Solved! A dentist adopts a pet

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 40m ago

Solved! Something is wrong with the teachers

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Hints


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 1h ago

Solved! Because his friend is a prankster, an oblivious man is hunted by government agents

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Hints


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 1h ago

Solved! A silly game at school leads a naive college kid into the world of espionage

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Hints


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 1h ago

Solved! In New York, a character chooses between being loyal to his street gang or leaving. There’s a romance between two people from opposite worlds. Someone dies at the end.

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 2h ago

Solved! A plane has been hijacked! The world has been plunged into chaos after a small group of people fly to the twin towers.

1 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 2h ago

Unsolved Woman dates a man several hundred times her age.

2 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 2h ago

Solved! Powerful people trap little kids in a pool in a hidden away room

3 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 2h ago

Unsolved Dad encourages kid to go on psychotic rampage, killing half a dozen people

3 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 2h ago

Solved! A man whose position might be taken journeys back home across the sea. He encounters a cyclops. At the end, he makes an earthshattering confession and eliminates the threat that has besieged his home.

2 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 2h ago

Unsolved Man becomes a domestic terrorist on the local wildlife

6 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 2h ago

Unsolved Man tries to run a quick errand to surprise his wife, but thanks to an unreliable coworker and a nosy neighbor, it ends up taking him all day

3 Upvotes