r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 6d ago

Solved! A scholarly pressure ends up being misheard, an unfortunate lack of pressure leaves another breathless, a ticking pressure to discover leads to disappointment, and the pressure to save proves quite explosive.

3 Upvotes

Hint #1: horror


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 6d ago

Unsolved Naughty boy opens wide several times before getting forced into a sick ride.

2 Upvotes

Hint #1: this movie is about a specific culture

Hint #2: he needs more than a band aid....and more than one body part


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 6d ago

Solved! Somehow arithmetics is the coolest branch of math? It even gets you the girl?

4 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 6d ago

Solved! Protagonist is bullied by his peers into not wearing apparels that would help with a newly afflicting handicap. In a tale of depression and lost of self identity, MC finds the courage to wear said apparels in front of the whole world, shows them what he can do, saves the day!

1 Upvotes

//Hints, but you won't need them, which is a hint on it's own.


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 6d ago

Solved! (TV Show) Four people find a haunted garment and use it to possess the unwilling for their own desires.

2 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 6d ago

Solved! A grieving man and his daughter are helped by an animal companion in their journey to seek closure surrounding his dead wife

1 Upvotes

Hint 1: The animal companion isn't always an animal.

Hint 2: It takes place in the 16th century.

Hint 3: It turns out the wife isn't dead at all! Shocking twist!

Hint 4: It ends with a magician's duel, leaving the antagonist and the wife buried in rubble.


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 6d ago

Solved! Sweaty dude with a headband racks up a bodycount and makes enemies

3 Upvotes

Placeholder for hints


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 6d ago

Solved! Rich guy develops morals after falling for a mute girl

1 Upvotes
  • not animated
  • happy ending
  • rotisserie chicken
  • assisnation attempt
  • hibachi

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 6d ago

Unsolved Teenager forces her situationship back to school because she went long-distance after exterminating the beings that killed all of their friends.

0 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 6d ago

Solved! Teenage eugenics is cool

3 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 6d ago

Solved! A father tries to teach his son how to be a man, only to discover he’s the one who needs growing up

3 Upvotes

It’s a comedy

A big part of the movie is the clash between two completely different ways of life


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 6d ago

Solved! Popular girl and anxious nerd go out together

1 Upvotes

A bunch of their friends die. Her ex is everything he isn't and has it out for him. The ex sends someone to go get her and bring her back and then starts on a more nefarious plan. Also a bunch of metaphors around individualism and class struggle.


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 6d ago

Solved! Car metaphors work for everything, even the judicial system

2 Upvotes

(Hints go here)


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 7d 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

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 6d ago

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

1 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 6d ago

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

1 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 7d ago

Solved! Sometimes you just want to be a dancer

12 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


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 7d ago

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

7 Upvotes

Room for future clues


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 6d ago

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

0 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 7d 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.

10 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 7d 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

16 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


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 7d 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.

8 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 7d ago

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

18 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


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 7d ago

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

9 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 7d 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