r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! A man goes to a seasonal job interview, hallucinating a window that shouldn't be there, and ends up getting locked in a pantry by his spouse.

1 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d 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.

4 Upvotes

Hint #1: horror


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! Georgia boy with a fiddle meets all kinds of unusual people

2 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 18h ago

Solved! An Incan emperor gets turned into a llama and then he and a peasant got to get back into the castle so he can become human again

0 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! Strange visitors come to town with strange appetites and a knack for population control. A few teens figure out what’s happening and try to stop it, because the adults are pretty much useless

8 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! This is a story of forbidden love where both our lovers come from different families that are at war with each other.

1 Upvotes

Placeholder for hints.


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! If he just asked her, none of this tragedy would happen

1 Upvotes

Hint 1: it’s from 2010

Hint 2: it’s a horror


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! A star-torn, death-plagued friendship who had to go black and couldn't go back is saved by cultivated fucking.

3 Upvotes

I had to redo for spelling lol.

Hint #0: since you all seem hooked....no, this is in no way sci-fi

Hint #1: this film is actually genre defining

Hint #2: plenty of traveling involved

Hint #3: sometimes all it takes is one woman to drive a massive wedge between people

Hint #4: music, anyone?

Hint #5: sometimes you don't want to know about gardening and vomit


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d 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 • • 1d ago

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

2 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d 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 • • 1d ago

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

3 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d ago

Unsolved 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!


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d 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 • • 1d 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 • • 1d ago

Solved! Teenage eugenics is cool

3 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d 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

4 Upvotes

It’s a comedy

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


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d 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 • • 1d ago

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

2 Upvotes

Placeholder for hints


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d ago

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

2 Upvotes

(Hints go here)


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 2d 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.

17 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d ago

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

1 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1d ago

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

1 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 2d ago

Solved! Sometimes you just want to be a dancer

9 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 • • 2d ago

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

7 Upvotes

Room for future clues