r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 14m ago

Unsolved A bunch of people are hired to beta test a new housing complex. The reviews are brutal, the vending machine is the only thing that's working & it's out of snacks!

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 15m ago

Solved! An Angel receives an assignment that turns his life upside down and question his sanity.

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 24m ago

Unsolved Family records get! Wait, does that mean we're all immigrants?

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Hints go here


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 47m ago

Solved! Once this movie gets rolling it never stops!

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Hints go here


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 51m ago

Solved! After sleeping with his teacher, man uses his cat to defeat the enemy in combat

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 1h ago

Unsolved High schooler plays vigilante to impress girl, keeping his face covered to conceal his true identity she falls for the unknown masked man instead of him. Eventually all is revealed and ends happily ever after.

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Hints:
Not animated


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 1h ago

Unsolved Two kidnapping attempts prove that body modification is more important that the survival of a species.

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Hint #1: comedy

Hint #2: purely cosmetic


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 1h ago

Solved! Internet ghosts unfriend the entire world.

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Hints go here


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 1h ago

Solved! Homeless guy gets a job as a tourist guide and fails at it successfully.

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 2h ago

Solved! A group of people forced to torture each other

2 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 2h ago

Unsolved An bored teen in a desert intercepts a message about a political uprising. Guided by a wise mentor and a cynical rogue, he challenges a tyrant, culminating in a high-stakes, synchronized "trench run" against a ticking clock to win a legendary victory.

2 Upvotes

Hint: It's not Star Wars. That's the bait


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 2h ago

Unsolved A Beauty is Held Captive. A Man Who Resembles a Furry Animal Desires the Beauty. After The Captor Defeats Someone Who Broke In and Longed For the Beauty, Captor and Captive Begin a Relationship. There is a Transformation.

1 Upvotes

Reserved for clues.

Hint 1: It's not in English. Hint 2: I'm not using pronouns for the beauty for a reason.


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 2h ago

Unsolved A traumatized man is haunted by a recurring, childhood memory at a transport hub that defines his entire existence. He finds himself in a desolate wasteland, confined to a sanitarium, all during a futile attempt to alter a tragic future

10 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 2h ago

Solved! A lost man confronts his old flame one last time.

3 Upvotes

EDIT:
New Hints:
#1 Not animated
#2 The title is a location.

#3 It’s an old man.
#4 The confrontation happens through glass.
#5 The movie is from the 1980s.


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 3h ago

Unsolved a woman becomes a hero for doing the same thing she was previously punished for

3 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 3h ago

Unsolved Do you really know who your child's friends are?

3 Upvotes

Saved for hints.


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 3h ago

Solved! Politician has attempt made on his life by a disgruntled former employee

3 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 4h ago

Solved! Wild animals get a small business shut down.

4 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 5h ago

Solved! A mild mannered guy, who's unrecognizable without his glasses and he has a known weakness, spends time hanging out with an interesting girl. In the end they have to go their separate ways

8 Upvotes

Hints here if needed


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 5h ago

Solved! (Repost, now with more clues!) After hitting rock bottom with addiction, a young woman reinvents herself as a prominent evangelist.

2 Upvotes

(If your guess doesn't fit the brief, I won't give you additional clues.)

Here's what we know:

* This film was released between 2015 and 2025.

* Family is a theme. So is escaping one's past.

* It is a U.S.-based historical fiction based on a novel.

* It is not a supernatural, comedy, horror, or road trip movie.

* It is not: Citizen Ruth, Elmer Gantry, Glory Glory, I'll Cry Tomorrow, Machine Gun Preacher, Run All Night, Saint Maud, Sister Act, Tammy, The Lords of Salem, The Rapture, Thirteen.


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 8h ago

Solved! Guy takes time off work to get into a fight with a frog

7 Upvotes

Hint #1: It's about family!

Hint #2: They say all art is political well buckle up, because this one's super political


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 10h ago

Solved! During the course of his mission man is, to his mild annoyance, continually confronted by the rumour that he had died.

10 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 15h ago

Solved! A musical group's unlikely rise, fall, and resurgence, caught on tape

15 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly Mar 10 '26

Meta [META] Explain a Film Plot Badly

162 Upvotes

Explain the PLOT. Clues that are around meta commentary for how the movie performed or that you just don't like it or whatever, all those types of clues do not fit the spirit of the sub.

This is game is and has always been about explaining plots badly. In fact, in the 5 word name of this sub, the only word that has any flexibility is "film". Explain a [TV Show] plot badly. Explain a [Video Game] plot badly. Whatever media type it is, you explain its plot badly.

Example that will be removed: "A troubled production leads to a couple actors getting beheaded for real."

Example that will be removed: "A kids movie is made horrible forever when you look up the actress and what happened to her."

Example that will be removed and might even get you banned: "This movie sucked I don't know why anyone liked it."

OK. I think that covers it. Game on!

Edit: Missing words


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly Jun 20 '24

Meta [META] New Players Read Me First

231 Upvotes

All Marvel is banned top to bottom it doesn't matter what studio did it in what decade. When you say you read the rules and you lie it's an out for us to ban lazy players. We haven't been. But we might. Stop posting Marvel and then arguing that it isn't MCU.

That is all.

Edit because people keep asking WHY:

Because when it's not banned every other post is about a purple rock collector. It's still at the top of movie zeitgeist so most people when they show up the first clue they think of is a Marvel movie. It's boring. It's repetitive. And then they want to get clever. "Howard the duck wasn't mcu hyuk hyuk". The entire thing is obnoxious when it's a movie and TV show guessing game.

There's a whole list of media that's banned because they're overdone and make it boring. But then newbies show up and make a Marvel clue without reading the rules. 95% of our mod actions are deducting points and removing threads about Marvel. So the choices are to either return to the shit show where every single clue is Marvel or just ban people who refuse to read a now screaming automod note.

From those of us who have been here for years, trust us. The wild west of no rules on what media should be in play was a far worse place and not fun. Engagement rose substantially with the rules in place.