History BetterThanItSounds / FilmH

** [[spoiler: ''Film/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'']]: The Bee Gees steal a bunch of musical instruments from Aerosmith's hired goons, and it's almost a downer ending until the weather vane comes to life.

* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Hook}}]]'': The leader of a group of ChildSoldiers returns a changed person.

* ''[[spoiler: Film/AHardDaysNight]]'': Pop band and grandfather spend time in a train and a room, and a car and a room, and a room and a room. They all then get chased by the police and perform a concert.

** ''[[spoiler: WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine]]'': Mean people invade idyllic land and are defeated by ThePowerOfRock.

** ''[[spoiler: WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine]]: ''Mean people invade idyllic land, and are defeated by ThePowerOfRock.

** ''[[spoiler: Film/TheHangover Part II]]'': A group of friends go out for a night [[RecycledInSpace on a foreign town]] and wake up not remembering a thing. This time, [[RefugeInVulgarity with more things you didn't need to see.]]

* ''[[spoiler: Film/HelpImAFish]]'': Three kids get turned into fish due to an AbsentMindedProfessor being concerned with the environment. Hilarity doesn't ensue, as another fish goes on an ego trip, and tries to become king of the sea. The fish sounds like Creator/AlanRickman.

* ''[[spoiler:TheHuntForRedOctober'']]: Creator/SeanConnery steals a giant submarine. Alec Baldwin finds it. In the process WorldWarIII almost breaks out. On Christmas.

* ''[[spoiler: Film/HelpImAFish]]'': Three kids get turned into fish due to an AbsentMindedProfessor being concerned with the environment. Hilarity doesn't ensue, as another fish goes on an ego trip, and tries to become king of the sea. The fish sounds like AlanRickman.

* ''[[spoiler: Film/HouseOnHauntedHill]]'': Dysfunctional couple try to resolve their problems with a house party.
** ''[[spoiler: The 1999 version]]'': Rightful tenants of a comfy, spacious house hang around until a bunch of greedy people arrive to pester them.

* ''[[spoiler: Film/HowToMarryAMillionaire]]'': Three popular actresses plot a get-rich-quick scheme by vainly chasing men around New York City. A TV series, which is actually worse than this, is known to exist, but only because the girl who replaced the most popular of the three said actresses is [[IDreamOfJeannie a genie]].

* ''[[spoiler: Film/HowToMarryAMillionaire]]'': Three popular actresses plot a get-rich-quick scheme by vainly chasing men around New York City. A TV series, which is actually [[WorseThanItSounds worse than this]], is known to exist, but only because the girl who replaced the most popular of the three said actresses is [[IDreamOfJeannie a genie]].

* ''[[spoiler: Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas]]'': AceVentura doesn't like Christmas or razors.

* ''[[spoiler:Hustle & Flow]]'': Pimp loves his girls, raps about beating them.

* ''[[spoiler: Film/Holes]]'': A boy is accused of stealing shoes even though he didn't. He's sent to a desert to dig holes as punishment.

* ''[[spoiler: TheHangover]]'': A group of friends go out for a night on the town and wake up not remembering a thing. You see more of the latter than the former.
** ''[[spoiler: TheHangover Part II]]'': A group of friends go out for a night [[RecycledInSpace on a foreign town]] and wake up not remembering a thing. This time, [[RefugeInVulgarity with more things you didn't need to see.]]
* ''[[spoiler: HappyFeet]]'': Several layers of social commentary, wrapped in a 'first contact' subtext, taped with religious and mythic connotations, and directed by George Miller, to boot. Oh, and there's tap-dancing. [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins In Antarctica]].
** Or, ''{{Footloose}}'' with penguins.
* ''[[spoiler: HappyGilmore]]'': BillyMadison plays golf so his grandmother doesn't have to live with Derek {{Zoolander}}.

* ''[[spoiler: AHardDaysNight]]'': Pop band and grandfather spend time in a train and a room, and a car and a room, and a room and a room. They all then get chased by the police and perform a concert.
** '' [[spoiler: {{Help}}!]]'': A drummer from a pop band gets on the wrong side of an Indian death cult and a MadScientist with funding issues because of a new ring.
** ''[[spoiler: YellowSubmarine]]:''Mean people invade idyllic land, and are defeated by ThePowerOfRock.

** ''[[spoiler:LetItBe]]'': A band tries to revive its team spirit, only to make things worse.
*** ''[[spoiler: GiveMyRegardsToBroadStreet]]'': In a dream, a musical genius must recover a lost master tape. His sanity may be on the line.

* [[spoiler:''The Hamiltons'']]: [[{{Dissimile}} It's just like]] ''PartyOfFive'', [[{{Dissimile}} except they're cannibalistic serial killers.]]

* ''[[spoiler: The Haunted Mansion]]'': A workaholic and his kids try to stop a creepy butler from making the workaholic's wife marry a ghost. It's based on a theme park ride.
* ''[[spoiler:{{Heat}}]]'': Two workaholics find themselves in direct competition as each aims to completely screw up the other's plans, as all the while their personal lives implode spectacularly. The highlight of the movie is a scene in which the two meet for the first time, have a friendly coffee and pleasantly and calmly discuss why exactly they're trying to screw each other over.
* ''[[spoiler: {{Heathers}}]]'': A popular girl falls for a bad boy as they plan to blow up their school. Hijinks ensue.
* ''[[spoiler:HedwigAndTheAngryInch]]'': A transsexual rock musician stalks her ex-boyfriend in an attempt to sue him for copyright infringement.

** ''[[spoiler: HellboyII: The Golden Army]]'': Elven attempt at saving the Earth from those foolish humans meets demonic resistance. The demon is the good guy.

* ''[[spoiler: HelpImAFish]]'' Three kids get turned into fish due to an AbsentMindedProfessor being concerned with the environment. Hilarity doesn't ensue, as another fish goes on an ego trip, and tries to become king of the sea. The fish sounds like AlanRickman.
** Alternatively: Three kids turn into sea creatures because an AbsentMindedProfessor is worried about the environment. Soon, they discover that the antidote that was supposed to make them human again gave some fish intelligence. Oh yeah, and Alan Rickman's in it.

* ''[[spoiler: HighNoon]]'':We have to watch Gary Cooper's every move for over an hour. The rest of the town tries to get him to just go away. Most people seem dissatisfied with his choices, including himself. At one point there's a heated debate in which everyone decides not to do anything.

* ''[[spoiler:HighPlainsDrifter]]'': Mysterious stranger takes a bath and paints the town red.

* [[spoiler:''HistoryOfTheWorldPartOne'']]: One man is a king, a prophet, a philosopher, a pissboy, and torturer with a [[VillainSong musical number]] that [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus nobody expects]].

* [[spoiler: ''TheHitcher'']]: Young man picks up a hitchhiker, whom he kicks out after a tiff; the guy keeps giving him presents and a waitress does some serious stretching.

* ''[[spoiler: HoboWithAShotgun]]'': Vagrant acquires a smoothbore firearm.
* ''[[spoiler:HomeAlone]]'': Family comedy about a young child who is abandoned by his family and robbed in his own home. On Christmas Eve.
** ''[[spoiler:HomeAlone 2: Lost in New York]]'': Family comedy about a young child inflicting incredibly graphic and brutal torture on two comic bunglers. Still on Christmas Eve.
** ''[[spoiler:HomeAlone 3]]'': Family comedy about a young child with chicken pox. Not the same one as in the previous two films but this one is aided by a parrot and a mouse. Not on Christmas Eve.

* [[spoiler:''HotFuzz'']]: Model one-man British police force gets transferred from his crime-infested city to a town where [[NothingExcitingEverHappensHere nothing bad ever happens]]. His partner, a fat guy who loves {{Buddy Cop Show}}s, wants to make his life exciting again. Lots of HoYay ensues.

* ''[[spoiler: TheHowling]]'': Woman is romantically pursued by supernatural stalker named Edward. Based on the popular novel of the same name.
* ''[[spoiler:Film/HowToTrainYourDragon]]'': Scrawny young teen stops a seven-generation long war and impresses his dad by eating a raw fish that his best friend spit back up. [[Heartwarming/HowToTrainYourDragon Cuteness ensues]].

* ''[[spoiler:TheHudsuckerProxy]]'': After industrialist commits suicide, board of directors appoint naive mail-room clerk to position of CEO, whereupon he promptly invents the hula-hoop.
* ''[[spoiler:{{Hugo}}]]'': A squatter's broken toy leads an old man to confront his past.

* ''[[spoiler:TheHuntForRedOctober'']]: SeanConnery steals a giant submarine. Alec Baldwin finds it. In the process WorldWarIII almost breaks out. On Christmas.

* ''[[spoiler:Hustle & Flow]]'': Pimp loves his girls, raps about beating them.

* ''[[spoiler:HaroldAndKumarGoToWhiteCastle]]'': Two stoners have difficulty finding their favorite restaurant.

* ''[[spoiler: HappyGilmore]]'': BillyMadison plays golf so his grandmother doesn't have to live with Derek {{Zoolander}}.

*** ''[[spoiler: GiveMyRegardsToBroadStreet]]'': In a dream, a musical genius must recover a lost master tape. His sanity may be on the line.

* ''[[spoiler:{{HighPlainsDrifter}}]]'': Mysterious stranger takes a bath and paints the town red.

* [[spoiler:''HistoryOfTheWorldPartOne'']]: One man is a king, a prophet, a philosopher, a pissboy, and torturer with a [[VillainSong musical number]] that [[MontyPythonsFlyingCircus nobody expects]].
* [[spoiler: ''{{Hitch}}'']]: [[Film/WildWildWest Jim West]] gives advice to the Film/{{Zookeeper}} and is allergic to shellfish.

** ''[[spoiler:HomeAlone 3]]'': Family comedy about a young child with chicken pox. Not the same one as in the previous two films but this one is aided by a parrot and a mouse. Not on Christmas Eve.

*** ''[[spoiler: GiveMyRegardsToBroadStreet]]'': In a dream, a musical genius must recover a lost master tape. His sanity may be on the line. YourMileageMayVary.

* ''[[spoiler:{{Highlander}}]]'': Super-centenarian travels to New York to claim a prize.

* ''[[spoiler:{{Hellraiser}}]]'': A man [[BackFromTheDead recovering from]] a terminal illness has an affair with his brother's wife. Later, his niece plays with a Rubik's cube and hangs out with some kinky goths.

* ''[[spoiler: HouseOnHauntedHill]]'': Dysfunctional couple try to resolve their problems with a house party.

* ''[[spoiler:{{Hook}}]]'': The leader of a group of ChildSoldiers returns a changed person.

* ''[[spoiler:HaroldAndKumar Go To White Castle]]'': Two stoners have difficulty finding their favorite restaurant.
** ''[[spoiler:Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay]]'': Two stoners are mistaken for terrorists. Neil Patrick Harris ensues.