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9* ''[[spoiler:Film/TheBabadook]]'': A widowed mother reads her child a new picture book, then proceeds to go insane.
10* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Babe}}]]'': Naive kid attempts to be something he's not and impresses a few different species.
11** ''[[spoiler:Film/BabePigInTheCity]]'': That naive kid travels away from home and makes friends with more species.
12*** Alternatively: Naive kid is brought to a city made of a bunch of other cities crammed together, where a clown dies after the kid ruins his performance and he befriends someone who tried to murder him. The climax includes bungee jumping and inflatable pants.
13* ''[[spoiler:Film/BabyDriver]]'': Kid [[Film/TheUsualSuspects works for]] [[Creator/KevinSpacey Keyser Soze]]. He sits down a lot.
14* ''[[spoiler:Film/BabyMama]]'': A working-class ditz bears the child of a professional woman. HilarityEnsues.
15* ''[[spoiler:Film/BackToTheFuture1]]'': Thanks to a discontinued sports car, a boy nearly commits incest with his mother after teaching his father how to use violence. All their lives improve as a result.
16*** Alternatively: Eccentric old loner helps his friend’s father hook up with a teen-aged girl.
17** ''[[spoiler:Film/BackToTheFuturePartII]]'': A young man uses a discontinued sports car to visit his children. Someone steals the car to get himself a sports almanac and then returns it. This changes all reality.
18** ''[[spoiler:Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII]]'': Two people plan a train robbery in order to conduct a scientific experiment and escape a gunfight. A canyon is named after Creator/ClintEastwood.
19* ''[[spoiler:Film/BackyardDogs]]'': World's worst participants in a faked sport make the big time.
20* ''[[spoiler:Film/BadBoyBubby]]'': A ManChild kills his parents and escapes into the real world, only to end up not fitting in very well.
21* ''[[spoiler:Film/BadBoys1995]]'': Novice prostitute joins forces with insensitive playboy and embittered family man to hunt down foreign exchange villain.
22** ''[[spoiler:Film/BadBoysII]]'': Insensitive playboy tries to join the family of the embittered man while the two are hunting down another foreign exchange villain.
23** ''[[spoiler:Film/BadBoysForLife]]'': Insensitive playboy's lifestyle comes back to bite him and the embittered family man, given this time the foreign exchange villain is a former fling.
24* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/TheBadGuys2022]]'': A little piggie tries to reform TheBigBadWolf.
25* ''[[spoiler:[[Film/TheLastCircus Balada Triste De Trompeta / The Last Circus]]]]'': Two Spanish clowns fight. A trumpet gets broken and a roast chicken beat up.
26* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/{{Ballerina}}]]'': Two orphans flee to Paris to pursue their dreams, one to be a dancer and the other to be an inventor. A rivalry between the first orphan and a seemingly dedicated dance student ends with the dedicated dance student's mother trying to murder the first orphan while the Statue of Liberty is being constructed.
27* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}]]'': With his two best friends, a rabbit and a skunk, a deer realizes the joys and horrors of living in the woods. [[AdaptationDisplacement It is based on a novel]] that is [[{{Disneyfication}} more gruesome that what is shown]].
28* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Bananas}}]]'': Man leads communist revolution and overthrows corrupt government in order to impress a girl.
29* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Barbarella}}]]'': Some loony who shares his name with an [[Music/DuranDuran 80's rock band]] is threatening the universe. It's up to a lady astronaut to stop him, despite a [[DamselInDistress glaring lack of qualifications]]. She has the help of a very hairy guy, a blind and apathetic birdman, a half-naked old man, a basement-dwelling rebel and later an evil queen. Did we mention they all think she's hot?
30* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Barbie|2023}}]]'': Toys find out about misogyny.
31** Alternatively: A Warner Bros. film about one of the most popular toys in existence that features metacommentary on how we interact with said toys, complete with an evil businessman played by Creator/WillFerrell. And no, not [[WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie that one.]]
32** Alternatively: A girls' doll makes [[MemeticMutation a surprisingly lucrative marketing deal]] with [[Film/{{Oppenheimer}} a nuclear physicist]].
33* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/BarbieInTheNutcracker]]'': A girl falls in love with a doll and together they set a successful mousetrap [[Theatre/TheNutcracker true to the original]]. Her stern grandpa thinks she's insane but then forgets about it when a handsome young man shows up.
34** ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/BarbieAsRapunzel]]'': A PrincessClassic ends a war that's been going on for at least a decade simply by existing.
35** ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/BarbieOfSwanLake]]'': Some FunnyAnimals are saved because a hunter didn't shoot a game bird.
36** ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/BarbieAsThePrincessAndThePauper]]'': A girl gets to marry a king because she broke the law.
37** ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/BarbieFairytopia]]'': A girl embarks on a heroic quest so that flowers won't die.
38*** ''[[spoiler:Barbie Fairytopia: Mermaidia]]'': A guy almost dies from not swimming.
39*** ''[[spoiler:Barbie Fairytopia: Magic of the Rainbow]]'': A bully turns nice but only because she's really a wicked witch.
40*** ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/BarbieMariposa]]'': Girls journey through a dangerous land full of monsters that want to eat them so they can find a flower and hopefully win a guy's heart.
41*** ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/BarbieMariposaAndTheFairyPrincess]]'': Xenophobia is bad.
42** ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/BarbieAndTheMagicOfPegasus]]'': A girl puts herself in mortal danger twice in order to escape a marriage proposal.
43** ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/BarbieInTheTwelveDancingPrincesses]]'': Sisters disobey their nanny. This is a good thing.
44** ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/BarbieAsTheIslandPrincess]]'': An elephant fails to stop a Disney-type romance from occurring. She doesn't mind.
45** ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/BarbieAndTheDiamondCastle]]'': Girls must stop a flute player who makes awesome music from stealing a hand mirror.
46** ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/BarbieInAChristmasCarol]]'': [[Literature/AChristmasCarol Scrooge]] doesn't die in the BadFuture but [[GenderBender she]] wants to change her ways anyway.
47** ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/BarbiePresentsThumbelina]]'': A girl convinces her parents not to work their hardest at their jobs.
48** ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/BarbieAndTheThreeMusketeers]]'': A girl doesn't like a man's sexist beliefs but ends up falling for him anyway.
49** ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/BarbieInAMermaidTale]]'': Surfer gives up on her life's dream, except not really.
50*** ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/BarbieInAMermaidTale2]]'': Same as the above.
51** ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/BarbieAFashionFairytale]]'': An actress gets fired by her jerk director but her spirits are lifted when she runs away to Europe.
52** ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/BarbieAFairySecret]]'': A guy forced into an ArrangedMarriage is also forced to fight to the death.
53** ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/BarbiePrincessCharmSchool]]'': Girls wrongly accused of theft clear their name by actually breaking in somewhere.
54** ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/BarbieAsThePrincessAndThePopStar]]'': A plant being uprooted puts the whole kingdom in jeopardy.
55** ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/BarbieInThePinkShoes]]'': A student is rewarded for disobeying her teacher.
56** ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/BarbieThePearlPrincess]]'': A girl told not to run away from home does so. This ends up saving the kingdom.
57** ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/BarbieAndTheSecretDoor]]'': A little girl almost takes over a nation.
58** ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/BarbieInPrincessPower]]'': A superhero's parents love her until they find out she's their daughter.
59** ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/BarbieInRockNRoyals]]'': A competition's results are sabotaged by a rekindled romance.
60* ''[[spoiler:Film/BarbWire]]'': ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' [[SettingUpdate WITH STRIPPERS]]! For most, as bad as it sounds.
61* ''[[spoiler:Franchise/{{Batman}}]]'': The [[AdaptationOverdosed enduring and repeatedly told story]] of a rich guy trying to solve his issues by beating andor scaring people while dressed as an animal.
62** ''[[spoiler:Film/Batman1989]]'': An orphan battles a clown.
63** ''[[spoiler:Film/BatmanReturns]]'': CorruptCorporateExecutive sponsors disfigured abandoned child's mayoral campaign. Meanwhile, concussed woman attempts to seduce Film/{{Beetlejuice}} by wearing skin-tight leather and beating him up. All this while lots of terrorists who once worked in show business get their asses kicked.
64*** That small guy from ''Series/{{Taxi}}'' and ''Film/OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest'' tries to destroy a city because of ParentalAbandonment, with the help of that guy who dances in that one Music/FatboySlim video. His gang includes that tall guy from ''Film/OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest''.
65** ''[[spoiler:Film/BatmanForever]]'': Jim Morrison fights two men [[HamToHamCombat disputing on who is the]] [[LargeHam largest ham]] in the film: one who got smarter due to a thing that looks like a giant blender, and a disfigured one who paints himself pink. For some, as bad as it sounds.
66** ''[[spoiler:Film/BatmanAndRobin]]'': Billionaire argues with hormone-crazed sidekick about the sexual intentions of a WellIntentionedExtremist while their butler is dying of a terminal disease that the wife of a now-mad scientist whom the extremist teams up with happens to have. And the butler's niece snoops around a lot. For many, as bad as it sounds, if not worse.
67** ''[[spoiler:Film/BatmanBegins]]'': Welsh ninja detective fights Irish ninja and Irish mad scientist that wears a bag on his head.
68*** On top of it, said ninja falls in love with an undergraduate of Law school that pretends she's a District Attorney, and has his combat equipment designed by [[Theatre/DrivingMissDaisy Miss Daisy's driver]]. Meanwhile, Lothos insists that everybody at work "get the memo."
69** ''[[spoiler:Film/TheDarkKnight]]'': While not pretending to be a rude and obnoxious corporate executive, a ninja detective fights a MonsterClown and a deformed lawyer who has trouble making decisions by himself, and puts to rest once and for all that wiretapping really does work.
70*** Also: part of the clown's plan is ruined by Deebo from ''Film/{{Friday}}''.
71*** Alternatively, playboy billionaire dresses in black and beats up psychotic homeless man.
72** ''[[spoiler:Film/TheDarkKnightRises]]'': Ninja detective decides to go back in action to face a musclehead who wants to prove clean energy sources are lethal.
73** ''[[spoiler:[[Film/BatmanTheMovie Batman (1966)]]]]'': A middle-aged billionaire and [[HoYay his teenage "ward"]] run around in tights, kicking and punching a variety of garishly-dressed people who [[HurricaneOfPuns speak in cheesy puns]].
74** ''[[spoiler:Film/TheBatman2022]]'': Troubled billionaire solves complicated puzzles left by one hell of an InternetJerk, while also getting closer to a waitress with daddy issues.
75* ''[[spoiler:Film/BattleLosAngeles]]'': A bunch of water-loving visitors drop by for a swim on the beach and tour of prime coastal properties. Billions die.
76* ''[[spoiler:Film/BattleRoyale]]'': A Japanese High School class has to fight to the death, or their heads will explode.
77** Alternatively, a class goes on a field trip; most don't make it back.
78** Or - ''Literature/LordOfTheFlies'' on a cocktail of [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs hallucinogenic pills]], [[ParanoiaFuel a few spoons of paranoia fuel]], and a good measure of horror.
79* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Battleship}}]]'': A group of foreigners find themselves stranded in Hawaii and harassed by some Americans, a Japanese guy, and an amputee who are determined not to let them call their roadside assistance service.
80* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Bean}}]]'': A British Moron In California.
81** A man nearly ruins a happy marriage and defaces a priceless work of art. He is the protagonist, [[PlayedForLaughs so you laugh]].
82* ''[[spoiler:Film/TheBearAndTheDoll]]'': Woman convinced of her sexiness has nothing better to do other than stalking an average guy who was unimpressed by her.
83* ''[[spoiler:Film/TheBeastFromTwentyThousandFathoms]]'': New Yorkers threatened by contagious dinosaur.
84* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast]]'': Young woman is captured by violent fanged monster, and talks to furniture and crockery. Fortunately, [[LoveRedeems she convinces her captor to not be such an ass]], and everyone lives HappilyEverAfter. Except for a Creator/BruceCampbell lookalike, who [[DisneyVillainDeath falls off a building.]]
85** UsefulNotes/StockholmSyndrome: The Movie.
86** LimaSyndrome: The Movie.
87* ''[[spoiler:Film/Bedazzled2000]]'': Guy makes a DealWithTheDevil and gets gypped for a hamburger.
88* ''[[spoiler:Film/BedknobsAndBroomsticks]]'': An old spinster and three wartime evacuees go searching for the other half of a damaged book.
89** Alternatively, a witch, some kids and some guy use a magic bed to travel to an animated animal island and watch animated animals play soccer. Then they use magically animated armor to fight Nazis. [[ItMakesSenseInContext These events are related to each other, I swear.]]
90* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/BeeMovie]]'': A woman has belligerent romantic tension with a bee. Not a HalfHumanHybrid or anything. ''A talking bee.''
91** A feature-length meme. Except the meme is about not making it feature-length anymore.
92* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Beetlejuice}}]]'': Nice dead people try to scare living people from a house. Also, a decomposing pervert with an [[RuleOfThree identity crisis]] falls madly in love with a teenage girl and tries to marry her.
93* ''[[spoiler:Film/BeforeSunrise]]'': Two people meet on a train. They do not plan a murder. They are both exactly who they claim. There are no series of humorous misunderstandings. They just talk for a bit and then have sex.
94** ''[[spoiler:Before Sunset]]'': Sequel to the above and exactly the same except in Paris.
95** ''[[spoiler:Before Midnight]]'': Sequel to the above, takes place in Greece. There are relationship issues.
96* ''[[spoiler:Film/BeingJohnMalkovich]]'': A chronically unemployed puppeteer finds a magical portal that facilitates the unwilling MindRape of a notable character actor for 15-minute spurts. The traumatic experience is repeated frequently for laughs. Because of this, the Actor facilitates marital infidelity, spousal abuse, stalking, lesbianism, fraud, corporate theft, and the potential immortality of Creator/GarySinise. It's okay, though, because there's monkeys.
97* ''[[spoiler:Film/BeingThere]]'': An IdiotPlot.
98** A group of high-society snobs mistake a well-meaning idiot for a philosophic genius and convince him to go into politics.
99* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Below}}]]'': A submarine is sad because its captain died, so it wants to go back [[TogetherInDeath to be with him.]] This is scary for the rest of the crew.
100* ''[[spoiler:Film/BenHur1959]]'': Loose tile makes man lose his best friend, get arrested, and enter the world of racing.
101* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/{{Beowulf|2007}}]]'': Swede with Cockney accent fights monsters, yells often. Sex with unmarried women invariably leads to death. Glory is achieved by having your son violently murdered and/or tearing out your son's heart with your bare hands.
102* ''[[spoiler:Film/BernardAndTheGenie]]'': Man loses everything, and, with the help of a man from first-century Palestine, gets his life back together.
103* ''[[spoiler:Film/BestInShow]]'': A bunch of people go to a dog show.
104* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Bewitched}}]]'': The consequences of giving an egoistical director free rein over a modern-day remake of a television classic. In the meantime, backstage BelligerentSexualTension ensues between said director and his leading lady, who happens to be a witch like her character.
105* ''[[spoiler:Film/BicentennialMan]]'': Sensitive, eccentric android builds artificial organs and replaces his insides with them over a 200-year period in hopes of becoming human [[spoiler: by killing himself]]. Also, he likes making clocks.
106* ''[[spoiler:Film/TheBigCountry]]'': Reasonable man attempts to rationally settle land dispute and gets branded a coward for his trouble.
107* ''[[spoiler:Film/BigDaddy]]'': Jewish baseball player's namesake defrauds an entire bureaucracy just to get into Buffy's pants. It doesn't work, but along the way he does develop a protective instinct toward a foreigner who is often required to wear dark glasses.
108* ''[[spoiler:Film/BigEyes]]'': A woman paints beautiful and distinctive pictures, only for her husband to steal credit on them. She takes him to court. BasedOnATrueStory.
109* ''[[spoiler:Film/BigFatLiar]]'': Pathological liar and friend travel to Hollywood to confront the just-as-dishonest producer who stole the former's essay to use for his next movie.
110* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/BigHero6]]'': A kid, some college students, and a robot fight a guy who's angry that his daughter died when she didn't actually die. Based on an obscure [[MediaNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks comic book from the late 90's]].
111* [[spoiler:''Film/TheBigLebowski'']]: Dude gets his rug peed on, and then has to fight a bunch of nihilists.
112** [[MemeticMutation The prostitute has been kidnapped by nihilists. Are you a bad enough Dude to rescue the prostitute?]]
113*** Alternatively: Stoner and his violent buddy fail to solve a non-mystery. Also, bowling, a cowboy, and a pederast.
114* [[spoiler:''Film/TheBigShort'']]: 2 hours of people talking about finance.
115* [[spoiler:''Film/BigTroubleInLittleChina'']]: A trucker gets entangled in a kung-fu movie, and accidentally stabs a would-be bigamist in the head.
116* ''[[spoiler:Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure]]'': Time-Travelling Creator/GeorgeCarlin ditches his stand-up career to help two So-Cal losers cheat on their homework. They meet in the parking lot of a convenience store and, well, you can imagine where it goes from there. Napoleon is a fat bastard who eats too much ice cream and cheats children in meaningless competitions. Well, at least that part was accurate.
117** ''[[spoiler:Film/BillAndTedsBogusJourney]]'': Losers attempt to stop evil android duplicates with the help of a [[TheGrimReaper Supernatural Bald Dude]] and two disfigured midgets from beyond the stars.
118** ''[[spoiler:Film/BillAndTedFaceTheMusic]]'': Losers try to get their big break again before [[TimeCrash everything else is broken.]]
119* ''[[spoiler:Film/BillyMadison]]'': Idiot goes back to school.
120* ''[[spoiler:Film/BirdBox]]'': Creator/SandraBullock wears a blindfold for two hours.
121* ''[[spoiler:Film/TheBirdcage]]'': Family of liberal Southerners must stage bizarre deception to avoid angering family of conservative Northerners. The ruse is assisted by an illegal alien named after a man who was crucified (no, not [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory that one]]).
122* ''[[spoiler:Film/BirdmanOrTheUnexpectedVirtueOfIgnorance]]'': Actor [[IAmNotSpock tries to prove he's more than just his]] StarMakingRole. [[FatalMethodActing It gets ugly]].
123* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Birdemic}}]]'': Poorly-animated exploding birds decide to suicide bomb a crappy romance movie because of [[SpaceWhaleAesop Global Warming]]. They are fought off using coat hangers.
124* ''[[spoiler:Film/BirdsOfPrey2020]]'': While trying to overcome the end of a complicated relationship, lunatic decides to protect a girl who is experiencing an unusual sort of constipation. A stripper, a [[NoRespectGuy disrespected woman]], and an orphan also figure into the plot.
125* ''[[spoiler:Film/BlackPanther2018]]'': A man inherits a position of authority and has to juggle his country's traditions with its international standing, while fighting a mercenary with some [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds rather understandable]] anger issues.
126** ''[[spoiler:Film/BlackPantherWakandaForever]]'': That man's sister inherits a position of authority because of a college student targeted by a guy who is deathly afraid of tourists discovering his hometown.
127* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron]]'': Young farm boy meets young princess and cute little creature, and they journey together to try and stop a demon and his zombie army.
128* ''[[spoiler:Film/BlackDeath]]'': A film that lists the various ways TheDungAges actually were kind of crap.
129* ''[[spoiler:Film/BlackSwan]]'': A crazy ballerina who still lives with her mother sleeps with [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Meg]].
130* ''[[spoiler:Film/BlackWidow2021]]'': Woman trying to get peace in-between wars is contacted by her estranged sister so they'd arrange for a family reunion and seek justice against the company where they worked.
131* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Blade}}]]'': Based on a comic book, the black guy from ''Film/WhiteMenCantJump'' kills people who don't like sunlight.
132** ''[[spoiler:Film/BladeII]]'': The black guy visits Europe, kills people suffering from a horrible contagious disease.
133* ''[[spoiler:Film/BladeRunner]]'': Special police officer searches for criminals seeking their parents. Fans [[EpilepticTrees try guessing his true nature]] [[FlipFlopOfGod and are doomed to fail.]]
134** Alternately: A mostly retired hit-man falls in love with a woman he might have to kill.
135** Alternatively: A [[MandatoryUnretirement weary]] cop questions himself as he hunts down, shoots, and occasionally [[LoveHungry forces himself upon]] four-year-olds.
136** ''[[spoiler:Film/BladeRunner2049]]'': Due to some bones in a farm, that officer is forced to reveal himself after years in isolation.
137* ''[[spoiler:Film/BlastFromThePast]]'': A man from the '60s is transplanted into the '90s. HilarityEnsues.
138** BasementDweller moves out of parents' house.
139* ''[[spoiler:Film/BlazingSaddles]]'': A small town in the old west gets the last sheriff it would ever want thanks to the machinations of a corrupt government official who is frequently mixed up with a famous actress. The sheriff manages to keep order with the help of a drunk and some tricks taken right out of a Merrie Melodies cartoon. The climactic fight is so violent it shatters the Fourth Wall.
140** Alternatively: a black railroad worker nearly dies in a quicksand pit. This makes him get a law enforcer job in a place that hates him, forcing him to get together with the town drunk to get anything done.
141* [[spoiler: ''Film/TheBlob1958'']]: A small town is attacked by a giant amorphous slime who dissolves everything it consumes.
142** [[spoiler: ''Film/TheBlob1988'']]: The same but BloodierAndGorier.
143** [[spoiler: ''Film/BewareTheBlob'']]: The same but every character is deliberately annoying. And the movie can't decide what it's name is.
144* ''[[spoiler:Film/BlondeInBlackLeather]]'': Two women on a journey are constantly interrupted by non-plot points.
145* ''[[spoiler:Film/BlowUp]]'': Pics or it didn't happen.
146* ''[[spoiler:Film/TheBluesBrothers]]'': Two ex-con musicians try to pull off a GetRichQuickScheme and antagonize everyone they come across.
147* ''[[spoiler:Film/BluesBrothers2000]]'': Musician rebuilds old ties with family, friends, and cops, and has dealings with the supernatural.
148* ''[[spoiler:Film/BlueVelvet]]'': Creator/KyleMacLachlan likes hiding in women's closets. Creator/DennisHopper likes horrible beer. Isabella Rosselini likes being beaten. Laura Dern likes birds.
149* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Bobby}}]]'': A hotel owner cheats on his wife, the kitchen staff fight, some people fall in love on the day of their wedding, Tony Hopkins plays chess with Harry Bellafonte, a woman goes shopping, Creator/AshtonKutcher punks Shia Laboeuf with LSD, one guy is mean to a journalist, and this other guy barely appears and then gets shot dead.
150* ''[[spoiler:Film/BohemianRhapsody]]'': [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2014 The Legend. The Brains. The Attitude.]] [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg And Deacy.]] ([[{{Biopic}} But mostly]] [[Music/FreddieMercury The Legend.]])
151** Or: A very handsome man finds love and loss, quarrels with his friends and his employer, and his genius goes unappreciated as he creates the greatest song of all time. BasedOnATrueStory.
152** Or: A by the numbers, generic Biopic about a [[Music/{{Queen}} band]] and a [[Music/FreddieMercury man]] who are anything but.
153* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}]]'': A TV actor who's [[AndYouThoughtItWasAGame way too into his role]] hitchhikes from New York to Hollywood with [[DeadpanSnarker a sarcastic homeless woman]] and [[AscendedFanboy his biggest fan]].
154** Alternatively, the focus of a {{Truman Show|Plot}} accidentally escapes the show without realizing anything was fake. He joins forces with a woman who's never heard of him, and a fan that is [[CannotTellFictionFromReality equally convinced that the show was real]].
155* ''[[spoiler:Film/BonCopBadCop]]'' He's a [[ClusterFBomb foul-mouthed]], chain-smoking CowboyCop from Québec. He's a square-headed, stick in the mud, by the book cop from Ontario. They fight crime.
156* ''[[spoiler:Film/BoogieNights]]'': Naive young man stumbles into a career which requires him to have lots of sex with attractive young women. After having sex with his drug-addicted mother figure, he attempts to start an eighties rock band but winds up a drug-addicted prostitute and failure.
157** Deformed boy goaded into life of crime.
158* ''[[spoiler:Film/TheBookOfEli]]'': Badass totes Bible across what is very definitely ''[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial not]]'' the [[VideoGame/{{Fallout}} Capital Wasteland]]. He is accompanied by [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Meg Griffin]] and hunted by [[Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy Commissioner Gordon]]. Music/TomWaits briefly shows up.
159* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/TheBookOfLife]]'': In turn-of-the-century Mexico a snake-bite, a love triangle, familial pressures, and a wager between two gods puts a crimp in a young man's celebration of ''El Dia de Los Muertos''.
160* ''[[spoiler:Film/TheBoondockSaints]]'': Two brothers, along with a sandwich delivery boy and a coffee-loving FBI agent, examine questions of morality and legality while cursing profusely. Their estranged father, an Irish comedian, puts their doubts to rest.
161* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Borat}}]]'': [[FunnyForeigner An eccentric foreigner]] [[PoirotSpeak with a strong accent]] travels across America [[CringeComedy making everyone feel uncomfortable]].
162** ''[[spoiler:Film/Bruno2009]]'': As above, but with gay jokes. Lots and lots of gay jokes.
163** ''[[spoiler:Film/BoratSubsequentMoviefilm]]'': As the first, but with two eccentric foreigners.
164* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/TheBossBaby]]'': Creator/AlecBaldwin is an infant and he has to team up with his brother to expand his baby empire. [[UnreliableNarrator This might've been just said brother's imagination.]]
165* ''[[spoiler:Film/TheBourneSeries]]'': Secret agent with amnesia wanders around much of the world, beats up other secret agents and others who are after him, and all the while tries to remember who he really is.
166** ''[[spoiler:Film/TheBourneIdentity]]'': Guy proves to have mercy. This causes him to be shot and LeftForDead.
167** ''[[spoiler:Film/TheBourneSupremacy]]'': Guy with amnesia is framed by ex-employers who also kill his girlfriend, triggering a RoaringRampageOfRevenge.
168** ''[[spoiler:Film/TheBourneUltimatum]]'': Guy who still has amnesia wants to uncover his origins.
169** ''[[spoiler:Film/TheBourneLegacy]]'': Amnesiac guy's actions get a lot of people killed.
170** ''[[spoiler:Film/JasonBourne]]'': No longer amnesiac guy gets dragged into another GovernmentConspiracy and goes on another RoaringRampageOfRevenge.
171* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/TheBoxtrolls]]'': An orphan with NoSocialSkills tries to convince a cheese-obsessed nobleman that an upwardly-mobile exterminator has been lying to him.
172** A guy wants to eat cheese, despite being [[PopGoesTheHuman violently]] lactose intolerant. He's the BigBad.
173* ''[[spoiler:Anime/TheBoyAndTheBeast]]'': A furry trains an angsty anime boy he found on the street in order to become the king of furries. In the end, the furry permanently becomes a sword which lunges itself to the boy's chest to help him fight an even angstier anime boy's magic whale.
174* ''[[spoiler:Anime/TheBoyAndTheHeron]]'': A young man searches for his mother. He finds his great-uncle instead, along with an army of hostile parakeets, and the world is subsequently destroyed.
175* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Boyhood}}]]'': The son of a carefree musician and a woman with a poor taste in men deals with puberty. Despite the simple promise, the movie took over a decade to complete.
176* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}]]'': A Scotsgirl learns the importance of tapestry and ursines.
177* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToaster]]'': ''Film/HomewardBoundTheIncredibleJourney'' with appliances.
178** ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToasterToTheRescue]]'': The characters of the above film fight animal cruelty.
179** ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToasterGoesToMars]]'': The same guys are [[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]]
180* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Brazil}}]]'': A bureaucrat tries to get some loose paperwork errors corrected, and maybe get his air conditioning repaired in the process.
181** Alternately: ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' as directed by Creator/MontyPython.
182** Or: A typo occurs. [[OneThingLedToAnother One thing leads to another]] and someone is tortured by a guy in a baby mask.
183* ''[[spoiler:Film/TheBreakfastClub]]'': Five teenagers with problems waste a Saturday proving that they're even less unique than they thought.
184* ''[[spoiler:Film/BriefEncounter]]'': 'Oh, I've got something in my eye.' 'Should I get it out?' 'Best not, I'm married.'
185* ''[[spoiler:Film/TheBridgeOnTheRiverKwai]]'': A group of people want to blow up a bridge, and another group wants to stop them. Tension occurs. The group that wants to blow up the bridge has decided on this course of action long before the bridge is finished. And this bridge is being built by perfectionists who place their workmanship on the bridge above all else.
186* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Brightburn}}]]'': A boy dealing with puberty interprets his well-meaning parents' advice in the worst possible way. Lots of people die in the process.
187* ''[[spoiler:Film/BringingUpBaby]]'': Heiress attempts to woo paleontologist with use of leopard. Complications ensue.
188* ''[[spoiler:Film/BroadwayDannyRose]]'': Sweet-natured but unsuccessful Broadway promoter escorts mob-connected girlfriend of one of his acts to a social function and incurs the wrath of lovelorn gangster. She betrays him in a business deal but he forgives her.
189* [[spoiler:''Film/BrokebackMountain'']]: Two cowboys look after some sheep. It turns into an angsty SlashFic.
190** Or: If it had pudding, a movie foretold by ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''.
191** Alternatively: Trouble arises after a man gets his pants in a [[{{Pun}} Twist]].
192* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/BrotherBear]]'' A teenager follows a small bear to a mountain while avoiding his brother, [[ItMakesSenseInContext who wants to kill him because he thinks he killed himself.]]
193* ''[[spoiler:Film/BruceAlmighty]]'': G̶o̶d̶ Creator/MorganFreeman goes on vacation, leaving Creator/JimCarrey in charge. HilarityEnsues.
194* ''[[spoiler:Film/BubbaHoTep]]'': An aging Elvis Presley and a black John F. Kennedy fight a mummy, who is picking off the residents of a senior's home.
195* ''[[spoiler:Film/ABucketOfBlood]]'': An improvisational artist briefly impresses his peers by lying about his readymades. Recycled as [[Film/TheLittleShopOfHorrors a movie about a murderous plant]].
196* ''[[spoiler:Film/BuckPrivates]]'': Two comedians escape from the police by enlisting in the army.
197* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/ABugsLife]]'': After a guy accidentally pisses off the local biker gang, he hires a circus troupe to fight them off. Also, instead of bikes, the bikers fly.
198** Alternatively: AnimatedAdaptation of ''Film/SevenSamurai''.
199* ''[[spoiler:Film/BugsyMalone]]'': A gritty story of a brutal 1930s New York gang war... except ThereAreNoAdults. And it's a [[TheMusical musical]]. And the bullets [[EdibleAmmunition are custard pie]].
200* ''[[spoiler:Film/ABulletForTheGeneral]]'': An arms dealer finds redemption.
201* ''[[spoiler:Film/BulletsOverBroadway]]'': A mid-western writer gets his big break in the theater. The overseer his play's "angel" gives him ends up rewriting the entire work; he is much better at playwriting than the playwright. During the first showing of the play on Broadway, this overseer is terminated with prejudice for excising the reason the "angel" funded the play.
202* ''[[spoiler:Film/BulletTrain]]'': Guy picks up some luggage during a foreign trip. Things literally derail from there on.
203** Alternatively: People who get paid to shoot people get shot on a train named after a thing that shoots people for over an hour. How is this legal?
204* ''[[spoiler:Film/TheBurbs]]'': A [[TheQuietOne quiet, privacy-minded]] family from [[{{Ruritania}} Eastern Europe]] move to next door to a CrazySurvivalist, a [[TheFool meddling oaf]], and [[Franchise/StarWars Princess Leia]]. HilarityEnsues over [[FantasticRacism misunderstandings]] over their intentions. Creator/TomHanks does not [[Film/{{Big}} turn into a kid]], does not [[Film/{{Philadelphia}} have AIDS]], isn't [[Film/ForrestGump retarded]], and isn't [[Film/CastAway stranded in the middle of the ocean]].
205* ''[[spoiler:Film/BurningBright]]'': A mopey college student and her Autistic brother spend a rainy day inside, with the new family pet.

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