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9	* ''[[spoiler: Film/{{Halloween\|1978}}]]'': A patient returns home and celebrates a [[HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday holiday]].
10	** ''[[spoiler: Film/{{Halloween II\|1981}}]]'': A young man wants to reunite with his long-lost sister. His closest thing to a father figure doesn't support him.
11	** ''[[spoiler: Film/HalloweenIIISeasonOfTheWitch]]'': A sleazy alcoholic antagonizes a jovial Irishman who just wants to share his cultural traditions with the children of America. The young man from the former two movies cameos on a TV.
12	** ''[[spoiler: Film/Halloween4TheReturnOfMichaelMyers]]'': A man wakes up from coma and tries to reunite with his niece.
13	** ''[[spoiler: Film/Halloween5TheRevengeOfMichaelMyers]]'': A multiple assassination attempt survivor continues his [[SerialKiller lifework]]. His doctor disapproves.
14	** ''[[spoiler: Film/HalloweenTheCurseOfMichaelMyers]]'': Said doctor discovers one of his friends was a bad influence in the man's [[BigScrewedUpFamily family]].
15	** ''[[spoiler: Film/HalloweenH20TwentyYearsLater]]'': Man crosses half the country to spend a holiday with a long-lost, supposedly dead sister.
16	** ''[[spoiler: Film/HalloweenResurrection]]'': After finally meeting his sister again, man joins reality show.
17	** ''[[spoiler: Film/{{Halloween 2018}}]]'': A patient decides to return home after 40 years to celebrate a holiday.
18	** ''[[spoiler: Film/HalloweenKills]]'': Firemen discover that certain holiday jobs are better left unanswered.
19	** ''[[spoiler: Film/HalloweenEnds]]'': A patient makes a friend while preparing to return home for more holiday celebrations.
20	* ''[[spoiler: Film/{{Hancock}}]]'': JerkAss superhero gets a PR man.
21	* ''[[spoiler: Film/TheHandThatRocksTheCradle]]'': [[AttackOfTheKillerWhatever Attack of the killer nanny]].
22	* ''[[spoiler: Film/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.
23	* ''[[spoiler: Film/HappyDeathDay]]'': AlphaBitch rethinks her life choices as she's being repeatedly evicted by her roommate.
24	** ''[[spoiler: Film/HappyDeathDay2U]]'': [[TookALevelInKindness Reformed bitch]] helps some nerds operate a machine so she can get her boyfriend back.
25	* ''[[spoiler: WesternAnimation/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. In Antarctica.
26	** Or, ''Film/{{Footloose}}'' with penguins.
27	* ''[[spoiler: Film/HappyGilmore]]'': Film/BillyMadison plays golf so his grandmother doesn't have to live with Derek Film/{{Zoolander}}.
28	* ''[[spoiler: Film/HappyGoLucky]]'': A schoolteacher takes driving classes and has a social life.
29	* ''[[spoiler:Film/HappyTogether]]'': Two gay Chinese guys get stuck in Argentina and argue a lot.
30	* ''[[spoiler: Film/AHardDaysNight]]'': A pop band and a 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.
31	** '' [[spoiler: Film/{{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.
32	*** A boy band goes on a tour around the world.
33	** ''[[spoiler: WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine]]'': Mean people invade an idyllic land and are defeated by ThePowerOfRock.
34	*** An old man, author, and four musicians have psychedelic adventures and fight mean people.
35	** ''[[spoiler: Film/MagicalMysteryTour]]'': Assisted by a group of magicians who live in the clouds, a bus tour becomes much more exciting.
36	** ''[[spoiler:Film/LetItBe]]'': A band tries to revive its team spirit, only to make things worse.
37	*** ''[[spoiler: Film/GiveMyRegardsToBroadStreet]]'': In a dream, a musical genius must recover a lost master tape. His sanity may be on the line.
38	** [[spoiler: ''Film/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'']]: Music/TheBeeGees steal a bunch of musical instruments from Music/{{Aerosmith}}'s hired goons, and it's almost a downer ending until the weather vane comes to life. For most, as bad as it sounds.
39	* [[spoiler:''Film/TheHamiltons'']]: [[{{Dissimile}} It's just like]] ''Series/PartyOfFive'', [[{{Dissimile}} except they're cannibalistic serial killers.]]
40	* ''[[spoiler:Film/HaroldAndMaude]]'': A young man fascinated with death meets an elderly woman who believes in living to the fullest.
41	* ''[[spoiler:Film/HaroldAndKumarGoToWhiteCastle]]'': Two stoners have difficulty finding their favorite restaurant.
42	** ''[[spoiler:Film/HaroldAndKumarEscapeFromGuantanamoBay]]'': Two stoners are mistaken for terrorists. Neil Patrick Harris ensues.
43	** ''[[spoiler:Film/AVeryHaroldAndKumar3DChristmas]]'': Two stoners try to find a Christmas tree on Christmas Eve.
44	* ''[[spoiler:Film/HarrietTheSpy]]'': [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Dawn Summers]] writes things in a notebook.
45	* ''[[spoiler:Film/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone]]'': A boy discovers he has a talent and goes to a school for his talent, where the teachers, as in real life, are either good or bad.
46	** Alternate: Orphan discovers his parents enrolled him in boarding school before they died. He kills one of his teachers and doesn't want to go home for the summer. He's the hero.
47	** ''[[spoiler: Film/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets]]'': The boy keeps seeing a midget and has to stop a snake.
48	** ''[[spoiler: Film/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban]]'': The boy reunites with his godfather and has weird encounters with cloaked people.
49	*** A man breaks out of prison to kill a rat.
50	** ''[[spoiler: Film/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire]]'': The boy illegally enters a competition and fights a bald guy.
51	** ''[[spoiler: Film/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix]]'': The boy's school is taken over by a baddie. Climactic scene has people fighting over a glass ball.
52	** ''[[spoiler: Film/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince]]'': The boy is stalking one of the teachers and trying to get laid.
53	** ''[[spoiler: Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows, Part One]]'': The boy and his two friends look for and then carry a necklace around.
54	** ''[[spoiler: Film/HarryPotter and the Deathly Hallows, Part Two]]'': The boy and his friends rob a bank and nearly destroy his school.
55	** ''[[spoiler: Film/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem]]'':
56	*** An immigrant loses track of his suitcase. HilarityEnsues.
57	*** A shy and good natured man who loves animals gets sent across an ocean to try to stop his former teacher's ex husband from getting his hands on a TykeBomb before it's too late.
58	** ''[[spoiler: Film/FantasticBeastsTheCrimesOfGrindelwald]]'':
59	*** The immigrant goes to GayParee and comes across some [[Characters/HarryPotter familiar faces]].
60	*** The teacher tries to get the animal loving man to go to Paris to fight his ex husband but he only agrees to go to see his crush and clear up a misunderstanding between them.
61	** ''[[spoiler: Film/FantasticBeastsTheSecretsOfDumbledore]]'':
62	*** The immigrant is brought in to stop an election fraud plot.
63	*** The teacher and his ex husband briefly reunite for a date in a restaurant that goes badly. When the teacher suggest they destroy their magical wedding ring, the ex husband unsuccessfully sends his long lost nephew (the TykeBomb) to try to kill him.
64	* ''[[spoiler: Film/TheHatefulEight]]'': A bunch of people stop at a hotel. One man deduces something's up because of chairs, jelly beans, and an apparent lack of racism. They all kill each other.
65	* ''[[spoiler: Film/TheHauntedMansion2003]]'': 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.
66	* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Hausu}}]]'': A girl invites her friends to visit her grandma at her vacation home. They find a cat along the way. Then everything goes to hell.
67	* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{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.
68	* ''[[spoiler: Film/{{Heathers}}]]'': A popular girl falls for a bad boy as they plan to blow up their school. Hijinks ensue.
69	* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/HeavyMetal]]'': A very horny evil ball monologues to the girl it's about to kill. Features lots of sex, including with robots, and aliens doing coke.
70	* ''[[spoiler: Film/{{Heavyweights}}]]'': FatCamp: The Movie.
71	* ''[[spoiler: Theatre/HedwigAndTheAngryInch]]'': A transsexual rock musician stalks her ex-boyfriend in an attempt to sue him for copyright infringement.
72	* ''[[spoiler: Film/HeiseiRiderVsShowaRiderKamenRiderWarsFeaturingSuperSentai]]'': Old men in bug suits fight young men in bug suits. Train-themed heroes get dragged into this mess.
73	* ''[[spoiler:Film/Hellboy2004]]'': Man defies his main purpose in life.
74	** ''[[spoiler: Film/HellboyIITheGoldenArmy]]'': Elven attempt at saving the Earth from those foolish humans meets demonic resistance. The demon is the good guy.
75	** Or: The scattered members of a once powerful, noble, ancient magical race have a family reunion in an American sewer and immediately start to quarrel over the remote control.
76	* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{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.
77	** ''[[spoiler:Film/HellboundHellraiserII]]'': The in-law from that affair starts to date the niece's doctor. This leads the niece to crash the goths' home seeking a mute girl who plays with a Rubik's cube.
78	* ''[[spoiler: WesternAnimation/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.
79	** 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.
80	* ''[[spoiler:Film/HenryPooleIsHere]]'': The struggles of a California man with an inconvenient spot on his wall.
81	* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}]]'': A blue dude kick his nephew off of a mountain in order to kick his brother off of the mountain eighteen years later. It does not work.
82	** Alternatively: Franchise/{{Superman}} [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] Franchise/{{Rocky}} [[RecycledInSPACE IN ANCIENT GREECE]]!
83	** Alternatively, what if an ancient Greek hero was like Michael Jordan.
84	* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Hereditary}}]]'': The devil seemingly wants a cooties-free body.
85	* ''[[spoiler: Film/Hero2002]]'': A guy tells the king a story. The king says he's lying. The guy admits it. In the meantime, [[ImplausibleFencingPowers sword-fighters slay all laws of physics]].
86	* ''[[spoiler: Film/HiddenFigures]]'': Technological breakthroughs are stymied by inadequate restroom facilities until the computers revolt.
87	* ''[[spoiler: Film/TheHiddenFortress]]'': Some people in shorts go travelling through the Japanese countryside.
88	* [[spoiler:''Film/HighFidelity'']]: A self-absorbed, broke music store owner is dumped by his lawyer girlfriend, and is bitter about it. Gets over it by hanging out with his employees and sleeping with one of the Cosby children. Later goes into business with teenagers who once tried to rob him.
89	* ''[[spoiler: Film/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.
90	* ''[[spoiler:Film/HighPlainsDrifter]]'': Mysterious stranger takes a bath and paints the town red.
91	** Alternately: A man begins his reign of terror over a town by raping a woman. He's the hero.
92	* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Highlander}}]]'': Super-centenarian travels to New York to claim a prize.
93	* ''[[spoiler: Film/HisGirlFriday]]'': Editor attempts to persuade retiring journalist to cover execution by repeatedly framing insurance agent for minor misdemeanors.
94	* [[spoiler:''Film/HistoryOfTheWorldPartI'']]: One man is a king, a prophet, a philosopher, a pissboy, and torturer with a [[VillainSong musical number]] that [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus nobody expects]].
95	* [[spoiler: ''Film/{{Hitch}}'']]: [[Film/WildWildWest Jim West]] gives advice to the Film/{{Zookeeper\|2011}} and is allergic to shellfish.
96	* [[spoiler: ''Film/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.
97	* [[spoiler: ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy2005'']]: [[EarthShatteringKaboom The world ends, everyone dies]]. When the world is restarted at the end of the movie, the hero is offered the chance to adjust the world, making the world have more or less of anything. He decides not to interfere, and he goes traveling instead. This is supposed to be a comedy.
98	* [[spoiler:''Film/HiveMind2009'']]: A film consisting entirely of a guy sitting around in a basement while talking to his imaginary friend and looking at naked women.
99	* ''[[spoiler: Film/TheHobbit: An Unexpected Journey]]'': Small man roped into a travel steals a piece of jewelry from a man with multiple personality disorder.
100	** ''[[spoiler:Film/TheHobbitTheDesolationOfSmaug]]'': Small people attempt to steal from a [[Fiction500 rich guy]]. Rich guy is not happy.
101	** ''[[spoiler: Film/TheHobbitTheBattleOfTheFiveArmies]]'': The rich guy dies, bringing lots of people to join the small people at his former house. The negotations on how to split the plunder get violent.
102	* ''[[spoiler: Film/HoboWithAShotgun]]'': Vagrant acquires a smoothbore firearm.
103	* ''[[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.
104	* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/Home2015]]'': A race of aliens conquer the entirety of planet Earth within 24 hours, before one of them accidentally dooms the entire planet by sending the wrong person a party invitation.
105	* ''[[spoiler:Film/HomeAlone1]]'': Family comedy about a young child who is abandoned by his family and robbed in his own home. On Christmas Eve.
106	** ''[[spoiler:Film/HomeAlone2LostInNewYork]]'': Family comedy about a young child inflicting incredibly graphic and brutal torture on two comic bunglers. Still on Christmas Eve.
107	** ''[[spoiler:Film/HomeAlone3]]'': 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.
108	* ''[[spoiler:Film/HoneyIShrunkTheKids]]'': Kids discover how dangerous the garden of their house is.
109	** ''[[spoiler:Honey, I Blew Up the Kid]]'': AbsentMindedProfessor gets worried about his youngest son's growth.
110	** ''[[spoiler:Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves]]'': AbsentMindedProfessor and wife try communicating with their son.
111	* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/{{Hoodwinked}}]]'': According to this movie, [[Literature/LittleRedRidingHood that fairy tale you liked as a kid]] is wrong and incomplete, and doesn't even show the real villain.
112	* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Hook}}]]'': The leader of a group of ChildSoldiers returns a changed person. A sword fight pits [[Film/MrsDoubtfire two]] [[Film/{{Tootsie}} crossdressers]] against one another.
113	* ''[[spoiler:Film/HorribleBosses]]'': Three friends plot to murder their employers... and it's a comedy.
114	* ''[[spoiler: Film/TheHost2006]]'': Dysfunctional family band together to save youngest member from giant lungfish that may or may not be carrying SARS.
115	* [[spoiler:''Film/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.
116	** Police officer ruins village inspection.
117	* [[spoiler: ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania'']]: Dad doesn't want his daughter to date an ordinary guy.
118	** [[spoiler: ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania2'']]: Dad doesn't want his grandson to be an ordinary kid.
119	** [[spoiler: ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania3SummerVacation'']]: Dad falls for a woman who is against everyone who isn't ordinary.
120	** [[spoiler: ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvaniaTransformania'']]: Dad doesn't want to be an ordinary guy, or his son in-law to stop being ordinary.
121	* ''[[spoiler: Film/HouseOnHauntedHill1959]]'': Dysfunctional couple try to resolve their problems with a house party.
122	** ''[[spoiler: [[Film/HouseOnHauntedHill1999 The 1999 version]]]]'': Rightful tenants of a comfy, spacious house hang around until a bunch of greedy people arrive to pester them.
123	* ''[[spoiler: Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas]]'': Film/AceVentura doesn't like Christmas or razors.
124	** ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/TheGrinch2018]]'': Series/{{Sherlock}} doesn't like Christmas or his neighbors.
125	* ''[[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 three said actresses is [[Series/IDreamOfJeannie a genie]].
126	* ''[[spoiler: Film/TheHowling1981]]'': Woman is romantically pursued by supernatural stalker named Edward. Based on the popular novel of the same name.
127	* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/{{How to Train Your Dragon\|2010}}]]'': 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. [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Cuteness ensues]].
128	*** Alternate: Pretty girl ignores nerd until he gets a new ride.
129	*** Alternate alternate: Boy tries to follow his father's footsteps in pest control, but realizes his true calling is animal husbandry.
130	** ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2]]'': Scrawny young man is surprised to find common ground with a long-lost relative, then tries (and fails) to reason with a homicidal maniac.
131	** ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragonTheHiddenWorld]]'': Scrawny young man gives up on his dreams for love and a badass beard.
132	* ''[[spoiler:Film/TheHudsuckerProxy]]'': After industrialist commits suicide, board of directors appoint naive mail-room clerk to position of CEO, whereupon he promptly invents the hula-hoop.
133	* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Hugo}}]]'': A squatter's broken toy leads an old man to confront his past.
134	* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame\|Disney}}]]'': A government official tries to rape Creator/DemiMoore and emotionally abuses a handicapped man who talks to architecture. It's a musical.
135	* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Hunger}}]]'': A member of Parliament starves to death. Meanwhile, prison guards clean up lots of bodily fluids.
136	* ''[[spoiler:Film/TheHungerGames]]'': Girl gets stuck in some woods, and tries to leave them with her neighbor.
137	** ''[[spoiler:Film/TheHungerGamesCatchingFire]]'': The girl and her neighbor are sent to a beach.
138	** ''[[spoiler:Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjayPart1]]'': The girl hides in an underground cave while waiting for her neighbor to return from the big city.
139	** ''[[spoiler:Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjayPart2]]'': The girl and her neighbor go to said big city, and are not well received.
140	* ''[[spoiler:Film/TheHuntForRedOctober'']]: A newly widowered Lithuanian fisherman takes revenge by stealing something that does not belong to him, and the ensuing manhunt is complicated by some loud-mouthed, vulgar foreigners who want what he stole, as well as their constant in-fighting. It was meant to be topical and relevant, but it became less so during pre-production due to unforeseen changes in circumstance. Still did well due to high production values and over-the-top acting.
141	* ''[[spoiler:Film/TheHurtLocker]]'': Two guys have to put up with a new co-worker who enjoys their job a little too much. [[StuffBlowingUp Explosive]] levels of angst ensue.

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