The Babadook: A widowed mother reads her child a new picture book, then proceeds to go insane.
Babe: Naive kid attempts to be something he's not and impresses a few different species.
Babe: Pig in the City: That naive kid travels away from home and makes friends with more species.
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.
Back to the Future: 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.
Alternatively: Eccentric old loner helps his friend’s father hook up with a teen-aged girl.
Back to the Future Part II: 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.
Back to the Future Part III: Two people plan a train robbery in order to conduct a scientific experiment and escape a gunfight. A canyon is named after Clint Eastwood.
Backyard Dogs: World's worst participants in a faked sport make the big time.
Bad Boy Bubby: A Manchild kills his parents and escapes into the real world, only to end up not fitting in very well.
Bad Boys (1995): Novice prostitute joins forces with insensitive playboy and embittered family man to hunt down foreign exchange villain.
Bad Boys II: Insensitive playboy tries to join the family of the embittered man while the two are hunting down another foreign exchange villain.
Bad Boys for Life: 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.
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.
Bananas: Man leads communist revolution and overthrows corrupt government in order to impress a girl.
Barbarella: Some loony who shares his name with an 80's rock band is threatening the universe. It's up to a lady astronaut to stop him, despite a 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?
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 Will Ferrell. And no, not that one.
Barbie in the Nutcracker: A girl falls in love with a doll and together they set a successful mousetrap true to the original. Her stern grandpa thinks she's insane but then forgets about it when a handsome young man shows up.
Barbie Fairytopia: A girl embarks on a heroic quest so that flowers won't die.
Barbie Fairytopia: Mermaidia: A guy almost dies from not swimming.
Barbie Fairytopia: Magic of the Rainbow: A bully turns nice but only because she's really a wicked witch.
Barbie: Mariposa: 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.
Batman Returns: Corrupt Corporate Executive sponsors disfigured abandoned child's mayoral campaign. Meanwhile, concussed woman attempts to seduce 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.
Batman Forever: Jim Morrison fights two men disputing on who is thelargest 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.
Batman & Robin: Billionaire argues with hormone-crazed sidekick about the sexual intentions of a Well-Intentioned Extremist 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.
Batman Begins: Welsh ninja detective fights Irish ninja and Irish mad scientist that wears a bag on his head.
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 Miss Daisy's driver. Meanwhile, Lothos insists that everybody at work "get the memo."
The Dark Knight: While not pretending to be a rude and obnoxious corporate executive, a ninja detective fights a Monster Clown and a deformed lawyer who has trouble making decisions by himself, and puts to rest once and for all that wiretapping really does work.
Also: part of the clown's plan is ruined by Deebo from Friday.
Alternatively, playboy billionaire dresses in black and beats up psychotic homeless man.
The Dark Knight Rises: Ninja detective decides to go back in action to face a musclehead who wants to prove clean energy sources are lethal.
The Batman (2022): Troubled billionaire solves complicated puzzles left by one hell of an Internet Jerk, while also getting closer to a waitress with daddy issues.
Battle: Los Angeles: A bunch of water-loving visitors drop by for a swim on the beach and tour of prime coastal properties. Billions die.
Battle Royale: A Japanese High School class has to fight to the death, or their heads will explode.
Alternatively, a class goes on a field trip; most don't make it back.
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.
Bedknobs and Broomsticks: An old spinster and three wartime evacuees go searching for the other half of a damaged book.
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. These events are related to each other, I swear.
Bee Movie: A woman has belligerent romantic tension with a bee. Not a Half-Human Hybrid or anything. A talking bee.
A feature-length meme. Except the meme is about not making it feature-length anymore.
Beetlejuice: Nice dead people try to scare living people from a house. Also, a decomposing pervert with an identity crisis falls madly in love with a teenage girl and tries to marry her.
Before Sunrise: 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.
Before Sunset: Sequel to the above and exactly the same except in Paris.
Before Midnight: Sequel to the above, takes place in Greece. There are relationship issues.
Being John Malkovich: A chronically unemployed puppeteer finds a magical portal that facilitates the unwilling Mind Rape 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 Gary Sinise. It's okay, though, because there's monkeys.
A group of high-society snobs mistake a well-meaning idiot for a philosophic genius and convince him to go into politics.
Below: A submarine is sad because its captain died, so it wants to go back to be with him. This is scary for the rest of the crew.
Ben-Hur (1959): Loose tile makes man lose his best friend, get arrested, and enter the world of racing.
Beowulf: 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.
Bernard and the Genie: Man loses everything, and, with the help of a man from first-century Palestine, gets his life back together.
Bewitched: The consequences of giving an egoistical director free rein over a modern-day remake of a television classic. In the meantime, backstage Belligerent Sexual Tension ensues between said director and his leading lady, who happens to be a witch like her character.
Bicentennial Man: Sensitive, eccentric android builds artificial organs and replaces his insides with them over a 200-year period in hopes of becoming human by killing himself. Also, he likes making clocks.
The Big Country: Reasonable man attempts to rationally settle land dispute and gets branded a coward for his trouble.
Big Daddy: 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.
Big Eyes: A woman paints beautiful and distinctive pictures, only for her husband to steal credit on them. She takes him to court. Based on a True Story.
Big Fat Liar: 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.
Big Hero 6: 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 comic book from the late 90's.
The Big Lebowski: Dude gets his rug peed on, and then has to fight a bunch of nihilists.
Alternatively: Stoner and his violent buddy fail to solve a non-mystery. Also, bowling, a cowboy, and a pederast.
The Big Short: 2 hours of people talking about finance.
Big Trouble in Little China: A trucker gets entangled in a kung-fu movie, and accidentally stabs a would-be bigamist in the head.
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure: Time-Travelling George Carlin 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.
The Birdcage: 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 that one).
Birdemic: Poorly-animated exploding birds decide to suicide bomb a crappy romance movie because of Global Warming. They are fought off using coat hangers.
Birds of Prey (2020): 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 disrespected woman, and an orphan also figure into the plot.
Black Panther (2018): 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 rather understandable anger issues.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever: 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.
The Black Cauldron: Young farm boy meets young princess and cute little creature, and they journey together to try and stop a demon and his zombie army.
Black Swan: A crazy ballerina who still lives with her mother sleeps with Meg.
Black Widow (2021): 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.
Blade: Based on a comic book, the black guy from White Men Can't Jump kills people who don't like sunlight.
Blade II: The black guy visits Europe, kills people suffering from a horrible contagious disease.
Blazing Saddles: 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.
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.
The Blob (1958): A small town is attacked by a giant amorphous slime who dissolves everything it consumes.
Blues Brothers 2000: Musician rebuilds old ties with family, friends, and cops, and has dealings with the supernatural.
Blue Velvet: Kyle MacLachlan likes hiding in women's closets. Dennis Hopper likes horrible beer. Isabella Rosselini likes being beaten. Laura Dern likes birds.
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, Ashton Kutcher punks Shia Laboeuf with LSD, one guy is mean to a journalist, and this other guy barely appears and then gets shot dead.
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. Based on a True Story.
Or: A by the numbers, generic Biopic about a band and a man who are anything but.
Alternatively, the focus of a Truman Show 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 equally convinced that the show was real.
Bon Cop, Bad Cop He's a foul-mouthed, chain-smoking Cowboy Cop from Québec. He's a square-headed, stick in the mud, by the book cop from Ontario. They fight crime.
Boogie Nights: 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.
The Book of Life: 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.
The Boondock Saints: 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.
The Bourne Series: 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.
The Boxtrolls: An orphan with No Social Skills tries to convince a cheese-obsessed nobleman that an upwardly-mobile exterminator has been lying to him.
A guy wants to eat cheese, despite being violently lactose intolerant. He's the Big Bad.
The Boy and the Beast: 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.
The Boy and the Heron: 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.
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.
Brave: A Scotsgirl learns the importance of tapestry and ursines.
The Breakfast Club: Five teenagers with problems waste a Saturday proving that they're even less unique than they thought.
Brief Encounter: 'Oh, I've got something in my eye.' 'Should I get it out?' 'Best not, I'm married.'
The Bridge on the River Kwai: 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.
Brightburn: A boy dealing with puberty interprets his well-meaning parents' advice in the worst possible way. Lots of people die in the process.
Bringing Up Baby: Heiress attempts to woo paleontologist with use of leopard. Complications ensue.
Broadway Danny Rose: 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.
Buck Privates: Two comedians escape from the police by enlisting in the army.
A Bug's Life: 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.
Bullets over Broadway: 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.
Bullet Train: Guy picks up some luggage during a foreign trip. Things literally derail from there on.
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?
