- Daredevil (2003): A blind man fights a bald guy armed with peanuts and paperclips. He is also a lawyer by day.
- Dark City: An amnesiac fights aliens at night with the help of an asthmatic psychologist.
- Alternatively, in a city of narcoleptics, one man suffers from insomnia. A council of albinos move against him.
- The Dark Crystal: Nasty aristocrats use a rock to do their makeup.
- Dark Star: Incompetent hippies on a deep space demolition tour dispel their boredom by chasing and deflating a sentient beach ball. Over-confidently, they then enter a debate with a sentient thermo-stellar bomb.
- Dark Water: Woman gets irritated when no one will fix her leaky ceiling.
- Darkman: Doctor gets revenge on the mob using latex masks.
- Darkness Falls: The Tooth Fairy is actually the ghost of a woman who was burned to death years ago in the town, and she murders everyone who sees her. But ... she cannot stand to be in the light - and so the protagonist (who saw her as a kid and survived) arms himself with a gym bag full of flashlights.
- Dave Made a Maze: A wannabe artist gets lost in his work. No, literally.
- The Da Vinci Code: Forrest Gump and Amélie search for the Holy Grail. They discover that Amelie is a descendant of Jesus and say, "Fuck it, that'll do for an ending".
- Angels & Demons: Gump is summoned to stop criminals who kidnapped four old fellas and stole destructive powder. Obi-Wan Kenobi falls for the Dark Side.
- Inferno: Gump is summoned to make sense of a guy who liked The Divine Comedy too much.
- Dawn of the Dead (1978): A couple cops and TV station workers hide from zombies in the attic of a mall.
- The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951): A visitor from a far away place stops appliances from working.
- Days of Being Wild: A narcissistic young man who lives with his mom is an awful boyfriend.
- Dazed and Confused: A bunch of '70s teens hang out and get high together.
- DC Extended Universe: The world's oldest Super Team tries to play catch-up to the team they inspired.
- Man of Steel: A man becomes the news, then writes about the news.
- Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice: A Corrupt Corporate Executive sets up an elaborate scheme so he can watch two guys punch for a bit.
- Suicide Squad (2016): A gang of criminals break up a family reunion.
- Wonder Woman (2017): An old woman receives a photograph and reminisces about her younger days. From the director of an episode of Arrested Development and the composer of Bee Movie.
- Justice League (2017): A group of dysfunctional people reluctantly team up to fight a bug infestation led by a guy obsessed with boxes.
- Zack Snyder's Justice League: The same thing, only now it lasts over four hours and has less slapstick and more slow motion as well as a pissed Evil Overlord.
- Aquaman (2018): Drunk diver prevents his stepbrother from breaking into his house.
- SHAZAM! (2019): Boy roped onto a new job fights a former candidate who didn't take his rejection well.
- Birds of Prey (2020): Women get together to protect a girl who took the wrong meal.
- Wonder Woman 1984: Man discovers a way to improve other people's lives, especially his own. The old woman thinks he needs to be stopped.
- The Suicide Squad: A gang of criminals releases someone from decades-long captivity, only to decide to kill him afterwards.
- Black Adam (2022): Man wakes up from a long slumber and becomes overtly protective of his homeland.
- SHAZAM! Fury of the Gods: Boy who brought his adoptive family to his new job fight some sisters who want to shut down their company and build a garden.
- Blue Beetle (2023): A guy in debt gets an insect stuck to his back that will kill him if it's removed. All his clothes get destroyed and he constantly gets put in danger.
- Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid: '40s PI gets help from Stock Footage in order to stop a Nazi from destroying America with cheese.
- Deadpool (2016): A disfigured cancer patient can't decide if he wants to be a spree killer or a stand-up comic.
- Deadpool 2: The cancer patient now became a Death Seeker who can't die after his girlfriend does and has to learn the meaning of family from a Russian made of metal, a girl with luck superpowers, a fat kid from New Zealand, an indian cab driver, two lesbians and The Terminator if he were a racist with a love for classic musicals and a hatred for Dubstep.
- Death Note: Law student turns vigilante calligrapher with the help of a super-being who sustains himself on a diet of nothing but apples - avoiding detection by both his own father and a child genius who has a ludicrous appetite for carbohydrates.
- Death Note: The Last Name: As before, but with the addition of two cute babes from a TV station and another cartoon super-being. Nearly everyone dies.
- L: change the WorLd: A child genius who has a ludicrous appetite for carbohydrates with only 23 days left to live battles Eco-terrorists with a deadly virus.
- Alternatively: A man commits suicide by notebook, adopts a kid and fights terrorists. ...In That Order.
- The Death of Stalin: The title character dies in the first half. This is a good thing. His death triggers a Succession Crisis. This is where most of the comedy comes from.
- D.E.B.S.: Villain falls in love with secret agent.
- The Deer Hunter: Three friends travel to a wedding, the mountains, Southeast Asia, and then back home. It doesn't end well for any of them.
- Deliverance: Tourists' boat trip turns sour.
- Alternate: Tourists' boat trip turns into a pain in the ass.
- Demolition Man: Maniac wrecks havoc on a state where Police Are Useless. Another maniac breaks up some more stuff to stop him.
- Alternatively: In a future where crime is eradicated, a black man murders and steals.
- Demon Seed: Woman gets raped by sentient house, voiced by The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
- Despicable Me: A diabolical genius, who employs a senile mad scientist and an army of Twinkies, adopts three little girls as part of a heist.
- Despicable Me 2: Diabolical genius falls in love while his Twinkies are stolen by a Latino stereotype who wants to cover them in grape jam.
- Minions: Various people try to deal with the Twinkies.
- Despicable Me 3: Diabolical genius deals with a maniacal Former Child Star while reuniting with his long-lost twin brother.
- Minions: The Rise of Gru: Twinkies try to get respect from the teen version of the diabolical genius, who in turn tries to earn some respect by dealing with people who take their horoscope very seriously.
- The Devil's Advocate: Workaholic discovers his new boss is a walking argument that lawyers are evil.
- Dick: A famous Dick gets Deep Throated by two teenage girls.
- Die Hard: European thieves are defeated by man without shoes.
- Alternatively: Man has a really lousy time at a corporate Christmas party, but manages to reconcile with his estranged wife.
- Alternatively: American saves Japanese company from hostile takeover by Europeans.
- Die Hard 2: Die Harder: Man experiences exact same Christmas he experienced the previous year, only in an airport this time.
- Die Hard with a Vengeance: Newly-introduced biracial New York couple bickers while solving children's puzzles, irritating a visiting European man who misses his brother.
- Die Hard 4.0/Live Free or Die Hard: Man has to team up with geek to defeat thieves armed with... computers.
- A Good Day to Die Hard: European thieves are defeated by a man who's having a really lousy vacation, but manages to reconcile with his estranged son.
- District 9: A man injured on the job gets no worker's compensation, so he decides to shoot up the place with an immigrant friend.
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A French man has a stroke and must communicate with his eye. Lots of symbolism.
- Django Unchained: Guy wants to see his wife again. People die and have weird\racist conversations along the way.
- Doctor Strange (2016): Sherlock Holmes drops surgery and learns magic.
- Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness: The above former surgeon has to deal with a young woman's delusions of motherhood and stop her from killing a teenage girl.
- Alternatively, a mom who lost her kids tries to kill a kid who lost her moms.
- Don't Look Up: Humanity is wiped out because two of the scientists that try to prove that it's going to happen are turned into a meme icon and a sex icon.
- Dora and the Lost City of Gold: A group of teenagers go into the jungle to find an Inca temple, but their leader is not only a complete Cloudcuckoolander, but their only hope of survival. Sometimes the animals talk, sometimes they don't.
- Dr. Strangelove: A man's sexual frustrations cause him to make some questionable decisions at work.
- Dr. Who and the Daleks: A popular TV story, compressed. The Adaptation Decay is intensified by later seasons of the show.
- DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story: A bunch of grown men play a Serious Business version of a game played in elementary school gyms.
- Dog Day Afternoon: Bisexual tries financing his lover's sex change by robbing a bank, with help from his dimwitted friend. Based on true story.
- Alternatively: Three losers go the the bank to make a cash withdrawal ... and then everything goes pear-shaped.
- Dog Soldiers: British soldiers in Scotland crack wise in the face of death as they fend off an attack by wild animals.
- Dogma: Two disgraced angels try to exploit a loophole in Catholicism to kill God and destroy the universe, and it's up to an abortion clinic worker, two stoners, a stripper, and the 13th Apostle to stop them. And there's a monster made out of crap.
- Donnie Darko: An anti-social teenager sees visions of an anthropomorphic rabbit, has a jet engine crash into his room, and has one month to prevent the end of the world... which he is the cause of.
- Doomsday: Scotland has been sealed off from the world to contain a zombie-creating virus epidemic. Ten years later a crack British commando team is sent in to investigate signs of life. Hilarity Ensues.
- Down Under the Big Top: The heartwarming, luridly-hued tale of a crazy-cool Aussie Christian Rock band, a breathtaking blonde runaway, and the saddest, most decrepit one-ring circus in the free world. It's supposedly a retelling of the parable of the prodigal son.
- Dracula (1931): Two doctors and a solicitor from London must kill their neighbor because of his dental problems.
- Drag Me to Hell: An old Romani woman is upset over losing her home.
- Dragonball Evolution: A loose adaptation of an equally loose retelling of a famous story that was Very Loosely Based on a True Story. And for most, as bad as it sounds.
- Dragonheart: Man teams up with Sean Connery to kill his ex-student.
- Alternative: Scam artists goad villagers into helping them kill a transplant patient.
- Dreamgirls: Big budget film based off of popular play about the members of a girl group starring two comics, a Diva, a diminutive stage actor and a reality show loser. It wins a slew of awards.
- Dreamscape: Is Dennis Quaid badass enough to sleep with the President of the United States?
- The Driller Killer: An artist goes stark raving mad and takes his anger out on his oppressors by way of a drill to the head.
- Driving Miss Daisy: An old white lady and a slightly less old black man slowly become friends over 20 years as she tries to assert independence while he tries to do his job of driving her around. In the end, pie is had.
- Drop Dead Fred: A woman with a cheating husband, a domineering mother, and serious self-esteem issues figures out how to solve all her problems with the help of her imaginary friend from childhood.
- Drop Dead Gorgeous: Mary Jane Watson and the nuclear physicist from The World Is Not Enough compete in a beauty pageant.
- Duck Soup: Cheerfully insane dictator with a bizarre mustache starts a war with his neighbors, while an Italian and an Irishman spy on him.
- Animal Crackers: Explorer with a bizarre mustache attempts to find stolen painting, while Italian and Irishman play music and attempt to hide it. Maybe.
- A Day at the Races: An Italian and an Irishman get involved in horse racing so that a veterinarian with a bizarre mustache can take over a sanitarium for humans.
- A Night at the Opera: Con artist with a bizarre mustache attempts to make money off of Il trovatore, while Italian and Irishman play music and attempt to help the career of a tenor. The most famous scene has all of them, including the tenor, in a small room.
- Dude, Where's My Car?: Two guys with amnesia eat pudding and play with a Rubik's Cube. Out-of-towners try to seduce and/or mug them.
- Duel: A guy in a car is followed by a truck.
- Or: Tailgating: The Movie.
- Dumb and Dumber: The misadventures of two morons returning a briefcase.
- Dumb and Dumber To: The misadventures of two morons delivering cupcakes.
- Dumbo: A failed circus performer who keeps getting ridiculed for his large ears and his friend drink liquor to find out how to hit the big time.
- Dune: Young man goes on a trek in the desert with his mom.
- Dune: Part Two: Young man becomes Jesus in that desert.
- The Dybbuk: Romeo and Juliet meets The Exorcist. Alternatively: a young divinity student studies the wrong Jewish religious text. Tragedy ensues.