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** ''[[spoiler: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug]]'': Small people attempt to steal from a rich guy. Rich guy is not happy.

* ''[[spoiler: LayerCake]]'': Man looks for missing pills, while Dumbledore discusses baking.
** JamesBond gets his pre MI-6 training in the London drug trade. Some of the skills learned come in handy in his later spy job.

* ''[[spoiler:Literature/LesMiserables]]'': A guy steals a loaf of bread. ''Shit goes down.''

* ''[[spoiler:Lincoln]]'': A politician bribes members of the legislature to pass a highly controversial bill while refusing peace overtures from an independence movement.

* ''[[spoiler:Film/LuckyNumberSlevin]]'': An unlucky guy stays over at his friend's house in New York, then two gangsters try to make him commit murder and come up with a ton of money. He goes on dates with his friend's plucky neighbor.

* ''[[spoiler:LesMiserables]]'': A guy steals a loaf of bread. ''Shit goes down.''

* ''[[spoiler:{{Lincoln}}]]'': A politician bribes members of the legislature to pass a highly controversial bill while refusing peace overtures from an independence movement.

* ''[[spoiler:Film/Lincoln]]'': A politician bribes members of the legislature to pass a highly controversial bill while refusing peace overtures from an independence movement.

* ''[[spoiler:Film/LuckyNumberSlevin]]'': An unlucky guy stays over at his friend's house in New York, then two gangsters try to make him commit murder and come up with a ton of money. He goes on dates with his friend's plucky neighbor.

* [[spoiler: ''Lady in the Water'']]: A character from a fairy tale ([[AllMythsAreTrue which is entirely accurate to reality, of course]]) takes up residence under a swimming pool, with the intention of inspiring a writer whose works will become important.

* ''[[spoiler: LakeviewTerrace]]'': Cop finds out his new neighbors are an interracial couple. Racism ensues.
** Or: SamuelLJackson is a {{Jerkass}} to his new neighbors.
* ''[[spoiler: TheLandBeforeTime]]'': Five kids walk westward for a few days. All the while, their de-facto leader is following the advice of what is either a hallucination or his mother's ghost. And then they kill the guy who killed the leader's mother.

* ''[[spoiler: WesternAnimation/TheLastUnicorn]]'': A unicorn has an identity crisis, gets turned into a human, falls in love with [[TheBigLebowski The Dude]], and fights an energy drink mascot. There's also a talking cat.
* ''[[spoiler:LawrenceofArabia]]'': An idealistic British officer brings the Ottoman empire to its knees, but becomes a cynical recluse in the process. He dies at the end, except it's actually at the beginning.
** A conceited staff flunky becomes convinced he is the messiah and kills a lot of Turks. Arabs on CoolHorses cheer.
* [[spoiler: ''[[LifeIsBeautiful La Vita è Bella]]'' (a.k.a. ''LifeIsBeautiful'')]]: A comedy, the second half of which takes place in a Nazi concentration camp.
** A family of Italian Jews get sent to a concentration camp, where they get split up and the father lies to his son and dies. This is supposed to be a comedy.

* ''[[spoiler: Film/{{Legend}}]]'': Problems befall a pair of unicorns. Tom Cruise saves them and a princess from TimCurry.

* ''[[spoiler:Film/LiarLiar]]'': Man gets close to losing the case of his life due to a birthday wish.
* ''[[spoiler:Linda Linda Linda]]'': A Japanese girl band prepare to play a few punk rock songs at their autumn festival.

** ''[[spoiler:TheLionKing2:Simba'sPride]]'': Princess falls in love with the wrong guy. It only gets fixed after killing her mother in-law.

*** Alternatively: ''[[RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Were Eaten by a Lion]]''... Only they aren't, because it gets a happy ending.
* ''[[spoiler:TheLionInWinter]]'': Dysfunctional family bickers throughout the entire movie.
* ''[[spoiler:LegallyBlonde]]'': Girl goes to law school trying to get engaged.

* ''[[spoiler:Lo]]'':The main character paints a circle in his apartment floor, spends the entire film sitting in that circle.
* ''[[spoiler: LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels]]'': Rigged game puts card-shark with a huge debt. While trying to get the money, he and friends stumble by LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters [[AnyoneCanDie dying]].
* ''[[spoiler:TheLongestDay]]'': BigDamnHeroes cross a channel to put the skids under an ObviouslyEvil dictator, who gets handed the IdiotBall. BasedOnATrueStory.

* ''[[spoiler: The Long Good Friday]]'': As a result of dodgy deal gone ''very'' badly wrong, London gangster experiences worst Easter Weekend of his life.

** ''[[spoiler: TheFellowshipOfTheRing]]'': A group of unrelated men fight off multiple claimants to a jewelry inheritance.
** ''[[spoiler: TheTwoTowers]]'': Aristocrat and his servant help a man with multiple personality disorder.
** ''[[spoiler: ReturnOfTheKing]]'': Defective merchandise is returned, causing the manufacturer to go out of business due to the resulting upheaval.

* ''[[spoiler:LostInTranslation]]'': A married old actor and a married young woman hang out in Tokyo, because their life partners don't understand them.

* ''[[spoiler: TheLovelyBones]]'': A girl is murdered by Stanley Tucci, then her spirit plays around inside several Macintosh wallpapers to reach Heaven while her family deteriorates. Tucci falls off a cliff.
* ''[[spoiler:LuckyNumberSlevin]]'': An unlucky guy stays over at his friend's house in New York, then two gangsters try to make him commit murder and come up with a ton of money. He goes on dates with his friend's plucky neighbor.

* ''[[spoiler: TheLovelyBones]]'': A girl gets murdered by Stanley Tucci. Girl then plays around inside Apple's Macintosh-Heaven while her family deteriorates. Tucci falls off a cliff.

* ''[[spoiler:LuckyNumberSlevin]]'': An unlucky guy stays over at his friend's house in New York, then two gangsters try to make him commit murder and come up with a ton of money. He goes on dates with his friend's plucky neighbor.
* ''[[spoiler:LostInTranslation]]'': A married old actor and a married young woman hang out in Tokyo, because their life partners don't understand them.

* ''[[spoiler:TheLittleShopOfHorrors]]'': A sad sack grows a plant that feeds on blood. It takes place in a CrapsackWorld.
** ''[[spoiler:LittleShopOfHorrors]]'': Musical adaptation about an awkward orphan who wants to win a battered beauty's heart by tending to a plant that came from space.

* ''[[spoiler: TheLastKingOfScotland]]'': An emotionally unstable African leader befriends a doctor, because he likes the place he's from.

** A conceited staff flunky becomes convinced he is the messiah and kills a lot of Turks. Arabs on [[CoolHorse]]s cheer.

* ''[[spoiler:[[TheProfessional Leon/The Professional]]]]'': Girl is forced to move in with her neighbor, and gets interested in his job.

* ''[[spoiler: TheLovelyBones]]'': A girl gets murdered by Stanley Tucci. Girl then plays around inside Apple's Macintosh-Heaven while her family deteriorates. Tucci falls off a cliff.

** ''[[spoiler: TheFellowshipoftheRing]]'': A group of unrelated men fight off multiple claimants to a jewelry inheritance.

** ''[[spoiler: ReturnoftheKing]]'': Defective merchandise is returned, causing the manufacturer to go out of business due to the resulting upheaval.

* ''[[spoiler:Lawrence of Arabia]]'': An idealistic British officer brings the Ottoman empire to its knees, but becomes a cynical recluse in the process. He dies at the end, except it's actually at the beginning.

** ''[[spoiler:The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride]]'': Princess falls in love with the wrong guy. It only gets fixed after killing her mother in-law.

** ''[[spoiler: TheTwo Towers]]'': Aristocrat and his servant help a man with multiple personality disorder.

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** ''[[spoiler: The Fellowship of the Ring]]'': A group of unrelated men fight off multiple claimants to a jewelry inheritance.
** ''[[spoiler: The Two Towers]]'': Aristocrat and his servant help a man with multiple personality disorder.
** ''[[spoiler: Return of the King]]'': Defective merchandise is returned, causing the manufacturer to go out of business due to the resulting upheaval.

* ''[[spoiler: The Lovely Bones]]'': A girl gets murdered by Stanley Tucci. Girl then plays around inside Apple's Macintosh-Heaven while her family deteriorates. Tucci falls off a cliff.
* ''[[spoiler:LuckyNumberSlevin]]'': An unlucky guy stays over at his friend's house in New York, then two gangsters try to make him commit murder and come up with a ton of money. He goes on dates with his friend's plucky neighbor.

* ''[[spoiler:Film/TheLastUnicorn]]'': A unicorn has an identity crisis, gets turned into a human, falls in love with [[TheBigLebowski The Dude]], and fights an energy drink mascot. There's also a talking cat.

* ''[[spoiler:LiarLiar]]'': Man gets close to losing the case of his life due to a birthday wish.

* ''[[spoiler: {{Legend}}]]'': Problems befall a pair of unicorns. Tom Cruise saves them and a princess from TimCurry.

** Alternatively: ''{{Hamlet}}'' [[RecycledINSPACE IN AFRICA!]]

*** Alternatively: ''RomeoAndJuliet'' IN AFRICA!

* ''[[spoiler:TheLittleMermaid]]'': A girl trades her voice for feet to impress a guy who thinks she ''is'' her voice.

** Alternatively, [[TheBible Psalm 121]] [[http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20121:4&version=NIV verse 4]]: TheMovie.

** ''[[spoiler: TheLakeHouse]]'': American woman becomes pen pals with someone whose letters take two years to reach her.
* ''[[spoiler: Lakeview Terrace]]'': Cop finds out his new neighbors are an interracial couple. Racism ensues.

* ''[[spoiler:TheLionKing]]'': Prince who blames himself for his father's death runs away and is taken in by all-male commune which subsists on insects.

* ''[[spoiler: TheLostBoys]]'':Vampires terrorize a boardwalk like an MTV music video. Disaffected Teen saves mother from obsessive nocturnal video store owner. Billy Idol tries to seduce Jim Morrison.
* ''[[spoiler: TheLostSkeletonOfCadavra]]'': Three different parties all search for a valuable meteorite.

* ''[[spoiler:{{Labyrinth}}]]'': A girl navigates a maze at the whim of a fairy rock star.

* ''[[spoiler:TheLastUnicorn]]'': A unicorn has an identity crisis, gets turned into a human, falls in love with [[TheBigLebowski The Dude]], and fights an energy drink mascot. There's also a talking cat.