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9* ''[[spoiler: Film/PacificRim]]'': War veteran gets dragged out of retirement after a wall collapses. He has to get over the death of his brother and bond with a shell-shocked Japanese woman in order to fight rejects from the Franchise/{{Godzilla}} series.
10** ''[[spoiler: Film/PacificRimUprising]]'': Disgruntled biologist threatens the world, and the only ones who can stop him are a scavenger and a teenage girl.
11* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/ThePagemaster]]'': Boy learns to be braver from books.
12* ''[[spoiler: Film/PansLabyrinth]]'': During the Spanish Civil War, a bookish girl with a psychotic army officer for an adoptive father completes three tasks so she can get killed and be reincarnated again as the fairy princess she was in a past life. Oh, and they're the ''[[TheFairFolk scariest fairies ever]]''.
13* ''[[spoiler: Film/ParanormalActivity]]'': A man and woman argue incessantly because their noisy roommate is obsessed with the woman.
14* ''[[spoiler: WesternAnimation/ParaNorman]]'': An unpopular boy is the only one who can stop the ZombieApocalypse, by reading a bedtime story.
15** The ZombieApocalypse never happens.
16* ''[[spoiler: Film/Parasite2019]]'': Boy gets a new job, decides that his family should work near him. It gets ugly.
17* ''[[spoiler: Film/TheParty]]'': An actor from India gets invited to a Hollywood party by blowing up an expensive fort. The star, director, musician and company worked on [[Franchise/ThePinkPanther another unrelated series of films]].
18* ''[[spoiler: Film/ThePassionOfTheChrist]]'': A nice guy shows up and tries to help, but the last half of the movie is him getting tortured to death.
19** Alternatively, the Master of the Universe willingly goes through hell -- literally -- to save a species of utter bastards.
20* ''[[spoiler: Film/{{Patton}}]]'': A guy swears a lot, kills a lot of people and [[LargeHam has a lot of fun doing so]].
21* ''[[spoiler: Film/{{Paul}}]]'': Two nerds hit an alien who asks them for a lift. On the way, they kidnap a young woman and run from several people who try to kill them.
22* ''[[spoiler:Film/PaulBlartMallCop]]'': A pair of criminal sociopaths with some [[LeParkour very acrobatic henchmen]] repeatedly attempt to murder a hypoglycemic.
23* ''[[spoiler: Film/{{Paulie}}]]'': The life and times of a talking bird.
24* ''[[spoiler: WesternAnimation/ThePeanutsMovie]]'': ButtMonkey tries to impress a girl while his dog pretends to fight a war.
25** Or more to the point, ''[[spoiler:ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}]]'' done as an AllCGICartoon.
26* ''[[spoiler: WesternAnimation/ThePebbleAndThePenguin]]'': A relationship is dependent on finding a rock.
27* ''[[spoiler: Film/{{Pecker}}]]'': A photographer causes trouble.
28* ''[[spoiler: Film/PeeWeesBigAdventure]]'': A slightly creepy SNL-rejected man-child loses his bike to another man-child. He then looks for the bike. Directed by a man whose past works deal with a disturbed, Poe-obsessed kid and a dead dog. For the soundtrack, these two went to the leader of a considerably popular punk-rock-new-wave-comedy troupe and asked him to compose an orchestrated score despite his total lack of experience in that area. The main character went on to host a children's show with a talking house and the rocker went on to compose film scores for a living.
29** Alternatively, a mentally questionable man has his bike stolen by a more financially stable mentally questionable man. After pursuing his rival in a murderous rampage, he travels with an assortment of unsavory people to retrieve his beloved bicycle after receiving a tip-off from a dodgy fortune teller.
30* ''[[spoiler:Film/ThePeopleUnderTheStairs]]'': A lovely couple must protect themselves and their young daughter from a home invasion.
31* ''[[spoiler:Film/ThePerfectStorm]]'': [[Film/OceansEleven Danny Ocean]] vs. the ocean. BasedOnATrueStory.
32* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/PeterPan]]'': Kids follow strange child to an island.
33** ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/ReturnToNeverLand]]'': A girl joins a group of furries while her family is in a war.
34* ''[[spoiler:Franchise/ThePhantomOfTheOpera]]'': A neurotic ballet dancer takes singing lessons from a serial killer who lives behind her dressing-room mirror.
35* ''[[spoiler: Film/PhaseIV]]'': Two men study ants in Arizona.
36* ''[[spoiler: Film/{{Phenomena}}]]'': On the advice of Creator/DonaldPleasence and his chimp, Creator/JenniferConnelly creates an army of bugs to drive a five year-old SerialKiller away from Richard Wagner's house.
37* ''[[spoiler: Film/{{Philadelphia}}]]'': A lawyer gets fired for being sick and enlists the help of another lawyer who thinks he might get cooties from the sick guy.
38* ''[[spoiler: Film/ThePhiladelphiaStory]]'': Arrogant divorced heiress gets remarried. Ex-husband brings paparazzi into the house for the preparations. HilarityEnsues.
39* ''[[spoiler: Film/PhoneBooth]]'': A JerkAss in New York gets into a phone booth and can't get out.
40* ''[[spoiler: Film/PicnicAtHangingRock]]'': Schoolgirls go on a picnic, and a handful wander off to climb a rock. Not actually a true story.
41* [[spoiler:''Film/ThePinkPanther1963'']]: An inept French policeman gets framed for robbing a diamond he didn't steal... nor did the robber he suspected to have stolen it. People usually watch it [[JustHereForGodzilla just to see the animated credits]].
42** [[spoiler:''Film/AShotInTheDark'']]: The policeman must solve a murder mystery at a mansion owned by [[WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967 Shere Khan]] but gets virtually nowhere as the body count rises and blame increasingly falls on the innocent one. Here we meet the policeman's boss, who goes nuts after chopping off his thumb with a cigar cutter, and servant, who attacks against his will.
43** [[spoiler:''Film/InspectorClouseau'']]: Policeman investigates a British gang attempting to hide Swiss money inside chocolate bars.
44** [[spoiler:''Film/ThePinkPantherStrikesAgain'']]: The policeman fails to notice his boss does not want him anymore.
45* ''[[spoiler:Music/PinkFloyd Music/TheWall]]'': Bad stuff happens to a guy throughout his life, so one day he decides to socially isolate himself from human civilization.
46* ''[[spoiler: WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}]]'': A puppet's first day of school is interrupted by nearly everything possible.
47* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/ThePiratesInAnAdventureWithScientists]]'': A group of nameless pirates and [[NeverTrustATitle only one scientist]] prevent the Queen of England from eating rare animals. By the way, in real life, the scientist was the one eating rare animals.
48* ''[[spoiler:Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl]]'': A blacksmith's rich girlfriend gets kidnapped by zombie pirates, and he goes to rescue her with the help of another pirate who is not a zombie but wears eyeliner. And it's based on a [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks theme park]] ride.
49*** Alternatively: A politician's daughter steals gold and is mistaken for a gold-thief's daughter by gold-thieves, who want to kill her, so they can die. Her stalker fails to save her with the help of a guy his dad knew from work, but the gold thieves don't kill the politician's daughter, because she's not a gold thief's daughter. Everyone who isn't a gold-thief fights everyone who is until the gold-thieves go to jail or die.
50** ''[[spoiler:Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest]]'': The pirate tricks the blacksmith into serving a man with a Scots accent and a Welsh name with an octopus for a head who lives in a Dutch submarine and plays the organ.
51** ''[[spoiler:Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd]]'': The pirate, the blacksmith, the girlfriend and others hold a GambitRoulette contest and try to one-up each other. A GambitPileup ensures.
52** ''[[spoiler:Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides]]'': Pirate tries reconnecting with an old flame, [[DaddysGirl who only thinks about her father.]]
53** ''[[spoiler:Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMenTellNoTales]]'': Pirate teams up with the blacksmith's son and an escaped woman prisoner trying to find a weird fork, while being pursued by zombie pirate hunters.
54* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnythingAVeggieTalesMovie]]'': Three vegetables go back in time to prevent the only person in the world who has limbs from taking revenge on his brother.
55* ''[[spoiler:Film/PitchPerfect]]'': A wannabe DJ is pressured into joining her new college's all female acapella group, who happen to be very down on their luck and are trying to rise to the top. Throw in a bunch of enjoyable covers, some witty humor, and singing while using a plastic cup for percussion, and we're good to go.
56** ''[[spoiler:Film/PitchPerfect2]]'': The female acapella group is now an international powerhouse. Unfortunately their reputation is severely damaged following an embarassing WardrobeMalfunction, so they take part in the acapella world championships in an effort to get reinstated. Meanwhile, the DJ gets an internship at a recording studio, and helps produce a song created by a new freshman member.
57** ''[[spoiler:Film/PitchPerfect3]]'': Most of the acappella group has graduated from college[[note]]Sans the freshman who's a few years older now.[[/note]] and are unhappy with their lives. Through one of the members, they decide to go on a USO reunion tour. Unfortunately for them, another member has family drama that puts all of them at risk. And now the DJ has to decide if she wants to go into recording music herself, or stay with her plucky group of friends.
58* [[spoiler:WesternAnimation/PixarShorts]]: So you paid 10 bucks to see that new AllCGICartoon your kids won't shut up about? You'll have to sit through an avant-garde arthouse project first, most of which have no dialog.
59** ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/LuxoJr]]'': The company {{Mascot}} and his son play with a ball.
60** ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/GerisGame]]'': [[ThatCameOutWrong An old man plays with himself in Times Square.]]
61** ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/ForTheBirds]]'': A gang of friends makes a grab for territorial expansion, only to see their endeavour backfire.
62** ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/KnickKnack]]'': A plastic souvenir snowman makes a break for freedom.
63** ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/{{Boundin}}]]'': A barnyard animal learns humility through a public nude shaming. [[SoundtrackDissonance This is a fairly upbeat musical.]]
64** ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/OneManBand]]'': Two musicians engaged in friendly economic competitions are humiliated by one of their customers.
65** ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/{{Lifted}}]]'': A teenage alien learns how to drive a UFO.
66** ''[[spoiler: WesternAnimation/Presto2008]]'': A magician's sidekick pulls a RussianReversal on his employer.
67** ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/PartlyCloudly]]'': A DeliveryStork is forced to make some unusual dropoffs.
68** ''[[spoiler:[[WesternAnimation/ToyStory3 Day & Night]]]]'': A competition between polar opposites.
69** ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/LaLuna]]'': Three generations of a family spend a night out at sea.
70** ''[[spoiler:[[WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity The Blue Umbrella]]]]'': Two umbrellas fall in love while their owners remain oblivious.
71** ''[[spoiler:[[WesternAnimation/InsideOut Lava]]]]'': Two landmasses conduct a courtship over millions of years, narrated in song by a man playing the ukelele.
72** ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/SanjaysSuperTeam]]'': A young boy turns actual mythology into geek mythology.
73** ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/{{Piper}}]]'': A BasementDweller learns not to be afraid of tidal waves.
74** ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/{{LOU}}]]'': Bully has a forced lesson in respecting private property.
75** ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/{{Bao}}]]'': Woman learns to cope with children reaching adulthood by eating her son.
76* ''[[spoiler:Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace]]'': People are stupid, stupid! One of the greatest films starring a chiropractor.
77* ''[[spoiler:Animation/PlanetataNaSakrovishtata]]'': Bizarrely animated sci-fi re-telling of [[Literature/TreasureIsland an old book]] made before the [[WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet other one]] involves misshapen blobs for characters looking for a treasure, with the story being peppered with child-inappropriate humor, some racist caricatures, and an ending that goes completely off the rails.
78* ''[[spoiler:Film/PlanetOfTheApes1968]]'': Man's travel takes longer than expected, and after his arrival he ends up captured and put on trial by hostiles. The trial covers politics and philosophy, including human nature.
79** ''[[spoiler:Film/BeneathThePlanetOfTheApes]]'': Guy goes after the above man, also gets lost but manages to find him after being captured by a different set of hostiles. When both hostile groups find each other... the consequences are catastrophic.
80** ''[[spoiler:Film/EscapeFromThePlanetOfTheApes]]'': A few of the first group of hostiles manage to get to the lost men's homeland.
81** ''[[spoiler:Film/ConquestOfThePlanetOfTheApes]]'': Horseback rider decides to take over a city after his employer is driven to suicide.
82** ''[[spoiler:Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001]]'': Guy goes to rescue his pet and gets lost. This causes [[EvolutionaryLevels evolution to get fast]] enough to kill his workmates.
83** ''[[spoiler:Film/RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes]]'': After getting inhumane treatment in prison, misunderstood savant breaks half a city so he and his friends can play in a forest.
84** ''[[spoiler:Film/DawnOfThePlanetOfTheApes]]'': The savant gets in a conflict with one of his new friends, who is bent into fighting their neighbors.
85** ''[[spoiler:Film/WarForThePlanetOfTheApes]]'': The neighbors try kicking the savant out of his home through all means necessary. Their leader eventually kills himself because of a mute kid.
86* [[spoiler:''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolfFilmSeries'']]: A bunch of films based on a Chinese cartoon about a guy who gets beaten up by his wife if he doesn't capture kids for them to eat.
87** [[spoiler:''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolfTheSuperAdventure'']]: The kids help a snail to recover from its sickness.
88** [[spoiler:''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolfTheTigerProwess'']]: The guy has to work with one of the kids to find a totem that will help them shut down an amusement park.
89** [[spoiler:''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolfMoonCastleTheSpaceAdventure'']]: The kids, the guy, and his family all go to the moon to defeat a bunch of evil gourds.
90** [[spoiler:''Animation/MissionIncredibleAdventuresOnTheDragonsTrail'']]: The gang has to reassemble a flute to help them defeat an evil dragon.
91** [[spoiler:''Animation/TheMythicalArkAdventuresInLoveAndHappiness'']]: The gang has to find a snake to activate a spaceship.
92** [[spoiler:''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolfMeetThePegasus'']]: The gang has to give a storybook a happy ending by getting a winged prince married.
93** [[spoiler:''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolfAmazingPleasantGoat'']]: One of the kids accidentally activates a camera that sends him, another of the kids, and the guy to prehistoric times, where they have to defeat a stone dragon. The latter two characters also undergo a FreakyFridayFlip in the process.
94** [[spoiler:''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolfDunkForFuture'']]: The guy and kids star in a sporty basketball film, as if that were normal by this series' slapstick-y standards.
95* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Pleasantville}}]]'': A brother and sister get way too into a sitcom from TheFifties.
96* ''[[spoiler: WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}]]'': Native American woman who enjoys extreme sports falls in love with Mel Gibson.
97** ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/PocahontasIIJourneyToANewWorld]]'': After Mel Gibson fakes his death, the Native American woman goes on a goodwill tour to England and falls in love with a tobacco salesman.
98* ''[[spoiler:Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie]]'': A human/flying cat hybrid goes nuts and tries to take over the world.
99** ''[[spoiler:Anime/Pokemon2000]]'': Three birds get trapped in a giant sky fortress by a collector in order to get a giant fish-bird as a trophy.
100** ''[[spoiler:Anime/Pokemon3: Spell of the Unown]]'': Little girl learns how to control EldritchAbomination alphabet soup. Gains a lion thing for a daddy.
101** ''[[spoiler:Anime/Pokemon4Ever]]'': A pixie is on the verge of death. Everyone is panicking about it.
102** ''[[spoiler:Anime/PokemonHeroes]]'': Two mafia girls try to kidnap a pair of twins.
103** ''[[spoiler:Anime/PokemonJirachiWishmaker]]'': Star with an eye on its belly is being stalked by a magician.
104** ''[[spoiler:Anime/PokemonDestinyDeoxys]]'': Alien gets in a feud with giant sky lizard over an egg.
105** ''[[spoiler:Anime/PokemonLucarioAndTheMysteryOfMew]]'': An EnsembleDarkHorse tries to fix a tree. Flying cat makes a comeback.
106** ''[[spoiler:Anime/PokemonRangerAndTheTempleOfTheSea]]'': Ten year old kids give birth to a prince and try and keep him away from a pirate.
107** ''[[spoiler:Anime/PokemonTheRiseOfDarkrai]]'': Ghost tries to stop two very angry people from fighting near a bell tower.
108** ''[[spoiler:Anime/PokemonGiratinaAndTheSkyWarrior]]'': Rude chia pet saves the life of an EldritchAbomination by growing wings on its head.
109** ''[[spoiler:Anime/PokemonArceusAndTheJewelOfLife]]'': God makes a big deal out of a piece of jewelry.
110** ''[[spoiler:Anime/PokemonZoroarkMasterOfIllusions]]'': Monster fox clown tries to save her child by turning into fancy gerbils.
111** ''[[spoiler:Anime/PokemonTheMovieBlackAndWhite]]'': A guy tries to restore his ancestors' home, and nearly destroys the world. His ally differs depending on [[OneGameForThePriceOfTwo which version you watch]].
112** ''[[spoiler:Anime/PokemonKyuremVsTheSwordOfJustice]]'': A pony runs away from a dragon who wants to beat it up. Everyone is happy when the dragon does so.
113** ''[[spoiler:Anime/PokemonGenesectAndTheLegendAwakened]]'': Five superweapons want to live in a park. A human/flying cat hybrid fights them and draws flack from the fanbase for not being the same human/flying cat hybrid from before.
114** ''[[spoiler:Anime/PokemonDiancieAndTheCocoonOfDestruction]]'': A talking jewel goes to find a deer. Death and destruction ensues.
115** ''[[spoiler:Anime/PokemonIChooseYou]]'': Young boy and his electric pet seek legendary bird.
116*** Or, last movies sucked, cue ContinuityReboot.
117** ''[[spoiler:Anime/PokemonThePowerOfUs]]'': A power outage in a town requires the aforementioned giant fish-bird's help. This is done by putting the Olympic Torch on its pedestal. Meanwhile, another humanoid cat thing is angry.
118** ''[[spoiler:Anime/PokemonSecretsOfTheJungle]]'': A boy thinks he's a monkey. His father actually IS a monkey. This movie and [[VideoGame/NewPokemonSnap a video game]] are interconnected in ways most viewers will never notice.
119* ''[[spoiler:Film/PokemonDetectivePikachu]]'': Boy gets together with his father's old pet, finds out the head of the local MegaCorp has [[AssimilationPlot unusual business plans]].
120** Or: A young man, looking for his father's whereabouts, discovers a CorruptCorporateExecutive is secretly a furry and is plotting to force everyone to live out fursonas. The young man's new friend has been living this plot since the beginning of the movie without either of them realizing it.
121** Or: A young man looks for his father's whereabouts and finds out [[spoiler:his father's old pet was his father all along]]. ItMakesSenseInContext.
122* [[spoiler: ''WesternAnimation/ThePolarExpress'']]: The best possible outcome of hitching a ride from a stranger who says he knows Santa. (from Netflix ad)
123* [[spoiler: ''Film/{{Poltergeist|1982}}'']]: Lazy real estate decisions lead to family discovering their domestic appliances aren't working as expected.
124* ''[[spoiler:Anime/PomPoko]]'': Eco-terrorists beat up cops using their genitals.
125* [[spoiler: ''Anime/PonyoOnTheCliffByTheSea'']]: Reclusive father imprisons daughter. Earth is wiped out when she escapes.
126** Alternatively: A young girl has magical abilities to transform items, call floods and run on water. Nobody cares.
127* [[spoiler: ''WesternAnimation/PoohsHeffalumpMovie'']]: A bunch of animals go out to hunt elephants. The only one that succeeds later lets it go.
128* [[spoiler: ''Film/PoorThings'']]: A bunch of people have sex with a zombie that escaped London. The zombie returns to London to reunite with the people the zombie left behind, then performs a lobotomy on one of them.
129* [[spoiler: ''Anime/PorcoRosso'']]: A pig flies a plane and gets into mishaps.
130* [[spoiler: ''Film/ThePoseidonAdventure'']]: Cruiseship ends up upside down. A group of people decide to get to the top. Adventure ensues.
131** [[spoiler: ''Film/{{Poseidon}}'']]: Same thing as above, but instead of an AllStarCast, a B-Star Cast.
132* ''[[spoiler:Film/ThePostman]]'': A man puts on a postman's jacket, altering the course of history for the better.
133* ''[[spoiler: Pour la Suite de Monde]]'': A bunch of Quebecois catch a beluga whale, and take it to New York. Not based on a true story so much as ''actually'' a true story.
134* ''[[spoiler: [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls The Powerpuff Girls Movie]]]]'': Three girls beat up a monkey.
135* ''[[spoiler: Film/{{Precious}}]]'': Teenage girl fights with mother over pregnancy, then writes about it in her diary.
136* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Predator}}]]'': Man with peculiar accent survives hunting trip.
137** ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Predator 2}}]]'': A big game hunter, whose vocabulary consists of "want some candy?", "shit happens" and "motherfucker," fights Latino gangsters and cops. It can only be stopped by that black dude from ''Film/LethalWeapon''.
138** ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Predators}}]]'': Some people ''and'' a big game hunter get roped into a hunting trip.
139** ''[[spoiler:Film/ThePredator]]'': Kid finds big game hunter equipment, ends up targeted by one of his rivals.
140** ''[[spoiler:Film/Prey2022]]'': Woman's dreams to be a hunter are crashed by the arrival of the big game hunter.
141* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Predestination}}]]'': A woman gets pregnant from masturbation.
142* ''[[spoiler:Film/ThePrestige]]'': [[Film/XMenFilmSeries Wolverine]] hires Music/DavidBowie to build a teleporter so he can frame [[Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy Batman]] for murder.
143* ''[[spoiler:Film/PrettyMaidsAllInARow]]'': A serial killer targets teenage girls. A teacher seduces an underage student. ''It's a comedy''.
144* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Primer}}]]'': An out of order plot with lots of TechnoBabble.
145* ''[[spoiler: WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt]]'': [[spoiler:The Literature/BookOfExodus]] adapted into a {{Disneyesque}} AnimatedMusical.
146* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog]]'': A [[UpperClassTwit slacker prince]] and a workaholic trust that a decades-old fairy tale will cure the prince's [[ForcedTransformation bizarre skin condition]]. It does not. Later, it does.
147* ''[[spoiler:Film/ThePrincessBride]]'': A farm hand becomes a pirate and his girlfriend becomes a princess and then he kidnaps her and dies. Then, with the help of a hungover fencer and a stupid giant, he kidnaps her again after coming back to life. Whilst all this is going on, a grandfather tells his grandson a story.
148** Alternately: Fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles. It doesn't sound ''too'' bad.
149** Alternately: Some plonker reads a kissing book to his grandson.
150*** Extra-Alternately: [[Series/{{Columbo}} Lieutenant Columbo]] reads a kissing book to his sick, baseball-playing grandson. True love is declared.
151* ''[[spoiler: Film/TheProducers]]'': Two hard-on-their-luck guys attempt to make the biggest theatrical flop in history. They fail. ''[[SpringtimeForHitler Spectacularly]]''.
152* ''[[spoiler: Film/PromisingYoungWoman]]'': Woman has a bad habit of constantly ''almost'' getting date raped.
153* ''[[spoiler: Film/TheProposition]]'': A petty criminal decides which of his brothers he likes better. [-IN AUSTRALIA!-].
154* ''[[spoiler: Film/{{Psycho}}]]'': Woman is killed by man in drag, who also [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas has an Oedipus complex]].
155** Alternately: Woman takes a shower. It's the last thing she ever does...
156** ''[[spoiler: Film/PsychoII]]'': Man from before tries to go straight, but Oedipus complex returns.
157** ''[[spoiler: Film/PsychoIII]]'': Essentially the first film.
158** ''[[spoiler: Film/PsychoIVTheBeginning]]'': Man gets over his Oedipus complex.
159* [[spoiler:''Film/PulpFiction'']]: A couple of hit-men [[SeinfeldianConversation discuss]] everything from hamburgers to theology. One retires, the other dies, and their boss is anally raped.
160** Alternately: A hitman stabs a woman in the heart to save her, three preppies get killed by Bible quotes and miracles, the sole survivor of that accidentally gets shot in the head when a car hits a bump [[note]] Hey, the car didn't hit no motherfuckin' bump![[/note]], and a quest to get donuts, a toilet, and a watch hidden up Creator/ChristopherWalken's ass for two years ends in murder and anal rape.
161* ''[[spoiler:Film/ThePursuitOfHappyness]]'': The journey of a man to be happy.
162* [[spoiler:''WesternAnimation/PussInBoots'']]: Two pariahs reform their partnership to kidnap a bird.
163** [[spoiler:''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish'']]: Pariah goes through a crisis, only broken when he teams up with his ex and another pariah to travel to a forest.
164*** Alternatively, a wolf wants to murder a cat in clothes for dying too much.

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