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  • O Brother, Where Art Thou?: Three refugees from a chain gang re-enact The Odyssey in the Depression-era South.
  • Ocean's Eleven: Man tries to get some money while humiliating his ex's current affair.
  • Oculus: An evil mirror kills people...or does it?
  • Office Space: One guy stops caring about his job, another wants to rob his employer, and a third just wants his stuff back.
  • Old: A resort takes pleasure in getting their guests lost.
  • Old School: Three men start a fraternity.
  • Oliver!: Prepubescent exceeds alloted institutional dietary requirements, which leads to him being sold as property and getting involved with thieves, hookers and psychopaths. It's a musical.
  • Oliver & Company: Billy Joel and a homeless kid navigate New York City to help a hobo get a money. It's also a musical.
  • The Omen (1976): Satan puts his son up for adoption. Murder ensues.
  • On the Town: Gene, Frankie and some third guy have one day to see NYC.
  • Once: A multi-cultural couple should get together for love of a vacuum cleaner, but they don't.
  • Once Upon a Time in the West: A former criminal helps a dying crippled man accomplish his final wish in exchange for gaining a legitimate position in the crippled man's company. However, the former criminal's past comes back to haunt him in the form of a guy who plays the harmonica.
  • Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: Washed-up actor and his friend roam around L.A., make some movies overseas, and unknowingly save the lives of their neighbors.
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: A petty criminal feigns insanity to get out of prison and is sent to a mental hospital, where he teaches the residents to play basketball and fish, and gives them chewing gum.
  • One Hour Photo: Robin Williams works at a Wal-Mart clone and spends most of his time alone watching The Simpsons. It's a dramatic thriller.
  • On the Waterfront: Two brothers start out together in life but arrive at separate destinations, one smashed up yet victorious, the other just hanging out.
  • Onward: A family film about two brothers who want to resurrect their dead father.
    • Alternatively, two brothers spend their day with a disembodied pair of legs.
  • Oppenheimer: A nuclear physicist wins a race by default when the opposing coach unexpectedly drops out. He then makes a surprisingly lucrative marketing deal with a line of girls' dolls.
  • Orphan: A little girl is older than she looks.
  • The Orphanage: Woman goes back to her childhood home, where her young son befriends some of her old friends from childhood.
  • Osmosis Jones: A man throws up on a woman and later nearly dies while a Buddy Cop Movie happens inside him. Nausea Fuel ensues.
  • The Others (2001): Woman is pestered by the new inhabitants of her house.
  • Outbreak: A monkey kills people by giving them a roid-up version of the Ebola Virus.
  • Over the Hedge: A thief is caught in the act and has to exploit a group of suffering foragers to escape execution.

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