Groundhog Day - A man makes multiple attempts to escape from a one night stand.
Bill Hicks:
“If you play the tape backwards, you see us help Mr King up and send him on his way”
“A Room With A View”
same plot in either direction. Nothing happens.
I hate to sound like an insensitive lout, but that was the most painfully boring film I’ve ever tried to sit through.
Romeo and Juliet: After waking up in the cemetery, two young lovers break up and start dating other people, sparking a massive and bloody feud between their families.
War of the Worlds: The world is in ruins, and our benevolent alien overlords are too sick to do anything. Finally, they recover, and quickly rebuild society. After they’re finished, they leave, never to be seen again.
Saving Private Ryan: A few American and German soldiers visiting France resurrect each other’s fallen troops with devices that pull bullets and shrapnel out of their bodies. The American team retreats toward the beach as its members are restored to health, and participates in an orderly evacuation.
Ha! I came here to do this one, but what you wrote is probably better than what I would’ve. I love the Saruman bit.
The Matrix:
The tiny remaining population of earth fiercely battles their robot overlords, so they can get back to being jacked into a computer 24/7.
It’s an allegory representing teen gamers’ struggle against their parents for more World of Warcraft time. 
“Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?”
An elderly actress, Jane, discovers her disabled sister, Blanche, on a beach, dying. She takes her home, prevents her from eating horrible things, and eventually takes credit for curing her sister of her disability. Jane is unaware that Blanche actually cured herself. Blanche then becomes a great movie star, while Jane acts in several “B” movies. But Jane has the last laugh, when she becomes a huge Vaudeville star, “Baby Jane.”
The Dam Busters
Extensive flooding in the Ruhr Valley is fixed by a crack team of aviators who cause millions of tons of water to flow uphill and then pen it behind massive walls of concrete spontaneously generated by imploding devices which bounce across the water to be picked up by low-flying Lancaster bombers, which then return the devices to their genius creator who promptly forgets how to make them.
Tora! Tora! Tora! – Hundreds of Japanese fire-fighting planes arrive over a burning American naval base, extinguish the fires and return home.
Aliens - A line spacewoman saves an alien mother and its eggs, and is rewarded when the alien creates new crew members to keep her company and a squad of marines to protect her.
Part 1: A dead giant ape, Gnok Gnik is lying on a street in New York City (hey, you see stranger things in that town), when an incredibly unlikely series of shock waves from the ground unscrambles his body and flings him to the top of a skyscraper, where the newly revived Gnok amuses himself by swatting at passing planes. After the planes fly away, a bored Gnok grabs a girl, Nna Worrad, who was at the top of the skyscraper and climbs down to street level, Worrad’s boyfriend Kcaj Llocsrid in pursuit. But Gnok loses interest in her and puts her into Llocrsrid’s hotel room through the window before embarking on a career of civic improvement, putting a derailed elevated train back on the tracks and righting some overturned cars. But going into a theater rented by motion picture maker Lrac Mahned, Gnok accidently becomes trapped in some chains and shackles on stage, and people flock in to see him briefly before all going home again.
Part 2: Deciding that civilization is no place for a giant ape, Mahned has a freighter haul Gnok to a remote island. A tranquilized Gnok is deposited on shore by a native village and revived with a stimulant gas. Traumatized, Gnok flees the humans into the interior of the island, pulling a giant gate closed behind him. Deciding that they want some excitement and adventure, Nna and Kcaj follow him into the jungle. They follow Gnok to his home atop the island’s highest peak, where he practices theraputic bone manipulation on the local wildlife. Gnok spots Nna, grabs her and retraces his steps to return her to the village, Kcaj following discretely.
Part 3: A few hours after Nna and Kcaj go into the jungle, Mahned decides to follow them, but is stopped by a deep ravine with no way across. Gnock arrives with Nna on the other side of the ravine and maneuvers a large log to cross over. Several sailors who had been lost in the ravine take the opportunity to climb out and along with Kcaj join Mahned. Gnok drives the men back toward the village, determined to have his pristine wilderness back; all the other wild creatures assist Gnok in flushing any stragglers out of the foliage and they join the party. The scrambling mob scares a brontosaurus* back into its swamp; the party swims out and the Brontosaurus pushes floating driftwood toward them so they can build a raft and get out of there. Once back on shore the party takes a few minutes to disassemble the raft so as not to leave a clue for Gnok to follow, but they hear him coming anyway and flee toward the village, now in posession of valuable guns and gas bombs that were dredged up from the swamp bottom. The men run into the village and selfishly lock the gate, uncaring of Nna’s fate; but Gnok simply ties her to a stone platform outside the gate and departs, hoping to never see a white face ever again. The men return to the ship, the rescuees anxious to return to civilzation. Nna hangs back hoping to not have to return to dreary Depression-era New York, but the natives bring her in, tie her up and haul her out to the freighter before it can raise anchor.
Part 4: After many months at sea the freighter returns to New York. Kcaj no longer cares for Nna and decides that women aren’t worth the trouble. Mahned plans to smuggle the illegal weapons that were recovered into the country. He dumps a penniless Nna into the mean streets of New York and leaves her there. Back at the freighter a talent agent tells Mahned that he doubts any woman in her right mind would agree to go on a movie expedition with him, but he’ll try his best to find one.
DNE EHT.
*A “Brontosaurus” is a fictional species of Sauropod dinosaur that was supposed to be semi-aquatic, unlike all known species that were completely terrestrial.