Funny Games: Vacationing family meets a pair of well-dressed neighbors.
Saw: Two strangers, stranded in an unfamiliar place, get to know each other.
Hannibal: A psychiatrist prepares an unusual meal for his guest.
Raiders of the Lost Ark: A professor is reunited with a former love interest.
Life is Beautifull: A man entertains his son with fanciful stories to ameliorate a bad experience at camp.
Straw Dogs: A couple has difficulty seeing eye to eye with the workmen repairing their home.
Nitpick: Cable repairman and Marine fighter-pilot, not father and son.
I swear we had a thread that was exactly like this not too long ago. Oh well, it was fun then and it’s fun now. My favorite from the previous thread, that I wish I could take credit for, was:
A troubled young Brit goes through some big life changes with the help of a chaplain.
-A Clockwork Orange
Ghostbusters - start-up business owners struggle with governmental interference
Add “and secure benefits for the employees” and you get – Schindler’s List.
I’ve described that one as
“Milksop classical music fan finds it difficult to adjust after release from prison”
Rosemary’s Baby–A lapsed Catholic mother of a pre-born does the right thing and refuses to have an abortion, despite the fact she is pregnant by rape, suffers ill health during her pregnancy while seeing a Jewish OB/GYN, gives birth to a deformed child that her husband wants to give up for adoption, with the result that she keeps the child and separates from her husband.
Angelheart--------- A New Yorker goes on a journey to find himself.
Shaun of the Dead-----------------Man reunites with his g.f after a breakup.
Charge of the Light Brigade----------------Some equestrians ride down a valley, but don’t ride back up it.
A Bridge To Far--------------------------British government employees receive an unpleasant surprise in Holland.
The Bodyguard----------------------A singers promo video.
Office Space-- Three alienated office workers become high-tech thieves, robbing the soul-deadening corporation they work for.
A Christmas Story-- A family’s Christmas dinner is ruined after one of the children suffers an eye injury from a rifle.
Star Wars - Galactic order is destroyed when a insurrectionist guerrilla campaign begins, championed by religious fanatics.
Midnight Cowboy–A native New Yorker helps out someone new to the city.
How about:
Office Space - A young man makes a killing selling subscriptions to Vibe.
The Boys From Brazil–Several brothers who were raised apart and did not know they were siblings are reunited.
Rain Man–Two brothers who were raised apart and did not know they were siblings are reunited.
Groundhog Day–A man tries to learn from his past mistakes.
A local politician and his family deal with life in a college town. Animal House
Star Trek (2009) – Military academy maverick almost gets expelled, winds up being You Are Now In Charge.
The Maltese Falcon – Murderers squabble over fake antiques.
The Longest day------------------Covering a working day for a bunch of people.