Just use the [noparse] and [/noparse] tag for spoilers. Like this:
name of film
The code is just [noparse]name of film[/noparse].
The [noparse][noparse][/noparse] tag is the trick that allows me to actually write [noparse][spoiler][/noparse] without it being interpreted by vB as being an actual spoiler tag. It’s analogous to an escape character, if you have any programming experience. You will not need to use the noparse tag except in explanatory situations like this one.
Civil engineering in South Asia
Bridge Over the River Kwai
not sure what I did different from the previous time, but thanks again…
A reporter talks to people who were close to a recently-passed news publisher.
Citizen Kane
A group of men spend a day at the beach
The Longest Day
A weatherman gets delayed while stopping over on a business trip.
Groundhog Day
Kid makes friends with a foreigner unable to communicate with his people.
E.T.
New Yorker travels to California during Christmas in order to restore his marriage. Sadly, his wife’s work-related troubles make the reunion difficult.
Die Hard
Another one from the same song: “A boy kills his father, and causes a lot of bother”. Oedipus Rex
Here’s another: Elder care divides a family.
King Lear
Extremely homely man moves to London.
A neighbor proves unneighborly.
Elvis-loving ex-con and girlfriend drive car through desert, have misadventures.
A lawnmower is pushed to its limits.
While investigating a policeman’s disappearance, another policeman experiences strange visions.
A trade war erupts over vermiculture.
I can NOT figure out spoiler boxes, but crack the code and these are easy…
If our OP, Martian Bigfoot, will permit, I’d like to offer this brilliantly succinct gem of a headline pertaining to an historical event, not a movie (although movies have been made about the story):
“King’s Moll Reno’d in Wolsey’s Home Town.”
It was a real headline published in an American newspaper in the 1930’s when Wallis Simpson (the king’s moll) was divorced (Reno’d) from Mr. Simpson in the birthplace (Ipswich) of Wolsey, the Cardinal who failed to obtain a divorce for Henry VIII.
Kidnapped women show signs of Stockholm Syndrome.
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
This is funny: I’d never heard of this particular work, but the description made me think of the Rape of the Sabines, from Roman legend. Then I look it up in Wiki, and sure enough:
Or: The Andromeda Strain
Twelve Monkeys
The Stand
Easiest way is to quote someone else, and substitute your text for their’s.
The curse of the cursive medal.
The Bad Seed
Postulant meets sexy sailor, forsakes vow of chastity.
The Sound of Music
In 2016, refugees from northern Africa seek asylum in Europe. In 1942, it was the other way around.
Casablanca
Decades before air guitar is born, city slicker shows rubes how to play air trombone.
The Music Man
The Road Warrior – during a gasoline shortage, drivers squabble over the supply.
Government installation destroyed by terrorists and local wildlife.
Return of the Jedi
Man wearing makeup plays elaborate pranks on city residents.
The Dark Knight
Students go on field trip without permission slips. (Every Xmen movie)
Nope. That one is a fail. Your description is rather more enticing than the movie itself.