Correcting movie plots to represent the title better
by SkullScreamerReturns | created - 08 Nov 2020 | updated - 27 Sep 2021 | PublicTitles should be in line with what actually happens in the movie...
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1. Enter the Dragon (1973)
R | 102 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A Shaolin martial artist travels to an island fortress to spy on an opium lord - who is also a former monk from his temple - under the guise of attending a fighting tournament.
Director: Robert Clouse | Stars: Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Jim Kelly, Ahna Capri
Votes: 112,962 | Gross: $25.00M
Bruce Lee enters into the mouth of a dragon and kills it from the inside.
2. Bridge of Dragons (1999)
R | 92 min | Action, Romance, Sci-Fi
The tough and cold mercenary Warchild, is working for the man who took care of his war training and upbringing, the greedy General Ruechang. Ruechang is planning to take over the country by... See full summary »
Director: Isaac Florentine | Stars: Dolph Lundgren, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Valerie Chow, Gary Hudson
Votes: 2,981
Dragons guard a bridge and Dolph Lundgren must fight them.
3. America bangmungaeg (1976)
R | 84 min | Action
A kung Fu expert travels to America to take out a gang of mysterious villains responsible for the murder of his best friend.
Director: Lee Doo-yong | Stars: Jun Chong, Deborah Dutch, Su-cheon Bae, Anthony Bronson
Votes: 410
Bruce Lee rises from the grave and fights demons. (Sorry to spoil, that is not in the actual movie.)
4. Ninja in the Dragon's Den (1982)
95 min | Action, Comedy
Two rival warriors, a Japanese and a Chinese, are forced to work together after their master has been killed by a mighty enemy.
Director: Corey Yuen | Stars: Hiroyuki Sanada, Conan Lee, Jeong-lee Hwang, Kaname Tsushima
Votes: 2,047
Ninja is sent to fight a dragon.
5. Dragon Lord (1982)
PG-13 | 102 min | Action, Comedy, Sport
The adventures of a restless martial arts student called Dragon, who, while constantly pursuing a girl, gets involved in the affairs of a gang of thieves.
Director: Jackie Chan | Stars: Jackie Chan, Mars, Michael Wai-Man Chan, Shirley Yim
Votes: 4,412
Jackie Chan is a martial artist who can transform into a dragon.
6. Snake in the Eagle's Shadow (1978)
PG | 90 min | Action, Comedy
An orphan who has been raised at a kung fu school, where he is treated as little more than a dogsbody and practice target for the students, has a life-changing experience after helping an old peripatetic beggar.
Director: Woo-Ping Yuen | Stars: Jackie Chan, Siu-Tin Yuen, Jeong-lee Hwang, Dean Shek
Votes: 12,877
A snake fights an eagle.
7. Spiritual Kung Fu (1978)
PG | 99 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
A goofy student is taught a lost martial art style by five ghosts.
Director: Wei Lo | Stars: Jackie Chan, Chih-Ping Chiang, Hsiu-yi Fang, Hong Hsu
Votes: 2,506
Jackie Chan meditates and fights ghosts in the spirit realm.
8. Predator (1987)
R | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A team of commandos on a mission in a Central American jungle find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.
Director: John McTiernan | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Kevin Peter Hall, Elpidia Carrillo
Votes: 454,670 | Gross: $59.74M
Documentary about wild animals
9. Tango & Cash (1989)
R | 104 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Framed by their ruthless arch-nemesis, a pair of mismatched LAPD officers must put their differences aside to get even with the brutal crime baron who sent them to rot in a maximum-security prison.
Directors: Andrey Konchalovskiy, Albert Magnoli | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Kurt Russell, Teri Hatcher, Jack Palance
Votes: 113,523 | Gross: $63.41M
Documentary about Johnny Cash and his special concert where also tango music is played.
10. Cobra (1986)
R | 87 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A tough-on-crime street cop must protect the only surviving witness to a strange murderous cult with far-reaching plans.
Director: George P. Cosmatos | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Brigitte Nielsen, Reni Santoni, Andrew Robinson
Votes: 79,590 | Gross: $49.04M
Documentary about snakes
11. The Running Man (1987)
R | 101 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
In a dystopian America, a falsely convicted policeman gets his shot at freedom when he must forcibly participate in a TV game show where convicts, runners, must battle killers for their freedom.
Director: Paul Michael Glaser | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Conchita Alonso, Yaphet Kotto, Jim Brown
Votes: 167,611 | Gross: $38.12M
Documentary about a marathon runner
12. The Devil Rides Out (1968)
G | 95 min | Horror
Devil worshipers plan to convert two new victims.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Christopher Lee, Charles Gray, Nike Arrighi, Leon Greene
Votes: 10,256
The Devil starts his motorcycle and drives out of his garage
13. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
R | 118 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.
Director: Jonathan Demme | Stars: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine
Votes: 1,547,751 | Gross: $130.74M
A farmer finds his cattle dead
14. The Godfather (1972)
R | 175 min | Crime, Drama
The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Diane Keaton
Votes: 2,011,723 | Gross: $134.97M
A kid hangs out with his godfather. They go to movies or something like that.
15. Batman Forever (1995)
PG-13 | 121 min | Action, Adventure
Batman must battle former district attorney Harvey Dent, who is now Two-Face and Edward Nygma, The Riddler with help from an amorous psychologist and a young circus acrobat who becomes his sidekick, Robin.
Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey, Nicole Kidman
Votes: 266,520 | Gross: $184.03M
Batman turns immortal and will never die. (Story could possibly be related to the Elseworlds comics where he becomes a vampire.)
16. Hellraiser (1987)
R | 94 min | Horror, Thriller
A woman discovers the newly resurrected, partially formed, body of her brother-in-law and lover. She starts killing for him to revitalize his body and escape the demonic beings that are pursuing him after he escaped their underworld.
Director: Clive Barker | Stars: Andrew Robinson, Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence, Sean Chapman
Votes: 140,475 | Gross: $14.56M
The dead rise from the grave and then the ground opens and demons and the whole hell rises from there.
17. Hellraiser: Hellseeker (2002 Video)
R | 89 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
After a car crash, a shady stockbroker suffers from amnesia. This leaves him in a hazy limbo of sex and murder. But, as in a predestined journey, he unmistakenly takes the bait and follows the marked-out clues all the way to Pinhead.
Director: Rick Bota | Stars: Dean Winters, Ashley Laurence, Doug Bradley, Rachel Hayward
Votes: 14,466
Demon rises from hell to but feels lonely and starts to search his way back home to hell.
18. Friday the 13th (1980)
R | 95 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A group of teenage camp counselors attempt to re-open an abandoned summer camp with a tragic past, but they are stalked by a mysterious, relentless killer.
Director: Sean S. Cunningham | Stars: Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Jeannine Taylor, Robbi Morgan
Votes: 157,395 | Gross: $39.75M
Somebody has bad luck the whole day. (Should be a comedy.)
19. Rear Window (1954)
PG | 112 min | Mystery, Thriller
A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his Greenwich Village courtyard apartment window and, despite the skepticism of his fashion-model girlfriend, becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter
Votes: 521,933 | Gross: $36.76M
Somebody is driving a car and his backseat passengers notice from the rear window that somebody is following. Then it becomes a thrilling chase. (Before I knew what the movie is really about I always imagined it means the rear window of a car.)
20. The Beach (I) (2000)
R | 119 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
On vacation in Thailand, Richard sets out for an island rumored to be a solitary beach paradise.
Director: Danny Boyle | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton, Daniel York, Patcharawan Patarakijjanon
Votes: 253,675 | Gross: $39.79M
People are swimming and tanning on a beach. Everybody is happy. Nothing happens except buying ice cream, playing beach volley and such.
21. Forbidden Planet (1956)
G | 98 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
A starship crew in the 23rd century goes to investigate the silence of a distant planet's colony, only to find just two survivors, a powerful robot, and the deadly secret of a lost civilization.
Director: Fred M. Wilcox | Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Warren Stevens
Votes: 53,177 | Gross: $3.00M
Space travel movie where a spaceship approaches a planet but then receive a transmission that they are not allowed to land on the planet. Star Trek V was something like that I think.
22. Saw (2004)
R | 103 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Two strangers awaken in a room with no recollection of how they got there, and soon discover they're pawns in a deadly game perpetrated by a notorious serial killer.
Director: James Wan | Stars: Cary Elwes, Leigh Whannell, Danny Glover, Ken Leung
Votes: 466,579 | Gross: $56.00M
Like "Tool Time" the fictional program from "Home Improvement"
23. X-Men (2000)
PG-13 | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
In a world where mutants (evolved super-powered humans) exist and are discriminated against, two groups form for an inevitable clash: the supremacist Brotherhood, and the pacifist X-Men.
Director: Bryan Singer | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Famke Janssen
Votes: 646,362 | Gross: $157.30M
Story of transgender women
24. Jurassic Park (I) (1993 Video Game)
GA | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Video game of the mega hit movie.
Votes: 499
There is a park in the prehistoric times. Dinosaurs walk there but people don't exist yet. It is unclear who planted the flowers in nice rows and who always mowes the lawn and fixes the damage that dinosaurs do when they walk there. Spoiler: aliens do it because they like to relax and and watch their dinosaur park from the window of their spaceship.
25. Halloween (1978)
R | 91 min | Horror, Thriller
Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tony Moran, Nancy Kyes
Votes: 306,716 | Gross: $47.00M
Kids go trick or treating and have nice halloween parties. Something a little scary happens, like, a man dressed as a ghost says "boo".
26. The Dark Knight (2008)
PG-13 | 152 min | Action, Crime, Drama
When the menace known as the Joker wreaks havoc and chaos on the people of Gotham, Batman must accept one of the greatest psychological and physical tests of his ability to fight injustice.
Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine
Votes: 2,869,848 | Gross: $534.86M
King Arthur and his knights face a mysterious dark knight who is a great swordsman. (Could be like Lancelot in "First Knight" except that he is not dark at all). Could also be Ritchie Blackmore.
27. Batman Returns (1992)
PG-13 | 126 min | Action, Crime, Fantasy
While Batman deals with a deformed man calling himself the Penguin wreaking havoc across Gotham with the help of a cruel businessman, a female employee of the latter becomes the Catwoman with her own vendetta.
Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken
Votes: 327,390 | Gross: $162.83M
Something like the latter part of "Dark Knight Rises" where Batman is absent and then he returns. How can you return if you don't first go away?
28. Hostel (2005)
R | 94 min | Horror
Three backpackers head to a Slovak city that promises to meet their hedonistic expectations, with no idea of the hell that awaits them.
Director: Eli Roth | Stars: Jay Hernandez, Derek Richardson, Eythor Gudjonsson, Barbara Nedeljakova
Votes: 190,928 | Gross: $47.33M
Boring reality show that follows people who check in to a hostel. They drink and have sex but mostly just watch tv and be apathetic.
29. Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
R | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A teenager from the slums of Mumbai becomes a contestant on the show 'Kaun Banega Crorepati?' When interrogated under suspicion of cheating, he revisits his past, revealing how he had all the answers.
Directors: Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan | Stars: Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Saurabh Shukla, Anil Kapoor
Votes: 877,666 | Gross: $141.32M
Guy who is half dog (like a werewolf but he is weredog) from slum gets a lot of money and starts spending it. Then he becomes a stylish (dog)man like Richard Gere in "Pretty Woman", but all his friends become jealous and then he has to run away from robbers. Especially werewolves who are faster than dogmen try to kill him and it becomes an intense thriller.
30. Lethal Weapon (1987)
R | 109 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Two newly paired cops who are complete opposites must put aside their differences in order to catch a gang of drug smugglers.
Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Mitchell Ryan
Votes: 276,312 | Gross: $65.21M
There is a super powerful gun and everybody wants it. Criminals steal it and the cops must get it back.
31. Eraser (1996)
R | 115 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A Witness Protection specialist becomes suspicious of his co-workers when dealing with a case involving high-tech weapons.
Director: Chuck Russell | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Vanessa Williams, James Caan, James Coburn
Votes: 118,350 | Gross: $101.30M
A boy is doing a math test with his pencil, but then he loses his eraser. He must sneak out from the classroom and try to find an eraser before the test ends. Very intense thriller.
32. Watchmen (2009)
R | 162 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
In a version of 1985 where superheroes exist, the murder of a colleague sends active vigilante Rorschach on the trail of a conspiracy that will change the course of history.
Director: Zack Snyder | Stars: Jackie Earle Haley, Patrick Wilson, Carla Gugino, Malin Akerman
Votes: 582,382 | Gross: $107.51M
Group of rich men have a club where they show their expensive watches they have bought.
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