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Examples:
- American Beauty: A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.
- American Pie: Four teenage boys enter a pact to lose their virginity by prom night.
- Analyze This: A comedy about a psychiatrist whose number-one patient is an insecure mob boss.
- Any Given Sunday: A behind-the-scenes look at the life-and-death struggles of modern-day gladiators and those who lead them.
- Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me: Dr. Evil is back and has invented a new time machine that allows him to go back to the 1960s and steal Austin Powers' mojo, inadvertently leaving him "shagless".
- Being John Malkovich: A puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of movie star John Malkovich.
- Bicentennial Man: An android endeavors to become human as he gradually acquires emotions.
- Big Daddy: A lazy law-school grad adopts a kid to impress his girlfriend, but everything doesn't go as planned and he becomes the unlikely foster father.
- The Blair Witch Project: Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.
- Blast from the Past: A naive man comes out into the world after spending 35 years in a nuclear fallout shelter.
- The Bone Collector: A quadriplegic ex-homicide detective and his partner try to track down a serial killer who is terrorizing New York City.
- The Boondock Saints: Two Irish Catholic brothers become vigilantes and wipe out Boston's criminal underworld in the name of God.
- Bowfinger: When a desperate movie producer fails to get a major star for his bargain basement film, he decides to shoot the film secretly around him.
- Boys Don't Cry: A young man named Brandon Teena navigates love, life, and being transgender in rural Nebraska.
- Bringing Out the Dead: Haunted by the patients he failed to save, a monumentally burned-out Manhattan ambulance paramedic fights to maintain his sanity over three increasingly turbulent nights.
- The Cider House Rules: A compassionate young man, raised in an orphanage and trained to be a doctor there, decides to leave to see the world.
- Cruel Intentions: Two vicious step-siblings of an elite Manhattan prep school make a wager: to deflower the new headmaster's daughter before the start of term.
- Deep Blue Sea: Searching for a cure to Alzheimer's disease, a group of scientists on an isolated research facility become the prey, as a trio of intelligent sharks fight back.
- Dogma: An abortion clinic worker with a special heritage is called upon to save the existence of humanity from being negated by two renegade angels trying to exploit a loop-hole and reenter Heaven.
- Edtv: A video store clerk agrees to have his life filmed by a camera crew for a television show.
- Election: A high school teacher meets his match in an over-achieving student politician.
- End of Days: At the end of the century, Satan visits New York in search of a bride. It's up to an ex-cop who now runs an elite security outfit to stop him.
- Entrapment: An insurance agent is sent by her employer to track down and help capture an art thief.
- eXistenZ: A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.
- Eyes Wide Shut: A Manhattan doctor embarks on a bizarre, night-long odyssey after his wife's admission of unfulfilled longing.
- Fight Club: An insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soap maker form an underground fight club that evolves into much more.
- For Love of the Game: After 19 years of playing the game he's loved his whole life, Detroit Tigers pitcher Billy Chapel has to decide if he's going to risk everything and put everything out there.
- Galaxy Quest: The alumni cast of a space opera television series have to play their roles as the real thing when an alien race needs their help. However, they also have to defend both Earth and the alien race from a reptilian warlord.
- The General's Daughter: When the daughter of a well-known and well-respected base commander is murdered, an undercover detective is summoned to look into the matter and finds a slew of cover-ups at West Point.
- Girl, Interrupted: Based on writer Susanna Kaysen's account of her 18-month stay at a mental hospital in the late 1960s.
- Go: The aftermath of a drug deal as told from three different points of view.
- The Green Mile: The lives of guards on Death Row are affected by one of their charges: a black man accused of child murder and rape, yet who has a mysterious gift.
- The Iron Giant: A young boy befriends a giant robot from outer space that a paranoid government agent wants to destroy.
- In Dreams: A suburban housewife learns that she has a dreamworld connection to a serial murderer, and must stop him from killing again.
- The Insider: A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.
- The Limey: An extremely volatile and dangerous Englishman goes to Los Angeles to find the man he considers responsible for his daughter's death.
- Magnolia: An epic mosaic of interrelated characters in search of love, forgiveness and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.
- Man on the Moon: The life and career of legendary comedian Andy Kaufman.
- The Matrix: When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.
- The Mummy: At an archaeological dig in the ancient city of Hamunaptra, an American serving in the French Foreign Legion accidentally awakens a mummy who begins to wreak havoc as he searches for the reincarnation of his long-lost love.
- Muppets from Space: Gonzo is contacted by his alien family through his breakfast cereal. But when the men in black kidnap him, it's up to Kermit and the gang to rescue Gonzo and help him reunite with his long-lost family.
- Mystery Men: A group of inept amateur superheroes must try to save the day when a supervillain threatens to destroy a major superhero and the city.
- Never Been Kissed: A newspaper reporter enrolls in high school as part of research for a story.
- The Ninth Gate: A rare book dealer, while seeking out the last two copies of a demon text, gets drawn into a conspiracy with supernatural overtones.
- Notting Hill: The life of a simple bookshop owner changes when he meets the most famous film star in the world.
- October Sky: The true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes.
- Office Space: Three company workers who hate their jobs decide to rebel against their greedy boss.
- She's All That: A high school jock makes a bet that he can turn an unattractive girl into the school's prom queen.
- The Sixth Sense: A frightened, withdrawn Philadelphia boy who communicates with spirits seeks the help of a disheartened child psychologist.
- Sleepy Hollow: Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate the decapitations of three people, with the culprit being the legendary apparition, The Headless Horseman.
- South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut: When Stan Marsh and his friends go see an R-rated movie, they start cursing and their parents think that Canada is to blame.
- Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace: Two Jedi escape a hostile blockade to find allies and come across a young boy who may bring balance to the Force, but the long dormant Sith resurface to claim their original glory.
- The Straight Story: An old man makes a long journey by lawnmower to mend his relationship with an ill brother.
- Stuart Little: The Little family adopt a charming young mouse named Stuart, but the family cat wants rid of him.
- The Talented Mr. Ripley: In late 1950s New York, Tom Ripley, a young underachiever, is sent to Italy to retrieve Dickie Greenleaf, a rich and spoiled millionaire playboy. But when the errand fails, Ripley takes extreme measures.
- Tarzan: A man raised by gorillas must decide where he really belongs when he discovers he is a human.
- The Thomas Crown Affair: A very rich and successful playboy amuses himself by stealing artwork, but may have met his match in a seductive detective.
- Three Kings: In the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War, four soldiers set out to steal gold that was stolen from Kuwait, but they discover people who desperately need their help.
- Topsy-Turvy: Set in the 1880s, the story of how, during a creative dry spell, the partnership of the legendary musical/theatrical writers Gilbert and Sullivan almost dissolves, before they turn it all around and write the Mikado.
- Toy Story 2: When Woody is stolen by a toy collector, Buzz and his friends set out on a rescue mission to save Woody before he becomes a museum toy property with his roundup gang Jessie, Prospector, and Bullseye.
- True Crime: Can an over-the-hill journalist uncover the evidence that can prove a death row inmate's innocence just hours before his execution?
- Varsity Blues: A back-up quarterback is chosen to lead a Texas football team to victory after the star quarterback is injured.
- The Virgin Suicides: A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents in suburban Detroit in the mid 1970s.
- The War Zone: An alienated teenager, saddened that he has moved away from London, must find a way to deal with a dark family secret.
- Wild Wild West: The two best special agents in the Wild West must save President Grant from the clutches of a diabolical, wheelchair-bound, steampunk-savvy, Confederate scientist bent on revenge for losing the Civil War.
- The World Is Not Enough: James Bond uncovers a nuclear plot while protecting an oil heiress from her former kidnapper, an international terrorist who can't feel pain.
- The 13th Warrior: A man, having fallen in love with the wrong woman, is sent by the sultan himself on a diplomatic mission to a distant land as an ambassador. Stopping at a Viking village port to restock on supplies, he finds himself unwittingly embroiled in a quest to banish a mysterious threat in a distant Viking land.
- 8MM: A private investigator is hired to discover if a "snuff film" is authentic or not.
- 10 Things I Hate About You: A pretty, popular teenager can't go out on a date until her ill-tempered older sister does.