The Guard

By Mr. Tropnevad

Summary

Irish cop Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson) teams up with uptight FBI agent Wendell Everett (Don Cheadle) to track down a gang of international drug smugglers.

The Apartment (1960)

By Mr. Tropnevad

Summary

C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon) is an office worker who loans his apartment to his philandering superiors in exchange for a serious of promotions. When head of the company, J.D. Sheldrake (Fred MacMurray) asks for the key to take his mistress there things start to heat up because unbeknownst to Baxter they are both in love with Fran (Shirley MacLaine) the elevator girl. Now Baxter must choose between losing his job as the executive or losing the girl.

The Secret of My Success

By Mr. Tropnevad

Summary

Kansas farm boy Brantley (Michael J. Fox) moves to New York City with intentions on moving up the corporate ladder. Brantley gets a job in his uncle’s large corporation’s mailroom. Instead of working his way up the old fashion way he discovers an empty executive’s office and changes his name to Carlton Whitfield and begins to impress a high ranking female executive. To make matters worse his oversexed aunt gets mixed up with Brantley and now he finds himself juggling two jobs, two identities and two women.

H.M.S. Pinafore (1982)

By Zentilack

[The above image is a poster from 1879, when the show was first put on.  I couldn't find a decent image for the cover of the 1982 version.]

Summary

Ralph Rackstraw (Michael Bulman) is a common sailor on the British warship H.M.S. Pinafore, and pines for the captain's daughter, Josephine (Meryl Drower).  Their different social positions make this impossible...until the odd Sir Joseph Porter (Frankie Howerd) comes aboard with his unorthodox notions of equality.  This seems to solve the problem, except for the fact Sir Joseph came specifically to ask Josephine to marry him.

Uptown Saturday Night

By Mr. Tropnevad

Summary

Steve (Sidney Poitier) and Wardell (Bill Cosby) decide to go to the ritzy side of town one night and go to an illegal nightclub. While winning big money at the craps table the club is robbed and everyone there is forced to hand over their wallets and valuables. Steve discovers the next day that he had a winning lottery ticket and the two men have to find a way to recover it.

Tucker and Dale vs. Evil

By Mr. Tropnevad and Zentilack

Summary

Tucker and Dale are on vacation at their rundown cabin in the mountains where they are trying to have a peaceful vacation of fishing, drinking beer, and fixing the cabin. Their peaceful vacation turns into a nightmare after saving a beautiful college student from drowning in a lake in the woods. Tucker and Dale are accused of kidnapping (and possibly murdering) the girl by her friends and a series of misunderstandings leads to a turn for the worst.

Burke and Hare (2010)

By Mr. Tropnevad

Summary

When a man in Burke (Simon Pegg) and Hare’s (Andy Serkis) boarding house dies, the two decide they can earn some money selling the body to a medical school. They get the idea to sell more bodies for money, but there is a lack of fresh cadavers and the men are forced to murder people.