Movies with similar plots

[Schlosser85]

Avatar and Dances With Wolves

The "unofficial" last Connery 007 movie Never Say Never Again is basically a remake of Thunderball.

Gene Hackman's character in No Way Out and Absolute Power is exactly the same.

 

[Max J Power]

Gene Hackman's character in The Quick and The Dead was pretty much a repeat of his Unforgiven character. Otherwise, the plots weren't that similar.

 

[gwynplaine]

I or someone else might have already mentioned it before, but "Road to Perdition" is pretty much "Lone Wolf and Cub" (aka "Sword of Vengeance") done as an old school Gangster film. I might be wrong but I believe the Japanese movie or Manga inspired the American graphic novel and Mendes' great underrated film in the first place.
Anyway, I love both of them.

 

[El Payaso]

pretty much every chick flick...

Haha.
Pretty much every superhero origin flick...

 

[gwynplaine]

pretty much every chick flick...

Hahat:

 

[Art_of_Crime]

Haha.
Pretty much every superhero origin flick...

that and the " Oh the weight of the world is on my shoulders and I just don't want to be a hero anymore... * days later* but the world needs me and now I understand about my responsibility blah blah blah I get the girl anyway..." Sequel.
Yeah I'm looking at you Superman, Spider-man, Batman, and all of you others waiting in the wings for your cookie cutter sequel.

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

Dumb & Dumber and Beavis and Butt-head Do America.

 

[Enriquespy]

The original Conan The barbarian is a very odd mario bros adaptation:

Reptilian bad guy? check.

Mid level reptilian bad guy in a tower? Check. (the giant snake)

Rescuing a princess? Check.

Minor bad guy with hammer? Check

One up? Check (kind off)

looting for money? Check

Conan is like mario, his robber friend is like luigi, the bald magician is toad...

 

[Chrisbarnes182]

Pocahontas & Avatar

Just Saying.

 

[Lord]

Transformers: Dark of the Moon
The Dark Knight Rises

 

[Travesty]

BB and TDKR

 

[Rowsdower!]

Cars and Doc Hollywood

 

[Mace Dolex]

I forgot if it was MAD or CRACKED magazine in their spoof of either Mission Impossible or Eraser that both movies had similar plotlines.

 

[Donnie Darko]

The Three Amigos
Galaxy Quest
Tropic Thunder

Although much less popular and not as good as the ones you mentioned, you can throw in Bruce Campbell's My Name Is Bruce with those, as well.

 

[Eddie Dean]

The original Conan The barbarian is a very odd mario bros adaptation:

Reptilian bad guy? check.

Mid level reptilian bad guy in a tower? Check. (the giant snake)

Rescuing a princess? Check.

Minor bad guy with hammer? Check

One up? Check (kind off)

looting for money? Check

Conan is like mario, his robber friend is like luigi, the bald magician is toad...

This is the greatest thing I've ever heard.

 

[DawnWarrior]

The original Conan The barbarian is a very odd mario bros adaptation:

Reptilian bad guy? check.

Mid level reptilian bad guy in a tower? Check. (the giant snake)

Rescuing a princess? Check.

Minor bad guy with hammer? Check

One up? Check (kind off)

looting for money? Check

Conan is like mario, his robber friend is like luigi, the bald magician is toad...

That's funny, because another reviewer described the new Conan (with Jason Momoa) as like Zelda: [YT]wvLZrdBF2F4[/YT]

 

[DyeLorean]

Not really a similar plot, but actually the same plot device can be found in Cronocrímenes (a spanish time-travel movie) and Triangle.

On a side note, I recommend both movies for any person who likes movies involving time.

 

[def28]

The Wraith and The Crow have very similar plots.

 

[Piper Maru]

Nearly every zombie film....and that's coming from a fan of zombie films!

 

[jrmtz543]

Sydney White and Revenge of the Nerds.

These even have a nearly identical speech at the end. I was surprised nobody got sued for plagiarism.

 

[gwynplaine]

Nearly every zombie film....and that's coming from a fan of zombie films!

Shaun of the dead doesn't have that much in common with 28 Days later or Romero's Dawn of the Dead or Day of the Dead etc...

 

[Eddie Dean]

The Wraith and The Crow have very similar plots.

And Clint Eastwood's High Plain Drifter!

 

[Lazarus87]

the hunger games and the condemed

 

[The Navigator]

Iron Man 2 and Dark Knight Rises.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Spider-Man 2 and Amazing Spider-Man
Batman & Robin and every other grand scheme vengeance film