Raging Bull: A boxer gets mad at his brother, his wife and/or himself.
Rain Man: A yuppie simultaneously exploits and bonds with his savant brother.
Raising Arizona: An infertile couple kidnaps a baby quintuplet, and they realize that it was probably better if they didn't. They meet up with two escaped convicts, an asshole father and a hairy motorcycle-riding bounty hunter. The feel-good movie of the year.
Ran: A man has a bad retirement, goes into a Heroic BSoD.
Rango: A lizard with an identity crisis saves a small, drought-ridden town by doing his best Clint Eastwood impression.
Rashomon: Four people can't seem to agree on a testimony. One of them is a ghost.
Ready To Rumble: Total geeks help an over-the-hill athlete get back on his feet, and inadvertently destroy the very franchise they're supposedly promoting.
Real Genius: A bunch of nerds play practical jokes on each other and their professor, though the latter quickly becomes Serious Business. With the help of a super-smart hermit and copious amounts of popcorn, they save the day.
Real Steel: Pre-teen bonds with his estranged father by having his new toy regularly beaten.
Rear Window: A reporter solves a murder mystery without leaving his apartment.
Or, maybe: a guy spies on his neighbors. His girlfriend and a health professional warn him about this, but then join him.
[REC]: A bubbly TV reporter and her cameraman shadow two firefighters to do an episode of their show; but when the firefighters go answer a call, everybody ends up quarantined and Zombies (or some sort of, anyway) ensue.
The Red Balloon: A short film aimed at children containing a brutal murder scene of a young boy's friend towards the end.
The Red Turtle: A man gets Stockholm Syndrome from a turtle.
The Red Violin: Samuel L. Jackson has had it with this motherfucking stringed instrument at this motherfucking auction.
The Ref: Criminal holds family hostage on Christmas. It's a comedy.
Repo Man: A disillusioned punk rocker starts a new career in debt collection.
Repo! The Genetic Opera: A widowed surgeon imprisons his daughter. The dead wife's ex-boyfriend tries to break the daughter out. Daughter befriends a drug dealer. Everybody sings.
Requiem for a Dream: Four drug addicts lead miserable, self-destructive and ultimately unfulfilled lives. Oh, and it has epic music.
Reservoir Dogs: Well-dressed men talk about Madonna and wonder if one of them is a police officer.
Alternatively: Disaster strikes when a medical supply worker tries to impress a new employee, and it only gets worse when their boss and his mortician friend help them cover it up.
Ricky Rapper: A boy who likes rapping, his aunt and some girl assault an old lady for making gross food and possibly being a criminal.
Ricky Rapper and the Bicycle Thief: A rich guy steals the boy's bike in hopes that seeing it will give his injured nephew enough willpower to walk again. It works, but only after the boy and girl have put themselves and their friendship in serious danger and willingly given him the bike.
Ricky Rapper and the Cool Wendy: A stereotypical early 2010s teen girl steals a rapper's girlfriend.
A woman watches a weird video tape and proceeds to freak out for seven days straight.
Death cult forms around short confusing artsy film created by a disturbed recluse who has devised an unconventional viral-style distribution model.
In Japan, videotapes watch you.
Rise of the Guardians: A dead boy that desperately wants attention teams up with folklore characters to beat another folklore character who also desperately wants attention.
Rise of Evil: Insane dictator with a bizarre mustache starts a war with his neighbors.
The Great Dictator: Insane dictator with a bizarre mustache starts a war with his neighbors, but played for laughs.
To describe it more dramatically: "When the silent movie actor speaks, everyone listens."
Downfall: After starting war with his neighbors, insane dictator with bizarre mustache hides in his bunker and blatantly denies reality whilst his adjutants humor him.
Robin Hood: Men in Tights: A group of men, including a Rabbi, plot to take down Richard Lewis, whilst parodying everything they can.
RoboCop (1987): Cop gets injured in the line of duty; after physical therapy, he fights crime.
Public servant gets tortured and killed during his mission, is resurrected and walks on water.
RoboCop 2: Drug dealer gets injured in the line of duty; after physical therapy, they try to make him fight crime. It doesn't work.
RoboCop (2014): Cop gets injured by a defective vehicle; after physical therapy, he fights crime.
Robots: Guy tries to show his plate-breaking invention to a fat guy, only to find out that he's been replaced by a buff guy who wants everyone to replace their vital organs with new ones or be chopped up. He secretly performs surgery on some old people while living with poor people, including a red crossdresser, his yellow sister, a big green guy, a blue mute guy, a grumpy orange guy and lady with a big butt who kills a guy with a fart.
The Rock: After a military operation goes wrong, millions of lives depend on chemist and 60-year old prisoner.
Alternatively: Government forces shoot down of protest against mistreatment of veterans.
Rock and Rule: Old bald man tries to summon a demon from another dimension to destroy the world because his music isn't popular. He is thwarted by musical furries.
Alternatively: At a 12-Step meeting, drug addict Elton J. note Hi, Elton! tells the story of his recovery.
Rocky: An athlete pours his heart and soul into his training and loses anyway.
Alteratively: Italian man goes to the gym and finds his locker was given to a black guy. He then publicly fights another black guy and loses.
Rocky II: The athlete trains harder and wins this time.
Alternatively, a white guy beats up a black man in front of hundreds of spectators. This is seen as a good thing.
Rocky III: The athlete must compete yet again. His opponent pities him.
Alternatively, the white guy then beats up another black man for daring to challenge him. This is also seen as a good thing.
Rocky IV: The athlete avenges a fallen comrade and defeats communism.
Alternatively, a different white guy beats up the first black man so much he dies. People finally treat this as a bad thing.
Rocky V: The athlete is forced into retirement and then subsequently beats his student to a pulp for betrayal, reconnects with son.
Rocky Balboa: The athlete comes out of retirement after decades and loses the big fight; he must also deal with family issues.
Creed (2015): The athlete is recruited to be a mentor to the fallen comrade's son, who loses the big fight; he must also deal with medical issues.
Alternatively, a white guy beats up a black man in front of hundreds of spectators. The result is not what the audience would want, but this is still seen as a good thing.
Creed II: The son interrupts his winning streak because Communism's legacy decided to challenge him.
Creed III: The son has a disagreement with an old friend. Hundreds of people come to watch them beat each other up.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show: A musical about a slut and her man who get corrupted by a crossdressing mad scientist and his retinue.
Room: A woman becomes increasingly desperate after being stuck with a small child for a long period of time.
The Room (2003): A film about a man whose fiance has an affair with his best friend. It is poorly acted, poorly written, poorly filmed and the guy who made it gets very annoyed when certain people badmouth it.
Alternatively: A bad movie made by a weird and misogynistic foreigner to get back at his unfaithful ex-girlfriend.
Alternatively: An indie movie in which a Jerkass' girlfriend vacillates between defending him and accusing him. Hilarity Ensues in the director/star's despite.
Alternatively: A strange filmmaker with a Mysterious Past tries to make a romantic tragedy but the end result is a Black Comedy.
A Room For Romeo Brass: Army fanatic turns young child against his disabled friend and then shows the boy's sister his erection.
Rosemary's Baby: A pregnant married woman doesn't know who's the father of her baby.
The Rugrats Movie: People get lost in the woods and encounter monkeys.
Babies attempt to trade away new addition, get lost.
Rugrats Go Wild!: People get lost on an island and meet people from another TV show.
Rumble Fish: A street punk learns from his big brother that fighting is wrong, and that he should really relax and go see the world.
Run Lola Run: To get some money to her boyfriend, a girl runs and screams. We see the whole thing three times.
The Running Man: Man with peculiar accent participates in hit reality show.
Or... Man with peculiar accent wins Game Show by sending some old guy from Hogan's Heroes hurtling to his death. Somehow this saves the world. Arguably increased audience interest in Japanese reinterpretation of hockey.
Rushmore: An overachieving student likes his teacher; admires/dislikes/envies local industrialist.
