War of the Worlds (2005): Man tries to bond with his estranged children. Buried things who emerge to wreck havok decide to turn it more difficult.
Warm Bodies: A young man and his friends go out to kill and eat a group of teenagers. The young man falls in love with the only survivor. She falls in love with him too.
The Warriors: A group of teenagers go home after a pep rally. They seem to have difficulty taking the train and are thus forced to walk most of the way.
Or, nine wannabe Native Americans go to a park, only to see a wannabe religious cultist assassinated by some wannabe bikers. The faux Indians lose their chief and spend the rest of the night fleeing from homicidal bus drivers, amateur athletes who have taken a vow of silence, bisexual femme fatales, and wheel-footed hillbillies. Along the way, they kidnap a Puerto Rican and rip her skirt.
The Watch (2012): Four young men in a very friendly neighborhood start a night watch group to protect the town from murderers. They end up getting humiliated, ignored, constantly argue among themselves, and accidentally enter a local orgy, thinking someone inside was being murdered. They also kill several hundred aliens.
Watchmen: A group of heroes try to stop a supervillain from enacting his plan to save the world and fail.
A faceless detective, an overweight loser, a Smurf-colored bald guy, a chick with mommy issues and a former Hitler Youth mourn the loss of a Robert Downey Jr. lookalike and wonder if they'll get screwed because of it.
Two washed up, though attractive, second generation superheroes are united through the actions of a super-villain hellbent on matching or surpassing the accomplishments of Alexander the Great. He succeeds. It can arguably be seen as a happy ending for the couple, however.
Homosexual destroys New York, blames God.
The Waterboy: A football player has several Berserk Buttons, one being the mention of the superiority of Gatorade.
Waterworld: Part-fish guy fights redneck over little girl with map tattooed on her back.
Watership Down: In a story praised for its uncompromising realism, vicious talking rabbits, some of whom have psychic powers, wage brutal warfare on an island. Based on a book of the same name.
We Are the Pirates of the Roads: A girl is kidnapped by criminals. But it's OK, they're good criminals. Also features a scene of two moms wrestling while farting.
Wedding Crashers: Uninvited guests attend family-blending events for sport.
The Wedding Singer: '80s entertainer is ditched at altar, and gets over this by planning waitress' wedding.
Wendell & Wild: Two brothers steal their father's hair cream so they can build an amusement park. Raising the dead and evil capitalists are involved.
What the #$*! Do We Know!?: Incoherent ramblings about quantum physics, funded by a woman who claims to be the reincarnation of 40,000 year old warrior spirit. One of the few legitimate scientists who agreed to be interviewed for the movie claims that the filmmakers completely misrepresented his views. Possibly just as bad as it sounds.
What Women Want: Freak accident leads man to steal his boss's ideas while seducing her.
When Harry Met Sally......: A guy and a girl hate each other when they first meet, but eventually marry each other twelve years later.
Alternately, "you know, that one movie with that scene in a sandwich shop. The one where the chick fakes an orgasm and the old lady is like, 'I'll have what she's having."
Where the Wild Things Are: A schizophrenic child is sent to his room after biting his mom, but escapes from reality and he's crowned as king over a tribe of semi-feral monsters that represent parts of his emotions/personality.
Whisper of the Heart: A girl writes a parody version of a country song and a fanfic about an old guy's cat decoration.
The Cat Returns: Said fanfic, which involves a girl being forcibly turned into a furry.
White Heat: Guy hangs out with gangster with mommy issues and watches him blow up just as he reaches the top of the world.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit: A grieving alcoholic and a nutty actor team up to solve a murder mystery. Said nutty actor belongs to a co-culture in which people have sex by actually playing patty-cake.
Or: alcoholic and eccentric actor versus a correcting fluid wielding, road-building advocate of private transportation.
The Wicker Man (1973): Obnoxiously religious man meets people who are even more obnoxiously religious than he is.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: And thirty-four years later, it happens again, but apparently Michael Jackson now owns the factory. And this time, we learn it all started because he didn't want to go to the dentist.
The Wind Rises: A film about the man who aided Imperial Japan by designing one of the deadliest war machines in history.
Wings of Desire: Guy quits his job to be able to score with the girl he stalked while on the job.
Disney's Winnie the Pooh: A bunch of animals live in a forest in a book in a kid's room. They don't know a lot.
Pooh's Grand Adventure: The animals try to save a boy who isn't in danger from a monster that doesn't exist by failing to remember what the boy told them.
The Tigger Movie: The tiger tries to find his family, so his friends attempt to disguise as more tigers.
Piglet's Big Movie: The animals' short friend goes for a sad walk while his friends freak out about him.
Pooh's Heffalump Movie: The animals go out to hunt elephants. The only one that succeeds later lets it go.
Winnie the Pooh (2011): The animals try to save the boy who still isn't in danger again from another monster that doesn't exist while denying food from their friend who ends up hallucinating out of hunger and eating mud.
The VVitch: Two third-string bit players from Game of Thrones star in a horror film set in 17th century New England. The bad guy is a talking goat.
Witchfinder General: Soldier swears revenge on lawyer.
Withnail and I: Two unemployable, alcoholic actors go to the country to try and escape their miserable lives but everything goes wrong.
Or alternately: two actors go on holiday by mistake.
Alternatively: Drunk whores out friend to uncle in exchange for cottage.
The Wizard: A boy discovers his emotionally disturbed half-brother is quite good at video games and travels cross-country with him to California, bringing him to compete in a video game tournament. A lot of product placement ensues.
The Wizard of Oz: Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she runs into and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again. This actually appeared as a capsule synopsis in a TV guide, making it the Ur-Example (more where that one came from).
The tale of a band of murderous thugs who are hired to kill a supposedly evil person in exchange for vital organs, abstract concepts, and a ride. After the assassination, it turns out they had the organs and abstract concept all along and the group's leader is allowed to flee.
Women fight over red shoes.
Upon learning that her sister had been killed by a young woman who recently entered the country, an old lady takes it upon herself to subdue and capture the killer. However, by the time the old lady can do so, the killer has already gathered a handful of accomplices and, with their help, kills her too. This young woman then flees the country before much else can happen. The murderous young woman is the protagonist.
The Wiz: The same as the above... but with black people!
Wolfwalkers: A girl becomes a furry after befriending a kid in the forest.
Wonder Woman (2017): Guy survives a plane crash, meets a hot chick and brings her home. She eventually discovers the guy's boss has a hidden agenda.
Wonder Woman 1984: The chick manages to bring the guy back from the dead, but decides it's better to let him go and stop a manipulative failed businessman instead.
The World's End: Robots try to stop a man from living out his teenage fantasy.
Wreck-It Ralph: Giant unhappy with his job kills bugs and an Attention Whore with the aid of a carpenter, a female soldier and an outcast.
Alternatively, a hobo, a repairman, a space marine, and a child are tormented by an angry race car driver.
Alternatively, after his home is seized through eminent domain and demolished, a man spends many years protesting through direct action. After becoming frustrated, he decides to run off and join the military. He is decorated for valor, but then deserts. He is then robbed by a homeless nine-year-old who is persecuted for having a disability. The man later uses torture to extract vital information from a government official in order to stage a coup. After seeing his plans apparently come to ruin, however, the man decides to hurl himself into the caldera of a volcano in the hope that this will somehow cause the volcano to violently erupt, wiping out almost every living thing in the country, which it does. In the process, however, the coup succeeds, and the new ruler orders the summary executions of several children. This film is considered heartwarming fun for the whole family.
Alternatively, two men argue about cake and it almost starts the apocalypse.
Ralph Breaks the Internet: The giant becomes a viral video star to buy a steering wheel, but is discouraged when his best friend wants to move to a crime-ridden city and join a gang of violent car thieves.
Alternatively, the giant, in an attempt to raise money to help a friend, accidentally creates a mindless army that destroys Pinterest.
The Wrestler: Man presumably kills himself on the job.
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