Name two completely unrelated films with the same basic main plot device

[re'up]

some of these are just two studios doing similar movies to compete, and others are just genre tropes that have been around forever.

Point Break and The Fast & Furious is a great one, but Point Break can't be the first inception of the kind of protagonist falling under the spell of a criminal mastermind, plus a separate hetereosexual love story, and the kind of moral reckoning at the end.

 

[Phantom]

Point Break and the 1st Fast and the Furious movie. Law enforcement officer goes undercover in a subculture (surfing/street racing) to stop the bank robberies/truck hijackings.

edit

Somebody already mentioned this. Should have read the entire thread first

 

[God Almighty]

I would also say The Dark Knight and Heat in a way. While the plot is different, there are some elements that are similar...

• Starts off with a Daylight Robbery
• Provides narratives not just for Batman, but also for the Criminals and the Legal Side (Harvey Dent/Gordan); Heat provides narratives for the Cops and the Criminals.
  
• The build-up leads to an exciting 3rd Act when all of the shyt pops off; Batman trying to stop Joker, along with the ferry bombs while Pacino's group gets into a intense shootout with De Niro.
  
• Also it breaths life into the city itself. Now just for the characters, but it makes it feel like the city itself is alive.

Dark Knight needed a scene where Batman and Joker have a nice conversation over a cup of coffee in a diner.

 

[The axe murderer]

Terminator and meet the robinsons

 

[TheNig]

Finding Nemo and Taken.

Dad in search of lost child.

 

[Neuromancer]

The Babadook and Home Alone, both trouble family relationships that end with large Rube-Goldberg style booby traps.

 

[MushroomX]

Dark Knight needed a scene where Batman and Joker have a nice conversation over a cup of coffee in a diner.

The Interrogation scene did have some semblance. Its where they aired out their moral compass.

 

[hazardous]

No Strings Attached and Friends with Benefits

Olympus Has Fallen - White House Down

Came in to say this one, they came out in a few months of each other too

 

[AllHolosEve]

-Amazing Spiderman: When the Lizard transforms people from the top of the tower.
-Ninja Turtles: When Shredder transforms people from the top of the tower.

 

[God Almighty]

The Interrogation scene did have some semblance. Its where they aired out their moral compass.

You're right.

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

passion of the christ

&

frankenstein

&

robocop

 

[GPBear]

Wizard of Oz

American History X

Spends part of the movie in black and white, then switches to color.

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

Ferngully
Avatar
Pocahontas

Dances With Wolves
The Last Samurai

 

[semicko82]

Giant and Gone with the Wind

 

[semicko82]

Skyfall and The Dark Knight