Better Than It Sounds/Film N

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Naked Lunch: An exterminator accidentally shoots his wife, then goes to Morocco to investigate drug smugglers with the help of a talking typewriter. The whole thing may or may not be a hallucination.
  • The Naked Gun: It's up to Francis Marion to stop a professional baseball player from assassinating a middle-aged British woman at the behest of a rich Mexican German guy - but not before he puts a religious dictator in a headlock and gives him a noogie. It's a comedy, although certain naive people would never know it.
    • The Naked Gun 2 1/2: Industrial ploy involving a kidnapped scientist is foiled by clumsy man.
    • The Naked Gun 33 1/3: Man saves his marriage by fighting terrorists on national TV.
  • Nanny McPhee: An eccentric drifter uses witchcraft to help a disheveled father and his dysfunctional kids con an elderly relative out of her money.
  • Napoleon Dynamite: A nerd helps a Mexican run for president against a rich bitch.
  • National Treasure: Guy with family secret sets out to steal an old piece of paper.
    • National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets: To clear his family name, the guy tries to find a lost city of gold under Mount Rushmore, after nearly being arrested for playing with a toy helicopter, being drunk at Buckingham Palace, and kidnapping the President.
  • The Negotiator: Disgraced cop stages late night sit-in to prove his innocence. Former colleagues attend to help him pass the time and remodel the office.
  • Network: Old man rants on TV about how much this generation sucks. People find it amusing.
  • Newsies: Boys go on strike from selling papers, until publishing companies lower the sudden tax increase on the papers they're selling. Singing, dancing, and Christian Bale pelvic thrusting ensues.
  • Neverwas: Psychiatrist discovers that his father wrote a book based on one of his patient's delusions, then starts believing it himself.
  • Night at the Museum: Perpetual slacker succumbs to gainful employment, and must stop his predecessors in the job from ripping off his new place of employment.
    • Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian: The slacker, who is now on a new job, tries to save two of his former workmates, and falls in love with a dead woman.
  • The Night of the Hunter: Children flee the wrath of their tattooed stepfather.
  • Night on the Galactic Railroad: Two boys go for a ride on a train that runs along The Milky Way.
  • Night of the Living Dead: Drifter and Jerkass argue about how best to defend a farmhouse that isn't theirs from intruders desperate to break in, whilst PTSD victim cowers in shock and mother worries about ailing daughter.
      • Or for the remake: Drifter and Jerkass argue about how best to defend a farmhouse that technically belongs to someone else in their group, while a PTSD victim decides to live and escapes. When she returns, she is dismayed by the actions of the rednecks who rescued her.
    • Dawn of the Dead: Two cops and two reporters, one of whom is pregnant, turn shopping mall into fortress/apartment complex.
    • Day of the Dead: Military and scientists argue about how best to perform experiments on dead people.
    • Land of the Dead: Two men and a girl are hired by a businessman to return his truck.
    • Diary of the Dead: Whiny film students go on a road trip and meet weird people.
  • Night Shift: Entrepreneur and accountant convert city morgue into brothel.
  • The Nightmare Before Christmas: A walking skeleton decides to be jolly instead of scary, and nearly ruins Christmas as a result.
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street: Sleeping teenagers are stalked and killed by a man in a Christmas colored sweater. Johnny Depp gets eaten by his bed.
  • The Nines: God plays life like an MMO. A couple of NPCs help convince him to quit his addiction.
  • No Country for Old Men: The husbands of Penélope Cruz and Diane Lane chase each other all over Texas.
  • North by Northwest: A man is forced to climb Mount Rushmore thanks to a figment of the CIA's imagination.
  • Nocturna: A boy's fear of the dark creates a shadow which almost destroys the night. Accompanying the boy is a narcoleptic cat, and a man whose job it is to herd cats.