Movies
In 2003, what non-American movie won the second ever Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film?
spirited away (Ghibli Anime)
Charlie Kaufman wrote this 2002 film that starred Nicolas Cage as Charlie Kaufman
Adaptation
The 3 big-screen Gatsbys have been Warner Baxter, Robert Redford & this "Shane" star
Alan Ladd
Madonna appeared in this 2002 Bond film & sang the title tune
Die another day
"EASY": The title of this 1970 Jack Nicholson film refers to a book of piano exercises his character practiced as a child
5 easy pieces
Robert De Niro chews the scenery & some eggs as Louis Cyphre (get it?) in this New Orleans-set film
Angel heart
This director of the "Men in Black" movies also directed Will Smith in "Wild Wild West"
Barry Sonnenfeld
From the '80s: "I want my 2 dollars"
Better off dead (1985 black comedy with John Cusack)
won best director for "The Lost Weekend" & "The Apartment"
Billy Wilder
What 1974 film does Diahann Carroll play the title Harlem mother who falls in love with garbage collector Roop Marshall, played by James Earl Jones?
Claudine
What confusing 2012 Movie stars Tom Hanks and Halle Berry?
Cloud Atlas (book by David Mitchell)
Keith David voices a black cat who tells the title character "I'm not the other anything, I'm me," before helping her escape a fate of having buttons sewn over her eyes in what 2009 animated film?
Coraline
Before winning an Oscar as a 1960s Black Panther, he played Slim to Jodie Turner-Smith's Queen in a 2019 film
Daniel Kaluuya (Judas and the black messiah)
Reagan played Bette Davis' boozing high society pal in this 1939 film about a socialite dying of a brain tumor
Dark Victory
Her "You Are My Lucky Star" number was cut from "Singin' in the Rain", but it's back on the DVD
Debbie Reynolds
In what 1954 film directed by Alfred Hitchock does Princess Grace star as Margot Wendice? In this film Margot is a wealthy socialite who is married to a former tennis player, however she is having an affair. Ray Gilland stars as her husband Tony Wendice in this film.
Dial M for murder
What 1967 war film starred Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, and Telly Savalas, and shares its name with an annual list published by the Environmental Working Group that highlights the year's most pesticide-contaminated fruits and vegetables?
Dirty Dozen
Jerry Bruckheimer & this man produced such movies as "Flashdance", "Top Gun" & "Days of Thunder"
Don Simpson
This assassin was featured in the movie "Daredevil" & got her own film 2 years later
Elektra
This 2014 movie was a remake of the 1981 Brooke Shields movie of the same name
Endless Love
In this film when asked, "Is this heaven?", Kevin Costner answers, "It's Iowa"
Field of Dreams
In "Milk", Victor Garber portrayed this slain San Francisco mayor
George Moscone
This one-named designer created the iconic little black dress that Audrey Hepburn wore in "Breakfast at Tiffany's"
Givenchy
2 characters: "Look, your worshipfulness... I take orders from just one person: me"; "It's a wonder you're still alive"
Han Solo & Princess Leia
French ballet star Zizi Jeanmarie dances her way into Danny Kaye's heart in this 1952 musical bio
Hans Christian Andersen
His fairy tales include "The Metal Pig", "Aunty Toothache", "The Rags" & "The Fir Tree"
Hans Christian Andersen
1940's "The Grapes of Wrath" starred this actor as Tom Joad
Henry Fonda
In "My Darling Clementine" he played Wyatt Earp & Victore Mature played Doc Holliday
Henry Fonda
The Jacobite played this train in the Harry Potter films
Hogwarts Express
"MOVIE ANTAGONISTS": 2015: Despot of a post-apocalyptic wasteland Immortan Joe
Mad Max-Fury Road
2 characters: "You're using Bonetti's Defense against me, ah?"; "I thought it fitting considering the rocky terrain"
Inigo Montoya & Westley
THE AFI's 100 GREATEST FILMS: One of the top 20, this 1946 film was based on a short story published as "The Man Who Was Never Born"
It's a wonderful life
At age 79 he became the oldest person ever nominated for Best Director, for "Prizzi's Honor"
John Huston
Clint Eastwood's role in "White Hunter, Black Heart" was inspired by this director of "The African Queen"
John Huston
Who directed "The Dead" (1987)
John Huston
In "A Walk in the Clouds", he's a WWII vet who poses as the husband of an unmarried, pregnant woman
Keanu Reeves
In 1994's "Wyatt Earp", he played Earp to Dennis Quaid's Doc Holliday
Kevin Costner
Reagan called this 1942 film in which he played an amputee the best one he ever made
King's row
Captain Marvel gets some powers due to the Tesseract; others she has via an infusion of this alien race's blood thanks to Yon-Rogg
Kree
In 1993's "Tombstone", he played Earp to Val Kilmer's Doc Holliday
Kurt Russell
A 2019 horror movie was called "The Curse of" her, Spanish for "the weeping woman"
La Llorona
Will Ferrell was sucked into a time-space vortex in this 2009 film based on a '70s TV show
Land of the lost
Henry Mancini topped the pop charts just once, with this movie theme heard here:
Love theme from Romeo and Juliet
Natalie Wood romances Gene Kelly but ends up with Martin Milner in this film of novel by Herman Wouk
Marjorie Morningstar
Pinnacle Rock was used as target practice by U.S. pilots in World War II, but despite the damage, it still looked good enough to be featured in this 2003 Russell Crowe film, the first major Hollywood motion picture to be made in the Galapagos
Master & Commander
What is the name of Harvey Weinstein's production company that produced "Sex, lies and Videotape" and "Pulp Fiction"?
Miramax
What 2022 movie stars Jared Leto as a living vampire after he cured himself of a rare disease?
Morbius
Which 1999 song by Gloria Estefan and NSYNC was nominated for an Academy Award and appeared on the soundtrack of a film where Estefan made her big screen debut?
Music of my heart (streep/Bassett)
The character King Kaiser is based on Sid Caesar in this 1982 Peter O'Toole film set in the world of 1950s TV
My favourite year
Secretary of Defense Gene Hackman gets offensive & kills his girlfriend in this 1987 Kevin Costner thriller
No way out
White Noise, a post-modernist novel from author Don DeLillo, has been adapted for the big screen by what Oscar-nominated director?
Noah Baumbach
Instead of Christmas the family in the movie "Captain Fantastic" observes the birthday of this linguist & left-wing social critic
Noam Chomsky
This 1965 war drama was Frank Sinatra's directorial debut
None but the brave
What actress who was married to Ossie Davis for 50 years starred in "The Jackie Robinson Story" and "A Raisin in the Sun"?
Ruby Dee
Who are the main characters in the original Ghostbusters movie from 1984?
Peter Venkman (Bill Murray), Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis), Winston Zeddemore (Ernie Hudson), Ray Stantz (Dan Aykroyd), Louis Tully (Rick Moranis), Janine (Annie Potts), Dana (Sigourney Weaver)
CHARACTERS: Jules Winnfield, Butch Coolidge, "The Wolf"
Pulp Fiction
This movie introduced the world to Indiana Jones
Raiders of the lost Ark
Yes, it's safe to look at the angels that adorn the top of the object of Indiana Jones's quest in this 1981 film
Raiders of the lost ark
Vic Vega is a tortured soul--no, make that a torturing soul--& gets an earful from a cop in this 1992 Tarantino film
Reservoir Dogs
This "All in the Family" co-star directed the film "The Princess Bride" & read the book on cassette
Rob Reiner
Anthony Hopkins played the role of author C.S. Lewis in this Richard Attenborough film
Shadowlands
Burt Reynolds drives a Trans Am from Georgia to Texas & back in this 1977 romp
Smokey and the bandit
1939: "My friends just call me Ringo--nickname I had as a kid"
Stagecoach
WHO PLAYED Bada Bing owner Silvio Dante
Steven Van Zandt
President portrayed by Brian Keith in "The Wind and the Lion"
Teddy Roosevelt
The title of this 1935 Hitchcock film starring Robert Donat & Madeleine Carroll refers to a spy organization
The 39 steps
This Dave Eggers novel about an uber-powerful Internet company that links everything became a Tom Hanks film
The Circle
A tired & hapless Jeff Bridges expresses some strong dislike for the Eagles in this 1998 Coen Brothers comedy
The big lebowski
Oscar winners Laurence Olivier, Daniel Day-Lewis & Mel Gibson were entwined with this title 1984 ship
The bounty
Laurence Fishburne & Stephen Baldwin starred in "Fled", a remake of this Sidney Poitier-Tony Curtis film
The defiant ones
In this movie Robert De Niro kidnaps Jerry Lewis
The king of comedy
Harvey Keitel played the role of Judas Iscariot in this controversial 1988 film
The last temptation of Christ
Everyone from Sean Connery to Henry Fonda to John Wayne turns up in this 1962 WWII epic
The longest day
Barbra Streisand played New York psychiatrist Susan Lowenstein in this 1991 film
The prince of Tides
Sean Connery said, "He pulls a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue" in this film
The untouchables
Marilyn sang a sexy rendition of "Heat Wave" in this 1954 movie musical
There's no business like show business
What are superman's earth parents names?
Thomas and Martha
In one Andersen tale, a one-legged toy soldier made of this was in love with a dancing paper doll
Tin
In what 1955 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock does Princess Grace star as Frances Stevens? Cary Grant stars opposite her as John Robie. The film takes place on the French Riviera.
To catch a thief
WHO PLAYED Felix Unger, half of a 1970s TV Odd Couple
Tony Randall
QUOTABLE MOVIES 2004: "Is there no one else? Is there no one else?"
Troy
what 2022 action movie stars Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg in race against Antonio Bandaras to find the Magellan treasure?
Uncharted
Order fried green tomatoes at this cafe just north of Macon where "Fried Green Tomatoes" was filmed
Whistle Stop Café
On "Deadwood," Gerald McRaney played a vicious magnate whose son would become this real-life publishing mogul
William Randolph Hearst
In 2006, the first "High School Musical" gave this actor his breakout role
Zac Efron
A washed-up fighter pilot named Ted Stryker must cast off his personal demons and land a passenger plane after the crew (including a famous athlete portraying a pilot) are stricken with food poisoning . But this isn't "Airplane!" This is the plot of what 1957 melodrama written by Arthur Hailey (who also penned "Airport") which was the inspiration for that slightly funnier film of 1980?
Zero hour
Which 1986 Hong Kong action film saw the beginning of the 'Gun Fu' subgenre and launched both director John Woo and lead actor Chow Yun Fat into superstardom in Asia?
a better tomorrow
Home movies of JFK's assassination were taken by Orville Nix, Marie Muchmore &, famously, him
abraham zapruder
Steven Spielberg's production company is named after what 26-minute film, his 1968 debut?
amblin
AFI's first "100 Greatest American Movies" list included this D.W. Griffith silent epic; on an updated list, it was gone
birth of a nation
won best director for "The Bridge on the River Kwai" & "Lawrence of Arabia"
david lean
"F9" brought this Sung Kang character back from getting blown to bits in "Tokyo Drift"; #justiceforhim!
han
Humphrey Bogart plays a tough Hollywood writer who loses his last chance at love with Gloria Grahame in this 1950 film
in a lonely place
Grammy's mob ties came home to roost & she locked herself in here, also a 2002 Jodie Foster film title
panic room
This term for a circus or carnival worker is also the title of an Elvis Presley film
roustabout
Following the successes of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "The Sting," Robert Redford and director George Roy Hill teamed up for a third and final film (with a screenplay by the great William Goldman). Name this sentimental tale of a 1920s barnstormer
the great Waldo Pepper
The Grey Widowers are murderous, dog-sized spiders who hunt and kill humans by scent in what 2007 film? The creatures arrive during the title supernatural event, and some hide in a pharmacy next to the grocery store where much of the film takes place
the mist (Frank Derabont and Andre Braugher)
Maureen O' Hara & her brother appeared in this 1952 John Wayne film made in Ireland
the quiet man
For 1973 Marvin Hamlisch got Oscars for both the score & "memorable" title song of this Redford-Streisand film
the way we were
"DOUBLE DOUBLE LETTERS": Hiccup in "How to Train Your Dragon" gives his dragon this name, but soon after gets a better look inside its mouth
toothless
