Movies

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1950 Best Picture Oscar - Bette Davis: "Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night." - movie about theatrical backstabbing

All About Eve

Diane Keaton "Baby" movie

Baby Boom

1980 Brian de Palma movie with Michael Caine in drag

Dressed to Kill

1963 movie - treasure hunt featuring lots of big name comedians

It's a Mad. Mad, Mad, Mad World

1998 Italian film about concentration camp - Roberto Benigni won Best Actor Oscar

Life is Beautiful

Al Pacino as Lt. Col. Frank Slade - "hoo-ah!"

Scent of a Woman

1972 disaster movie about a capsized ocean liner - based on Paul Gallico novel

The Poseidon Adventure

1991 movie - Barbara Streisand and NY psychologist - based on Pat Conroy novel

The Prince of Tides

2003 Christopher Guest mockumentary about folk music

A Mighty Wind

1951 movie - based on Theodore Drieser's "An American Tragedy" - Liz Taylor, Montgomery Clift, Shelley Winters

A Place in the Sun

2000 Cameron Crowe movie based on his experience as a Rolling Stones writer - follows rock band

Almost Famous

Movie about a French, shy do-good waitress - 5 Oscar noms - Audrey Tautou

Amelie

George Lucas 1973 movie - tagline: "where were you in '62?" - Harrison Ford, Richard Dreyfus, Ron Howard

American Graffiti

1957 - Cary Grant plans to meet Deborah Kerr at the Empire State Building

An Affair to Remember

Jane Fonda 1968 space movie

Barbarella

Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn and a leopard

Bringing Up Baby

Numerical titled movie - Liz Taylor plays a call-girl - won an Oscar

Butterfield 8

2000 Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yeoh kung-fu movie

Crocuhing Tiger, Hidden Dragon

1995 Sean Penn (death row convict) - Susan Sarandon (Sister Helen Prejean)

Dead Man Walking

1989 movie - Robin Williams as a teacher at private school - quote "seize the day boys"

Dead Poet's Society

1988 Steve Martin-Michael Caine comedy

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

1978 Warren Beatty comedy where he play football player who dies and comes back in millionaire's body

Heaven Can Wait

2003 Joaquin Phoenix-Scarlet Johanssen movie - he is in love with an operating system

Her

1953 Betty Grable, Lauren Bacall & Marilyn Monroe plan to snare rich husbands

How to Marry a Millionaire

1987 movie - Cher & Nic Cage

Moonstruck

2005, 2010 Emma Thompson nanny movies

Nanny McPhee

2006 movie - Guillermo del Toro director - won Oscars - "____ Labyrinth"

Pan's Labyrinth

2010 movie - Scorsese, DiCaprio set on asylum for criminally insame - based on Dennis Lehane novel

Shutter Island

2012 movie - Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence - depressed young widow and mental patient/Philly Eagles fan

Silver Linings Playbook

1984 Richard Gere movie - title Harlem nightspot

The Cotton Club

Akira Kurosawa numerical samurai classic

The Seven Samurai

Marilyn Monroe movie with famous skirt on subway grate scene

The Seven Year Itch

1999 George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube Gulf War movie

Three Kings

1965 Peter Sellers film - Tom Jones sang title hit song about a feline

What's New Pussycat?

James Franco hiker movie

127 Hours

Alec Guiness war drama directed by David Lean - 1957 - Bridge

Bridge on the River Kwai

1935 Erroly Flynn Pirate movie - "Captain _____"

Captain Blood

1981 movie - Best Picture - Jewish and Christian runners compete at 1924 Olympics

Chariots of Fire

2005 Russel Crowe movie - boxer James Braddock

Cinderella Man

Nick Cage and Meg Ryan - Remake of "Wings of Desire"

City of Angels

1978 movie - John Voight as parapalegic Vietnam vet - Jane Fonda as VA nurse - both won Oscars

Coming Home

1988 movie with John Malcovich, Michelle Pfiffer and Glenn Close

Dangerous Liasons

1981 movie based on Lothar-Gunther Buchheim novel about a German submarine crew during WWII

Das Boot

Clint Eastwood movie - "You've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well do ya, punk?"

Dirty Harry

2005 Jim Carrey-Kate Winslet movie - "Eternal...."

Eternal Sushine of the Spotless Mind

2004 movie - Johnny Depp as J.M. Barrie

Finding Neverland

1983 Jennifer Beals movie - song: "Maniac"

Flashdance

1987 Stanley Kubrick war movie

Full Metal Jacket

2002 DiCaprio-Daniel Day Lewis film

Gangs of New York

2001 Mariah Carey movie that bombed

Glitter

1985 movie - William Hurt won Best Actor - set in Argentina - based on 1976 Manuel Puig book - "Kiss..."

Kiss of the Spider Woman

Steve Martin & Sarah Jessica Parker movie

L.A. Story

1977 movie - Diane Keaton cruises singles bars - based on Judith Rossner novel - title has a candy bar in name

Looking for Mr. Goodbar

1999 Jim Carey biopic of Andy Kaufman

Man on the Moon

1955 movie - Ernest Borgnine plays Bronx butcher - won Best Actor Oscar

Marty

Cher movie where her son is disfigured

Mask

1973 Scorsese movie with Harvey Kietel

Mean Streets

1999 Hugh Grant, James Cann gangster comedy

Mickey Blue Eyes

1955 movie - Jack Lemmon as Ensign Pulver on a ship

Mister Roberts

Bumbling Brit played by Rowan Atkinson

Mr. Bean

Toni Collette "bridal" movie - set in Australia with ABBA music

Muriel's Wedding

1922 early documentary about title Eskimo

Nanook of the North

1976 movie - Howard Beale character: "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!"

Network

1977 George Burns movie about religion

Oh, God!

1985 movie - Jack Nicholson playes hitman Charley Partanna

Prizzi's Honor

1984 movie - Patrick Swayze against the Russians - "Wolverines!" - First PG-13 movie

Red Dawn

Jeremy Irons/Glenn Close movie based on Alan Dershowitz book of same name with subtitle "Inside the Von Bulow Case"

Reversal of Fortune

1984 movie - Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner jungle adventure

Romancing the Stone

1973 Jack Lemmon movie - Best Actor Oscar - title animal

Save the Tiger

1977 movie - Paul Newman as hockey player Reggie Dunlop

Slap Shot

1977 movie - Burt Reynolds avoids the cops while making a major beer run in a Trans Am

Smokey and the Bandit

Darryl Hannah mermaid movie

Splash

1961 Warren Beatty-Natalie Wood teen love movie

Splendor in the Grass

1986 movie based on Stephen King novella "The Body" - 4 boys looking for dead body - starring Richard Dreyfuss

Stand By Me

1933 Will Rogers movie - based on musical and book - takes place at Iowa State Fair

State Fair

1988 movie that the also a potent potable - Michelle Pfiffer, Kurt Russel, Mel Gibson

Tequila Sunrise

1995 movie - Michael Douglas as president with Annette Benning

The American President

1997 film written, directed and acted by Robert Duvall where he plays a preacher

The Apostle

Tony Curtis-Sidney Poiter movie where they escape from a chain gang

The Defiant Ones

1952 Cecil B. De Mille film starring Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Jimmy Stewart, Charlton Heston - PT Barnum tagline

The Greatest Show on Earth

1998 movie - Robert Redford as Montana rancher - based on 1995 Nicholas Evans novel

The Horse Whisperer

1994 Coen Brothers movie with Tim Robbins, Paul Newman, Jennifer Jason Leigh about hula hoop

The Hudsucker Proxy

Denzel Washington as imprisoned boxer Rubin Carter - subject of Bob Dylan song

The Hurricane

Al Pacino plays a "60 Minutes" producer working with tobacoo co. employee Russel Crowe

The Insider

1979 Steve Martin movie - Navin R. Johnson (son of black sharecropper)

The Jerk

1987 movie - Henry Pu Yi's last days as Emperor of China

The Last Emperor

1971 Peter Bogdonovich movie - based on 1966 Larry McMurtry novel - Cybil Shepard's first movie

The Last Picture Show

2003 Tom Cruise samurai movie

The Last Samurai

Movie about Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine

The Lion in Winter

1980 movie - fugitive agrees to do dangerous work on a war movie - directed by Peter O'Toole

The Stunt Man

1998 war movie - based on James Jones novel - takes place at Battle of Guadalcanal - Clooney, Penn, Travolta, Nolte, Harrison

The Thin Red Line

1982 Paul Newman courtroom drama

The Verdict

1970 triple-talk title movie about bombing of Pearl Harbor

Tora! Tora! Tora!

1980 John Travolta movie about mechanical bull riding

Urban Cowboy

DiCaprio/Depp movie where their mom is morbidly obese

What's Eating Gilbert Grape?

2014 movie - JK Simmons and Miles Teller

Whiplash

1957 Ingmar Bergman film "Wild ________"

Wild Strawberries

1990 David Lynch film where Nic Cage is obsessed with Elvis

Wild at Heart

2000 movie - Michael Douglas as Grady Tripp - struggles to finish a novel - based on Michael Chabon novel

Wonder Boys

1988 Harrison Ford and Melanie Griffith workplace movie

Working Girl


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