Movies
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