(0000) TITLE RESPONSIBLE party . director NOTE
(1933) Invisible Man ( James Whale) (stars Claude Rains - H.G. Wells The Invisible Man. pub. 1897)
(1937) Captains Courageous ( Victor Fleming ) (novel by Rudyard Kipling - fishing schooners)
(1939) Gone with the Wind ( Victor Fleming ) (produced by David O. Selznick)
(1939) Stagecoach ( John Ford ) ( John Wayne first big role )
(1939) Wizard of Oz ( Victor Fleming ) (from Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. stars Judy Garland)
(1940) Fantasia ( Walt Disney ) (animation and music. Leopold Stokowski. Micky Mouse)
(1941) Citizen Kane ( Orson Welles ) (fictional biog of wealthy newspaperman - one of best films 20th Centry
(1941) Maltese Falcon ( John Huston ) (novel by Dashiell Hammett)
(1941) Sergeant York ( Howard Hawks ) ( Gary Cooper - about the life of Alvin York. WW I)
(1942) Casablanca ( Michael Curtiz ) (WWII - H. Bogart. Ingrid Bergman)
(1943) Phantom of the Opera ( Arthur Lubin ) (star Nelson Eddy - Lon Chaney stared in 1925 ver.)
(1944) Lifeboat ( Alfred Hitchcock ) ( story by John Steinbeck)
(1944) Arsenic and Old Lace ( Frank Capra ) (American dark comedy)
(1946) Its a Wonderful Life ( Frank Capra ) ~
(1947) Miracle on 34th Street ( George Seaton ) (Edmund Gwenn = Kris Kringle)
(1948) Key Largo ( John Huston ) (H. Bogart. E. G. Robinson. L. Bacall - Florida hurricane)
(1948) Treasure of the Sierra Madre ( John Huston ) (adapted B. Traven 1927 novel - H. Bogart)
(1949) Twelve O Clock High ( Henry King. prod.Darryl F. Zanuck) (WWII US Army Air Corps 8th Air Force - Gregory Peck
(1949) ( Carol Reed ) (mystery Vienna after WWII looking for Harry Lime finds antibiotic smuggling)
(1951) African Queen ( John Huston ) (novel by C. S. Forester. H. Bogart and K. Hepburn)
(1951) Christmas Carol ( Brian Desmond Hurst ) ( Scrooge - Scottish. Alistair Sim)
(1952) Singin in the Rain ( Gene Kelly ) ~
(1953) Robe ( Henry Koster ) (robe taken from Christ by Roman solcier at crucifixion)
(1954) Brigadoon ( Vincente Minnelli ) (Gene Kelly. V Johnson. Cyd Charisse. -later 1966 TV version R. Goulet)
(1954) Demetrius and the Gladiators ( Delmer Daves ) (sequel to The Robe)
(1954) Rear Window ( Alfred Hitchcock ) (James Stewart)
(1954) Seven Brides for Seven Brothers ( Stanley Donen ) (musical - western)
(1954) Seven Samurai ( Akira Kurosawa ) ~
(1954) Silver Chalice ( Victor Saville ) (novel by Thomas B. Costain - film debut of Paul Newman)
(1955) Mister Roberts ( John Ford ) (WWII Pacific)
(1956) Around the World in 80 Days ( Michael Anderson ) (stars David Niven. Cantinflas. S.MacLaine)
(1956) King and I ( Walter Lang ) ( musical - based on book Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon)
(1956) Moby Dick ( John Huston ) (Melville novel - Gregory Peck)
(1956) Ten Commandments ( Cecil B. DeMille ) (remake of original which was silent)
(1957) Bridge on the River Kwai ( David Lean ) (WWII Burma)
(1957) Old Yeller ( Robert Stevenson ) (American family (dog) tragedy set in 1860s)
(1957) Throne of Blood ( Akira Kurosawa ) (Macbeth story)
(1958) Auntie Mame ( Morton DaCosta ) (lively aunt - nepher comedy)
(1958) Lion in Winter ( Anthony Harvey - prod Joseph E. Levvine) (Henry II)
(1958) Vertigo ( Alfred Hitchcock ) ~
(1959) Darby O Gill and the Little People ( Robert Stevenson ) (Walt Disney. S. Connery leprechauns)
(1959) Diary of Anne Fran ( George Stevens ) (WWII Jewish families hiding from Nazis)
(1959) Journey to the Center of the Earth ( Henry Levin ) (loosely adapted from Jules Verne novel)
(1959) Operation Petticoat ( Blake Edwards ) (WWII submarine comedy starring Cary Grant and Tony Curtis)
(1959) North by Northwest ( Alfred Hitchcock ) ~
(1959) Anatomy of a Murder ( Otto Preminger ) ~
(1959) Ben Hur ( William Wyler ) (early Christian era - great chariot race sequence)
(1959) Nuns Story ( Fred Zinnemann ) (WWII Belgian Congo - Audrey Hepburn)
(1960) Swiss Family Robinson ( Ken Annakin ) (shipwrecked family building an island home. loosely based on 1812 Johann David
(1960) Elmer Gantry (Richard Brooks) (Burt Lancaster - preacher)
(1960) Alamo ( John Wayne dir ) (Texas)
(1960) Savage Innocents ( Nicholas Ray ) (Anthony Quinn as Inuk the Eskimo)
(1960) Psycho ( Alfred Hitchcock ) (loosely inspired by Wisconsin murderer grave robber Ed Gein)
(1960) Magnificent Seven ( John Sturges ) (American western version of Seven Samurai)
(1961) Judgment at Nuremberg ( Stanley Kramer ) (Spencer Tracey)
(1961) Mysterious Island ( Cy Endfield ) (a great dissapointment it did not follow the Jules Verne book )
(1961) Guns of Navarone ( J. Lee Thompson ) (WWII )
(1961) One. Two. Three ( Billy Wilder ) (comedy - West Berlin during the Cold War before the Berlin Wall)
(1962) Mutiny on the Bounty ( Lewis Milestone with help by M. Brando) (Marlon Brando
(1962) Lawrence of Arabia ( David Lean ) (WWI in Arabia)
(1962) Mr. Magoos Christmas Carol ( Abe Levitow ) (animated - voice of Scrooge is Jim Backus)
(1962) Music Man ( Morton DaCosta ) (musical - Midwestern USA)
(1962) Longest Day ( Darryl F. Zanuck ) (WWII D-Day)
(1963) Birds. the ( Alfred Hitchcock ) ~
(1963) Lilies of the Field ( Ralph Nelson ) (Sidney Poitier)
(1964) Goldfinger ( Guy Hamilton ) (third film in the James Bond series - Sean Connery)
(1964) Gospel According to St. Matthew ( Pier Paolo Pasolini ) (Italian)
(1964) Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop worrying ( Stanley Kubrick ) ~
(1964) Becket ( Peter Glenville ) (Thomas Becket - Henry II)
(1964) My Fair Lady ( George Cukor ) (musical adapted from Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw)
(1964) Fistful of dollars ( Sergio Leone ) (spaghetti western)
(1964) Mary Poppins ( Robert Stevenson) (produced by Walt Disney)
(1964) Zorba the Greek ( Michael Cacoyannis ) (based on book by Nikos Kazantzakis)
(1965) Sound of Music ( Robert Wise ) (Julie Andrews - abt Trapp family. songs by Richard Rodgers. O.Hammerstein
(1965) Agony and the Ecstasy ( Carol Reed ) ( Michelangelo - Pope Julius II while painting the Sistine Chapel)
(1965) Doctor Zhivago ( David Lean) (Russian Revolution - novel by Boris Pasternak)
(1965) Flight of the Phoenix ( Robert Aldrich ) (airplane down in the Sahara desert starring James Stewart)
(1965) Great Race ( Blake Edwards ) (American slapstick comedy Tony Curtis. Jack Lemon)
(1965) For a Few dollars more ( Sergio Leone ) (spaghetti western)
(1965) Thunderball ( Terence Young ) (fourth in James Bond series - Sean Connery)
(1965) Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Ma ( Ken Annakin ) (London to Paris flying race)
(1966) Man for all Seasons ( Fred Zinnemann ) (Thomas More - Henery VIII)
(1966) Blue Max ( John Guillermin ) (WWI air war Germany)
(1966) Hawaii ( George Roy Hill ) (based on a James A. Michener novel)
(1966) Good. The Bad and The Ugly ( Sergio Leone ) (spaghetti western)
(1966) Satyricon (officially Fellini Satyricon) ( Federico Fellini ) (based on Petronius Satyricon bawdy satirical episodes during Neros reign
(1966) Russians Are Coming. the Russians Are Coming ( Norman Jewison ) (Russian submarine aground in New England)
(1967) Guess Whos Coming to Dinner ( Stanley Kramer ) (interracial marriage. Spencer Tracy. Sidney Poitier. Katharine Hepburn)
(1967) Jungle Book ( Wolfgang Reitherman ) (based on Rudyard Kipling. Last film Disney made before he died)
(1967) Graduate. The ( Mike Nichols ) (Dustin Hoffman)
(1967) Camelot ( Joshua Logan ) (Richard Harris stars as Arthur)
(1967) Taming of the Shrew ( Franco Zeffirelli ) ( William Shakespeare play R.Burton - E.Taylor)
(1967) Bonnie and Clyde ( Arthur Penn ) (gangsters bank robbers)
(1967) Doctor Dolittle ( Richard Fleischer ) ~
(1967) You Only Live Twice ( Lewis Gilbert ) (fifth in James Bond series - Sean Connery)
(1968) Romeo and Juliet ( Franco Zeffirelli ) ~
(1968) Funny Girl ( William Wyler ) (romantic musical - based on Fanny Brice - star B. Streisand)
(1968) Barbarella ( Roger Vadim ) (prod Dino De Laurentiis re-release 1977 sci.fict. stars Jane Fonda. adult
(1968) Once Upon A Time In The West ( Sergio Leone ) ~
(1968) Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ( Ken Hughes ) (based on Ian Fleming novel - script by Roald Dahl and Ken Hughes)
(1968) 2001. A Space Odyssey ( Stanley Kubrick ) (story by Arthur C. Clarke)
(1969) Anne of the Thousand Days ( Hal Wallis Prod. dir Charles Jarrott ) (story of Anne Boleyn)
(1969) Sand Pebbles ( Robert Wise ) (American gunboat in China. Boxer Rebellion)
(1969) War and Peace ( Sergei Bondarchuk ) (Mosfilm 415 min. long - Tolstoi)
(1970) MASH ( Robert Altman ) ( Korean War medical unit)
(1970) Little Big Man ( Arthur Penn ) (Dustin Hoffman - historical fiction on American West)
(1970) Patton ( Franklin J. Schaffner ) (WWII script Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North)
(1970) Two Mules for Sister Sara ( Don Siegel ) (Mexico - Shirley MacLaine. Clint Eastwood)
(1971) French Connection ( William Friedkin ) (crime - drug traffic)
(1971) Duel ( Steven Spielberg ) (truck and a car)
(1971) Fiddler on the Roof ( Norman Jewison ) (Jewish life in Russia)
(1971) Diamonds Are Forever ( Guy Hamilton ) (seventh in James Bond series last to star Sean Connery)
(1972) Godfather ( Francis Ford Coppola ) (Mafia Don)
(1972) Brother Sun Sister Moon ( Franco Zeffirelli ) (St Francis of Assisi - St Clare of Assisi)
(1972) Poseidon Adventure ( Ronald Neame ) (ship sinking)
(1973) Soylent Green ( Richard Fleischer ) (Science Fiction - future)
(1973) Papillon ( Franklin J. Schaffner ) (Devils Island escapee)
(1973) Sting ( George Roy Hill ) ( set in September 1936 Paul Newman and Robert Redford)
(1973) Charlottes Web ( Hanna-Barbera ) (based on award winning childrens book)
(1973) Robin Hood ( Wolfgang Reitherman ) (animated film - Walt Disney Productions)
(1974) Murder on the Orient Express ( Sidney Lumet ) (based on Agatha Christi story)
(1974) Jaws ( Steven Spielberg ) (big shark on coast of NE USA)
(1974) Blazing Saddles ( Mel Brooks ) (satirical Western comedy)
(1974) Young Frankenstein ( Mel Brooks ) (American comedy - starring Gene Wilder)
(1975) One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest ( Milos Forman ) (mental health)
(1975) Barry Lyndon ( Stanley Kubrick ) (based 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William M. Thackeray - Napol
(1975) Monty Python and the Holy Grail ( Terry Jones ) (Arthurian period humor)
(1975) Dersu Uzala ( Akira Kurosawa ) (a trapper assists a Russian Army survey team in Siberia)
(1975) Man Who Would Be King ( John Huston ) (R.Kipling story - S. Connery)
(1976) Robin and Marian ( Richard Lester ) (Sean Connery -Robin Hood. Audrey Hepburn -Lady Marian late in life
(1976) All the Presidents Men ( Alan J. Pakula ) (Watergate scandal)
(1976) Messenger - (Mohammad. Messenger of God) ( Moustapha Akkad ) ~
(1976) Marathon Man ( John Schlesinger ) (Nazi from WWII treasure)
(1977) Islands in the Stream ( Franklin J. Schaffner ) (Cuba beginning WWII. E. Hemingway novel)
(1977) Spy Who Loved Me ( Lewis Gilbert ) (tenth in James Bond series - third Roger Moore)
(1977) Star Wars ( George Lucas ) (later retitled Star Wars Episode IV. A New Hope)
(1977) Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh ( John Lounsbery and Wolfgang Reitherman) (Disney)
(1977) Hobbit ( Rankin/Bass producer ) (animated version of the story)
(1977) Close Encounters of the Third Kind ( Steven Spielberg ) (Science Fiction)
(1978) La Cage aux Folles ( Edouard Molinaro ) ~
(1978) Deer Hunter ( Michael Cimino ) ( Vietnam War )
(1978) Death on the Nile ( John Guillermin ) (Agatha Christi mystery)
(1979) Life of Brian ( Terry Jones ) (Monty Python on Palestine in the time of Christ)
(1979) Apocalypse Now ( Francis Ford Coppola ) (Vietnam War - Heart of Darkness)
(1979) Agatha ( Michael Apted ) (about Agatha Christi)
(1979) Kramer vs. Kramer ( Benton ) (disasterous divorce)
(1979) Moonraker ( Lewis Gilbert ) (eleventh in James Bond series - fourth to star Roger Moore)
(1979) Alien ( Ridley Scott ) (Sigourney Weaver)
(1979) 10 ( Blake Edwards ) (a perfect young female body. Bo Derek. Dudley Moore)
(1980) Somewhere in Time ( Jeannot Szwarc ) (romantic fantasy)
(1980) Gods Must be Crazy ( Jamie Uys ) (South African comedy film)
(1980) Empire Strikes Back ( Irvin Kershner dir - George Lucas writing) (later released as Star Wars Episode V. The Empire Strikes Back)
(1980) Sea Wolves ( Andrew V. McLaglen ) (based WWII incident in India - actors G Peck. R Moore. D Niven)
(1980) Elephant Man ( David Lynch ) (about disfigured Joseph Merrick. whom the script calls John Merrick)
(1980) Airplane ( David Zuker ) (comedy Leslie Nielson. Robert Stack. parody of the disaster film)
(1981) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial ( Steven Spielberg ) (cute Extra-Terrestrial wants to go home)
(1981) History of the World. Part I ( Mel Brooks ) ~
(1981) Das Boot ( Wolfgang Petersen ) ( WWII German submarine)
(1981) Chariots of Fire ( Hugh Hudson ) (1924 Olympics- Eric Liddell. Christian - Harold Abrams.Jew prevailing over prejudice
(1981) Excalibur ( John Boorman ) (Arthurian dramatic fantasy)
(1981) Raiders of the Lost Ark ( Steven Spielberg ) (Indiana Jones)
(1981) Reds ( Warren Beatty ) (on the life and career of John Reed and the Russian Revolution)
(1981) On Golden Pond ( Mark Rydell ) (Katharine Hepburn. Henry Fonda. Jane Fonda)
(1981) Time Bandits ( Terry Gilliam ) (British fantasy film)
(1982) Dark Crystal ( Jim Henson and Frank Oz ) (American British fantasy film)
(1982) Conan the Barbarian ( John Milius ) ~
(1982) Gandhi ( Richard Attenborough ) (biography)
(1982) Man from Snowy River ( George T. Miller ) (Australian drama - Kirk Douglas. Tom Burlinson. Sigrid Thornton)
(1982) Last Unicorn ( Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin Jr) (animated (animated fantasy film)
(1982) Tootsie ( Sydney Pollack ) (actor impersonates a woman to get work)
(1983) Monty Pythons The Meaning of Life ( Terry Jones ) (slapstick comedy - some dark humor)
(1983) Christine ( John Carpenter ) (Stephen King novel - sentient violent 1958 Plymouth Fury)
(1983) Return of the Jedi ( Richard Marquand dir. written George Lucas (later released as Star Wars Episode VI. Return of the Jedi)
(1983) Christmas Story ( Bob Clark ) (an American Christmas. bb gun. dog steals turkey. leg lamp)
(1983) Never Say Never Again ( Irvin Kershner ) (James Bond film based on Thunderball story. Sean Connery)
(1983) WarGames ( John Badham ) (automatic missle launch computer confused by hacker playing a game
(1983) Yentl ( Barbra Streisand ) (Jewish girl wants to go to yeshiva)
(1983) Yellowbeard ( Mel Damski ) (comedy film)
(1984) Splash ( Ron Howard ) (Mermaid falls in love - Tom Hanks. Daryl Hannah)
(1984) Romancing the Stone ( Robert Zemeckis ) (action-adventure romantic comedy M.Douglas. K.Turner D.DeVito)
(1984) NeverEnding Story ( Wolfgang Petersen ) (West German epic fantasy film based on the novel by Michael Ende)
(1984) Dune ( David Lynch ) (1965 Frank Herbert novel)
(1984) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom ( Steven Spielberg ) (India)
(1984) Greystoke. The Legend of Tarzan. Lord of ( Hugh Hudson ) (based on Edgar Rice Burroughs. 1912. Tarzan of the Apes)
(1984) Gremlins ( Joe Dante ) (Science Fiction)
(1984) Amadeus ( Milos Forman ) (about Antonio Salieri and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
(1984) Christmas Carol ( Clive Donner ) ( Scrooge by George C. Scott)
(1985) Ladyhawke ( Richard Donner ) ( fantasy film)
(1985) Jewel of the Nile ( Lewis Teague ) (sequel to the 1984 Romancing the Stone)
(1985) RAN ( Akira Kurosawa ) (Shakespeare. King Lear )
(1985) Back to the Future ( Robert Zemeckis ) (produced by Steven Steven Spielberg)
(1985) Coca-Cola Kid ( Dusan Makavejev ) (Australian romantic comedy - Coca-Cola attempts to market in remote valley
(1985) Out of Africa ( Sydney Pollack ) (Isak Dinesen book published in 1937)
(1986) Money Pit ( Steven Spielberg ) ~
(1986) Goonies ( Steven Spielberg ) (children hunting for treasure)
(1986) Name of the Rose ( Jean-Jacques Annaud ) (book by Umberto Eco. Medieval mystery. Sean Connery)
(1986) Crocodile Dundee ( Peter Faiman ) (Australian comedy. Outback and NY Paul Hogan. inspired by Rodney Ansell
(1986) Mission. The ( Roland Joffe ) (Jesuit missionary 18th century S America)
(1986) American Tail. An ( Don Bluth ) (story of Fievel Mousekewitz and family immigrate from Russia to the US)
(1986) Labyrinth ( Jim Henson ) (musical fantasy. exe produced George Lucas. stars David Bowie
(1987) Moonstruck ( Norman Jewison ) (American romantic comedy - very funny)
(1987) Princess Bride ( Rob Reiner ) (an absolute favorite - romance - swordplay)
(1987) Brave little Toaster ( Jerry Rees ) (animated)
(1987) Empire of the Sun ( Steven Spielberg ) ( WWII British boy in a Japanese prison camp in China semi-biographical)
(1987) Batteries Not Included ( Matthew Robbins ) (comic science fiction film small extraterrestrial living machines)
(1987) Spaceballs ( Mel Brooks ) (comedy)
(1987) Last Emperor ( Jeremy Thomas) (China)
(1987) Dirty Dancing ( Emile Ardolino ) (coming of age story. Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey)
(1987) Overboard ( Garry Marshall ) (romantic comedy - memory loss - G.Hawn K.Russell)
(1987) Raising Arizona ( Coen brothers ) (starring Nicolas Cage)
(1988) Return to Snowy River ( Geoff Burrowes ) (Australia. Tom Burlinson. Sigrid Thornton. Brian Dennehy)
(1988) Rain Man ( Barry Levinson ) (two brothers one a savant)
(1988) Scrooged ( Richard Donner ) (stars comedian Bill Murray - modern Christmas Carol knockoff)
(1988) Big ( Penny Marshall ) (fantasy comedy stars Tom Hanks)
(1988) Milagro Beanfield War ( Robert Redford ) (story by John Nichols novel)
(1988) Presidio ( Peter Hyams ) (San Francisco. Sean Connery. Mark Harmon)
(1988) Mississippi Burning ( Alan Parker ) (Mississippi 1964 - looking for dead civil rights workers)
(1988) Crocodile Dundee II ( Peter Faiman ) (sequel C Dundee. Paul Hogan. Linda Kozlowski. opposing a Colombian drug Lord
(1988) Adventures of Baron Munchausen ( Terry Gilliam ) (comedy Europe German war with Turkey)
(1988) Who Framed Roger Rabbit ( Steven Spielberg ) (film spliced together live action with animated characters)
(1988) Twins ( Ivan Reitman ) (Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito)
(1989) Field of Dreams ( Phil Alden Robinson ) (baseball fantasy)
(1989) Dead Poets Society ( Peter Weir ) ~
(1989) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ( Steven Spielberg ) (Germany - Jordan)
(1990) Ghost ( Jerry Zucker ) (Patrick Swayze. Demi Moore)
(1990) Dances with Wolves ( Kevin Costner ) ( American epic western film in some ways like Little Big Man)
(1990) Hunt for Red October ( John McTiernan ) (Tom Clancy novel - Russian Submarine - Sean Connery)
(1990) Joe Versus the Volcano ( Steven Spielberg ) ~
(1990) Green Card ( Peter Weir ) (marriage of convenience to stay in USA. Gerard Depardieu)
(1990) Kindergarden Cop ( Ivan Reitman ) (starring Arnold Schwarzenegger)
(1990) Awakenings ( Penny Marshall ) (L-Dopa administered to catatonic patients)
(1991) Hook ( Steven Spielberg ) (Peter Pan story)
(1991) Addams Family ( Barry Sonnenfeld ) (comedy based on characters created by Charles Addams)
(1991) City Slickers ( Ron Underwood ) (city guys to dude ranch B. Crystal. Jack Palance)
(1991) Robin Hood. Prince of Thieves ( Kevin Reynolds ) (Kevin Costner - Morgan Freeman as Azeem)
(1992) Medicine Man ( John McTiernan ) (Amazon jungle. Sean Connery)
(1993) Dave ( Ivan Reitman ) (president of USA replaced by nicer guy)
(1993) Robin Hood. Men in Tights ( Mel Brooks) (parody of the Robin Hood story)
(1993) Grumpy Old Men ( Donald Petrie ) (American Comedy set in Minnesota)
(1993) Schindlers List ( Steven Spielberg ) (WWII Germany)
(1993) Jurassic Park ( Steven Spielberg ) (scientists breed dinosaurs on island)
(1994) Maverick ( Richard Donner ) (western gambler)
(1994) Shawshank Redemption ( Frank Darabont ) (prison movie)
(1994) Miracle on 34th Street ( John Hughes - dir Les Mayfield ) (classic Christmas tale)
(1994) Pulp Fiction ( Quentin Tarantino ) (very violent)
(1994) City Slickers II The Legend of Curlys Go ( Paul Weiland ) (dude ranch B. Crystal. Jack Palance)
(1994) True Lies ( James Cameron ) (Arnold Schwarzenegger. J.L. Curis)
(1995) Braveheart ( Mel Gibson ) (Scottish William Wallace vs English King Edward I)
(1995) Grumpier Old Men ( Howard Deutch ) (sequel to Grumpy Old Men)
(1995) Babe ( Chris Noonan ) (animal characters combination of real - animatronic pigs - Border Collies
(1995) Toy Story ( Pixar ) ~
(1995) Waterworld (Kevin Reynolds) (Kevin Kostner)
(1996) Rock. The ( Michael Bay ) (Alcatraz Island. San Francisco Bay Area. S.Connery)
(1996) Fargo ( Joel and Ethan Coen ) (crime and murder in ice and snow)
(1996) 101 Dalmations ( Stephen Herek ) (second version by Disney - first one in 1961 was animated)
(1996) English Patient ( Anthony Minghella ) (romantic drama - WWII Sahara cave of swimmers)
(1996) Twister ( Jan de Bont - Michael Crichton ) (storm chasers researching tornadoes)
(1996) White Squall ( Ridley Scott ) (brigantine Albatross schoolship sunk in Gulf of Mexico 1961)
(1997) Men in Black ( Steven Spielberg ) ~
(1997) MouseHunt ( Gore Verbinski) (comedy. mouse outwits brotthers who inherit a string factory
(1997) Jurassic Park. The Lost World ( Steven Spielberg ) (2nd of the Jurassic Park movies)
(1997) Titanic ( James Cameron ) (Sinking of the ship Titanic)
(1997) Wag the Dog ( Barry Levinson ) (declare war to distract populace from bad times)
(1998) Shakespeare in Love ( John Madden ) (historical fiction)
(1998) Brave Little Toaster goes to Mars ( Robert C. Ramirez ) (produced by Disney - books by Thomas Disch)
(1998) Saving Private Ryan ( Steven Spielberg ) (WWII Europe)
(1998) Bugs Life ( John Lasseter ) ( Pixar - Disney Co.)
(1998) Antz ( Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson ) (animated Dreamworks)
(1999) Iron Giant ( Brad Bird ) (animated)
(1999) Pokemon. The First Movie. Mewtwo Strikes ( Kunihiko Yuyama ) (Japanese anime)
(1999) Star Wars Episode I. The Phantom Menace ( George Lucas writter - director ) ~
(1999) Green Mile ( Frank Darabont ) (adapted from a Stephen King novel)
(1999) Tarzan ( Chris Buck - Kevin Lima ) (Disney animated adventure musical)
(1999) Fantasia 2000 ( Walt Disney Animation Studios ) (animation and music. James Levine. Peter Schickele)
(1999) Toy Story 2 ( Pixar ) ~
(1999) 13th Warrior ( John McTiernan ) (story by Michael Chrichton . Eaters of the Dead. the Beowulf story. neanderhals)
(2000) Chicken Run ( Peter Lord and Nick Park ) (stop motion - claymation)
(2000) Dinosaurs ( Disney ) (animated)
(2000) Road to El Dorado ( Eric -Bibo- Bergeron and Don Paul) (animated adventure comedy)
(2000) Crouching Tiger. Hidden Dragon ( Ang Lee ) (American-Chinese-Hong Kong-Taiwanese co-production)
(2000) Cast Away ( Robert Zemeckis ) (Tom Hanks FedEx empl stranded on uninhabited island. soccer ball Wilson)
(2000) O Brother Where Art Thou ( Joel and Ethan Coen ) ~
(2000) Patriot ( Roland Emmerich) (American Revolutionary War - Mel Gibson)
(2001) Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone ( Chris Columbus ) ~
(2001) Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of th ( Peter Jackson ) (J.R.R. Tolkien)
(2001) Shrek ( Andrew Adamson. Vicky Jenson ) (DreamWorks Animation comedy)
(2001) Monsters Inc. ( Pete Docter ) ( Pixar)
(2001) Beautiful Mind ( Ron Howard ) (based on the life of John Nash. Nobel Laureate in Economics)
(2001) Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles - also C.Dundee 3 ( Simon Wincer ) (Paul Hogan. Linda Kozlowski.)
(2001) Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius ( John A. Davis ) ( Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies)
(2001) Jurassic Park III ( Joe Johnston ) (this one Not based on a M.Crichton book)
(2002) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ( Chris Columbus ) ~
(2002) Skinwalkers ( Chris Eyre ) (based on Tony Hillerman mystery novel - Jim Chee - Joe Leaphorn characters
(2002) Bourne Identity ( Doug Liman ) (Robert Ludlum novel - Jason Bourne has memory loss)
(2002) Spider-Man ( Sam Raimi ) ~
(2002) Lord of the Rings - Two Towers ( Peter Jackson ) (J.R.R. Tolkien)
(2002) Whale Rider ( Niki Caro ) (New Zealand - Maori)
(2003) Secondhand Lions ( Tim McCanlies ) (2 retired brothers recall their adventures to young man)
(2003) Lord of the Rings - Return of the King ( Peter Jackson ) (J.R.R. Tolkien)
(2003) Finding Nemo ( Pixar ) (animated. fish captured and goes home)
(2003) Last Samurai ( Edward Zwick ) ~
(2003) Holes ( Andrew Davis ) (features adventures at a juvenile detention camp)
(2003) League of Extraordinary Gentlemen ( Stephen Norrington ) (Sean Connery)
(2003) Master and Comander. Far Side of the Wor ( Peter Weir ) (adapted three novels in Patrick O Brian. Aubrey�Maturin series)
(2004) Hellboy (Guillermo del Toro) (comic book hero)
(2004) Aviator ( Martin Scorsese) (about Howard Hughes)
(2004) Passion of the Christ ( Mel Gibson ) ~
(2004) Around the World in 80 Days ( Frank Coraci ) (comedy Jules Verne novel - stars Jackie Chan. A.Schwarzenegger)
(2004) Shrek 2 ( Andrew Adamson. Kelly Asbury. Conrad Vernon (DreamWorks Animation comedy)
(2004) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ( Alfonso Cuaron ) ~
(2004) Bourn Supremecy ( Paul Greengrass ) (Robert Ludlum novel)
(2004) National Treasure ( Jon Turteltaub ) (prod J. Bruckheimer - Nicholas Cage - treasure hunt across USA)
(2004) I Robot ( Alex Proyas ) (inspired by Isaac Asimov story)
(2004) Incredibles ( Pixar ) (family of spies)
(2004) Van Helsing ( Stephen Sommers ) (Dracula - Frankenstein etc.)
(2004) Terminal ( Steven Spielberg ) (trapped in JFK Airport denied entry to USA. T.Hanks)
(2005) Madagascar ( Eric Darnell. Tom McGrath ) (DreamWorks comedy)
(2005) Pacifier ( Adam Shankman ) (action comedy film - stars Vin Diesel)
(2005) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ( Mike Newell ) ~
(2005) Chronicles of Narnia The Lion the Witch and the Wa ( Andrew Adamson ) (based on the C.S. Lewis novels)
(2005) March of the Penguins ( Luc Jacquet ) (Emperor Penguins documentary. Natinal Geographic)
(2005) Robots ( Blue Sky Studios ) (computer animated comic science fiction Chris Wedge. William Joyce
(2005) Sahara ( Breck Eisner ) (based on Clive Cussler book)
(2005) Chicken Little ( Mark Dindal ) (Disney animated)
(2006) Apocalypto ( Mel Gibson ) ( Mayan civilization - pre-European contact)
(2006) Cars ( John Lasseter ) (Pixar animation)
(2006) Eight Below ( Frank Marshall ) (dogs left behind Antarctic expedition - are rescued)
(2007) Ratatouille ( Pixar ) (rat teaches young chef to cook in France)
(2007) No Country for Old Men ( Joel and Ethan Coen ) (very violent)
(2007) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ( David Yates ) ~
(2007) Bourn Ultimatum ( Paul Greengrass ) (Robert Ludlum novel)
(2007) Bucket List ( Rob Reiner ) (2 guys facing end of life doing things they want before they die)
(2007) National Treasure 2. Book of Secrets ( Jon Turteltaub ) (sequel)
(2007) Transformers ( Michael Bay ) (Steven Spielberg executive producer)
(2008) Madagascar. Escape 2 Africa ( Eric Darnell. Tom McGrath ) (DreamWorks comedy)
(2008) Frost/Nixon ( Ron Howard ) (fictionalized version of tv interview of Richard Nixon)
(2008) Gran Torino ( Clint Eastwood ) (gruff old Korean War veteran defends Hmong neighbors)
(2008) Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ( Steven Spielberg ) (S. America)
(2008) WALL-E ( Andrew Stanton ) (Pixar. terrestrial robot meets extra terrestial robot)
(2009) Avatar ( James Cameron ) (mining on distant planet threatens locals)
(2009) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ( David Yates ) ~
(2009) Up ( Pete Docter ) (Pixar. elderly man escapes civilization with young kid floats on balloon lifted house to S.America)
(2010) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Part 1 ( David Yates ) ~
(2010) Social Network ( David Fincher ) (about Facebook - M. Zukerberg)
(2010) Despicable Me ( Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud ) (computer-animated comedy film. story by Sergio Pablos)
(2010) Robin Hood ( Ridley Scott ) (starring Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett)
(2010) Kings Speech ( Tom Hooper ) (King George VI at beginning of WWII conquers stuttering)
(2011) Hugo ( Martin Scorsese ) (boy living in railway station - discovers automoton which writes)
(2011) Puss in Boots ( Chris Miller ) (animated comedy. DreamWorks Animation. Antonio Banderas)
(2011) Cowboys & Aliens ( Jon Favreau ) ~
(2011) Adventures of Tintin ( Steven Spielberg ) (author - Herge)
(2011) Grey. The ( Joe Carnahan ) (Canada airplane crash and aftermath - wolves)
(2011) Help. the ( Tate Taylor ) ( house help in Mississippi in 1963)
(2011) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Part 2 ( David Yates ) ~
(2011) Adventures of Tintin the Secret of the U ( Speilberg ) (based on comic series by Belgian cartoonist Herge)
(2012) Lincoln ( Steven Spielberg ) (biography of President Lincoln)
(2012) Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey ( Peter Jackson ) (JRR Tolkien but story stretched)
(2012) Brave ( Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman ) (Pixar)
(2012) Django Unchained ( Quentin Tarantino ) ( extremely violent - slave freed trained to be a bounty hunter)
(2012) Kon-Tiki ( Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg) (about 1947 Kon-Tiki raft expedition of Thor Heyerdahl)
(2013) Captain Phillips ( Paul Greengrass ) (container ship MV Maersk Alabama captured by pirates and rescued)
(2013) Hobbit - The Desolation of Smaug ( Peter Jackson ) (JRR Tolkien but story stretched)
(2014) Life of Pi ( Ang Lee ) (India - Pacific Ocean)
(2014) Hobbit - The Battle of the Five Armies ( Peter Jackson ) (3rd and last part of Hobbit)
(2014) Muppets Most Wanted ( James Bobin ) ( Disney - Jim Henson Muppets)
(2014) Mr. Peabody and Sherman ( Rob Minkoff ) ( DreamWorks Animation - characters from TV Bulwinkle show)
(2014) Maleficent ( Robert Stromberg ) ( Disney Animation - Angelina Jolie)
(2015) The Imitation Game ( Morten Tyldum ) ( about WWII mathematician Alan Turing)
(2018) Manry at Sea. In the Wake of a Dream ( Robert Manry sailing Tinkerbelle across Alantic documentary )
(2019) Tolkien (biography of the first half of his life)
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