RATE SPACE TITLE DATE RESPONSIBLE NOTE
__ 10 (1979) ( Blake Edwards ) (a perfect young female body. Bo Derek. Dudley Moore)
__ 101 Dalmations (1996) ( Stephen Herek ) (second version by Disney - first one in 1961 was animated)
__ 13 th Warrior (1999) ( John McTiernan ) (story by Michael Chrichton . Eaters of the Dead. the Beowulf story. neanderhals)
x_ 2001. A Space Odyssey (1968) ( Stanley Kubrick ) (story by Arthur C. Clarke)
__ Addams Family (1991) ( Barry Sonnenfeld ) (comedy based on characters created by Charles Addams)
__ Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) ( Terry Gilliam ) (comedy Europe German war with Turkey)
x_ Adventures of Tintin (2011) ( Steven Spielberg ) (author - Herge)
__ Adventures of Tintin the Secret of the Unicorn (2011) ( Speilberg ) (based on comic series by Belgian cartoonist Herge)
x_ African Queen (1951) ( John Huston ) (novel by C. S. Forester. H. Bogart K. Hepburn)
__ Agatha (1979) ( Michael Apted ) (about Agatha Christi)
__ Agony and the Ecstasy (1965) ( Carol Reed ) ( Michelangelo - Pope Julius II while painting the Sistine Chapel)
__ Airplane (1980) ( David Zuker ) (comedy Leslie Nielson. Robert Stack. parody of the disaster film)
__ Alamo (1960) ( John Wayne dir ) (Texas)
__ Alien (1979) ( Ridley Scott ) ( Sigourney Weaver )
x_ All the Presidents Men (1976) ( Alan J. Pakula ) (Watergate scandal)
__ Amadeus (1984) ( Milos Forman ) (about Antonio Salieri and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
__ American Tail. An (1986) ( Don Bluth ) (story of Fievel Mousekewitz and family immigrate from Russia to the US)
__ Anatomy of a Murder (1959) ( Otto Preminger ) ~
__ Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) ( Hal Wallis Prod. dir Charles Jarrott ) (story of Anne Boleyn)
__ Antz (1998) ( Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson ) (animated Dreamworks)
__ Apocalypse Now (1979) ( Francis Ford Coppola ) (Vietnam War - Heart of Darkness)
__ Apocalypto (2006) ( Mel Gibson ) ( Mayan civilization - pre-European contact)
__ Around the World in 80 Days (1956) ( Michael Anderson ) (stars David Niven. Cantinflas. S.MacLaine)
__ Around the World in 80 Days (2004) ( Frank Coraci ) (comedy Jules Verne novel - stars Jackie Chan. A.Schwarzenegger)
__ Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) ( Frank Capra ) (American dark comedy)
__ Auntie Mame (1958) ( Morton DaCosta ) ~
x_ Avatar (2009) ( James Cameron ) (mining on distant planet threatens locals)
__ Aviator (2004) ( Martin Scorsese) ( about Howard Hughes )
__ Awakenings (1990) ( Penny Marshall ) (L-Dopa administered to catatonic patients)
__ Babe (1995) ( Chris Noonan ) (animal characters combination of real and animatronic pigs and Border Collies
__ Back to the Future (1985) ( Robert Zemeckis ) (produced by Steven Steven Spielberg)
__ Barbarella (1968) ( Roger Vadim ) (prod by Dino De Laurentiis re-release 1977. sci. fict. stars Jane Fonda. adult comic strip)
x_ Barry Lyndon (1975) ( Stanley Kubrick ) ( based 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William M. Thackeray - Napol
__ Batteries Not Included (1987) ( Matthew Robbins ) (comic science fiction film small extraterrestrial living machines save an apartment block)
__ Beautiful Mind (2001) ( Ron Howard ) (based on the life of John Nash. Nobel Laureate in Economics)
x_ Becket (1964) ( Peter Glenville ) (Thomas Becket - Henry II)
__ Ben Hur (1959) ( William Wyler ) (early Christian era - great chariot race sequence)
__ Big (1988) ( Penny Marshall ) (fantasy comedy stars Tom Hanks )
__ Birds. the (1963) ( Alfred Hitchcock ) ~
x_ Blazing Saddles (1974) ( Mel Brooks ) (satirical Western comedy)
__ Blue Max (1966) ( John Guillermin ) ( WWI air war Germany)
__ Bonnie and Clyde (1967) ( Arthur Penn ) ~
__ Bourn Supremecy (2004) ( Paul Greengrass ) (Robert Ludlum novel)
__ Bourn Ultimatum (2007) ( Paul Greengrass ) (Robert Ludlum novel)
__ Bourne Identity (2002) ( Doug Liman ) (Robert Ludlum novel - Jason Bourne has memory loss)
__ Brave (2012) ( Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman ) (Pixar)
__ Brave Little Toaster goes to Mars (1998) ( Robert C. Ramirez ) (produced by Disney - books by Thomas Disch)
__ Brave little Toaster (1987) ( Jerry Rees ) ~
__ Braveheart (1995) ( Mel Gibson ) (Scottish William Wallace vs English King Edward I)
__ Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) ( David Lean ) (WWII Burma)
__ Brigadoon (1954) ( Vincente Minnelli ) (Gene Kelly. V Johnson. Cyd Charisse. - later 1966 TV version has R. Goulet)
__ Brother Sun Sister Moon (1972) ( Franco Zeffirelli )
(St Francis of Assisi - St Clare of Assisi)
__ Bucket List (2007) ( Rob Reiner ) (2 guys facing end of life doing things they want before they die)
__ Bugs Life (1998) ( John Lasseter ) ( Pixar - Disney Co.)
__ Camelot (1967) ( Joshua Logan ) (Richard Harris stars as Arthur)
__ Captain Phillips (2013) ( Paul Greengrass ) (container ship MV Maersk Alabama captured by pirates and rescued)
x_ Captains Courageous (1937) ( Victor Fleming ) (novel by Rudyard Kipling - fishing schooners)
__ Cars (2006) ( John Lasseter ) (Pixar animation)
__ Casablanca (1942) ( Michael Curtiz ) (WWII - H. Bogart. Ingrid Bergman)
__ Cast Away (2000) ( Robert Zemeckis ) (Tom Hanks FedEx employee stranded on uninhabited island. soccer ball Wilson)
__ Chariots of Fire (1981) ( Hugh Hudson ) (1924 Olympics - Eric Liddell. a Christian and Harold Abrahams. English Jew who runs to overcome prejudice)
__ Charlottes Web (1973) ( Hanna-Barbera ) (based on award winning childrens book)
__ Chicken Little (2005) ( Mark Dindal ) ( Disney animated )
__ Chicken Run (2000) ( Peter Lord and Nick Park ) (stop motion - claymation)
__ Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) ( Ken Hughes ) (based on Ian Fleming novel - script by Roald Dahl and Ken Hughes)
__ Christine (1983) ( John Carpenter ) (Stephen King novel - sentient violent 1958 Plymouth Fury)
__ Christmas Carol (1951) ( Brian Desmond Hurst ) ( Scrooge - Scottish. Alistair Sim )
__ Christmas Carol (1984) ( Clive Donner ) ( Scrooge by George C. Scott )
x_ Christmas Story (1983) ( Bob Clark ) (an American Christmas. bb gun.dog steals turkey.leg lamp)
__ Chronicles of Narnia- The Lion. the Witch and the Wardrobe is a (2005) ( Andrew Adamson ) (based on the C.S. Lewis novels)
x_ Citizen Kane (1941) ( Orson Welles ) (fictional biography of very wealthy newspaperman - one of best films of 20th Century)
__ City Slickers (1991) ( Ron Underwood ) (city guys to dude ranch B. Crystal. Jack Palance)
__ City Slickers II The Legend of Curlys Gold (1994) ( Paul Weiland ) (dude ranch B. Crystal. Jack Palance)
__ Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) ( Steven Spielberg ) ~
__ Coca-Cola Kid (1985) ( Dusan Makavejev ) (Australian romantic comedy - Coca-Cola attempts to market in a remote valley served by a local soft drink factory)
__ Conan the Barbarian (1982) ( John Milius ) ~
__ Cowboys & Aliens (2011) ( Jon Favreau ) ~
__ Crocodile Dundee (1986) ( Peter Faiman ) (Australian comedy. Outback and New York City Paul Hogan.
Inspired by exploits of Rodney Ansell)
__ Crocodile Dundee II (1988) ( ) (sequel to Crocodile Dundee. Paul Hogan. Linda Kozlowski. opposing a Colombian drug cartel)
__ Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles - also known as Crocodile Dundee 3 (2001) ( Simon Wincer ) (Paul Hogan. Linda Kozlowski. )
__ Crouching Tiger. Hidden Dragon (2000) ( Ang Lee ) (American-Chinese-Hong Kong-Taiwanese co-production)
__ Dances with Wolves (1990) ( Kevin Costner ) ( American epic western film in some ways like Little Big Man)
__ Darby O Gill and the Little People (1959) ( Robert Stevenson ) (Walt Disney. S. Connery leprechauns)
__ Dark Crystal (1982) ( Jim Henson and Frank Oz ) (American�British fantasy film)
__ Das Boot (1981) ( Wolfgang Petersen ) ( WWII German submarine)
x_ Dave (1993) ( Ivan Reitman ) (president of USA replaced by nicer guy)
__ Dead Poets Society (1989) ( Peter Weir ) ~
__ Death on the Nile (1978) ( John Guillermin ) (Agatha Christi mystery)
__ Deer Hunter (1978) ( Michael Cimino ) ( Vietnam War ) ~
__ Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954) ( Delmer Daves ) (sequel to The Robe)
x_ Dersu Uzala (1975) ( Akira Kurosawa ) (a trapper assists a Russian Army survey team in Siberia)
__ Despicable Me (2010) ( Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud ) (computer-animated comedy film. story by Sergio Pablos)
__ Diamonds Are Forever (1971) ( Guy Hamilton ) (seventh in James Bond series last to star Sean Connery)
__ Diary of Anne Fran (1959) ( George Stevens ) (WWII Jewish families hiding from Nazis)
__ Dinosaurs (2000) ( Disney ) (animated )
__ Dirty Dancing (1987) ( Emile Ardolino ) (coming of age story. Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey)
__ Django Unchained (2012) ( Quentin Tarantino ) ( extremely violent - slave freed trained to be a bounty hunter)
__ Doctor Dolittle (1967) ( Richard Fleischer ) ~
x_ Doctor Zhivago (1965) ( David Lean) (novel by Boris Pasternak)
__ Dr. Strangelove or. How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) ( Stanley Kubrick ) ~
__ Duel (1971) ( Steven Spielberg ) (truck and a car)
__ Dune (1984) ( David Lynch ) (1965 Frank Herbert novel)
__ E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1981) ( Steven Spielberg ) (cute Extra-Terrestrial wants to go home)
__ Eight Below (2006) ( Frank Marshall ) (dogs left behind Antarctic expedition - are rescued)
__ Elephant Man (1980) ( David Lynch ) (about disfigured Joseph Merrick. whom the script calls John Merrick)
__ Elmer Gantry (1960) (Richard Brooks) (Burt Lancaster - preacher)
__ Empire Strikes Back (1980) ( Irvin Kershner dir - George Lucas writing exec. producing) (later released as Star Wars Episode V. The Empire Strikes Back)
__ Empire of the Sun (1987) ( Steven Spielberg ) ( WWII British boy in a Japanese prison camp in China semi biographical )
__ English Patient (1996) ( Anthony Minghella ) (romantic drama - WWII Sahara cave of swimmers)
__ Excalibur (1981) ( John Boorman ) (Arthurian dramatic fantasy)
x_ Fantasia (1940) ( Walt Disney ) (animation and music. Leopold Stokowski. Micky Mouse)
__ Fantasia 2000 (1999) ( Walt Disney Animation Studios )(animation and music. James Levine. Peter Schickele )
x_ Fargo (1996) ( Joel and Ethan Coen ) ~
__ Fiddler on the Roof (1971) ( Norman Jewison ) (Jewish life in Russia)
__ Field of Dreams (1989) ( Phil Alden Robinson ) (baseball fantasy)
__ Finding Nemo (2003) ( Pixar ) (animated fish captured and goes home)
__ Fistful of dollars (1964) ( Sergio Leone ) (spaghetti western)
__ Flight of the Phoenix (1965) ( Robert Aldrich ) (airplane down in the Sahara desert starring James Stewart)
__ For a Few dollars more (1965) ( Sergio Leone ) (spaghetti western)
__ French Connection (1971) ( William Friedkin ) ~
__ Frost/Nixon (2008) ( Ron Howard ) (fictionalized version of tv interview of Richard Nixon)
__ Funny Girl (1968) ( William Wyler ) (romantic musical - based on Fanny Brice - star B. Streisand)
__ Gandhi (1982) ( Richard Attenborough ) (biography)
__ Ghost (1990) ( Jerry Zucker ) (Patrick Swayze. Demi Moore )
__ Godfather (1972) ( Francis Ford Coppola ) ~
x_ Gods Must be Crazy (1980) ( Jamie Uys ) (South African comedy film)
__ Goldfinger (1964) ( Guy Hamilton ) (third film in the James Bond series - Sean Connery)
__ Gone with the Wind (1939) ( Victor Fleming ) (produced by David O. Selznick)
x_ Good. The Bad and The Ugly (1966) ( Sergio Leone ) (spaghetti western)
__ Goonies (1986) ( Steven Spielberg ) (children hunting for treasure)
__ Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964) ( Pier Paolo Pasolini ) (Italian)
x_ Graduate. The (1967) ( Mike Nichols ) (Dustin Hoffman )
__ Gran Torino (2008) ( Clint Eastwood ) (gruff old Korean War veteran defends Hmong neighbors)
__ Great Race (1965) ( Blake Edwards ) (American slapstick comedy Tony Curtis. Jack Lemon)
__ Green Card (1990) ( Peter Weir ) (marriage of convenience to stay in USA. Gerard Depardieu)
__ Green Mile (1999) ( Frank Darabont ) (adapted from a Stephen King novel)
__ Gremlins (1984) ( Joe Dante ) ~
__ Grey. The (2011) (Joe Carnahan ) (Canada airplane crash and aftermath - wolves)
__ Greystoke. The Legend of Tarzan. Lord of the Apes (1984) ( Hugh Hudson ) (based on Edgar Rice Burroughs. 1912. Tarzan of the Apes)
__ Grumpier Old Men (1995) ( Howard Deutch ) (sequel to Grumpy Old Men)
__ Grumpy Old Men (1993) ( Donald Petrie ) (American Comedy set in Minnesota)
__ Guns of Navarone (1961) ( J. Lee Thompson ) ~
__ Guess Whos Coming to Dinner (1967) ( Stanley Kramer ) (interracial marriage. Spencer Tracy. Sidney Poitier. Katharine Hepburn)
x_ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) ( Chris Columbus ) ~
__ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Part 1 (2010) ( David Yates ) ~
__ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Part 2 (2011) ( David Yates ) ~
x_ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) ( Mike Newell ) ~
__ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) ( David Yates ) ~
__ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) ( David Yates ) ~
x_ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) ( Chris Columbus ) ~
x_ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) ( Alfonso Cuaron ) ~
__ Hawaii (1966) ( George Roy Hill ) (based on a James A. Michener novel)
__ Hellboy (2004) (Guillermo del Toro) (comic book hero)
__ Help. the (2011) ( Tate Taylor ) ( house help in Mississippi in 1963 )
__ History of the World. Part I (1981) ( Mel Brooks ) ~
__ Hobbit (1977) ( Rankin/Bass producer ) (animated version of the story)
__ Hobbit - The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) ( Peter Jackson ) (( to be released Dec. 2014 ))
__ Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey (2012) ( Peter Jackson ) (JRR Tolkien but story stretched)
__ Hobbit - The Desolation of Smaug (2013) ( Peter Jackson ) (JRR Tolkien but story stretched)
__ Holes (2003) ( Andrew Davis ) (features adventures at a juvenile detention camp)
__ Hook (1991) ( Steven Spielberg ) (Peter Pan story)
x_ Hugo (2011) ( Martin Scorsese ) (boy living in railway station - discovers automoton which writes)
__ Hunt for Red October (1990) ( John McTiernan ) (Tom Clancy novel - Sean Connery)
__ I Robot (2004) ( Alex Proyas ) (inspired by Isaac Asimov story)
__ The Imitation Game (2015) ( Morten Tyldum ) ( about WWII mathematician Alan Turing)
__ Incredibles (2004) ( Pixar ) (family of spies)
__ Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) ( Steven Spielberg ) (S. America)
x_ Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) ( Steven Spielberg ) (Germany - Jordan)
__ Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) ( Steven Spielberg ) (India)
__ Invisible Man (1933) ( James Whale) ( stars Claude Rains - H.G. Wells The Invisible Man. pub. 1897)
__ Iron Giant (1999) ( Brad Bird ) (animated)
x_ Islands in the Stream (1977) ( Franklin J. Schaffner ) (Cuba beginning WWII. E. Hemingway novel)
__ Its a Wonderful Life (1946) ( Frank Capra ) ~
__ Jaws (1974) ( Steven Spielberg ) ~
__ Jewel of the Nile (1985) ( Lewis Teague ) (sequel to the 1984 Romancing the Stone)
__ Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius (2001) ( John A. Davis ) ( Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies)
__ Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) ( Steven Spielberg ) ~
__ Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) ( Henry Levin ) (loosely adapted from Jules Verne novel)
__ Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) ( Stanley Kramer ) (Spencer Tracey)
__ Jungle Book (1967) ( Wolfgang Reitherman ) (based on Rudyard Kipling. Last film Disney made before he died)
__ Jurassic Park (1993) ( Steven Spielberg ) (scientists breed dinosaurs on island)
__ Jurassic Park. The Lost World (1997) ( Steven Spielberg ) (2nd of the Jurassic Park movies)
__ Jurassic Park III (2001) ( Joe Johnston ) (this one Not based on a M.Crichton book)
__ Key Largo (1948) ( John Huston ) (H. Bogart. E. G. Robinson. L. Bacall - Florida hurricane)
__ Kindergarden Cop (1990) ( Ivan Reitman ) (starring Arnold Schwarzenegger)
__ King and I (1956) ( Walter Lang ) ( musical - based on book Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon)
__ Kings Speech (2010) ( Tom Hooper ) (King George VI at beginning of WWII conquers stuttering)
__ Kon-Tiki (2012) ( Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg) (about 1947 Kon-Tiki raft expedition of Thor Heyerdahl)
__ Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) ( Benton ) (disasterous divorce)
__ La Cage aux Folles (1978) ( Edouard Molinaro ) ~
__ Labyrinth (1986) ( Jim Henson ) (musical fantasy. exe produced George Lucas. stars David Bowie
__ Ladyhawke (1985) ( Richard Donner ) ( fantasy film )
__ Last Emperor (1987) ( Jeremy Thomas) (China)
__ Last Samurai (2003) ( Edward Zwick ) (Japan late 1800s)
__ Last Unicorn (1982) ( Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin Jr) (animated fantasy film)
x_ Lawrence of Arabia (1962) ( David Lean ) (WWI in Arabia)
__ League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) ( Stephen Norrington ) (Sean Connery)
__ Life of Brian (1979) ( Terry Jones ) (Monty Python on Palestine in the time of Christ)
x_ Life of Pi (2014) ( Ang Lee ) (India - Pacific Ocean)
__ Lifeboat (1944) ( Alfred Hitchcock ) ( story by John Steinbeck )
__ Lilies of the Field (1963) ( Ralph Nelson ) (Sidney Poitier)
x_ Lincoln (2012) ( Steven Spielberg ) (biography of President Abraham Lincoln)
x_ Lion in Winter (1958) ( Anthony Harvey - prod Joseph E. Levvine) (Henry II)
x_ Little Big Man (1970) ( Arthur Penn ) (Dustin Hoffman - historical fiction on American West)
__ Longest Day (1962) ( Darryl F. Zanuck ) (WWII D-Day)
__ Lord of the Rings - Return of the King (2003) ( Peter Jackson ) (J.R.R. Tolkien)
__ Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) ( Peter Jackson ) (J.R.R. Tolkien)
__ Lord of the Rings - Two Towers (2002) ( Peter Jackson ) (J.R.R. Tolkien)
__ MASH (1970) ( Robert Altman ) ( Korean War medical unit )
__ Madagascar (2005) ( Eric Darnell. Tom McGrath ) (DreamWorks comedy)
__ Madagascar. Escape 2 Africa (2008) ( Eric Darnell. Tom McGrath ) (DreamWorks comedy)
__ Magnificent Seven (1960) ( John Sturges ) (American western version of Seven Samurai)
x_ Maleficient (2014) ( Robert Stromberg ) (Disney - Angelina Jolie)
__ Maltese Falcon (1941) ( John Huston ) (novel by Dashiell Hammett)
x_ Man for all Seasons (1966) ( Fred Zinnemann ) (Thomas More - Henery VIII)
__ Man from Snowy River (1982) ( George T. Miller ) (Australian drama - Kirk Douglas. Tom Burlinson. Sigrid Thornton)
__ Man Who Would Be King (1975) ( John Huston ) (R.Kipling story - S. Connery)
__ Manry at Sea. In the Wake of a Dream (2019) ( Robert Manry sailing Tinkerbelle across Alantic documentary ) (Steve Wystrach) (13.5-foot-films)
__ Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977) ( John Lounsbery and Wolfgang Reitherman) (Disney)
x_ Marathon Man (1976) ( John Schlesinger ) (WWII war criminal - treasure)
__ March of the Penguins (2005) ( Luc Jacquet ) (Emperor Penguins documentary. Natinal Geographic)
__ Mary Poppins (1964) ( Robert Stevenson) (produced by Walt Disney)
__ Master and Comander. Far Side of the World (2003) ( Peter Weir ) (adapted three novels in Patrick O Brian. Aubrey Maturin series)
__ Maverick (1994) ( Richard Donner ) (western gambler)
__ Medicine Man (1992) ( John McTiernan ) (Amazon jungle. Sean Connery)
__ Men in Black (1997) ( Steven Spielberg ) ~
x_ Messenger - (Mohammad. Messenger of God) (1976) ( Moustapha Akkad ) ~
x_ Milagro Beanfield War (1988) ( Robert Redford ) (story by John Nichols novel)
x_ Miracle on 34th Street (1947) ( George Seaton ) (Christmas classic. Edmund Gwenn = Kris Kringle)
__ Miracle on 34th Street (1994) ( John Hughes - dir Les Mayfield ) (Christmas classic)
__ Mission. The (1986) ( Roland Joffe ) (Jesuit missionary 18th century S America)
x_ Mississippi Burning (1988) ( Alan Parker ) (Mississippi 1964 - looking for dead civil rights workers)
__ Mister Roberts (1955) ( John Ford ) (WWII Pacific)
__ Moby Dick (1956) ( John Huston ) (Melville novel - Gregory Peck)
__ Money Pit (1986) ( Steven Spielberg ) ~
__ Monsters Inc. (2001) ( Pete Docter ) ( Pixar )
x_ Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) ( Terry Jones ) (Arthurian period humor)
__ Monty Pythons The Meaning of Life (1983) ( Terry Jones ) (slapstick comedy - some dark humor)
__ Moonraker (1979) ( Lewis Gilbert ) (eleventh in James Bond series - fourth to star Roger Moore)
x_ Moonstruck (1987) ( Norman Jewison ) (American romantic comedy - very funny)
__ MouseHunt (1997) ( Gore Verbinski) (comedy mouse outwits brothers who inherit house and string factory)
__ Mr. Magoos Christmas Carol (1962) ( animated - voice of Scrooge is Jim Backus ) ~
__ Mr. Peabody and Sherman (2014) ( Rob Minkoff ) ( DreamWorks Animation - characters from TV Bulwinkle show)
__ Muppets Most Wanted (2014) ( James Bobin ) ( Disney - Jim Henson Muppets)
__ Murder on the Orient Express (1974) ( Sidney Lumet ) (based on Agatha Christi story)
__ Music Man 1962) ( Morton DaCosta ) (musical - Midwestern USA)
__ Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) ( Lewis Milestone with unofficial help by Marlon Brando ) ~
__ My Fair Lady (1964) ( George Cukor ) (musical adapted from Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw)
__ Mysterious Island (1961) ( Cy Endfield ) (a great dissapointment it did not follow the book by Jules Verne)
__ Name of the Rose (1986) ( Jean-Jacques Annaud ) (book by Umberto Eco. Medieval mystery. Sean Connery)
__ National Treasure (2004) ( Jon Turteltaub ) (prod J. Bruckheimer - Nicholas Cage - treasure hunt across USA)
__ National Treasure 2. Book of Secrets (2007) ( Jon Turteltaub ) (sequel)
__ NeverEnding Story (1984) ( Wolfgang Petersen ) (West German epic fantasy film based on the novel by Michael Ende)
__ Never Say Never Again (1983) ( Irvin Kershner ) (James Bond film based on Thunderball story. Sean Connery)
__ No Country for Old Men (2007) ( Joel and Ethan Coen ) (extremely violent)
__ North by Northwest (1959) ( Alfred Hitchcock ) ~
__ Nuns Story (1959) ( Fred Zinnemann ) (WWII Belgian Congo - Audrey Hepburn)
__ O Brother Where Art Thou (2000) ( Joel and Ethan Coen ) ~
__ Old Yeller (1957) ( Robert Stevenson ) (American family (dog) tragedy set in 1860s)
__ On Golden Pond (1981) ( Mark Rydell ) (Katharine Hepburn. Henry Fonda. Jane Fonda)
__ Once Upon A Time In The West (1968) ( Sergio Leone ) ~
__ One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (1975) ( Milos Forman ) ~
__ One. Two. Three (1961) ( Billy Wilder ) (comedy - primarily set in West Berlin during the Cold War before the Berlin Wall - Coca-Cola VP discovers his daughter is in love with E. German communist - comedy ensues.)
__ Operation Petticoat (1959) ( Blake Edwards ) (WWII submarine comedy starring Cary Grant and Tony Curtis)
__ Out of Africa (1985) ( Sydney Pollack ) (Isak Dinesen book published in 1937)
__ Overboard (1987) ( Garry Marshall ) (romantic comedy - memory loss - G.Hawn K.Russell)
__ Pacifier (2005) ( Adam Shankman ) (action comedy film - stars Vin Diesel)
__ Papillon (1973) ( Franklin J. Schaffner ) (Devils Island escapee)
__ Passion of the Christ (2004) ( Mel Gibson ) ~
__ Patriot (2000) ( Roland Emmerich) (American Revolutionary War - Mel Gibson)
__ Patton (1970) ( Franklin J. Schaffner ) (WWII script Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North)
__ Phantom of the Opera (1943) ( Arthur Lubin ) (star Nelson Eddy - Lon Chaney stared in 1925 ver.)
__ Pokemon. The First Movie. Mewtwo Strikes Back (1999) ( Kunihiko Yuyama ) (Japanese anime)
__ Poseidon Adventure (1972) ( Ronald Neame ) (ship sinking)
__ Presidio (1988) ( Peter Hyams ) (San Francisco. Sean Connery. Mark Harmon)
x_ Princess Bride (1987) ( Rob Reiner ) (an absolute favorite - romance - swordplay)
__ Psycho (1960) ( Alfred Hitchcock ) (loosely inspired by Wisconsin murderer grave robber Ed Gein)
__ Pulp Fiction (1994) ( Quentin Tarantino ) (very violent)
__ Puss in Boots (2011) ( Chris Miller ) (animated comedy. DreamWorks Animation. Antonio Banderas)
x_ RAN (1985) ( Akira Kurosawa ) (Shakespeare. King Lear )
__ Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) ( Steven Spielberg ) (Indiana Jones)
__ Rain Man (1988) ( Barry Levinson ) (two brothers. one a savant)
__ Raising Arizona (1987) ( Coen brothers ) (starring Nicolas Cage)
__ Ratatouille (2007) ( Pixar ) (rat teaches young chef to cook. in France)
__ Rear Window (1954) ( Alfred Hitchcock ) (James Stewart)
x_ Reds (1981) ( Warren Beatty ) (on the life and career of John Reed and the Russian Revolution)
__ Return of the Jedi (1983) ( Richard Marquand dir. written George Lucas and Lawrence Kasdan ) (later released as Star Wars Episode VI. Return of the Jedi)
__ Return to Snowy River (1988) ( Geoff Burrowes ) (Australia. Tom Burlinson. Sigrid Thornton. Brian Dennehy)
__ Road to El Dorado (2000) ( Eric -Bibo- Bergeron and Don Paul) (animated adventure comedy)
__ Robe (1953) ( Henry Koster ) (robe taken from Christ by Roman solcier at crucifixion)
__ Robin and Marian (1976) ( Richard Lester ) (Sean Connery - Robin Hood . Audrey Hepburn - Lady Marian) Robin Hood late in life)
x_ Robin Hood (1973) ( Wolfgang Reitherman ) (animated film - Walt Disney Productions)
__ Robin Hood (2010) ( Ridley Scott ) (starring Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett)
__ Robin Hood. Men in Tights (1993) ( Mel Brooks) (parody of the Robin Hood story)
__ Robin Hood. Prince of Thieves (1991) ( Kevin Reynolds ) (Kevin Costner - Morgan Freeman as Azeem)
__ Robots (2005) ( Blue Sky Studios ) (computer animated comic science fiction Chris Wedge. William Joyce
__ Rock. The (1996) ( Michael Bay ) (Alcatraz Island. San Francisco Bay Area. S.Connery)
x_ Romancing the Stone (1984) ( Robert Zemeckis ) (action-adventure romantic comedy M.Douglas. K.Turner D.DeVito)
__ Romeo and Juliet (1968) ( Franco Zeffirelli ) ~
x_ Russians Are Coming. the Russians Are Coming (1966) ( Norman Jewison ) (comedy - New England - Russian submarine grounds)
__ Sahara (2005) ( Breck Eisner ) (based on Clive Cussler book)
x_ Sand Pebbles (1969) ( Robert Wise ) (American gunboat in China. Boxer Rebellion)
__ Satyricon (officially Fellini Satyricon) (1966) ( Federico Fellini ) (based on Petroniuss work Satyricon bawdy and satirical episodes during Neros reign)
__ Savage Innocents (1960) ( Nicholas Ray ) (Anthony Quinn as Inuk the Eskimo)
__ Saving Private Ryan (1998) ( Steven Spielberg ) (WWII Europe)
x_ Schindlers List (1993) ( Steven Spielberg ) (WWII Germany)
__ Scrooged (1988) ( Richard Donner ) (stars comedian Bill Murray - modern Christmas Carol knockoff)
__ Sea Wolves (1980) ( Andrew V. McLaglen ) (based WWII incident in India - actors G Peck. R Moore. D Niven
x_ Secondhand Lions (2003) ( Tim McCanlies ) ~
__ Sergeant York (1941) ( Howard Hawks ) ( Gary Cooper - about the life of Alvin York. WW I)
__ Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) ( Stanley Donen ) (musical - western)
__ Seven Samurai (1954) ( Akira Kurosawa ) ~
__ Shakespeare in Love (1998) ( John Madden ) ~
__ Shawshank Redemption (1994) ( Frank Darabont ) (prison movie)
__ Shrek (2001) ( Andrew Adamson. Vicky Jenson ) (DreamWorks Animation comedy)
__ Shrek 2 (2004) ( Andrew Adamson. Kelly Asbury. Conrad Vernon ) (DreamWorks Animation comedy)
x_ Silver Chalice (1954) ( Victor Saville ) (novel by Thomas B. Costain - film debut of Paul Newman)
__ Singin in the Rain (1952) ( Gene Kelly ) ~
__ Skinwalkers (2002) ( Chris Eyre ) (based on Tony Hillerman mystery novel - Jim Chee - Joe Leaphorn characters
__ Social Network (2010) ( David Fincher ) (about Facebook - M. Zukerberg)
__ Somewhere in Time (1980) ( Jeannot Szwarc ) ~
__ Sound of Music (1965) ( Robert Wise ) (Julie Andrews - about Trapp family. songs by Richard Rodgers. Oscar Hammerstein
__ Soylent Green (1973) ( Richard Fleischer ) (Science Fiction - future)
__ Spaceballs (1987) ( Mel Brooks ) ~
__ Spider-Man (2002) ( Sam Raimi ) ~
__ Splash (1984) ( Ron Howard ) (Mermaid falls in love - Tom Hanks. Daryl Hannah)
__ Spy Who Loved Me (1977) ( Lewis Gilbert ) (tenth in James Bond series - third Roger Moore)
__ Stagecoach (1939) ( John Ford ) ( John Wayne first big role )
__ Star Wars (1977) ( George Lucas ) (later retitled Star Wars Episode IV. A New Hope)
__ Star Wars Episode I. The Phantom Menace (1999) ( George Lucas writter - director ) ~
x_ Sting (1973) ( George Roy Hill ) ( set in September 1936 Paul Newman and Robert Redford)
__ Swiss Family Robinson (1960) ( Ken Annakin ) (shipwrecked family building an island home. loosely based on 1812 Johann David Wyss novel)
x_ Taming of the Shrew (1967) ( Franco Zeffirelli ) ( William Shakespeare play Richard Burton - Elizabeth Taylor)
__ Tarzan (1999) ( Chris Buck - Kevin Lima ) (Disney animated adventure musical)
__ Ten Commandments (1956) ( Cecil B. DeMille ) (remake of original which was silent)
__ Terminal (2004) ( Steven Spielberg ) (trapped in JFK Airport denied entry to USA. T.Hanks)
__ Third Man (1949) ( Carol Reed ) (mystery. Vienna after WWII looking for Harry Lime finds antibiotic smuggling)
x_ Throne of Blood (1957) ( Akira Kurosawa ) (Macbeth story)
__ Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines (1965) ( Ken Annakin ) (London to Paris flying race)
__ Thunderball (1965) ( Terence Young ) (fourth in James Bond series - Sean Connery)
x_ Time Bandits (1981) ( Terry Gilliam ) (British fantasy film)
__ Titanic (1997) ( James Cameron ) ~
__ Tolkien (2019) (biography of the first half of his life) (directed by Dome Karukoski)
__ Tootsie (1982) ( Sydney Pollack ) (actor impersonates a woman to get work)
__ Toy Story (1995) ( Pixar ) ~
__ Toy Story 2 (1999) ( Pixar ) ~
__ Transformers (2007) ( Michael Bay ) (Steven Spielberg executive producer)
__ Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) ( John Huston ) (adapted B. Traven 1927 novel - H. Bogart)
__ True Lies (1994) ( James Cameron ) (Arnold Schwarzenegger. J.L. Curis)
__ Twelve O Clock High (1949) ( Henry King. prod.Darryl F. Zanuck) (WWII US Army's Eighth Air Force - Gregory Peck)
__ Twins (1988) ( Ivan Reitman ) (Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito)
__ Twister (1996) ( Jan de Bont - Michael Crichton ) (storm chasers researching tornadoes)
__ Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970) ( Don Siegel ) (Mexico - Shirley MacLaine. Clint Eastwood)
x_ Up (2009) ( Pete Docter ) (Pixar. elderly man escapes with young kid floats to S.America )
__ Van Helsing (2004) ( Stephen Sommers ) (Dracula - Frankenstein etc.)
__ Vertigo (1958) ( Alfred Hitchcock ) ~
__ WALL-E (2008) ( Andrew Stanton ) (Pixar. terrestrial robot meets extra terrestial robot)
__ Wag the Dog (1997) ( Barry Levinson ) (declare war to distract populace from bad times)
__ War and Peace (1969) ( Sergei Bondarchuk ) (Mosfilm 415 min. long - Tolstoi)
__ WarGames (1983) ( John Badham ) (automatic missle launch computer confused by hacker playing a game almost starts WWIII - Matthew Broderick)
x_ Waterworld (1995) (Kevin Reynolds) (Kevin Kostner)
__ Whale Rider (2002) ( Niki Caro ) (New Zealand - Maori)
__ White Squall (1996) ( Ridley Scott ) (brigantine Albatross schoolship sunk in Gulf of Mexico 1961)
__ Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) ( Steven Spielberg ) (film spliced together live action with animated characters)
__ Wizard of Oz (1939) ( Victor Fleming ) (from Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. stars Judy Garland)
__ Yellowbeard (1983) ( Mel Damski ) (comedy film)
__ Yentl (1983) ( Barbra Streisand ) (Jewish girl wants to go to yeshiva)
__ You Only Live Twice (1967) ( Lewis Gilbert ) (fifth in James Bond series - Sean Connery)
__ Young Frankenstein (1974) ( Mel Brooks ) (American comedy - starring Gene Wilder)
x_ Zorba the Greek (1964) ( Michael Cacoyannis ) (based on book by Nikos Kazantzakis)
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