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* ''Film/GalaxyQuest'' is ''Film/ThreeAmigos'' meets ''Franchise/StarTrek''.
* ''Film/GameNight'' is ''Film/{{Keanu}}'' meets ''Film/TheManWhoKnewTooLittle''
** Alternatively, ''Film/{{Clue}}'' meets ''Film/DateNight''.
* ''Film/GandhiAtTheBat'' is ''Film/ThePrideOfTheYankees'' meets ''Film/{{Gandhi}}'', with maybe a pinch of ''Film/RookieOfTheYear''.
* ''Film/GangsterNo1'' is ''Film/{{Scarface|1983}}'' meets ''Film/SingleWhiteFemale''.
* ''Film/{{Garfield}}'' is [[ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} the original comic]] meets ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'' and ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2''.
** ''Garfield 2: A Tale of Two Kitties'' is ''Literature/ThePrinceAndThePauper'' meets ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats''.
* ''Film/{{Geostorm}}'': Creator/MarkKermode described it as ''Film/DaleksInvasionEarth2150AD'' meets ''Film/{{Moonraker}}''.
* ''Film/GetOnUp'' is ''Film/{{Ray}}'' meets ''Film/FortyTwo''.[[note]]''Ray's'' embellished bibliography with ''42's'' sanitized bibliography[[/note]]
* ''Film/{{Get Out|2017}}'' is ''Film/GuessWhosComingToDinner'' meets ''Literature/TheStepfordWives'' meets ''Film/{{Clonus}}'' meets ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers'' meets ''Literature/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream''.
* ''Film/{{Getaway}}'': ''Film/GoneInSixtySeconds2000'' meets ''Film/DieHardWithAVengeance''.
* ''Film/TheGhostAndTheDarkness'': Creator/WilliamGoldman pitched it as "''Film/LawrenceOfArabia'' meets ''Film/{{Jaws}}''".
* ''Film/GhostDogTheWayOfTheSamurai'' is ''Film/LeSamourai'' meets the HipHop and {{Jidaigeki}} genres.
* ''Film/GhostShip'' is ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}'' meets ''Film/EventHorizon''.
* ''Film/GhostTown2008'' is Creator/RickyGervais remaking ''Film/TheSixthSense'' as a RomCom after catching ''Film/{{Flatliners}}'' and an episode of ''Series/HouseMD'' the other night, with ''Film/Ghost1990'' coming in with some notes.
* ''Film/GhostWorld'' is ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' meets ''Literature/TheCatcherInTheRye''.
* ''Film/{{Ghostbusters|1984}}'' is ''Film/TheExorcist'' meets ''Series/DirtyJobs'' meets ''Literature/TheCallOfCthulhu'' meets ''Film/{{Stripes}}''.
* The {{Giallo}} genre is more or less [[MysteryFiction Mystery]] [[CrimeAndPunishmentSeries Crime]] [[FilmNoir Noir]] meets Erotic thrillers (and or Sexploitation) meets [[SlasherMovie Slasher Films]].
* ''Film/{{The Girl Next Door|2004}}'':
** ''Film/NottingHill'' meets ''Film/AmericanPie''.
** ''Film/RiskyBusiness'' meets ''American Pie''.
* ''Film/GirlsTrip'': ''Film/{{Bridesmaids}}'' meets ''Film/WaitingToExhale''.
* ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'' is ''Film/{{Spartacus}}'' meets ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo''.
* ''Film/GlassOnion'' is ''Film/MammaMia'' meets ''Theatre/AnInspectorCalls''.
* ''Film/GodsNotDead'' is ''ComicBook/ChickTracts'' meets ''Theatre/InheritTheWind'' [[spoiler: (except the religious side wins)]].
** ''God's Not Dead 2'' has even more obvious similarities to ''Inherit the Wind'', with the religious and secular sides switched around.
* ''Film/TheGoldenChild'' is ''Film/BeverlyHillsCop'' meets ''Film/BigTroubleInLittleChina''.
* ''Film/GoodBoys'': ''Film/{{Superbad}}'' meets ''Film/DiaryOfAWimpyKid''.
* ''Film/GoodManners'' is ''Film/RosemarysBaby'' meets ''Anime/WolfChildren''.
* ''Film/{{Gran Turismo|2023}}'' is the [[VideoGame/GranTurismo eponymous video game series]] meets ''VideoGame/GRIDLegends'' meets ''Series/Formula1DriveToSurvive''.
** Alternatively, it's ''VideoGame/GranTurismo'' meets ''WesternAnimation/Cars3'' meets ''Film/TheWizard''.
** Or ''VideoGame/GranTurismo'' meets ''Film/SpeedRacer'' by way of ''Film/ReadyPlayerOne2018''.
* ''Film/TheGrandBudapestHotel'' is ''Film/TheGreatDictator'' meets ''Film/NorthByNorthwest''.
* ''Film/GreasersPalace'' looks like what would have happened if Creator/SergioLeone and Creator/JohnWaters made a film together.
* ''Film/TheGreatWall'' is ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' meets ''Film/EdgeOfTomorrow'' meets ''Film/CrouchingTigerHiddenDragon''.
* ''Film/GreenBook'' has been likened to ''Film/RainMan'' (a RoadMovie {{Dramedy}} about two completely different men who end up bonding) meets an inverted ''Film/DrivingMissDaisy'' (a black man and his white driver).
* ''Film/TheGreenMile'' is ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption'' meets ''Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs''.
* ''Film/{{Gremlins|1984}}'' is the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "The Trouble with Tribbles" meets ''Franchise/TheMuppets'' with horror movie elements.
** ''Film/Gremlins2TheNewBatch'' is ''Gremlins'' meets ''Film/DieHard'' by way of ''Franchise/LooneyTunes''.
* ''Film/TheGrey'' is ''Film/TheEdge'' meets ''Film/TheFlightOfThePhoenix1965''.
* ''Film/GrudgeMatch'' is [[Film/RagingBull Jake LaMotta]] vs. [[Franchise/{{Rocky}} Rocky Balboa]] as Film/GrumpyOldMen.
* ''Film/GuestHouseParadiso'' is ''Series/{{Bottom}}'' meets ''Series/FawltyTowers''.
* ''Guum-Gum'' (film but not book) is ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'' meets ''Film/TheMatrix''.
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* ''Film/HalloweenIIISeasonOfTheWitch'' is ''Film/Halloween1978'' meets ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers'' meets ''Film/TheWickerMan1973''.
** ''Film/HalloweenEnds'' is ''Film/Joker2019'' meets ''Film/FridayThe13thPartVANewBeginning'', with a hint of ''Film/JasonGoesToHellTheFinalFriday''.
* ''Film/{{Hancock}}'' is ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' meets ''[[spoiler:Franchise/{{Highlander}}]]''. The hidden title could be called ''Hancock'' meets ''Film/TheTerminator''.
* ''Film/TheHangover'' is simply ''Film/DudeWheresMyCar'' meets ''Film/TheThreeStooges'' meets ''Film/VeryBadThings'' meets ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E10VivaNedFlanders "Viva Ned Flanders"]].
* ''Film/TheHappening'' is ''Film/TwentyEightDaysLater'' meets ''Film/FinalDestination1'' meets GaiasVengeance.
* ''Film/HappyDeathDay''
** It's either ''Film/GroundhogDay'' meets ''Series/ScreamQueens2015''.
** Or, it's ''Groundhog Day'' meets ''Film/ScaryMovie''.
* ''Film/TheHappytimeMurders'' is ''Series/GregTheBunny'' meets ''Film/TheHeat''.
* ''Film/HardCandy'' is ''Film/{{Lolita}}'' (the movie, not the novel) meets ''Film/TheGirlWithTheDragonTattoo2011''.
* ''Film/AHardDaysNight'' is ''Film/ANightAtTheOpera'' meets ''Film/RockAroundTheClock.''
* ''Film/HardcoreHenry'' is ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'' meets ''[[Film/TheBourneSeries Jason Bourne]]'' meets ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' in Russia.
* ''Film/TheHatefulEight'' is ''Film/ReservoirDogs'' meets ''Film/TheThing1982'' meets ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'' in a Wyoming blizzard.
* ''Film/{{Head}}'' is ''Film/{{Help}}'' meets ''Film/EightAndAHalf'', along with [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs whatever drugs happened to be around]].
* ''Film/{{Heathers}}'' is ''Film/PrettyInPink'' meets ''Film/{{Badlands}}''.
* ''Film/HeavensGate''
** In his memoir about the film's production ''Final Cut'', Creator/UnitedArtists executive Steven Bach said he always described it to people as "it looks like Creator/DavidLean made a {{Western}}."
** More specifically it feels like writer-director Creator/{{Michael Cimino|Director}} took ''Film/DoctorZhivago'' and ''Film/McCabeAndMrsMiller'' and filtered them through his own ''Film/TheDeerHunter''.
* ''Film/TheHebrewHammer'' is ''Film/ImGonnaGitYouSucka'' as Creator/MelBrooks might've made it.
* ''Film/Hellboy2019'' is Creator/GuillermoDelToro's [[Film/Hellboy2004 original 2004 film]] meets the works of Creator/GarthEnnis, with some dashes of ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' thrown in for good measure.
* ''Film/HelloMaryLouPromNightII'' is ''Film/{{Carrie|1976}}'' meets ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet''.
* ''Film/{{Hellraiser}}'' is ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' meets ''Film/{{A Nightmare on Elm Street|1984}}'' meets ''Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde'' meets ''Theatre/DoctorFaustus'' meets ''Literature/The120DaysOfSodom'' meets ''Film/{{The Omen|1976}}'' meets ''Film/{{The Thing|1982}}'' meets ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1959}}''.
** ''Film/HellraiserInferno'' was described by WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob as ''Film/{{Hellraiser}}'' meets ''Film/JacobsLadder'' meets ''Film/BadLieutenant'' as directed by Creator/DavidLynch.
** [[Film/Hellraiser2022 The 2022 film]] is [[Film/{{Hellraiser}} the original]] meets ''Anime/DevilmanCrybaby''.
* ''Film/{{Hereditary}}'' is ''Film/RosemarysBaby'' meets ''Film/OrdinaryPeople''
* ''Film/HereComesTheBoom'' is ''Film/TheWizard'' meets the UsefulNotes/UltimateFightingChampionship.
* ''Film/Hero2002'' is ''Film/{{Rashomon}}'' meets ''Film/TheLastEmperor'' meets ''Film/CrouchingTigerHiddenDragon''.
* ''Film/{{Hidalgo}}'' is ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' meets ''Film/TheLastSamurai''.
* In an odd reversal, ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'' is ''Film/{{Fame}}'' minus ''Series/{{Skins}}''.
** ''Film/{{Grease}}'' meets ''Film/FastTimesAtRidgemontHigh'' minus the R-rated content.
* ''Film/TheHiddenFortress'' is ''Film/NorthwestPassage'' meets ''A Train for Durango''.
* ''Film/HighwayToHell'' was written by Ate de Jong as a cross between the story of Orpheus, ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' and ''Film/MadMax2TheRoadWarrior''.
* ''Film/{{Highwaymen}}'' is ''Film/MadMax'' meets ''Film/ChangingLanes'', meets ''Film/TheHitcher''.
* ''Film/TheHillsHaveEyes1977'' is ''Film/TheLastHouseOnTheLeft'' meets ''Film/TheTexasChainSawMassacre1974'' meets ''Film/{{Deliverance}}''.
* ''Film/HirokinTheLastSamurai'' is ''Film/TheHungerGames'' meets ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', without a happy ending.
* ''Film/HoldUp'' is ''Film/QuickChange'' meets a Creator/TerenceHill and Creator/BudSpencer action comedy.
* ''Film/TheHollywoodKnights'' is ''Film/AmericanGraffiti'' meets ''Film/AnimalHouse''.
* ''Film/HomeAlone'' is ''[[Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff Ferris Bueller]]'' meets ''Franchise/{{Saw}}''
** Or ''Film/DennisTheMenace'' meets a really family-friendly version of ''Film/StrawDogs1971''.
* ''Film/HolmesAndWatson'' is ''Franchise/SherlockHolmes'' meets ''Film/StepBrothers''
* ''Film/TheHorde'' is ''Film/RamboLastBlood'' meets ''Film/WrongTurn''.
** Alternatively, it's ''Series/ThePunisher2017'' meets ''Film/TheHillsHaveEyes1977''
* ''Film/HorribleBosses'' is ''Film/TheHangover'' meets ''Film/NineToFive'' meets ''Film/StrangersOnATrain''.
* ''Film/HorrorExpress'' is ''Literature/WhoGoesThere'' meets ''Literature/MurderOnTheOrientExpress''.
* ''Film/TheHost2006'':
** ''Film/TheBeastFromTwentyThousandFathoms'' meets ''Film/{{Juno}}'' meets Creator/MichaelMoore.
** Alternatively, ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' meets ''Film/LittleMissSunshine''.
** ''Film/{{Gojira}}'' meets ''Film/JeffWhoLivesAtHome''.
* ''Film/HotFuzz'':
** ''Film/TheNakedGun'' meets ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead''.
** It has also been described as ''Series/MidsomerMurders'' meeting ''Film/BadBoys1995'' (appropriately enough).
* ''Film/HotShots'' is ''Film/TopGun'' meets ''Film/FullMetalJacket'' meets ''Film/TheNakedGun''.
* ''Film/HotTubTimeMachine'' is ''Film/TheHangover'' meets ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture''.
* ''Film/HouseOfGucci'' is ''Film/UncutGems'' meets ''Film/TheIrishman''.
* ''Film/TheHouseThatJackBuilt'' is ''Literature/AmericanPsycho'' meets ''Series/{{Hannibal}}''.
* ''Film/HowlingVTheRebirth'' is essentially ''Howling'' meets ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone''.
* ''Film/{{Hulk}}'' is ''Film/KingKong'' meets ''Literature/DrJekyllAndMrHyde'' meets ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' meets ''VideoGame/GodOfWar''.
* ''Film/TheHumanCentipede'' is ''Film/{{Hostel}}'' meets ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' meets ''Literature/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream'' meets ''Literature/The120DaysOfSodom''.
* ''Film/TheHungerGames'' is ''Film/TheRunningMan'' meets ''Film/TheTrumanShow''.
** Or a more kid friendly version of ''Series/TheHandmaidsTale'' meets ''Literature/BattleRoyale'' meets ''Film/TheTrumanShow''.
* ''Film/{{Hustlers}}'' is ''Film/MagicMike'' meets ''Film/TheBlingRing'' meets ''Film/{{Goodfellas}}''.
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* ''Film/IAmNumberFour'' is ''Series/{{Roswell}}'' meets the ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'' meets ''Film/EscapeToWitchMountain'' meets ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'' meets ''Film/Transformers2007'' with a healthy dash of ''Superman''.
* ''I Can Only Imagine'' is ''Film/PurpleRain'' as produced by ''Creator/PureFlix''.
* ''Film/IllBeHomeForChristmas'' is ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'' meets ''Film/PlanesTrainsAndAutomobiles'', minus the charm, humour and likeable characters.
* ''Film/{{Idiocracy}}'' is ''Film/{{Sleeper}}'' meets ''Film/OfficeSpace'' meets ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead''.
* ''Film/ImGonnaGitYouSucka'' is {{Blaxploitation}} meets ''Film/TheNakedGun''.
* ''Film/{{Imaginary}}'' is ''Film/IF2024'' meets ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet'' meets ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}''.
* ''Immortal Beloved'' is ''Film/{{Amadeus}}'' meets ''Film/CitizenKane''.
* ''ComicBook/{{Incarnate}}'' is ''Film/TheExorcist'' meets ''Film/{{Inception}}''
* ''Film/{{Inception}}'':
** ''Anime/{{Paprika}}'' meets ''Film/OceansEleven''.
** ''Manga/FullMetalAlchemist'' gone live-action meets ''Film/JamesBond'' with a bottle of sleeping pills.
** ''Manga/GhostInTheShell'' meets ''Film/OceansEleven'' (not the ''actual'' {{homage}} GITS episode, though)
** ''Film/{{The Italian Job|1969}}'' (1969) meets ''Film/OceansEleven'' meets ''Film/{{Dreamscape}}'', meets ''Franchise/TheMatrix''
** VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}} meets ''Film/OceansEleven''.
** [[Creator/JorgeLuisBorges "Theme of the Traitor and the Hero"]] meets [[PlatonicCave Plato's Cave]].
** ''Film/EternalSunshineOfTheSpotlessMind'' with a dash of ''[[Franchise/TheMatrix Matrix]]'' gone [[TheCaper Heist film]].
* ''Film/IncestTheMusical'' is ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'' meets BrotherSisterIncest.
* ''Film/IndependenceDay'' is ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds'' meets a 1970s DisasterMovie, with touches of ''Film/TopGun'' and ''Franchise/StarWars'' to update the aesthetics for TheNineties.
* ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' is ''Literature/KingSolomonsMines'' meets ''Franchise/StarWars'' meets ''{{Franchise/Tintin}}'' meets ''Franchise/JamesBond''.
** ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' is ''Film/ItsAMadMadMadMadWorld'' meets ''Film/ANewHope'' meets ''Literature/KingSolomonsMines'' meets ''Film/DrNo''.
** ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'' is ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' meets ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' meets ''Literature/HeartOfDarkness'' meets ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove''.
** ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'' is ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' meets ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency'' meets ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''.
** ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'' is ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'' meets ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind'' meets ''Film/TheRock''.
** ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny'' is ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'' meets ''Film/{{Logan}}''.
* ''Film/IngridGoesWest'' is ''Film/SingleWhiteFemale'' meets ''Series/BlackMirror''
* ''Film/{{Interstellar}}'' is ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' meets ''Film/TheBlackHole'' meets ''Film/{{Contact}}''.
* ''Film/IntoTheWoods'' is the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon meets Creator/TheBrothersGrimm.
* ''Film/TheInvisibleMan2020'' is ''Film/HollowMan'' meets ''Film/{{Enough}}''.
* ''Film/TheInvitation2022'' is ''Film/ReadyOrNot'' meets ''Film/BramStokersDracula''.
* ''Film/TheIrishman'' is ''Film/GoodFellas'' meets ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoffa_(film) Hoffa]]'' meets ''Film/TheGodfather'' meets ''Film/GangsOfNewYork'' meets ''Film/{{Casino}}'' meets ''Film/{{Nightcrawler}}'' meets ''Film/{{Fargo}}'' meets ''Film/{{Heat}}'', as written by Creator/WilliamShakespeare.
* ''Film/IronMonkey'' is ''Series/JackOfAllTrades'' meets ''Film/DetectiveDee''.
* The German news station n-tv described ''Film/IronSky'' as ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'' meets ''Franchise/StarWars''.
* ''Film/It2017'' is Creator/StephenKing's ''{{Literature/It}}'' meets ''Series/StrangerThings'' (with both works even [[Creator/FinnWolfhard sharing an actor]]).
** ''Film/ItChapterTwo'' is ''Film/It2017'' meets ''Film/AvengersEndgame''.
* ''Film/ItTakesTwo1995'' is ''Film/TheParentTrap1961'' meets ''Literature/ThePrinceAndThePauper''.
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* ''Film/Jack1996'': ''Film/{{Big}}'', starring ''Film/PatchAdams''.
* ''Film/JackFrost1997'' is ''Film/ChildsPlay1988'' meets ''Film/JackFrost1998''.
* ''Film/JacobsLadder'' is ''Literature/JohnnyGotHisGun'' meets ''Film/{{Hellraiser}}''.
* ''Film/JamesBond'':
** ''Film/DiamondsAreForever'': ''Film/JamesBond'' meets ''Diamond Shaft'' and ''Film/Oceans11''.
** ''Film/LiveAndLetDie'': ''Film/JamesBond'' meets {{Blaxploitation}}.
** ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'': ''Film/JamesBond'' meets ''Series/TheDukesOfHazzard'' meets ''Series/FantasyIsland'', with a little ''Film/EnterTheDragon'' on the side.
** ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'': ''Film/JamesBond'' meets ''Franchise/StarWars''.
** ''Film/LicenceToKill'': ''Film/JamesBond'' meets ''Film/{{Scarface|1983}}'' and ''Series/MiamiVice''.
** The Daniel Craig era in general is ''Film/JamesBond'' meets ''Film/TheBourneSeries''.
*** ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'' is [[Literature/CasinoRoyale the original novel]] meets ''Film/TheBourneIdentity'' meets ''Series/KamenRiderBlade''.
*** ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'' is ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'' meets ''Film/MissionImpossibleIII'' meets ''Film/TheBourneSupremacy''.
*** ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'' is ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'' meets ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' meets ''Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol'' meets ''Film/TheBourneUltimatum''.
*** ''Film/{{Spectre}}'' is ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'' meets ''Series/KamenRiderGhost'' meets ''Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation'' meets ''Film/TheBourneLegacy''.
*** ''Film/NoTimeToDie'' is ''Film/{{Spectre}}'' meets ''Film/{{Logan}}'' meets ''Film/MissionImpossibleFallout'' meets ''Film/JasonBourne'' meets ''Film/AWalkToRemember'' meets ''Film/TheFaultInOurStars'' meets ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' meets ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' meets ''Manga/YourLieInApril''.
* ''Film/JasonX'' is ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' meets ''Franchise/StarTrek''.
** Or, it's ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' meets ''Film/AlienResurrection'' due to the latter's mix of Sci-Fi and {{Camp}}.
* ''Film/JayAndSilentBobStrikeBack'' is ''Film/TheMuppetMovie'' if it starred Creator/CheechAndChong.
* ''Film/{{Jennifer}}'' is ''Film/Carrie1976'' meets ''[[Literature/RatmansNotebooks Willard]]'', but with snakes instead of rats.
* ''Film/JesusBro'' is ''Film/GodsNotDead'' meets ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'' meets ''Film/BlazingSaddles''
** Alternatively, it's ''Film/GodsNotDead'' meets ''Film/WarRoom'' meets ''WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob'' and ''Creator/MelBrooks''.
* ''Film/JonahHex2010'' is ''Film/WildWildWest'' meets ''Series/PushingDaisies''.
** Summed up by ComicBook/IronMan in ''WebVideo/ImAMarvelAndImADC'':
--->''"Seriously, you could have had a gritty, realistic, badass western, and instead you got ''Film/{{Constantine|2005}}'', ''Film/{{Ghost Rider|2007}}'' and ''Film/WildWildWest''."''
* ''Film/JohnWick'' is ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami'' meets ''Film/TheMatrix'' meets ''Manga/ElfenLied'' meets ''ComicBook/{{Wanted}}''.
** ''Film/JohnWickChapter2'' is ''Film/JohnWick'' meets ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded''.
** ''Film/JohnWickChapter3Parabellum'' is ''Film/JohnWickChapter2'' meets ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami2WrongNumber''.
** ''Film/JohnWickChapter4'' is ''Film/JohnWickChapter3Parabellum'' meets ''Film/NoTimeToDie'' meets ''Film/TheMatrixRevolutions'' meets ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077''.
* ''Film/JohnnyEnglish'' is ''Film/JamesBond'' meets ''Series/MrBean''.
* ''Film/JojoRabbit'' is ''Film/MoonriseKingdom'' meets ''Film/IngloriousBasterds''. It even gained the FanNickname of ''Moonreich Kingdom''.
** Alternatively, it's ''Film/MoonriseKingdom'' meets ''Literature/TheBoyInTheStripedPyjamas''.
** Or ''Film/TheDeathOfStalin'' meets ''Film/MoonriseKingdom''.
* ''Film/Joker2019'' is ''Film/TaxiDriver'' meets ''Film/TheKingOfComedy'' meets ''Series/{{Gotham}}''.
* ''Film/JudasAndTheBlackMessiah'' is ''Film/TheTrialOfTheChicago7'' meets ''Film/Da5Bloods'' meets ''Film/TheIrishman''.
* ''Film/JumanjiWelcomeToTheJungle'' has been described by some as ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'' meets ''Literature/SwordArtOnline.''
** It also meets the [[WesternAnimation/JumanjiTheAnimatedSeries animated adaptation of the first movie]], ''Franchise/TombRaider'', ''Film/TropicThunder'', and ''Film/CentralIntelligence''.
** ''Film/JumanjiTheNextLevel'' is ''Welcome to the Jungle'' meets ''Film/TheMatrix'' meets [[spoiler:''Series/{{Zoo}}'']].
* ''Film/TheJungleBook2016'' is [[WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967 the original]] meets ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}''.
* ''Film/JungleCruise'' is ''Film/TheAfricanQueen'' meets ''Film/TheMummyTrilogy'' meets ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' meets ''Franchise/IndianaJones''.
* [[http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/4-signs-the-matrix-directors-next-film-wont-be-10025-crap/ From]] ''Website/{{Cracked}}'': "''Film/JupiterAscending'' is apparently what you would get if ''Film/TheMatrix'' suplexed ''Film/SnowWhiteAndTheHuntsman'' into a hyperbaric chamber and fired it into space."
** Alternatively and more accurately, ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' meets ''Videogame/EVEOnline'' meets ''Literature/{{Dune}}''.
* ''Film/JurassicWorld'' is ''Film/JurassicPark'' meets ''Film/Jaws3D'' meets ''Film/DeepBlueSea'' (with whole lot less sharks).
* ''Just Buried'' looks like ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'' meets ''Film/HotFuzz'' (or possibly A Lee Martinez, but nobody else knows who that is).
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* ''Film/KellysHeroes'' can be thought off as "''Film/TheDirtyDozen'' meets ''Film/TheItalianJob1969''", but [[spoiler:without the DownerEnding of either of films.]]
* ''Film/KenPark'': ''Film/{{Kids}}'' meets ''Film/AmericanBeauty''
* ''Film/KickAss'' is ''Film/KillBill'' meets ''Film/{{Superbad}}''.
* ''Film/KillBill'' is the ''Film/DollarsTrilogy'' meets ''Film/GameOfDeath'' that took a hard turn to ''Film/BattleRoyale''.
** Alternatively, if ''Film/PulpFiction'' or ''Film/ReservoirDogs'' went on a drunken night out with ''Film/CrouchingTigerHiddenDragon''.
** The NewOldWest, but with {{Samurai}} [[KatanasAreBetter swordplay]] and Kung Fu.
* ''Film/KillersOfTheFlowerMoon'' is ''Film/TheGodfather'' putting out a hit on ''Film/DancesWithWolves'' at the request of ''Film/ThereWillBeBlood''.
* ''Film/TheKidWhoWouldBeKing'' is ''Film/AKidInKingArthursCourt'' meets a kid-friendly ''Film/AttackTheBlock'' and ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians''.
* ''Film/KingArthurLegendOfTheSword'' was pitched as ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' meets ''Film/{{Snatch}}''.
* ''Film/KingOfThieves'': [[WebVideo/{{Projector}} Mathew Buck]] described it as a mixture of ''Film/{{Get Carter|1971}}'' and an [[Creator/EalingStudios Ealing comedy]].
* ''Film/KISSMeetsThePhantomOfThePark'' was pitched to the band as "''Film/AHardDaysNight'' meets ''Franchise/StarWars''".
* ''Film/KnightAndDay'' is ''Film/TheTourist'' meets ''Film/MissionImpossible''.
* ''Film/KnightsOfTheZodiac'' is ''Anime/SaintSeiyaKnightsOfTheZodiac'' meets ''Film/FistOfTheNorthStar''.
* ''Film/KnivesOut'' is ''Literature/MurderOnTheOrientExpress'' meets ''Film/TheRoyalTenenbaums''.
* ''Film/KungFuZohra'' is ''[[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112791/ Dangerous Intentions]]'' meets ''Film/{{The Karate Kid|1984}}''.
* ''Film/KungPowEnterTheFist'' is ''Tiger & Crane Fists'' meets ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' and ''Film/TheMasterOfDisguise''.
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* ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'' is the ''Literature/LandOfOz'' meets ''Franchise/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' starring Music/DavidBowie. (Or alternately, ''Literature/TheSpiderwickChronicles'' meets ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'', with Music/DavidBowie instead of Creator/TimCurry.)
* ''Lake Michigan Monster'': WebVideo/{{Schaffrillas|Productions}} describes it as ''Film/TheLighthouse'' meets the Patchy the Pirate segments from ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' if it was written by WebVideo/ScottTheWoz and edited by WebVideo/{{Caddicarus}}.
* ''Film/TheLastAirbender'' is [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender the original show]] InTheStyleOf ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' by way of ''Film/{{Eragon}}'', ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', and ''Film/DragonballEvolution''.
* ''Film/TheLastCastle'' is ''Film/TheRock'' meets ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption''.
* ''Film/TheLastExorcism'' is ''The Exorcism Of Emily Rose'' meets ''Film/TheBlairWitchProject''.
* ''Film/TheLastKingOfScotland'' is ''Film/{{Downfall|2004}}'' meets ''Anime/NowAndThenHereAndThere'' meets ''Theatre/KingLear''.
* ''Film/LastNightInSoho'' is ''Series/DoctorWho'' meets ''Film/PeepingTom'' meets ''Film/{{Repulsion}}'' meets ''Film/BlowUp'' meets ''Film/{{Performance}}'' meets ''Film/DontLookNow'' meets ''Film/{{Suspiria|1977}}''.
* ''Film/TheLastSamurai'' is ''Film/DancesWithWolves'' meets ''[[Literature/AsianSaga Shogun]]''.
* ''Film/LawAbidingCitizen'' is ''Film/DeathWish'' (or ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'') meets ''Franchise/{{Saw}}''.
* ''Film/LaLaLand'' is ''Film/SinginInTheRain'' meets ''Film/AStarIsBorn''.
* ''Film/TheLawnmowerMan'' is ''Literature/FlowersForAlgernon'' meets ''Film/{{Tron}}'', and later ''Manga/ElfenLied''.
* ''Film/LegallyBlonde'' is Creator/JohnGrisham's GenkiGirl DistaffCounterpart who went on a shopping spree at ''Film/{{Clueless}}''.
* ''Film/TheLegendOfFrenchieKing'' is ''Film/SevenBridesForSevenBrothers'' meets ''Film/{{Bandidas}}''.
* ''Film/{{Legion}}'' is ''Film/TheProphecy'' meets ''Film/TheTerminator''.
** Alternatively, ''Film/TheTerminator'' meets ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968''.
* ''Film/LemonadeMouth'' is ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'' meets ''Film/HighSchoolMusical''.
* ''Film/Life2017'' is equal parts ''Film/{{Alien}}'', ''Film/{{Splice}}'', ''Film/TheBlob1988'' and ''Film/{{Gravity}}''.
* ''Film/LittleNicky'' is ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' meets ''Film/WaynesWorld''.
* ''Film/LittleShopOfHorrors'' (1986) is (much like [[Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors the play of the same name]]) basically [[Film/TheLittleShopOfHorrors the original 1960 film]] meets a {{Creator/Disney}} musical.
* ''Film/LocalHero'': Bill Forsyth described it as "''Theatre/{{Brigadoon}}'' meets ''Film/ApocalypseNow''".
* The {{Mockbuster}} ''Lockjaw'' is ''Film/{{Anaconda}}'' meets ''Manga/DeathNote'' with the plot of ''Film/{{Pumpkinhead}}''.
* ''Film/{{Logan}}'' is ''ComicBook/XMen'' (or to draw from specific comics, ''ComicBook/OldManLogan'' and ''[[spoiler:ComicBook/DeathOfWolverine]]'') meets ''Film/{{Unforgiven}}'' and ''Film/{{Shane}}'' (the latter in particular even appears in the movie).
** Alternately and more accurately, it's ''ComicBook/OldManLogan'' meets ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs''.
* When touring the talk show circuit to promote ''Film/TheLonelyLady'', Creator/PiaZadora repeatedly portrayed it as "a cross between ''Film/{{Rocky}}'' and ''Film/{{Emmanuelle}}''".
* ''Film/{{Loqueesha}}'': ''Amos N Andy'' starring [[https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/shirley-q-liquor-the-most-dangerous-comedian-in-america-188700/ Shirley Q. Liquor]].
* Creator/PeterJackson described his visual style on ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' as Creator/DavidLean meets Creator/RayHarryhausen.
* ''Film/TheLostCity'' is ''Film/RomancingTheStone'' meets ''Film/DoraAndTheLostCityOfGold'' setting in ''Film/TrueMemoirsOfAnInternationalAssassin'' piece.
* ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' is [[Film/JurassicPark the first film]] meets ''Film/{{Gorgo}}''.
* ''Film/{{Lucy}}'' is ''ComicBook/BlackWidow'' meets ''Film/{{Taken}}'' meets ''Manga/{{Akira}}'' meets ''Film/TheFifthElement'' meets ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' meets ''ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}}'' meets Creator/HPLovecraft.
** Or in the words of Creator/LucBesson: "one part ''[[Film/TheProfessional Leon]]'', one part ''Film/{{Inception}}'' and one part ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey''".
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* ''Film/MButterfly'' is ''Theatre/MadameButterfly'' meets [[spoiler: ''Film/TheCryingGame'']].
* ''Film/{{M3GAN}}'' is ''Film/{{Annabelle}}'' meets ''Film/TheTerminator'', according to producer Creator/JamesWan.
* Creator/RobertRodriguez has described the third part of the ''Film/{{Machete}}'' Trilogy, ''Machete Kills Again...In Space!'' as Machete meets ''Film/{{Moonraker}}''.
* ''[[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Magic Kingdom]]'' is Disneyland meets ''Film/NightAtTheMuseum'' or ''Film/{{Zathura}}'' since Creator/JonFavreau is directing.
* ''Film/MadMax'' franchise:
** ''Film/MadMax1'' is ''Film/DirtyHarry'' meets ''Manga/ViolenceJack'' meets ''Literature/{{Dune}}''.
** ''Film/MadMax2TheRoadWarrior'' is ''Film/MadMax1'' meets ''Literature/TheSilmarillion''.
** ''Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome'' is ''Film/MadMax2TheRoadWarrior'' meets ''Film/{{Flash Gordon|1980}}'' meets ''Literature/RiddleyWalker''.
** ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'' is ''Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome'' meets ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' meets ''Anime/NowAndThenHereAndThere'' meets ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar''.
* ''Film/{{Maleficent}}'' is ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'' meets ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}'' meets ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'' meets ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' meets ''Manga/{{Berserk}}''.
* ''Film/{{Malignant}}'' is a {{Giallo}} version of [[spoiler:''Film/BasketCase'' meets ''Film/{{Split}}'']].
* ''Film/MagicMike'' and ''Magic Mike XXL'' are ''Film/{{Showgirls}}'' meets ''Film/TheFullMonty''.
* ''Film/MansBestFriend'' was described by WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob as ''Film/{{Cujo}}'' meets ''Film/ShortCircuit''.
* ''Film/TheManWhoFellToEarth'' is ''Music/TheRiseAndFallOfZiggyStardustAndTheSpidersFromMars'' meets ''Film/{{Starman}}'' meets ''Film/RequiemForADream''.
* ''Film/Mandy2018'' is ''Film/DriveAngry'' meets ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982'' meets ''Film/TheHolyMountain''.
* ''Film/ManiacCop2'': Director William Lustig pitched the film as ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'' meets ''Film/TheFrenchConnection''.
* ''Film/TheMask'' is [[ComicBook/TheMask the comic book of the same name]] meets ''Film/AceVenturaPetDetective'' meets ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' meets ''Film/TheNuttyProfessor1963'', by way of ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}''.
* ''Film/TheMaskOfZorro'' is ''Film/{{The Mark of Zorro|1940}}'' meets ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo'' with a dash of the SpaghettiWestern genre.
* ''Film/MaxSteel'' is ''Film/IronMan1'' meets ''Film/DragonballEvolution''.
* ''Film/MarsAttacks'' is ''Film/TheWarOfTheWorlds'' and ''Film/EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers'' meet ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'' and ''Film/KillerKlownsFromOuterSpace''.
* The Creator/JohnCusack comedy ''Film/MartianChild'' is basically ''Literature/AboutABoy'' meets ''Film/{{KPAX}}''.
* ''Film/TheManFromHongKong'': If Creator/BruceLee ever did a ''Film/JamesBond'' movie.
* ''Film/MarriageStory'' is ''Film/TheNotebook'' meets ''Film/LaLaLand'' meets ''Film/BlueValentine'' meets ''Film/KramerVsKramer''.
* ''Franchise/TheMatrix'' series:
** ''Film/TheMatrix'' is ''Film/TheTrumanShow'' meets ''Film/TheTerminator'' meets ''{{Film/Tron}}'' meets ''{{Film/Virtuosity}}'' meets ''Film/DarkCity'' meets ''Manga/GhostInTheShell'' meets ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' meets ''ComicBook/TheInvisibles''.
** ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'' is ''Film/TheMatrix'' meets ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot''.
** ''Film/TheMatrixRevolutions'' is ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'' meets ''Manga/{{Devilman}}''.
** ''Film/TheMatrixResurrections'' is ''Film/TheMatrix'' meets ''Film/{{Total Recall|1990}}'' meets ''Film/WesCravensNewNightmare''.
* ''Film/{{Matilda}}'' is a lighthearted, kid-friendly mashup of ''Film/{{Carrie|1976}}'' and ''Film/TheProfessional'' of all things.
* ''Film/MazesAndMonsters'' is ''Film/ReeferMadness'' meets ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''.
* ''Film/MeanStreets'' is of course the quintessential [[Creator/MartinScorsese Scorsese]] film, but it also can be described as ''Film/IVitelloni'' meets Creator/JohnCassavetes.
* ''Film/MeetTheFeebles'': ''Film/TheMuppetsTakeManhattan'', directed by Creator/SamPeckinpah.
* ''Film/MemoirsOfAnInvisibleMan'': Creator/JohnCarpenter described it as "''Film/NorthByNorthwest'' meets ''Film/{{Starman}}''".
* ''Film/MenaceIISociety'' is ''Film/BoyzNTheHood'' meets ''Film/Scarface1983'' meets ''Film/GoodFellas''.
* ''Franchise/MenInBlack'' film series:
** ''Film/MenInBlack'' is [[ComicBook/MenInBlack the original comic series]] meets ''{{Franchise/Ghostbusters}}'' and ''Film/AlienNation''. Or as Variety described it, "''Ghostbusters'' meets Creator/TheCoenBrothers".
** ''Film/MenInBlack3'' is MIB meets ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' in [[TheSixties the late 1960s]].
** ''Film/MenInBlackInternational'' is commonly described as being MIB meets ''Film/ThorRagnarok'', due to the [[ActorAllusion intentional casting]] of [[Creator/ChrisHemsworth two]] [[Creator/TessaThompson actors]] from the latter movie.
* ''Film/TheMenu'' is ''Film/{{Whiplash}}'' meets ''Fanfic/CheerileesGarden''
* ''Film/MercuryRising'' is ''Film/RainMan'' meets ''Film/WarGames''. Described as such by Miko Hughes on the DVD extras.
* ''Film/MickeyBlueEyes'' is ''Film/MeetTheParents'' meets ''Film/TheGodfather''.
* ''Film/{{Midsommar}}'' is ''Film/{{Hostel}}'' meets ''Film/TheWickerMan1973''.
* ''Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie'' was described by Creator/AmyJoJohnson as "''Franchise/StarWars'' meets ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''". Creator/RogerEbert challenged this assessment in his review.
* ''Film/MilkMoney'' is ''Film/PrettyWoman'' meets ''Film/MyGirl''.
* ''Film/TheMillionEyesOfSumuru'' is ''Film/OurManFlint'' meets (a gender-flipped) ''Literature/FuManchu''
* ''Film/{{Mikey}}'' is ''Literature/TheBadSeed'' meets ''Film/TheStepfather'' meets ''Film/TheGoodSon''.
* ''Film/MinorityReport'' is ''Film/LogansRun'' meets ''Film/BladeRunner'' meets ''Film/TheFugitive'' with a subtle trace of ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''.
* ''Film/MirrorMirror2012'' is ''Literature/SnowWhite'' meets ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights'' with lots of CostumePorn.
* The [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptation of]] ''Literature/MissPeregrinesHomeForPeculiarChildren'' is ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' and the ''ComicBook/XMen''
* ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'' is ''Film/TheGoonies'' meets Franchise/UniversalHorror.
* The Franchise/MonsterVerse is a literal {{crossover}} of ''{{Franchise/Godzilla}}'' and ''Franchise/KingKong'', while figuratively meeting the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse (even having some of the MCU actors appearing in these films).
** ''Film/Godzilla2014'' is ''[[Film/Godzilla1954 Gojira]]'' meets ''Film/PacificRim'' meets ''Manga/AttackOnTitan''.
** ''Film/KongSkullIsland'' is ''Film/KingKong'' meets ''Film/ApocalypseNow''.
** ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' is ''Film/Godzilla2014'' meets ''Film/ClashOfTheTitans2010'' meets ''Film/ThreeHundredRiseOfAnEmpire'' meets ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'' meets ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' meets ''Series/StrangerThings'' meets ''Film/TwoThousandTwelve'' meets ''Anime/DevilmanCrybaby'' meets ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'' meets ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'' meets ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'' meets ''Film/XMenApocalypse''.
** ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'' is ''Film/KingKongVsGodzilla'' meets ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' meets ''Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction''.
* ''Film/{{Moonfall}}'' is ''Film/{{Gravity}}'' meets ''Film/TheMartian'' meets ''Film/{{Melancholia}}'' meets ''Film/TwoThousandAndOneASpaceOdyssey'' meets ''Film/{{Sharknado}}''.
* ''Film/MoonriseKingdom'' is ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' meets ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' (assuming the adults in the movie are considered kids -- which, in the case of Wes Anderson, they are).
* ''Film/Morbius2022'' is ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' meets ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' meets ''Franchise/{{Devilman}}''
* ''Film/MortalKombatTheMovie'' is the cast of ''Film/BigTroubleInLittleChina'' meets the plot of ''Film/GameOfDeath''.
* ''Film/TheMotorcycleDiaries'' is ''Film/EasyRider'' meets ''Literature/{{Germinal}}''.
* ''Film/MoulinRouge'' is ''Theatre/LaTraviata'' meets ''Theatre/LaBoheme'' meets ''Creator/CirqueDuSoleil'' with pop music.
* ''Film/MouseHunt'' is ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' meets ''Film/HomeAlone''.
* ''Film/{{Mowgli}}'' is ''Film/TheJungleBook2016'' meets ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' meets ''Literature/HeartOfDarkness'' meets ''Anime/GraveOfTheFireflies'' meets ''Literature/WatershipDown'' meets ''Film/TheDarkKnight''.
* ''Film/MrNobody'' is ''Film/DonnieDarko'' meets ''Film/TheCuriousCaseOfBenjaminButton''. The titular protagonists of all three have {{Alliterative Name}}s.
* ''Film/MrsDoubtfire'' is ''Film/MaryPoppins'' (minus the magic powers and dancing penguins) meets ''Film/{{Tootsie}}''.
** Because of the divorce subplot, a German magazine also dubbed it ''Film/{{Tootsie}}'' meets ''Film/KramervsKramer''.
* ''Film/MulanRiseOfAWarrior'' is ''Literature/TheBalladOfMulan'' meets ''Manga/{{Berserk}}''.
* ''Film/MulhollandDrive'' is ''Film/SunsetBoulevard'' meets ''Film/Persona1966'' with the eerie atmosphere of ''Film/LostHighway''.
* ''Film/TheMummy1999'' is ''Film/TheMummy1932'' meets ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' meets ''Franchise/EvilDead''.
** Creator/StephenSommers [[WordOfGod described his vision]] as "''Indiana Jones'' meets ''Film/JasonAndTheArgonauts''."
* ''Film/TheMuppets2011'' is ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' meets ''Film/AMightyWind'' meets ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance''.
* ''Film/MurderByDeath'' is ''Creator/AgathaChristie'' meets ''Creator/MelBrooks''.
* Depending on when you were born, ''Film/MurderByDecree'' is ''Film/FromHell'' meets ''Franchise/SherlockHolmes'' or ''From Hell'' is ''Murder By Decree'' sans ''Sherlock Holmes''.
* ''Film/MyNameIsBruce'' is ''Film/ThreeAmigos'' meets ''Film/ArmyOfDarkness''.
* ''Film/MysteryTeam'' is '' Literature/EncyclopediaBrown'' meets [[RealLife the real world]].
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* ''Film/GalaxyQuest'' is ''Film/ThreeAmigos'' meets ''Franchise/StarTrek''.
* ''Film/GameNight'' is ''Film/{{Keanu}}'' meets ''Film/TheManWhoKnewTooLittle''
** Alternatively, ''Film/{{Clue}}'' meets ''Film/DateNight''.
* ''Film/GandhiAtTheBat'' is ''Film/ThePrideOfTheYankees'' meets ''Film/{{Gandhi}}'', with maybe a pinch of ''Film/RookieOfTheYear''.
* ''Film/GangsterNo1'' is ''Film/{{Scarface|1983}}'' meets ''Film/SingleWhiteFemale''.
* ''Film/{{Garfield}}'' is [[ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} the original comic]] meets ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'' and ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2''.
** ''Garfield 2: A Tale of Two Kitties'' is ''Literature/ThePrinceAndThePauper'' meets ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats''.
* ''Film/{{Geostorm}}'': Creator/MarkKermode described it as ''Film/DaleksInvasionEarth2150AD'' meets ''Film/{{Moonraker}}''.
* ''Film/GetOnUp'' is ''Film/{{Ray}}'' meets ''Film/FortyTwo''.[[note]]''Ray's'' embellished bibliography with ''42's'' sanitized bibliography[[/note]]
* ''Film/{{Get Out|2017}}'' is ''Film/GuessWhosComingToDinner'' meets ''Literature/TheStepfordWives'' meets ''Film/{{Clonus}}'' meets ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers'' meets ''Literature/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream''.
* ''Film/{{Getaway}}'': ''Film/GoneInSixtySeconds2000'' meets ''Film/DieHardWithAVengeance''.
* ''Film/TheGhostAndTheDarkness'': Creator/WilliamGoldman pitched it as "''Film/LawrenceOfArabia'' meets ''Film/{{Jaws}}''".
* ''Film/GhostDogTheWayOfTheSamurai'' is ''Film/LeSamourai'' meets the HipHop and {{Jidaigeki}} genres.
* ''Film/GhostShip'' is ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}'' meets ''Film/EventHorizon''.
* ''Film/GhostTown2008'' is Creator/RickyGervais remaking ''Film/TheSixthSense'' as a RomCom after catching ''Film/{{Flatliners}}'' and an episode of ''Series/HouseMD'' the other night, with ''Film/Ghost1990'' coming in with some notes.
* ''Film/GhostWorld'' is ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' meets ''Literature/TheCatcherInTheRye''.
* ''Film/{{Ghostbusters|1984}}'' is ''Film/TheExorcist'' meets ''Series/DirtyJobs'' meets ''Literature/TheCallOfCthulhu'' meets ''Film/{{Stripes}}''.
* The {{Giallo}} genre is more or less [[MysteryFiction Mystery]] [[CrimeAndPunishmentSeries Crime]] [[FilmNoir Noir]] meets Erotic thrillers (and or Sexploitation) meets [[SlasherMovie Slasher Films]].
* ''Film/{{The Girl Next Door|2004}}'':
** ''Film/NottingHill'' meets ''Film/AmericanPie''.
** ''Film/RiskyBusiness'' meets ''American Pie''.
* ''Film/GirlsTrip'': ''Film/{{Bridesmaids}}'' meets ''Film/WaitingToExhale''.
* ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'' is ''Film/{{Spartacus}}'' meets ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo''.
* ''Film/GlassOnion'' is ''Film/MammaMia'' meets ''Theatre/AnInspectorCalls''.
* ''Film/GodsNotDead'' is ''ComicBook/ChickTracts'' meets ''Theatre/InheritTheWind'' [[spoiler: (except the religious side wins)]].
** ''God's Not Dead 2'' has even more obvious similarities to ''Inherit the Wind'', with the religious and secular sides switched around.
* ''Film/TheGoldenChild'' is ''Film/BeverlyHillsCop'' meets ''Film/BigTroubleInLittleChina''.
* ''Film/GoodBoys'': ''Film/{{Superbad}}'' meets ''Film/DiaryOfAWimpyKid''.
* ''Film/GoodManners'' is ''Film/RosemarysBaby'' meets ''Anime/WolfChildren''.
* ''Film/{{Gran Turismo|2023}}'' is the [[VideoGame/GranTurismo eponymous video game series]] meets ''VideoGame/GRIDLegends'' meets ''Series/Formula1DriveToSurvive''.
** Alternatively, it's ''VideoGame/GranTurismo'' meets ''WesternAnimation/Cars3'' meets ''Film/TheWizard''.
** Or ''VideoGame/GranTurismo'' meets ''Film/SpeedRacer'' by way of ''Film/ReadyPlayerOne2018''.
* ''Film/TheGrandBudapestHotel'' is ''Film/TheGreatDictator'' meets ''Film/NorthByNorthwest''.
* ''Film/GreasersPalace'' looks like what would have happened if Creator/SergioLeone and Creator/JohnWaters made a film together.
* ''Film/TheGreatWall'' is ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' meets ''Film/EdgeOfTomorrow'' meets ''Film/CrouchingTigerHiddenDragon''.
* ''Film/GreenBook'' has been likened to ''Film/RainMan'' (a RoadMovie {{Dramedy}} about two completely different men who end up bonding) meets an inverted ''Film/DrivingMissDaisy'' (a black man and his white driver).
* ''Film/TheGreenMile'' is ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption'' meets ''Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs''.
* ''Film/{{Gremlins|1984}}'' is the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "The Trouble with Tribbles" meets ''Franchise/TheMuppets'' with horror movie elements.
** ''Film/Gremlins2TheNewBatch'' is ''Gremlins'' meets ''Film/DieHard'' by way of ''Franchise/LooneyTunes''.
* ''Film/TheGrey'' is ''Film/TheEdge'' meets ''Film/TheFlightOfThePhoenix1965''.
* ''Film/GrudgeMatch'' is [[Film/RagingBull Jake LaMotta]] vs. [[Franchise/{{Rocky}} Rocky Balboa]] as Film/GrumpyOldMen.
* ''Film/GuestHouseParadiso'' is ''Series/{{Bottom}}'' meets ''Series/FawltyTowers''.
* ''Guum-Gum'' (film but not book) is ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'' meets ''Film/TheMatrix''.
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* ''Film/HalloweenIIISeasonOfTheWitch'' is ''Film/Halloween1978'' meets ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers'' meets ''Film/TheWickerMan1973''.
** ''Film/HalloweenEnds'' is ''Film/Joker2019'' meets ''Film/FridayThe13thPartVANewBeginning'', with a hint of ''Film/JasonGoesToHellTheFinalFriday''.
* ''Film/{{Hancock}}'' is ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' meets ''[[spoiler:Franchise/{{Highlander}}]]''. The hidden title could be called ''Hancock'' meets ''Film/TheTerminator''.
* ''Film/TheHangover'' is simply ''Film/DudeWheresMyCar'' meets ''Film/TheThreeStooges'' meets ''Film/VeryBadThings'' meets ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E10VivaNedFlanders "Viva Ned Flanders"]].
* ''Film/TheHappening'' is ''Film/TwentyEightDaysLater'' meets ''Film/FinalDestination1'' meets GaiasVengeance.
* ''Film/HappyDeathDay''
** It's either ''Film/GroundhogDay'' meets ''Series/ScreamQueens2015''.
** Or, it's ''Groundhog Day'' meets ''Film/ScaryMovie''.
* ''Film/TheHappytimeMurders'' is ''Series/GregTheBunny'' meets ''Film/TheHeat''.
* ''Film/HardCandy'' is ''Film/{{Lolita}}'' (the movie, not the novel) meets ''Film/TheGirlWithTheDragonTattoo2011''.
* ''Film/AHardDaysNight'' is ''Film/ANightAtTheOpera'' meets ''Film/RockAroundTheClock.''
* ''Film/HardcoreHenry'' is ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'' meets ''[[Film/TheBourneSeries Jason Bourne]]'' meets ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' in Russia.
* ''Film/TheHatefulEight'' is ''Film/ReservoirDogs'' meets ''Film/TheThing1982'' meets ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'' in a Wyoming blizzard.
* ''Film/{{Head}}'' is ''Film/{{Help}}'' meets ''Film/EightAndAHalf'', along with [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs whatever drugs happened to be around]].
* ''Film/{{Heathers}}'' is ''Film/PrettyInPink'' meets ''Film/{{Badlands}}''.
* ''Film/HeavensGate''
** In his memoir about the film's production ''Final Cut'', Creator/UnitedArtists executive Steven Bach said he always described it to people as "it looks like Creator/DavidLean made a {{Western}}."
** More specifically it feels like writer-director Creator/{{Michael Cimino|Director}} took ''Film/DoctorZhivago'' and ''Film/McCabeAndMrsMiller'' and filtered them through his own ''Film/TheDeerHunter''.
* ''Film/TheHebrewHammer'' is ''Film/ImGonnaGitYouSucka'' as Creator/MelBrooks might've made it.
* ''Film/Hellboy2019'' is Creator/GuillermoDelToro's [[Film/Hellboy2004 original 2004 film]] meets the works of Creator/GarthEnnis, with some dashes of ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' thrown in for good measure.
* ''Film/HelloMaryLouPromNightII'' is ''Film/{{Carrie|1976}}'' meets ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet''.
* ''Film/{{Hellraiser}}'' is ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' meets ''Film/{{A Nightmare on Elm Street|1984}}'' meets ''Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde'' meets ''Theatre/DoctorFaustus'' meets ''Literature/The120DaysOfSodom'' meets ''Film/{{The Omen|1976}}'' meets ''Film/{{The Thing|1982}}'' meets ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1959}}''.
** ''Film/HellraiserInferno'' was described by WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob as ''Film/{{Hellraiser}}'' meets ''Film/JacobsLadder'' meets ''Film/BadLieutenant'' as directed by Creator/DavidLynch.
** [[Film/Hellraiser2022 The 2022 film]] is [[Film/{{Hellraiser}} the original]] meets ''Anime/DevilmanCrybaby''.
* ''Film/{{Hereditary}}'' is ''Film/RosemarysBaby'' meets ''Film/OrdinaryPeople''
* ''Film/HereComesTheBoom'' is ''Film/TheWizard'' meets the UsefulNotes/UltimateFightingChampionship.
* ''Film/Hero2002'' is ''Film/{{Rashomon}}'' meets ''Film/TheLastEmperor'' meets ''Film/CrouchingTigerHiddenDragon''.
* ''Film/{{Hidalgo}}'' is ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' meets ''Film/TheLastSamurai''.
* In an odd reversal, ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'' is ''Film/{{Fame}}'' minus ''Series/{{Skins}}''.
** ''Film/{{Grease}}'' meets ''Film/FastTimesAtRidgemontHigh'' minus the R-rated content.
* ''Film/TheHiddenFortress'' is ''Film/NorthwestPassage'' meets ''A Train for Durango''.
* ''Film/HighwayToHell'' was written by Ate de Jong as a cross between the story of Orpheus, ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' and ''Film/MadMax2TheRoadWarrior''.
* ''Film/{{Highwaymen}}'' is ''Film/MadMax'' meets ''Film/ChangingLanes'', meets ''Film/TheHitcher''.
* ''Film/TheHillsHaveEyes1977'' is ''Film/TheLastHouseOnTheLeft'' meets ''Film/TheTexasChainSawMassacre1974'' meets ''Film/{{Deliverance}}''.
* ''Film/HirokinTheLastSamurai'' is ''Film/TheHungerGames'' meets ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', without a happy ending.
* ''Film/HoldUp'' is ''Film/QuickChange'' meets a Creator/TerenceHill and Creator/BudSpencer action comedy.
* ''Film/TheHollywoodKnights'' is ''Film/AmericanGraffiti'' meets ''Film/AnimalHouse''.
* ''Film/HomeAlone'' is ''[[Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff Ferris Bueller]]'' meets ''Franchise/{{Saw}}''
** Or ''Film/DennisTheMenace'' meets a really family-friendly version of ''Film/StrawDogs1971''.
* ''Film/HolmesAndWatson'' is ''Franchise/SherlockHolmes'' meets ''Film/StepBrothers''
* ''Film/TheHorde'' is ''Film/RamboLastBlood'' meets ''Film/WrongTurn''.
** Alternatively, it's ''Series/ThePunisher2017'' meets ''Film/TheHillsHaveEyes1977''
* ''Film/HorribleBosses'' is ''Film/TheHangover'' meets ''Film/NineToFive'' meets ''Film/StrangersOnATrain''.
* ''Film/HorrorExpress'' is ''Literature/WhoGoesThere'' meets ''Literature/MurderOnTheOrientExpress''.
* ''Film/TheHost2006'':
** ''Film/TheBeastFromTwentyThousandFathoms'' meets ''Film/{{Juno}}'' meets Creator/MichaelMoore.
** Alternatively, ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' meets ''Film/LittleMissSunshine''.
** ''Film/{{Gojira}}'' meets ''Film/JeffWhoLivesAtHome''.
* ''Film/HotFuzz'':
** ''Film/TheNakedGun'' meets ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead''.
** It has also been described as ''Series/MidsomerMurders'' meeting ''Film/BadBoys1995'' (appropriately enough).
* ''Film/HotShots'' is ''Film/TopGun'' meets ''Film/FullMetalJacket'' meets ''Film/TheNakedGun''.
* ''Film/HotTubTimeMachine'' is ''Film/TheHangover'' meets ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture''.
* ''Film/HouseOfGucci'' is ''Film/UncutGems'' meets ''Film/TheIrishman''.
* ''Film/TheHouseThatJackBuilt'' is ''Literature/AmericanPsycho'' meets ''Series/{{Hannibal}}''.
* ''Film/HowlingVTheRebirth'' is essentially ''Howling'' meets ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone''.
* ''Film/{{Hulk}}'' is ''Film/KingKong'' meets ''Literature/DrJekyllAndMrHyde'' meets ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' meets ''VideoGame/GodOfWar''.
* ''Film/TheHumanCentipede'' is ''Film/{{Hostel}}'' meets ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' meets ''Literature/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream'' meets ''Literature/The120DaysOfSodom''.
* ''Film/TheHungerGames'' is ''Film/TheRunningMan'' meets ''Film/TheTrumanShow''.
** Or a more kid friendly version of ''Series/TheHandmaidsTale'' meets ''Literature/BattleRoyale'' meets ''Film/TheTrumanShow''.
* ''Film/{{Hustlers}}'' is ''Film/MagicMike'' meets ''Film/TheBlingRing'' meets ''Film/{{Goodfellas}}''.
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* ''Film/IAmNumberFour'' is ''Series/{{Roswell}}'' meets the ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'' meets ''Film/EscapeToWitchMountain'' meets ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'' meets ''Film/Transformers2007'' with a healthy dash of ''Superman''.
* ''I Can Only Imagine'' is ''Film/PurpleRain'' as produced by ''Creator/PureFlix''.
* ''Film/IllBeHomeForChristmas'' is ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'' meets ''Film/PlanesTrainsAndAutomobiles'', minus the charm, humour and likeable characters.
* ''Film/{{Idiocracy}}'' is ''Film/{{Sleeper}}'' meets ''Film/OfficeSpace'' meets ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead''.
* ''Film/ImGonnaGitYouSucka'' is {{Blaxploitation}} meets ''Film/TheNakedGun''.
* ''Film/{{Imaginary}}'' is ''Film/IF2024'' meets ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet'' meets ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}''.
* ''Immortal Beloved'' is ''Film/{{Amadeus}}'' meets ''Film/CitizenKane''.
* ''ComicBook/{{Incarnate}}'' is ''Film/TheExorcist'' meets ''Film/{{Inception}}''
* ''Film/{{Inception}}'':
** ''Anime/{{Paprika}}'' meets ''Film/OceansEleven''.
** ''Manga/FullMetalAlchemist'' gone live-action meets ''Film/JamesBond'' with a bottle of sleeping pills.
** ''Manga/GhostInTheShell'' meets ''Film/OceansEleven'' (not the ''actual'' {{homage}} GITS episode, though)
** ''Film/{{The Italian Job|1969}}'' (1969) meets ''Film/OceansEleven'' meets ''Film/{{Dreamscape}}'', meets ''Franchise/TheMatrix''
** VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}} meets ''Film/OceansEleven''.
** [[Creator/JorgeLuisBorges "Theme of the Traitor and the Hero"]] meets [[PlatonicCave Plato's Cave]].
** ''Film/EternalSunshineOfTheSpotlessMind'' with a dash of ''[[Franchise/TheMatrix Matrix]]'' gone [[TheCaper Heist film]].
* ''Film/IncestTheMusical'' is ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'' meets BrotherSisterIncest.
* ''Film/IndependenceDay'' is ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds'' meets a 1970s DisasterMovie, with touches of ''Film/TopGun'' and ''Franchise/StarWars'' to update the aesthetics for TheNineties.
* ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' is ''Literature/KingSolomonsMines'' meets ''Franchise/StarWars'' meets ''{{Franchise/Tintin}}'' meets ''Franchise/JamesBond''.
** ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' is ''Film/ItsAMadMadMadMadWorld'' meets ''Film/ANewHope'' meets ''Literature/KingSolomonsMines'' meets ''Film/DrNo''.
** ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'' is ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' meets ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' meets ''Literature/HeartOfDarkness'' meets ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove''.
** ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'' is ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' meets ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency'' meets ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''.
** ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'' is ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'' meets ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind'' meets ''Film/TheRock''.
** ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny'' is ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'' meets ''Film/{{Logan}}''.
* ''Film/IngridGoesWest'' is ''Film/SingleWhiteFemale'' meets ''Series/BlackMirror''
* ''Film/{{Interstellar}}'' is ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' meets ''Film/TheBlackHole'' meets ''Film/{{Contact}}''.
* ''Film/IntoTheWoods'' is the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon meets Creator/TheBrothersGrimm.
* ''Film/TheInvisibleMan2020'' is ''Film/HollowMan'' meets ''Film/{{Enough}}''.
* ''Film/TheInvitation2022'' is ''Film/ReadyOrNot'' meets ''Film/BramStokersDracula''.
* ''Film/TheIrishman'' is ''Film/GoodFellas'' meets ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoffa_(film) Hoffa]]'' meets ''Film/TheGodfather'' meets ''Film/GangsOfNewYork'' meets ''Film/{{Casino}}'' meets ''Film/{{Nightcrawler}}'' meets ''Film/{{Fargo}}'' meets ''Film/{{Heat}}'', as written by Creator/WilliamShakespeare.
* ''Film/IronMonkey'' is ''Series/JackOfAllTrades'' meets ''Film/DetectiveDee''.
* The German news station n-tv described ''Film/IronSky'' as ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'' meets ''Franchise/StarWars''.
* ''Film/It2017'' is Creator/StephenKing's ''{{Literature/It}}'' meets ''Series/StrangerThings'' (with both works even [[Creator/FinnWolfhard sharing an actor]]).
** ''Film/ItChapterTwo'' is ''Film/It2017'' meets ''Film/AvengersEndgame''.
* ''Film/ItTakesTwo1995'' is ''Film/TheParentTrap1961'' meets ''Literature/ThePrinceAndThePauper''.
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* ''Film/Jack1996'': ''Film/{{Big}}'', starring ''Film/PatchAdams''.
* ''Film/JackFrost1997'' is ''Film/ChildsPlay1988'' meets ''Film/JackFrost1998''.
* ''Film/JacobsLadder'' is ''Literature/JohnnyGotHisGun'' meets ''Film/{{Hellraiser}}''.
* ''Film/JamesBond'':
** ''Film/DiamondsAreForever'': ''Film/JamesBond'' meets ''Diamond Shaft'' and ''Film/Oceans11''.
** ''Film/LiveAndLetDie'': ''Film/JamesBond'' meets {{Blaxploitation}}.
** ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'': ''Film/JamesBond'' meets ''Series/TheDukesOfHazzard'' meets ''Series/FantasyIsland'', with a little ''Film/EnterTheDragon'' on the side.
** ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'': ''Film/JamesBond'' meets ''Franchise/StarWars''.
** ''Film/LicenceToKill'': ''Film/JamesBond'' meets ''Film/{{Scarface|1983}}'' and ''Series/MiamiVice''.
** The Daniel Craig era in general is ''Film/JamesBond'' meets ''Film/TheBourneSeries''.
*** ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'' is [[Literature/CasinoRoyale the original novel]] meets ''Film/TheBourneIdentity'' meets ''Series/KamenRiderBlade''.
*** ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'' is ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'' meets ''Film/MissionImpossibleIII'' meets ''Film/TheBourneSupremacy''.
*** ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'' is ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'' meets ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' meets ''Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol'' meets ''Film/TheBourneUltimatum''.
*** ''Film/{{Spectre}}'' is ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'' meets ''Series/KamenRiderGhost'' meets ''Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation'' meets ''Film/TheBourneLegacy''.
*** ''Film/NoTimeToDie'' is ''Film/{{Spectre}}'' meets ''Film/{{Logan}}'' meets ''Film/MissionImpossibleFallout'' meets ''Film/JasonBourne'' meets ''Film/AWalkToRemember'' meets ''Film/TheFaultInOurStars'' meets ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' meets ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' meets ''Manga/YourLieInApril''.
* ''Film/JasonX'' is ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' meets ''Franchise/StarTrek''.
** Or, it's ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' meets ''Film/AlienResurrection'' due to the latter's mix of Sci-Fi and {{Camp}}.
* ''Film/JayAndSilentBobStrikeBack'' is ''Film/TheMuppetMovie'' if it starred Creator/CheechAndChong.
* ''Film/{{Jennifer}}'' is ''Film/Carrie1976'' meets ''[[Literature/RatmansNotebooks Willard]]'', but with snakes instead of rats.
* ''Film/JesusBro'' is ''Film/GodsNotDead'' meets ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'' meets ''Film/BlazingSaddles''
** Alternatively, it's ''Film/GodsNotDead'' meets ''Film/WarRoom'' meets ''WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob'' and ''Creator/MelBrooks''.
* ''Film/JonahHex2010'' is ''Film/WildWildWest'' meets ''Series/PushingDaisies''.
** Summed up by ComicBook/IronMan in ''WebVideo/ImAMarvelAndImADC'':
--->''"Seriously, you could have had a gritty, realistic, badass western, and instead you got ''Film/{{Constantine|2005}}'', ''Film/{{Ghost Rider|2007}}'' and ''Film/WildWildWest''."''
* ''Film/JohnWick'' is ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami'' meets ''Film/TheMatrix'' meets ''Manga/ElfenLied'' meets ''ComicBook/{{Wanted}}''.
** ''Film/JohnWickChapter2'' is ''Film/JohnWick'' meets ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded''.
** ''Film/JohnWickChapter3Parabellum'' is ''Film/JohnWickChapter2'' meets ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami2WrongNumber''.
** ''Film/JohnWickChapter4'' is ''Film/JohnWickChapter3Parabellum'' meets ''Film/NoTimeToDie'' meets ''Film/TheMatrixRevolutions'' meets ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077''.
* ''Film/JohnnyEnglish'' is ''Film/JamesBond'' meets ''Series/MrBean''.
* ''Film/JojoRabbit'' is ''Film/MoonriseKingdom'' meets ''Film/IngloriousBasterds''. It even gained the FanNickname of ''Moonreich Kingdom''.
** Alternatively, it's ''Film/MoonriseKingdom'' meets ''Literature/TheBoyInTheStripedPyjamas''.
** Or ''Film/TheDeathOfStalin'' meets ''Film/MoonriseKingdom''.
* ''Film/Joker2019'' is ''Film/TaxiDriver'' meets ''Film/TheKingOfComedy'' meets ''Series/{{Gotham}}''.
* ''Film/JudasAndTheBlackMessiah'' is ''Film/TheTrialOfTheChicago7'' meets ''Film/Da5Bloods'' meets ''Film/TheIrishman''.
* ''Film/JumanjiWelcomeToTheJungle'' has been described by some as ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'' meets ''Literature/SwordArtOnline.''
** It also meets the [[WesternAnimation/JumanjiTheAnimatedSeries animated adaptation of the first movie]], ''Franchise/TombRaider'', ''Film/TropicThunder'', and ''Film/CentralIntelligence''.
** ''Film/JumanjiTheNextLevel'' is ''Welcome to the Jungle'' meets ''Film/TheMatrix'' meets [[spoiler:''Series/{{Zoo}}'']].
* ''Film/TheJungleBook2016'' is [[WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967 the original]] meets ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}''.
* ''Film/JungleCruise'' is ''Film/TheAfricanQueen'' meets ''Film/TheMummyTrilogy'' meets ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' meets ''Franchise/IndianaJones''.
* [[http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/4-signs-the-matrix-directors-next-film-wont-be-10025-crap/ From]] ''Website/{{Cracked}}'': "''Film/JupiterAscending'' is apparently what you would get if ''Film/TheMatrix'' suplexed ''Film/SnowWhiteAndTheHuntsman'' into a hyperbaric chamber and fired it into space."
** Alternatively and more accurately, ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' meets ''Videogame/EVEOnline'' meets ''Literature/{{Dune}}''.
* ''Film/JurassicWorld'' is ''Film/JurassicPark'' meets ''Film/Jaws3D'' meets ''Film/DeepBlueSea'' (with whole lot less sharks).
* ''Just Buried'' looks like ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'' meets ''Film/HotFuzz'' (or possibly A Lee Martinez, but nobody else knows who that is).
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* ''Film/KellysHeroes'' can be thought off as "''Film/TheDirtyDozen'' meets ''Film/TheItalianJob1969''", but [[spoiler:without the DownerEnding of either of films.]]
* ''Film/KenPark'': ''Film/{{Kids}}'' meets ''Film/AmericanBeauty''
* ''Film/KickAss'' is ''Film/KillBill'' meets ''Film/{{Superbad}}''.
* ''Film/KillBill'' is the ''Film/DollarsTrilogy'' meets ''Film/GameOfDeath'' that took a hard turn to ''Film/BattleRoyale''.
** Alternatively, if ''Film/PulpFiction'' or ''Film/ReservoirDogs'' went on a drunken night out with ''Film/CrouchingTigerHiddenDragon''.
** The NewOldWest, but with {{Samurai}} [[KatanasAreBetter swordplay]] and Kung Fu.
* ''Film/KillersOfTheFlowerMoon'' is ''Film/TheGodfather'' putting out a hit on ''Film/DancesWithWolves'' at the request of ''Film/ThereWillBeBlood''.
* ''Film/TheKidWhoWouldBeKing'' is ''Film/AKidInKingArthursCourt'' meets a kid-friendly ''Film/AttackTheBlock'' and ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians''.
* ''Film/KingArthurLegendOfTheSword'' was pitched as ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' meets ''Film/{{Snatch}}''.
* ''Film/KingOfThieves'': [[WebVideo/{{Projector}} Mathew Buck]] described it as a mixture of ''Film/{{Get Carter|1971}}'' and an [[Creator/EalingStudios Ealing comedy]].
* ''Film/KISSMeetsThePhantomOfThePark'' was pitched to the band as "''Film/AHardDaysNight'' meets ''Franchise/StarWars''".
* ''Film/KnightAndDay'' is ''Film/TheTourist'' meets ''Film/MissionImpossible''.
* ''Film/KnightsOfTheZodiac'' is ''Anime/SaintSeiyaKnightsOfTheZodiac'' meets ''Film/FistOfTheNorthStar''.
* ''Film/KnivesOut'' is ''Literature/MurderOnTheOrientExpress'' meets ''Film/TheRoyalTenenbaums''.
* ''Film/KungFuZohra'' is ''[[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112791/ Dangerous Intentions]]'' meets ''Film/{{The Karate Kid|1984}}''.
* ''Film/KungPowEnterTheFist'' is ''Tiger & Crane Fists'' meets ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' and ''Film/TheMasterOfDisguise''.
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* ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'' is the ''Literature/LandOfOz'' meets ''Franchise/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' starring Music/DavidBowie. (Or alternately, ''Literature/TheSpiderwickChronicles'' meets ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'', with Music/DavidBowie instead of Creator/TimCurry.)
* ''Lake Michigan Monster'': WebVideo/{{Schaffrillas|Productions}} describes it as ''Film/TheLighthouse'' meets the Patchy the Pirate segments from ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' if it was written by WebVideo/ScottTheWoz and edited by WebVideo/{{Caddicarus}}.
* ''Film/TheLastAirbender'' is [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender the original show]] InTheStyleOf ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' by way of ''Film/{{Eragon}}'', ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', and ''Film/DragonballEvolution''.
* ''Film/TheLastCastle'' is ''Film/TheRock'' meets ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption''.
* ''Film/TheLastExorcism'' is ''The Exorcism Of Emily Rose'' meets ''Film/TheBlairWitchProject''.
* ''Film/TheLastKingOfScotland'' is ''Film/{{Downfall|2004}}'' meets ''Anime/NowAndThenHereAndThere'' meets ''Theatre/KingLear''.
* ''Film/LastNightInSoho'' is ''Series/DoctorWho'' meets ''Film/PeepingTom'' meets ''Film/{{Repulsion}}'' meets ''Film/BlowUp'' meets ''Film/{{Performance}}'' meets ''Film/DontLookNow'' meets ''Film/{{Suspiria|1977}}''.
* ''Film/TheLastSamurai'' is ''Film/DancesWithWolves'' meets ''[[Literature/AsianSaga Shogun]]''.
* ''Film/LawAbidingCitizen'' is ''Film/DeathWish'' (or ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'') meets ''Franchise/{{Saw}}''.
* ''Film/LaLaLand'' is ''Film/SinginInTheRain'' meets ''Film/AStarIsBorn''.
* ''Film/TheLawnmowerMan'' is ''Literature/FlowersForAlgernon'' meets ''Film/{{Tron}}'', and later ''Manga/ElfenLied''.
* ''Film/LegallyBlonde'' is Creator/JohnGrisham's GenkiGirl DistaffCounterpart who went on a shopping spree at ''Film/{{Clueless}}''.
* ''Film/TheLegendOfFrenchieKing'' is ''Film/SevenBridesForSevenBrothers'' meets ''Film/{{Bandidas}}''.
* ''Film/{{Legion}}'' is ''Film/TheProphecy'' meets ''Film/TheTerminator''.
** Alternatively, ''Film/TheTerminator'' meets ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968''.
* ''Film/LemonadeMouth'' is ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'' meets ''Film/HighSchoolMusical''.
* ''Film/Life2017'' is equal parts ''Film/{{Alien}}'', ''Film/{{Splice}}'', ''Film/TheBlob1988'' and ''Film/{{Gravity}}''.
* ''Film/LittleNicky'' is ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' meets ''Film/WaynesWorld''.
* ''Film/LittleShopOfHorrors'' (1986) is (much like [[Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors the play of the same name]]) basically [[Film/TheLittleShopOfHorrors the original 1960 film]] meets a {{Creator/Disney}} musical.
* ''Film/LocalHero'': Bill Forsyth described it as "''Theatre/{{Brigadoon}}'' meets ''Film/ApocalypseNow''".
* The {{Mockbuster}} ''Lockjaw'' is ''Film/{{Anaconda}}'' meets ''Manga/DeathNote'' with the plot of ''Film/{{Pumpkinhead}}''.
* ''Film/{{Logan}}'' is ''ComicBook/XMen'' (or to draw from specific comics, ''ComicBook/OldManLogan'' and ''[[spoiler:ComicBook/DeathOfWolverine]]'') meets ''Film/{{Unforgiven}}'' and ''Film/{{Shane}}'' (the latter in particular even appears in the movie).
** Alternately and more accurately, it's ''ComicBook/OldManLogan'' meets ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs''.
* When touring the talk show circuit to promote ''Film/TheLonelyLady'', Creator/PiaZadora repeatedly portrayed it as "a cross between ''Film/{{Rocky}}'' and ''Film/{{Emmanuelle}}''".
* ''Film/{{Loqueesha}}'': ''Amos N Andy'' starring [[https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/shirley-q-liquor-the-most-dangerous-comedian-in-america-188700/ Shirley Q. Liquor]].
* Creator/PeterJackson described his visual style on ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' as Creator/DavidLean meets Creator/RayHarryhausen.
* ''Film/TheLostCity'' is ''Film/RomancingTheStone'' meets ''Film/DoraAndTheLostCityOfGold'' setting in ''Film/TrueMemoirsOfAnInternationalAssassin'' piece.
* ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' is [[Film/JurassicPark the first film]] meets ''Film/{{Gorgo}}''.
* ''Film/{{Lucy}}'' is ''ComicBook/BlackWidow'' meets ''Film/{{Taken}}'' meets ''Manga/{{Akira}}'' meets ''Film/TheFifthElement'' meets ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' meets ''ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}}'' meets Creator/HPLovecraft.
** Or in the words of Creator/LucBesson: "one part ''[[Film/TheProfessional Leon]]'', one part ''Film/{{Inception}}'' and one part ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey''".
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* ''Film/MButterfly'' is ''Theatre/MadameButterfly'' meets [[spoiler: ''Film/TheCryingGame'']].
* ''Film/{{M3GAN}}'' is ''Film/{{Annabelle}}'' meets ''Film/TheTerminator'', according to producer Creator/JamesWan.
* Creator/RobertRodriguez has described the third part of the ''Film/{{Machete}}'' Trilogy, ''Machete Kills Again...In Space!'' as Machete meets ''Film/{{Moonraker}}''.
* ''[[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Magic Kingdom]]'' is Disneyland meets ''Film/NightAtTheMuseum'' or ''Film/{{Zathura}}'' since Creator/JonFavreau is directing.
* ''Film/MadMax'' franchise:
** ''Film/MadMax1'' is ''Film/DirtyHarry'' meets ''Manga/ViolenceJack'' meets ''Literature/{{Dune}}''.
** ''Film/MadMax2TheRoadWarrior'' is ''Film/MadMax1'' meets ''Literature/TheSilmarillion''.
** ''Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome'' is ''Film/MadMax2TheRoadWarrior'' meets ''Film/{{Flash Gordon|1980}}'' meets ''Literature/RiddleyWalker''.
** ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'' is ''Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome'' meets ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' meets ''Anime/NowAndThenHereAndThere'' meets ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar''.
* ''Film/{{Maleficent}}'' is ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'' meets ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}'' meets ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'' meets ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' meets ''Manga/{{Berserk}}''.
* ''Film/{{Malignant}}'' is a {{Giallo}} version of [[spoiler:''Film/BasketCase'' meets ''Film/{{Split}}'']].
* ''Film/MagicMike'' and ''Magic Mike XXL'' are ''Film/{{Showgirls}}'' meets ''Film/TheFullMonty''.
* ''Film/MansBestFriend'' was described by WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob as ''Film/{{Cujo}}'' meets ''Film/ShortCircuit''.
* ''Film/TheManWhoFellToEarth'' is ''Music/TheRiseAndFallOfZiggyStardustAndTheSpidersFromMars'' meets ''Film/{{Starman}}'' meets ''Film/RequiemForADream''.
* ''Film/Mandy2018'' is ''Film/DriveAngry'' meets ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982'' meets ''Film/TheHolyMountain''.
* ''Film/ManiacCop2'': Director William Lustig pitched the film as ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'' meets ''Film/TheFrenchConnection''.
* ''Film/TheMask'' is [[ComicBook/TheMask the comic book of the same name]] meets ''Film/AceVenturaPetDetective'' meets ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' meets ''Film/TheNuttyProfessor1963'', by way of ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}''.
* ''Film/TheMaskOfZorro'' is ''Film/{{The Mark of Zorro|1940}}'' meets ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo'' with a dash of the SpaghettiWestern genre.
* ''Film/MaxSteel'' is ''Film/IronMan1'' meets ''Film/DragonballEvolution''.
* ''Film/MarsAttacks'' is ''Film/TheWarOfTheWorlds'' and ''Film/EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers'' meet ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'' and ''Film/KillerKlownsFromOuterSpace''.
* The Creator/JohnCusack comedy ''Film/MartianChild'' is basically ''Literature/AboutABoy'' meets ''Film/{{KPAX}}''.
* ''Film/TheManFromHongKong'': If Creator/BruceLee ever did a ''Film/JamesBond'' movie.
* ''Film/MarriageStory'' is ''Film/TheNotebook'' meets ''Film/LaLaLand'' meets ''Film/BlueValentine'' meets ''Film/KramerVsKramer''.
* ''Franchise/TheMatrix'' series:
** ''Film/TheMatrix'' is ''Film/TheTrumanShow'' meets ''Film/TheTerminator'' meets ''{{Film/Tron}}'' meets ''{{Film/Virtuosity}}'' meets ''Film/DarkCity'' meets ''Manga/GhostInTheShell'' meets ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' meets ''ComicBook/TheInvisibles''.
** ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'' is ''Film/TheMatrix'' meets ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot''.
** ''Film/TheMatrixRevolutions'' is ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'' meets ''Manga/{{Devilman}}''.
** ''Film/TheMatrixResurrections'' is ''Film/TheMatrix'' meets ''Film/{{Total Recall|1990}}'' meets ''Film/WesCravensNewNightmare''.
* ''Film/{{Matilda}}'' is a lighthearted, kid-friendly mashup of ''Film/{{Carrie|1976}}'' and ''Film/TheProfessional'' of all things.
* ''Film/MazesAndMonsters'' is ''Film/ReeferMadness'' meets ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''.
* ''Film/MeanStreets'' is of course the quintessential [[Creator/MartinScorsese Scorsese]] film, but it also can be described as ''Film/IVitelloni'' meets Creator/JohnCassavetes.
* ''Film/MeetTheFeebles'': ''Film/TheMuppetsTakeManhattan'', directed by Creator/SamPeckinpah.
* ''Film/MemoirsOfAnInvisibleMan'': Creator/JohnCarpenter described it as "''Film/NorthByNorthwest'' meets ''Film/{{Starman}}''".
* ''Film/MenaceIISociety'' is ''Film/BoyzNTheHood'' meets ''Film/Scarface1983'' meets ''Film/GoodFellas''.
* ''Franchise/MenInBlack'' film series:
** ''Film/MenInBlack'' is [[ComicBook/MenInBlack the original comic series]] meets ''{{Franchise/Ghostbusters}}'' and ''Film/AlienNation''. Or as Variety described it, "''Ghostbusters'' meets Creator/TheCoenBrothers".
** ''Film/MenInBlack3'' is MIB meets ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' in [[TheSixties the late 1960s]].
** ''Film/MenInBlackInternational'' is commonly described as being MIB meets ''Film/ThorRagnarok'', due to the [[ActorAllusion intentional casting]] of [[Creator/ChrisHemsworth two]] [[Creator/TessaThompson actors]] from the latter movie.
* ''Film/TheMenu'' is ''Film/{{Whiplash}}'' meets ''Fanfic/CheerileesGarden''
* ''Film/MercuryRising'' is ''Film/RainMan'' meets ''Film/WarGames''. Described as such by Miko Hughes on the DVD extras.
* ''Film/MickeyBlueEyes'' is ''Film/MeetTheParents'' meets ''Film/TheGodfather''.
* ''Film/{{Midsommar}}'' is ''Film/{{Hostel}}'' meets ''Film/TheWickerMan1973''.
* ''Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie'' was described by Creator/AmyJoJohnson as "''Franchise/StarWars'' meets ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''". Creator/RogerEbert challenged this assessment in his review.
* ''Film/MilkMoney'' is ''Film/PrettyWoman'' meets ''Film/MyGirl''.
* ''Film/TheMillionEyesOfSumuru'' is ''Film/OurManFlint'' meets (a gender-flipped) ''Literature/FuManchu''
* ''Film/{{Mikey}}'' is ''Literature/TheBadSeed'' meets ''Film/TheStepfather'' meets ''Film/TheGoodSon''.
* ''Film/MinorityReport'' is ''Film/LogansRun'' meets ''Film/BladeRunner'' meets ''Film/TheFugitive'' with a subtle trace of ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''.
* ''Film/MirrorMirror2012'' is ''Literature/SnowWhite'' meets ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights'' with lots of CostumePorn.
* The [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptation of]] ''Literature/MissPeregrinesHomeForPeculiarChildren'' is ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' and the ''ComicBook/XMen''
* ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'' is ''Film/TheGoonies'' meets Franchise/UniversalHorror.
* The Franchise/MonsterVerse is a literal {{crossover}} of ''{{Franchise/Godzilla}}'' and ''Franchise/KingKong'', while figuratively meeting the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse (even having some of the MCU actors appearing in these films).
** ''Film/Godzilla2014'' is ''[[Film/Godzilla1954 Gojira]]'' meets ''Film/PacificRim'' meets ''Manga/AttackOnTitan''.
** ''Film/KongSkullIsland'' is ''Film/KingKong'' meets ''Film/ApocalypseNow''.
** ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' is ''Film/Godzilla2014'' meets ''Film/ClashOfTheTitans2010'' meets ''Film/ThreeHundredRiseOfAnEmpire'' meets ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'' meets ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' meets ''Series/StrangerThings'' meets ''Film/TwoThousandTwelve'' meets ''Anime/DevilmanCrybaby'' meets ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'' meets ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'' meets ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'' meets ''Film/XMenApocalypse''.
** ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'' is ''Film/KingKongVsGodzilla'' meets ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' meets ''Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction''.
* ''Film/{{Moonfall}}'' is ''Film/{{Gravity}}'' meets ''Film/TheMartian'' meets ''Film/{{Melancholia}}'' meets ''Film/TwoThousandAndOneASpaceOdyssey'' meets ''Film/{{Sharknado}}''.
* ''Film/MoonriseKingdom'' is ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' meets ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' (assuming the adults in the movie are considered kids -- which, in the case of Wes Anderson, they are).
* ''Film/Morbius2022'' is ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' meets ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' meets ''Franchise/{{Devilman}}''
* ''Film/MortalKombatTheMovie'' is the cast of ''Film/BigTroubleInLittleChina'' meets the plot of ''Film/GameOfDeath''.
* ''Film/TheMotorcycleDiaries'' is ''Film/EasyRider'' meets ''Literature/{{Germinal}}''.
* ''Film/MoulinRouge'' is ''Theatre/LaTraviata'' meets ''Theatre/LaBoheme'' meets ''Creator/CirqueDuSoleil'' with pop music.
* ''Film/MouseHunt'' is ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' meets ''Film/HomeAlone''.
* ''Film/{{Mowgli}}'' is ''Film/TheJungleBook2016'' meets ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' meets ''Literature/HeartOfDarkness'' meets ''Anime/GraveOfTheFireflies'' meets ''Literature/WatershipDown'' meets ''Film/TheDarkKnight''.
* ''Film/MrNobody'' is ''Film/DonnieDarko'' meets ''Film/TheCuriousCaseOfBenjaminButton''. The titular protagonists of all three have {{Alliterative Name}}s.
* ''Film/MrsDoubtfire'' is ''Film/MaryPoppins'' (minus the magic powers and dancing penguins) meets ''Film/{{Tootsie}}''.
** Because of the divorce subplot, a German magazine also dubbed it ''Film/{{Tootsie}}'' meets ''Film/KramervsKramer''.
* ''Film/MulanRiseOfAWarrior'' is ''Literature/TheBalladOfMulan'' meets ''Manga/{{Berserk}}''.
* ''Film/MulhollandDrive'' is ''Film/SunsetBoulevard'' meets ''Film/Persona1966'' with the eerie atmosphere of ''Film/LostHighway''.
* ''Film/TheMummy1999'' is ''Film/TheMummy1932'' meets ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' meets ''Franchise/EvilDead''.
** Creator/StephenSommers [[WordOfGod described his vision]] as "''Indiana Jones'' meets ''Film/JasonAndTheArgonauts''."
* ''Film/TheMuppets2011'' is ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' meets ''Film/AMightyWind'' meets ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance''.
* ''Film/MurderByDeath'' is ''Creator/AgathaChristie'' meets ''Creator/MelBrooks''.
* Depending on when you were born, ''Film/MurderByDecree'' is ''Film/FromHell'' meets ''Franchise/SherlockHolmes'' or ''From Hell'' is ''Murder By Decree'' sans ''Sherlock Holmes''.
* ''Film/MyNameIsBruce'' is ''Film/ThreeAmigos'' meets ''Film/ArmyOfDarkness''.
* ''Film/MysteryTeam'' is '' Literature/EncyclopediaBrown'' meets [[RealLife the real world]].
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