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• 2012 is The Day After Tomorrow meets Left Behind.
• 3 Ninjas "crosses Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) and Home Alone." And that's not from us.◊
  • Could also be seen as The Karate Kid meets Home Alone.
• 8 Women: The Women meets Clue.
• 8-Bit Christmas: How I Met Your Mother meets A Christmas Story meets Diary of a Wimpy Kid, by way of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.
• 13 Going on 30 is the Distaff Counterpart to Big meets Working Girl meets It's a Wonderful Life.
• 13 Assassins is The 47 Ronin meets Seven Samurai mixed with the over-the-top filmmaking style of Quentin Tarantino.
• The 15:17 to Paris is The Commuter meets Stand by Me with a type of American Sniper and Sully.
• 17 Again (2009) is Hot Tub Time Machine meets Peggy Sue Got Married.
• 21 Jump Street is Superbad meets Hot Fuzz.
• 47 Ronin (2013) is The Last Samurai meets The Lord of the Rings meets Pirates of the Caribbean, with some touches of Hero (2002) and Ninja Scroll for flavor, and a garnish of Elektra.
• 300 is Warhammer 40,000 meets The 300 Spartans meets Gladiator meets Sin City.
  • 300: Rise of an Empire is 300 meets Spartacus: Blood and Sand meets Game of Thrones.
• (500) Days of Summer:
  • How I Met Your Mother meets Garden State.
  • Neil Patrick Harris called it How I Met Your Mother minus Barney.
  • 5 Centimeters per Second meets How I Met Your Mother.
• The cancelled Brad Bird film 1906 was described as Titanic meets a city (San Francisco) and an earthquake (not literally, although that'd be pretty cool too).
  • Titanic meets Earthquake or even San Andreas.

A

• A.I.: Artificial Intelligence is Pinocchio meets Blade Runner, otherwise it's just simply Pinocchio, but in The Future.
  • Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick pitched the film as "Blade Runner meets Field of Dreams".
• The plot to The Abominable Dr. Phibes is Se7en meets A Nightmare on Elm Street meets Saw, only several decades before any of them. Its mood, however, involves eating several bowls of sugar laced with acid.
• Abraxas, Guardian of the Universe: The Terminator meets Jack Kirby's Fourth World.
• Absurd (1981) is The Anthropophagus Beast meets Halloween (1978)
• Accepted is Camp Nowhere meets Animal House
• The Accountant (2016): Jason Bourne meets The Usual Suspects meets Rain Man.
• Ace Ventura: Doctor Dolittle meets The Naked Gun meets Jim Carrey.
  • Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls: The first film meets Hot Shots! Part Deux.
• The Adam Project is Looper meets Back to the Future meets Flight of the Navigator.
• Adam Resurrected is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest meets a deconstruction of Life Is Beautiful.
• Adventure in Kigan Castle is Journey to the West meets Samurai Pirate.
• The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension: Doc Savage meets Star Wars meets Thomas Pynchon.
• The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl is The Never Ending Story meets Captain Underpants.
• After Last Season: The Room (2003) meets The Lawnmower Man.
• Airheads is Dog Day Afternoon meets Wayne's World meets Die Hard.
• Airplane! was the Airport movies as if Tex Avery had directed them.
  • Functionally Airplane! is The Big Bus (an earlier Disaster Movie parody) meets the A Fistful of Yen segment of The Kentucky Fried Movie (the ZAZ team's first display of their Signature Style of rapid-fire genre parody).
• Alice in Wonderland (2010) is American McGee's Alice meets The Chronicles of Narnia meets Hook.
• Alien 2: On Earth is essentially The Descent meets The Thing (1982). Notice how none of those were Alien.
• Alien, Predator, and Alien vs. Predator movies:
  • Alien: Resurrection is Alien meets Firefly.
  • Alien: Covenant is Alien and Prometheus meet The Island of Doctor Moreau.
  • Predator is Rambo: First Blood Part II meets Alien.
  • Predator 2 is Predator meets Lethal Weapon.
  • Predators is Predator 2 meets Heart of Darkness.
  • The Predator is Predators meets Aliens: Colonial Marines.
  • Prey is Predator meets Pocahontas meets Alien: Isolation.
• Alita: Battle Angel is Ghost in the Shell meets AKIRA meets Fist of the North Star meets The Matrix meets Avatar meets Gears of War meets Mega Man Zero meets Titanfall.
• Obscure horror film American Nightmare is Hardcore meets Friday the 13th (or any Giallo slasher film).
• American Psycho is Wall Street meets Psycho.
• The In Name Only Anarchist Cookbook film is Atlas Shrugged meets The Doom Generation.
• Anna and the Apocalypse is Shaun of the Dead meets La La Land.
• Annihilation (2018) is Stalker (1979) meets Thor meets Event Horizon meets a Gender Flipped Predator meets The Colour Out of Space meets The Thing (1982) meets Björk
• In his Cinemassacre Video for Anonymous Rex, James Rolfe called it a mashup of Men in Black and Jurassic Park.
• Anvil! The Story of Anvil is This is Spın̈al Tap meets Real Life. Seriously, it's spooky.
• John Carpenter's "Apocalypse Trilogy":
  • The Thing is Alien meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers meets The Thing from Another World as directed by David Cronenberg.
  • Prince of Darkness is The Thing meets The Omen meets The Call of Cthulhu.
  • In the Mouth of Madness is Prince of Darkness meets Wes Craven's New Nightmare meets Misery meets The Sandman.
• Apocalypse Now is Aguirre, the Wrath of God meets The Deer Hunter meets Heart of Darkness.
• The Apple is the Book of Revelation meets Xanadu (1980).
• Argylle:
  • Le Magnifique meets Kingsman and The Bourne Series, with a dash of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and The Manchurian Candidate.
  • Alternatively, The Long Kiss Goodbye meets Romancing the Stone with a dash of Captain America: Civil War.
• Arrival is Close Encounters of the Third Kind meets Contact.
• Doug Walker summed up the Artemis Fowl movie as Harry Potter characters in Home Alone.
• Army of the Dead is Dawn of the Dead (2004) meets Dead Rising 2 meets Suicide Squad (2016) meets Peninsula.
• The Artist is Singin' in the Rain meets Modern Times.
• Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) is Rio Bravo (updated to the New Old West) meets Night of the Living Dead (1968) in terms of The Siege by a Multi-ethnic , cult-like gang instead of zombies.
• Atomic Blonde is John le Carré meets John Wick (filtered through New Order).
  • Alternatively same as the above with The Man from U.N.C.L.E. instead of Le Carre.
• Austin Powers:
  • Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery is the Sean Connery-era James Bond films (particularly You Only Live Twice and Diamonds Are Forever) meets Casino Royale (1967) meets Sleeper, filtered through Wayne's World.
• Avatar is FernGully: The Last Rainforest meets Treasure Planet meets Atlantis: The Lost Empire meets The Lion King meets Warhammer 40,000 meets Dances with Wolves meets Titanic meets Katmandu meets Watership Down meets Final Fantasy VI meets Final Fantasy VII meets Princess Mononoke meets Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.
  • Alternately, it's Dances with Wolves meets Halo.
  • Benzaie calls it Pocahontas + Ferngully + The Matrix in his 5-Second Film.
  • Or Pocahontas meets Dances with Wolves meets The Smurfs with a bit of Event Horizon thrown in.
  • Or even Pocahontas 40K as one person puts it.
  • Or Katmandu meets Warhammer meets Battle Angel Alita meets Ghost in the Shell.
  • Avatar: The Way of Water is Avatar meets Aquaman meets Dune (2021) meets The Lion King II: Simba's Pride meets The Matrix Reloaded meets The Sopranos meets Horizon Forbidden West meets The Last of Us Part II, with a big side dash of Free Willy thrown in for good measure.
• Avengers Grimm is The Avengers (2012) meets Once Upon a Time if both were directed by Uwe Boll.
• Await Further Instructions is Guess Who's Coming to Dinner meets When the Wind Blows meets The Shining meets The Colour Out of Space.

B

• Babe: Pig in the City is Babe meets Home Alone 2: Lost in New York if it was directed by The Coen Brothers.
• Baby Driver is Drive (2011) meets Hot Fuzz meets Heat meets Vanishing Point meets Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) meets Point Break (1991) meets Reservoir Dogs.
• Baby's Day Out is Home Alone meets The Three Stooges.
• Babylon (2022) is Singin' in the Rain meets The Wolf of Wall Street.
• Back to the Future:
  • Part I is Doctor Who meets Tintin, John Hughes, and Frank Capra.
  • Part II is the first film meets The Jetsons meets "The City on the Edge of Forever" meets the Potterville scenes from It's a Wonderful Life.
  • Part III is Part I meets The Wild Wild West meets A Fistful of Dollars.
• Bad Moon and the book it's based upon (Thor) are The Adventures Of Rintintin meets The Howling.
• Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever was described by Entertainment Weekly as Bad Boys meets The Professional.
• Bamboozled: Richard Corliss described it as Network meets Bulworth.
  • Or The Producers meets Hollywood Shuffle
• Barbie (2023) is Enchanted meets Life-Size, by way of The LEGO Movie and Shrek.
• Barb Wire is Casablanca in a Gender Flipped Mad Max costume.
  • Or Judge Dredd meets Showgirls.
• Basic Instinct is the love child of Russ Meyer and Alfred Hitchcock.
• The Batman (2022) is Batman: Arkham Origins meets Berserk meets Zodiac meets Sin City.
  • Or Batman: Year One meets Se7en.
  • Or Batman Returns meets Todd McFarlane's Spawn meets Taxi Driver.
  • Or The Long Halloween meets Chinatown meets Prisoners.
  • Or Batman: Zero Year meets TheSilenceoftheLambs.
• Batman Film Series:
  • Batman (1989) is Superman: The Movie meets Beetlejuice meets The Killing Joke.
  • Batman Returns is Batman (1989) meets Dracula meets Devilman.
  • Batman Forever is Batman (1989) meets Batman (1966).
  • Batman & Robin is Batman Forever meets the Batman: The Animated Series episode "Heart of Ice" meets The Silver Age of Comic Books.
• Battle Beyond the Stars is The Magnificent Seven (1960) meets Star Wars.
• Battleship is the Transformers Film Series meets Independence Day (by way of Pixels) meets Top Gun meets Pearl Harbor meets Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.
  • The Transformers Film Series, but merely recycled in the Pacific Ocean.
• Battletruck is Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior meets Duel.
• Beau Is Afraid is A Serious Man meets The Wicker Man (1973) and Eraserhead.
• Beauty and the Beast (2017) is Cinderella meets the original animated classic.
• Bedazzled (1967) is Faust meets What's New Pussycat?.
• Bedknobs and Broomsticks is Mary Poppins meets Army of Darkness.
• The Beekeeper is Pleasant Green meets Taken.
• Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon is Man Bites Dog meets Scream (1996).
• Belfast is Roma meets Jojo Rabbit meets Forrest Gump.
• The Belko Experiment was outright described on its poster as being "Office Space meets Battle Royale".
• Beowulf (1999) is The Road Warrior meets Mortal Kombat: The Movie meets The Witcher.
• Better Watch Out is Home Alone meets Black Christmas (1974), by way of The Good Son, American Psycho, In the Company of Men, and Misery.
• Beverly Hills Cop: Martin Brest describes the film on the DVD commentary as "this weird hybrid between In the Heat of the Night and The Beverly Hillbillies".
• Big Fish:
  • Forrest Gump as written by Roald Dahl.
  • Or Forrest Gump meets The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.
  • "Federico Fellini directing Forrest Gump" was a common description by film critics when it came out.
• Big Man Japan is the Ultra Series meets Fantozzi.
• Big Momma's House was described by Film Brain as Mrs. Doubtfire meets The Nutty Professor.
• Bill & Ted:
  • Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure: Stephen Fry once called it "Doctor Who meets Beavis And Butthead".
  • Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey is Bill & Ted meets The Terminator, The Seventh Seal, and A Matter of Life and Death.
    • Bill & Ted Face the Music is Bill & Ted meets The Force Awakens, Dumb and Dumber To, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005).
• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) is 8½ but with an arguably happier ending.
• Birdemic is The Birds meets The Room (2003).
• Bite is The Fly (1986) meets Repulsion by way of Contracted.
• Blackhat is Miami Vice meets Ghost in the Shell.
• Black Christmas (2019): Brad Jones described it as God's Not Dead for the left as written by Lisa Simpson, while also ripping off Satans School For Girls. Doug Walker described it as Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) with Spider-Man 3 thrown in.
• Black Swan:
  • Perfect Blue meets Swan Lake and/or Princess Tutu.
  • Suspiria (1977) meets The Machinist.
• The Blob (1988) is The Blob (1958) if written by Stephen King and the gore effects were made by Tom Savini.
• Blood Red Sky is Die Hard meets Non-Stop, Snakes on a Plane, From Dusk Till Dawn, 30 Days of Night, and Train to Busan.
• Blood: The Last Vampire (the 2009 film, at least) is Blade meets Kill Bill.
• Bloodthirsty is Black Swan meets The Wolfman (2010).
• Bob Roberts is The Candidate meets A Face in the Crowd, as filtered through Don't Look Back and This is Spın̈al Tap.
• Body Double is Rear Window meets Vertigo meets Blow Out meets Miami Vice.
• Bone Tomahawk is The Burrowers meets Blood Meridian.
• Boogie Nights is like the lovechild of Robert Altman, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese.
  • Or GoodFellas if it were about porn.
• The Book of Eli, as described in its article, is Fist of the North Star meets Fallout.
• The Book of Henry: is Pay It Forward meets I Spit on Your Grave.
• Bottle Rocket was described as Reservoir Dogs meets Breathless.
• The Boy is Annabelle meets Bad Ronald.
• The Brave One:
  • Taxi Driver meets Death Wish, with a woman in the lead.
  • Alternatively it's Taxi Driver meets Ms. 45.
• Brazil is Monty Python meets Nineteen Eighty-Four meets The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
• Breaker! Breaker! is Billy Jack meets White Line Fever, set in a Played for Drama Hazzard County.
• Brick is Fast Times at Ridgemont High cosplaying as The Black Dahlia and talking like The Maltese Falcon.
  • If L.A. Confidential went all Saved by the Bell sans Breaking the Fourth Wall.
  • "Hardboiled Detective Film Noir High School."
• Brightburn is Man of Steel meets The Omen (1976).
  • Or Orphan meets Superman
• David Cronenberg has described The Brood as his version of Kramer vs. Kramer.
• Bugsy Malone is Johnny Dangerously starring The Little Rascals.
• Bullet Train is Pulp Fiction meets Snatch. meets John Wick meets Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.
• Burlesque was described by Todd in the Shadows as "Cabaret without the tragedy, Moulin Rouge! without the prostitution, Chicago without the murder and Showgirls without the batshit insane - or the coherent screenplay".
  • Mark Kermode described it as "Showgirls for twelve-year olds".

C

• The Cable Guy is Fatal Attraction meets Ace Ventura meets Network.
  • Jim Carrey described the finished product as "Hitchcock meets Jerry Lewis", and "Rosemary's Baby meets The Odd Couple".
• The Cabin in the Woods is The Evil Dead (1981) meets The Truman Show and the SCP Foundation.
  • The climax of this film also mixes in expies of just about (almost) every single classic horror movie monsters and villains you can think of.
• The Caller is The Lakehouse meets Stir of Echos meets Frequency, with a little dusting of The Butterfly Effect.
• Cannibal is Brokeback Mountain meets Guinea Pig: Flowers of Flesh and Blood.
• Cannibal Holocaust is Heart of Darkness meets The 120 Days of Sodom.
• The Cannonball Run is It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World meets Smokey and the Bandit meets Wacky Races.
• Captain Clegg is Treasure Island meets Heat meets Les Misérables.
• The Car:
  • Duel meets Jaws, minus the Spielberg.
  • Duel meets Christine.
• Herk Harvey said he was going for Ingmar Bergman meets Jean Cocteau in Carnival of Souls. There's an obvious Psycho influence in there as well.
• Casino is GoodFellas meets The Casino.
• Cats & Dogs is James Bond meets Looney Tunes meets A Boy and His X.
• Catwoman (2004) is Batman Returns meets Batman & Robin (minus Batman) and the Æon Flux movie.
• The Cell:
  • Dreamscape meets a Marilyn Manson/Nine Inch Nails music video.
  • Inception meets Silence of the Lambs.
  • Also, Inception meets Cupcakes (Sergeant Sprinkles). More specifically, the protagonist uses an Inception-like device to enter the dreams of a serial killer, whose psychotic nature matches that of Pinkie Pie as seen in Cupcakes.
  • It is also The Matrix meets Se7en.
• The Chain Reaction is Mad Max meets The China Syndrome. It was even described as such in advertisements!
• Challengers (2024) is Battle of the Sexes meets Creed III.
• Chappie is RoboCop (1987) meets District 9 (with touches of Iron Man and Short Circuit).
• This comic convention exchange from Chasing Amy between a Bluntman and Chronic fan and their exasperated creator:
  Fanboy: I love [Bluntman and Chronic]! They're like... uh... Bill & Ted meet... meet Cheech & Chong!
  Holden: [condescendingly] Yeah, I kinda like to think of them as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern meet Vladamir and Estragon.
  Fanboy: Yeah! Wait... huh?
• Chicago is Cabaret meets Chinatown.
• Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers is Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers meets Space Jam: A New Legacy.
  • Or Bojack Horseman meets Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
  • With a dose of Jay and Silent Bob Reboot.
• Chloe is either Nathalie meets Crimes and Misdemeanors or Nathalie meets Fatal Attraction, depending on your point of view.
• Christine is The Love Bug meets Fatal Attraction
• Christine (2016) is The Mary Tyler Moore Show meets Lars von Trier.
• Christopher Robin is Winnie the Pooh meets Hook.
• The Circle is The Social Network meets The Firm.
• Civil War (2024) is DMZ meets Salvador.
• Clash of the Titans (1981) is the myth of Perseus and Andromeda meets Star Wars: A New Hope.
  • Clash of the Titans (2010) is the original 1981 film meets James Cameron's Avatar meets 300 meets God of War.
• Class of 1999 was pitched as Blackboard Jungle meets Westworld meets Mad Max.
• Clerks was described by Dave Kehr of The New York Daily News as Howard Stern meets David Mamet.
• Click is A Christmas Carol meets It's a Wonderful Life only the Christmas in both is replaced with Adam Sandler.
• Cloverfield is The Blair Witch Project (or Cannibal Holocaust, if you know your film history) meets Godzilla.
• Clue is Murder by Death meets Choose Your Own Adventure.
• Coach Carter is Lean on Me meets Above The Rim.
• Cold Pursuit is Fargo meets Taken.
• Cold War is La La Land as an Ingmar Bergman film. Or alternatively, Ingmar Bergman meets A Star Is Born (1937).
• Colossal is Pacific Rim meets Real Steel meets Heroman meets Godzilla meets Drillbit Taylor (if the bodyguard against The Bully is a Kaiju).
• Commando is Taken meets Shoot 'Em Up but pre-dating both.
• Come and See is Apocalypse Now meets Threads.
• The Concorde... Airport '79 is Airport meets The Love Boat meets Fantasy Island meets The Twilight Zone (1959).
• The Condemned (2007) is The Most Dangerous Game meets Battle Royale meets Con Air meets The Truman Show.
• Connie and Carla is Victor/Victoria meets Some Like It Hot.
• Cool Cat Saves the Kids is Barney & Friends meets The Room (2003).
• Cool World is Who Framed Roger Rabbit meets Dark City.
  • Roger Rabbit meets Showgirls.
• Cop Land was described in the book Down and Dirty Pictures as Serpico or The Prince of Tides meets Fargo.
• The Core is Armageddon (1998) on a Journey to the Center of the Earth.
• Cosmopolis is David Cronenberg's own Crash meets Wall Street — meets Last Year at Marienbad.
• Cowboys & Aliens is described by its screenwriters as "Unforgiven with aliens landing." This makes some sense because both films feature an ex-outlaw running up against a harsh order-obsessed sheriff. In other words: Unforgiven meets Skyline.
• The Craft is if The Witches of Eastwick magically rejuvenated themselves into Heathers.
• Crank is Speed meets D.O.A..
• The Creator is Rogue One meets I, Robot meets E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial meets A.I.: Artificial Intelligence meets Children of Men meets Avatar meets Dune (2021) meets Apocalypse Now meets Blade Runner meets District 9 meets Chappie meets The Terminator meets Inception meets Tenet meets Baraka meets AKIRA meets Rain Man meets Paper Moon.
• Creed II is Creed meets Rocky IV.
• Crimson Peak is The Devil's Backbone meets Jane Eyre.
• Cruella is 101 Dalmatians (1996) meets Maleficent meets Joker (2019).
  • Joker (2019) meets The Devil Wears Prada.
• The Crush is Lolita meets Fatal Attraction.
• Curly Sue: Roger Ebert said that the film "could have been written by Damon Runyon, illustrated by Norman Rockwell and filmed by Frank Capra".
• Cut and Run is Apocalypse Now meets Cannibal Holocaust.
• Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life is Reefer Madness meets American Pie.

D

• Daddy Day Camp is Daddy Day Care meets Meatballs.
• The Dark Knight Trilogy:
  • Batman Begins: Superman: The Movie meets Batman: Year One meets Blade Runner.
  • The Dark Knight: Batman (1989) meets Heat meets The Killing Joke meets The Long Halloween.
  • The Dark Knight Rises is The Dark Knight meets Knightfall meets The Dark Knight Returns meets Batman: No Man's Land meets The Scarlet Pimpernel meets Lawrenceof Arabia.
• Dark Phoenix is X-Men: The Last Stand meets Captain Marvel (2019).
• The Dark Tower: According to a Facebook post from Rob Walker, Brad Jones described the film as Last Action Hero meets In the Name of the King.
• Days of Thunder is Top Gun meets Nascar.
• Da 5 Bloods is Apocalypse Now meets BlacKkKlansman meets Blood Diamond meets NieR meets Saving Private Ryan meets Do the Right Thing meets Black Panther meets Glory.
• DC Extended Universe:
  • Man of Steel:
    • Superman: The Movie meets Superman II (both sans Lex Luthor) meets Batman Begins.
    • Alternatively, it's The Last Temptation of Christ with Superman.
  • Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is Man of Steel meets Batman: The Dark Knight Returns meets Superman: Red Son meets Flashpoint meets The Death of Superman meets Injustice: Gods Among Us, with some of the tone of Batman Returns.
  • Suicide Squad (2016):
    • John Ostrander's Suicide Squad run meets Batman: Assault on Arkham.
    • The Dirty Dozen meets DC Comics.
    • The Dirty Dozen meets Escape from New York.
  • Wonder Woman
    • Captain America: The First Avenger meets Thor meets 300 meets Saving Private Ryan.
    • Or Batman Begins meets Superman: The Movie meets Indiana Jones.
  • Aquaman
    • The Lord of the Rings meets Star Wars meets Atlantis: The Lost Empire.
    • Black Panther meets Thor meets Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis.
  • SHAZAM! (2019) is Big meets Superman: The Movie.
    • Or Spider-Man: Homecoming meets Guardians of the Galaxy (2014).
  • Birds of Prey is Deadpool 2 meets John Wick meets Harley Quinn (2019) meets Suicide Squad (2016) meets Joker (2019) meets Goodfellas.
    • Or, as one film critic called it, "DC's Deadpool with a dash of Tarantino."
  • Wonder Woman 1984 is Wonder Woman meets Captain America: The Winter Soldier meets Thor: Ragnarok meets Birds of Prey meets Batman & Robin.
  • Zack Snyder's Justice League is Avengers: Infinity War meets Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice meets Justice League Dark: Apokolips War meets Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) meets Watchmen meets Spec Ops: The Line meets Logan meets Joker (2019).
  • The Suicide Squad is Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) meets Deadpool meets Apocalypse Now.
    • Or The Dirty Dozen meets Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) as described by one of the producers.
  • Black Adam is Shazam meets Jungle Cruise meets God of War meets Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
    • Or, in terms of DCEU movies, Shazam meets Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice meets Justice League (2017).
  • The Flash is Justice League (2017) meets Spider-Man: No Way Home.
  • Blue Beetle is Shazam meets Shin Kamen Rider meets Guardians of the Galaxy meets Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse meets Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers meets Cobra Kai meets Moon Knight meets AKIRA meets Spy Kids.
  • Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom is Aquaman meets Thor: Ragnarok, Return of the Jedi, BioShock, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne and The Twice-Dead King.
• De Griezelbus is Let the Right One In meets Death Note with a bit of ParaNorman.
• Dead End Drive-In: The Prisoner (1967) in the Mad Max universe.
• The Dead Pit: Bad Dreams meets Re-Animator.
• Deadpool (2016) is the X-Men Film Series meets Bugs Bunny, Lewis Black, and Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
• Deathgasm is Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny and/or Metalocalypse meets Shaun of the Dead.
• Death Note (2017) is Final Destination meets Twilight, with a slight resemblance to the original Death Note.
• Deep Blue Sea was commonly described in reviews as Jurassic Park meets Alien meets Jaws.
• Deep Impact could be described as Armageddon (1998) failing an astronomy test again and then having a romantic encounter with Neon Genesis Evangelion whilst Mimi Leder films the whole thing.
• Deep Rising is The Poseidon Adventure meets Alien.
• Demolition Man is Judge Dredd meets Brave New World.
• Den of Thieves is Heat with the twist from The Usual Suspects.
• Descendants (A Disney Channel Original TV Movie) is the Disney Animated Canon meets Sky High (2005) meets Runaways except the kids know their parents are villains.
  • Or the Disney Animated Canon meets High School Musical.
  • The sequel movie though, is what many fans would see as The Little Mermaid meets High School Musical 2 minus any appearance of Ariel, Prince Eric and/or their daughter Melody, due to similar themes in the two movies.
• Diary of a Mad Black Woman: The Cinema Snob described it as if A Streetcar Named Desire got drunk and went to bed with Big Momma's House.
• Dick is Nixon meets Dazed and Confused plus The World of Henry Orient, as well as borrowing the Been There, Shaped History motifs of Forrest Gump.
• The Dictator is Coming to America meets Ali G Indahouse.
• Die Hard was once described as The Towering Inferno meets Lethal Weapon (1987).
• The Disaster Artist is The Room (2003) meets Ed Wood. Confirming that Tommy Wiseau is the successor to the latter's namesake.
  • The film was described by James Franco as "a combination of Boogie Nights and The Master".
• District 9:
  • The Office meets Bad Taste plus David Cronenberg's The Fly (1986).
  • District 13 (minus Le Parkour) meets Men in Black, The Fly (1986), and The Apartheid Era.
• Django Unchained is Django meets The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, meets Red Dead Redemption meets The Boondocks episode "The Story of Catcher Freeman".
• Dog Soldiers: is Night of the Living Dead (1968) meets The Howling meets Band of Brothers meets The Howling meets The Evil Dead (1981) meets Jaws meets Aliens meets Predator meets Rio Bravo.
• Dolittle is Doctor Dolittle meets Pirates of the Caribbean meets Sherlock Holmes (2009).
• Dollars Trilogy:
  • A Fistful of Dollars is Yojimbo meets Gunfight At Red Sands.
  • For a Few Dollars More is A Fistful of Dollars meets The New Centurions by way of Goldfinger.
  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is A Fistful of Dollars meets Treasure Island by way of Pirates of the Caribbean.
• Don't Breathe is Daredevil meets Home Alone meets Friday the 13th.
• Don't Look Up is Deep Impact colliding with Dr. Strangelove.
  • Or Melancholia meets Black Mirror and Idiocracy.
• Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead was described by one reviewer as "Home Alone meets Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and then visits Working Girl".
• Don't Worry Darling is The Stepford Wives plugged into The Matrix.
• Doom is Doom³ meets Event Horizon and Predator.
• Doomsday is Escape from New York meets Mad Max.
• Dora and the Lost City of Gold is Dora the Explorer meets The Goonies meets Stranger Things meets Indiana Jones meets Tomb Raider meets Uncharted, with touches of Prince Caspian and Pirates of the Caribbean.
• Dr. Strangelove is 1963's Fail Safe meets No Time For Sergeants.
• Dracula Untold is Bram Stoker's Dracula meets The Lord of the Rings meets Castlevania: Lords of Shadow.
• Drag Me to Hell:
  • Night of the Demon meets The Grudge.
  • Thinner meets The Grudge.
• Dragonball Evolution
  • Dragon Ball meets Smallville.
  • Dragon Ball meets the first Sam Raimi Spider-Man movie.
• Dragon Fighter is Reign of Fire meets Jurassic Park meets Alien.
• Drive (2011) is The Driver meets Thief meets Point Blank meets Two-Lane Blacktop meets Taxi Driver.
• Drive Angry was written as The Terminator by way of Edgar Allan Poe.
• Drumline is essentially Top Gun only with college marching bands instead of U.S. Navy pilots.
• Duma is Born Free meets Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey.
• Dumb and Dumber is The Ren & Stimpy Show meets Beavis and Butt-Head meets The Three Stooges.
• Dumbo (2019), as suggested by Brad Jones in his Midnight Screenings review, is the original animated feature meets Santa Claus: The Movie via Tim Burton's Signature Style.
• Dune films:
  • Dune (1984) is The original novel meets A New Hope meets Blade Runner meets The Dark Crystal meets Lawrence of Arabia, with a bit of Jodorowsky's vision for the series.
  • Dune (2021) is Warhammer 40,000 meets Blade Runner 2049 meets Mad Max: Fury Road meets Game of Thrones.
    • Or Star Wars if it were directed by Christopher Nolan and written by Michael Moorcock.
    • Or A New Hope meets Apocalypse Now.
  • Dune: Part Two is Dune meet Warhammer 40,000, Monty Python's Life of Brian and Lawrence of Arabia meets The Godfather.
• The Dybbuk has been described as "Romeo and Juliet meets The Exorcist."

E

• Earth Girls Are Easy is Valley Girl meets Starman by way of MTV and Jerry Lewis.
• Earth to Echo is E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial meets Chronicle (minus the latter's Super Power Lottery and declarations of superiority).
  • A blurb uses "WALL•E (Echo is a little robot with big eyes) meets E.T.". Wall-E + E.T. + Found Footage
• Edge of Tomorrow has many such descriptions:
  • Next meets Starship Troopers meets Muv-Luv Alternative.
  • Starship Troopers meets Groundhog Day (possibly with a hint of Final Fantasy VII).
  • Warhammer 40,000 meets Groundhog Day (as early as immediately after the trailer was released).
  • The Americanization of Emily meets Pacific Rim.
  • Saving Private Ryan meets Puella Magi Madoka Magica.
  • All You Need Is Kill (the original story) meets Pacific Rim.
• Edward Scissorhands is The Hunchback of Notre Dame meets Romeo and Juliet meets The Fly (1986) meets Beetlejuice.
• Elf is The Santa Clause meets Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and ALF.
• El Topo is the Dollars Trilogy meets Mind Screw.
• Elysium:
  • District 9 meets Spartacus and Johnny Mnemonic.
  • Or Battle Angel Alita meets The Six Million Dollar Man.
• Embrace of the Vampire (1995): Described by WhatCulture as Nightmare on Emmanuelle Street
• The Emperor of Paris is Les Misérables meets The Untouchables.
• Enchanted is "Disney meets Reality".
  • Disenchanted is Galavant meets WandaVision meets Once Upon a Time.
• Ender's Game is Harry Potter meets Full Metal Jacket IN SPACE!
• Enola Holmes is the original book meets Sherlock Holmes (2009) meets Stranger Things meets Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
• Equilibrium is Nineteen Eighty-Four meets Brave New World meets Fahrenheit 451 meets The Matrix meets Hard Boiled meets Gun Fu, bringing in Bottomless Magazines and the style of the works of John Woo to the mixture.
• Evan Almighty is Bruce Almighty meets The Santa Clause.
• Event Horizon is Warhammer 40,000 meets Doom meets Hellraiser.
  • Or The Black Hole meets Hellraiser.
  • Or what happens when you put watered down versions of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alien, Solaris (1972), Hellraiser, The Shining, and Berserk in a blender. "Cheers"
  • Or Warhammer 40,000 meets Neon Genesis Evangelion.
  • Or The Beyond meets Hellraiser in space.
• Everything Everywhere All at Once is Turning Red meets Rick and Morty meets Kung Fu Hustle.
• Evil Dead:
  • The Evil Dead is Night of the Living Dead meets Massacre at Central High meets The Cthulhu Mythos.
  • Evil Dead 2 is The Evil Dead meets Aliens meets Maximum Overdrive.
  • Army of Darkness is Evil Dead 2 meets Berserk.
  • Evil Dead (2013) is The Evil Dead meets Wrong Turn meets Hostel meets Hatchet meets Apocalypse Zero meets Crossed meets The Devil's Rejects meets Silent Hill: Homecoming.
• Evil Toons is Who Framed Roger Rabbit meets Evil Dead meets the Slasher Film genre.
• The Exorcism of Emily Rose is The Exorcist meets Law & Order.
• The Exterminating Angel is Rod Serling and Alfred Hitchcock collaborating on a Spanish-language version of Groundhog Day
• Eyes of a Stranger is Rear Window meets Maniac! (1980).

F

• The Fabelmans is Spielberg meets Ed Wood meets E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial meets Young Sheldon.
• The Faculty is Invasion of the Body Snatchers meets The Breakfast Club.
• The Fall is The Princess Bride meets Axe Cop meets Pan's Labyrinth and also Cinema Paradiso.
• Fallen is The Silence of the Lambs meets The Exorcist meets Shocker.
• Alfred Hitchcock's concept for Family Plot was "Ernst Lubitsch makes a Thriller."
• The Fanatic is The Fan meets Rain Man.
  • Mike of Half in the Bag describes it as Forrest Gump meets Taxi Driver.
• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is Harry Potter meets Pokémon.
• The Fast and the Furious (2001) is Point Break (1991) meets Days of Thunder meets Donnie Brasco. Patrick Willems' friend described it as "Axe bodyspray Ocean's Eleven. The YouTube Pitch Meeting series describes it as creatine Ocean's Eleven.
  • Alternatively, it's Days of Thunder meets Point Break (1991).
  • Or The Cannonball Run meets Point Break (1991) by way of Speed Racer, Need for Speed and Tokyo Xtreme Racer.
  • 2 Fast 2 Furious is The Fast and the Furious meets Top Gun meets Bad Boys.
  • The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift is The Fast and the Furious meets Initial D meets Better Luck Tomorrow.
  • Fast & Furious is The Fast and the Furious meets Need for Speed: Most Wanted meets Law & Order.
  • Fast Five is Fast & Furious meets Need for Speed: Carbon meets Need for Speed: Undercover meets Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (2010) meets Law & Order: Special Victims Unit meets The Italian Job (1969) meets The French Connection meets The Transporter (although Jason Statham didn't appear in any of the Fast & Furious movies including this one before and up until Fast & Furious 6) meets Driver.
  • Fast & Furious 6 is Fast Five meets The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (as hinted in the movie's mid-credits scene) meets Need for Speed: The Run meets Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2012) meets Driver: San Francisco meets The Avengers meets S.W.A.T. meets Transporter 2 and Transporter 3 (the mid-credits scene has Jason Statham's debut in the movie and also has a homage to those movies and in courtesy of his appearance too) meets James Bond meets the Mission: Impossible Film Series meets The Expendables meets G.I. Joe: Retaliation meets Grand Theft Auto IV meets Crackdown.
  • Furious 7 is Fast & Furious 6 meets Need for Speed Rivals meets The Crew meets Guardians of The Galaxy meets Transformers: Dark of the Moon meets Commando meets Taken meets XXX meets the Mission: Impossible Film Series meets Skyfall meets The Expendables 2 meets Grand Theft Auto V meets Saints Row IV meets Hotline Miami.
  • The Fate of the Furious is Furious 7 meets Need for Speed (2015) meets Gran Turismo meets Avengers: Age of Ultron meets Transformers: Age of Extinction meets Taken 2 meets XXX: State of the Union meets Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation meets Spectre meets The Expendables 3 meets The Italian Job (2003) meets Watch_Dogs meets Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number.
  • Hobbs & Shaw is The Fast and the Furious meets The Fate of the Furious meets Central Intelligence, with a triple helping of The Rock.
  • F9 is The Fate of the Furious meets Need for Speed Payback meets Need for Speed Heat meets The Crew 2 meets Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 meets Avengers: Infinity War meets Taken 3 meets XXX: Return of Xander Cage meets Star Trek Beyond meets Mission: Impossible – Fallout meets James Bond meets The Matrix meets AKIRA meets Kamen Rider Ryuki meets Kamen Rider Decade meets Watch_Dogs 2 meets Cyberpunk 2077 meets Back to the Future meets Rick and Morty.
  • Fast X is F9 meets Need for Speed Unbound meets Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 meets Avengers: Endgame meets The Batman (2022) meets the Mission: Impossible Film Series meets No Time to Die meets The Matrix Reloaded meets The Empire Strikes Back meets Watch Dogs: Legion meets Saints Row (2022) meets Cyberpunk: Edgerunners meets Logan meets Berserk.
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is Dumb and Dumber meets Trainspotting.
• A popular fan theory suggests Ferris Bueller's Day Off is, essentially, Fight Club only Lighter and Softer, Younger and Hipper, and if it were made by John Hughes.
• The Fifth Element is Blade Runner meets Die Hard meets The Professional meets Captain Planet meets Star Wars meets Valérian meets Heavy Metal.
• Fight Club is The Great Gatsby meets The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde meets American Psycho meets A Clockwork Orange meets the Spear Counterpart of Heathers.
• The Fighter:
  • Cinderella Man meets Jerry Springer.
  • Rocky meets The Blind Side.
• Filth is Trainspotting meets Bad Lieutenant.
• Firefox is James Bond meets Star Wars.
• The Final Countdown is A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court as written by Tom Clancy.
• Final Destination is Scream meets Death Note.
  • Scream meets The Omen only it's the Grim Reaper instead of the Anti-Christ.
• The Final Girls, according to director Todd Strauss-Schulson
  "It's Pleasantville in a trashy horror movie from the 80s with a little Back to the Future thrown in, and a spoon full of Terms of Endearment with a dash of Scream and two dollops of The Purple Rose of Cairo for good measure."
• Flesh and Blood: Brad Jones described it as The Wild Bunch meets Excalibur.
• The Fly (1986) is The Metamorphosis meets The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde meets Beauty and the Beast meets Romeo and Juliet with a side dash of Amour (the last suggested by the Next Reel podcast).
• Footloose is Dirty Dancing meets Inherit the Wind.
• The Forbidden Kingdom is The Karate Kid (1984) Meets Warriors of Virtue.
• Forrest Gump is Being There meets Zelig, with a bit of Lifetime Movie of the Week thrown in.
• Four Brothers: The Sons of Katie Elder meets New Jack City
• Four Lions: Paradise Now meets The Three Stooges.
• The Frighteners: One reviewer described the film as Ghostbusters meets Twin Peaks.
• Freaks (2018) is Logan meets Stranger Things, by way of The Girl With All the Gifts.
• Freaky is if The Hot Chick went on a homicidal rampage as a Friday the 13th Copycat Killer.
  • Freaky Friday meets Friday the 13th. In fact, the Working Title was Freaky Friday the 13th.^note Disney wasn't amused and then threatened to sue.
• Free Guy is The Truman Show meets Ready Player One (2018) meets Doki Doki Literature Club! meets TRON meets They Live! meets Groundhog Day.
• Fresh is Twilight meets Fifty Shades of Grey. And it's still a better love story than Twilight. Go figure.
  • Could also be Twilight meets Lilya 4-ever.
• Frozen (2010) is essentially Open Water, and Alive on a chairlift.

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