X Meets Y / Live Action Films Works N To Z

N

• Napoleon Dynamite is The Breakfast Club as directed by Wes Anderson.
• Need For Speed is the eponymous video game series meets The Fast and the Furious.
• Network is Life of Brian meets The Bad Sleep Well.
• New Jack City is Scarface (1983): New Jack Swing edition.
  • Alternatively it's King of New York: New Jack Swing edition.
• The New Mutants is X-Men meets One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• The Nice Guys is basically what you'd get if you put Boogie Nights, The Big Lebowski, and Lethal Weapon into a blender. The last of these shouldn't come as much of a surprise since Shane Black wrote and directed it.
• Night at the Museum is National Treasure meets Toy Story.
• Night of the Comet: Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets The Ωmega Man.
• Nightbooks: Arabian Nights meets Hansel and Gretel meets The House With a Clock in Its Walls meets 1408.
• Nightcrawler is Network meets Natural Born Killers meets American Psycho meets Manhunt meets Chinatown.
• Nighthawks was sold as Serpico meets The Day of the Jackal.
• The Night Comes for Us is The Raid meets Kill Bill meets Nightcrawler meets Berserk.
• Nine Lives is The Shaggy Dog (the 2006 remake) meets The Aristocats.
• Guillermo del Toro's Nightmare Alley is Crimson Peak meets Freaks meets Joker.
• Night Swim is Smile (2022) meets The Boogeyman (2023) meets It (2017).
• Ninja III: The Domination is American Ninja meets The Exorcist meets Flashdance./
• No Good Deed (2014) is The Strangers/The Purge meets Obsessed meets Panic Room.
• Noah:
  • The Lord of the Rings meets The Bible, with a bit of The Tree of Life and The Shining thrown in.
  • The Ten Commandments meets Gladiator
• Nocturnal Animals is The Princess Bride if, instead of a fairytale, the main story within story was a gritty revenge tale similar to Death Wish with the bleakness of No Country for Old Men.
• Nope is Jaws meets The Day Time Ended meets Ultra Q.
• Nothing but Trouble: Dan Aykroyd described the film as Beetlejuice meets The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974).
• Now You See Me:
  • Ocean's Eleven meets The Prestige.
  • Alternatively, The Italian Job (1969) meets Jonathan Creek.
  • Leverage meets Jonathan Creek.
• The Nutty Professor (1996) starring Eddie Murphy is The Nutty Professor meets Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, which is odd, since the original movie starring Jerry Lewis was already Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde meets the Looney Tunes cartoons.

O

• The Objective is Rainbow Six meets The X-Files meets Apocalypse Now meets Rest Stop... and just as confusing.
• Oblivion is Moon meets ∀ Gundam meets The War of the Worlds by way of an alien created version of Skynet or VIKI.
• O Brother, Where Art Thou?:
  • The Three Stooges meets The Odyssey as directed by Preston Sturges.
  • Alternately, it's The Odyssey as imagined by John Steinbeck if Steinbeck wrote comedies.
• Observe and Report is Paul Blart: Mall Cop meets Taxi Driver.
• Office Space is Dilbert meets Daria
  • Alternately, it's The Matrix meets the blue pill.
• Oldboy (2003) is Obsession meets Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance.
  • Or the original manga by way of Fight Club.
• The Omen is The Bad Seed meets And Then There Were None meets Paradise Lost, all done in the style of H. P. Lovecraft.
• The One is Highlander meets Sliders, made in the era of The Matrix-style martial arts sequences.
• Oppenheimer is The Theory of Everything (minus the disease) meets Fatman And Little Boy and Good Night, and Good Luck..
• Orgazmo is Boogie Nights meets Blankman.
• Outlander (2008) was described by at least one critic as "Beowulf meets Predator" (the story originally started out as a retelling of Beowulf with a sci-fi twist).
• Overlord (2018) is Wolfenstein meets Call of Duty: Zombies meets Where Eagles Dare meets Re-Animator.
• Oz the Great and Powerful is Wicked meets Army of Darkness.

P

• Pacific Rim is Mazinger Z meets Godzilla.
  • Alternatively Gundam meets Godzilla.
  • Alternatively Getter Robo meets Independence Day.
  • Or Robot Jox meets Godzilla.
  • As del Toro put it, it's all Anime and all Tokusatsu meets all Kaiju. With a twist of all Awesome.
  • Pacific Rim: Uprising is Pacific Rim meets The Force Awakens.
• Paddington (2014) was described by Paul King as having "the tender comedy of The Kid (1921), and the fish-out-of-the-water anarchy of Elf".
• Pandorum: The Time Machine (2002) meets The Star Lost with a hint of When Worlds Collide.
• Pan's Labyrinth technically is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland meets The Wind That Shakes the Barley en España.
• One movie review described Parasite2019 as a mashup of Shoplifters and Burning (2018).
• "Parker is if The Transporter and Out of Sight had a baby." — Jennifer Lopez
• Passengers is Starship Titanic meets The Last Man on Earth
  • CinemaSins described it as "Titanic, 2001: A Space Odyssey and WALL•E all rolled into one."
• The Passion of the Christ is The Last Temptation of Christ meets Straw Dogs meets Hellraiser.
• The Patriot (2000) is Braveheart meets The Last of the Mohicans.
• Paul Blart: Mall Cop is Die Hard meets Mallrats with a double helping of Kevin James.
  • Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 is Paul Blart: Mall Cop meets Casino.
• Pearl Harbor is Titanic meets Tora! Tora! Tora!.
  • Titanic (1997) (Love Triangle against a Real Life disaster backdrop) meets Saving Private Ryan (World War II).
• PG: Psycho Goreman is ET The Extraterrestrial meets The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy.
• Piranha 3D is the original Piranha meets Girls Gone Wild.
• Pirates of the Caribbean is One Piece meets Indiana Jones.
  • The original 1967 ride can be best described as Treasure Island meets A Fistful of Dollars.
• Pitch Black:
  • Silence of the Lambs meets Aliens.
  • The Chronicles of Riddick is Conan the Barbarian meets Alien³ meets Hannibal Lecter.
• Planet Terror is Day of the Dead (1985) meets From Dusk Till Dawn.
• Pleasantville is Back to the Future meets Last Action Hero meets The Truman Show. With a slight hint of Coraline.
• Poison Ivy is Fatal Attraction meets Lolita.
• Pompeii is Titanic meets Gladiator meets Dante's Peak.
• The Pope's Exorcist is The Exorcist meets The Nun.
• Popeye was Robert Altman's answer to the question "What would a Disney musical directed by Federico Fellini be like?"
• Pop Star Never Stop Never Stopping is Never Say Never meets This is Spın̈al Tap done with the style you'd expect from The Lonely Island.
• Poseidon is Titanic (1997) meets The Towering Inferno.
• Preschool Musical On A Stick is A Muppet Family Christmas meets High School Musical meets Sprout.
• The President's Analyst is Our Man Flint meets North By Northwest meets The Crying of Lot 49.
• Private Lessons is Lolita meets Animal House meets The Graduate.
• The Professional is Nikita meets Lolita meets Matilda meets Le Samouraï with some musical touches from A Clockwork Orange.
• Project X (2012) is South Park meets The Hangover meets Ferris Bueller's Day Off meets Superbad meets Animal House meets Porky's meets Revenge of the Nerds meets American Pie meets Jackass.
• Prometheus is Alien meets At the Mountains of Madness.
• Prom Night (1980) is Carrie meets Halloween (1978), with a side order of Saturday Night Fever.
• Pumpkinhead is Alien meets Pet Sematary meets The Hills Have Eyes (1977).
• The Purge in general is the Star Trek episode "The Return of the Archons" meets The Hunger Games meets The Running Man.
  • Or Dead Rising meets Bioshock 1.
  • The Purge: Anarchy and The Purge: Election Year are Manhunt meets The Punisher meets Escape from New York meets Robocop (1987).
  • The First Purge is The Purge directed by Spike Lee.

R

• Radio Days is the first few minutes of Annie Hall meets A Christmas Story.
• Rambo:
  • First Blood is Taxi Driver meets Apocalypse Now meets The Deer Hunter meets Lonely Are the Brave meets Johnny Got His Gun.
  • Rambo: First Blood Part II is First Blood meets Warhammer 40,000 meets Platoon meets Rocky IV meets Empire of the Sun meets Heart of Darkness.
  • Rambo III is Rambo: First Blood Part II meets Hamburger Hill meets The Living Daylights meets The Great Escape meets Full Metal Jacket.
  • Rambo is Rambo III meets Berserk meets Saving Private Ryan meets Black Hawk Down meets The Thin Red Line meets Unforgiven meets The Hurt Locker meets Tears of the Sun.
  • Rambo: Last Blood is Rambo meets Taken meets Home Alone meets Terminator: Dark Fate meets Logan meets Saw meets Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom meets Breaking Bad.
• Rashomon is In A Grove meets The Gal Who Took The West.
• Real Steel:
  • Transformers (2007) meets Rocky.
  • Or Teleroboxer meets Rocky.
• Ready or Not is Clue meets You're Next.
• Ready Player One (2018):
  • The Matrix meets Charlie and the Chocolate Factory meets Wreck-It Ralph meets Sword Art Online.
  • Or TRON meets It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
• Rebel Moon is Seven Samurai meets Battle Beyond the Stars meets Star Wars meets Warhammer 40,000 meets Man of Steel.
• Rebirth of Underworld Superpower (better known by its international title, The Executioner) is Lupin III meets The Streetfighter.
• [REC] is Diary of the Dead and/or The Last Broadcast meets 28 Days Later and/or Left 4 Dead (minus the special infected).
• [REC]2 is Rainbow Six and/or SWAT meets 28 Days Later and or Left 4 Dead (minus the special infected) meets Diary of the Dead meets The Exorcist.
• Red Riding Hood is The Company of Wolves meets Sleepy Hollow (1999) meets The Village (2004) meets The Twilight Saga.
• Red Sparrow is Black Widow meets the 2007 film adaptation of Hitman.
• Red Tails is The Tuskegee Airmen meets Pearl Harbor.
• Repo Men is Repo! The Genetic Opera + (Equilibrium x Minority Report) — the singing.
• Repo! The Genetic Opera is The Rocky Horror Picture Show meets Blade Runner.
• Reservoir Dogs is John Woo meets Jean-Luc Godard meets Sam Peckinpah.
• The Revenant (2015) is Apocalypto meets Blood Meridian meets The New World meets Gladiator, with a dash of Aguirre, the Wrath of God thrown in for good measure.
• R.I.P.D.:
  • Men in Black (old veteran and young rookie police The Masquerade) meets Reaper (spirits escaped from Hell causing havoc with supernatural powers) with a side order of Dead Like Me (dead main characters look completely different to the living).
  • Men in Black meets Dead Like Me meets Ghostbusters.
  • Men in Black meets Brimstone meets G vs E meets Ghost.
  • Men in Black meets Ghostbusters.
• Red River was described by the writers as "Mutiny on the Bounty with cows''.
• Repo! The Genetic Opera was described by The Cinema Snob as Blade Runner meets Freejack as made by the Goth Kids from South Park.
• Rhinestone is My Fair Lady meets Rocky meets Urban Cowboy.
• Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky is best described as the live-action adaptation of The Shawshank Redemption meets Itchy and Scratchy. With an Expy of Kenshiro as the lead. The Shawshank Redemption meets Fist of the North Star?
  • Or more accurately, it's The Shawshank Redemption meets Fist of the North Star with the over-the-top extreme gore of BrainDead.
• Risen is CSI meets The Bible - for the first half, anyway.
• Rise of the Planet of the Apes is Conquest of the Planet of the Apes meets Splice.
• Road Games is Rear Window meets Duel.
• Road House (1989) is Shane meets Dirty Dancing.
• The Elton John biopic Rocketman (2019) has been described as Grease meets Jersey Boys on Broadway.
• Rock: It's Your Decision is Reefer Madness meets The Room (2003).
• Rock N Rolla is Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels meets The Big Lebowski.
  • Mark Kermode described it as The Long Good Friday as done by Chas & Dave. He also compared it to Little Britain.
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show is Manos: The Hands of Fate meets Frankenstein meets The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.
• Roller Town is Napoleon Dynamite meets Airplane! meets Saturday Night Fever.
• Room is Bad Boy Bubby meets Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.
• The Room (2003) is Tennessee Williams as interpreted by Ed Wood.
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is, quite deliberately, Hamlet meets Waiting for Godot.
• R.O.T.O.R. is RoboCop meets The Terminator.
• Run All Night is Road to Perdition meets Taken meets The Fugitive.
• Run Hide Fight was described by Rob Walker as Die Hard meets Saved by the Bell.

S

• The Sadness is Crossed meets Contagion.
• Sahara (1983) was an attempt to make Lawrence of Arabia by way of The Blue Lagoon (1980) meets The Great Race.
• Salt is The Fugitive meets The Long Kiss Goodnight.
• Saltburn is Parasite (2019) meets American Psycho.
  • Alternatively, The Talented Mr. Ripley meets Downton Abbey with a dash of A Clockwork Orange.
• San Andreas is Earthquake meets 2012, with The Rock as the main actor.
• The Santa Clause: Mark Kermode described it as "Miracle on 34th Street meets The Fly (1986) - with Tim Allen".
  • The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause is The Santa Clause meets It's a Wonderful Life meets Back to the Future Part II.
• Save the Green Planet! is Men in Black meets Misery.
• Saving Private Ryan is The Longest Day meets Seven Samurai.
• Saw:
  • The series as a whole is Home Alone meets Se7en meets Taxi Driver meets Fight Club meets Mulholland Dr. meets A Nightmare on Elm Street meets The Blair Witch Project meets Audition meets I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream.
  • Saw is Saw meets Deep Red meets Mad Max.
  • Saw IV is Saw meets Lost.
  • Spiral is Saw meets New Jack City.
• Scanners is The Fury meets X-Men.
• Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019) is Goosebumps (2015) meets Stranger Things, set in The '60s.
• Scream:
  • Scream (1996) is Halloween (1978) meets Wes Craven's New Nightmare.
  • Scream 2 is Scream (1996) meets A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors.
  • Scream 3 is Scream 2 meets The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974).
  • Scream 4 is Scream 3 meets The Matrix meets Hostel.
  • Scream (2022) is Scream 4 meets Halloween (2018) meets The Matrix Resurrections.
  • Scream VI is Scream 2 meets Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan.
• Scrooged is A Christmas Carol meets Videodrome by way of a Looney Tunes short.
• Se7en is The Silence of the Lambs meets Psycho.
• Searching is Unfriended meets The Call.
  • Missing (2023) is Searching meets Taken.
• A Serbian Film is Manhunt meets The Human Centipede meets Cannibal Holocaust meets Hostel meets Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom.
• Shadow In The Clouds is Memphis Belle meets Terror at 20,000 Feet.
• Shanghai Noon is Blazing Saddles meets Rush Hour.
• The Shape of Water is Creature from the Black Lagoon meets Amélie.
  • Mark Kermode described it as Creature from the Black Lagoon meets Splash.
  • It can also be seen as Beauty and the Beast meets The Iron Giant and a bit of The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney), but made Hotter and Sexier.
• Shark Night is Piranha 3D meets Snakes on a Plane meets Shark Week (with some Deliverance thrown in).
• Shark Week is Jaws meets Saw.
• Sharknado is Jaws meets Twister done in the style of The Asylum
• Shaun of the Dead is Night of the Living Dead (1968) meets Run Fatboy Run meets Cheers.
• The Shining is The Omen (1976) meets Barton Fink (except the antagonist is the hotel rather than the child).
• A Shock to the System was described by Roger Ebert as Wall Street meets Crimes and Misdemeanors.
• Shocking Dark is Aliens meets The Terminator in Venice. In fact, it was actually marketed as a sequel to the latter.
• Shoot 'Em Up:
  • Looney Tunes meets Crank meets Black Lagoon meets John Woo.
  • Alternatively, Gun Fu meets Jackie Chan.
• Short Circuit is The Terminator meets Frankenstein meets WarGames, Played for Laughs.
• Shout at the Devil was described by producer Michael Klinger as a combination of The African Queen and The Guns of Navarone.
• Showgirls is All About Eve meets 42nd Street meets Valley of the Dolls meets the 1990s Emmanuelle movies.
• Shutter Island is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest meets Cape Fear 1991 meets Silent Hill 2.
• Sidekicks is The Wonder Years meets The Karate Kid, with some self-indulgent Chuck Norris bits.
• Silent Rage is Indestructible Man meets Walking Tall (1973)
• Silver Linings Playbook:
  • Little Miss Sunshine and Rudy go Dirty Dancing with The Blind Side.
  • Alternatively, The Blind Side meets Mozart and the Whale (but with bipolar disorder instead of Asperger's).
• Sing Street is The Commitments meets High School Musical.
• Sisu is either John Wick meets Mad Max, John Wick meets First Blood, or John Wick meets Inglourious Basterds.
• Six String Samurai is Lone Wolf and Cub meets Mad Max meets Rock 'n' Roll.
• The Sixth Sense: M. Night Shyamalan pitched it as a cross between The Exorcist and Ordinary People.
• Skinamarink is Poltergeist (1982) meets Pan's Labyrinth, The Blair Witch Project, Anatomy, and House of Leaves.
• Sky High (2005) is Harry Potter meets The Incredibles meets X-Men meets John Hughes.
• Skyline is Aliens meets The Whisperer in Darkness.
• Skyscraper is Die Hard meets The Towering Inferno.
• Sleepaway Camp is Friday the 13th (1980) meets The Crying Game.
• Small Soldiers is Gremlins meets Child's Play meets G.I. Joe.
• Snowpiercer:
  • BioShock meets The Great Train Robbery 1975.
  • Alternatively, Elysium meets the Locomotive Level from Uncharted 2.
• Smile (2022) is It Follows meets The Ring meets Truth or Dare (2018) with a dash of Hereditary.
• Son of Dracula is essentially Dracula meets Double Indemnity.
• Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) is Sonic X meets ET The Extraterrestrial meets Paul meets Hop.
• Sorority Row is filled with Pretty Little Liars Who Know What Scream Queens Did Last Summer.
• Soul Surfer is Surf's Up meets The Blind Side.
• Source Code is Quantum Leap meets Groundhog Day.
• Southland Tales:
  • Repo Man meets Zardoz.
  • Richard Kelly called it a "strange hybrid of the sensibilities of Andy Warhol and Philip K. Dick".
• The Space Between Us is The Martian meets The Fault in Our Stars.
• Space Jam is Who Framed Roger Rabbit meets Slam Dunk.
  • Space Jam: A New Legacy, on the other hand, seems to be the original film meets Ready Player One (2018) meets Kingdom Hearts meets Ralph Breaks the Internet meets Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, with a little bit of The Sponge Bob Movie Sponge Out Of Water.
• Film Brain described The Spirit as a hybrid of Batman & Robin and Sin City
• Les Spécialistes is Mission: Impossible meets Bullitt and Ocean's Eleven.
• Spies Like Us is the Road to ... films meets Trading Places meets Dr. Strangelove.
• Splice:
  • Frankenstein meets Species meets The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996).
  • Frankenstein meets David Cronenberg's The Fly (1986).
• Starship Troopers is Independence Day meets Triumph of the Will meets Warhammer 40,000.
• Star Trek:
  • Star Trek: The Motion Picture is "The Changeling" meets 2001: A Space Odyssey.
  • Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is "Space Seed" meets Moby-Dick meets Run Silent, Run Deep.
  • Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home is "The City on the Edge of Forever" meets Back to the Future.
  • Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country is Star Trek: The Original Series meets Tom Clancy meets Sherlock Holmes.
  • Star Trek: First Contact is Star Trek: The Next Generation meets Aliens.
  • Due to some comments by the director, J. J. Abrams, Star Trek (2009) has been referred to in some forums as Star Trek: The Original Series meets Star Wars.
    • The images shown of the set designs of the Enterprise's interior in said movie have also been referred to as Star Trek meets iStore.
    • The plot is Star Trek: The Original Series meets Top Gun.
    • Top Gun meets Starship Troopers meets Galaxy Quest.
  • Star Trek Into Darkness is "Space Seed" meets The Wrath of Khan and The Undiscovered Country meets "Homefront" and "Paradise Lost" and The Dark Knight
  • Star Trek Beyond is "Power Play" (inverted) meets "Terra Nova" meets Star Trek: Nemesis.
• Star Wars is what happens when you put Flash Gordon, Akira Kurosawa, Lensman, Foundation Series, Tolkien's Legendarium, Dune, Star Trek, real-world history and religion into a blender.
  • A New Hope: The Hidden Fortress meets Flash Gordon (1980).
    • Alternatively, A New Hope can be described within the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pantheon as The Wizard of Oz meets 2001: A Space Odyssey.
  • The Force Awakens: Heir to the Empire meets A New Hope meets The Road Warrior meets Mad Max: Fury Road.
  • Rogue One: Dark Forces meets Apocalypse Now meets Halo: Reach meets Saving Private Ryan meets The Thin Red Line.
  • The Last Jedi: According to Jason Momoa, it's Game of Thrones meets the Prequel Trilogy.
  • The Rise of Skywalker: Dark Empire meets Return of the Jedi.
• Stay Tuned was described by its writers as The Evil Dead (1981) meets Monty Python. It's also practically "K-ACME TV" IN HELL.
• Stealth was described by Roger Ebert as a "dumbed-down Top Gun crossed with the HAL 9000 plot from 2001: A Space Odyssey".
• Strays is a R-rated version of The Secret Life of Pets meets Cocaine Bear, as done in the minds of Phil Lord & Chris Miller.
  • Or The Secret Life of Pets meets Sausage Party.
• Street Fighter is Street Fighter II meets G.I. Joe.
• Street Trash is Repo Man meets Troma.
• Stroker Ace is Days of Thunder meets Cannonball Run.
• The Stuff is The Blob (1958) meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) meets Soylent Green.
• Sucker Punch:
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in Chicago, with reaps of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and Inception.
  • Alternatively Inception meets Brazil.
  • Alternatively Inception meets One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest meets Moulin Rouge!
  • Alternatively One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest meets TV Tropes.
  • Brazil meets Final Fantasy X-2
• Sugar & Spice is Point Break (1991) meets Bring It On.
• Summer Camp Nightmare is Lord of the Flies meets Meatballs.
• Super 8:
  • ET meets Cloverfield (which considering who made it, makes perfect sense).
  • Or even more fittingly, ET meets The Blair Witch Project meets Godzilla.
  • Stranger Things-Lite.
• Superman: The Movie is the Fleischer shorts and the 1950s live-action series meets The Godfather meets A New Hope.
• Super Mario Bros. (1993) is The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! meets Flash Gordon (1980) and Howard the Duck.
• Survival of the Dead is the Hatfield-McCoy feud meets Night of the Living Dead (1968), with a light dusting of The A-Team.
• Survivor is The Fugitive meets The Jackal meets The Bourne Identity.
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is The Count of Monte Cristo meets Fight Club meets Saw meets Titus Andronicus meets Oedipus the King, all set in Victorian London.
  • Visually, it resembles Charles Dickens meets Hammer Horror.

T

• Tales from the Hood is Tales from the Crypt meets Menace II Society.
• Tale of Tales is The Company of Wolves meets Catherine Breillat version of The Sleeping Beauty done in the year 2010.
• Tango & Cash is Lethal Weapon meets James Bond.
• Tank Girl seems to be the somewhat Denser and Wackier Distaff Counterpart to Mad Max.
• Tarot 2024 is Ouija meets Talk to Me.
• Team America: World Police is South Park meets Thunderbirds
• Ted
  • Pinocchio meets Family Guy.
  • Calvin and Hobbes meets You, Me and Dupree.
  • Could also be Winnie the Pooh meets Family Guy.
• Tenet: Looper meets James Bond combined with the reversal aspect of the Red Dwarf episode "Backwards" and the time travel mechanic of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
  • Or, to put it more simply, by not including hand-holding for either its espionage elements or its time inversion mechanics, it’s (the already somewhat confusing) Mission: Impossible (1996) meets the VERY confusing Primer.
• Terminator:
  • The Terminator is Halloween (1978) meets The Outer Limits (1963) meets The Driver meets Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior meets A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) meets First Blood meets I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream.
  • Terminator 2: Judgment Day is The Terminator meets Aliens meets Kikaider meets Back to the Future meets Rambo: First Blood Part II.
  • Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines is Terminator 2: Judgment Day meets Fallout meets Blade Runner meets The Matrix Revolutions meets Alien³.
  • Terminator Salvation is Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines meets Warhammer 40,000 meets Gears of War meets Alien: Resurrection.
  • Terminator Genisys is Terminator Salvation meets Back to the Future Part II meets X-Men: Days of Future Past.
  • Terminator: Dark Fate is Terminator Genisys meets The Last Jedi meets Halloween (2018) meets Unforgiven meets Logan meets Alien: Covenant meets Blade Runner 2049 meets Rambo: Last Blood meets Looper.
• Texas Chainsaw Massacre is The Texas Chain Saw Massacre meets Logan.
• Thanksgiving (2023) is My Bloody Valentine meets V for Vendetta.
• These Final Hours is On the Beach meets Deep Impact.
• They Live! is Escape from New York meets TRON meets V meets The Witches.
• This is Spın̈al Tap is The Last Waltz meets The Rutles: All You Need is Cash.
• Those Who Wish Me Dead is Firewatch meets Mercury Rising.
• The Three Musketeers (2011) (starring Milla Jovovich) is Resident Evil Film Series meets Van Helsing minus the monsters.
• Three Thousand Years of Longing is Arabian Nights meets American Gods (2017).
• Titane is Promising Young Woman meets Tetsuo: The Iron Man and Crash
• Reportedly, James Cameron hadn't even written a script yet when Titanic got greenlit. He simply told Fox executives "imagine Romeo and Juliet on the Titanic".
• The 1943 Nazi propaganda film Titanic is essentially Titanic meets Grand Hotel meets Wall Street.
• Tokyo Gore Police is RoboCop (1987) meets Kill Bill.
• Tommy Boy is Billy Madison meets Planes, Trains and Automobiles
• The Tomorrow War is Edge of Tomorrow meets Terminator meets Alien meets Independence Day meets Starship Troopers meets Back to the Future.
• Top Gun is Full Metal Jacket meets aviation meets Romance.
  • Top Gun: Maverick is Top Gun meets Ace Combat meets Macross Plus meets A New Hope.
• Top Secret! is Airplane! meets Elvis Presley movie meets World War II movie.
• Total Recall (2012): The Bourne Identity meets I, Robot.
• Tower Heist is Fun with Dick and Jane meets Ocean's Eleven.
• One of the most overt examples is The Towering Inferno, which is intentionally The Tower meets The Glass Inferno (two novels).
• The Town is Heat meets The Departed.
• The Town That Dreaded Sundown is Zodiac meets Friday the 13th Part 2.
• To Kill a Mockingbird is Stand by Me meets Philadelphia minus lawyer's AIDS plus false rape accusations instead of homophobia.
• To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar is (The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert – The Matrix + Dirty Dancing + Blade) meets Spartacus.
  • The Birdcage meets Little Miss Sunshine with a hint of Thelma & Louise
• Confused Matthew once referred to There Will Be Blood as "Citizen Kane without the sled".
• Trading Places is The Count of Monte Cristo meets Hoi Polloi meets The Blues Brothers.
• Transformers Film Series:
  • The original Michael Bay series is The Transformers: The Movie meets Youngblood (Image Comics), The Fast and the Furious, ALF, and Dude, Where's My Car?.
  • The reboot series in general is The Transformers (IDW) meets SSSS.GRIDMAN meets the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
    • Bumblebee is The Iron Giant meets Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad meets The Love Bug meets E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.
    • Transformers: Rise of the Beasts is above meets Beast Wars meets GRIDMAN UNIVERSE.
• Triangle is Donnie Darko meets Ghost Ship.
• Triangle of Sadness is The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) meets Lord of the Flies by way of Parasite (2019).
• Trick 'r Treat:
  • 2004's Crash meets Creep Show.
  • Alternately, it's Love Actually meets Creep Show meets Halloween.
• Triple Frontier is Sicario meets The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
• Tropic Thunder is ¡Three Amigos! meets Apocalypse Now.
• True Lies is James Bond meets Commando.
• The Truman Show is Dark City meets The Prisoner meets Shock Treatment meets Jim Carrey.
• Tucker & Dale vs. Evil is Wrong Turn meets Shaun of the Dead.
  • Or Deliverance meets The Beverly Hillbillies and The Dukes of Hazzard.

U

• UHF:
  • Network meets Airplane!.
  • In-Universe, "Gandhi II" is Gandhi meets Blaxploitation, specifically Shaft.
• The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is Con Air meets Tropic Thunder and a bit of Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance).
• Uncut Gems is Breaking Bad meets Mandy (2018) meets Spec Ops: The Line meets The Lighthouse meets Blood Diamond meets The Wolf of Wall Street meets Good Time meets Hotline Miami meets Casino meets No Country for Old Men meets John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum meets The Departed meets Heaven Knows What meets Reservoir Dogs meets Pulp Fiction meets Heat, all with a side dash of Newhart, Frozen (2013), Reign Over Me, 8 Mile, Funny People, Midsommar, Bugsy and The Meyerowitz Stories.
• Undercover Kitty: Mary Poppins meets That Darn Cat!. In The Netherlands.
• Underwater is The Abyss meets Event Horizon.
• Unearth is basically American Rust minus the murder plot (or any story about desperate people in a Dying Town, or on a farm etc), meets The Curse by way of the Cordyceps from The Last of Us, meets a small dusting of Eco-thrillers like Erin Brockovich, A Civil Action, and Dark Waters except minus the litigations.
• Unfriended is I Know What You Did Last Summer meets The Social Network.
• Unhinged is Falling Down meets Taken meets John Wick meets Cape Fear meets Drive Angry meets The Terminator.
• Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning is Apocalypse Now meets The Manchurian Candidate.
• Unknown is Nowhere Man meets The Bourne Series meets Total Recall (1990) (with a dash of Frantic).
• Unmasked Part 25 is Friday the 13th meets The Toxic Avenger.
• Unsane is Don't Say a Word meets Get Out (2017)
• Upgrade is essentially RoboCop meets The Terminator meets Death Wish
• Upstream Color is David Cronenberg meets Terrence Malick.
• The Usual Suspects: Bryan Singer described it as Double Indemnity meets Rashomon.
• Utøya: July 22 is Friday the 13th (1980) meets Come and See.

V

• Vaincre ou Mourir is Ninety-Three meets Braveheart.
• Valentine's Day is Love Actually a couple weeks later, in America.
• Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is Zootopia meets Star Wars in an epic love letter to Sci-Fi and Buddy Cop films. All rolled up into a nice little package with The Fifth Element (Being from the same director, Luc Besson) as well.
• Vampire Academy is The Twilight Saga meets Harry Potter (if one of the main characters was also The Avatar).
• Vampires vs. the Bronx is Attack the Block meets The Monster Squad.
• Van Helsing is Indiana Jones meets a Universal Horror Monster Mash.
• Varsity Blues is Friday Night Lights meets Dawson's Creek.
  • On the flip side, Friday Night Lights is essentially a slightly darker and sadder semi-Defictionalization of Varsity Blues.
• Velvet Goldmine is Citizen Kane meets The Man Who Fell to Earth.
• Velvet Buzzsaw is In the Mouth of Madness meets H. P. Lovecraft's Pickman's Model
• Venom (2018) has been described by one critic as Spider-Man meets The Mask via Deadpool 7.
  • Film Brain described it as a cross between The Mask and Spawn.
  • Or Spider-Man by way of The Thing (1982).
• Very Bad Things is The Hangover as a dark comedy.
• A Very Long Engagement was described by one Amazon.com viewer as Amélie meets Saving Private Ryan, which is pretty accurate, as it has some of the quirkiness of the former (and the same star and director), while also having the mystery element and horrific battle scenes of the latter.
• VHS is Creepshow meets Marble Hornets.
• Vibes is Romancing the Stone meets Ghostbusters (1984)^note With regards to the latter Dan Aykroyd was originally cast in Jeff Goldblum's role, and Richard Edlund did the special effects.
• Videodrome is A Clockwork Orange meets Scanners meets The Thing (1982).
• Violent Night is Die Hard meets The Christmas Chronicles meets Home Alone meets Berserk.
  • Or alternatively, Miracle on 34th Street meets God of War Ragnarök.
  • Alternatively again, Die Hard 2 meets Fatman.

W

• Wanted is The Matrix meets Fight Club.
• Walking on Sunshine was described in TV Spots as Mamma Mia! meets Pitch Perfect.
• War of the Dead is Dog Soldiers meets Outpost.
• The Warriors is West Side Story, but with the plot of Anabasis instead of Romeo and Juliet, and seasoned liberally with A Clockwork Orange.
• The Watch (2012) is Attack the Block meets The IT Crowd.
• Weird Science is The Breakfast Club meets a Cyberpunk Mary Poppins.
• Weird: The Al Yankovic Story is UHF meets Walk Hard.
• Welcome to Marwen is Dan in Real Life meets Sucker Punch meets Marwencol.
• Wendy is Peter Pan meets Beasts of the Southern Wild.
• Wes Craven's New Nightmare is A Nightmare on Elm Street meets Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
• West Side Story is Romeo and Juliet meets Rebel Without a Cause.
• The Whale is The Nutty Professor meets Requiem for a Dream meets Red Dead Redemption, with the bleakness of Joker and the father-daughter relationship elements of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean.
• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? is Sunset Boulevard meets Gaslight.
• What We Do in the Shadows is Interview with the Vampire as written by Terry Pratchett.
• Whiplash is The Jazz Singer meets Full Metal Jacket meets Black Swan.
• Who Am I (2014) is The Usual Suspects meets Fight Club. Once could even throw Identity into the mix.
• The Jackie Chan film also called Who Am I? (1998) is The Bourne Identity meets Jackie Chan.
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit is Chinatown (quite literally) meets Looney Tunes ...and a host of many, many classic animated characters.
  • Film Noir meets Tex Avery.
  • Alternatively, it's Chinatown meets The Golden Age of Animation and given a Happy Ending.
• Wild Wild West is The Wild Wild West meets Men in Black, even sharing the same director (Barry Sonnenfeld) and lead actor (Will Smith).
• Wild Zero is Night of the Living Dead (1968) meets The Power of Rock.
• Willy's Wonderland is Five Nights at Freddy's meets Demonic Toys meets Puppet Master meets The Gingerdead Man meets Jack Frost (1997) meets Critters meets Scooby-Doo meets Chopping Mall with a big side order of Child's Play thrown in for good measure.
  • Or Mandy (2018) meets Five Nights At Freddy's.
• Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory: Gene Wilder described Mel Stuart's vision for the film as "Alice In Wonderland meets Yellow Submarine".
• The Wolf of Wall Street:
  • Many have said the film is GoodFellas meets Wall Street.
  • Caligula's heavy hedonistic lifestyle with the similar story structure (and actor) of Catch Me If You Can, along with the parody of excess and The American Dream of Pain & Gain.
• Wolfhound has been described as "Conan the Barbarian (1982) meets The Lord of the Rings", which is essentially a blurb-friendly way of saying "is an heroic fantasy film".
• The World's End was described by Bob Chipman as, "Body Snatchers meets The Thing meets Village of the Damned (1960): The Funny Version".
• World's Greatest Dad is basically Dead Poets Society meets Heathers.
• The Wraith is The Fast and the Furious meets The Crow (1994).
• The Wrong Turn series is The Texas Chainsaw Massacre meets The Hills Have Eyes (1977) meets Scary Movie.
• Wyrmwood is Mad Max meets Dawn of the Dead (1978).

X

• xXx is (blatantly) The Fast and the Furious meets James Bond.

Y

• Year One is if 10,000 BC, Gladiator, Noah, and History of the World Part I all got incredibly baked off that sweet Judd Apatow kush.
  • Caveman meets Superbad.
• Yentl is Mulan meets Fiddler on the Roof.
• Yojimbo is Red Harvest meets Buchanan Rides Alone.
• You're Next is Festen meets The Strangers with a dash of Home Alone...with a hidden Decon-Recon Switch and a final act full of Black Comedy.
• Your Highness is Hawk the Slayer meets Oglaf meets Pineapple Express.
• You Were Never Really Here is Taxi Driver meets Taken meets Joker (2019).

Z

• Zardoz is Logan's Run meets Planet of the Apes (1968) meets The Wizard of Oz.
  • Or, the answer to the question "What would it look like if H. G. Wells, Edgar Rice Burroughs, George Orwell and Timothy Leary worked on a screenplay together, then asked Roger Corman, Stanley Kubrick and Ken Russell to direct it?"
• Zola is Hustlers meets Spring Breakers meets Magic Mike.
• Zombi 3D is The Crazies (1973) meets Day of the Dead (1985) meets The Return of the Living Dead.
• Zombie 90 Extreme Pestilence is a low budget zombie movie meets What's Up, Tiger Lily?.
• Zombieland is Superbad meets Shaun of the Dead.
• Z-O-M-B-I-E-S (2018) is an aftermath of a mix of Warm Bodies, High School Musical, Hairspray and The Waterboy with a touch of Bring It On.
• Zsazsa Zaturnnah is Darna meets Sailor Moon meets Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

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