X Meets Y / Live Action Films Works A To M

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 is The Anthropophagus Beast meets Halloween (1978)
• The Accountant: Jason Bourne meets The Usual Suspects meets Rain Man.
• 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 NeverEnding Story meets Captain Underpants.
• After Last Season: The Room meets The Lawnmower Man.
• Airheads is Dog Day Afternoon meets Wayne's World meets Die Hard.
• The 1980 disaster genre spoof Airplane! was the Airport movies as if Tex Avery had directed them.
• 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 meets Alien.
  • Predator 2 is Lethal Weapon meets Alien.
• 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 is Stalker 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.
• Apocalypse Now is Aguirre, the Wrath of God meets The Deer Hunter meets Heart of Darkness.
• 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.
• James Cameron's Avatar is FernGully: The Last Rainforest meets Pocahontas meets Titanic (1997) meets Atlantis: The Lost Empire meets Berserk meets Dances with Wolves meets Warhammer 40,000, all accompanied with a side dash of Xenosaga, The Smurfs and Titan A.E..
  • 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.
  • Or even Pocahontas 40K as one person puts it.
• Avengers Grimm is The Avengers (2012) meets Once Upon a Time if both were directed by Uwe Boll.

B

• Baby Driver is Drive (2011) meets Hot Fuzz meets Heat meets Vanishing Point meets Guardians of the Galaxy meets Point Break (1991) meets Reservoir Dogs.
• Back to the Future is Doctor Who meets Tintin, John Hughes, and Frank Capra.
• 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.
• Barb Wire is Casablanca in a Mad Max costume, with a side of Gender Flip. And it is bad.
• Basic Instinct is the love child of Russ Meyer and Alfred Hitchcock.
• The Batman (2022) is Batman Returns meets The Dark Knight meets Gotham meets Batman: Arkham Series meets Joker (2019).
• Batman Returns is Batman (1989) meets Berserk.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 meets The Witcher.
• 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's Excellent Adventure: Stephen Fry once called it "Doctor Who meets Beavis And Butthead".
• Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey is the first film meets The Terminator meets The Seventh Seal meets A Matter of Life and Death.
• Birdman is 8½ but with an arguably happier ending.
• Birdemic is The Birds meets The Room.
• 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: The Last Vampire (the 2009 film, at least) is Blade meets Kill Bill.
• Blood Red Sky is Die Hard on a plane, But McClane is a female Vampire with a young son.
• 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.
• Boogie Nights is like the lovechild of Robert Altman, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese.
  • It's 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 1984 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.
• Bumblebee is The Iron Giant meets Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad meets The Love Bug meets E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.
• 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".

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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 meets 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.
• Cats & Dogs is James Bond meets Looney Tunes meets A Boy and His X.
• The Cell:
  • Dreamscape meets a Marilyn Manson/Nine Inch Nails music video.
  • Inception meets Silence of the Lambs.
  • Also, Inception meets Cupcakes. 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!
• 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 and 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.
• 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.
• 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 one critic 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.
• The Concorde... Airport '79 is Airport meets The Love Boat meets Fantasy Island meets The Twilight Zone (1959).
• The Condemned 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.
• Cool World is Who Framed Roger Rabbit meets Dark City.
  • Roger Rabbit meets Showgirls.
• 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.
• Crank is Speed meets D.O.A..
• 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.
• 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:
  • The Dark Knight: Batman (1989) meets Heat meets The Killing Joke.
  • 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.
• Dark Phoenix is X-Men: The Last Stand meets Captain Marvel.
• The Dark Tower: According to a Facebook post from Rob Walker, Brad Jones described the film as Last Action Hero meets Uwe Boll's In the Name of the King Dungeon Siege.
• 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 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 the tone of Batman Returns and a Marvel Cinematic Universe garnish.
  • 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 Saving Private Ryan.
    • Or Batman Begins meets Superman 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.
    • Or Spider-Man: Homecoming meets Guardians of the Galaxy.
  • Birds of Prey is Deadpool 2 meets John Wick meets Harley Quinn (2019) meets Suicide Squad (2016) meets Joker (2019) meets Goodfellas.
  • 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 Avengers: Endgame 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 meets Deadpool meets Apocalypse Now.
    • Or The Dirty Dozen meets Guardians of the Galaxy as described by one of the producers
• De Griezelbus is Let the Right One In meets Death Note with a bit of ParaNorman.
• 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.
• 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 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 Disney Animated Canon meets Sky High (2005) meets Runaways except the kids know their parents are villains. 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.
• 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 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 Boondocks episode "The Story of Catcher Freeman".
  • Alternately, it's Django meets John Wick meets Red Dead Redemption meets The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
• Dog Soldiers:
  • Night of the Living Dead (1968) meets The Howling.
  • Or Band of Brothers meets The Howling.
• 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 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".
• 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.
• Dracula Untold is Bram Stoker's Dracula meets The Lord of the Rings meets Castlevania: Lords of Shadow.
• 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.
• Dr. Strangelove is 1963's Fail Safe meets No Time For Sergeants.
• 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.
• 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.
• Dune (2021) is Star Wars meets Mad Max meets Game of Thrones.
• 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 (a little known, somewhat Black Comedy anti-war movie) 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.
• Elysium:
  • District 9 meets Spartacus and Johnny Mnemonic.
  • Or Battle Angel Alita meets The Six Million Dollar Man.
• Enchanted is "Disney meets Reality".
• 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 Deadpool (2016) meets Harry Potter meets Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019).
• Equilibrium is 1984 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.
• Event Horizon is The Black Hole meets Hellraiser.
  • What happens when you put watered down versions of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alien, Hellraiser, The Shining, and Berserk in a blender. "Cheers"
  • Alternately, Warhammer 40,000 meets Neon Genesis Evangelion.
  • Or The Beyond meets Hellraiser in space.
• 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 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 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.
  • The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift is The Fast and the Furious meets Initial D.
• 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 works of David Lynch meets The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 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.
• 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 its the Grim Reaper instead of the Anti-Christ)
  • The franchise as a whole could be The Omen meets (in some respects) Saw.
• 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+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.
• 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.
• Frozen (2010) is essentially Open Water, and Alive on a chairlift.

G

• Galaxy Quest is ¡Three Amigos! meets Star Trek.
• Gandhi at the Bat is The Pride of the Yankees meets Gandhi, with maybe a pinch of Rookie of the Year.
• Gangster No. 1 is Scarface meets Single White Female.
• Garfield 2: A Tale of Two Kitties is The Prince and the Pauper meets The Aristocats.
• Geostorm: Mark Kermode described it as Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. meets Moonraker.
• Get On Up is Ray meets 42.^note Ray's embellished bibliography with 42's sanitized bibliography
• Get Out (2017) is Guess Who's Coming to Dinner meets The Stepford Wives meets Clonus meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers meets I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream.
• Getaway: Gone in 60 Seconds (2000) meets Die Hard with a Vengeance.
• Ghostbusters is The Exorcist meets Dirty Jobs or The Call of Cthulhu meets Stripes.
• Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai is Le Samouraï meets the Hip-Hop and Jidaigeki genres.
• The Ghost and the Darkness: William Goldman pitched it as "Lawrence of Arabia meets Jaws".
• Ghost World is Daria meets The Catcher in the Rye.
• The Giallo genre is more or less Mystery Crime Noir meets Erotic thrillers (and or Sexploitation) meets Slasher Films.
• The Girl Next Door:
  • Notting Hill meets American Pie.
  • Risky Business meets American Pie.
• Girls Trip: Bridesmaids meets Waiting to Exhale.
• Gladiator is Spartacus meets The Count of Monte Cristo.
• God's Not Dead is Chick Tracts meets Inherit the Wind (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.
• The Golden Child is Beverly Hills Cop meets Big Trouble in Little China.
• Good Boys: Superbad meets Diary of a Wimpy Kid.
• The Grand Budapest Hotel is The Great Dictator meets North By Northwest.
• Greaser's Palace looks like what would have happened if Sergio Leone and John Waters made a film together.
• The Great Wall is Attack on Titan meets Edge of Tomorrow meets Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon meets The Bourne Series meets Game of Thrones meets Warhammer 40,000 meets Enter the Dragon meets Dragon Ball meets Journey to the West meets Berserk with several strong shades of Mulan, Power Rangers, God of War, Shadow of the Colossus, Devil May Cry, Monster Hunter, Mobile Suit Gundam and Neon Genesis Evangelion.
• Green Book has been likened to Rain Man (a Road Movie Dramedy about two completely different men who end up bonding) meets an inverted Driving Miss Daisy (a black man and his white driver).
• The Grey is The Edge meets The Flight of the Phoenix (1965).
• Grudge Match is Jake LaMotta vs. Rocky Balboa as Grumpy Old Men.
• Guest House Paradiso is Bottom meets Fawlty Towers.
• Guum-Gum (film but not book) is Peter Pan meets The Matrix.

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H

• Halloween III: Season of the Witch is Halloween (1978) meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers meets The Wicker Man (1973).
• Hancock is The Incredibles meets Highlander. The hidden title could be called Hancock meets The Terminator.
• The Hangover is simply Dude, Where's My Car? meets The Three Stooges meets Very Bad Things meets The Simpsons episode "Viva Ned Flanders".
• The Happening is 28 Days Later meets Final Destination meets Gaia's Vengeance.
• Happy Death Day
  • It's either Groundhog Day meets Scream Queens (2015).
  • Or, it's Groundhog Day meets Scary Movie.
• The Happytime Murders is Greg the Bunny meets The Heat.
• Hard Candy is Lolita (the movie, not the novel) meets The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
• A Hard Day's Night is A Night at the Opera meets Rock Around the Clock.
• Hardcore Henry is Captain America meets Jason Bourne meets Call of Duty in Russia.
• The Hateful Eight is Reservoir Dogs meets The Thing (1982) meets The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in a Wyoming blizzard.
• Head is Help! meets 8½, along with whatever drugs happened to be around.
• Heathers is Pretty in Pink meets Badlands.
• The Hebrew Hammer is I'm Gonna Git You Sucka as Mel Brooks might've made it.
• Hellboy (2019) is Guillermo del Toro's original 2004 film meets the works of Garth Ennis, with some dashes of Hellsing and South Park thrown in for good measure.
• Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II is Carrie meets A Nightmare on Elm Street.
• Hellraiser: Inferno was described by The Cinema Snob as Hellraiser meets Jacob's Ladder meets Bad Lieutenant as directed by David Lynch.
• Hereditary is Rosemary's Baby meets Ordinary People
• Here Comes the Boom is The Wizard meets the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
• Hero (2002) is Rashomon meets The Last Emperor meets Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
• Hidalgo is Indiana Jones meets The Last Samurai.
• In an odd reversal, High School Musical is Fame minus Skins.
  • Grease meets Fast Times at Ridgemont High minus the R-rated content.
• The Hidden Fortress is Northwest Passage meets A Train for Durango.
• Highwaymen is Mad Max meets Changing Lanes, meets The Hitcher.
• Hirokin: The Last Samurai is The Hunger Games meets The Phantom Menace, without a happy ending.
• The Hollywood Knights is American Graffiti meets Animal House.
• Home Alone is Ferris Bueller meets Saw
  • Or Dennis the Menace meets a really family-friendly version of Straw Dogs (1971).
• Holmes & Watson is Sherlock Holmes meets Step Brothers
• Horrible Bosses is The Hangover meets 9 to 5 meets Strangers on a Train.
• Horror Express is Who Goes There? meets Murder on the Orient Express.
• The Host (2006):
  • The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms meets Juno meets Michael Moore.
  • Alternatively, Alien meets Little Miss Sunshine.
  • Gojira meets Jeff, Who Lives at Home.
• Hot Fuzz:
  • The Naked Gun meets Shaun of the Dead.
  • It has also been described as Midsomer Murders meeting Bad Boys (appropriately enough).
• Hot Shots! is Top Gun meets Full Metal Jacket meets The Naked Gun.
• Hot Tub Time Machine is The Hangover meets Back to the Future.
• The House That Jack Built is American Psycho meets Hannibal.
• Howling V: The Rebirth is essentially Howling meets And Then There Were None.
• Hulk is King Kong meets Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde meets Beauty and the Beast meets God of War.
• The Human Centipede is Hostel meets Saw meets I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream meets The 120 Days of Sodom.
• The Hunger Games is The Running Man meets The Truman Show.
  • Or a more kid friendly version of The Handmaid's Tale meets Battle Royale meets The Truman Show.
• Hustlers is Magic Mike meets The Bling Ring meets Goodfellas.

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• I Am Number Four is Roswell meets the Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles meets Escape to Witch Mountain meets Twilight meets Transformers with a healthy dash of Superman.
• I Can Only Imagine is Purple Rain as produced by Pure Flix.
• I'll Be Home for Christmas is Ferris Bueller's Day Off meets Planes, Trains and Automobiles, minus the charm, humour and likeable characters.
• Idiocracy is Sleeper meets Office Space meets Beavis And Butthead.
• I'm Gonna Git You Sucka is Blaxploitation meets The Naked Gun.
• Incarnate is The Exorcist meets Inception
• Inception:
  • Paprika meets Ocean's Eleven.
  • Fullmetal Alchemist gone live-action meets James Bond with a bottle of sleeping pills.
  • Ghost in the Shell meets Ocean's Eleven (not the actual homage GITS episode, though)
  • The Italian Job (1969) meets Ocean's Eleven meets Dreamscape, meets The Matrix
  • Psychonauts meets Ocean's Eleven.
  • "Theme of the Traitor and the Hero" meets Plato's Cave.
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind with a dash of Matrix gone Heist film.
• Independence Day is The War of the Worlds meets a 1970s Disaster Movie, with touches of Top Gun and Star Wars to update the aesthetics for The '90s.
• Indiana Jones is King Solomon's Mines meets Star Wars meets Tintin meets James Bond with several obvious strong shades of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark is It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World meets A New Hope meets King Solomon's Mines meets Dr. No.
  • Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is Raiders of the Lost Ark meets The Empire Strikes Back meets Heart of Darkness meets From Russia with Love.
  • Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom meets JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency meets Goldfinger.
  • Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade meets JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders meets Close Encounters of the Third Kind meets The Rock.
• Ingrid Goes West is Single White Female meets Black Mirror
• Interstellar is 2001: A Space Odyssey meets The Black Hole meets Contact.
• Into the Woods is the Disney Animated Canon meets The Brothers Grimm.
• The Invisible Man (2020) is Hollow Man meets Enough.
• The Irishman is GoodFellas meets The Godfather, Gangs of New York, Casino, Hotline Miami, The Sopranos, The Wire, Boardwalk Empire, Mad Men, Hannibal, Uncut Gems, Reservoir Dogs, Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, John Wick, Joker (2019), Scarface (1983), Heat, Natural Born Killers, American Psycho, The Wolf of Wall Street, Saints Row, Grand Theft Auto, Sin City, Black Mass, American Gangster, Breaking Bad, Malcolm X, Gandhi and Hoffa.
• The German news station n-tv described Iron Sky as Inglourious Basterds meets Star Wars.
• It (2017) is Stephen King's It meets Stranger Things (with both works even sharing an actor).
  • It: Chapter Two is It (2017) meets Avengers: Endgame.
• It Takes Two (1995) is The Parent Trap (1961) meets The Prince and the Pauper.

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• Jack (1996): Big, starring Patch Adams.
• James Bond:
  • Diamonds Are Forever: James Bond meets Diamond Shaft and Ocean's 11.
  • Live and Let Die: James Bond meets Blaxploitation.
  • The Man with the Golden Gun: James Bond meets The Dukes of Hazzard meets Fantasy Island, with a little Enter the Dragon on the side.
  • Moonraker: James Bond meets Star Wars.
  • Licence to Kill: James Bond meets Scarface and Miami Vice.
  • The Daniel Craig era in general is James Bond meets The Bourne Series.
  • Casino Royale (2006): The original novel meets Kamen Rider Blade.
  • Skyfall: James Bond meets The Dark Knight Trilogy, specifically The Dark Knight.
  • No Time to Die is James Bond meets Logan.
• Jason X is Friday the 13th meets Star Trek.
  • Or, it's Friday the 13th meets Alien: Resurrection due to the latter's mix of Sci-Fi and Camp.
• Jennifer is Carrie (1976) meets Willard, but with snakes instead of rats.
• Jesus, Bro! is God's Not Dead meets The Nostalgia Critic meets Blazing Saddles
  • Alternatively, it's God's Not Dead meets War Room meets The Cinema Snob and Mel Brooks.
• Jonah Hex is Wild Wild West meets Pushing Daisies.
  • Summed up by Iron Man in I'm a Marvel... and I'm a DC:
  Seriously, you could have had a gritty, realistic, badass western, and instead you got Constantine, Ghost Rider and Wild Wild West.
• John Wick is Kill Bill meets The Matrix meets Drive (2011) meets Hitman meets The Killer meets Le Samouraï meets Point Blank meets Assassin's Creed meets Elfen Lied meets Hotline Miami, with slight garnishes of Grand Theft Auto, Devilman, GoodFellas and The Sopranos.
• Johnny English is James Bond meets Mr. Bean.
• Jojo Rabbit is Moonrise Kingdom meets Inglorious Basterds. It even gained the Fan Nickname of Moonreich Kingdom.
  • Alternatively, it's Moonrise Kingdom meets The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.
  • Or The Death of Stalin meets Moonrise Kingdom.
• Joker (2019) is Taxi Driver meets The King of Comedy meets The Killing Joke meets Gotham.
• Judas and the Black Messiah is The Trial of the Chicago 7 meets Da 5 Bloods meets The Irishman.
• Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle has been described by some as The Breakfast Club meets Sword Art Online.
  • It also meets the animated adaptation of the first movie, Tomb Raider, Tropic Thunder, and Central Intelligence.
  • Jumanji: The Next Level is Welcome to the Jungle meets The Matrix meets Zoo.
• Jungle Cruise is The African Queen meets The Mummy Trilogy meets Pirates of the Caribbean meets Indiana Jones.
• From Cracked: "Jupiter Ascending is apparently what you would get if The Matrix suplexed Snow White and the Huntsman into a hyperbaric chamber and fired it into space."
  • Alternatively and more accurately, Tenchi Muyo! meets EVE Online meets Dune.
• Jurassic World is Jurassic Park meets Jaws 3D meets Deep Blue Sea (with whole lot less sharks).
• Just Buried looks like Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street meets Hot Fuzz (or possibly A Lee Martinez, but nobody else knows who that is).

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• Kelly's Heroes can be thought off as "The Dirty Dozen meets The Italian Job (1969)", but without the Downer Ending of either of films.
• Ken Park: Kids meets American Beauty
• Kick-Ass is Kill Bill meets Superbad.
• Kill Bill is the Dollars Trilogy meets Game of Death that took a hard turn to Battle Royale.
  • Alternatively, if Pulp Fiction or Reservoir Dogs went on a drunken night out with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
  • The New Old West, but with Samurai swordplay and Kung Fu.
• King of Thieves: Mathew Buck described it as a mixture of Get Carter and an Ealing comedy.
• KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park was pitched to the band as "A Hard Day's Night meets Star Wars".
• Knight and Day is The Tourist meets Mission: Impossible.
• Kung Pow! Enter the Fist is Tiger & Crane Fists meets Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series and The Master of Disguise.

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• Labyrinth is the Land of Oz meets The Phantom of the Opera starring David Bowie. (Or alternately, The Spiderwick Chronicles meets The Rocky Horror Picture Show, with David Bowie instead of Tim Curry.)
• Lake Michigan Monster: Schaffrillas Productions describes it as The Lighthouse meets the Patchy the Pirate segments from SpongeBob SquarePants if it was written by Scott the Woz and edited by Caddicarus.
• The Last Castle is The Rock meets The Shawshank Redemption.
• The Last Samurai is Dances with Wolves meets Shogun.
• The Last Exorcism is The Exorcism Of Emily Rose meets The Blair Witch Project.
• Last Night in Soho is Doctor Who meets Peeping Tom meets Repulsion meets Blow Up meets Performance meets Don't Look Now meets Suspiria.
• Law Abiding Citizen is Death Wish (or The Punisher) meets Saw.
• La La Land is Singin' in the Rain meets Annie Hall.
• The Lawnmower Man is Flowers for Algernon meets TRON, and later Elfen Lied.
• Legally Blonde is John Grisham's Genki Girl Distaff Counterpart who went on a shopping spree at Clueless.
• The Legend of Frenchie King is Seven Brides for Seven Brothers meets Bandidas.
• Legion is The Prophecy meets The Terminator.
  • Alternatively, The Terminator meets Night of the Living Dead.
• Lemonade Mouth is The Breakfast Club meets High School Musical.
• Life (2017) is equal parts Alien, Splice, The Blob (1988) and Gravity.
• Little Nicky is Devil May Cry meets Wayne's World.
• Local Hero: Bill Forsyth described it as "Brigadoon meets Apocalypse Now".
• The Mockbuster Lockjaw is Anaconda meets Death Note with the plot of Pumpkinhead.
• Logan is X-Men (or to draw from specific comics, Old Man Logan and The Death of Wolverine) meets Unforgiven and Shane (the latter in particular even appears in the movie).
  • Alternately, it's Old Man Logan meets The Last of Us.
• When touring the talk show circuit to promote The Lonely Lady, Pia Zadora repeatedly portrayed it as "a cross between Rocky and Emmanuelle".
• Loqueesha: Amos N Andy starring Shirley Q. Liquor.
• Peter Jackson described his visual style on The Lord of the Rings as David Lean meets Ray Harryhausen.
• The Lost World: Jurassic Park is the first film meets Gorgo.
• Lucy is Black Widow meets Taken meets AKIRA meets The Fifth Element meets Watchmen meets Deathstroke meets H. P. Lovecraft.
  • Or in the words of Luc Besson: "one part Leon, one part Inception and one part 2001: A Space Odyssey".

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• Robert Rodriguez has described the third part of the Machete Trilogy, Machete Kills Again...In Space! as Machete meets Moonraker.
• M. Butterfly is Madame Butterfly meets The Crying Game.
• Magic Kingdom is Disneyland meets Night at the Museum or Zathura since Jon Favreau is directing.
• Maleficent is Sleeping Beauty meets Wicked meets Alice in Wonderland (2010) meets The Lord of the Rings meets Berserk.
• Malignant is a Giallo version of Basket Case meets Split.
• Magic Mike and Magic Mike XXL are Showgirls meets The Full Monty.
• Man's Best Friend was described by The Cinema Snob as Cujo meets Short Circuit.
• The Man Who Fell to Earth is The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars meets Starman meets Requiem for a Dream.
• Mandy (2018) is Drive Angry meets Conan the Barbarian (1982) meets The Holy Mountain.
• Maniac Cop 2: Director William Lustig pitched the film as Frankenstein meets The French Connection.
• Max Steel is Iron Man meets Dragonball Evolution.
• Mars Attacks! is The War of the Worlds and Earth vs. the Flying Saucers meet Gremlins and Killer Klowns from Outer Space.
• The John Cusack comedy Martian Child is basically About a Boy meets KPAX.
• The Man from Hong Kong: If Bruce Lee ever did a James Bond movie.
• Marriage Story is The Notebook meets La La Land meets Blue Valentine.
• The Matrix series:
  • The Matrix is Terminator meets TRON meets Virtuosity meets Dark City meets The Thirteenth Floor meets Ghost in the Shell meets The Invisibles.
  • The Matrix Reloaded is The Matrix meets ReBoot.
  • The Matrix Revolutions is The Matrix Reloaded meets Berserk meets The Divine Comedy.
  • The Matrix Resurrections is The Matrix Revolutions meets Total Recall meets Wes Craven's New Nightmare meets Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie: Rebellion meets Evangelion 3.0 + 1.0: Thrice Upon a Time meets Cyberpunk 2077.
• Matilda is a lighthearted, kid-friendly mashup of Carrie and The Professional of all things.
• Mazes and Monsters is Reefer Madness meets Dungeons & Dragons.
• Mean Streets is of course the quintessential Scorsese film, but it also can be described as I Vitelloni meets John Cassavetes.
• Meet the Feebles: The Muppets Take Manhattan, directed by Sam Peckinpah.
• Memoirs of an Invisible Man: John Carpenter described it as "North By Northwest meets Starman".
• Menace II Society is Boyz n the Hood meets Scarface (1983) meets GoodFellas.
• Men in Black: Variety described it as Ghostbusters meets The Coen Brothers.
  • Alternatively: Ghostbusters meets Alien Nation.
• Mercury Rising is Rain Man meets WarGames. Described as such by Miko Hughes on the DVD extras.
• Midsommar is Hostel meets The Wicker Man (1973).
• Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: The Movie was described by Amy Jo Johnson as "Star Wars meets The Wizard of Oz. Roger Ebert challenged this assessment in his review.
• Milk Money is Pretty Woman meets My Girl.
• Mikey is The Bad Seed meets The Stepfather meets The Good Son.
• Minority Report is Logan's Run meets Blade Runner meets The Fugitive with a subtle trace of 1984.
• Mirror, Mirror is Snow White meets Robin Hood: Men in Tights with lots of Costume Porn.
• The film adaptation of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is Harry Potter and the X-Men
• The Monster Squad is The Goonies meets Universal Horror.
• The MonsterVerse is King Kong and Godzilla meets the Marvel Cinematic Universe, even having some of its actors appear in their films.
  • Godzilla (2014) is Godzilla meets Pacific Rim meets Attack on Titan.
  • Kong: Skull Island is King Kong meets Apocalypse Now.
  • Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) is Godzilla (2014) meets Clash of the Titans (2010) meets 300: Rise of an Empire meets Transformers: Dark of the Moon meets Berserk meets Stranger Things meets 2012 meets DEVILMAN crybaby meets Asura's Wrath meets Mortal Kombat X meets The Divine Comedy meets X-Men: Apocalypse.
  • Godzilla vs. Kong is King Kong vs. Godzilla meets Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice meets Avengers: Endgame meets God of War (PS4) meets Freddy vs. Jason meets Transformers: Age of Extinction.
• Moonrise Kingdom is Romeo and Juliet meets Peanuts (assuming the adults in the movie are considered kids — which, in the case of Wes Anderson, they are).
• Mortal Kombat: The Movie is the cast of Big Trouble in Little China meets the plot of Game of Death.
• The Motorcycle Diaries is Easy Rider meets Germinal.
• Moulin Rouge! is La Traviata meets La Bohème meets Cirque du Soleil with pop music.
• MouseHunt is Tom and Jerry meets Home Alone.
• Mowgli is The Jungle Book (2016) meets The Lord of the Rings meets Heart of Darkness meets Grave of the Fireflies meets Watership Down meets The Dark Knight.
• Mr. Nobody is Donnie Darko meets The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. The titular protagonists of all three have Alliterative Names.
• Mrs. Doubtfire is Mary Poppins (minus the magic powers and dancing penguins) meets Tootsie.
• Mulan: Rise of a Warrior is The Ballad of Mulan meets Berserk.
• Mulholland Dr. is Sunset Boulevard meets Persona (1966) with the eerie atmosphere of Lost Highway.
• The Mummy (1999) is The Mummy (1932) meets Indiana Jones meets The Evil Dead.
  • Stephen Sommers described his vision as "Indiana Jones meets Jason and the Argonauts."
• The Muppets is Toy Story 3 meets A Mighty Wind meets Cats Don't Dance.
• Murder by Death is Agatha Christie meets Mel Brooks.
• Depending on when you were born, Murder by Decree is From Hell meets Sherlock Holmes or From Hell is Murder By Decree sans Sherlock Holmes.
• Mystery Team is Encyclopedia Brown meets the real world.