X Meets Y / Live Action Films Works G To M

G

• Galaxy Quest is ¡Three Amigos! meets Star Trek.
• Game Night is Keanu meets The Man Who Knew Too Little
  • Alternatively, Clue meets Date Night.
• 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 is the original comic meets Toy Story and Toy Story 2.
  • 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 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.
• The Ghost and the Darkness: William Goldman pitched it as "Lawrence of Arabia meets Jaws".
• Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai is Le Samouraï meets the Hip-Hop and Jidaigeki genres.
• Ghost Ship is Titanic meets Event Horizon.
• Ghost Town (2008) is Ricky Gervais remaking The Sixth Sense as a Rom Com after catching Flatliners and an episode of House, M.D. the other night, with Ghost (1990) coming in with some notes.
• Ghost World is Daria meets The Catcher in the Rye.
• Ghostbusters is The Exorcist meets Dirty Jobs meets The Call of Cthulhu meets Stripes.
• 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.
• Glass Onion is Mamma Mia! meets An Inspector Calls.
• 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.
• Good Manners is Rosemary's Baby meets Wolf Children.
• Gran Turismo is the eponymous video game series meets GRID Legends meets Formula 1: Drive to Survive.
  • Alternatively, it's Gran Turismo meets Cars 3 meets The Wizard.
  • Or Gran Turismo meets Speed Racer by way of Ready Player One (2018).
• 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.
• 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 Green Mile is The Shawshank Redemption meets The Silence of the Lambs.
• Gremlins is the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The Trouble with Tribbles" meets The Muppets with horror movie elements.
  • Gremlins 2: The New Batch is Gremlins meets Die Hard by way of Looney Tunes.
• 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.

H

• Halloween III: Season of the Witch is Halloween (1978) meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers meets The Wicker Man (1973).
  • Halloween Ends is Joker (2019) meets Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning, with a hint of Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday.
• 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 (2011).
• 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.
• Heaven's Gate
  • In his memoir about the film's production Final Cut, United Artists executive Steven Bach said he always described it to people as "it looks like David Lean made a Western."
  • More specifically it feels like writer-director Michael Cimino took Doctor Zhivago and McCabe & Mrs. Miller and filtered them through his own The Deer Hunter.
• 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 is Dracula meets A Nightmare on Elm Street meets The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde meets Doctor Faustus meets The 120 Days of Sodom meets The Omen meets The Thing meets The Twilight Zone.
  • Hellraiser: Inferno was described by The Cinema Snob as Hellraiser meets Jacob's Ladder meets Bad Lieutenant as directed by David Lynch.
  • The 2022 film is the original meets DEVILMAN crybaby.
• 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.
• Highway to Hell was written by Ate de Jong as a cross between the story of Orpheus, The Wizard of Oz and Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior.
• Highwaymen is Mad Max meets Changing Lanes, meets The Hitcher.
• The Hills Have Eyes (1977) is The Last House on the Left meets The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) meets Deliverance.
• Hirokin: The Last Samurai is The Hunger Games meets The Phantom Menace, without a happy ending.
• Hold-up is Quick Change meets a Terence Hill and Bud Spencer action comedy.
• 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
• The Horde is Rambo: Last Blood meets Wrong Turn.
  • Alternatively, it's The Punisher (2017) meets The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
• 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 (1995) (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.
• House of Gucci is Uncut Gems meets The Irishman.
• 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.

I

• I Am Number Four is Roswell meets the Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles meets Escape to Witch Mountain meets The Twilight Saga meets Transformers (2007) 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.
• Imaginary is IF (2024) meets A Nightmare on Elm Street meets Coraline.
• Immortal Beloved is Amadeus meets Citizen Kane.
• 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.
• Incest! The Musical is High School Musical meets Brother–Sister Incest.
• 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.
  • 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 Raiders of the Lost Ark 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 Close Encounters of the Third Kind meets The Rock.
  • Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull meets Logan.
• 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 Invitation (2022) is Ready or Not meets Bram Stoker's Dracula.
  • Or Get Out! meets Dracula (2020).
• The Irishman is GoodFellas meets Hoffa meets The Godfather meets Gangs of New York meets Casino meets Nightcrawler meets Fargo meets Heat, as written by William Shakespeare.
• Iron Monkey is Jack of All Trades meets Detective Dee.
• 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.

J

• Jack (1996): Big, starring Patch Adams.
• Jack Frost (1997) is Child's Play (1988) meets Jack Frost (1998).
• Jacob's Ladder is Johnny Got His Gun meets Hellraiser.
• 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) is the original novel meets The Bourne Identity meets Kamen Rider Blade.
    • Quantum of Solace is Casino Royale (2006) meets Mission: Impossible III meets The Bourne Supremacy.
    • Skyfall is Quantum of Solace meets The Dark Knight meets Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol meets The Bourne Ultimatum.
    • Spectre is Skyfall meets Kamen Rider Ghost meets Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation meets The Bourne Legacy.
    • No Time to Die is Spectre meets Logan meets Mission: Impossible – Fallout meets Jason Bourne meets A Walk to Remember meets The Fault in Our Stars meets Avengers: Endgame meets The Dark Knight Rises meets Your Lie in April.
• 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.
• Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is The Muppet Movie if it starred Cheech & Chong.
• 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 (2010) 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 Hotline Miami meets The Matrix meets Elfen Lied meets Wanted.
  • John Wick: Chapter 2 is John Wick meets The Matrix Reloaded.
  • John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum is John Wick: Chapter 2 meets Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number.
  • John Wick: Chapter 4 is John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum meets The Good, the Bad and the Ugly meets No Time to Die meets The Matrix Revolutions meets Cyberpunk 2077.
• 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 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.
• The Jungle Book (2016) is the original meets The Lion King.
• 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 & 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 3-D 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).

K

• 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.
• Killers of the Flower Moon is The Godfather putting out a hit on Dances with Wolves at the request of There Will Be Blood.
• The Kid Who Would Be King is A Kid in King Arthur's Court meets a kid-friendly Attack the Block and Percy Jackson and the Olympians.
• King Arthur: Legend of the Sword was pitched as The Lord of the Rings meets Snatch..
• 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.
• Knights of the Zodiac is Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac meets Fist of the North Star.
• Knives Out is Murder on the Orient Express meets The Royal Tenenbaums.
• Kung Fu Zohra is Dangerous Intentions meets The Karate Kid.
• Kung Pow! Enter the Fist is Tiger & Crane Fists meets Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series and The Master of Disguise.

L

• 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 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 Airbender is the original show In the Style of The Lord of the Rings by way of Eragon, The Phantom Menace, and Dragonball Evolution.
• The Last Castle is The Rock meets The Shawshank Redemption.
• The Last Exorcism is The Exorcism Of Emily Rose meets The Blair Witch Project.
• The Last King of Scotland is Downfall meets Now and Then, Here and There meets King Lear.
• Last Night in Soho is Doctor Who meets Peeping Tom meets Repulsion meets Blow Up meets Performance meets Don't Look Now meets Suspiria.
• The Last Samurai is Dances with Wolves meets Shogun.
• Law Abiding Citizen is Death Wish (or The Punisher) meets Saw.
• La La Land is Singin' in the Rain meets A Star Is Born.
• 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 (1968).
• 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.
• Little Shop of Horrors (1986) is (much like the play of the same name) basically the original 1960 film meets a Disney musical.
• 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 Death of Wolverine) meets Unforgiven and Shane (the latter in particular even appears in the movie).
  • Alternately and more accurately, 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 City is Romancing the Stone meets Dora and the Lost City of Gold setting in True Memoirs of an International Assassin piece.
• 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".

M

• M. Butterfly is Madame Butterfly meets The Crying Game.
• M3GAN is Annabelle meets The Terminator, according to producer James Wan.
• Robert Rodriguez has described the third part of the Machete Trilogy, Machete Kills Again...In Space! as Machete meets Moonraker.
• Magic Kingdom is Disneyland meets Night at the Museum or Zathura since Jon Favreau is directing.
• Mad Max franchise:
  • Mad Max is Dirty Harry meets Violence Jack meets Dune.
  • Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior is Mad Max meets The Silmarillion.
  • Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome is Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior meets Flash Gordon meets Riddley Walker.
  • Mad Max: Fury Road is Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome meets Warhammer 40,000 meets Now and Then, Here and There meets Fist of the North Star.
• 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.
• The Mask is the comic book of the same name meets Ace Ventura: Pet Detective meets Aladdin meets The Nutty Professor (1963), by way of Beetlejuice.
• The Mask of Zorro is The Mark of Zorro meets The Count of Monte Cristo with a dash of the Spaghetti Western genre.
• 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 meets Kramer vs. Kramer.
• The Matrix series:
  • The Matrix is The Truman Show meets The Terminator meets TRON meets Virtuosity meets Dark City meets Ghost in the Shell meets Neon Genesis Evangelion meets The Invisibles.
  • The Matrix Reloaded is The Matrix meets ReBoot.
  • The Matrix Revolutions is The Matrix Reloaded meets Devilman.
  • The Matrix Resurrections is The Matrix meets Total Recall meets Wes Craven's New Nightmare.
• 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 film series:
  • Men in Black is the original comic series meets Ghostbusters and Alien Nation. Or as Variety described it, "Ghostbusters meets The Coen Brothers".
  • Men in Black 3 is MIB meets Back to the Future in the late 1960s.
  • Men in Black: International is commonly described as being MIB meets Thor: Ragnarok, due to the intentional casting of two actors from the latter movie.
• The Menu is Whiplash meets Cheerilee's Garden
• Mercury Rising is Rain Man meets WarGames. Described as such by Miko Hughes on the DVD extras.
• Mickey Blue Eyes is Meet the Parents meets The Godfather.
• 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.
• The Million Eyes Of Sumuru is Our Man Flint meets (a gender-flipped) Fu Manchu
• 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 Nineteen Eighty-Four.
• Mirror Mirror (2012) 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 a literal crossover of Godzilla and King Kong, while figuratively meeting the Marvel Cinematic Universe (even having some of the MCU actors appearing in these films).
  • Godzilla (2014) is Gojira 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 Transformers: Age of Extinction.
• Moonfall is Gravity meets The Martian meets Melancholia meets 2001: A Space Odyssey meets Sharknado.
• 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).
• Morbius (2022) is Batman meets Dracula meets Devilman
• 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.
  • Because of the divorce subplot, a German magazine also dubbed it Tootsie meets Kramervs Kramer.
• 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 Evil Dead.
  • Stephen Sommers described his vision as "Indiana Jones meets Jason and the Argonauts."
• The Muppets (2011) 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.
• My Name is Bruce is ¡Three Amigos! meets Army of Darkness.
• Mystery Team is Encyclopedia Brown meets the real world.