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April 2013

Mama (ghosts) The Woman in Black; Poltergeist series; The Others; The Fog; The Sixth Sense; The Shining; 13 Ghosts; The Haunting in Connecticut; Drag Me To Hell; Shutter Island; White Noise; What Lies Beneath; The Ring series; The Grudge series; Silent Hill series; The Shining; Insidious; Stir of Echoes; The Innkeepers; Sleepy Hollow; The Amityville Horror series; Paranormal Activity series; The Lovely Bones; Ghost Ship

Dark Skies (aliens on earth) Close Encounters of the Third Kind; The War of the Worlds; Men in Black series; Mars Attacks!; The Faculty; Signs; The Thing; Invasion of the Body Snatchers; Independence; District 9; Starman; The Day the Earth Stood Still; ET: The Extra-Terrestrial; Transformers series; Slither; Dreamcatcher

Safe Haven (movies based on Nicholas Sparks novels)The Lucky One; The Last Song; Dear John; Nights in Rodanthe; The Notebook; A Walk to Remember; Message in a Bottle

March 2013

Les Miserables (musicals) Rock of Ages; Chicago; Grease; West Side Story; Mama Mia; Hairspray; Dreamgirls; Moulin Rouge!; Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street; The Phantom of the Opera; Hair; Jesus Christ Superstar; The Wiz; Idlewild; Rent; Fiddler on the Roof; The Sound of Music; Little Shop of Horrors

This is 40 (marital problems) Did You Hear About the Morgans?; Waitress; Shall We Dance?; Mrs Doubtfire; Moonrise Kingdom; Crazy, Stupid, Love

Zero Dark Thirty (CIA) Argo; Three Days of the Condor; The Good Shepherd; The Bourne series; Syriana; Mission: Impossible series; Bad Company; Body of Lies; Salt; Spy Game; Fair Game; Safe House; Confessions of a Dangerous Mind; The Recruit; Clear and Present Danger; The Hunt for Red October

Killing Them Softly (mobsters) Road to Perdition; Donnie Brasco; Miller’s Crossing; The Untouchables; The Departed; Casino; Carlito’s Way; Scarface; Once Upon a Time in America; Pulp Fiction; Goodfellas; The Godfather; Bugsy; Get Shorty; Reservoir Dogs; A Bronx Tale

Parental Guidance (dysfunctional families) Dark Shadows; The Simpsons Movie; Little Miss Sunshine; Back to the Future series; National Lampoon's Vacation; The Nutty Professor; Meet the Fockers series; Muriel's Wedding; The Royal Tenenbaums; Running With Scissors; The Squid and the Whale; Home for the Holidays; The Family Stone; Cyrus; The Savages

February 2013

Argo (political) All the President's Men; The Manchurian Candidate; Cry Freedom; Good Night, and Good Luck; Under Fire; The Constant Gardener; Enemy of the State; The Interpreter; Bobby; JFK;
Thirteen Days; In the Line of Fire; Patriot Games; The Last King of Scotland; Syriana; Reds; The Siege; Michael Collins; The Ides of March

Flight (airplane disasters) Cast Away; Conair; United 93; Alive; Fearless; Hero; The English Patient; The Flight of the Phoenix

Alex Cross (detectives) Chinatown; The Maltese Falcon; Gone Baby Gone; Angel Heart; Sherlock Holmes 1 & 2; Winter’s Bone; Klute; Sea of Love; The Ninth Gate; In the Heat of the Night; The Bone Collector; Kiss Me Deadly; L.A. Confidential; Se7en; The French Connection; Dick Tracy; Insomnia

The Perks of Being a Wallflower (coming of age) The Breakfast Club; American Graffiti; Dead Poets Society; Almost Famous; Sixteen Candles; Good Will Hunting; Ferris Bueller’s Day Off; Dazed and Confused; Dirty Dancing; Superbad; Fast Times at Ridgemont High; Bend it Like Beckham; The Outsiders; American Pie; The Sandlot; Charlie Bartlett

The Man with the Iron Fists (martial arts) The Legend of Drunken Master; Kung Fu Hustle; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; The Raid: Redemption; The Protector; 13 Assassins; Kill Bill: Vol. 1 & 2; The Forbidden Kingdom; Hero; House of Flying Daggers; Jet Li’s Fearless

Anna Karenina (period pieces) Atonement; Dangerous Liaisons; Pride & Prejudice; Brideshead Revisited; The Duchess; The Other Boleyn Girl; Elizabeth: The Golden Age; Quills; Shakespeare in Love; Sense and Sensibility; Jane Eyre; The Young Victoria; The Duchess; The Libertine; Girl with a Pearl Earring

Chasing Mavericks (surfing) Blue Crush 1 & 2; Lords of Dogtown; Soul Surfer; Surfer, Dude; Point Break

January 2013

The Possession (demons) The Last Exorcism; The Unborn; My Soul to Take; Paranormal Activity 1-4; Don't Be Afraid of the Dark; Insidious; The Rite; Drag Me to Hell; The Haunting in Connecticut; The Haunting of Molly Hartley; The Grudge 1, 2; The Exorcism of Emily Rose; The Ring 1,2; Jeepers Creepers 1,2; Blair Witch

End of Watch (cops) Training Day; The Departed; We Own the Night; Colors; Street Kings; Brooklyn’s Finest; The Departed; S.W.A.T; Cop Land; Assault on Precinct 13; 16 Blocks; Harsh Times

House at the End of the Street (creepy houses) Silent House; The Amityville Horror series; Cold Creek Manor; Dark Water; Fright Night; The Grudge; The Shining; The Others; Poltergeist series; The People Under the Stairs; What Lies Beneath; Psycho; The Skeleton Key; Cold Creek Manor

Dredd (in the future)Hunger Games; Total Recall; Minority Report; The Truman Show; The Running Man; The Terminator series; 2001: A Space Odyssey; Star Trek series; I, Robot; A.I.; Escape From NY and LA; Alien vs Predator; Aeon Flux; The Matrix series; Solaris; Pitch Black; Robocop; The Fifth Element; Resident Evil series; Equilibrium; Ghosts of Mars

To Rome with Love (traveling abroad) Under the Tuscan Sun; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Eat Pray Love; My Life in Ruins; Midnight in Paris; Brokedown Palace; Leap Year; The Darjeeling Limited; Eurotrip; Before Sunrise; In Bruges; Lost in Translation; Whale Rider; The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Won’t Back Down (teachers) Dead Poets Society; Stand and Deliver; Mr. Holland’s Opus; Lean on Me; October Sky; To Sir With Love; The Emperor’s Club; Finding Forrester; Freedom Writers; The Man Without a Face; Renaissance Man; The Great Debaters; Mona Lisa Smile; Take the Lead; Half Nelson; Akeelah and the Bee

December 2012

Beasts of the Southern Wild (strong kids) Where the Wild Things Are; Hugo; Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close; Brave; Whale Rider; Kit Kittredge: An American Girl; The Secret Garden; Nancy Drew; Harry Potter series; The Hunger Games

Hope Springs (mature romances) It's Complicated; Something’s Gotta Give; Terms of Endearment; The Notebook; On Golden Pond; Bridges of Madison County; As Good as it Gets; Shall We Dance; Away From Her; Mamma Mia!; Last Chance Harvey; Letters to Juliet; White Palace; The Graduate; How Stella Got Her Groove Back

Arbitrage (greed) Boiler Room; Company Man; Wall Street 1 & 2; Trading Places; There Will Be Blood; American Psycho; Indecent Proposal; Other People’s Money; Fargo; A Simple Plan

Trouble with the Curve (baseball) Moneyball; Major League; A League of Their Own; The Sandlot; The Natural; The Bad News Bears; Bang the Drum Slowly; Field of Dreams; Bill Durham; Fever Pitch; Angels in the Outfield; Hardball; The Rookie; For Love of the Game;

Total Recall (in the future) I, Robot; I Robot; Rollerball; Blade Runner; Escape From NY and LA; Minority Report; Battlefield Earth; Waterworld; Mad Max series; Star wars series; Robocop;
Pitch Perfect; Solaris; The Astronauts Wife; Tron; Judge Dredd; Mission To Mars; John Carpenter's Ghosts Of Mars; The Fifth Element; Demolition Man; Children of Men; The Matrix series; Terminator series; 12 Monkeys; Moon; Independence Day

Looper (time travel) Butterfly Effect; Time Bandits; Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure; 12 Monkeys; Star Trek IV – The Voyage Home; Terminator 1 & 2; Back To The Future series; StarTrek – First Contact; Land of the Lost; Peggy Sue Got Married; Hot Tub Time Machine

Resident Evil: Retribution (zombies) Night of the Living Dead; Planet Terror; Land of the Dead; Zombieland; Dawn of the Dead; Shaun of the Dead; The Return of the Living Dead; Resident Evil series; I am Legend; Diary of the Dead; Quarantine; Slither

November 2012

Savages (drug deals) Blow; Traffic; Scarface; Saving Grace; The Wackness; Rules of Attraction; Pineapple Express; Jay & Silent Bob; King of New York; American Gangster; Maria Full of Grace; Requiem for a Dream; Boogie Nights; Goodfellas; No Country for Old Men; 25th Hour; Brokedown Palace; The French Connection

Men in Black 3 (alien invasions) Men in Black 1 & 2; War of the Worlds; Battle: Los Angeles; Cloverfield; Independence Day; Invasion of the Body Snatchers; The Day the Earth Stood Still; Skyline; Transformers 1,2,3; Signs; The Faculty; Cowboys & Aliens; Battleship; Paul; Super 8; Alien Nation

Men in Black 3 (funny aliens) The Watch; Mars Attack; Paul; Men in Black 1 & 2; Galaxy Quest; My Stepmother Is An Alien; Spaceballs; Earth Girls are Easy; Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; Little Shop of Horrors; Space Jam; Coneheads; Zathura: A Space Adventure; Howard the Duck

Lawless (gangsters from the 30’s) Millers Crossing; The Untouchables; Once Upon a Time in America; Public Enemy; Bonnie and Clyde

Sparkle (fictitious groups) Dream Girls; The Fabulous Baker Boys; O Brother Where Art Thou?; Almost Famous; That Thing You Do!; This is Spinal Tap; Eddie and the Cruisers; A Mighty Wind,; Singles; Walk Hard: The Legend of Dewey Cox; The Blues Brothers; The School of Rock

October 2012

Prometheus (in space) Sunshine; Pandorum; Alien series; Solaris; Mission to Mars; Supernova; Event Horizon; Ghost of Mars; Doom; Moon

Dark Shadows (vampires) The Twilight Saga series; Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter; Priest; Let Me In; Blade series; The Lost Boys; Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Van Helsing; Fright Night; Underworld series; John Carpenter’s Vampires; Salem’s Lot; Interview with the Vampire; Bram Stoker’s Dracula; Cronos

Savages (drug dealing) Blow; Traffic; Scarface; Pineapple Express; 25th Hour; City of God; New Jack City; Training Day; Alpha Dog; Raid: Redemption; Half Nelson; Quicksilver; American Gangster; Requiem For A Dream; King of New York; Pulp Fiction November

Moonrise Kingdom (camping) The Parent Trap; Meatballs; Camp Nowhere; Heavy Weights; Baby Sitters Club; Little Darlings; Ernest Goes to Camp; Addams Family Values

Rock of Ages (music) Across the Universe; Hairspray; Tommy; Grease; West Side Story; Chicago; Moulin Rouge; Mama Mia; Rent; Once; Rock of Ages; Nine; Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street; The Sound of Music; The Rocky Horror Picture Show; The Music Man; The HYPERLINK "http://www.filmcrave.com/movie_page_main.php?id=9043" \o "Phantom of the Opera, The (2004)" Phantom of the Opera; Fame; Dreamgirls; Hair; Bye Bye Birdie; Annie

Dark Shadows (vampires with humor) Once Bitten; Love at First Bite; Vampire in Brooklyn; The Lost Boys; Fright Night; Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant; Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Transylmania; Vampire's Kiss

September 2012

The Avengers (comic books) Iron Man series; Thor; Captain America: The First Avenger; X-Men series; Spider Man series; Batman series; The Mask; Hellboy series; Mystery Men; Men in Black series; Superman series; Blade series; Ghost World; Sin City; Watchmen; Kick-Ass

The Cabin in the Woods (scream worthy) The Descent; 28 Days Later; The Shining; The Ring; The Grudge; Dawn of the Dead; Tremors; Saw series; Cabin Fever; Scream series; Identity; 1408; Halloween series; Friday the 13th series; The Exorcist; Let the Right One In; Insidious; Silent House

The Five Year Engagement (weddings) Runaway Bride; Four Weddings and a Funeral; Muriel's Wedding; Father of the Bride; My Best Friend's Wedding; My Big, Fat Greek Wedding; The Wedding Singer; Bride Wars; Wedding Crashers; The Princess Bride; The Hangover series

What To Expect When Expecting (babies) Knocked Up; Juno; Friends with Kids; Away We Go; Baby Boom; Three Men and a Baby; Waitress; Look Who’s Talking; Baby Mama; Nine Months; She’s Having a Baby; Where the Heart Is

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (multi-generational) Avalon; Cocoon; Driving Miss Daisy; Harry and Tonto; The Sunshine Boys; The Bucket List; Grumpy Old Men; Grumpier Old Men; On Golden Pond; Venus; About Schmidt; Away From Her; Gran Torino; Something’s Gotta Give; Harry Brown; Space Cowboys; The Notebook

July 2012

American Reunion (class reunions) Something Wild; Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle; The Tao of Steve; National Lampoon's Class Reunion; Beautiful Girls; Zack and Miri Make a Porno; Grosse Point Blank; Peggy Sue Got Married; Romy and Michele's High School Reunion

Lockout (society in the future) Logan's Run.; Star Trek series; Blade Runner; Gattica; Minority Report; I, Robot; The Island; Tron series; Book of Eli; Bicentennial Man; A.I. Artificial Intelligence; Resident Evil series; Aeon Flux; Planet of the Apes series; Terminator series; The Matrix series; Mad Max series

Three Stooges (made from TV) The A Team; Mission Impossible; Starsky and Hutch; The X-Files series; Star Trek series; Sex and the City series; The Simpson Movie; Get Smart; Bewitched; Dragnet; Charlie’s Angel; Wayne’s World; Twilight Zone; The Fugitive; The Untouchables; The Addams Family; Bruno; The Muppets Movie; Mr Bean's Holiday; South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut; Maverick

Silent House (creepy houses) The Amityville Horror series; Cold Creek Manor; Dark Water; Fright Night; The Grudge; The Shining; The Others; Poltergeist series; The People Under the Stairs; What Lies Beneath; Psycho; The Skeleton Key; Cold Creek Manor;

June 2012

Safe House (conspiracy) Enemy of the State; The Bourne Identity series; Unknown; Michael Clayton; The Manchurian Candidate; All the President's Men; The Pelican Brief; Conspiracy Theory; Missing; Minority Report; Klute; JFK; The Insider; Three Days of the Condor; Blow Out

21 Jump Street (cop buddies) Starsky & Hutch; Lethal Weapon series; Turner & Hooch; Tango & Cash; In the Heat of the Night; Running Scared; Bad Boys series; Rush Hour series; Beverly Hills Cops 1 & 2; Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son; Cop Out ; Hot Fuzz; The Other Guys

Big Miracle (saving animals) Free Willy; Duma; Flipper; Babe series; Beverly Hills Chihuahua; Eight Below; We Bought a Zoo; Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story; Flicka; Two Brothers; War Horse

Act of Valor (Navy) A Few Good Men; Top Gun; Antwone Fisher; U-571; Pearl Harbor; K-19: The Widowmaker; Crimson Tide; The Hunt for Red October; Down Periscope; The Last Detail; Behind Enemy Lines; An Officer and a Gentleman; G.I. Jane; Under Siege

Jeff That Lives at Home (dysfunctional families) The Royal Tanenbaums; Buffalo 66; The Kids Are All Right; The Addams Family; The Fighter; Precious; Little Miss Sunshine; Meet the Fockers series; American Beauty; Garden State; Home for the Holidays; Sixteen Candles; Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins; Running With Scissors; The Darjeeling Limited; The Squid and the Whale; Hannah and Her Sisters; The Savages

May 2012

Joyful Noise (music filled) School of Rock; August Rush; Mr Holland’s Opus; Blues Brothers; Walk the Line; 8 Mile; This is Spinal Tap; Almost Famous

The Devil Inside (exorcisms) The Rite; The Exorcism of Emily Rose; Paranormal Activity 1,2,3; The Exorcist series; Insidious. The Last Exorcism; The Haunting In Connecticut; The Amityville Horror; Constantine

The Grey (survival) District B13; Death Race; I am Legend; Mad Max; Water World; Tremors; The Road Warrior; The Thing; Pitch Black; Into the Wild; Predator; Jaws; Alive; Castaway; Zombieland; Open Water

Underworld: Awakening (vampires) Van Helsing; Twilight series; 30 Days of Night; Blade series; Bram Stoker's Dracula; Underworld series; From Dusk Till Dawn; Interview With The Vampire; The Lost Boys; Daybreakers; Fright Night; Let Me In; Priest; Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant; Dylan Dog: Dead of Night

April 2012

Iron Lady (political bio) Gandhi; A Man for all Seasons; Malcolm X; Nixon; Valkyrie; Frost/Nixon; Fair Game; The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc; Lawrence of Arabia; Born on the Fourth of July; JFK; The Conspirator; All the President’s Men

Contraband (drug smugglers) Blow; The Guard; The French Connection I and II; Maria Full of Grace; Midnight Express; Next day Air; Traffic; Lethal Weapon; Another Day In Paradise; Brokedown Palace; American Gangster; Desperado; The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada; The Bank Job

Darkest Hour (alien invasion) Invasion of the Body Snatchers; Mars Attack; The Faculty; Signs; The Arrival; War of the Worlds; Men in Black; The Day the Earth Stood Still; The Thing; Independence Day; Cowboys and Aliens; Battle: Los Angeles; District 9; Paul; Super 8; Area 51; Cloverfield; The Invasion

March 2012

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (international thrillers) The Ghost Writer; The Disappearance of Alice Creed; The American; The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; The Girl who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest; The Girl who Played with Fire; The International; The Guard; The Interpreter; The Quiet American

Footloose (dancing) Footloose-1984; Dirty Dancing; Flashdance; Strictly Ballroom; Save the Last Dance; Saturday Night Fever; Bring it On; Billy Elliot; Mad Hot Ballroom; Chicago; West Side Story; Step Up; White Knights; Stomp the Yard; Hairspray

Immortals (mythological battles) Clash of the Titans; Troy; 300; Conan the Barbarian; Gladiator; Kingdom of Heaven; Beowulf; Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief; Thor

My Week with Marilyn (entertainment icons) I’m Not There; La Vie en Rose; Chaplin; Ray; Walk the Line; Coal Miner’s Daughter; La Bamba; Beyond the Sea

Three Musketeers (swashbucklers) The Pirates of the Caribbean series; Robin Hood; The Count of Monte Cristo; The Mask of Zorro; The Legend of Zorro; The Princess Bride; Cutthroat Island)

The Descendants (family relationships) The Royal Tenenbaums; Crazy, Stupid Love; Everything Must Go; Little Miss Sunshine; August Rush; Finding Neverland; Love Actually; American Beauty; Liar Liar; Life is Beautiful; Mrs Doubtfire).

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (movies from novels)Harry Potter series; Twilight series; The Lovely Bones; The Help; The Da Vinci Code; The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series; Angels and Demons; The Notebook; The Secret Garden; Atonement; Water for Elephants; Eat Pray Love; Memoirs of a Geisha; The Hobbit; The Shining; Marley and Me; The Road; I am Legend; A Walk to Remember; The Devil Wears Prada; The Reader; The Stepford Wives; Shutter Island; The Lord of the Rings; Never Let Me Go; Revolutionary Road: One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest; Carrie; In Cold Blood).

February 2012

Tower Heist ( ) Ocean’s Eleven; Ocean’s Thirteen; The Italian Job; The Bank Job; The Usual Suspects; Snatch; The Town; Inside Man; Point Break; Heat; The Thomas Crowne Affair; Catch Me If You Can; Matchstick Men; Gone in Sixty Seconds; Swordfish

Anonymous (Shakespeare) Shakespeare in Love; Hamlet; 10 Things I Hate About You; O; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Romeo + Juliet; Much Ado About Nothing;

The Rum Diary (jouranlism) All the Presidents Men; Broadcast News; Good Night and Good Luck; The Insider; The Paper; Groundhog Day; Absence of Malice; Reds; Network; Anchor Man; Zodiac Killer

Johnny English Reborn (spy spoofs) Austin Powers series; Get Smart; Spies Like Us; Top Secret; Undercover Brother; The Pink Panther series; Naked Gun Series; The Man Who Knew Too Little

J. Edgar (biopics) The Aviators; Ray; Walk the Line; Gandi; Schindler’s List; Raging Bull; Bonnie and Clyde; Capote; Malcom X; Patton; Ed Wood; Frost/Nixon; Milk; Into the Wild; La Vie En Rose; The Pianist; My Left Foot: The Story Of Christy Brown; The Aviator;

January 2012

Contagion (deadly viruses) 28 Days Later; 28 Weeks Later; Cabin Fever; Quarantine; I Am legend; Andromeda Strain; Resident Evil series; Twelve Monkeys; Zombieland; Outbreak; The Crazies; Dawn of the Dead

Moneyball (baseball) A League of Their Own; The Natural; The Bad News Bears; Field of Dreams; Bull Durham; Fever Pitch; Angels in the Outfield; Hardball; The Rookie; For Love of the Game; The Benchwarmers; Mr 3000; Sugar; The Fan; Rookie of the Year

Drive (fast cars) The Transporter; Bullitt; Fast Five; The Fast and the Furious; Gone in 60 Seconds; 2 Fast 2 Furious; The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift; Days of Thunder; Death Race; Italian Job; Death Proof

The Ides of March (politics) The Good Shepherd; The Quiet American; The Tailor of Panama; Syriana; Charlie Wilson's War; The Manchurian Candidate; Bulworth; Wag the Dog; Frost/Nixon; All the President’s Men; Casino Jack