Action Phrases

Phrases

• 101 Dalmatians (Disney cartoon and Glenn Close movie)
• 2001 A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick movie)
• A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess book and Stanley Kubrick movie)
• A Day At The Races (Marx Brothers movie)
• A Fish Called Wanda (John Cleese movie)
• A Fistful Of Dollars (Clint Eastwood movie)
• A Hard Day's Night (Beatles song and movie)
• A Life Less Ordinary (Ewan McGregor / Cameron Diaz movie)
• A Man Called Horse (Richard Harris movie)
• A Man For All Seasons (Paul Schofield / Robert Bolt movie)
• A New Hope (George Lucas movie in the Star Wars series)
• A Night At The Opera (Marx Brothers movie)
• A Night In Casablanca (Marx Brothers movie)
• A Place in the Sun (Elizabeth Taylor movie)
• A River Runs Through It (Brad Pitt movie)
• A Scanner Darkly (Keanu Reeves movie)
• A Star Is Born (Judy Garland movie)
• A Streetcar Named Desire (Marlon Brando movie)
• A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (Elia Kazan movie)
• A View To A Kill (James Bond movie Roger Moore)
• A class act
• A pitched battle
• Accidental Hero (Dustin Hoffman movie)
• Ace Ventura Pet Detective (Jim Carrey movie)
• Act of God
• Act out
• Act the fool
• Act the giddy goat
• Act the part
• Act up
• Act white
• Act your age
• Action Jackson (Nickname of Stephen Jackson)
• Action Man (Nickname of Prince Charles)
• Action Man (children's male doll)
• Action packed
• Action painting
• Action plan
• Action replay
• Action stations
• Actions speak louder than words
• Affirmative action
• All About Eve (Bette Davis movie)
• All The President's Men (Dustin Hoffman / Robert Redford movie)
• America's Dairyland (Nickname of the US state of Wisconsin)
• American Graffiti (Richard Dreyfuss movie)
• Amped up (excited and ready for action)
• An American In Paris (Irving Berlin tune title and Gene Kelly movie)
• An Inconvenient Truth (Al Gore movie)
• An uphill battle
• Animal Crackers (Marx Brothers movie)
• Annie Hall (Woody Allen movie)
• Apocalypse Now (Marlon Brando movie)
• Apollo 13 (Tom Hanks movie)
• Arsenic And Old Lace (Cary Grant movie)
• Attack of the Clones (George Lucas movie in the Star Wars series)
• Balancing act
• Basic Instinct (Sharon Stone movie)
• Battle of the sexes
• Battle of wits
• Battle ready
• Battle royal
• Battle stations
• Beauty And The Beast (Disney cartoon movie)
• Before Sunset (Ethan Hawke movie)
• Belle De Jour (Catherine Deneuve / Luis Bunuel movie)
• Bill And Ted's Bogus Journey (Keanu Reeves movie)
• Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure (Keanu Reeves movie)
• Billy Liar (Novel and play by Keith Waterhouse and Tom Courtenay / Julie Christie movie)
• Birdman Of Alcatraz (Burt Lancaster movie)
• Black Hawk Down (Ewan McGregor movie)
• Blade Runner (Harrison Ford / Ridley Scott movie)
• Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks movie)
• Blow Up (Michelangelo Antonioni movie)
• Blue Velvet (David Lynch movie)
• Bonnie And Clyde (Warren Beatty / Faye Dunnaway movie)
• Born Free (Virginia McKenna movie)
• Born On The Fourth Of July (Tom Cruise movie)
• Bowel movement
• Box ticking exercise
• Brassed Off (Ewan McGregor movie)
• Bridget Jones's Diary (Helen Fielding book and Renee Zellweger / Colin Firth movie)
• Brief Encounter (David Lean movie)
• Bright Lights, Big City (Jay Mcinerney book)
• Bright lights, big city
• Brights movement
• Bringing Up Baby (Cary Grant / Katharine Hepburn movie)
• Broken Arrow (James Stewart movie)
• Bruce Almighty (Jim Carey movie)
• Burn After Reading (George Clooney movie)
• Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (Paul Newman / Robert Redford movie)
• California Suite (Jane Fonda movie)
• Call to action
• Carry into action
• Carve Her Name With Pride (Virginia McKenna movie)
• Casino Royale (James Bond movie Daniel Craig)
• Cat Balou (Jane Fonda movie)
• Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (play by Tennesee Williams and Elizabeth Taylor movie)
• Caught in the act
• Chain reaction
• Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends! (line from the movie 25th Hour)
• Cheaper By The Dozen (Steve Martin movie)
• Circle the wagons
• Citizen Kane (Orson Welles movie)
• City Lights (Charlie Chaplin movie)
• Class act
• Clean up your act
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Richard Dreyfuss movie)
• Cold Mountain (Jude Law / Renee Zellweger / Nicole Kidman movie)
• Collateral Damage (Arnold Schwarzenegger movie)
• Colorful Colorado (Nickname of the US state of Colorado)
• Conan The Barbarian (Arnold Schwarzenegger movie)
• Coogan's Bluff (Clint Eastwood movie)
• Cool Hand Luke (Paul Newman movie)
• Couldn't act his way out of a paper bag
• Crimes And Misdemeanours (Woody Allen movie)
• Damage limitation exercise
• Dances With Wolves (Kevin Costner movie)
• Dangerous Liaisons (Glenn Close movie)
• Dark And Bloody Ground (Nickname of the US state of Kentucky)
• Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (Steve Martin movie)
• Death In Venice (Dirk Bogade / Luchino Visconti movie)
• Deeds not words
• Destry Rides Again (James Stewart movie)
• Die Another Day (James Bond movie Pierce Brosnan)
• Dinner and a movie
• Dirty Harry (Clint Eastwood movie)
• Displacement activity
• Do a disappearing act
• Doctor In The House (Dirk Bogade / Luchino Visconti movie)
• Doctor Strangelove Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (Peter Sellers movie)
• Doctor Zhivago (Omar Sharif / Julie Christie / David Lean movie)
• Don't Look Now (Julie Christie / Donald Sutherland movie)
• Don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars (line from the movie Now, Voyager)
• Donovan's Reef (John Wayne movie)
• Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder movie)
• Double act
• Dr. No (James Bond movie starring Sean Connery)
• Driving Miss Daisy (Jessica Tandy / Morgan Freeman movie)
• Duck Soup (Marx Brothers movie)
• Dumb And Dumber (Jim Carrey movie)
• E.T.The Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg movie)
• Earth Girls Are Easy (Jim Carrey movie)
• East Of Eden (James Dean movie)
• Easter Parade (Fred Astaire / Judy Garland movie)
• Easy Rider (Peter Fonda / Dennis Hopper movie)
• Empire State Building
• Empire State of Mind (Jay-Z with Alicia Keys song)
• Empty gesture
• Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (Jim Carey movie)
• Every Which Way But Loose (Clint Eastwood movie)
• Everything You Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask (Woody Allen movie)
• Exercise one's discretion
• Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick movie)
• Fahrenheit 451 (Julie Christie / Francois Truffaut movie)
• Far From The Madding Crowd (Julie Christie / Alan Bates movie)
• Fatal Attraction (Glenn Close / Michael Douglas movie)
• Father Of The Bride (Steve Martin movie)
• Fear Is The Key (Barry Newman movie)
• Fight Club (Brad Pitt movie)
• Film at eleven
• Finding Nemo (Disney cartoon movie)
• Foot in the bucket (A baseball expression meaning to act timidly or cowardly)
• For A Few Dollars More (Clint Eastwood movie)
• For Whom The Bell Tolls (Gary Cooper movie)
• For Your Eyes Only (James Bond movie Roger Moore)
• For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction
• Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks movie)
• Friday night and the lights are low (ABBA lyric)
• Friends With Benefits (Justin Timberlake movie)
• From Here To Eternity (Burt Lancaster movie)
• From Russia With Love (James Bond movie Sean Connery)
• From Russia, With Love (James Bond movie Sean Connery)
• Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick movie)
• Fun With Dick And Jane (Jane Fonda movie)
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Marilyn Monroe movie)
• Gesture politics
• Get busy living, or get busy dying (line from the movie The Shawshank Redemption)
• Get in on the act
• Get ready to rumble (prepare to fight or do battle)
• Get your act together
• Ghost Busters (Bill Murray / Dan Aykroyd movie)
• Girl With A Pearl Earring (Scarlett Johansson / Colin Firth movie)
• Give someone the mushroom treatment
• Go out on strike (Withdraw one's labour and leave one's place of work)
• Go where the green lights lead you
• Gone With The Wind (Clark Gable / Vivien Leigh movie)
• Good Night And Good Luck (George Clooney movie)
• Good conduct star
• Great Land (Nickname of the US state of Alaska)
• Groundhog Day (Bill Murray movie)
• Grumpy Old Men (Jack Lemmon / Walter Matthau movie)
• Guess Who's Coming To Dinner? (Sidney Poitier / Spencer Tracy movie)
• Gunfight At The O K Corral (Burt Lancaster / Kurt Douglas movie)
• Gut reaction
• Half the battle
• Hannah And Her Sisters (Mia Farrow / Michael Caine / Woody Allen movie)
• Hard act to follow
• He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy (line from the movie Life of Brian)
• Heart of Dixie (Nickname of the US state of Alabama)
• Heaven Can Wait (Warren Beatty movie)
• High Noon (Gary Cooper movie)
• High culture (refined artistic or intellectual achievement)
• High wire act
• Hobson's Choice (David Lean movie)
• Hold on to your seat
• Home For The Holidays (film starring Holly Hunter and Robert Downey Jr.)
• Horse Feathers (Marx Brothers movie)
• How The West Was Won (James Stewart movie)
• How To Murder Your Wife (Jack Lemmon movie)
• How goes the battle?
• Human Rights Act
• I Am Curious - Yellow (Erotic movie)
• I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore! (line from the movie Network)
• In a state of undress
• In on the act
• In space, no one can hear you scream (tagline from the movie Alien)
• In the heat of battle
• Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade (Harrison Ford / Steven Speilberg movie)
• Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom (Harrison Ford / Steven Speilberg movie)
• Industrial action
• Is your film as good as Gold? (Kodak advertising slogan)
• It Happened One Night (Clark Gable movie)
• It's A Wonderful Life (James Stewart movie)
• Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino movie)
• Judgement At Nuremburg (Burt Lancaster / Spencer Tracy movie)
• Kill Bill (Quentin Tarantino movie)
• King Kong (Naomi Watts movie)
• Klunk! Klick, every trip (UK Public Information Film advertising slogan)
• Knee jerk reaction
• Kramer vs Kramer (Dustin Hoffman / Meryl Streep movie)
• L A Story (Steve Martin movie)
• Last Tango In Paris (Marlon Brando movie)
• Lawrence Of Arabia (Nickname of T E Lawrence and Peter O'Toole movie)
• Let battle commence
• Licence To Kill (James Bond movie Timothy Dalton)
• Lie in state
• Lights Out (Nickname of Brad Lidge)
• Lights Out (Nickname of James Toney)
• Lights Out (Nickname of Shawne Merriman)
• Lights out
• Lights, camera, action
• Like a good neighbor (State Farm)
• Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there (State Farm Insurance advertising slogan)
• Little Rhody (Nickname of the US state of Rhode Island)
• Live And Let Die (James Bond movie Roger Moore)
• Live action
• Lost In Translation (Bill Murray / Scarlett Johansson movie)
• Love Story (Ali MacGraw / Ryan O'Neal movie)
• Malice In Wonderland (Elizabeth Taylor movie)
• Mama always said that life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get (line from the movie Forrest Gump)
• March Of The Penguins (Morgan Freeman movie)
• Married state
• Mary Poppins (Julie Andrews movie)
• Me And My Gal (Spencer Tracy movie)
• Mean Streets (Robert De Niro movie)
• Meet Me In St. Louis (Judy Garland movie)
• Meet The Fockers (Dustin Hoffman / Robert De Niro movie)
• Midnight Cowboy (Dustin Hoffman / Jon Voight movie)
• Million Dollar Baby (Hilary Swank / Clint Eastwood movie)
• Miracle On 34th Street (George Seaton movie)
• Missing in action
• Mission Impossible (Tom Cruise movie and television series title)
• Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin movie)
• Moulin Rouge (Ewan McGregor / Nicole Kidman movie)
• Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (James Stewart movie)
• Mulholland Drive (David Lynch movie)
• Muscles from Brussels (Nickname of Jean Claude Van-Damme)
• Mutiny on the Bounty (Marlon Brando movie)
• My Big Fat Greek Wedding (Nia Vardalos movie)
• My Own Private Idaho (River Phoenix movie)
• Nanny state
• National Velvet (Elizabeth Taylor movie)
• Nine To Five (Lily Tomlin / Dolly Parton / Jane Fonda movie)
• Ninth inning (A baseball expression meaning an event or process is near the end)
• No good deed goes unpunished
• No mean feat
• Non aggression pact
• North By Northwest (Cary Grant / Alfred Hitchcock movie)
• North To Alaska (John Wayne movie)
• Northern Exposure (Rob Morrow movie)
• Northern lights
• O Brother Where Art Thou (A catchphrase from Ed Murrow and George Clooney movie title)
• Ocean's Eleven (Brad Pitt / George Clooney movie)
• Ocean's Thirteen (Brad Pitt / George Clooney movie)
• Ocean's Twelve (Brad Pitt / George Clooney movie)
• Of Human Bondage (Bette Davis movie)
• On Her Majesty's Secret Service (James Bond movie George Lazenby)
• On The Waterfront (Marlon Brando movie and Clark Gable movie)
• Once Upon A Time In America (Robert De Niro movie)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Jack Nicholson movie)
• Out of action
• Paint Your Wagon (Clint Eastwood movie)
• Parlous state
• Patriot Games (Harrison Ford movie)
• People's republic (a communist state)
• Phone it in (perform an act in an uncommitted disinterested manner)
• Piece of the action
• Planet Of The Apes (Charlton Heston movie)
• Play Misty For Me (Clint Eastwood movie)

• Play hardball (A baseball expression meaning to be or act tough or aggressive)
• Play it again, Sam (New York State Lottery advertising slogan)
• Point Break (Keanu Reeves movie)
• Polar Express (Tom Hanks movie)
• Police state
• Pontiac: Designed for Action (Pontiac advertising slogan)
• Positive discrimination
• Primal Fear (film starring Richard Gere)
• Primal Rage (film and video game)
• Primal Scream (a psychological treatment for neurosis)
• Primal therapist (psychotherapist who uses Primal Scream method of treatment)
• Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino movie)
• Punch your lights out
• Put on an act
• Quantum Of Solace (James Bond movie Daniel Craig)
• Raging Bull (Robert De Niro movie)
• Raiders Of The Lost Ark (Harrison Ford / Steven Speilberg movie)
• Random act of kindness
• Read the riot act
• Ready and waiting (alert and prepared for action)
• Rear Window (James Stewart / Alfred Hitchcock movie)
• Rebel Without A Cause (James Dean movie)
• Red River (John Wayne / Howard Hawks movie)
• Red carpet treatment
• Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino movie)
• Return of the Jedi (George Lucas movie in the Star Wars series)
• Revenge Of The Nerds (1984 film)
• Revenge of the Sith (George Lucas movie in the Star Wars series)
• Richard of York gave battle in vain
• Rio Grande (John Wayne movie)
• Robin Hood - Men In Tights (Mel Brooks movie)
• Robin Prince Of Thieves (Kevin Costner movie)
• Romancing The Stone (Michael Douglas movie)
• Run Forrest, Run! (line from the movie Forrest Gump)
• Running battle
• Ryan's Daughter (David Lean movie)
• Sad state of affairs
• Sands Of Iwo Jima (John Wayne movie)
• Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg movie)
• Seagulls Over Sorrento (Gene Kelly movie)
• Sex, Lies And Videotape (Steven Soderbergh movie)
• Silent Movie (Mel Brooks movie)
• Singin' in the Rain (Gene Kelly movie)
• Sister Act (Whoopie Goldberg movie)
• Sleepless In Seattle (Tom Hanks movie)
• Slice of the action
• Smokey And The Bandit (Burt Reynolds movie)
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney cartoon movie)
• Some Like It Hot (Jack Lemmon / Tony Curtis / Marilyn Monroe movie)
• Something is rotten in the state of Denmark
• Splendour In The Grass (Warren Beatty / Natalie Wood movie)
• Spring into action
• Stand-by for action
• Star Wars (Harrison Ford / George Lucas movie series)
• State of Independence (Saab advertising slogan)
• State of mind
• State of the art
• Stop, or my mom will shoot (line from Sylvestor Stallone movie)
• Strangers On A Train (Farley Granger / Alfred Hitchcock movie)
• Straw Dogs (Dustin Hoffman / Sam Peckinpah movie)
• Suddenly Last Summer (Elizabeth Taylor movie)
• Suicide is painless (title of the theme song to MASH tv series and film)
• Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder movie)
• Taxi Driver (Robert De Niro movie)
• That Obscure Object Of Desire (Luis Bunuel movie)
• The 39 Steps (Robert Donat / Alfred Hitchcock movie)
• The African Queen (Humphrey Bogart / Katharine Hepburn movie)
• The Agony and The Ecstasy (Charlton Heston movie)
• The Apache State (Nickname of the US state of Arizona)
• The Apartment (Jack Lemmon / Shirley MacLaine movie)
• The Artesian State (Nickname of the US state of South Dakota)
• The Auto State (Nickname of the US state of Michigan)
• The Aztec State (Nickname of the US state of Arizona)
• The Badger State (Nickname of the US state of Wisconsin)
• The Barefoot Contessa (Humphrey Bogart / Ava Gardner movie)
• The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton
• The Battle-Born State (Nickname of the US state of Nevada)
• The Bay State (Nickname of the US state of Massachusetts)
• The Bayou State (Nickname of the US state of Mississippi)
• The Bear State (Nickname of the US state of Arkansas)
• The Beaver State (Nickname of the US state of Oregon)
• The Beef State (Nickname of the US state of Nebraska)
• The Beehive State (Nickname of the US state of Utah)
• The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas (Burt Reynolds / Dolly Parton movie)
• The Best Years Of Our Lives (William Wyler movie)
• The Big Bend State (Nickname of the US state of Tennessee)
• The Big Lebowski (Jeff Bridges movie)
• The Big Sleep (Humphrey Bogart movie)
• The Birth of a Nation (D W Griffith / Lillian Gish movie)
• The Blizzards State (Nickname of the US state of South Dakota)
• The Blue End State (Nickname of the US state of Delaware)
• The Bluegrass State (Nickname of the US state of Kentucky)
• The Bread-And-Butter State (Nickname of the US state of Minnesota)
• The Bridge On The River Kwai (David Lean movie)
• The Buckeye State (Nickname of the US state of Ohio)
• The Bullion State (Nickname of the US state of Missouri)
• The Buzzard State (Nickname of the US state of Georgia)
• The Camellia State (Nickname of the US state of Alabama)
• The Centennial State (Nickname of the US state of Colorado)
• The China Syndrome (Michael Douglas / Walter Matthau / Jane Fonda movie)
• The Chinook State (Nickname of the US state of Washington)
• The Cider House Rules (Michael Caine movie)
• The Cincinnati Kid (Steve McQueen movie)
• The City Of Lights (Nickname of Las Vegas Nevada)
• The Clone Wars (George Lucas movie in the Star Wars series)
• The Cockade State (Nickname of the US state of Maryland)
• The Color Of Money (Paul Newman / Tom Cruise movie)
• The Color Purple (Whoopie Goldberg movie)
• The Constitution State (Nickname of the US state of Connecticut)
• The Copper State (Nickname of the US state of Arizona)
• The Corn State (Nickname of the US state of Iowa)
• The Cornhusker State (Nickname of the US state of Nebraska)
• The Cotton State (Nickname of the US state of Alabama)
• The Cowboy State (Nickname of the US state of Wyoming)
• The Coyote State (Nickname of the US state of South Dakota)
• The Cracker State (Nickname of the US state of Georgia)
• The Creole State (Nickname of the US state of Louisiana)
• The Da Vinci Code (Tom Hanks movie)
• The Day of the Dead (Horror movie)
• The Day the Earth Stood Still (Michael Rennie movie)
• The Deer Hunter (Robert De Niro movie)
• The Devil's Disciple (Bernard Shaw play and Burt Lancaster movie)
• The Diamond State (Nickname of the US state of Delaware)
• The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie (Fernando Rey / Luis Bunuel movie)
• The Dream Factory (film or television studio where idealised concepts are manufactured - especially Hollywood)
• The Elephant Man (John Hurt / Anthony Hopkins / David Lynch movie)
• The Empire State (Nickname of the US state of New York)
• The Empire State (Nickname of the US state of South Georgia)
• The Empire State Building (tourist attraction in New York USA)
• The Empire Strikes Back (George Lucas movie in the Star Wars series)
• The Equality State (Nickname of the US state of Wyoming)
• The Everglade State (Nickname of the US state of Florida)
• The Evergreen State (Nickname of the US state of Washington)
• The Fabulous Baker Boys (Jeff Bridges / Michelle Pfeiffer movie)
• The First State (Nickname of the US state of Delaware)
• The Flickertail State (Nickname of the US state of North Dakota)
• The Foreigner State (Nickname of the US state of New Jersey)
• The Free State (Nickname of the US state of Maryland)
• The French Connection (Gene Hackman movie)
• The French Lieutenant's Woman (Jeremy Irons / Meryl Streep movie)
• The Gamecock State (Nickname of the US state of South Carolina)
• The Garden State (Nickname of the US state of New Jersey)
• The Gem State (Nickname of the US state of Idaho)
• The Girl Can't Help It (Little Richard song and movie)
• The Godfather (Marlon Brando movie)
• The Gold Rush (Charlie Chaplin movie)
• The Golden State (Nickname of the US state of California)
• The Goober State (Nickname of the US state of Georgia)
• The Good The Bad And The Ugly (Clint Eastwood movie)
• The Gopher State (Nickname of the US state of Minnesota)
• The Graduate (Dustin Hoffman movie)
• The Grand Canyon State (Nickname of the US state of Arizona)
• The Granite State (Nickname of the US state of New Hampshire)
• The Grapes Of Wrath (John Steinbeck novel and Henry Fonda movie)
• The Great Dictator (Charlie Chaplin movie)
• The Great Escape (Steve McQueen movie)
• The Great Lake State (Nickname of the US state of Michigan)
• The Greatest Story Ever Told (Charlton Heston movie)
• The Green Berets (John Wayne movie)
• The Green Mountain State (Nickname of the US state of Vermont)
• The Guinea Pig State (Nickname of the US state of Arkansas)
• The Guns Of Navarone (Gregory Peck / David Niven movie)
• The Hawkeye State (Nickname of the US state of Iowa)
• The Heroes Of Telemark (Burt Lancaster / Richard Harris movie)
• The Hog And Hominy State (Nickname of the US state of Tennessee)
• The Hoozier State (Nickname of the US state of Indiana)
• The Horse Whisperer (Robert Redford movie)
• The Hot Water State (Nickname of the US state of Arkansas)
• The Hudsucker Proxy (Paul Newman movie)
• The Incredible Shrinking Woman (Lily Tomlin / Dolly Parton / Jane Fonda movie)
• The Invisible Man (HG Wells story and later a film)
• The Iodine State (Nickname of the US state of South Carolina)
• The Italian Job (Michael Caine movie)
• The Jayhawker State (Nickname of the US state of Kansas)
• The Jazz Singer (Al Jolson movie)
• The Jumbo State (Nickname of the US state of Texas)
• The Jungle Book (Disney cartoon movie)
• The Keystone State (Nickname of the US state of Pennsylvania)
• The Kids Are All Right (Annette Benning movie)
• The King Of Comedy (Robert De Niro movie)
• The King's Speech (Colin Firth movie)
• The Lady Vanishes (Margaret Lockwood / Alfred Hitchcock movie)
• The Last Action Hero (Arnold Schwarzenegger movie)
• The Last Frontier (Nickname of the US state of Alaska)
• The Last Picture Show (Jeff Bridges movie)
• The Last Time I Saw Paris (Elizabeth Taylor movie)
• The Life And Times Of Judge Roy Bean (Paul Newman movie)
• The Lion In Winter (Peter O'Toole / Katharine Hepburn movie)
• The Lion King (Disney cartoon movie)
• The Little Mermaid (Disney cartoon movie)
• The Lone Star State (Nickname of the US state of Texas)
• The Longest Day (John Wayne movie)
• The Lord of the Rings (J R R Tolkien story and Peter Jackson movie)
• The Magic Christian (Peter Sellers / Ringo Starr movie)
• The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles movie)
• The Magnificent Seven (Steve McQueen / Yul Brynner / Charles Bronson movie)
• The Magnolia State (Nickname of the US state of Mississippi)
• The Maltese Falcon (Humphrey Bogart movie)
• The Man Who Knew Too Much (Peter Lorre / Alfred Hitchcock movie)
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (James Stewart / John Wayne movie)
• The Man With The Golden Arm (Frank Sinatra movie)
• The Man With The Golden Gun (James Bond movie Roger Moore)
• The Man With Two Brains (Steve Martin movie)
• The Manchurian Candidate (Frank Sinatra / John Frankenheimer movie)
• The Matrix (Keanu Reeves movie)
• The Men Who Stare At Goats (Jeff Bridges / George Clooney / Ewan McGregor movie)
• The Misfits (Clark Gable / Marilyn Monroe movie)
• The Mosquito Coast (Harrison Ford movie)
• The Odd Couple (Jack Lemmon / Walter Matthau movie)
• The Old Man And The Sea (Spencer Tracy movie)
• The Outlaw Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood movie)
• The Palm Beach Story (Claudette Colbert movie)
• The Parent Trap (Hayley Mills movie)
• The Phantom Menace (George Lucas movie in the Star Wars series)
• The Philadelphia Story (Cary Grant / Katharine Hepburn movie)
• The Pink Panther (Peter Sellers / David Niven movie)
• The Postman Always Rings Twice (Jack Nicholson movie)
• The Purple Rose Of Cairo (Woody Allen movie)
• The Remains Of The Day (Kazuo Ishiguro novel and Anthony Hopkins movie)
• The Searchers (John Wayne movie)
• The Shawshank Redemption (Tim Robbins / Morgan Freeman movie)
• The Shining (Stanley Kubrick movie)
• The Silence Of The Lambs (Jodie Foster / Anthony Hopkins movie)
• The Social Network (Jesse Eisenberg movie)
• The Sound Of Music (Julie Andrews movie)
• The Spy Who Loved Me (James Bond movie)
• The Stepford Wives (Katharine Ross / Nicole Kidman movie)
• The Ten Commandments (Charlton Heston movie)
• The Tender Trap (Frank Sinatra movie)
• The Third Man (Orson Welles movie)
• The Thomas Crown Affair (Steve McQueen movie)
• The Towering Inferno (Paul Newman Steve McQueen movie)
• The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (Humphrey Bogart movie)
• The Truman Show (Jim Carey movie)
• The War Of The Roses (Michael Douglas movie)
• The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah movie)
• The Wild Geese (Richard Harris / Roger Moore movie)
• The Wild One (Marlon Brando movie)
• The Witches Of Eastwick (Jack Nicholson movie)
• The Wizard Of Oz (Judy Garland movie)
• The World Is Not Enough (James Bond movie Pierce Brosnan)
• The act you've known for all these years (Beatles song lyric)
• The battle of the bulge
• The bright lights
• The bright lights taste (Cinzano advertising slogan)
• The cat who doesn't act finicky soon loses control of his owner (9 Lives Cat Food advertising slogan)
• The fog of war (confusion caused by the chaos of battle)
• The lights are on but there's no one at home
• The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong (quotation from the Bible - Ecclesiastes
• The royal treatment
• The silent treatment
• Thelma And Louise (Ridley Scott movie)
• There's Something About Mary (Cameron Diaz movie)
• These go to eleven (line from the movie This Is Spinal Tap)
• They Shoot Horses Don't They? (Jane Fonda movie)
• Think global, act local
• Think globally, act locally (Friends of the Earth advertising slogan)
• Think once, think twice, think bike (UK Public Information Film advertising slogan)
• This Happy Breed (David Lean movie)
• Thoroughly Modern Milly (Julie Andrews movie)
• Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines (Ken Annakin movie)
• Tittle tattle lost the battle (WWII slogan)
• To Have And Have Not (Humphrey Bogart movie)
• To Kill A Mockingbird (Gregory Peck movie)
• To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! (line from the movie A Fish Called Wanda)
• To infinty and beyond (line from the movie Toy Story)
• Tomb Raider (Angelina Jolie movie)
• Tomorrow Never Dies (James Bond movie Pierce Brosnan)
• Top Hat (Fred Astaire / Ginger Rogers movie)
• Touch Of Evil (Charlton Heston / Orson Welles movie)
• Tour de force (a feat of strength power or skill)
• Toy Story (Tom Hanks movie)
• Triple play (A baseball expression denoting the act of making three outs during the same play)
• True Grit (John Wayne movie)
• Truly, Madly, Deeply (Julia Stevenson / Alan Rickman movie)
• Two and eight (Cockney rhyming slang for state)
• Un Chien Andalou (Luis Bunuel movie)
• Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Woody Allen / Scarlett Johansson movie)
• Victor Victoria (Julie Andrews movie)
• War movie (a film with war as the subject matter)
• Well, nobody's perfect (line from the movie Some Like It Hot)
• West Side Story (Leonard Bernstein musical and Natalie Wood movie)
• What Just Happened? (Robert De Niro movie)
• What's It All About, Alfie? (Michael Caine movie)
• What's New Pussycat? (Peter Sellers movie)
• Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? (Bette Davis movie)
• Whatever Works (Woody Allen movie)
• Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away (Robert Maynard Hutchins quotation)
• Where Eagles Dare (Clint Eastwood movie)
• Where was Moses When the Lights Went Out? - Groping for a pack of Meccas (Mecca Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (Elizabeth Taylor movie)
• With you, all the way (State Bank of India advertising slogan)
• Wonder Boys (Michael Douglas movie)
• Wuthering Heights (Merle Oberon / Laurence Olivier movie)
• You Only Live Twice (James Bond movie Sean Connery)
• You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off! (line from the Michael Caine movie The Italian Job)
• Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks / Gene Wilder movie)
• Your good deed for the day
• Your name in lights
• Zabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni movie)

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• Action Jackson (Nickname of Stephen Jackson)
• Action Man (Nickname of Prince Charles)
• Action Man (children's male doll)
• Action packed
• Action painting
• Action plan
• Action replay
• Action stations
• Affirmative action
• Amped up (excited and ready for action)
• Call to action
• Carry into action
• For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction
• Industrial action
• Lights, camera, action
• Live action
• Missing in action
• Out of action
• Piece of the action
• Pontiac: Designed for Action (Pontiac advertising slogan)
• Ready and waiting (alert and prepared for action)
• Slice of the action
• Spring into action
• Stand-by for action
• The Last Action Hero (Arnold Schwarzenegger movie)