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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
(
the meaning and origin of this phrase...
)
Act
out
Act
the fool
Act
the giddy goat
(
the meaning and origin of this phrase...
)
Act
the part
Act
up
Act
white
Act
your age
Action Jackson ( Nickname of Stephen Jackson )
Action Man ( Nickname of Prince Charles )
(
the meaning and origin of this phrase...
)
Action Man ( children's male doll )
(
the meaning and origin of this phrase...
)
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
(
the meaning and origin of this phrase...
)
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
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the meaning and origin of this phrase...
)
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
)