The 1993 film Sleepless in Seattle, a romantic comedy partially inspired by An Affair to Remember, climaxes with a scene at the Empire State observatory.

The wave of arson in the South Bronx in the 1960s and 1970s inspired the observation that " The Bronx is burning ": in 1974 it was the title of both a New York Times editorial and a BBC documentary film.

Holly's life story inspired a Hollywood biographical film, The Buddy Holly Story ( 1978 ).

The film's title was inspired by the line, " Bring me my chariot of fire ," from the William Blake poem adapted into the popular British hymn " Jerusalem "; the hymn is heard at the end of the film.

La Jetée was the inspiration for Mamoru Oshii's 1987 debut live action feature The Red Spectacles ( and, later for, parts of Oshii's 2001 film Avalon as well ) and also inspired Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys ( 1995 ).

It also inspired many of director Mira Nair's shots for the 2003 film The Namesake.

* Creation ( 1931 film ), a 1931 film that inspired King Kong

The video game Emperor: Battle for Dune, whose in-game cut scenes are visually inspired by David Lynch's film, features a character named Baron Rakan Harkonnen, portrayed by Michael McShane.

Memento ( 2000 ) a film inspired by the case of Henry Molaison ( H. M .).

" He had been inspired by the film Death Wish, which was very popular at the time.

J. J. Abrams, producer of the 2008 film Cloverfield, mentioned that a scene in his film, which shows the head of the Statue of Liberty crashing into a New York street, was inspired by the poster for Escape from New York.

Many works have been inspired by the novella, including novel sequels, short films, and a feature film called Flatland.

In Which We Serve was a British patriotic war film directed by David Lean and Noël Coward, and inspired by the sinking of Kelly.

Sinatra purportedly used pressure from his underworld connections to get the part, an incident that inspired the Johnny Fontane character in the classic 1972 film The Godfather.

Among the many inspirations for the film include The Three Stooges and other slapstick comedy films ; Ash's fights with his disembodied hand come from a film made by Spiegel as a teenager, entitled Attack of the Helping Hand, which was itself inspired by television commercials advertising Hamburger Helper.

At UCLA, Coppola directed a short horror film called “ The Two Christophers ” inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's " William Wilson ".

In other countries this film was shown straight through as one picture, and it inspired the creation of other multi-reel films in Europe.

In the most recent years, while no longer and struggling with censorship, and with a large number of independent filmmakers of all genres, the Polish productions tend to be more inspired by the American film.

The clichés of film noir have inspired parody since the mid-1940s.

The film is heavily inspired by the birthplace of Kjell Aukrust's father, Lom.

The film has been called " picaresque ", and was one of the earliest " road movies " which inspired variations on its theme by other filmmakers.

Shot in four days, the film was loosely inspired by the sex reassignment surgery of Christine Jorgensen, which made national headlines in the U. S. in 1952.

In 2002, she starred opposite Hugh Grant in Two Weeks Notice and in the film Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.

The submissions for the 75th Academy Awards, for instance, became shrouded in controversy when it was reported that Humbert Balsan, producer of the critically acclaimed Palestinian film Divine Intervention ( 2002 ), tried to submit his picture to the Academy but was told it could not run for the Foreign Language Film Award since the State of Palestine is not recognized by the Academy in its rules.

* Bette Midler sang the lyrics in her concert film Divine Madness !.

* At the start of Divine Comedy's " Death of a Supernaturalist " ( on " Liberation ") is a sample of film dialogue taken from the 1985 Merchant Ivory adaptation ; featuring Julian Sands and Daniel Day-Lewis ( George Emerson and Cecil Vyse respectively ).

* The Divine Weapon ( film )

The Divine Lady is a 1929 Vitaphone sound film with a synchronized musical score and sound effects.

According to the 1989 book Bette & Joan: The Divine Feud by Shaun Considine, Davis was going through incredible personal torments at this time, which was reflected in her treatment of co-stars on this film, and several others at the time, culminating in a vicious personal attack: apparently, while Davis was away from her dressing room, the eyewash she always used after filming the day's scenes, had been poisoned, causing Davis to scream out in pain.

The footage was incorporated into a posthumous documentary film Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti edited and produced by Teiji Itō and his wife Cherel Winett Itō ( 1947 – 1999 ) in 1977.

Other religious figures became involved in the controversy surrounding the film, including Francis J. Spellman, the Catholic Archbishop of New York, who called it " sinful " and forbade Catholics in the archdiocese to see the film and James A. Pike of the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York, who countered Spellman by pointing out that there was more " sensuality " in the film The Ten Commandments than there was in Baby Doll, and argued that " the church's duty is not to prevent adults from having the experience of this picture, but to give them a wholesome basis for interpretation and serious answers to questions that were asked with seriousness.

The first film to star Divine, in this instance in drag as a smoking nun, Roman Candles featured the Dreamlanders modeling their shoplifted clothes and performing various other surreal activities.

Waters followed Roman Candles with a third short film, entitled Eat Your Makeup ( 1968 ), in which Divine once more wore drag, this time in order to portray a fictionalized version of Jackie Kennedy, the widow of recently assassinated U. S. President John F. Kennedy, who in the film had turned to kidnapping models and forcing them to eat their own makeup.

Now living independently, Divine once more appeared in Waters's work, acting in the director's next short film, The Diane Linkletter Story ( 1969 ), which was initially designed to be a test for a new sound camera that Waters had obtained.

In one of the scenes, an actor was required to walk about a street naked, which was a crime in the state of Maryland at the time, leading to the arrest of Waters and most of the actors associated with the film ; Divine, however, escaped, having speedily driven away from the police when they arrived to carry out the arrests.

In their review of the film, the Los Angeles Free Press exclaimed that " The 300-pound sex-symbol Divine is undoubtedly some sort of discovery.

In 1970, Divine played the role of Lady Divine, the operator of an exhibit known as " The Cavalcade of Perversion " who turns to murdering visitors in Waters's film Multiple Maniacs.

The film contained several controversial scenes, notably one which involved Lady Divine masturbating using a rosary while sitting inside a church.

At the end of the film, Lady Divine is raped by a giant lobster named Lobstora, an act that drives her into madness ; she subsequently goes on a killing spree in Fell's Point before being shot down by the National Guard.

Following his San Francisco sojourn, Divine returned to Baltimore and participated in John Waters's next project, the film Pink Flamingos.

Designed by Waters to be " an exercise in poor taste ," the film featured Divine as Babs Johnson, " the filthiest person alive ," who is forced to prove her right to the title from challengers, jealous perverts Connie ( Mink Stole ) and Raymond Marble ( David Lochary ).

The final scene in the film would prove particularly infamous, involving the character of Babs eating fresh dog feces ; as Divine would later tell a reporter, " I followed that dog around for three hours just zooming in on its asshole ," waiting for it to empty its bowels so that they could film the scene.