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.

Such ABS mail coats were made for the Lord of the Rings film trilogy, in addition to many metal coats.

In 2001 Enya recorded " May It Be ", which was featured in the first installment of The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Fellowship of the Ring, and was her second consecutive single to enter the German charts at number one.

The film failed to win any of these awards, the only film in the trilogy to do so.

The 08 / 15 film trilogy of 1954 – 55 concerns a sensitive young German soldier who rather be playing the piano who fights on the Eastern Front without understanding why, and no mention is made of genocidal aspects of Germany's war in East.

She and Lang co-wrote all of his movies from 1921 through 1933, including 1922's Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler ( Dr. Mabuse the Gambler ), which ran for over four hours in two parts in the original version and was the first in the Dr. Mabuse trilogy, 1924's five-hour Die Nibelungen, the famous 1927 film Metropolis, and the 1931 classic, M, his first " talking " picture.

The Wachowskis, makers of The Matrix trilogy, have commented on the influence of the first Ghost in the Shell film, directed by Mamoru Oshii, on The Matrix.

The third film in the original trilogy, Return of the Jedi, ends with Luke redeeming Vader and helping to destroy the Empire, thus fulfilling his destiny as a Jedi.

This pattern began with his first feature film, marking the beginning of The Europa Trilogy, though he claims a trilogy was not initially planned, instead being applied to the films in retrospect.

Von Trier has stated he was inspired to make a trilogy about the United States as a reaction to Americans at the Cannes film festival who said he had no right to make the Dancer in the Dark, which was often viewed as being critical of a country he has never been to ( and has no intention of ever visiting, due to his phobia of travel ); however, von Trier himself has stated in interviews he did not intend it to be a criticism of America, saying the film takes place in a " fictional America ".

Anderson is best remembered as a film maker for his " Mick Travis trilogy ", all of which star Malcolm McDowell as the title character: If .... ( 1968 ), a satire on public schools ; O Lucky Man!

* X-Men Origins: Wolverine, a 2009 action film, prequel to the X-Men film trilogy.

Earlier ( in 2009 ) Scott had stated that he would direct a film adaptation of the Red Riding trilogy.

According to Entertainment Weekly, Raimi had expressed an interest in directing a film version of The Hobbit, the prequel to the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Others are connected only by theme: for example, each film of Krzysztof Kieślowski's Three Colors trilogy explores one of the political ideals of the French Republic ( liberty, equality, fraternity ) and each novel in Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy uses formats from detective fiction to explore existential questions.

For example, before Quentin Tarantino's fourth film was released, his films Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and Jackie Brown were sometimes referred to as " the Quentin Tarantino trilogy ", although the stories of the three films hardly interconnected.

They had them done after the filming of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings film trilogy, since the characters they played were the nine members of the Fellowship of the Ring.

The longer cut, which Wenders regards as the definitive version of the film, unfolds as a trilogy and is presented in three parts ( the titles appear three different times ).

* The top 15 highest-grossing film series of the decade are ( in order from highest to lowest grossing ): Harry Potter-film series, Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Pirates of the Caribbean-film series, Spider-Man-film series, Shrek-film series, Ice Age-film series, Transformers-film series, X-Men-film series, Batman-film series ' Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, Star Wars Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, The Matrix-film series ' The Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions, The Chronicles of Narnia-film series, Mission: Impossible-film series ' and The Mummy-film series.

It is the second film in the Qatsi trilogy.

As with Koyaanisqatsi and the third and final part of the ' Qatsi ' trilogy, Naqoyqatsi, the film is strongly related to its soundtrack, written by Philip Glass.

Leone's next two films – For a Few Dollars More ( 1965 ) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ( 1966 ) – completed what has come to be known as the Man with No Name trilogy ( a. k. a. the Dollars Trilogy ), with each film being more financially successful and more technically accomplished than its predecessor.