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.

Benny Andersson has written music to several films for screen and television ; the first attempt in the early 1970s for the obscure Swedish movie The Seduction Of Inga: the film flopped, but the ' Björn & Benny ' single " She's My Kind Of Girl " surprised the composers by being released in Japan and becoming a Top 10 hit ( the song renamed in Japan as " The Little Girl Of The Cold Wind ").

In 1987, Andersson wrote music and co-produced the soundtrack with Anders Eljas for the film Mio in the Land of Faraway, based on Swedish author Astrid Lindgrens Mio, my Mio.

Benny Andersson also wrote the film score for the 2012 documentary Palme about Swedish prime minister Olof Palme.

* 1924 – Vilgot Sjöman, Swedish writer and film director ( d. 2006 )

The song " Baby Doll " was used in the film Tapeheads, with newly recorded Swedish lyrics, and was credited to ( and shown in a music video by ) a fictitious Swedish band called Cube-Squared.

Germany have a long cooperation with the Swedish film industry, which started as early as during the 1960s.

German film industry has primarily been economically involved in Swedish films, but does not put itself in the artistic product.

The Swedish film industry was smaller and slower to get started than the Danish industry.

* 1884 – Nils Olaf Chrisander, Swedish actor, film director ( d. 1947 )

Show Me Love is a 1998 Swedish film directed by Lukas Moodysson, the title for non-English speaking countries is Fucking Åmål.

Further pressure was brought on the makers of the film, the Film i Väst film studio, who are partly financed by Swedish local authorities, including Åmål.

The film received the highest audience figures for a Swedish film in 1998-9, with a total audience of 867, 576, and a total audience for the whole of Europe of 2, 100, 000.

* Hitler och vi på Klamparegatan, a Swedish film

* 1969 – Lukas Moodysson, Swedish film writer and director

* 1918 – Allan Ekelund, Swedish film producer ( d. 2009 )

" In 2010 the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter reported on their website that the film production company Zentropa is reportedly making more revenue from suing movie pirates in Germany that have downloaded Antichrist illegally than from box office and DVD sales, demanding a payment of around 1, 300 euros per download to avoid legal action.

Liv Johanne Ullmann ( born 16 December 1938 ) is a Norwegian actress and film director, as well as one of the " muses " of the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman.

She continued to act in the theatre for most of her career, and became noted for her portrayal of Nora in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, but became wider known once she started to work with eminent Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman.

The fate of Laika is a recurring motif in Swedish director Lasse Hallström's 1985 film My Life as a Dog, which is based on a novel by Reidar Jönsson.

Mad has since relaxed its requirements, and while the U. S. version still eschews overt profanity, the magazine generally poses no objections to more provocative content such as the Swedish edition's 1999 parody of the film Fucking Åmål.

* Saladin was portrayed by Milind Soman in the Swedish 2007 film Arn – The Knight Templar and 2008 sequel Arn – The Kingdom at Road's End.

One was created for the film using the chassis of a Czech-built Panzer 38 ( t ) tank similar to the construction of the original Marder III ; the other was a cosmetically modified Swedish SAV m / 43 assault gun, which also used the 38 ( t ) chassis.