Film series
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The Film Series type is used to organize films and their sequels, such as the Star Wars and Toy Story series.
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A trilogy is a set of three works of art, usually literature, film, or video games, that are connected and can be seen either as a single work or three individual works.
Most trilogies are works of fiction involving the same characters or setting,...
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| The Thin Man |
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The Thin Man was the first of six comic detective film starring William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles, a hard-drinking and flirtatious married couple who banter wittily as they solve crimes with ease. Their dog, the Wire-Haired Fox...
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| Jaws |
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Film | Jaws 3-D |
Jaws is a 1975 thriller/horror film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Peter Benchley's best-selling novel that was inspired by the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916. The police chief of Amity Island, a fictional summer resort town, tries to...
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| Quotation Source | Jaws The Revenge | |||
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| The Karate Kid |
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The Karate Kid is a 1984 film directed by John G. Avildsen, and starring Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita and Elisabeth Shue. It is a martial arts film and an "underdog" story much in the mold of a previous Avildsen success, the 1976 boxing film Rocky. It...
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| Poltergeist | Poltergeist III |
The Poltergeist movies are a trilogy of horror film produced in the 1980s. Steven Spielberg co-wrote and co-produced the first Poltergeist, with Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre) as the director. Brian Gibson directed Poltergeist II: The...
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| Poltergeist II: The Other Side | ||||
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| Spy Kids |
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Film | Spy Kids |
The Spy Kids Series is a series of family/action/adventure films written, produced and directed by Robert Rodriguez. The plot tells a story about the children of a married spy couple who become involved in their parents' espionage. The rest of their...
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| Dead End Kids |
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The Dead End Kids were a group of young actors from New York who appeared in Sidney Kingsley's Broadway play Dead End in 1935. In 1937 producer Samuel Goldwyn brought all of them to Hollywood and turned the play into a film. They proved to be so...
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| The Sons of Hercules |
The Sons of Hercules was a syndicated television show that aired in the United States of America in the 1960s. The series repackaged 14 Italian sword-and-sandal films by giving them separate memorable theme song for the opening titles and the final...
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| The Gods Must Be Crazy |
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The Gods Must Be Crazy is a film released in 1980, written and directed by Jamie Uys. Set in Botswana and South Africa, it tells the story of Xi, a Sho of the Kalahari Desert (played by Namibia San farmer Nǃxau) whose nation has no knowledge of the...
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| Return of the Living Dead |
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Return of the Living Dead |
Return of the Living Dead is a series of films that was produced between 1985-2005. The series came about as a dispute between John Russo and George A. Romero over how to handle sequels to their 1968 film, Night of the Living Dead. The two reached a...
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| Return of the Living Dead 3 | ||||
| Return of the Living Dead Part II | ||||
| Return of the Living Dead: Rave from the Grave | ||||
| Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis | ||||
| House Party |
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Film | House Party 4: Down to the Last Minute |
House Party is a 1990 comedy film released by New Line Cinema. It stars Kid and Play of the popular hip hop duo Kid n' Play, and also stars Paul Anthony, Bow-Legged Lou, and B-Fine from Full Force, and Robin Harris. Other featured actors in the film...
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| Crocodile Dundee |
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Crocodile Dundee is a 1986 Australian comedy film set in the Australian Outback and in New York City. It stars Paul Hogan as the weathered Mick Dundee and Linda Kozlowski as Sue Charlton.
Inspired by the true life exploits of Rodney Ansell, the...
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| Emmanuelle |
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Emmanuelle is the lead character in a series of French softcore erotic movies based on a character created by Emmanuelle Arsan in the novel Emmanuelle (1959). Only films and episodes produced by ASP ("Alain Siritzky Productions") film company are...
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| The Cremaster Cycle |
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Film | Cremaster 2 |
The Cremaster Cycle is a sequence of five films by Matthew Barney, entitled Cremaster 1 to Cremaster 5 which create a self-enclosed aesthetic system. The conceptual departure point for the cycle is the male cremaster muscle, and the films are filled...
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| Wishmaster |
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Wishmaster is a 1997 horror film about a djinn who is released from a jewel and seeks to capture the soul of the woman who discovered him, thereby opening a portal and freeing his fellow Djinn to inhabit the earth. The film stars Andrew Divoff and...
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| Guinea Pig |
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The are a series of 1980s Japanese horror films with extremely detailed special effects of gruesome crimes against people.
The tapes gained notoriety in Japan during the late 1980s and early 1990s when the first five films of the series were found...
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| Children of the Corn | Film |
Children Of The Corn is a short story by Stephen King, published in 1978 in the compilation Night Shift.
It was first published in the March 1977 issue of Penthouse magazine.
While driving in rural Nebraska, a couple, Burt and Vicky Robeson, on...
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| Ma and Pa Kettle |
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Ma and Pa Kettle were the featured characters in a series ofpopular light comedic movies in the 1940s and 1950s. The movies revolved around the absurd misadventures of the Kettle clan.
Pa (Franklin Kettle) (played by Percy Kilbride) was a gentle...
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| Police Academy |
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Film | Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment |
Police Academy is a long-running series of comedy film, the first six of which were made in the 1980s. The seventh and to date last installment, Mission to Moscow, was released in 1994.
The series opened with Police Academy (1984) which started...
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| Police Academy 3: Back in Training | ||||
| Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol | ||||
| Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach | ||||
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| Blondie | Film |
Blondie is a 1938 movie directed by Frank Strayer, based on the comic strip of the same name. The screenplay was written by Chic Young and Richard Flournoy.
This was the first of 28 films based on the comic strip; Columbia Pictures produced them...
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| Walking Tall |
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Walking Tall is a 1973 semi-biopic of Sheriff Buford Pusser, a former professional wrestler-turned-lawman in McNairy County, Tennessee. It starred Joe Don Baker as Pusser. The film was directed by Phil Karlson.
Pusser, at his wife Pauline's behest,...
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| Star Wreck |
Star Wreck is a series of Finnish Star Trek parody movies started by Samuli Torssonen in 1992. The first movie, simply named Star Wreck, was a simple Star Control–like animation with three ships shooting at each other, but later movies featured 3D...
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| Dracula |
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Dracula is a 1958 British horror film, and the first of a series of Hammer Horror films inspired by the Bram Stoker novel Dracula. It was directed by Terence Fisher, and stars Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. In the United States, the film was...
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| Beverly Hills Cop |
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Film | Beverly Hills Cop |
Beverly Hills Cop is a 1984 Academy Award nominated American action-comedy film directed by Martin Brest and starring Eddie Murphy. The film is the first in the ''Beverly Hills Cop'' series. The film shot Murphy to international stardom, won the...
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| Sleepaway Camp |
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Sleepaway Camp is a 1983 horror movie written and directed by Robert Hiltzik—who also served as executive producer. The film is about murders at a summer camp. The film came at a time when slasher films were in their heyday. It has since developed...
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| The Exorcist |
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The Exorcist is a 1973 American horror film, adapted from the 1971 novel of the same name by William Peter Blatty, dealing with the demonic possession of a young girl, and her mother’s desperate attempts to win back her daughter through an exorcism...
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| Billy Jack |
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Billy Jack is the second, and highest grossing, in a series of motion picture centering on a fictional character of the same name, played by Tom Laughlin. Filming began in Prescott, Arizona, in fall 1969, but the movie was not completed until 1971....
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| Moment of Truth Movie | Film |
Moment of Truth Movies are a series of TV movies produced for the Lifetime cable television and movie networks during the 1990s.
The Lifetime network marketed itself towards an audience of American women; as such, Moment of Truth movies were...
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| Gidget |
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Gidget is an American film starring 1950s teen icon Sandra Dee, released in 1959 by Columbia Pictures. Adapted from the novel by Frederick Kohner, and with a screenplay by Gabrielle Upton, this popular film was directed by Paul Wendkos. It follows...
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| Otoko wa Tsurai yo |
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Otoko wa tsurai yo (男はつらいよ, "It's tough being a man") is a Japan film series starring Kiyoshi Atsumi as "Tora-san" (寅さん), a kind-hearted vagabond who is always unlucky in love. Spanning 48 installments (1969–95), it was considered by the Guinness...
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