Film series

James Bond 007 is a fictional character created in 1952 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in 12 novel and two collections. The character has also been used in the longest running and second most successful film franchise to date, starting in 1962 with Dr. No....

Monty Python, or The Pythons, is the collective name of the creators of Monty Python's Flying Circus, a British television comedy sketch show that first aired on the BBC on 5 October 1969. A total of 45 episodes were made over four series. The Python phenomenon...

Star Wars is an epic space opera franchise initially conceived by George Lucas during the 1970s and significantly expanded since that time. The first film in the franchise was simply titled Star Wars, but later had the subtitle A New Hope added to distinguish it from...

Star Trek is an American science fiction entertainment series and media franchise. The Star Trek fictional universe created by Gene Roddenberry is the setting of six television series including the original 1966 Star Trek, in addition to ten feature films (with an...

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, such as The...

Wallace and Gromit are the main characters in a series of four British animated short film, a series of ten short-animated sequences, and a feature-length film by Nick Park of Aardman Animations. All the characters were made from moulded plasticine modelling clay on...

Why We Fight is a series of seven propaganda films commissioned by the United States government during World War II to demonstrate to American soldiers the reason for U.S. involvement in the war. Later on they were also shown to the general U.S. public to persuade them...

The Carry On films were a long-running series of British low-budget comedy films, directed by Gerald Thomas and produced by Peter Rogers. An energetic mix of parody, farce, slapstick and double entendre, they are seen as classic examples of British humour. Twenty...

Airplane! is an American comedy film produced, directed, and written by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker. Airplane! starred Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Lorna Patterson. For...

Toy Story is a 1995 CGI animated feature film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution It grossed $191,773,049 in the United States and it took in a grand total of $354,300,000 worldwide. It is the first...

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 Terrier Asta, played...

Jaws is a 1975 thriller/horror film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on Peter Benchley's best-selling novel inspired by the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916. The police chief of Amity Island, a fictional summer resort town, tries to protect beachgoers from a great...

The Karate Kid is a 1984 John G. Avildsen film starring Pat Morita, Ralph Macchio and Elisabeth Shue. It is a martial arts movie and an "underdog" story much in the mold of a previous Avildsen success, the 1976 boxing picture Rocky. It was a great commercial success...

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 Other Side, while...

Through Navajo Eyes is a series of seven short documentary film which show scenes of life in the Navajo Nation. The films are: According to an article in "American Anthropologist: New Series, Vol. 76, No. 2, p. 482", "Second Weaver" was filmed by Alta Kahn and not...

The Spy Kids trilogy is a trilogy of family/action/adventure films written, produced and directed by Robert Rodriguez and beginning in 2001 and ending in 2003. The plot tells a story about the children of a married spy couple who become involved in their parents'...

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 popular that they...

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 moments of each film...

Mad Max is an Australia apocalyptic action thriller film from 1979 directed by George Miller and written by Miller and Byron Kennedy. The film, starring the then little-known Mel Gibson, was released internationally in 1980. This low-budget film's story of social...

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 Bushman of the Kalahari Desert (played by Namibia bush farmer Nǃxau) whose band has no knowledge of the world beyond. The...

A Nightmare on Elm Street is an American horror franchise that consists of eight slasher film, a television show, novel, and comic book initially developed by Wes Craven, with various other individuals taking over those jobs for each sequel. The franchise is based on...

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 settlement wherein...

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 include Martin...

"Crocodile" Dundee is a 1986 Australia comedy film set in the Australian Outback in the area around "Walkabout Creek" 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...

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 films are official and based on Arsan's character. The name...

The Matrix franchise comprises three science-fiction/adventure film written and directed by the Wachowski Brothers and produced by Joel Silver. The first film The Matrix was released in March, 1999. After the film's success, two sequels were greenlighted, titled The...

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 with anatomical...

Wishmaster is a 1997 horror film about a djinn that 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 Tammy Lauren, and...

The Guinea Pig films (from the Japanese "giniipiggu") are a series of 1980s Japanese horror films with extremely detailed special effects. According to Snopes, the films became infamous when Charlie Sheen mistook one for a snuff film and contacted the FBI to report it...

The Superman animated cartoons, commonly known as the "Fleischer Superman cartoons" were a series of seventeen animated Technicolor short film, released by Paramount Pictures between 1941 and 1943, based upon the comic book character Superman. The first nine...