Lists

OTTER FAMILY FAVORITES SHORT ATTENTION SPAN THEATRE NOT JUST FOR KIDS OUT OF THE ORDINARY SEQUELS THAT DON’T SUCK LIBRARIANS RULE! SHAKESPEARE IS ALIVE AND WELL… MUSICALS

MADE FOR TV THE SAME YET DIFFERENT… NOT DURING DINNER READ A MOVIE REALIO TRULIO ANIMATION IN THE BEGINNING… CHRISTMAS

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OTTER FAMILY FAVORITES  (Mr. Otter has to agree to this designation)

2001: A Space Odyssey 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea The Addams Family The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert The Adventures of Robin Hood Beauty and the Beast (1991) Blazing Saddles The Blues Brothers Casablanca A Christmas Story Close Encounters of the Third Kind Con Air Darby O’Gill and the Little People Dogma Fargo A Fish Called Wanda Forbidden Planet Four Weddings and a Funeral Ghostbusters (1984) The Green Mile Henry V How the Grinch Stole Christmas The Hunt for Red October If I Were King Jaws Jezebel Jurassic Park Kiss Me, Kate (1953) Lawrence of Arabia Leningrad Cowboys Go America

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Lone Star Love Actually Love’s Labour’s Lost The Man Who Would Be King Monty Python and the Holy Grail The Music Man (1962) My Favorite Year O Brother Where Art Thou? Only Angels Have Wings Paint Your Wagon Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl The Princess Bride Pulp Fiction Raiders of the Lost Ark Rose Marie Shakespeare in Love Singin’ in the Rain South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut Spartacus Star Wars The 10 Commandments Terminator 2: Judgment Day The Three Musketeers Time Bandits The Tune Volcano Who Framed Roger Rabbit Young Frankenstein Zulu

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SHORT ATTENTION SPAN THEATER

2012 The Addams Family Army of Darkness Batman Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure Blade Blade II Cars Casablanca Crash Deadpool Dogma Enchanted Ender’s Game Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn Fargo Finding Nemo From Dusk Til Dawn Ghostbusters (1984) Gladiator Harold Lloyd movies Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets A History of Violence Holes Hot Fuzz Ice Age Iron Man Jaws Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle Jurassic Park

Love Actually Mad Max: Fury Road Madagascar The Mask of Zorro The Matrix Men In Black Monty Python and the Holy Grail The Mummy National TreasureO Brother, Where Art Thou? The Panic Room Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End Raiders of the Lost Ark Rat Race Religulous Reservoir Dogs Run, Lola, Run School of Rock Star Wars Stardust Starship Troopers South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse Spirited Away Terminator 2: Judgment Day Treasure Planet Tremors Volcano Wild Wild West Wreck-it Ralph

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IN THE BEGINNING…

Becket
David and Goliath
Dogma
The Egyptian
Häxan
The Man Who Would Be King
Mr. Krueger’s Christmas
Noah
Prince of Egypt
The Rabbi’s Cat
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Religulous
Risen
The 10 Commandments
The Wicker Man

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NOT JUST FOR KIDS

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 9 The Addams Family (2019) Beauty and the Beast Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure The Call of the Wild Coco Despicable Me Enchanted Finding Nemo Fullmetal Alchemist: The Conquest of Shamballa Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Holes How the Grinch Stole Christmas Ice Age Ice Age: The Meltdown Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs The Incredibles Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle The LEGO Movie The LEGO Batman Movie Little Lord Fauntleroy The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Mad Hot Ballroom March of the Penguins Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride The Nightmare Before Christmas Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief Onward Prince Caspian The Princess and the Frog Princess Mononoke Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale Saving Mr. Banks Shrek Shrek 2 South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse Spirited Away Steamboy Time Bandits Tokyo Godfathers Treasure Planet Who Framed Roger Rabbit Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Wreck-it Ralph Yellow Submarine

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OUT OF THE ORDINARY

1917 Across the Universe Adaptation Angels in America The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Black Panther The Ballad of Buster Scruggs The Boondock Saints Bowling for Columbine Boyhood The Brothers Karamazov Bright Bubba Ho-Tep Cannibal: the Musical Carnival of Souls Chicago A Christmas Story Coco Coherence The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover Dark Star Deadpool District 9 Dogma Donnie Darko Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog Enchanted Fargo Fido Fight Club Forbidden Planet A Fish Called Wanda Get Out Good Night, and Good Luck. Grindhouse Hamlet 2 Hedwig and the Angry Inch Hot Fuzz I Heart Huckabee’s Inglourious Basterds Isle of Dogs John Dies at the End Kiss Kiss Bang Bang Knight’s Tale Kung Fu Hustle Latcho Drom Leningrad Cowboys Go America The Lion in Winter Lost in Translation Love’s Labour’s Lost

Magyar Vandor (The Hungarian Vagabond) The Martian Matinee Memento Metropolis Moulin Rouge Monty Python and the Holy Grail Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride Much Ado About Nothing The Nightmare Before Christmas O Brother, Where Art Thou? Oh, What a Lovely War! Pan’s Labyrinth Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale Reservoir Dogs Romeo + Juliet Saving Mr. Banks A Scanner Darkly Serenity Sing Faster: The Stagehands’ Ring Cycle Sling Blade South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut Spirited Away Stranger than Fiction Sukiyaki Western Django They Might Be Giants This Film Is Not Yet Rated This Is Spinal Tap Tokyo Godfathers Tristram Shandy The Tune Under Milk Wood Warrior’s Way What We Do In The Shadows Who Framed Roger Rabbit The Wicker Man Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Withnail and I The Wizard of Speed and Time Wyrd Sisters Zoot Suit

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SEQUELS THAT DON’T SUCK

Army of Darkness
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Avengers: Infinity War
Blade II
Blues Brothers 2000
Catching Fire
The Dark Knight
Dead Like Me: Life After Death
Fierce Creatures
Guardians of the Galaxy 2
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Ice Age: The Meltdown
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Iron Man 2
Iron Man 3
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part
Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome
Mad Max: Fury Road
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (NOT any of the others, they all suck.)
The Road Warrior
Spider-Man 2
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Thor: Ragnarok
Thor: The Dark World

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READ A MOVIE

2 Guns 2001: A Space Odyssey 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 5 Children and It Adaptation Adventures of Robin Hood The African Queen Alfie Alice in Wonderland The Americanization of Emily Apt Pupil The Assassination Bureau The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Auto Focus Batman: Gotham by Gaslight Batman: The Killing Joke Beau Geste Beau Ideal A Beautiful Mind Beauty and the Beast (1991) Beauty and the Beast (2017) The Bedford Incident Being Julia The Best Years of their Lives Big Fish The Big Sleep Black Hawk Down Black Narcissus The Black Swan Blade Runner 2049 Bleak House Born Free The Bourne Identity Breakfast at Tiffany’s Bride and Prejudice The Bridge on the River Kwai Brokeback Mountain The Brothers Karamazov The Caine Mutiny The Call of the Wild Camelot Captain Blood Captain Phillips Captains Courageous Casino Royale Catching Fire Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Cheaper by the Dozen Chocolat A Christmas Story Cinderella (1957) Citizen X Cloud Atlas Clueless Cold Mountain The Color of Money Constantine Coraline The Count of Monte Cristo The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Darby O’Gill and the Little People Day of the Triffids Denial The Day the Earth Stood Still The Devil Wears Prada Dolittle Donnie Brasco Don’t Look Now Dracula (1931) Dune (1984) Dune (2000) Dune (2021) East of Eden Easy A The Egyptian Ella Enchanted Emma The Emperor’s Club Enchanted April Ender’s Game The Enemy Below Enigma The Far Side of the World Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas The Fellowship of the Ring Fight Club Flight of the Phoenix The Fountain The Four Feathers The Four Musketeers From Hell From Here to Eternity Gidget Glory Going Postal Gone with the Wind Grand Hotel The Great Santini The Green Mile The Green Knight Gulliver’s Travels (1939) The Guns of August

Hamlet Hammett Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Hellboy The Help Henry V A History of Violence The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy The Hoax The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Hogfather Holes How Green Was My Valley How the Grinch Stole Christmas Howl’s Moving Castle The House with a Clock in its Walls The Hunchback of Notre Dame The Hunger Games The Hunt for Red October I Capture the Castle I Am Legend I, Robot If I Were King The Illusionist Interview With The Vampire In The Electric Mist Iron Man Iron Man 2 It Happened One Night Jarheadhttp://si Jaws John Carter John Dies at the End Johnny Tremain Journey to the Center of the Earth Juarez Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle Jurassic Park Keys of the Kingdom Kick-Ass Kick-Ass 2 Kim Kind Hearts and Coronets Kingsman: The Secret Service Last of the Mohicans Lawrence of Arabia League of Extraordinary Gentlemen The Legend of Zorro Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events Les Misérables The Letter The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Little Lord Fauntleroy Little Women Lonesome Dove Love Before Breakfast The Madwoman of Chaillot The Maltese Falcon Man of La Mancha The Man Who Would Be King Marie Antoinette The Martian The Mask of Zorro Minority Report Men in Black Men in Black II Men in Black III The Men Who Stare at Goats Mr. Skeffington Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride Mrs. Pollifax-Spy Moby Dick (1930) Momo Much Ado About Nothing Must Love Dogs My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising Mystic River Nanny McPhee Never Let Me Go Night Flight Night of the Iguana The Night they Raided Minsky’s Northwest Passage Now, Voyager O Brother, Where Art Thou? Oliver! Once Upon a Time in America Orlando The Outlaw Josey Wales

The Painted Veil (1934) The Painted Veil (2006) Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief The Pied Piper of Hamelin A Place in the Sun The Player Poseidon The Poseidon Adventure (1972) The Prestige Prince Caspian Pride and Prejudice (1940) Pride and Prejudice (1980) Pride and Prejudice (1995) Pride and Prejudice (2005) The Princess Comes Across The Princess Diaries The Princess Bride The Professionals Pygmalion A Quantum of Solace Queen of Spades The Quiet American Quo Vadis The Rabbi’s Cat Random Harvest Ready Player One The Real Glory Rebecca Return of the King The Revenant R.I.P.D. Sahara (2005) A Scanner Darkly Scrooge The Sea Hawk (1924) The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Seven Brides for Seven Brothers The Shawshank Redemption Sherlock Holmes The Shipping News The Silent Partner Sin City Slumdog Millionaire Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs Solaris Spartacus The Spirit Stardust The Strange Woman The Stunt Man Soul Music South Pacific Starship Troopers The Story of Dr. Wassell Suicide Squad The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 There Will Be Blood The Thing The Three Musketeers The Time Machine The Time Traveler’s Wife To Catch a Thief Tortilla Flat Total Recall Touch of Evilf Treasure of the Sierra Madre Treasure Island Treasure Planet Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story Troy Trumbo Turn of the Screw The Twelve Chairs The Two Towers The Ugly American Under Two Flags The Verdict V for Vendetta War of the Worlds Watchmen The Way We Live Now What Dreams May Come What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? Where Eagles Dare Who Framed Roger Rabbit The Wild One Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Wise Blood The Witches of Eastwick World War Z Wyrd Sisters Young Frankenstein Zorba

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LIBRARIANS RULE

Avengers: Infinity War
Behind the Mask: the Rise of Leslie Vernon
The Big Sleep
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Casanova
Citizen Kane
The Day After Tomorrow
Desk Set
Dr. Strange
Hammett
Heavenly Creatures
High School Musical
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
It’s a Wonderful Life
Librarian: Quest for the Spear
Librarian: Return to King Solomon’s Mines
The Mummy
The Music Man (1962)
The Music Man (2003)
Party Girl
Pittsburgh
The Roaring Twenties
San Francisco
School of Rock
The Shawshank Redemption
The Time Machine
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Wicker Man

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SHAKESPEARE IS ALIVE AND WELL…

Bill
Forbidden Planet
Hamlet
Hamlet 2
Henry V
Kiss Me, Kate (1953)
Kiss Me, Kate (2003)
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Love’s Labour’s Lost
Macbeth (1961)
The Merchant of Venice
Much Ado about Nothing
Paradise in Harlem
Romeo + Juliet
Shakespeare in Love
Taming of the Shrew (1963)
Taming of the Shrew (1980)

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REALIO TRULIO

Bowling for Columbine
Fahrenheit 9/11
Food Inc
The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
March of the Penguins
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Religulous
Schlock: The Secret History of American Movies
Sicko
Sing Faster! the Stagehands’ Ring Cycle
Super Size Me
The Guns of August
This Film Is Not Yet Rated
Trinity and Beyond: the Atomic Bomb Movie
Victory through Air Power
Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Prices
What The #$! Do We Know?
Wordplay

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CHRISTMAS

Bernard and the Genie
A Christmas Story
The Family Stone
Hogfather
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
It’s A Wonderful Life
The Lion in Winter
Love Actually
Meet Me in St. Louis
Mr. Krueger’s Christmas
A Nightmare Before Christmas
The Polar Express
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
Scrooge
Tokyo Godfathers

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THE SAME YET DIFFERENT…

The Hustler The Color of Money	Dune (1984) Dune (2000) Dune (2021)
The Music Man (1962) The Music Man (2003) Pittsburgh	Kiss Me, Kate (1953) Kiss Me, Kate (2003) Taming of the Shrew (1963) Taming of the Shrew (1980)
Mystery of the Wax Museum House of Wax	Bride and Prejudice Pride and Prejudice (1940) Pride and Prejudice (1980) Pride and Prejudice (1995) Pride and Prejudice (2005)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Sabrina (1954) Sabrina (1995)	The Poseidon Adventure (1972) Poseidon (2006)
The Producers (1968) The Producers (2005)	Treasure Island Treasure Planet
300 The 300 Spartans	Hairspray (1988) Hairspray (2007)
One Millon Years B.C. Caveman	The Ten Commandments Prince of Egypt
Beauty and the Beast (1991) Beauty and the Beast (2017)	Ghostbusters (1984) Ghostbusters (2016)
The Cat People (1942) Cat People (1982)	The Magnificent Seven (1960) The Magnificent Seven (2016)
The Painted Veil (1934) The Painted Veil (2006)	Suicide Squad (2016) The Suicide Squad (2021)

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NOT DURING DINNER

300 Army of Darkness Bad Taste The Boondock Saints Cannibal: the Musical The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover Dawn of the Dead Deadpool District 9 Dogma Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas From Dusk Till Dawn From Hell Gangs of New York

Hot Fuzz Grindhouse The Hateful Eight Inglourious Basterds John Dies at the End Kill Bill Kingsman: The Secret Service Men In Black Minority Report Reservoir Dogs Shaun of the Dead Sin City South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Tropic Thunder Warm Bodies Zombie Strippers Zombieland

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MADE FOR TV/STREAMING

10th Kingdom Angels in America Attila Bernard and the Genie Bleak House Cinderella (1957) Citizen X City Beneath the Sea Dead Like Me: Life after Death The Desert Song Going Postal The Goodbye Girl (2004) The Haunting of Winchester House High Plains Invaders High School Musical How the Grinch Stole Christmas Hogfather Johnny Tremain Kiss Me, Kate (2003) Librarian: Quest for the Spear Librarian: Return to King Solomon’s Mines The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Lonesome Dove

Mank Mel Brooks: Make a Noise The Mikado Miss Morison’s Ghosts The Music Man (2003) Oklahoma! The Pied Piper of Hamelin Present Laughter Pride and Prejudice (1980) Pride and Prejudice (1995) Soul Music South Pacific Taming of the Shrew (1980) tick…tick…BOOM Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie Turn of the Screw Under Milk Wood The Way We Live Now Wit Wyrd Sisters

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ANIMATION

9 The Addams Family Akira Batman: Gotham by Gaslight Batman: The Killing Joke Beauty and the Beast Brave Cars Coco Coraline The Corpse Bride Cowboy Bebop the Movie Despicable Me Finding Dory Finding Nemo Frozen Frozen II Fullmetal Alchemist: The Conquest of Shamballa Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos Gay Purr-ee The Girl who Leapt through Time A Goofy Movie Gulliver’s Travels (1939) Happy Feet Hotel Transylvania How the Grinch Stole Christmas How To Train Your Dragon Howl’s Moving Castle Ice Age Ice Age: The Meltdown Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs The Incredibles Inside Out Isle of Dogs Justice League Dark The LEGO Batman Movie The LEGO Movie Lilo & Stitch Madagascar Megamind Metropolis

Moana Monster House My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising The Nightmare Before Christmas Onward Prince of Egypt The Princess and the Frog Princess Mononoke The Rabbi’s Cat Ratatouille Robots A Scanner Darkly Shrek Shrek 2 Sing Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs Soul Soul Music South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse Spirited Away Steamboy Sword of the Stranger Team America: World Police Tokyo Godfathers Toy Story 3 Treasure Planet The Tune Up Victory through Air Power Wall-E Who Framed Roger Rabbit Wreck-it Ralph Wyrd Sisters Yellow Submarine Zootopia

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MUSICALS

1776 Across the Universe The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert All That Jazz Balalaika The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (the first story only) The Barkleys of Broadway Beauty and the Beast (1991) Beauty and the Beast (2017) Billy Rose’s Diamond Horseshoe Bitter Sweet The Blues Brothers Blues Brothers 2000 Bride and Prejudice Brigadoon Broadway Melody Broadway Melody of 1938 Cabaret Calamity Jane Camelot Cannibal: The Musical Carmen (1984) Cats Chicago Cinderella (1957) Coco Colma: The Musical Cover Girl The Court Jester The Dancing Pirate Darby O’Gill and the Little People Deep in my Heart De-Lovely Delightfully Dangerous The Desert Song Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog Easter Parade Fiesta Flashdance Follow the Fleet Footlight Parade For Me and My Gal Frozen A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Gay Purr-ee Girl of the Golden West Glorifying the American Girl The Greatest Showman Gulliver’s Travels Hairspray (2007) Happy Feet Hello, Dolly! High School Musical Hit the Deck How the Grinch Stole Christmas How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying In The Good Old Summertime Kismet Kiss Me, Kate (1953) Kiss Me, Kate (2003)

La La Land Leningrad Cowboys Go America Love Me or Leave Me Love Me Tonight Love’s Labour’s Lost Mamma Mia! Man of La Mancha Meet Me in St. Louis The Mikado Moana Moulin Rouge The Music Man (1962) The Music Man (2003) Naughty Marietta New Moon The Nightmare Before Christmas Oh, What a Lovely War! Oklahoma! Oliver! On a Clear Day You Can See Forever On the Town Paint your Wagon Paradise in Harlem Phantom of the Paradise Pied Piper of Hamelin Pittsburgh Prince of Egypt The Princess and the Frog The Producers (2005) Roberta Rose Marie Saturday Night Fever Scrooge Second Chorus Seven Brides for Seven Brothers Shall We Dance? Sing Singin’ in the Rain Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs South Pacific South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut The Student Prince Sweethearts Swing Time Tangled Tarzan There’s No Business like Show Business Die 3groschenoper (Threepenny Opera) tick…tick…BOOM Top Hat The Tune Yankee Doodle Dandy Yellow Submarine You Were Never Lovelier Ziegfeld Follies Ziegfeld Girl Zoot Suit