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Shrek
Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back
1980 American epic space opera film directed by Irvin Kershner
Dr. No
1962 film by Terence Young
Psycho (1960 film)
Psycho is a 1960 American horror film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The screenplay, written by Joseph Stefano, is based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert Bloch. The film stars Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin and Martin Balsam. The plot centers on an encounter between on-the-run embezzler Marion Crane (Leigh), shy motel proprietor Norman Bates (Perkins) and his disturbed mother. A private investigator (Balsam), Marion's lover Sam Loomis (Gavin) and her sister Lila (Miles) investigate her disappearance.
The Patriot
2000 film directed by Roland Emmerich
Adaptation
2002 film directed by Spike Jonze
The Princess Bride (film)
The Princess Bride is a 1987 American fantasy adventure comedy film directed and co-produced by Rob Reiner and starring Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, André the Giant, Chris Sarandon, Christopher Guest, Wallace Shawn, Peter Falk, Fred Savage, Billy Crystal and Carol Kane. Adapted by William Goldman from his novel of the same name, it tells the story of a swashbuckling farmhand named Westley, accompanied by companions befriended along the way, who must rescue his kidnapped true love Princess Buttercup from the evil Prince Humperdinck. The film preserves the novel's metafictional narrative style by presenting the story as a book being read by a grandfather to his sick grandson.
Papillon
1973 film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
Annihilation
2018 film directed by Alex Garland
The Mechanic
2011 film directed by Simon West
The NeverEnding Story
1984 film directed by Wolfgang Petersen
Labyrinth
1986 film directed by Jim Henson
Evil Dead
2013 film directed by Fede Álvarez
Bullet to the Head
2012 film directed by Walter Hill
Psycho
1998 film directed by Gus Van Sant
Sisu (film)
Sisu is a 2022 action thriller film written and directed by Jalmari Helander and produced by Petri Jokiranta. The film stars Jorma Tommila, alongside Aksel Hennie, Jack Doolan, Mimosa Willamo and Onni Tommila. It is set during the Lapland War between Finland and Nazi Germany towards the end of World War II, where a legendary Finnish Army commando-turned-gold prospector attempts to defend himself from being robbed and murdered by a Waffen-SS platoon led by a brutal and corrupt officer.
Where the Crawdads Sing
2022 film directed by Olivia Newman
Swamp Thing
1982 film by Wes Craven
The Paperboy
2012 film by Lee Daniels
Southern Comfort
1981 film by Walter Hill
Hard to Be a God
2013 film by Aleksei Yuryevich German
Hatchet
2006 film by Adam Green
Emancipation
2022 film directed by Antoine Fuqua
Just Cause
1995 film directed by Arne Glimcher
Leo
2023 film by Robert Marianetti, Robert Smigel and David Wachtenheim
Straw Dogs
2011 American film by Rod Lurie
The Return of Swamp Thing
1989 film by Jim Wynorski
Heaven's Prisoners
1996 film by Phil Joanou
The Apostle
1997 film by directed by Robert Duvall
Hatchet II
2010 film directed by Adam Green
Man-Thing
2005 television film directed by Brett Leonard
Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes
2006 television film directed by Jake West
Frogs
1972 film by George McCowan
Black Water
2007 film by Andrew Traucki and David Nerlich
Swamp Water
1941 film by Jean Renoir
Crocodile 2: Death Swamp
2002 film directed by Gary Jones
Venom
2005 film by Jim Gillespie
Shy People
1987 film by Andrei Konchalovsky
Neighbors
1981 film directed by John G. Avildsen
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2019 film directed by Anubhav Sinha
Kermit's Swamp Years
2002 film
Swamp Shark
2011 television film
Hatchet III
2013 film
Attack of the Giant Leeches
1959 film by Bernard L. Kowalski
Wind Across the Everglades
1958 film by Nicholas Ray
Victor Crowley
2017 film directed by Adam Green
Frankenfish
Frankenfish is a 2004 American horror film directed by Mark A.Z. Dippé. Filmed in Baldwin County, Alabama, a pack of massive, bloodthirsty, genetically engineered fish combing the quiet bayou waters of the river in the Louisiana Bayou, searching for prey. Based on the snakehead fish incident in a Crofton, Maryland, pond, Frankenfish is one of three films based on the incident, the others being Snakehead Terror and Swarm of the Snakehead.
Bees Saal Baad
1962 film directed by Biren Nag
Sauna
2008 film by Antti-Jussi Annila
Swamp Women
1955 film by Roger Corman
Lure of the Wilderness
1952 film by Jean Negulesco
Hot Wheels: AcceleRacers
animated series of movies by Mattel
Gator
1976 film by Burt Reynolds
Mr. Moto in Danger Island
1939 film by Herbert I. Leeds
Alien Dead
1980 film by Fred Olen Ray
A Girl of the Limberlost
1934 film by Christy Cabanne
Lure of the Swamp
1957 film by Hubert Cornfield
Strangler of the Swamp
1946 film by Frank Wisbar
Cry of the Hunted
1953 film by Joseph H. Lewis
Swamp Devil
2008 film directed by David Winning