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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