Rio, Rififi-style

GRAND SLAM

aka Ad ogna costi (At Any Cost)

1967

Directed by Giuliano Montaldo

Written by Mino Roli

Spoilers: moderate

You're not fast enough for me

THE QUICK AND THE DEAD

1995

Directed by Sam Raimi

Written by Simon Moore

Spoilers: moderate

Suffer a witch long enough, and something good comes out of it

DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS

2022

Directed by Sam Raimi

Written by Michael Waldron

Spoilers: moderate

To conscript a thief

THEY MET IN BOMBAY

1941

Directed by Clarence Brown

Written by John H. Kafka and Edwin Justus Mayer

Spoilers: moderate

Mr. and Mrs. Smith

COME LIVE WITH ME

1941

Directed by Clarence Brown

Written by Virginia Van Upp and Patterson McNutt

Spoilers: moderate

At the Gates of Hel, I will meet you

THE NORTHMAN

2022

Directed by Robert Eggers

Written by Sjón and Robert Eggers

Spoilers: moderate

In the multiverse of sadness

EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE

2022

Written and directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert

Spoilers: moderate, though if you're from a universe where obvious things aren't obvious, it's high

The fifth famous dan (er, not Zhang Junqiu)

FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE

1993

Directed by Chen Kaige

Written by Lu Wei and Lilian Lee (based on the novel by Lilian Lee)

Spoilers: moderate, maybe high

Der fledermaus

THE BATMAN

2022

Directed by Matt Reeves

Written by Peter Craig and Matt Reeves

Spoilers: moderate

What a disaster: What comes after "Holocene"?

METEOR

1979

Directed by Ronald Neame

Written by Stanley Mann and Edmund H. North

Spoilers: moderate

Write what you know

THE LOST CITY

2022

Directed by Adam Nee and Aaron Nee

Written by Seth Gordon, Oren Uziel, Dana Fox, Adam Nee, and Aaron Nee

Spoilers: moderate

What a disaster: God went down with the Titanic

S.O.S. TITANIC

1979

Directed by William Hale

Written by James Costigan

Spoilers: N/A

Man makes the clothes

THE OUTFIT

2022

Directed by Graham Moore

Written by Jonathan McClain and Graham Moore

Spoilers: moderate

Garbo fucks

FLESH AND THE DEVIL

1927

Directed by Clarence Brown

Written by Benjamin Glazer and Marian Ainslee (based on the novel The Undying Past by Hermann Sudermann)

Spoilers: moderate

Evil woman

THE TEMPTRESS

1926

Directed by Fred Niblo and Mauritz Stiller

Written by Dorothy Farnum and Marian Ainslee (based on the novel A Land For All by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez)

Spoilers: moderate

So did she ever actually get her period, or what?

TURNING RED

2022

Directed by Domee Shi

Written by Sarah Streicher, Julia Cho, and Domee Shi

Spoilers: high

On the other side of the water

TORRENT

1926

Directed by Monta Bell

Written by Dorothy Farnum, Katherine Hilliker, and H.H. Caldwell (based on the novel by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez)

Spoilers: moderate

I love college. I love everything about it.

DEAD MAN ON CAMPUS

1998

Directed by Alan Cohn

Written by Anthony Abrams, Adam Larson Broder, Michael Traeger, and Mike White

Spoilers: moderate

What a disaster: The lateral inferno

CITY ON FIRE

1979

Directed by Alvin Rakoff

Written by Jack Hill, Dave Lewis, and Céline La Frenière

Spoilers: moderate

What a disaster: They're not even about airports after the first one, not really

THE CONCORDE ...AIRPORT '79

1979

Directed by David Lowell Rich

Written by Jennings Lang and Eric Roth

Spoilers: moderate

What a disaster: Can't you see the morning after?

BEYOND THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE

1979

Directed by Irwin Allen

Written by Nelson Gidding (based on the novel by Paul Gallico)

Spoilers: moderate

What a disaster: Stop saying "tram"

HANGING BY A THREAD

1979

Directed by George Fenady

Written by Adrian Spies

Spoilers: moderate

Dead again

DEATH ON THE NILE

2022

Directed by Kenneth Branagh

Written by Michael Green (based on the novel by Agatha Christie)

Spoilers: moderate

Until I find who did this, my heart will have no feelings and no mercy

THE BLAZING SUN

aka Sira Fi al-Wadi (Struggle In the Valley); aka The Blazing Sky

1954

Directed by Youssef Chahine

Written by Ali El Zorkani and Helmy Halim

Spoilers: moderate

The boy next door

MARRY ME

2022

Directed by Kat Coiro

Written by John Rogers, Tami Sagher, and Harper Dill (based on the comic by Bobby Crosby)

Spoilers: moderate

Their culture is advanced beyond all you can comprehend with 100% of your brain

MOONFALL

2022

Directed by Roland Emmerich

Written by Harald Kloser, Spenser Cohen, and Roland Emmerich

Spoilers: moderate

Donenesque

ARABESQUE

1966

Directed by Stanley Donen

Written by Julian Mitchell, Stanley Price, and Peter Stone (based on the novel The Cipher by Gordon Cotler)

Spoilers: mild

Channing Tatum's least favorite movie of all time

GAMBIT

1966

Directed by Ronald Neame

Written by Sidney Carroll, Jack Davies, Alvin Sargent, and Shirley MacLaine

Spoilers: well, I'm going to discuss the beginning whether they like it or not, so—apparently—"catastrophically severe"

Walt Disney, part XLII: Come into the light

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

1991

Directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise

Written by so, so many people, so let's say "Linda Woolverton and Howard Ashman"

Spoilers: get real

Look at me, I'm dancing

ANCHORS AWEIGH

1945

Directed by George Sidney

Written by Isobel Lennart (based on a story by Natalie Marcin)

Spoilers: moderate

American Gothic Week: In the intensity of her wild desire for life—for life—but for life—solace and reason were the uttermost folly

THE TOMB OF LIGEIA

1964

Directed by Roger Corman

Written by Robert Towne (based on the story "Ligeia" by Edgar Allan Poe)

Spoilers: moderate

The net is vast

BELLE

2021

Written and directed by Mamoru Hosoda

Spoilers: moderate

When blorlds collide

DON'T LOOK UP

2021

Directed by Adam McKay

Written by David Sirota and Adam McKay

Spoilers: moderate

American Gothic Week: And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all

THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH

1964

Directed by Roger Corman

Written by Charles Beaumont and R. Wright Campbell (based on the stories "The Masque of the Red Death" and "Hop-Frog" by Edgar Allan Poe)

Spoilers: what part of "illimitable dominion" is unclear? (high)

They want us up in their gray space pushing their WTF buttons

THE MATRIX RESURRECTIONS

2021

Directed by Lana Wachowski

Written by David Mitchell, Aleksandar Hemon, and Lana Wachowski

Spoilers: severe

Slender man

DADDY LONG LEGS

1955

Directed by Jean Negulesco

Written by Henry Ephron, Phoebe Ephron, and Johnny Mercer (based on the novel Daddy-Long-Legs and play Daddy Long Legs by Jean Webster)

Spoilers: moderate