| COCO | Pixar film inspired by the Day of the Dead |
| CAPTAINPHILLIPS | 2013 film inspired by the true story of the 2009 Maersk Alabama hijacking (7,8) |
| RED | American action comedy film inspired by the limited comic book series of the same name (3) |
| NOT | Film inspired by the life of BOB DYLAN, I'm ... There (3) |
| IMNOT | Drama film inspired by the life of Bob Dylan, ___ There |
| ANY | "___ Day Now" (2025 film inspired by the Gardner Museum robbery) |
| CITIZENKANE | 1941 Orson Welles film inspired by the life of US newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst (7,4) |
| CRUELLA | 2021 film inspired by the "101 Dalmatians" villain |
| MODERNTIMES | 1936 Charlie Chaplin film inspired by the Great Depression (6,5) |
| GOTHIC | 1986 horror flick inspired by the 1816 evening when Mary Shelley spawned the idea for Frankenstein |
| ADAMPROJECT | "The ___" -- New Netflix film inspired by Back to the Future (4,7) |
| AZTECS | Who are considered the originators of the Day of the Dead tradition? (6) |
| APOCALYPSENOW | Cult film inspired by Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. (10,3) |
| FUGITIVE | "The ___", 1993 Harrison Ford film inspired by a 1960s TV series (8) |
| SHES | "___ the Man" (2006 film inspired by "Twelfth Night") |
| RAVEN | 'The ---', 1963 Roger Corman film inspired by an Edgar Allan Poe poem (5) |
| SON | ___ of Rambow, film inspired by First Blood (3) |
| RAYA | "___ and the Last Dragon" (Disney film inspired by Southeast Asian cultures) |
| BOOKOF | Animated adventure about the Day of the Dead, The ___ Life (4,2) |
| YOUVE | - Got Mail; film inspired by Miklos Laszlo's play Parfumerie but based on internet dating instead of pen pals (5) |
