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Encyclopedia > List of movie series

This is a list of movie series that have more than two or three pictures in the series (i.e. not Ghostbusters at two, or The Godfather at three):

See also: Serial, List of movie trilogies, List of character-based movie franchises Alien (1979), directed by Ridley Scott, is an extremely popular and influential science fiction/horror film that spawned several sequels and imitators. ... Alien vs. ... Back to the Future is a 1985 film directed by Robert Zemeckis, written by Zemeckis and Bob Gale, and starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd. ... The DC Comics hero Batman (originally and still sometimes referred to as The Batman or The Bat-Man) is a fictional character who first appeared in Detective Comics #27 in May 1939. ... Beach Party movies were an American 1960s genre of feature films which often starred Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon. ... Beethoven (1991) is a movie about a St. ... Tom Laughlin as Billy Jack Billy Jack is the second, and highest grossing, in a series of motion pictures centered around a fictional character of the same name, invariably played by Tom Laughlin. ... Blondie is a 1938 movie based on the Blondie comic strip, that was directed by Frank Strayer. ... The Carry On films were a long-running series of British popular low-budget comedy films, directed by Gerald Thomas and produced by Peter Rogers. ... Children of the Corn is a short story by Stephen King. ... Childs Play is a 1988 horror film, written by Don Mancini and directed by Tom Holland. ... The Chronicles of Narnia is a series of seven fantasy novels for children written by C. S. Lewis. ... Official Names 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta (Airborne) 1st SFOD-D (A) Combat Applications Group (CAG) Nicknames Delta Force D-boys Delta boys Deltas Delta Operators Branch United States Army Chain of Command USASOC Department of Defense Description Versatile Special Operations Force, mainly trained for counter-terrorism. ... Dirty Harry is a 1971 film directed by Don Siegel and starring Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan, a San Francisco detective tracking Scorpio, a serial killer. ... Doctor in the House is a 1954 British comedy film, directed by Ralph Thomas and produced by Betty Box. ... Bela Lugosi as Dracula; U.S. postage stamp first issue 20??. Dracula (1897) is a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, and the namesake of the worlds most famous vampire character. ... Hammer horror refers to a series of gothic horror films produced from the late 1950s until the 1970s by the British film production company Hammer Film Productions Ltd. ... The Exorcist is an influential and successful 1973 horror film, adapted by William Peter Blatty from his 1971 novel of the same name. ... Francis the Talking Mule was a mule celebrity, featured in seven movie comedies in the 1950s. ... Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. ... Universal has several meanings: For the concept of a universal in metaphysics, see Universal (metaphysics). ... Hammer horror refers to a series of gothic horror films produced from the late 1950s until the 1970s by the British film production company Hammer Film Productions Ltd. ... Friday the 13th is a 1980 slasher film directed by Sean S. Cunningham and written by Victor Miller, admittedly made to cash in on the success of Halloween, the films theme was to take mom and apple pie and turn it on its head. ... Freddy vs. ... Gidget was a film starring fifties teen icon Sandra Dee was produced in the USA in 1959. ... Godzilla, as portrayed during the late Heisei era (Godzilla vs. ... Michael Myers peers over the stairs The Halloween films are a popular series of horror movies. ... Hellraiser is a British horror film exploring the themes of sadomasochism and morals under duress. ... The Love Bug (1969) was the first of a series of movies made by Walt Disney Productions that starred a white Volkswagen racing Beetle named Herbie; a bug with a mind of its own. ... Connor MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod (Christopher Lambert) Highlander is a 1986 fantasy movie directed by Russell Mulcahy and starring Christopher Lambert, who plays Connor MacLeod, the Highlander. ... Cover of the original novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone. ... Home Alone is a popular 1990 holiday film starring Macaulay Culkin as Kevin McCallister, an eight year-old who is mistakenly left behind when his family flies to France for a Christmas vacation. ... Cover of the 2004 DVD release of Ilsa: She-Wolf of the SS. Ilsa: She-Wolf of the SS is a 1974 pornographic motion picture produced in the United States of America. ... The James Bond 007 gun logo James Bond, also known as 007 (pronounced double-oh seven), is a fictional British spy created by writer Ian Fleming in 1953. ... This article is about the 1975 motion picture. ... The Karate Kid is a 1984 John G. Avildsen film starring Ralph Macchio and Pat MoritaIt is a youth-oriented karate movie and an underdog story much in the model of a previous Avildsen smash, the 1976 boxing picture Rocky. ... The Land Before Time is an animated film, produced by Steven Spielbergs Amblin Entertainment, directed by Don Bluth, with a soundtrack composed by James Horner. ... Lethal Weapon is the first of a series of American movies that were released in 1987, 1989, 1992, and 1998, all starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover as a mismatched pair of Los Angeles police officers. ... Leprechaun is a 1993 horror film starring Warwick Davis and Jennifer Aniston. ... The movie series created by George A. Romero. ... Ma and Pa Kettle were the featured characters in a series of popular light comedic movies in the 1940s and 1950s. ... Mad Max is an Australian apocalyptic science fiction film starring Mel Gibson. ... The Matrix is a science-fiction/action film first released in the USA on March 31, 1999, written and directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski. ... See MeatballWiki for the article about the wiki about communities. ... Moment of Truth Movies are a series of TV movies produced for the Lifetime cable television and movie networks during the 1990s. ... A television movie (also known as a TV movie, TV-movie, feature-length drama, made-for-TV movie, movie of the week (MOTW or MOW), single drama, telemovie, telefilm, or two-hour-long drama) is a film that is produced for and originally distributed by a television network. ... John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together The Muppets are a group of puppets and costume characters created by Jim Henson and the company he created. ... National Lampoons Vacation is a 1983 comedy film directed by Harold Ramis and starring Chevy Chase and Beverly DAngelo. ... A Nightmare On Elm Street was the first film in the A Nightmare on Elm Street series of slasher films. ... Freddy vs. ... DVD cover for The Omen The Omen is a 1976 horror film directed by Richard Donner and starring Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner, Harvey Stephens, Billie Whitelaw, Patrick Troughton, Martin Benson, and Leo McKern. ... Once Upon a Time in China is Hong Kong auteur Tsui Harks series of six movies about the famous kung fu master and Chinese national hero Wong Fei Hung (played by Jet Li in parts 1, 2, 3, and 6 and by Chui Man Cheuk in parts 4 and... statue of Tora-san Otoko wa tsurai yo (男はつらいよ, Its tough being a man) is a Japanese film series starring Kiyoshi Atsumi as Tora-san, a kind-hearted vagabond who is always unlucky in love. ... Phantasm is a low-budget cult classic horror movie released in 1977 and directed, written, photographed, co produced and edited by Don Coscarelli. ... The Pink Panther cartoon character. ... Planet of the Apes is a 1968 science fiction film in which an astronaut finds himself 2,000+ years in the future stranded on an earth-like planet, in which humans are enslaved by apes. ... Police Academy was a series of comedy films made in the 1980s and early 1990s. ... In the United States, a prom (short for promenade) is a formal dance held at the end of the second-to-last and last year of high school, called junior prom and senior prom respectively. ... Psycho is a 1958 pulp novel by Robert Bloch, which details the life and crimes of the profoundly disturbed Norman Bates. ... The Puppet Master, real name Phillip Masters, is a villain in the Fantastic Four comics. ... Rambo is a trilogy of popular action films based on the characters created by David Morrell in his novel First Blood. ... Return of the Living Dead is a series of films that was produced between 1985-2005. ... Revenge of the Nerds is a 1984 film starring Robert Carradine and Anthony Edwards, with Curtis Armstrong, Ted McGinley, Julia Montgomery, and Donald Gibb, the film was directed by Jeff Kanew. ... Road to. ... RoboCop is a satirical 1987 science fiction action movie, directed by Paul Verhoeven. ... Rocky (1976) is a motion picture written by and starring Sylvester Stallone as underdog boxer Rocky Balboa. ... DVD cover Scary Movie (2000), an American film directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans, is a comedy, horror, and mystery. ... Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes (1854–1957, according to William S. Baring-Gould) is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, created by British author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. ... Basil Rathbone Basil Rathbone (June 13, 1892 – July 21, 1967) was an English actor most famous for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes and swashbuckler film villain roles. ... Sleepaway Camp was a 1983 horror movie directed and written by Robert Hiltzik about murders at a summer camp and is considered by many viewers to have the most disturbing ending of all horror films. ... Spider-Man swinging around his hometown, New York City. ... Star Trek collectively refers to a science-fiction franchise spanning six unique television series, 726 episodes and ten motion pictures in addition to hundreds of novels, video games, and other works of fiction all set within the same fictional universe created by Gene Roddenberry in the mid-1960s. ... The cover of the 2004 DVD widescreen release of the modified original Star Wars Trilogy. ... The Crow is a comic book series created by James OBarr. ... Christopher Reeve as the Man of Steel, Superman Superman, also known as Superman: The Movie, is a 1978 Warner Bros. ... Tarzan, a character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, first appeared in the 1914 novel Tarzan of the Apes, and then in twenty-three sequels. ... DVD cover The Thin Man is the title of the first of six comic detective films starring William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles, a hard-drinking and flirtatious married couple who banter wittily as they easily solve crimes. ... Topper refers to A series of books written by Thorne Smith A series of movies A television series A comic book A class of sailing dinghy A Camper shell, a small housing, usually of fiberglass or aluminum, mounted atop the rear bed of a pickup truck. ... Tremors are a series of films (followed by a television series) about a group of people from a small town fighting precambrian subterranean creatures called Graboids. ... Universal Soldier (1992) DVD cover The 1992 science fiction film Universal Soldier directed by Roland Emmerich stars Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren as soldiers who kill each other in Vietnam but are reanimated in a secret Army project along with a large group of other previously dead soldiers. ... Image:Walkingtalls. ... Wishmaster and its three sequels are films about a Djinn that is released from a jewel, and seeks to capture enough souls to open a portal and free his fellow Djinni from their prison. ... Wong Fei Hung (Chinese: 黃飛鴻; Pinyin: ; Yale Cantonese: Wong4 Fei1 Hung4) (July 9, 1847–March 25, 1924) was a healer, martial artist and revolutionary who became a Chinese folk hero often described as the Chinese Robin Hood. Wong Fei Hung museum in Foshan, Guangzhou, China As a healer and medical doctor... The X-Men are a group of comic book superheroes featured in Marvel Comics. ... Young and Dangerous poster Young and Dangerous 2 poster Young and Dangerous (古惑仔) is a 1996 Hong Kong movie about a group of triad members and it details their adventures in a fictional triad. ... Shintaro Katsu in Zatoichi Challenged (1967) Takeshi Kitano in Zatoichi (2003) Zatoichi (座頭市 Zatōichi) is a fictional character featured in one of Japans longest running series of films and a television series set in the Edo period. ... Serial is a term, originating in literature, for a format by which a story is told in contiguous installments in sequential issues of a single periodical publication. ... This is a list of movie trilogies. ... This is a list of character-based movie franchises, in which many movies are made about the same main character, who may be played by different actors. ...


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List of character-based movie franchises - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (143 words)
This is a list of character-based movie series, in which many movies are made about the same main character, who may or may not be played by different actors.
The individual movies of a series may be produced or directed by different people over many years.
In more extreme examples, the main character may be repeatedly "killed off" and resurrected through supernatural means or other plot devices.
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