Cinetrii Film connections for enthusiasts
Cinetrii analyses reviews to infer possible inspirations behind a film. Enter a title to find other works that may have inspired (or been inspired by) it, along with the quotes that determine the connection.
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) Lucas borrowed from The Hidden Fortress. Johnson reached for late Kurosawa, and Kagemusha above all.
Rope (1948) Alfred Hitchcock filmed and edited Rope to look like one continuous shot. The long takes and hidden stitches have persisted in cinema ever since, moving out of the chamber play and onto the battlefield in 1917.
Nope (2022) Everyone left Nope naming a different film. Tremors, Akira, and over and over, Spielberg. This is Peele's Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Train Dreams (2025) Critics could not review Train Dreams without invoking Malick. First with The Tree of Life, then Days of Heaven, then all the rest.
Moonrise Kingdom (2012) Anderson's runaway children have a lineage of their own. Truffaut's Small Change behind them, Jojo Rabbit in front.
MaXXXine (2024) The gondola up to the Hollywood Hills mansion is Body Double, undisguised. The rest West took from Hardcore and Chinatown.