Suggest Your Unofficial "Trilogies" Here....

[transmogrifier]

I got this idea from just recently seeing Wall-E and Laputa: Castle in the Sky very close together. I was thinking about a third film to complete the "Lonely Robot" trilogy. The Iron Giant? AI? What would be the best order to view them in?

Then I thought - I like the idea of sitting down and watching three independently made films that have a strong connection between them back-to-back-to-back. So I want your suggestions. What are some good unofficial trilogies that would be good to watch together, and in what order? Any connection is possible (plot, theme, mood etc), though try to avoid basic stuff like three random films from the same genre, or three random films starring the same actor, or by the same director - in the these cases, more of a connection would be more interesting, such as the "Brad Pitt vs. WWII" trilogy (Allied, Fury, Inglorious Basterds, in that order). Or you could post a trilogy and NOT state what the connection is because (a) it might be a spoiler, or (b) just for fun (e.g., Psycho, To Live and Die in LA, and Death Proof).

Recommendations please!.

[Skitch]

oooooh, I like this

[megladon8]

Yusssss. Funny enough, we do this pretty often at home.

One we did fairly recently:

Assault on Precinct 13
Vice Squad
The Warriors

Forgot to mention the link between the three.

No real, official link. Just 3 films from the late 70s/early 80s with the same quasi grindhouse aesthetic and exploitative sensibilities. Ultra violent (for the time), street level crime and corrupt cops.

[Peng]

Obvious in having the same actress, but still interestingly linked thematically:

Lucy
Her
Under the Skin

[Dead & Messed Up]

I've stumped for the Geometric Locked-Room Sci-Fi Trilogy.

Cube
Triangle
Circle

Spoilers for Triangle:
I know Triangle veers a bit more into the fantasy category by the end, and also steps off the boat for a spell, just roll with me on this.

[amberlita]

Movies with smart, competent, lead female detectives/cops:
Fargo
Copycat
Sicario

Movies with great parents who are imperfect but are also parent-goals:
Poltergeist
A Christmas Story
The Birdcage

[megladon8]

I loved Copycat except for Harry Connick, Jr. He hammed it up hard, and it felt like he was in a different movie from the rest of the cast.

And I freaking need to see Sicario, already. I just can't convince Jen to watch it.

[Skitch]

The Conversation
Sneakers
Enemy of the State

Even though they brought back some of the original cast for the closer, the 2nd act is always the best. :D ;)

[Skitch]

The Hunt For Red October
The Wolfs Call
Hunter Killer

[baby doll]

Encino Man
George of the Jungle
Blast from the Past

[megladon8]

Encino Man
George of the Jungle
Blast from the Past

Because all three are richly detailed allegories of racial oppression and the sidelining of social justice in the name of capitalist gain in a darkly prophetic look at corporate America and the tensions created when the masses have their voices taken away by a totalitarian government masquerading as a free, first world entity.

[DFA1979]

Journey to the Beginning of Time
Stand By Me
Monster Squad

Kids band together and go on cool adventures. HM: The Gate

[DFA1979]

Night of the Creeps
Killer Klowns From Outer Space
Scream

Horror where high school or college kids deal with an evil that descends upon their quiet town.

[DFA1979]

Revenge of Frankenstein
Freddy's Revenge
The Revenge of Michael Myers

Horror movie villains getting revenge!

[megladon8]

Revenge of Frankenstein
Freddy's Revenge
The Revenge of Michael Myers

Horror movie villains getting revenge!

Love this.

[transmogrifier]

I saw this one over at Reddit, and thought it was pretty cool:

Hush
Don't Breathe
The Quiet Place

The "Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil" trilogy.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Oh, that is good.

[Dukefrukem]

What a cool idea. Need to think on this.

[DFA1979]

I saw this one over at Reddit, and thought it was pretty cool:

Hush
Don't Breathe
The Quiet Place

The "Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil" trilogy.

Nice. I still need to see Don't Breathe.

[DFA1979]

Love this.

Thanks. It came to me on a car ride yesterday night.

[DFA1979]

The Conversation
Sneakers
Enemy of the State

Even though they brought back some of the original cast for the closer, the 2nd act is always the best. :D ;)

Yey I love all of those movies.

[DFA1979]

Kelly's Heroes
Three Kings
Da Five Bloods

Soldiers search for treasure either during or after a war.

[Skitch]

Kelly's Heroes
Three Kings
Da Five Bloods

Soldiers search for treasure either during or after a war.

DAMN

[Morris Schæffer]

Kelly's Heroes
Three Kings
Da Five Bloods

Soldiers search for treasure either during or after a war.

Add 'Escape to Athena' and you got yourself a quadrilogy. :D

[megladon8]

Batman Begins
The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight Rises

I call it...Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy.

[Dukefrukem]

The Paranoid Trilogy

Rear Window
The Burbs
Fright Night (remake)

[Dukefrukem]

The Neeson Trilogy

Taken
Run All Night
A Walk Among the Tombstones

[Skitch]

The Neeson Trilogy

Taken
Run All Night
A Walk Among the Tombstones

CHALLENGE

The Neeson Trilogy:

Darkman
Kingdom of Heaven (dc obvs)
Batman Begins

[megladon8]

Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Pacific Rim

The Nissan Trilogy

[Skitch]

Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Pacific Rim

The Nissan Trilogy

you sonofabitch

:D :D :D

[megladon8]

It's because they all prominently featured Nissan vehicles.

[DFA1979]

Add 'Escape to Athena' and you got yourself a quadrilogy. :D
Never heard of that one but I trust your rec.

Skitch that one just makes so much sense. I love all 3 movies. Wish I could have seen the Spike Lee on the big screen.

[DFA1979]

The Paranoid Trilogy

Rear Window
The Burbs
Fright Night (remake)

Yey. All fine movies. I liked the Fright Night remake.

[megladon8]

Annihilation
The Color Out of Space
The Thing ('82)

[Morris Schæffer]

Never heard of that one but I trust your rec.



It's not that good to be honest but it's got a great cast and is similar in tone to the other flicks you mentioned.

[Ezee E]

Drugs Are Bad (But Actually Pretty Fun) Trilogy

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Wolf of Wall Street
Dope

[Ezee E]

Drugs are Actually Bad Trilogy

Requiem for a Dream
Drugstore Cowboy
Man with the Golden Arm

[Ezee E]

Straight Up... Drugs are Fun Trilogy

Pineapple Express
Big Lebowski
Easy Rider

[Philip J. Fry]

Blade Runner
Ghost in the Shell
Dark City

[baby doll]

Movies with realistic Christmas scenes trilogy:

Female Trouble
Ma saison préférée
Mildred Pierce (2011)

[Morris Schæffer]

Finally, I got one. The inspirational teachers trilogy.

- Dead Poets Society
- Summer School
- Stand and Deliver

[megladon8]

Torque
Speed Racer
Batman & Robin

The MatchCut Trilogy

[Dukefrukem]

Blade Runner
Ghost in the Shell
Dark City

Oooo love this.

[Dukefrukem]

Torque
Speed Racer
Batman & Robin

The MatchCut Trilogy

AND THIS

[Philip J. Fry]

The "Fuck the Great War" starter pack:

All Quiet on the Western Front
La Grande Illusion
Paths of Glory

[Morris Schæffer]

Movies with realistic Christmas scenes trilogy:

Female Trouble
Ma saison préférée
Mildred Pierce (2011)

The Christmas movie trilogy that isn't really about Christmas

- Home Alone
- Bad Santa
- Die Hard

[Skitch]

The Christmas movie trilogy that isn't really about Christmas

- Home Alone
- Bad Santa
- Die Hard

How about the Action Jackson Christmas trilogy?

-Die Hard
-Lethal Weapon
-The Long Kiss Goodnight

[transmogrifier]

The We and the I
Get on the Bus
Speed

[DFA1979]

Oooo love this.

Yeah that one is good.

[Philip J. Fry]

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo GarcÃ*a
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
The Nightingale

[DFA1979]

Dave Toschi trilogy:

Bullitt
Dirty Harry
Zodiac

[DFA1979]

Paranoia in Modern Cinema

The Lives Of Others
The Social Network
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011)

[transmogrifier]

Sole Survivor
Final Destination 2
It Follows

Edit:

The best order is

It Follows
Final Destination 2
Sole Survivor

[Idioteque Stalker]

The "Let's Not Meet the Family" Trilogy

I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Get Out
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

[Philip J. Fry]

Since I mentioned it in another thread... Animation nightmares trilogy:

Umbilical World
La Casa Lobo
Kill It and Leave This Town

[DFA1979]

The "Let's Not Meet the Family" Trilogy

I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Get Out
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Hehe I like it.

A new one for me would be three favorite cult movies from 1984:

Repo Man
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Night of the Comet

[Spun Lepton]

The Was Stephen King High as F*uck? Trilogy

Sleepwalkers
The Langoliers
Maximum Overdrive

[DFA1979]

https://youtu.be/ygWMy-QQNbw

[Spun Lepton]

Not gonna lie ... I LOOOOOVE Maximum Overdrive. It's just so silly and SO EARNEST. I love it. Probably my favorite moment is one of the trucks "spying" on a conversation behind it by turning its side-mirrors to look at them. SO THE TRUCK USES ITS MIRRORS TO SEE? WHAT ARE ITS HEADLIGHTS, THEN?

Now I'm giving serious thought to making this my Halloween 2021 Grim Street video.

[DFA1979]

I know it's gloriously bad, yet I like it anyways. Maximum Overdrive and Jason Takes Manhattan are definitely ones I like to defend even though I probably shouldn't.

"WEEEEEEE MAAAAAADE YOOOOOOU!"

[DFA1979]

Road trips gone wrong:

Pierrot le Fou
True Romance
The Doom Generation

[baby doll]

The Was Stephen King High as F*uck? Trilogy

Sleepwalkers
The Langoliers
Maximum OverdriveAccording to Wikipedia, King got sober around 1990-1991, so: Maximum Overdrive yes, Sleepwalkers and The Langoliers apparently no.

[Spun Lepton]

According to Wikipedia, King got sober around 1990-1991, so: Maximum Overdrive yes, Sleepwalkers and The Langoliers apparently no.

The Langoliers was first published as a novella in 1990, so ... that one's questionable.

[baby doll]

I'm one movie short of a Pizza Delivery Man Pushed Too Far trilogy:

Do the Right Thing
Crimson Gold

[Skitch]

Spider-Man 2? lol

[quido8_5]

I really regret coming to this party trilogy:

1) Superbad
2) Clue
3) The Celebration

[Skitch]

Green Room.

[Idioteque Stalker]

Society.

[Skitch]

Very Bad Things

[quido8_5]

The Exterminating Angel

[DFA1979]

Gun Crazy
Bonnie and Clyde
Natural Born Killers

[DFA1979]

Cattle Drive yeehaw

Red River
Cowboy
The Cowboys

[Philip J. Fry]

Gun Crazy
Bonnie and Clyde
Natural Born Killers
Need to watch NBK, but yes!

[DFA1979]

Need to watch NBK, but yes!

It's on Tubi right now. Check it out. Some hate it, some think it's overrated, me I find it to be one of the best films of the 1990s.

[Skitch]

Best westerns that some may not consider westerns:

Quigly Down Under
Dances With Wolves
Hidalgo

[DFA1979]

Hmm yeah some may consider Quigly and Hidalgo adventure films and Dances With Wolves a drama. So that tracks.

[baby doll]

Movies about people drinking themselves to death:

Händler der vier Jahreszeiten
Bildnis einer Trinkerin
Leaving Las Vegas

[Idioteque Stalker]

Movies about people drinking themselves to death:

Händler der vier Jahreszeiten
Bildnis einer Trinkerin
Leaving Las Vegas

That's depressing. I need a drink.

[Skitch]

Hmm yeah some may consider Quigly and Hidalgo adventure films and Dances With Wolves a drama. So that tracks.

Yep! But I call them westerns. Same with The Proposition, but that plays more like a classic western theme (outlaws who return for revenge etc etc)

[Philip J. Fry]

Yep! But I call them westerns. Same with The Proposition, but that plays more like a classic western theme (outlaws who return for revenge etc etc)
A meat pie Western!

[DFA1979]

Yep! But I call them westerns. Same with The Proposition, but that plays more like a classic western theme (outlaws who return for revenge etc etc)

No they're westerns. I consider Brokeback Mountain a western btw and I think No Country For Old Men could also apply as one.

[Yxklyx]

Hysterical Women (through the years)

1. The Haunting (1963)
2. Possession (1981)
3. Melancholia (2011)

[Philip J. Fry]

Hysterical Women (through the years)

1. The Haunting (1963)
2. Possession (1981)
3. Melancholia (2011)What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

[baby doll]

Possessed (1947)

[Yxklyx]

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

Maybe but these three are also horror films.

[Skitch]

Ladies With Blades:

Azumi
Lady Snowblood
Red Sonja

[Philip J. Fry]

Maybe but these three are also horror films.

So is Baby Jane.

[Philip J. Fry]

Ladies With Blades:

Azumi
Lady Snowblood
Red Sonja

Kill Bill!

[Skitch]

Kill Bill!

I considered it, but it owes most of itself to previous movies.

[baby doll]

Ladies With Blades:Dressed to Kill?

[Skitch]

Dressed to Kill?

Been on my stack forever, I really need to see it.

[DFA1979]

Been on my stack forever, I really need to see it.

So good.

[DFA1979]

Hysterical Women (through the years)

1. The Haunting (1963)
2. Possession (1981)
3. Melancholia (2011)

I've seen all of those except Melancholia.

[StuSmallz]

Dressed to Kill?Eh, that technically qualifies, but I think we can find much better movies than that to fit the category...

https://i.ibb.co/myKqBcw/theyareontome.gif (https://imgbb.com/)

[transmogrifier]

Labyrinth
Raising Arizona
Gone Baby Gone

Three kidnapped children, three distinct genres, one from the perspective of the family member left behind, one from the perspective of the kidnappers, and one from the perspective of outsiders trying to figure out what the hell is going on.

[Philip J. Fry]

I know they are music videos, but whatever... they fit well.

Chris Isaak - Wicked Game
U2 - Electrical Storm
Robbie Williams - Feel

[DFA1979]

Labyrinth
Raising Arizona
Gone Baby Gone

Three kidnapped children, three distinct genres, one from the perspective of the family member left behind, one from the perspective of the kidnappers, and one from the perspective of outsiders trying to figure out what the hell is going on.

Very nice.

Also Stu I saw that!

[Philip J. Fry]

Grave of the Fireflies
Giovanni's Island
In This Corner of the World

[baby doll]

The Teacher Wants to Fuck Anna Paquin (and Usually Does) Trilogy:

25th Hour
The Squid and the Whale
Margaret

[Philip J. Fry]

Best westerns that some may not consider westerns:

Quigly Down Under
Dances With Wolves
HidalgoThe Treasure of the Sierra Madre

[Skitch]

https://i.imgur.com/csZyVfF.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/1KlkjbG.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/oDnOpZ9.jpg

[DFA1979]

Carlito's Way
Cutter's Way
The Way of the Gun

Also:

Jingle All The Way
No Way Out
Way of the Dragon

Plus:

Way Down East
The Way We Were
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum

[Skitch]

The Way Back (x2)