What Is Brazil? (TV Movie 1985)
"At the Movies" Brazil/Revolution/Murphy's Romance (TV Episode 1986)
Reviewed; clips are shown.An Eternal Combat (1991)
Footage of the fight scene between Sam and the Samurai is shown on TV in the hospital ward.The Battle of Brazil: A Video History (Video 1996)
"The Directors" The Films of Terry Gilliam (TV Episode 2000)
Clips shown.
The Cocoanuts (1929)
This Marx Brothers film is watched on a TV.Casablanca (1942)
Just before Sam Lowry says "Here's looking at you" to his boss, Humphrey Bogart's character in Casablanca can be heard saying that same, famous line "Here's looking at you, kid". Thus, the film is heard in the background, but actually never seen on screen.
Alien from L.A. (1988)
Both films feature a scene shot inside a cooling tower. In both stories the cooling tower interior serves as part of the headquarters of an oppressive futuristic regime.- Security guard's death alludes to "Brazil".
- Referenced during the "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" review.
"Wogan" Episode #9.30 (TV Episode 1989)
Mentioned during Terry's interview with Terry Gilliam.Batman (1989)
Inspiration for the production design
Sherlock Jr. (1924)
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
During Sam's escape from the torture chamber police advance down a set of stairs preceded by a cleaning cart as a reference to the famous scene on the Odessa steps.Metropolis (1927)
Many themes of the city are borrowed from Metropolis.M (1931)
À nous la liberté (1931)
Production line gag, use of pneumatic tubes
- Elsa, the pteradactyl, flies with Louie through the N.Y.C. sky scrapers and over the parade towing ballons. Much like in Sam's dream where he flies through the stone monoliths and watches the FODS tow Jill in the rusty cage
The Science of Sleep (2006)
nightmarish scene at work where Stéphane sits at his desk (which is stacked high with piles of paper) then his hands increase in size until he can't work"Adventure Time" Power Animal (TV Episode 2010)
Finn being trapped in a torture chair and scared of the brain machine. Jake comes to the rescue, but pretty soon it is all in his head.
Walk East on Beacon! (1952)
One scene, a conversation between two men in snap brim trilby hats, where they warily seem to talk around a subject so as not to give the other too much to go on.
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