This is a list of all (most) of the movies mentioned, references or watched by the Gilmore Girls throughout the years as well as the episode it was seen in. If there are any additions or corrections post in my ask! Enjoy your movie watching!
Remember not every movie the girls reference or watch are good so if you watch one of these and hate it they probably did too. However, I’ve seen many of these movies and can give personal recommendations from the list, not that anyone really wants my opinion.
16 Candles (6x06)
2000 Year Old Man (2x15)
2001 (1x15)
3 Days (2x12)
8 Mile (6x12)
9 1/2 Weeks (1x07)
AI (2x03)
Alive (4x11)
All About Eve (2x19)
All the President’s Men (6x18, 7x07)
American Gigolo (6x18)
Amistad (4x19)
An Affair to Remember (1x17, 4x06, 6x13, 7x02)
Animal House (1x05)
Annie Hall (2x21, 3x05)
Apocaplypse Now (5x02)
Arthur (2x19)
Attica (2x15, 5x05)
Autumn in New York (2x15)
Babe (2x12, 2x19)
Babe II (2x19)
Bambi (2x12)
Banger Sisters (3x04)
Basic Instinct (2x22)
Batman (7x19)
Battlestar Galactica, (7x02)
Beautiful Mind (7x16)
Ben Hur (2x10, 3x05)
Benji (4x05)
Bewitched (6x02)
Billy Jack (2x04, 3x19)
Blades of Glory (7x19)
Blood on the Highway (5x05)
Blue Crush (3x05)
Bonnie & Clyde (4x05)
Boogie Nights (1x07)
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (7x02)
Breakfast Club, The (6x16)
Breaking Away (6x01)
Bride of Chucky (7x09)
Brigadoon (2x22)
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (6x05)
Bringing Up Baby (2x09)
Brokeback Mountain (6x16)
Bugsy Malone (6x17)
Bull Durham (2x12, 5x01)
Bye Bye Birdie (2x15)
Byron (7x20)
Cabaret (1x18)
Cabin Boy (2x19)
California Suite (7x03)
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (2x04)
Casablanca (4x05, 7x04, 7x10)
Champ, The (1x17)
Charlie’s Angel’s Full Throttle
Chico & the Man (6x18)
Chinatown (2x04, 4x05)
Citizen Kane (4x06)
Cocktail (2x19)
Cocoon (2x09)
Coming Home (2x07)
Cool Hand Luke (5x05)
Courtship of Eddie’s Father, The (3x03)
Crimes & Misdemeanours (2x19)
Crossroads (3x19)
Crucible, The (1x07)
Damned, The (2x02)
Dances with Wolves (2x12, 5x05, 7x04)
Dangerous Liaisons (7x05)
Das Boot (7x20)
DaVinci Code, The (5x02)
Dead Calm (7x20)
Deerhunters, The (1x04)
Delovely (6x07)
Desperately Seeking Susan (2x19)
Detective, The (2x19)
Dick Tracy (1x21)
Dig (6x10)
Diner (2x17, 4x05)
Dirty Dancing (7x16)
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2x07, 3x01)
Dog Day Afternoon (6x06)
Dr. Dolittle (2x10)
Driving Miss Daisy (2x17, 7x04)
Deuce Bigalow (6x04)
Dumbo (2x12)
Easter Parade
Ed Wood
Edward Scissorhands
Electric Boogaloo (2x12)
Endless Love (2x06)
Endless Summer (4x16)
Enter the Dragon (7x02)
Erin Brockovich (3x05)
Everest (1x13)
Exorcist, The (7x02)
Fair Pentitent, The (1x07)
Fame (3x19)
Farenheit 911 (7x02)
Fast & the Furious, The 1, 2 & 3 (7x01)
Fatal Attraction (2x14)
Fatso (4x12)
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Fiddler on the Roof (1x15, 2x11)
Final Destination 1, 2 & 3 (6x17)
Flashdance
Fletch (2x19)
Fly, The (1x6)
Footloose (6x18)
For Keeps
Forty-Year-Old Virgin
Freaky Friday (2x07, 3x01)
Fried Green Tomatoes (1x09)
From Here to Eternity (2x13, 7x02)
Funny Face (7x04)
Funny Girl
GxIx Jane (1x17)
Gaslight (1x18, 4x20)
Ghostbusters (2x13)
GI Jane (4x04)
Gigi (5x01)
Girl, Interrupted (2x22)
Glitter (2x08, 3x19)
Godfather, The
Gone with the Wind (1x09)
Good Morning Vietnam (4x11)
Good Night & Good Luck (6x14)
Good Ship Lollipop (1x06)
Goonies, The (1x02)
Gray Gardens (4x05)
Grease (1x18, 2x04)
Great Santini (1x02)
Grease (4x12)
Grinch Who Stole Christmas, The
Hairspray (3x06)
Hamlet (7x15)
Hannibal Lector Movies (1x18)
Hardbodies (4x05)
Harold & Maude (2x12)
Harvey (2x14)
Heathers, The (7x11)
Heidi (4x02)
High Noon (3x04)
His Girl Friday (4x05, 6x05, 7x17)
Hitch (7x17)
Hoosiers (3x15)
Hudson Hawk (2x12)
Ice Castles (1x07)
Inconvenient Truth, An (7x08)
Inherit the wind (2x15)
Into the Woods (3x15)
Invasion of the Bodysnatchers (6x16)
Ironweed (7x08)
Ishtar (1x17)
It Happened One Night (4x05)
James Bond Movies (7x01)
Jarhead (7x01)
Jerk, The (2x12)
Joe vsx the Volcano (7x10)
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (7x16)
Julia (2x13)
Karate Kid (7x02)
Ken Burns Boring Sod Documentary that I couldn’t find (7x07)
Kill Bill (4x05)
Kujo (4x05)
Lady & the Tramp (1x15)
Lake House, The (7x02, 7x17)
Last Tango in Paris (5x05)
Legend of Bagger Vance, The (2x02)
Les Miserables (3x15)
Little House on the Prairie (4x05)
Little Man Tate (6x17)
Little Rascals, The (1x15)
Lord of the Rings (2x15)
Love in the Afternoon (3x15)
Love Story (1x16)
Mad About Ballroom (6x04)
Magnolia (1x07)
Marathon Man (3x04)
March of the Penguins, The (6x02, 6x21, 6x14)
Mary Poppins (6x16, 6x22)
Mask, The (1x12, 6x09)
Master & Commander (5x03)
Matrix, The (1x21, 4x02)
Midnight Express (1x09, 2x04)
Midsummer Night’s Dream (7x10)
Milton, John (7x20)
Misery (6x21)
Mission Impossible (1x15)
Moment by Moment (2x06)
Mommie Dearest (1x01, 4x03)
Money Pit, The (2x18, 3x20)
Monster (4x15)
Moose Murders (3x06)
Music Man, The (1x14)
Mystic Pizza (2x09)
National Velvet (4x05)
Norma Rae (6x06, 7x08)
Not Without my Daughter (2x01)
Officer & a Gentleman (5x05)
Old Yeller (1x17)
Open Water (7x20)
Out of Africa (1x18)
Paper Moon
Parent Trap, The (4x20)
Passion of the Christ (5x08)
Philadelphia Story
Pippi Longstocking (5x05)
Pleasantville (7x06)
Poseidon Adventure, The (4x05)
Postman, The (2x12)
Power of Myth, The
Primary Colors (6x09)
Princess Bride, The (2x19)
Producers (3x06)
Psycho (3x05, 6x17)
Purple Rain (2x11, 6x22, 7x07)
Pursuit of Happyness, The (7x17)
Rainman (2x07, 3x05)
Rent (7x10)
Reversal of Fortune (3x01)
Richard III (7x15)
Riding the Bus with my Sister (6x04)
Risky Business (2x16, 6x04)
River Wild The (2x19)
Rocky Horror Picture Show, The
Room With A View (5x02)
Rosemary’s Baby (1x01, 2x12)
Sabrina (2x13)
Saint Elmo’s Fire (5x09)
Sandra Oh (7x02)
Saturday Night Fever (2x03)
Saw II (6x16)
Schindler’s List (1x02, 6x16)
Seventh Samurai (2x19)
Shaft (1x07)
Shakespeare in Love (6x22)
Shallow Hal (7x02)
Shane (3x02)
Shanghai Express (7x02)
Shoah (3x05, 5x04)
Showgirls (4x05)
Silent Movie (2x15)
Singing in the Rain
Sixteen Candles (1x09)
Sleeping Beauty (1x07)
Snakes on a Plane (7x04)
Snow Dogs (2x19)
Sophie’s Choice (2x19)
Sound of Music, The (2x06,7x03)
Space Odyssey (7x09)
Speed (7x02)
Star Wars (6x02)
Sting, The (2x19)
Streetcar Named Desire, A (1x14)
Taboo Broadway Show (6x13)
Taxi Driver (4x10)
Terms of Endearment (2x19)
Them (2x03)
This is Spinal Tap (3x19)
Thomas Crown Affaird, The (2x10)
Titanic (7x20)
Treasure of the Sierra Madre (4x05)
Turning Point (6x22)
Untouchables, The (2x18)
Urban Cowboy (2x19)
Valley of the Dolls (4x10)
View from the Top (7x02)
Waiting for Godot (2x18)
Wall Street (4x04)
Way We Were, The (1x07)
Welcome to the Dollhouse (6x05)
West Side Story (1x01, 3x04)
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (2x19)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1x17)
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1x07, 5x09)
Wizard of Oz (6x11, 1x10, 2x09, 6x08)
Working Girl (6x05)
Xanadu (5x12)
Yearling, The (2x19)
Young Frankenstein (2x13)
You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown (1x15)
