The first that comes to mind for me is The Breakfast Club and I hope it never does have a sequel or remake
The Princess Bride is another good one
Edit: another one of my favourites is Wall.E, my favourite Pixar movie. There are also several other Pixar movies that don’t have sequels or remakes yet
Master and Commander. Wonderful movie, but opened at the wrong time. Could have been a nice series of movies.
The first thing that comes to mind is everything Studio Ghibli. They are mostly great films, and have no sequels or remakes yet and I hope it stays that way.
I’m sure there has to be live action examples but I can’t think of any right now.
Inception? I’m always surprised about it getting left alone as it should.
Anytime somebody starts eyeing the rights to it, they get incepted to leave it alone.
Nice one, yes
The Big Lebowski
ahh that would be impossible to do, the bar is set so high
That’s like your opinion man!
(mine too)
Galaxy Quest
There’s a whole bunch of spin-offs, most of them series. Star something.
I always thought the ending to Close Encounters was made for a sequel.
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Black Rain(1989)
Great antagonist, moral ambiguity, and culture clash.
Kung Fury
For those unaware, the sequel has been filmed and ready to go for years but has been blocked from release by law suits.
Ouch.
The Fifth Element. And I hope it stays tat way.
Coming this summer: Rob Schneider is the 6th Element!!
District 9 -.-
He said he’s currently working on District 10
I think he was talking about this when 9 was released.
True, it’s been talked about probably since District 9 came out, but in recent interviews he says there is a partial screenplay written but is just wrapped up in Oats Studios atm
Nice try, Hollywood!
Star Wars sequel trilogy. Hollywood really needs to remake all of them. Interestingly, there are two viable options:
- Actually make them good this time. Hire the Andor team to get it right.
- Modernize them even further, so much so that the entire franchise finally dies for good. Make GPT write the script if you want to go all the way. Sink then billion dollars into this train wreck. When you run out of money, sell the Star Wars IP to Netflix or whatever. Then Netflix will bury it for good.
Titanic
How they going to bring the iceberg back? That bad boy is melted for sure.
Does have a sequel:
Ah, Asylum Films, never change
🎶 my heart will go on! 🎶
Elderly Rose as she jumps off the ship: lol, not fucking likely!
I mean, there are plenty of highly-rated movies that don’t have a sequel (and probably that’s a good thing).
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The Shawshank Redemption
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12 Angry Men
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Schindler’s List
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Pulp Fiction
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Fight Club
12 angry men was remade
A remake isn’t a sequel
Not sure if it was possibly edited, but OP did specify sequel or remake
Good point, though the person you’re responding to only said it didn’t have a sequel.
Thanks, but was an error on my part; was trying to list stuff that didn’t have a sequel or remake. Hadn’t ever heard of them, but apparently there were two Indian film remakes and a television remake:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_Angry_Men_(1957_film)
The 1986 Hindi film Ek Ruka Hua Faisla (“a pending decision”) and 2012 Kannada film Dashamukha (“ten faces”) are Indian remakes of the film, with almost identical storylines. The former has been adapted as another Indian Bengali film Shotyi Bole Shotyi Kichhu Nei which was released in January 2025.[71]
In 1997, a television remake of the film under the same title was directed by William Friedkin and produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In the newer version, the judge is a woman, four of the jurors are black, and the ninth juror is not the only senior citizen, but the overall plot remains intact. Modernizations include not smoking in the jury room, changes in references to pop culture and sports figures and income, references to execution by lethal injection as opposed to the electric chair, more race-related dialogue, and casual profanity.
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No country for old men
Jared Leto as Anton Chigurh.
Chronicle
Always been a fan of the found footage format
