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Movies referenced by the Simpsons episode titles

Listed in order of episode number.

I'm also including the most prominent movies that are based on the same source material that the title references, if the title doesn't reference a movie directly.

Please let me know if you see a movie reference that I missed.

Episode titles not included:
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S1E1 "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" | S1E2 "Bart the Genius"
S1E3 "Homer's Odyssey" | S1E4 "There's No Disgrace Like Home" | S1E5 "Bart the General"
S1E6 "Moaning Lisa" | S1E9 "Life on the Fast Lane" | S1E10 "Homer's Night Out"
S1E12 "Krusty Gets Busted" | S1E13 "Some Enchanted Evening"
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S2E1 "Bart Gets an "F"" | S2E3 "Treehouse of Horror"
S2E4 "Two Cars in Every Garage and…

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  • Call of the Wild
  • The Tell-Tale Heart
  • The Grapes of Wrath
  • Samson and Delilah
  • Dead Poets Society
  • The Way We Were
  • The War of the Worlds
  • 3 Men and a Baby
  • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
  • Days of Thunder
  • Zorba the Greek
  • Home Alone
  • A Streetcar Named Desire
  • Tom and Jerry: The Movie
  • Sophie's Choice
  • Last Exit to Brooklyn
  • The Front
  • Cape Fear
  • Citizen Kane
  • Boyz n the Hood
  • The Last Temptation of Christ
  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  • Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
  • The Man Who Knew Too Much
  • Lady Chatterley's Lover
  • Apocalypse Now
  • Bob Roberts
  • Alexander the Great
  • A Star Is Born
  • One Hundred and One Dalmatians
  • 'Round Midnight
  • The French Connection
  • Helen of Troy
  • Death Be Not Proud
  • Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills
  • A Fish Called Wanda
  • Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
  • Much Ado About Nothing
  • Summer of '42