Music videos that reference movies?

The music video of Madonna’s “Material Girl” pays homage to Marilyn Monroe's performance of the song "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" in the 1953 film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Fancy by Iggy Azalea is basically just Clueless

[Smashing Pumpkins' music video for "Tonight Tonight"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOG3eus4ZSo) references the old silent movie, "A Trip to the Moon" [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A\_Trip\_to\_the\_Moon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Trip_to_the_Moon) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonight,\_Tonight\_(The\_Smashing\_Pumpkins\_song)#Music\_video](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonight,_Tonight_(The_Smashing_Pumpkins_song)#Music_video)

The Beastie Boys "Sabotage" video is basically a perfect 70s cop show parody 🔥 Also Fall Out Boy's "Uma Thurman" does this whole Pulp Fiction thing that works surprisingly well. There's definitely more out there but those two always stuck with me because they actually put effort into getting the aesthetic right instead of just throwing in random movie references.

Telephone by Lady Gaga leans pretty heavily on Kill Bill, up to and including the P**** Wagon.

Walk by Foo Fighters is a direct reference to Falling Down with Michael Douglas (fantastic song too)

Ashanti’s foolish references Goodfellas

Movies - Alien Ant Farm

Heartless by The Weeknd & Hotel Lobby by Quavo and Takeoff Both are inspired by / reference Fear and Loathing

"We Can't Be Friends" by Ariana Grande references Eternal Sunshine.

One by Metallica is based on the book Johnny Got His Gun. The video makes significant use of clips from the movie. I watched it's premiere on MTV. It was their first official video so there was a lot of anticipation about what it would be like. We were shocked... everyone just sat quiet for a moment when it ended.

Weird Al did a bunch of movie reference parodies * **Jurassic Park** (Juassic Park) - Mac Arthur Park * **The Saga Begins** (Star Wars Episode I) - American Pie * **Gump** (Forrest Gump) - Lump Metallica's "**One**" is a retelling of and the music video uses scenes from the movie "Johnny Got His Gun" from 1971 based on the Dalton Trumbo novel of the same name. Deep Blue Soemthing's "**Breakfast at Tiffany's**" makes direct reference to the movie of the same name. There are also edge cases like Blue Öyster Cult's "**Godzilla**", which is not a reference to a specific movie but the Godzilla Franchise as a whole with perhaps an emphasis on the first serious movie.

[A$AP Rocky - L$D](https://youtu.be/Gx4JEBwVlXo?) is a homage to [Enter The Void](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1191111/?ref_=ext_shr)

the pretenders video for don't get me wrong references the avengers

Make Some Noise - Beastie Boys: Back to the Future. I'm sure there's more.

Aqua - Dr Jones - Indiana Jones

Ice Nine Kills - every single one of them

Oooh by De La Soul featuring Redman references The Wiz

"Run-Around" by Blues Traveler is a clever retelling of "The Wizard of Oz."

Ending of Take on me by A-ha references Altered States Land of Confusion by Genesis references Bedtime for Bonzo.

The video for ‘Cute Without The ‘E’ (Cut From The Team)’ by Taking Back Sunday is basically Fight Club…

Sabrina Carpenter loves referencing movies in her videoclips: Tears - The Rocky Horror Picture Show Taste - Death Becomes Her, Psycho, Kill Bill, among others Manchild - Thelma & Louis, Legally Blonde, Almost Famous, and more

Stacy's Mom-Fountains of Wayne

In to deep by Sum41 is a homage to Back To School starring Rodney Dangerfield

Mushroomhead - We Are the Truth is referencing Evil Dead [https://youtu.be/NxviGrBMKKY?si=I9O\_7ugO9JaLmeoy](https://youtu.be/NxviGrBMKKY?si=I9O_7ugO9JaLmeoy) GUNSHIP - Tech Noir is referencing many various movies [https://youtu.be/-nC5TBv3sfU?si=n7D12OrVdDIGkQ2u](https://youtu.be/-nC5TBv3sfU?si=n7D12OrVdDIGkQ2u) if I remember correctly almost every video of Ice Nine Kills is referencing some of horror movies

Yuqi - Freak: Makes reference to E.T., Scream, The Shining, Ringu, The Grudge and I think a few more.

Here's an unofficial music video for **The Clash's "Charlie Don't Surf"**: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1lc4rqh7ZU

I don't think this is quite what you're envisioning, but [All Over by CRUISR](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKemSP-Ei58) is just one movie reference after another, and it's a beautiful piece of animation.

Miike Snow - Genghis Khan is a fun 007 homage/parody

[MUNA - Silk Chiffon](https://youtu.be/fhyk9rchC2c?si=LZ7jKCzrjpeigRRT) is basically But I’m a Cheerleader

TWICE's What is Love does this to an obnoxious degree https://youtu.be/i0p1bmr0EmE?si=4rBnAqw3FYmsNjg0

2001: A space odyssey: [Bombay Bicycle Club - Home by now](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzuCOCZuS_A)

Beat It is an homage to West Side Story. 

Michael Jackson's "Bad" homages *West Side Story* with the characters dancing in a subway station.

The music video for "Young and Beautiful" by Lana Del Ray references the opening scene in the film Fantasia. In the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor sequence, the film shines multicolored lights onto the orchestra from the front so that their silhouettes light up the back wall behind them as a practical demonstration of the roles of different parts of the orchestra before transitioning into an animated sequence. The music video does something similar as well.

Ok so The X-Files is a TV show, but there are movies! “Be Sweet” by Japanese Breakfast is a cheesy/fun X-Files homage video. https://share.google/1DZIjRKVMWl8Vj5qC And I just realized the chorus of the song repeats the line “I wanna believe”, so maybe that was the connection between the song and video idea. Ha.

Out of Time (The Weeknd song) and lost in translation 

this is a cool idea! off the top of my head, check out "This Is America" by Childish Gambino for a wild take on social issues and some movie vibes. also, "Teenage Dream" by Katy Perry has some nods to classic films. i'm sure there are plenty more out there!