Title: Spring Break Shark Attack
Year: 2005
Director: Paul Shapiro
Actors: Shannon Lucio, Riley Smith, Justin Baldoni, Bianca Lishansky, Genevieve Howard, Warren McAslan, Kathy Baker, Bryan Brown
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Południowa Afryka
Why in Database: First we can see a scene with a swimming turtle, then a scene in which there are a lot of dead, partially eaten turtles on the deck of the boat and a man investigating them.
Author: XYuriTT
Title: My Family and Other Animals
Year: 2005
Director: Sheree Folkson
Actors: Eugene Simon, Imelda Staunton, Chris Langham, Omid Djalili, Matthew Goode, Russell Tovey, Tamzin Merchant, Kostas Tziotakis
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Why in Database: A film about the childhood of Gerald Durrell, a famous zoologist. There are also shots with turtles (including funeral scene).
Author: XYuriTT
Title: The Science of Sleep
Original title: La science des rêves
Year: 2006
Director: Michel Gondry
Actors: Gael García Bernal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alain Chabat, Miou-Miou, Pierre Vaneck, Emma de Caunes, Aurélia Petit, Sacha Bourdo
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Why in Database: Little turtles themes appear here.
Author: XYuriTT
Title: Frankenweenie
Year: 2014
Director: Tim Burton
Actors: Catherine O’Hara, Martin Short, Martin Landau, Charlie Tahan, Atticus Shaffer, Winona Ryder, Robert Capron, James Hiroyuki Liao
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Horror, SF
Country: USA
Why in Database:One character’s deceased turtle is resurrected… as an Gamera-like giant turtle.
Author: XYuriTT
Title: Dolphin Tale 2
Year: 2014
Director: Charles Martin Smith
Actors: Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, Juliana Harkavy, Kris Kristofferson, Harry Connick Jr., Austin Stowell, Nathan Gamble, Charles Martin Smith
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Why in Database: In this part, the turtle has own subplot with a lof of nice scenes. Besides that, you can see the turtle as a symbol, at the end they also show a scene from the release of a real turtle (i.e. both are real, but the movie is based on facts, and the turtle in the movie plays a turtle that the characters really helped and they released him, and this release is also shown).
Author: XYuriTT
Title: Dolphin Tale
Year: 2011
Director: Charles Martin Smith
Actors: Harry Connick Jr., Ashley Judd, Nathan Gamble, Kris Kristofferson, Cozi Zuehlsdorff, Morgan Freeman, Austin Stowell
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Why in Database: A lot of different turtle things in this movie. On the beggining there is a sea turtle swimming, then there are also visible mud and, sea turtles in the oceanarium, an operated and x-rayed turtle, turtle as a pendant, the empty shells and skeletons of turtles, etc..
Author: XYuriTT
Title: Godzilla, Mothra, Mechagodzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.
Original title: Gojira tai Mosura tai Mekagojira: Tôkyô S.O.S.
Year: 2003
Director: Masaaki Tezuka
Actors: Noboru Kaneko, Miho Yoshioka, Mitsuki Koga, Hiroshi Koizumi, Akira Nakao, Kôichi Ueda, Kô Takasugi, Masami Nagasawa
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, SF, Thriller
Country: Japan
Why in Database: In one scene at the beginning we can see huge, dead Mata-Mata turtle (same as in Yog Space Ameba).
Author: XYuriTT
Title: Yog: The Space Amoeba
Original title: Gezora Ganime Kamēba Kessen! Nankai no Daikaijū
Year: 1970
Director: Ishirô Honda
Actors: Akira Kubo, Atsuko Takahashi, Yukiko Kobayashi, Kenji Sahara, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Yû Fujiki, Noritake Saito, Yûko Sugihara
Genre: Adventure, SF
Country: Japan
Why in Database: First there is an ordinary Mata Mata turtle, then there is a huge threatening version of him.
Author: XYuriTT
Title: Gamera the Brave
Original title: Chiisaki yûsha-tachi: Gamera
Year: 2006
Director: Ryuta Tazaki
Actors: Ryô Tomioka, Kaho, Shingo Ishikawa, Shogo Narita, Kanji Tsuda, Susumu Terajima, Tomorô Taguchi, Kenjirô Ishimaru
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, SF
Country: Japan
Why in Database: The twelfth (and last for now) film about Gamera, part of another separate series (consisting of single-film). This time, at the very beginning, we see how Gamera sacrificing himself in combat, and then we follow the adventures of his new incarnation. We can see how the tiny turtle grows bigger and bigger to fight the new threat.
Author: XYuriTT
Title: Gamera 3: Awakening of Iris (also known as Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris)
Original title: Gamera 3: Jashin kakusei
Year: 1999
Director: Shûsuke Kaneko
Actors: Shinobu Nakayama, Ai Maeda, Yukijirô Hotaru, Ayako Fujitani, Senri Yamazaki, Toru Tezuka, Yuu Koyama, Nozomi Andô, Kei Horie
Genre: Action, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror, SF
Country: Japan
Why in Database: The eleventh film about Gamera, the last one from the more serious trilogy. Gamera is here, a lot, and of course he fights in defence of earth.
Author: XYuriTT
