Amphibians In Movies List
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This is a list of some movies I've seen that had frogs or salamanders in them that I found interesting for some reason. It's rare that a frog or salamander is important to a plot. They are generally just used as background. Salamanders are almost as non-existent in movies as they are in life, which is fitting for such silent and secretive animals. Often they are mistaken for lizards.
Most of these are live-action feature films or TV movies, with some exceptions.
Links lead to pictures and information about the movies.
Spoiler Alert !
Some of these pictures and descriptions may give away plot details that you might not want to know before watching a film.
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| Apocalypto (2006) - An unarmed man chased by warriors improvises a blow gun using darts tipped with poison from a toad. |
| April Fools (1969) - A man feels like an enchanted frog until a woman kisses him and tells him he's a Prince. When he sees a real frog, he decides to run away with her. |
| Bad Company (1972) - The leader of a band of desperado boys during the Civil War plays a prank on the new boy by putting a frog down his shirt. |
| The Ballad of Narayama (1988) - Frogs are shown as part of the natural world. |
| The Big Parade (1925) - An American soldier in WWI tries to impress a French girl with a frog he caught. |
| Big Trouble (2002 )- A large frog invades a Miami home where it squirts hallucinogenic chemicals into the face of anyone it thinks is trying to stop it from eating the dog's food. |
| Cabin in the Woods (2011) - Japanese schoolgirls exorcise a ghost, turning her into a frog. |
| California (1977) - Hungry recently-freed POWs comically catch a bunch of frogs then bring them home to cook and eat them. |
| Cannery Row (1982) - On an epic hunt a group of hobos capture a thousand frogs to sell, but end up bartering them for groceries. |
| Chandu the Magician (1932) - Chandu pays a slave trader with a bag full of coins that turn into toads when he pours them out. |
| Cheaper By the Dozen (2003) - A family trying to catch an escaped pet frog ruins breakfast and trashes the kitchen. |
| Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) - A man swallows several live frogs for a crowd on a sidwalk in Paris. |
| Color Out of Space (2019) - A meteor crashes next to a well and colors plants and animals an unusual magenta color, including a salamander we see sitting on top of the well. |
| Cross Country Detours (1940) - We see a close-up of an animated frog "croaking." |
| Dallas Buyers Club (2013) - We see an African Clawed Frog in a strip club aquarium, for no particular reason. |
| The Defiant Ones (1958) - Two escaped convicts find a bullfrog calling at night, kill it with sticks, and eat it for dinner. |
| Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) - A pile of frogs sits with other raw foods ready to be killed and cooked. |
| Ender's Game (2013) - Ender's team in battle school is called Salamander Army. |
| E. T. the Extraterrestrial (1982) - Elementary school children set free all the frogs they are supposed to dissect. |
| Exodus: Gods & Kings (2014) - A plague of frogs invades Egypt and the Pharaoh's bedroom. Then they all die, bringing a the plague of flies. |
| First Cow (2019) - A man foraging for food in the woods encounters an overturned newt, which he turns over and lets continue on its way. |
| Foolish Wives (1922) - Bullfrogs are shown at a cabin in a swamp. |
| Frogs (1972) - Nature runs amok, with frogs and other animals killing the humans who are polluting their habitat. |
| Frozen II (2019) - A flaming purple fire salamander lives in an enchanted forest. |
| Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935) - A frog croaks from the fountain in the lobby of a fancy resort hotel. |
| Golden Salamander (1950) - The Greek inscription on an ancient statue of a salamander inspires a man to do the right thing. |
| Gravity (2013) - A space capsule lands in a lake populated by large frogs. |
Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice (1972) [Goyokiba] - A salamander is found in a bath house, so Hanzo impales it on a blade.
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| Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922) - Live snakes, frogs, and dried fingers are tossed into a witch's potion. |
| The Hellbenders (The Cruel Ones) (1967) - A Confederate regiment called The Hellbenders uses Hellbender insignia and symbols. |
| Hell Comes to Frogtown (1988) - A post-apocalyptic government stud with an exploding chastity belt fights bipedal frog mutants. |
| The Holy Mountain (1973) - Cane Toad conquistadores fight horned lizards dressed as Aztecs in the Spanish conquest of Mexico. |
| House (1977) - A salamander walking on the floor in a haunted house is impaled by a crystal that falls from a chandelier. |
| Impromptu (1991) - Children pretend to execute Royals in the French Revolution. They blow up a frog they say is a "Viscount." |
| Invaders From Mars (1986) - A young boy fights aliens who make his teacher swallow frogs. |
| The Isle (2000) - A woman kills a frog with a stick then rips it apart with her bare hands. |
| Jules and Jim (1962) - Jules keeps newts in a wash basin in his house in France. Doesn't everybody? |
| Jungle Run (2021) - An army of poisonous dart frogs threatens people in the jungle. |
The Last Wave (1977) - Frogs appear to have fallen out of the sky during a heavy rainstorm in Australia.
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| Leolo (1993) - Leolo keeps Eastern Newts in jars in the basement. |
| Magnolia (1999) - Frogs rain down from the sky and cars crash into each other. |
| Mandy (2018) - A man determined to avenge his murdered wife has a dream about her then wakes up to see a salamander on a rock. |
Monkey Business (1931) - Harpo finds a frog in a fountain on a passenger ship, trains it to hop up into his top hat, and then keeps it under his hat. |
| The Naked Prey (1965) - A jungle adventure movie filmed in Africa with lots of herps, including some frogs. |
| Night of the Hunter (1955) - We see bullfrogs at the edge of a river. |
| Nymphomaniac Part 1 (2014) - Two real frogs watch two young girls play "frogs" in a flooded bathroom. |
| O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) - Sirens turn Pete into a "toad" so Everett and Delmer put him in a box and take care of him. |
| Pan's Labyrinth (2006) - A young girl immersed in a fantasy world hunts a giant toad in its underground lair. |
| Practical Magic (1998) - A witch becomes posessed by the spirit of the abusive boyfriend she helped murder. The other witches say he is squatting inside her like a toad that needs to be removed. Then we see lots of frogs fall out of her. |
| Pretty Poison (1968) - A man sleeping in the woods is terrified when he wakes up and sees a newt on a branch above him. |
| Rango (2011) - Rango is a pet Chameleon who gets lost in the desert where he encounters desert animals including some toads. |
| The Return of the Frog (1938) - A gang called The Frogs gets their orders through a large frog radio, they sign their messages with a frog stamp, and the members have frog tattoos. |
| The Rum Diary (2011) - A hermaphrodite witchdoctor coughs out a toad when casting some spells. |
| The Salamander (1981) - The mysterious "Salamander" leaves a picture of a salamander with his victims. |
| The Scent of Green Papaya (1993) - A servant girl sees several frogs around the house where she is employed. |
| Song of the South (1946) - Two boys play with a "bullfrog" (which is actually a toad) then they take it to a pond to release it. There are also some scenes with animated talking frogs. |
| The Sound of Music (1965) - Bratty children try to scare away their new governess by putting a toad in her pocket. |
| Spirited Away (2001) - A girl is bribed with a roasted newt to do something dangerous. |
| Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring (2003) - A boy tortures a frog and is himself tortured for the rest of his life. |
| Tales of Terror (1962) - A drunk hallucinates a bunch of creatures blocking his cellar stairs including an Amphiuma. |
The Tempest (2010) - The King's Jester Trinculo falls into a pond full of frogs that turn into a magical spirit named Ariel.
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| Three Outlaw Samurai (1964) - A starving Samurai is thrown into a jail cell full of water where he finds a frog and eats it alive. |
| The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism (Die Schlangengrube und das Pendel) (1967) - A woman is tortured with spiders, scorpions, snakes, and - a newt? |
| The Tree of Life (2011) - Boys tie a Gulf Coast Toad to a fireworks rocket and light the fuse. |
| The Triplets of Belleville (2003) - An old French woman uses dynamite to catch frogs for dinner. |
| A Trip to the Moon ("Le voyage dans la lune") (1902) - A space capsule lands in an ocean populated by newts. |
| Tropical Malady (2004) - Two farmers find rocks that turn into treasure but the treasure turns into toads when they get greedy. |
| True Blood (TV Series 2008...) - A salamander underwater begins the opening credits montage. |
| Venomous (2001) - A female bullfrog calls like a pacific treefrog before a mutant rattlesnake gets it. |
| The Virgin Spring (1960) - A pregnant woman makes a toad sandwich and causes a tragedy. |
| The Wicker Man (1973) - A pharmacist puts a small toad in a little girl's mouth to cure her sore throat. |
| Witch Hunt (1994) - A witch spits a salamander out of his mouth onto a Senator, who then spits out a huge frog and his true evil character to the audience he is giving a speach to. |
| You Only Live Once (1937) - A couple of Honeymooners watch frogs and discuss frog fidelity. |
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