Lizards in Movies |
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This is a list of movies with lizards in them that I found interesting for some reason. There are lists of particular types of lizards in movies you can see at the links above.
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 brief descriptions may give away plot details that you might not want to know before watching a film.
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Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)
Costello also meets a gigantic monster lizard inside the mummy's tomb.
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Altered States (1980)
A Harvard scientist eats some Mexican magic mushrooms and hallucinates a bunch of lizards. |
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The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
Spider-Man Peter Parker
battles a giant lizard monster that is threatening the city.
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Arabesque (1966)
A chase scene through the London Zoo is punctuated musically to several shots of snakes and lizards sticking out their tongues. |
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Bad Boys II (2003)
Green Iguanas are used to fool motion detectors, then a Green Iguana steps on a land mine.
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Badlands (1973) (IMDB)
Martin Sheen is standing in a wide open field at dusk somewhere in the South Dakota Badlands staring off into space and we see some kind of game bird, a big black rubber lizard that never moves, and looks like nothing you'd find in South Dakota or anywhere in the US, a thundercloud with lightning, then a hawk standing on the ground, then back to Sheen. |
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The Bad Lieutenant - Port of Call: New Orleans (2009)
An imagined iguana and a bearded dragon freak out Nicholas Cage. |
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The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
Somebody shoots a Gila Monster on a rock before Cable can kill it with a knife for food. |
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Big Stakes (1922)
Getting bitten by a deadly Gila Monster
is the price to pay for losing a bet.
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Broken Lance (1954)
A man finds that his old ranch is so run down that there's a Gila Monster in the garden. |
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
The Sundance Kid shoots a Gila Monster.
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A Cat in Paris (2010)
A pet cat named Dino catches and kills lizards on a roof in Paris and brings them to his girl Zoe, who keeps a sardine can full of dead lizards.
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CrissCross (1992)
Young Florida boys hang Brown Anoles from their nose and tongue.
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Crocodile Dundee (1986)
Dundee roasts a large monitor lizard for dinner.
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Crocodile Dundee II (1988)
Dundee leaves a large monitor lizard wearing a red bandana in the bed of a man who always wears a red bandana to make the man's companions think that he was turned into a lizard by black magic.
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Cross Country Detours (1940)
On a split screen an animated gila monster growls while a little girl recites poetry.
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Cross Country Detours (1940)
An animated lizard sheds its skin like a woman doing a strip tease dance. |
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Deep Red (1975)
A creepy, sadistic little girl sticks a pin through a lizard just to torture it. |
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Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot! (1967)
Django is chained to a cross and tortured, then left alone to be tormented by bloodthirsty vampire bats and even worse - a Green Iguana. |
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Don't Torture a Duckling (1972)
A young Italian boy shoots a wall lizard with a slingshot.
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Drive, He Said (1971)
A campus radical runs naked into a college science lab and releases mice, snakes, lizards, and other animals. |
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Duel in the Sun (1946)
A couple of Chuckwallas show up briefly as local color in this campy western melodrama. |
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El Topo (1970)
Nihilistic Mexican murderers abuse large spiny-tailed lizards. |
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The Fallen Idol (1948)
A young boy keeps a Slow Worm hidden behind a brick. |
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The Far Side of Jericho (2006)
Fugitive women decline a young boy's offer of lizard to eat. |
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Fort Apache (1948)
A trading post exhibits a stuffed Gila Monster on its wall. |
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The Freshman (1990)
A young film student is hired to pick up something that turns out to be a live Komodo Dragon, which gets loose and causes a real commotion.
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Frogs (1972)
Nature runs amok, with lizards and other animals killing the humans who are polluting their habitat. |
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Ghost Rider (2007)
Two flaming Ghost Riders, one riding a flaming horse and the other a flaming motorcycle, riding through the desert at night, pass a lizard that they set on fire and burn down to its skeleton. |
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The Giant Gila Monster (1959)
A giant Gila Monster (played by a Beaded Lizard) terrorizes a small town. |
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Gila! (2012)
A giant Gila Monster terrorizes a small town.
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The Gods Must Be Crazy II (1989)
A woman suddenly dropped into the African wilderness is terrified by a monitor lizard. |
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Greed (1924)
A fugitive sees a Gila Monster and a Chuckwalla in Death Valley. |
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Hell's Belles (1969)
A biker is knocked out on a dirt road in the Sonoran Desert. When he wakes up, he sees a Gila Monster. |
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Holes (2003)
Yellow-spotted Lizards with fangs kill people with their venom. |
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The Holy Mountain (1973)
Horned lizards dressed as Aztecs fight Cane Toad conquistadores in the Spanish conquest of Mexico. |
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Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom (1984)
Camped in the jungle at night, an annoying woman who's not much of a camper (played by Kate Capshaw) starts screaming when she grabs a fruit bat hanging on a line instead of her laundry and then finds a monitor lizard sitting on a branch.
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Impromptu (1991)
A young George Sand performs a ritual at a shrine in the woods, hoping to leave a live lizard as an offering, until she discovers the lizard is dead. |
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
Explorers hiking down to the center of the earth encounter giant monster lizards that try to eat them. |
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The Joy Luck Club (1993)
A young Chinese girl does not see her new husband until he comes into their bedroom on their wedding night. He scares her with a lizard and she is not happy to see that she has married a young boy who plays with lizards. |
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The Killer Snakes (She sha shou) (1975)
A bullied man uses snakes and monitor lizards to get revenge. |
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Komodo vs. Cobra (2005)
Scientists accidentally create a gigantic monster Komodo Dragon and a monster Cobra that battle it out in the end. |
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Le Cercle Rouge (1970)
An alcoholic's delirium includes Uromastyx and Iguanas. |
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The Left Handed Gun (1958)
Billy the Kid is recuperating in bed when his friends prank him with a horned lizard in a box. |
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Licence to Kill (1989)
An evil drug lord carries around an iguana that wears a diamond studded collar. |
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Life of Pi (2012)
A monitor lizard runs up to the camera at a zoo in India. |
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The Lizard (1972)
A Robin-Hood-like Kung Fu cat burglar leaves a toy lizard at the scenes of his crimes.
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Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971)
There are no lizards in this movie, but there is plenty of women's skin... |
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The Lizard Woman (2004)
Fiendish geckos bite people, turn them into zombies, and turn one woman into a lizard woman. |
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Lord of the Flies (1963)
A boy marooned on a tropical island plays with an anole.
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The Lost World (1925)
A scientist on an expedition to the Amazon to find dinosaurs, studies two unusual lizards he found there.
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Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
A two-headed lizard makes a tasty post-apoctalyptic snack for Max.
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Male and Female (1919)
A woman on a deserted island in the south seas searches for food but finds a Gila Monster Beaded Lizard instead. |
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Manny & Lo (1996)
An 11-year-old girl says the pledge of allegiance to a green anole then hypnotizes it. |
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The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)
Diabolical Dr. Fu Manchu makes a mind-control serum of sacred herbs and reptiles, including a Gila Monster. |
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Meltdown (Shu dan long wei) (1995)
A terrorist throws snakes at a woman to force her to do what he wants and she is also attacked by a monitor lizard that eventually bites a man on the butt and hangs on as he is pulled up into the ceiling. |
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The Mercenary (1968)
A revolutionary disguised as a mine worker finds a lizard in his lunch then forces the mine owner to eat it. |
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The Mexican (2001)
A Gila Monster watches a car drive by.
So exciting.
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Mysterious Island (1961)
The leader of a group of castaways explores a cave to see if it is inhabitable. He finds an Iguana under an old suitcase which surprises him. |
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The Naked Prey (1965)
A great jungle adventure movie filmed in Africa with lots of herps, including some South African lizards. |
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Next (2007)
A Las Vegas magician does a trick for a boy, making a lizard appear in his hand. |
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The Night of the Iguana (1964)
Mexican beach boys catch and sell Green Iguanas for food, and a drunken ex-minister releases an Iguana in order to free himself.
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Old Yeller (1957)
A young boy carries a horned lizard in his pocket, and enjoys catching other lizards, snakes and frogs.
A kind-hearted cowboy offers to swap his dog to a young boy in return for the boy's pet horny toad and a home-cooked meal.
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On the Road (201A 2)
A woman attacks a tree full of green anoles with a broom in her yard at night. |
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One Million Years B.C. (1966)
A caveman is chased by a gigantic lizard. |
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Opera (1987) aka Terror at the Opera
An opera singer, traumatized by a murderer, explores a grassy meadow full of wildflowers where she finds a lizard trapped in the grass that she frees and tells to "go free."
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The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
An old Indian man gives Josey Wales a horned lizard that told him they should go to Mexico. |
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Papillon (1973)
An anole sits on a tin roof as our protagonists arive at prison. |
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The Parent Trap (1961) - A girl puts a lizard on her canteen then gives it to her father's fiance to scare her away, which works. |
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Peeping Tom (1960)
A scientist studies his son's reaction to fear by dropping a lizard on him as he sleeps and filming his reaction.
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Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
Dragons and skinks are used for local color while some schoolgirls picnic. |
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The Puffy Chair (2005)
A guy visits his quirky brother to find him in a bush videotaping Green Anoles. |
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Quantum of Solace (2008)
A big lizard makes a brief appearance in the Bolivian desert. |
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Que Viva Mexico (1932/1979)
A girl in a market in Mexico sells spiny-tailed iguanas for use as food.
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Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)
A young Australian girl finds a monitor lizard in a tree and captures it for dinner.
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Raising Arizona (1987)
Leonard Smalls, the lone biker of the Apocalypse, a man with all the powers of Hell at his command, shoots a lizard off a rock, just for fun.
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Rango (2011)
Rango is a Chameleon, Bad Bill is a Gila Monster, Waffles is a horned lizard, and Beans is a Desert Iguana. |
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The Rawhide Terror (1934)
A crazy killer tortures a gila monster probably just for fun. |
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Red River (1948)
A cowboy riding a horse leans over and grabs a Texas Horned Lizard off the ground without stopping. |
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Roma (2018)
A boy walking in the Mexican countryside catches a horned lizard.
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Run for the Sun (1956)
A man an woman traveling through the Mexican jungle to escape Nazi war criminals stop to sleep. She wakes up to see a large lizard hissing in her face. |
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The Scent of Green Papaya (1993)
A boy uses a lizard tied to a string on the end of a pole to tease a young servant girl. |
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The Show (1927)
A deadly poisonous Green Iguana kills a man at a carnival then is stolen in an attempt to kill another man. |
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Sirens (1993)
A large lizard sits on a desk at a train station. |
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Skyfall (2012)
A casino in Macao has a pit below the gambling floor full of hungry Komodo Dragons. |
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Sorcerer (1970)
An anole lives in the squalid workers' barracks of a poor South American town. |
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Spectre (2015)
Bond wakes up strapped to a torture chair
and sees a gecko on a wall.
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Starsky & Hutch (2004)
Starsky accidentally shoots off the tail of Huggy Bear's pet Green Iguana. |
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Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Luke finds a Green Iguana at a cave entrance and a monitor lizard inside. |
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Strange Days (1995)
A weirdo keeps a collared lizard as a pet, because, that's what weirdos do in movies. |
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Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
A juvenile and an adult Green Iguana scare a young girl when she's wading through a swamp on a tropical island. A large water monitor scares a woman on the beach of the same island.
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Tales of Terror (1962)
A drunk hallucinates a Green Iguana on his shelf and a Gila Monster on his cellar stairs. |
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Tarzan Escapes (1936)
Hunters in an Africa jungle pass through a staming swamp full of man-eating iguanas. Two of them fall in and are eaten alive by the hideous monsters. |
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The Terminator (1984)
Sarah Connor, the mother of the leader of the army of the last hope of humankind in its war against the machine overlords, has a cute little pet iguana named Pugsley. |
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Terrorvision (1986)
A nutty old man sells lizard-tail jerky as a self-regenerating food source for survival.
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
A Gila Monster crawls under the rock where Bogart hid his treasure. |
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The Tree of Life (2011)
Two boys chase their terrified mom with a Texas Alligator Lizard. |
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This is Not a Film (2011)
A large Green Iguana crawls around a movie director's house in Iran. |
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Twice Told Tales (Rappaccini's Daughter) (1963)
A poisonous woman who kills any living thing she touches, proves her condition by touching and killing a lizard she finds in her garden.
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Vanishing Point (1997)
A native American medicine man uses a horned lizard to find out which direction a man should continue driving. |
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Venom (1981)
A woman in a London pet store holds a large Tegu on her shoulder. |
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Walkabout (1971)
A boy and a teenage girl lost in the Australian desert encounter an Aborigine boy who catches and eats lizards. |
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