The first that comes to mind for me is The Breakfast Club and I hope it never does have a sequel or remake

The Princess Bride is another good one

Edit: another one of my favourites is Wall.E, my favourite Pixar movie. There are also several other Pixar movies that don’t have sequels or remakes yet

  • Mothra@mander.xyz
    19·
    2 days ago

    The first thing that comes to mind is everything Studio Ghibli. They are mostly great films, and have no sequels or remakes yet and I hope it stays that way.

    I’m sure there has to be live action examples but I can’t think of any right now.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
    9·
    1 day ago

    Master and Commander. Wonderful movie, but opened at the wrong time. Could have been a nice series of movies.

  • Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca
    3·
    1 day ago

    Thankfully the Rock’s remake seems to have been scrapped (fingers crossed it stays that way), so Big Trouble in Little China (hence my name).

    I’d also say The 'Burbs (one of my favorites) but it just got a series.

  • sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.todayEnglish
    12·
    2 days ago
    • The Big Lebowski
    • Pulp Fiction
    • Napoleon Dynamite
    • Tropic Thunder
    • Super Bad
    • Interstellar
    • Forest Gump
    • 2001 A Space Odyssey
    • Pan’s Labyrinth
    • Tenacious D - The Pick of Destiny
    • Event Horizon
    • Fondots@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 day ago

      The big Lebowski kind of has a sequel in The Jesus Rolls

      It’s a popular theory that a lot of Tarantino movies take place in the same universe, and other of his movies are movies that exist in that universe, like Kill Bill may be the pilot that Mia Wallace starred in. I don’t believe any of that is outright confirmed, but again kind of a sequel if you buy into that theory.

      There was a Napoleon dynamite cartoon series made at one point if you want to count that

      Forest Gump was based on a book, and there was a sequel book made- Gump & Co, and I never read it myself but I’ve been told that the sequel book is actually more of a sequel to the movie than to the original book

    • davidgro@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 day ago

      Event Horizon has a sequel in spirit: The Warhammer 40k universe. (Nevermind that 40k was first)

  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    6·
    1 day ago

    Anyone who tries to remake or sequel The Princess Bride will have a special place in hell reserved for them.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    8·
    2 days ago

    I mean, there are plenty of highly-rated movies that don’t have a sequel (and probably that’s a good thing).

    • The Shawshank Redemption

    • 12 Angry Men

    • Schindler’s List

    • Pulp Fiction

    • Fight Club

            • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
              3·
              1 day ago

              Thanks, but was an error on my part; was trying to list stuff that didn’t have a sequel or remake. Hadn’t ever heard of them, but apparently there were two Indian film remakes and a television remake:

              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_Angry_Men_(1957_film)

              The 1986 Hindi film Ek Ruka Hua Faisla (“a pending decision”) and 2012 Kannada film Dashamukha (“ten faces”) are Indian remakes of the film, with almost identical storylines. The former has been adapted as another Indian Bengali film Shotyi Bole Shotyi Kichhu Nei which was released in January 2025.[71]

              In 1997, a television remake of the film under the same title was directed by William Friedkin and produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In the newer version, the judge is a woman, four of the jurors are black, and the ninth juror is not the only senior citizen, but the overall plot remains intact. Modernizations include not smoking in the jury room, changes in references to pop culture and sports figures and income, references to execution by lethal injection as opposed to the electric chair, more race-related dialogue, and casual profanity.