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Children of Men (2009) (TV)
References
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
 -  Kee spits on Luke's face after childbirth; everyone hails the newborn child
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
 -  When Theo is in the dining-room with Guernica on the wall, a man resembling F. Alexander dementedly and repeatedly shouts "Alex" at a teenage boy, while the shots of glasses of wine echo the dining scene in A Clockwork Orange
The Godfather (1972)
 -  The use of oranges to represent impending danger.
Blade Runner (1982)
 -  The name on the van that Theo is taken away in, "Holden", is the name of the cop who is shot in the opening scene of 'Blade Runner'.
2019 - Dopo la caduta di New York (1983)
 -  Same premise of men escorting the last fertile woman in dystopian future; numerous uses of Picasso's Painting "Guernica", and also both movie have a running theme of a car door being used as a weapon
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
 -  Wild animals (a zebra and a camel) appears walking normally in the park in front of Buckingham Palace as the wild animals (giraffes and others) running free in the city of Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Y tu mamá también (2001)
 -  one character farts on the inside of the car very much like a scene in Alfonso Cuaron's previous film
Referenced in
Le voyage du ballon rouge (2007)
 -  a Parisian bus drives by displaying an ad for "Les Fils de l'homme"
The Bet (2007/I)
 -  Title appears on-screen during Alfonso Cuaron's scene
Dream House (2009) (V)
 -  Poster of film seen in Thomsons' room, scene of rough hand-held camerawork.
Featured in
The 79th Annual Academy Awards (2007) (TV)
 -  clips
The Possibility of Hope (2007) (V)
 -  clips shown
Spoofed in
"South Park: Lice Capades (#11.3)" (2007)
 -  Travis' character loosely resembles Clive Owen's character in this movie (his hair and quest to save the 'baybay') and the "action sequences" of the episode also loosely resemble the movie's cinematography

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