| 100% | RWANDA | 6 | "Hotel ___," 2004 movie starring Don Cheadle as a hotel manager, shot in the eponymous country |
| 36% | JOLIE | 5 | Did you know, Angelina ___ starred in the 2004 eponymous movie about 44a? |
| 35% | THEGOLDEN | 9 | "___ Palace," sitcom that was a spin-off of "The Golden Girls," in which Don Cheadle (birthday today) starred as Roland Wilson: 2 wds. |
| 35% | EFFECT | 6 | "The Butterfly ___," 2004 film starring Ashton Kutcher as a college student who can travel back in time |
| 34% | CLOSER | 6 | 2004 film starring Natalie Portman as a stripper in a deceitful relationship |
| 32% | SIR | 3 | "To ___, With Love" (1967 movie starring Sidney Poitier as a teacher in London) |
| 32% | BABE | 4 | Movie starring a "Pig in the city" |
| 32% | BLOOD | 5 | "___ Diamond," 2006 film starring Leonardo DiCaprio as a diamond smuggler, shot in South Africa |
| 32% | PIE | 3 | "American ___," Don McLean's song referring a popular baked dish in the eponymous album |
| 32% | WESTSIDESTORY | 13 | 2021 movie musical starring Ansel Elgort as a former gang leader in love: 2 wds. |
| 31% | WALK | 4 | "Mandela: Long ___ to Freedom," 2013 movie starring Idris Elba as Nelson Mandela, shot in South Africa |
| 31% | THECOTTONCLUB | 13 | 1984 crime movie starring Richard Gere as a musician who falls in love with a crime lord's girlfriend: 3 wds. |
| 31% | MENU | 4 | "The ___" (2022 movie starring Ralph Fiennes as a chef) |
| 31% | GRAPES | 6 | "The ___ of Wrath," 1940 film starring Henry Fonda as a sharecropper, based on the eponymous John Steinbeck novel |
| 31% | MODERNTIMES | 11 | 1936 comedy starring 15-/49-Across as a factory worker struggling in the industrialized world: 2 wds. |
| 31% | MEET | 4 | "___ the Parents," 2000 film starring Ben Stiller as a man looking to win the approval of his in-laws |
| 30% | THOMAS | 6 | "The ___ Crown Affair" movie starring Pierce Brosnan as a billionaire thief |
| 30% | SKYED | 5 | Kicked way over the goal, as a shot in soccer |
| 30% | SELLERS | 7 | "A Shot in the Dark" star, 1964 |
| 30% | BORAT | 5 | 2006 film starring Sacha Baron Cohen that is shot in the style of a mockumentary |
| 30% | EMMA | 4 | 1996 television movie starring Kate Beckinsale as the titular heroine of a Jane Austen novel |
| 30% | KEANU | 5 | Cat in the title of a 2016 movie starring Key & Peele |
| 30% | AIR | 3 | "Up in the ___" (film starring George Clooney as a frequent flyer) |
| 30% | ONAGAINOFFAGAIN | 15 | Intermittent, as a romance, or what's in the starred answers |
| 30% | HARRY | 5 | ___ Potter and Dudley Dursley, cousins who don't quite get along in the eponymous movie series |
| 30% | ADAPTATION | 10 | *2002 movie in which a Susan Orlean work is described as “that sprawling New Yorker shit” . . . or what the answer to each starred clue is |
| 30% | MASK | 4 | 1985 movie starring 15-Across as the mother of a teen with craniodiaphyseal dysplasia |
| 30% | SILKWOOD | 8 | 1983 movie starring 15-Across as the roommate of a nuclear plant whistle-blower |
| 30% | AMYSCHUMER | 10 | "Trainwreck" actress who stars as Emily in the movie "Snatched": 2 wds. |
| 30% | WARRENBEATTY | 12 | "Bugsy" actor who starred as George in the movie "Shampoo": 2 wds. |