Anime & Manga
- Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt: The title of 11-A is "Once Upon a Time in Garterbelt".
- Hey Arnold! The Movie: Undercover Brother, Casablanca, Charlie's Angels, All the President's Men, Once Upon a Time in America, Spawn, Sunshine State
, Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Avengers, Jayand Silent Bob Strike Back, Totally Spies! and The Blues Brothers are all parodied or mentioned.
- Brick: The sequence where Brendan speaks to Laura while she's wearing thick white stage makeup refers to Once Upon a Time in America.
- Reservoir Dogs's plot is has an intention inspiration from Once Upon a Time in America. Both the films show the events that occurred before and after a "well-planned heist that had gone wrong", omitting whatever happened in between, during the actual crime.
- Trainspotting: The last scene with Spud getting the money in the locker is almost identical to a scene in the film. Even the circumstances behind the scenes are very similar.
- Treme: In the first season finale episode "I'll Fly Away", when LaDonna is at a funeral, the camera zooms in on her face, and we hear a cellphone ringing, which David Simon has said was an homage to Once Upon a Time in America.
