| VIIIMENOUT | 1988 John Sayles film, in Rome? |
| MATEWAN | Site of coal-mining unrest in 1920s West Virginia (also, a 1987 John Sayles film) |
| EIGHT | John Sayles film about the 1919 World Series in baseball (5,3,3) |
| MENOUT | John Sayles film about the 1919 World Series in baseball (5,3,3) |
| EIGHTMENOUT | John Sayles film about the 1919 World Series in baseball (5,3,3) |
| INISH | 'The Secret of Roan ---', 1994 John Sayles film (5) |
| SUNSHINESTATE | 2002 John Sayles film featuring Angela Bassett and Edie Falco (8,5) |
| LIIPICKUP | 1986 John Frankenheimer film, in Rome? |
| IIIAMIGOS | 1986 John Landis film, in Rome? |
| XVICANDLES | 1984 John Hughes film, in Rome? |
| THEIIJAKES | 1990 Jack Nicholson film, in Rome? |
| STALAGXVII | 1953 Billy Wilder film, in Rome? |
| LONESTAR | 1996 John Sayles Western |
| LIMBO | Very good, little-seen 1999 John Sayles/David Strathairn drama. |
| ROAN | Great '94 John Sayles fantasy about a kid sent to Ireland, The Secret of ____ Inish. |
| OWN | Title character in a 1988 John Cleese film |
| HAIRSPRAY | Broadway musical based on a 1988 John Waters film |
| WANDA | 1988 John Cleese comedy film, A Fish Called ----- (5) |
| BRESAC | First Brisbane Broncos CEO, in 1988, John Ribot de ... (6) |
| BIGTIMEBANDITS | Tom Hanks (1988) + John Cleese (1981) = tops in the world of robbers? |