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WTC in Movies Alphabetical - Q R

Q

Q&A (1990)

4 minutes

Q: The Winged Serpent (1982)
Opening shot, 32 minutes, 54 minutes

Queens Logic (1991)
19 minutes32 minutes

A Question of Honor (1982)

11 minutes

Quick Change (1990)
88 minutes

Quiet Cool (1986)
3 minutes, 5 minutes

R

The Raffle (1994)

10 minutes

Rage of Angels (1983)
5 minutes, 59 minutes

Raise the Titanic (1980)
1 hour 39 minutes, 1 hour 40 minutes

Razorback (1984)

6 minutes

Ready to Rumble (2000)
1 hour 11 minutes

The Real Blonde (1997)
3 minutes, 1 hour 1 minute, 1 hour 12 minutes, twice at 1 hour 40 minutes (Shot 1Shot 2)

Rebel (1973)

21 minutes

Recipe For Murder (2002)

Three times in first 2 minutes (Shot 1, Shot 2, Shot 3)

Red Hot Shot (aka Colpo Rovente) (1970)

13 minutes

The Red Spider (1988)

First minute, 1 minute, 1 hour 11 minutes, 1 hour 13 minutes

The Reflecting Pool (2008)
Actual footage of 9/11/01 twice at 4 minutes (Shot 1, Shot 2)
(Also on the poster)

The Refrigerator (1991)

48 minutes

Religulous (2008)
Footage from 9/11/2001 at 1 hour 33 minutes (Shot 1, Shot 2)

The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012)

18 minutes, news footage of 9/11 at 42 minutes and 54 minutes,  9/11 rubble at 1 hour 22 minutes

Remember Me (2010)
Opening minute, 1 hour 36 minutes: The towers are reflected in a building behind Tyler, 1 hour 40-41 minutes: Tyler looks out the narrow window of his father's office. We see him from the outside of the window and the camera pulls back until we realize the office is in the north tower and it is September 11, 2001.

 

Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985)

Three times at 2 minutes (Shot 1, Shot 2 Shot 3), 1 hour 2 minutes, 1 hour 3 minutes, 1 hour 7 minutes, 1 hour 11 minutes

Rent (2005)
1 hour 1 minute

Rent Control (1981)

3 minutes, 1 hour 29 minutes

The Repenter (aka: Il pentito) (1985) 

1 hour 16 minutes, 1 hour 21 minutes

The Report (2019)

11 minutes

Restaurant (1998)
Opening shot, 2 minutes, 1 hour 43 minutes
(A
lso on the poster)

Return of Captain Invincible (1983)

Three times at 10 minutes (Shot 1, Shot 2, Shot 3), 11 minutes, 1 hour 5 minutes, 1 hour 6 minutes (model of NYC), 1 hour 32 minutes, 1 hour 34 minutes, 1 hour 35 minutes

(Also on the poster)

The Return of Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer (1986)

1 hour 33 minutes

Return of Superfly (1990)

1 hour 21 minutes

Return to Green Acres (1990)

51 minutes (Shot 1, Shot 2, Shot 3)

Return to Nuke 'Em High Volume 1 (2013)

Opening shot

Return to Paradise (1998)
49 minutes

Return to Paradise Lost (aka: Návrat ztraceného ráje) (1999)

1 minute, 2 minutes

Revenge of the Green Dragons (2014)

1 minute, 11 minutes

Rhinestone (1984)
Opening minute (Shot 1, Shot 2), 1 hour 22 minutes

Rich Kids (1979)

1 hour 19 minutes

Ride (1998)

First minute

R.I.P., Rest In Pieces, A Portrait of Joe Coleman (1997)

3 minutes, 9 minutes

Rise and Fall: The World Trade Center (2021)

Throughout the documentary

Roadie (1980)
1 hour 18 minutes

Rob the Mob (2014)

1 minute

Robot Dreams (2023)

1 minute, 10 minutes, 13 minutes, 42 minutes, 44 minutes, 1 hour 7 minutes, 1 hour 21 minutes, 1 hour 22 minutes, 1 hour 25 minutes, 1 hour 27 minutes, 1 hour 28 minutes, 1 hour 32 minutes, 1 hour 33 minutes

Robot Holocaust (1986)
Opening shot, 31 minutes

Rocketman (2019)

1 hour 41 minutes

Rollover (1981)
7 minutes, 58 minutes (Shot 1, Shot 2)

Romeo is Bleeding (1993)
6 minutes, 1 hour 24 minutes

Rooftops (1989)
5-8 minutes, 27 minutes, 41 minutes, 46 minutes, 58 minutes-1 hour 2 minutes, 1 hour 12 minutes, 1 hour 18-20 minutes, 1 hour 24-28 minutes
(A
lso on the poster)

The Rose (1979)

27 minutes

‘Round Midnight (1986)

2 hours (However, this movie takes place in the 1950’s, before the WTC was built.)

Rounders (1998)
15 minutes (obstructed view behind the bridge)

Row Your Boat (aka: El precio de la Libertad) (1999)

52 minutes

Roxanne Roxanne (2017)

34 minutes (in a tv ad)

Rubble Kings (2010)

8 minutes

Rudy (1993)
21 minutes (on a poster)

Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story (2003)
Six shots in first minute (Shot 1, Shot 2, Shot 3, Shot 4, Shot 5, Shot 6), 3 minutes, 14 minutes, 31 minutes, 1 hour 8 minutes, 1 hour 24 minutes Also news footage of the WTC on 9/11 throughout the movie
(A
lso on the poster)

Rumble in the Bronx (1995)
10 minutes, 15 minutes, 29 minutes, 35 minutes, 43 minutes
(A
lso on the poster)

Runaway Bride (1999)
1 hour 39 minutes

 

Run for Cover (1995)
Four times in the opening credits (Shot 1, Shot 2, Shot 3, Shot 4), 29 minutes, 34 minutes

Running (1979)
Opening shot

The Rutles: All You Need is Cash (1978)
5 minutes (Dirk McQuickly says he is in Liverpool, but is clearly on the Staten Island Ferry, approaching lower Manhattan)

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