The John Wick franchise is a love letter to classic movies with nods to Die Hard, Enter the Dragon, and The Matrix. From music cues to iconic scenes, John Wick movies reference cinematic history. With influences from Lawrence of Arabia to The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, John Wick is a masterful homage to film classics.

From Enter the Dragon to Lawrence of Arabia, the John Wick franchise is jam-packed with references to classic movies. John Wick was conceived as a mishmash of the visual style of neo-noir, the fight choreography of martial arts movies, and the operatic violence of spaghetti westerns, so it makes sense that the franchise has drawn from a deep well of cinematic influences. From a nightclub named after a French heist film to a criminal underworld radio station named after a kung fu subgenre, the John Wick series has more movie homages and inside...