- Bande à part : Isabelle, Theo, and Matthew race through the Louvre, attempting to break the record depicted in Bande à part of 9 minutes, 43 seconds.
- Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne : Isabelle quotes a famous line from this film, telling Matthew "There is no such thing as love, only proofs of love".
- Shock Corridor : Film Matthew watches at the Cinémathèque Française at the beginning of the movie.
- Pierrot le fou : Music from the film appears in The Dreamers
- The 400 Blows : The main title music by Jean Constantin appears in The Dreamers
- Persona : Matthew has a picture of Liv Ullman and Bibi Andersson from Persona in his apartment
- La Chinoise : A poster of the film hangs on a wall in the twin's apartment.
- Blow-Up : A picture of David Hemmings in the role of the photographer hangs on the wall of the twins' apartment.
- Blonde Venus : Isabelle reenacts scene in sexy white painting clothes.
- Freaks : After Isabelle, Theo, and Matthew run through the Louvre, Isabelle and Theo signify their acceptance of Matthew by chanting, "We accept him, one of us," in a reflection of the wedding reception in Freaks.
- Scarface : Theo reenacts the death of the character Tony Camonte played by Paul Muni, challenging Isabelle to name the film.
- Queen Christina : Isabelle reenacts the scene in which Greta Garbo's character Queen Christina "memorizes the room," in Matthew's bedroom, the first night he sleeps over.
- Top Hat : Isabelle challenges Matthew to name a scene in which a tap dancer wakes a woman in the apartment below.
- À bout de souffle (aka Breathless) : Isabelle imitates Jean Seberg's character Patricia the first night Matthew stays with her and Theo. : Isabelle claims her first words in English were "New York Herald Tribune", a conscious reference to the French New Wave film "Breathless", in which the heroine Patricia yells the same thing. The reference is accompanied by a segment of said film. : Matthew imitates Jean-Paul Belmondo's character by rubbing his lips with his thumb in front of the mirror (something which Jean-Paul does to imitate Humphrey Bogart).
- Sunset Boulevard : Isabelle puts on sunglasses and a head wrap giving an emotionless gaze, imitating Gloria Swanson's Norma Desmond character in the scene where William Holden's Joe Gillis character has entered the run-down mansion and is made to read a script that Desmond has been writing for her planned comeback.
- Mouchette : After Isabelle realizes her mother has seen her sleeping naked with her brother she tries to kill the three of them with natural gas. When she closes her eyes images of the suicide of Mouchette from Robert Bresson's film appear.
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