One of Kitaj's paintings appears and he is mentioned in dialogue in Woody Allen's "Irrational Man."
One of Kitaj's paintings appears (in the house of Peter Fonda's character) in Steven Soderbergh's "The Limey."
In "The Abominable Dr. Phibes," Peter Gilmore plays "Dr. Kitaj" (eaten by rats in his plane), Sean Bury plays "Lem" Vesalius, and Vincent Price plays "Anton" Phibes. The movie was written by two old friends of Kitaj's. Kitaj's son is named Anton Lemuel Kitaj (Lem Dobbs).