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Random One-Word Film Titles

Read the hints and type the one-word title of the film they describe. You will see a different set of 15 films every time you take the quiz. (There are 100 in all.)

The hints for each film consist of the following: the year the film was commercially released; the name(s) of the film’s director(s); an abridged list of the film’s cast; the IMDb summary of the film’s plot (some of which have been edited by the quiz author).

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The list of films includes both musicals and animated films.
Some of the film titles are proper nouns.
Excluded: Titles that are acronyms or initialisms (e.g., M*A*S*H, C.H.U.D.) and other titles with non-alphabetic characters (e.g., Se7en, 300) other than final punctuation.
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Last updated: December 23, 2025
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Year
Director(s)
Cast
Plot Summary
Answer
1989
Tim Burton
Jack Nicholson, Michael Keaton, Kim Basinger
The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being Jack Napier, a criminal who becomes the clownishly homicidal Joker.
Batman
2004
Paul Haggis
Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon
Racial tensions collide in a collection of intertwined stories involving residents of Los Angeles.
Crash
1997
James Cameron
Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane
An engaged seventeen-year-old Philadelphia debutante falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard a luxurious, ill-fated transatlantic steamship.
Titanic
1990
Martin Scorsese
Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci
The story of Henry Hill and his life in the mafia, covering his relationship with his wife Karen and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito.
Goodfellas
1983
Adrian Lyne
Jennifer Beals, Michael Nouri, Lilia Skyla
An 18-year-old female amateur dancer who performs nightly at a dancing bar, and works as a welder during the day, dreams of joining the Pittsburgh ballet school.
Flashdance
2002
M. Night Shyamalan
Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix
A widowed former reverend living with his children and brother on a Pennsylvania farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields, which suggests something more frightening to come.
Signs
1996
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
William H. Macey, Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare
Minnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson.
Fargo
1982
Tobe Hooper
JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, Beatrice Straight
A family's home becomes the center of paranormal activity that opens a doorway to the "other side." With help, they must cross over to get their daughter back.
Poltergeist
2008
Matt Reeves
Lizzy Caplan, Jessica Lucas, T.J. Miller
A group of friends venture deep into the streets of New York on a rescue mission during a rampaging monster attack.
Cloverfield
2011
Steven Soderbergh
Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne
Healthcare professionals, government officials and everyday people find themselves in the midst of a pandemic as the CDC works to find a cure.
Contagion
2016
Morten Tyldum
Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt, Michael Sheen
A malfunction in a sleeping pod on a spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet wakes one passenger 90 years early.
Passengers
2007
Jason Reitman
Elliot Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner
Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes a selfless decision regarding the unborn child.
Juno
1941
Alfred Hitchcock
Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Sir Cedric Hardwicke
A shy young heiress marries a charming gentleman, and soon begins to suspect he is planning to murder her.
Suspicion
2016
Byron Howard, Rich Moore
Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Idris Elba
In a city of anthropomorphic animals, a rookie bunny cop and a cynical con artist fox must work together to uncover a conspiracy.
Zootopia
2019
Dexter Fletcher
Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell, Richard Madden
The musical fantasy about Elton John's breakthrough years, from his time as a prodigy at the Royal Academy of Music through his influential and enduring musical partnership with Bernie Taupin.
Rocketman
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