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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Year	Director(s)	Cast	Plot Summary	Answer
2012	Josh Trank	Dane DeHaan, Alex Russell, Michael B. Jordan	Three high school friends gain superpowers after making an incredible discovery underground. Soon they find their lives spinning out of control and their bond tested as they embrace their darker sides.	Chronicle
1974	Mark Robson	Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, George Kennedy	Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California.	Earthquake
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
2012	Steven Spielberg	Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn	As the Civil War rages on, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on his decision to emancipate the slaves.	Lincoln
2011	Bennett Miller	Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman	Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to assemble a baseball team on a lean budget by employing computer-generated analysis to acquire new players.	Moneyball
1985	Peter Bogdanovich	Cher, Sam Elliott, Eric Stoltz	A teenager with a massive facial skull deformity and biker gang mother attempt to live as normal a life as possible under the circumstances.	Mask
2013	Spike Jonze	Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Rooney Mara	In the near future, a lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with an operating system designed to meet his every need.	Her
2005	Sam Mendes	Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Lucas Black	A psychological study of a Marine's state of mind during the Gulf War. Told through the eyes of a U.S. Marine sniper who struggles to cope with boredom, a sense of isolation, and other issues back home.	Jarhead
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
2003	Gary Ross	Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges, Chris Cooper	True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation.	Seabiscuit
2012	Baltasar Kormákur	Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale, Ben Foster	To protect his brother-in-law from a drug lord, a former smuggler heads to Panama to score millions of dollars in counterfeit bills.	Contraband
2004	Joe Johnston	Viggo Mortensen, Omar Sharif, Saïd Taghmaoui	In 1890, a down-and-out cowboy and his horse travel to Arabia to compete in a deadly cross desert horse race.	Hidalgo
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
2000	John Singleton	Samuel L. Jackson, Vanessa Williams, Jeffrey Wright	A New York City police detective goes on a personal mission to make sure the son of a real estate tycoon is brought to justice after a racially-motivated murder.	Shaft
2018	Nadine Labaki	Zain Al Rafeea, Yordanos Shiferaw, Boluwatife Treasure Bankole	While serving a five-year sentence for a violent crime, a 12-year-old boy sues his parents for neglect.	Capernaum

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