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Random One-Word Film Titles #2

Read the hints and type the one-word title of the film they describe. You will see a different set of films every time you take the quiz. There are 100 films 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)
Star(s)
Plot
Answer
1988
John Waters
Sonny Bono, Ruth Brown, Divine, Debbie Harry, Ricki Lake, Jerry Stiller
A 'pleasantly plump' teenager teaches 1962 Baltimore a thing or two about integration after landing a spot on a local TV dance show.
Hairspray
2025
Ari Aster
Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Luke Grimes
In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff and mayor sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in a New Mexico town.
Eddington
2008
Gus Van Saint
Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin
The true story of an American activist who fought for gay rights and was elected as California's first openly gay official.
Milk
1988
Penny Marshall
Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, Robert Loggia
After wishing to be made big, a teenage boy wakes the next morning to find himself mysteriously in the body of an adult.
Big
1997
Luis Llosa
Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, Jon Voight
A group of friends are going through a mid-life crisis. They decide to remake a favorite movie from their youth but encounter unexpected events when they enter the jungle.
Anaconda
2014
Christopher Nolan
Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain
When Earth becomes uninhabitable in the future, a farmer and ex-NASA pilot, Joseph Cooper, is tasked to pilot a spacecraft, along with a team of researchers, to find a new planet for humans.
Interstellar
2003
Jon Favreau
Will Ferrell, James Caan, Zooey Deschanel
Raised as an oversized elf, Buddy travels from the North Pole to New York City to meet his biological father, Walter Hobbs, who doesn't know he exists and is in desperate need of some Christmas spirit.
Elf
1948
Alfred Hitchcock
James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger
Two men try to convince themselves they've committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party after strangling a former classmate to death.
Rope
2025
James Gunn
David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan, Nicholas Hoult
An alien must reconcile his alien Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing as reporter Clark Kent. As the embodiment of truth, justice and the human way he soon finds himself in a world that views these as old-fashioned.
Superman
2025
David Freyne
Miles Teller, Elizabeth Olsen, Callum Turner
In an afterlife where souls have one week to decide where to spend eternity, Joan is faced with the impossible choice between the man she spent her life with and her first love, who died young and has waited decades for her to arrive.
Eternity
2017
Stephen Chbosky
Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson, Jacob Tremblay
Based on the New York Times bestseller, this movie tells the incredibly inspiring and heartwarming story of August Pullman, a boy with facial differences who enters the fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.
Wonder
2015
Kenneth Branagh
Cate Blanchett, Lily James, Richard Madden
When her father unexpectedly dies, young Ella finds herself at the mercy of her cruel stepmother and her scheming stepsisters. Never one to give up hope, Ella's fortunes begin to change after meeting a dashing stranger.
Cinderella
1984
Ivan Reitman
Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver
Three parapsychologists forced out of their university funding set up shop as a unique ghost removal service in New York City, attracting frightened yet skeptical customers.
Ghostbusters
2025
Guillermo del Toro
Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, Christoph Waltz
A brilliant but egotistical scientist brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.
Frankenstein
1962
Stanley Kubrick
James Mason, Shelley Winters, Peter Sellers
A middle-aged college professor becomes infatuated with a 14-year-old girl.
Lolita
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