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Random One-Word Film Titles #3

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 titles with numeric characters (e.g., Se7en, 300).
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Last updated: January 5, 2026
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Year
Director(s)
Star(s)
Plot
Answer
2013
Alfonso Cuarón
Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Ed Harris
Dr Ryan Stone, an engineer on her first space mission, and Matt Kowalski, an astronaut on his final expedition, have to survive in space after they are hit by debris while spacewalking.
Gravity
2019
Marc Lawrence
Anna Kendrick, Bill Hader, Kingsley Ben-Adir
Santa's daughter must take over the family business when her father retires and her brother, who is supposed to inherit the Santa role, gets cold feet.
Noelle
2009
Debbie Isitt
Martin Freeman, Marc Wootton, Ashley Jensen
An uptight but secretly heartbroken primary school teacher's little white lie about Hollywood coming to see his class' nativity play grows like wildfire in his rag-tag school low on self-esteem.
Nativity!
2011
Tarsem Singh Dhandwar
Henry Cavill, Stephen Dorff, Luke Evans
Theseus is a mortal man chosen by Zeus to lead the fight against the ruthless King Hyperion, who is on a rampage across Greece to obtain a weapon that can destroy humanity.
Immortals
1979
Ridley Scott
Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright
After investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin, the crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform.
Alien
2012
Jeff Nichols
Matthew McConaughey, Tye Sheridan, Sam Shepard
On a Mississippi River island, two young boys encounter a stranger who tells wild tales about bounty hunters and a beautiful woman.
Mud
2004
Alexander Payne
Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen
Two men reaching middle age with not much to show but disappointment embark on a week-long road trip through California's wine country, just as one is about to take a trip down the aisle.
Sideways
2022
Zach Cregger
Georgina Campbell, Bill Skarsgård, Justin Long
A woman staying at an Airbnb discovers that the house she has rented is not what it seems.
Barbarian
2024
Vicky Jenson
Rachel Zegler, John Lithgow, Jenifer Lewis
Ellian is a tenacious princess who must go on a daring quest to save her family and kingdom after a mysterious spell transforms her parents, the King and Queen of Lumbria, into monsters.
Spellbound
2013
Neill Blomkamp
Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley
In the year 2154, the very wealthy live on a man-made space station while the rest of the population resides on a ruined Earth. A man takes on a mission that could bring equality to the polarized worlds.
Elysium
2006
Frank Coraci
Adam Sandler, Jack Giarraputo, Neal H. Moritz
A workaholic architect finds a universal remote that allows him to fast-forward and rewind to different parts of his life. Complications arise when the remote starts to overrule his choices.
Click
2017
Christopher Nolan
Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jack Lowden
Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Commonwealth and Empire, and France are surrounded by the German Army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.
Dunkirk
2018
Alfonso Cuarón
Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Jorge Antonio
A year in the life of an upper-middle-class family's maid in Mexico City in the early 1970s.
Roma
2025
Dan Berk, Robert Olsen
Jack Quaid, Amber Midthunder, Ray Nicholson
When the girl of his dreams is kidnapped, a man incapable of feeling physical pain turns his rare condition into an unexpected advantage in the fight to rescue her.
Novocaine
1988
Roger Donaldson
Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown, Elisabeth Shue
A talented New York City bartender takes a job at a bar in Jamaica and falls in love.
Cocktail
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