Movie Titles in Spanish

These movie titles were translated from English to Spanish. Can you translate them back to English?

These movie titles actually appeared in Spanish or Latin American theaters

They are not necessarily word-for-word translations

Also, these movies sometimes had different titles in different Spanish-speaking countries

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Year	Spanish	English
2013	Guerra mundial Z	World War Z
2012	Valiente	Brave
2010	El discurso del rey	The King's Speech
2009	Resacón en Las Vegas	The Hangover
2008	El caballero oscuro	The Dark Knight
2006	El laberinto del fauno	Pan's Labyrinth
2006	Noche en el museo	Night at the Museum
2005	Los cuatro fantásticos	Fantastic Four
2002	El hombre araña	Spider-Man
1999	El sexto sentido	The Sixth Sense
1999	La milla verde	The Green Mile
1997	La vida es bella	Life is Beautiful

Year	Spanish	English
1995	Sospechosos habituales	The Usual Suspects
1991	La bella y la bestia	Beauty and the Beast
1990	Solo en casa	Home Alone
1990	Bailando con lobos	Dances with Wolves
1989	La sirenita	The Little Mermaid
1987	La princesa prometida	The Princess Bride
1987	Tres hombres y un bebé	3 Men and a Baby
1985	Regreso al futuro	Back to the Future
1984	Los cazafantasmas	Ghostbusters
1978	Colegio de animales	Animal House
1977	La guerra de las galaxias	Star Wars
1972	El padrino	The Godfather

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62 Comments

+18

Level 65

Jun 21, 2011

that was pretty fun to try and puzzle out speaking French but not Spanish

Level 66

Nov 9, 2016

Same here. More logic problem than knowledge quiz, which may well be more fun.

Level 72

Jan 14, 2019

Same I dont know/have never learned any spanish. got 18/24 And only seen back to the future and night at the museum.

I did try mermaid though (forgot little) 3 mAn and a baby ( I assume since it wasnt accepted) animal farm. and war of the worlds. Close though ;) just kings speech and ghostbuster I wasnt close

Level 65

Jun 22, 2011

I would think "casa de animales" would be a better translation for "Animal House"

Level 36

Nov 18, 2017

Yes. Definitely. "Colegio de Animals translates "Animal School", which is not the title of the move. By the way, these aren't actual translations, are the Some of them are way off base.

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Level 36

Mar 19, 2020

The point of translation is not to convey word to word meaning but rather give an accurate description to a target audience. Most often, literal translations are the worst.

Level 70

Nov 20, 2020

That's true, but sometimes translators go way off into a world of their own. Star wars was translated into "War of the Galaxies" here, which is one example. In Portugal, the Naked Gun was translated into "Where does the Police Stop?" which doesn't do much to convey what the film is about. ALien 3 was "The Rematch" (?!?) and Toy Story was "Toy Story - The Rivals" which is a complete fudge.

Level 65

Dec 5, 2023

Revisiting my 12 year old comment, I still stand by it. The movie is located at a school, but the focus is on the fraternity and their frat house, not the school itself.

Level 61

Dec 7, 2023

It's based on the names in actual movies. If you're talking to Quizmaster, it's not in their hands.

Level 63

Dec 18, 2023

Exactly. This isn't the Quizmaster naming these, these are the official names of these movies as released in Spanish speaking countries.

Level 28

Oct 5, 2011

100% with :07 left. I was stuck on how to spell Labyrinth, lol

Level 15

May 8, 2012

I actually tried "the postman always rings twice" for the twins. I was a little thrown at first until I realized that the titles were translations of American or British movies.

Level 49

Aug 27, 2013

8/24 not bad considering I've never spoken spanish in my life (or really seen it written down for that matter).

Level 73

Sep 23, 2013

Got em all without ever learning a word of spanish. Oh, yeah!

Level 25

Apr 20, 2014

12/24 and I wouldn't even know how to say goodbye in Spanish haha

Level 60

Aug 8, 2014

"Beauty & The Beast" should be an acceptable answer. Most quizzes accept an ampersand instead of "and".

Level 22

Aug 8, 2014

Quite a fun quiz, but incorrect. Spiderman, Spiderman 2, Spiderman 3, The Amazing Spiderman and The Amazing Spiderman 2 all kept their original titles when published in Spain. Same goes for Brave (not called valiente over here) :)

Level ∞

Aug 8, 2014

The quiz is correct. In the case of Spider-Man, check out the Argentinian title:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0145487/releaseinfo?ref_=tt_ql_9

Level 36

Aug 11, 2014

Well, what do you know, having a Spanish aunty does come in handy...

Level 45

Aug 20, 2014

For 'El caballero oscuro', the first thing that popped into my head was 'The Lone Ranger'! I did watch that yesterday, though, so it could be expected.

Level 77

Nov 8, 2015

the lone ranger is "el llanero solitario"

Level 84

May 15, 2024

I kept trying "The Dark Cowboy". Furious that I didn't make the leap!

Level 56

Aug 25, 2014

How did more people get The Hangover (which was tricky because it wasn't even close to a literal translation) than Dances With Wolves. Like i suck at spanish but pretty much everyone knows baile and lobo.

Level 76

Sep 10, 2015

Las Vegas. That hinted me off. And I did a quiz earlier about movies happening in Las Vegas.

Level 48

Nov 9, 2016

Yeah, that's as basic as it gets in spanish. Just a matter of recognizing the movie that sounds most like 'Dancing With Wolves'.

Level 61

Dec 7, 2023

Didn't know lobo, but guessed Hangover just from Las Vegas.

Level 66

Nov 11, 2016

If you've never seen El Labyrinto del Fauno, go watch it. It is so good!

Level 58

Nov 24, 2016

Don't know how many times I typed "Night in the Museum"...

Level 28

Mar 12, 2017

i just translated the page

Level 29

May 5, 2017

NEWBS!! Just translate the page!

Level 25

Oct 17, 2017

Too easy (by the way, I'm Spanish)

Level 70

Sep 11, 2018

As others have pointed out, you still need to know the correct titles in English. Habla'ing the ol' espagnol aint enough

Level 62

Dec 29, 2017

It would help if I knew the English titles.... I tried "Night in the Museum" and "Dancing with Wolves" to no avail.

Level 36

Sep 17, 2019

^Same here. I eventually got Dances With Wolves as I saw the movie. But couldn't figure out why Night in the Museum wasn't being accepted.

Level 75

Nov 21, 2020

That's the whole point of the quiz! - Not just to know what the words mean in Spanish, but to also know the titles in English where they're not direct translations.

Level 66

Jul 24, 2018

18/24

Level 36

Jul 24, 2018

Great I got 100% but then when i opened the quiz Google translated the quiz for me

Level 28

Apr 9, 2019

The thing is, google automatically translated the spanish words for me when i loaded the page, so I it was pretty easy to cheat.

Level 91

Nov 20, 2020

Good thing I have that disabled.

Level 67

Jun 5, 2019

Given that the 'Life is beautiful' film is not originale named like that (in English), but "La Vita é Bella' (Italian), it can be somewhat misleading that the English name is used.

Level 67

Jul 28, 2019

Fun quiz!

Although I haven't seen a lot of movies, I got a good number of them! Just could not figure out how to spell labyrinth no matter how many different spellings I tried :)

Level 75

Aug 24, 2019

Spiderman is aired in Spain as Spiderman and also Brave was Brave. I guess other spanish speaking countries may go otherwise thou.

Level 61

Dec 7, 2023

Yeah, see above. Argentina for Spiderman, for example.

Level 36

Mar 24, 2020

Strange. I left this quiz for last because Spanish is my second language and I was sure that I would ace it. Surprise: I got 90% on the German quiz (my fourth language), 80% right on the French one (I took French for two semesters and gave up) and only 83% right on this one! So much for hubris!

Level 73

Aug 7, 2020

I spent so long guessing "the dark gentleman" and "the dark cowboy" and "dark man" and that kind of thing and then I finally figured it out with two seconds left and got it in with not a quarter second to spare.

Level 72

Nov 16, 2020

Home alone was translated here as 'Mi pobre angelito', which means 'My poor little angel' and I laughed so hard when I heard that for the first time. Sometimes these movie title translations are ridiculous and so unnecessary.

Level 75

Nov 20, 2020

The Godfather was really easy because the honorific for the head of a family is Padrino.

Level 75

Nov 21, 2020

...or because padrino means godfather?

Level 61

Nov 20, 2020

Just an interesting comment, the title of Back to the Future was "Regreso al Futuro" in Spain but "Volver al Futuro" in Latin America.

"Regreso" is a noun meaning "return" in English but volver is a verb translating as "to go back". Interesting that the translation was done with a noun for Spain ("The Return to the Future") and a verb for Latin America ("Going Back to the Future").

Level 57

Nov 20, 2020

Done with 3:40 left. I am currently taking advanced Spanish courses, though.

Level 82

Nov 20, 2020

I guess Duolingo is doing me some good after all! But I did see Los cazafantasmas in the theater so....

Level 74

Nov 21, 2020

For "El caballero oscuro" I was thinking Midnight Cowboy.

Level 74

Nov 22, 2020

In Latin America it was translated as "El Caballero de la Noche" and I prefer that translation. "El Caballero Oscuro" sound weird to me.

Level 50

Nov 21, 2020

Wouldn't accept "The Beauty and the Beast", only "Beauty and the Beast". Seems a little stringy to me.

Level 72

Jun 2, 2021

But "Beauty and the beast" is the actual name.

Level 72

Jun 2, 2021

Most of these should be easy for a native Spanish speaker. However, you still have to know the original titles in English.

For example, I didn't get "Princess bride" (Princesa prometida translates into "Promised princess") or "Animal house" (Escuela de animales = "animal school").

These seem to be official translations, which are not always litteral.

Level 72

Jun 2, 2021

Interesting facts about a couple of these titles in Latin America:

Hangover: Resacón en Las Vegas → ¿Qué pasó ayer? (What happened yesterday?)

Green mile: Milla verde → Milagros inesperados (Unexpected miracles)

Dark knight, Home alone and Back to the future have already been mentioned in other comments.

Level 70

Nov 28, 2021

21, missed Animal House, Little Mermaid, and Hangover

Level 62

Dec 5, 2023

"El laberinto del fauno" is the original title, so I'm not sure we could say it was translated from the English here, since the real translation was the English one...

Same with "La vida es bella" which is a translation of the Italian title not of the English one.

In my opinion you can only speak of a translation from English when the original title is in English, if not English and Spanish translations are both made in the same time.

Level 47

Dec 5, 2023

what happened after 2013?

Level 67

Dec 7, 2023

Valiente obviously made me think of the movie Valiant initially. Turns out Valiant was also called Valiant in Spain! I guess Valiente is feminine?

Level 79

Dec 28, 2023

Tried "Night At The Museum" a dozen times and it wouldn't accept it...

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