Movie Titles You Love

Drag Me to Hell

Swept Away... by an unusual destiny in the deep blue sea of August

I Spit on Your Grave

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, Her Lover

OP, also Throw Momma From The Train, perhaps?

[quote] What’s the Matter With Helen?

With DataLounge fav Shelley, also known Shirley.

The Mouse that Roared.

I Dismember Mama

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!

Dr Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

8 1/2

Anything with "wind" in the title--

Inherit the Wind

Gone with the Wind

Eyes Wide Shut

Living Out Loud

I Am Curious (Yellow)

Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad.

Imitation of Life

I Saw What You Did and I Know Who You Are

Duck Soup

On A Clear Day You Can See Forever

The Group

"On a clear day" is a good one.

Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood

The Last Days of Disco

Swimming Pool

Stardust Memories

The Panic in Needle Park

Paris is Burning

Sex, Lies and Videotape

Madame X

We Need to Talk About Kevin

Angels with Dirty Faces

Smilla's Sense of Snow

Death To Smoochy

I haven't thought about Smilla's Sense of Snow in years.

Thanks to all posters.

Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?

Mars Needs Women

My Stepmother is an Alien

Terror in Tiny Town

Laughing Gravy

Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia

Long Day’s Journey Into Night

The Good, The Bad And The Ugly

The Brother From Another Planet

All That Jazz

High Art

Baby, It's You

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

Bela Lugosi meets a Brooklyn Gorilla

Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers

The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom

The Bad Seed

Snakes on a Plane

"We Need to Talk About Kevin"

The Kevin Spacey Story!!!

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang Children of Paradise Little Shop of Horrors Aguirre, the Wrath of God Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me One Sings, the Other Doesn't What's Up Doc? Burn

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

The Sweet Hereafter

Things to Do in Denver When Your Dead

Bad Times ar the El Royale-soon to be released

Sweet hereafter was a good one, too.

Things You can Tell Just by Looking at Her

I Love You Alice B. Toklas

Mother, May I Sleep With Danger?

The Loneliness of the Long-distance Runner

Punch Drunk Love

I never really understood that title and I hated the film

Co-Ed Call Girl

R39, which?

Punch Drunk Love

Ivanka Does DC.

I always picture Rocky calling for Adrian at the end when I see that title

Lets Scare Helen to Death Die, Mommie Die

Or is it, Let’s Scare Jessica to Death?

The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies

"The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade"

I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958)

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)

Werewolf in a Girls’ Dormitory (1961)

Eight Heads in a Duffel Bag (1997)

The Curse of the Cat People

Earth Girls are Easy

I Married an Axe Murderer

M

Z

Female Trouble

Beach Blanket Bingo

Slap Her She's French

Valley of the Dolls

Attack of the 50ft Woman

Meet the Feebles

In the Mood For Love

The Shape of Water

The Assasination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Priscilla Queen of the Desert

Please Take Care of My Cat

Blade Runner

Run Lola Run

The World According to Garp

Interview With a Vampire

Vertigo

[italic]Die! Die! My Darling!

Bloodsucking Freaks

Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens

Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama

Blood on Satan's Claw

Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS

Nude on the Moon

Invasion of the Bee Girls[/italic]

Saving Ryan's Privates

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

With Six You Get Egg Roll

Yours, Mine and Ours

84 Charing Cross Road

Goodbye Mr Chips

The Girls of St Trinians

Breakfast at Tiffanys

Sexy Beast

There's a weird thing that goes on with movie/ book titles. Sometimes this alone can draw you like it's supposed to. Sometimes a word or phrase which seems entirely innocuous can seem forever changed by association with a classic film or book title.

Some of these, especially the patently B-schlock ones are fabulous. Others, on their own,if you don't know the film itself can seem surreal in possibility if you think on possibilities of plotting for a moment.

^^ oops - but there's plenty out there to reach 177...

The Pink Panther

Burn, Witch, Burn

"Roar" (that masterpiece of a disaster where Tippi Hedren and family lived with dozens of lions, tigers, elephants, and other dangerous wild animals) was originally going to be titled "Lions Lions and More Lions".

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

Kill Bill

Dinner at Eight

(Have never seen the movie, but have always loved the title!)

Octopussy

Paris Is Burning

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

Red Sorghum

National Velvet

Milk Money

Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?

A Taste Of Honey

Passport To Pimlico

My Beautiful Laundrette

Look Back In Anger

In the Bedroom

The Hobbit

The Fellowship of the Ring

The Two Towers

The Return of the King

Book titles that teased me as a young child, as I had elder siblings. Now made into movies.

Also,

Atlas Shrugged

The Fountainhead

And

Everything you wanted to know about sex* ...(but were afraid to ask)

The asterisk seals the deal.

Raise the Red Lantern

My Life as a Dog (1985)

Die, Mommie, Die!

Twitch of the Death Nerve (1971) ... (AKA A Bay of Blood) Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (1972) The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) Cannibal Holocaust (1980) Make Them Die Slowly (1981) ... (AKA Cannibal Ferox)

quackser fortune has a cousin in the bronx

Dawson's 50-Load Weekend

Get to Know Your Rabbit

It's "Let's Scare Jessica to Death." And it doesn't make sense in the context of the film (which is otherwise excellent).

I love very old titles for movies. Some of my favorites:

Down to the Sea in Ships

Our Vines Have Tender Grapes

Oil for the Lamps of China

Why Change Your Husband?

He Who Gets Slapped

Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

I love it even more because it reminds me of my all-time favorite title for a great play (which has yet to be made into a movie), Adrienne Kennedy's "A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White."

The Terror of Tiny Town

"Powertool"

Men Are Such Fools

Head

Chastity

The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallence.

The Man Who Knew Too Much.

Dial “M” for Murder.

There are many great titles in the film noir archive:

"20,000 Years in Sing Sing"

"You Only Live Once"

"They Drive By Night"

"I Wake Up Screaming"

"The Shanghai Gesture"

"This Gun for Hire"

"Each Dawn I Die"

"The Postman Always Rings Twice"

"Born to Kill"

"They Won't Believe Me"

"The Reckless Moment"

"Too Late for Tears"

"Knock on Any Door"

"The Asphalt Jungle"

"Born to be Bad"

The Damned Don't Cry"

"In a Lonely Place"

"Where the Sidewalk Ends"

"The Man Who Cheated Himself"

"Strangers on a Train"

"Don't Bother to Knock"

"City that Never Sleeps"

"Sweet Smell of Success"

"It Always Rains on Sunday"

"No Orchids for Miss Blandish"

"Any Number Can Win"

"The Killer Inside Me"

"Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead"

Sssssss

"Attack of the The Eye Creatures." The title sequence in the film actually repeats the "the." Be sure to watch the MST3K version, one of my favorites.

From IMDb: Storyline

Eye Creatures land on earth. The U.S. Air Force spies on some teens making out in the woods, then tries to prevent word of the Eye Creatures landing from leaking out. A couple of teens figure everything out and prevent the Eye Creatures from taking over by shining their headlights on them... Written by Dan Bleskan [html removed]

Carnival of Lost Souls

The Beast of Yucca Flats

What's So Bad About Feeling Good?

Was “Long Days Journey into Night” eventually made into a movie?

It is about the author’s mean, cheap, drug addled, drunken family, and takes place over the course of a day.

While we’re here, also:

Cat on a hot tin roof, and Sweet Bird of Youth.

The Town That Dreaded Sundown

Almost Famous

"The Young and the Hung".

R97, Yes, there are several versions of "Long Days Journey into Night."

R94, "Carnival of Souls" is the movie. "Carnival of Lost Souls" was an episode of a TV show, so says IMDb.

I Was a Communist for the FBI

P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang

What's Up Tiger Lily?

The Mother And The Whore

The Incagement Of The Little Mexicans

Cowboys and Aliens.

It was about cowboys. And aliens.

Midnight in the garden of good and evil

I love the Cowboys & Angels reference, R107. I always lovingly refer to that movie as Daniel Craig's Ass: The Movie. I mean, really, the marketing for this film was basically centered around Daniel Craig's Ass. And as I said, I have no idea what else was there to present:

Sometimes Aunt Martha Does Dreadful Things

Scream Bloody Murder

Messiah of Evil

Silent Night, Deadly Night

The Night God Screamed

Kill and Go Hide

Savage Lust

He Knows You're Alone

Mountaintop Motel Massacre

Keep My Grave Open

Massacre at Central High

Class Reunion Massacre

Flesh Feast

Girls School Screamers

You gotta love those 70's/80's exploitation and horror titles. They had bite.

I don't think necessarily all of these are lovable titles--I think some of you are just listing titles that are phrases (or more than 3 words)

The good, the bad and the ugly.

Girl interrupted.

Blood Beach

Let No Man Write My Epitaph

Reflections in a Golden Eye

A Streetcar Named Desire

I Woke Up Early the Day I Died

Death Bed: The Bed That Eats

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

Octopussy

Bedknobs & Broomsticks

Picnic at Hanging Rock

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

Love & Death

Midsummer Nights Sex Comedy

Sleeper

Annie Hall

Attack of the killer tomatoes”!!

There Will Be Blood. It also has one of my favorite insults in film: "You're just the afterbirth, Eli."

Three great titles that were changed for obvious reasons:

The Pope Must Die! ("t" added--in parentheses-- at the end of "Die")

Sammy and Rosie Get Laid ("Get Laid" omitted)

Mamma, There's a Black Man in Your Bed ("Black" omitted)

Pineapple Express

The Longest Day

Where Eagles Dare

The Attack of the 50 Foot Woman

The Brain That Wouldn’t Die

Berserk

Trog

Straight Jacket

Lady in a Cage

Where the Boys Are

Ride the Wild Surf

If A Man Answers

That Touch of Mink

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

Boss Nigger

Switchblade Sisters

Merrily We Go to Hell

Taxi to the Loo

A Day Without a Mexican

Zack and Miri Make a Porno

[quote] Was “Long Days Journey into Night” eventually made into a movie?

It was also made into a Golden Girls episode.

Clearly Rose played Mary

(Actually, I think it was called something like, "Long Day's Journey into Marinara.")

Seance on a Wet Afternoon

Can a one-word title really be a great title?

I think the poster above who is posting Woody Allen loves his movies, but "Annie Hall" is not a great title.

Boom!

Kiss the Blood Off My Hands

Children of a Lesser God

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte

I can't believe I'm the first to post these. You bitches are slipping.

Also the unreleased Rolling Stones documentary, Cocksucker Blues

[Quote]Straight Jacket

Oh, dear.

Straight Jacking was the gay porn knock off.

Never On Sunday

The Egg and I

All About Eve

R135 I'm the poster who included 'Vertigo'.

I included this as yes, it's just a single innoccuous word, but I never see it in almost any context otherwise and not momentarily think somewhere in the reaches of my decrepit mind of both SF streets and Kim Novak or even, at a stretch, instant recall of that iconic movie poster design graphic art.

Perhaps my logic is flawed, in that the title draws from the work itself too much for the purposes of this thread?

Yet 'vertigo' remains transformed in the english language vernacular and vocabulary for me.

Inglorious Basterds

Dick (1999)

One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest

Driving Miss Daisy.

(one word title alert!) Deliverance

American Graffiti

American Beauty

Donnie Darko

Single words can be evocative and I think vertigo qualifies. It's not as if it is mundane like Beaches or Gladiator.

10 Things I Hate About You

Miss Confidentiality

Phantom Thread

The Cars That Ate Paris

What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?

The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Psycho

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire

Someone earlier mentioned Swept Away . . .by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August, but Wertmuller had a few additional ones with equally wild titles:

Summer Night with Greek Profile, Almond Eyes and Scent of Basil

The Blue Collar Worker and the Hairdresser in a Whirl of Sex and Politics

Too Much Romance . . . It's Time for Stuffed Peppers

Miss Confidentiality? No movie by that title on IMDb, R149. Perhaps it's "Miss Congeniality," although I prefer 2008's "Miss Conception" better, even though I never heard of it before this.

Another vote for Let's Scare Jessica to Death

Also, the Cars that Ate Paris Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia Star 80 The Fish that Saved Pittsburgh Taxi Zum Klo Return to Macon County

Me, Natalie

Bitter Rice

Hurry Sundown

Boom!

My Blood Runs Cold

Bunny Lake Is Missing

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?

A Private Function

Yes! Mea culpa R151, nice pick-up. My memory is flawed, though I think I prefer my poor 'misconception' since, on reflection, Miss Congeniality evokes something a tad more vanilla!

Agreed Miss Conception whatever that's about plays cleverly.

And while we're degrees of separation gaming, I'll throw in another Caine title that's fun of itself:

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Scream, Pretty Peggy

She Lives!

Satan's School for Girls

The Screaming Woman

Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring

Crowhaven Farm

The House on Greenapple Road

The Girl Who Came Gift-Wrapped

Dog Day Afternoon

Reservoir Dogs

101 Dalmations

Groundhog Day!

I just realized I typed "The Sailor Who [bold]Came[/bold] from Grace with the Sea" instead of "Fell" @ R150.

Blame it on a Freudian slip: I was probably projecting due to the fact that the film had so much nudity.

Die, Sister, Die!

Alice, Sweet Alice

Terrorvision

The Witch Who Came From the Sea

Children of the Corn

Night of the Creeps

Night of the Comet

Eating Raoul

Rock 'N Roll High School

Scenes From A Class Struggle in Beverly Hills

Blood Diner

Chopping Mall

Screams of A Winter Night

Silent Night, Bloody Night

Serial Mom

I think most of these movies have Mary Woronov in them. I'm starting to think she just picked projects based on great titles. Her instincts are clearly pretty good.

If you knew nothing about the movie, why would the title Groundhog Day make you interested?

Woman of the Dunes

A Fish Called Wanda

Memoirs of a Geisha

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

(Forgive me DL): The Scent of a Woman

And Now The Screaming Starts

Night of the Living Dead

Hot Fuzz

And an evocative one I like for R11 too: The Wind That Shakes the Barley

Far From the Madding Crowd

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

I Love You, Alice B. Toklas

A Taste of Honey

Darling

Soilent Green

Planet of the Apes

[quote] If you knew nothing about the movie, why would the title Groundhog Day make you interested?

This is the true test.

DLers, explain yourselves!

If you knew nothing about the movies you're proposing, why would the title (eg "Darling") make you want to see it.

Seven Footsteps to Satan

Prosciutto

Sopressata

Pancetta

Mortadella

Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter is Dead.

Killer Klowns from Outer Space.

The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain.

Ghoulies

Spaceballs.

Girl, Interrupted.

Purple Rose of Cairo

Wings of Desire

Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Belle du Jour

400 Blows (I think I once read an -apocryphal?-story here on DL of someone who had watched this flick on basis of title alone and had been non-plussed!)

The Tailor of Panama

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Bullets Over Broadway (which may very well already be in the thread but I love the prospects it conjures by title alone.)

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

Age of Innocence

Midnight Cowboy

Krakatoa, East of Java

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

Ma Nuit Chez Maude

The Long, Long Trailer

Send Me No Flowers

Babe, Pig in the City

Me and the Arch-Kook Petulia

Two Bowie titles:

Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence

The Man Who Fell to Earth

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Gidget Goes Hawaiian

I've always liked the nickname and that - maybe cynical Hollywood (?) - concept behind Gidget in different guises.

It' s that whole vibe of early 60s surfing and beach culture of a different era.

California, Malibu, Hawaii...and drive-ins and jalopies and cars with chrome and fins.

Seven Beauties

Who Slew Auntie Roo?

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Enemies, a Love Story

Kitten With a Whip

Blue Denim

The Last Temptation of Christ

Flashdance

Song of Norway.

My Own Private Idaho

No Country for Old Men

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

Heller in Pink Tights

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?