Can you name the movie titles from their French translations?

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Source: IMDb Top 250 films
All the films in this quiz were in the IMDb Top 250 as of January 3, 2011. Includes titles released in France and Canada.
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Film en français	Film in English	Year
L'empire contre-attaque		1980
Luke la main froide		1967
Sept		1995
Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain		2001
La vie est belle		1946
Le troisième homme		1949
Et pour quelques dollars de plus		1965
Impitoyable		1992
Ève		1950
Les temps modernes		1936
Monty Python sacré graal!		1975
Bons baisers de Bruges		2008
Mr. Smith au sénat		1939
Le voyage de Chihiro		2001
Le trésor de la Sierra Madre		1948
Un jour sans fin		1993
Boulevard du crépuscule		1950
L'armée des 12 singes		1995
La cité de Dieu		2002

Film en français	Film in English	Year
Histoire de jouets		1995
Le chevalier noir		2008
Le pianiste		2002
Le seigneur des anneaux - Le retour du roi		2003
Beauté américaine		1999
Les sentiers de la gloire		1957
Les indestructibles		2004
Certains l'aiment chaud		1959
C'est l'apocalypse		1979
Les sept samouraïs		1954
Le cygne noir		2010
Los Angeles interdite		1997
Comme un taureau sauvage		1980
Coeur vaillant		1995
La Matrice		1999
Fiction pulpeuse		1994
Le pouilleux millionnaire		2008
Chauffeur de taxi		1976
Il y aura du sang		2007
That's technically correct, but it's asking for a 1946 film.	2007
No, the other one	2007
L'homme éléphant (1980)	2007
Les dents de la mer (1975)	2007
Du soleil plein la tête (2004)	2007

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Movie Titles en Français Quiz

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Created Jan 4, 2011 in Movies
Featured Mar 26, 2011
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	Fongolia:	Mar 26th, 2011 at 04:30 GMT		3 points
	Nice, guessed the wrong creature for a certain 1980 film and it popped up as a bonus!

	andyguy:	Mar 26th, 2011 at 06:50 GMT		56 points
	Good quiz, but it should be more clear that the clues are titles used for their French release and not a translation.

	ICole1987:	Mar 26th, 2011 at 07:46 GMT		78 points
	You know what gets me about France? It's the little differences. I mean, you can get the same stuff, but it's just a little different. Like in France, you can go to a video store and get Pulp Fiction but they don't call it Pulp Fiction. They call it Fiction pulpeuse. They put the adjective after the noun, they wouldn't even know what a Pulp Fiction is. I don't know what they call A Clockwork Orange - I didn't rent any Kubrick.

	hachi:	Mar 26th, 2011 at 07:55 GMT		4 points
	@ICole1987: actually, "Pulp Fiction" is called "Pulp Fiction". It's in French Canada that they change titles. The funny and stupidest thing is; the guys who decide how to name an american or english movie in France think the original title isn't "understandable" enough for the masses, and replace it with another title in english, often a ridiculous one. For instance, "The hangover" is in France "Very Bad Trip". I work in a videostore and it drives me crazy :)

	interstate:	Mar 26th, 2011 at 08:07 GMT		3 points
	@hachi: the weirdest example of that phenomenon I've ever encountered is a German movie with an awkward-sounding English title: "Viktor Vogel, Commercial Man." For some reason the American release was given a different awkward-sounding English title: "Advertising Rules!"

	plumsiren:	Mar 26th, 2011 at 08:12 GMT		48 points
	Curse you, Groundhog Day! I spent half the quiz repeating 'a day without end' to myself over and over!

	savo:	Mar 26th, 2011 at 09:02 GMT		14 points
	ICole, I HOPE some of these people get that joke. Classic. Clearly it went over Hachi's head.

	schulace:	Mar 26th, 2011 at 09:06 GMT		17 points
	Does anyone else here miss MovieDynamic and davidr? What happened to those two? :(

	estebanreyes:	Mar 26th, 2011 at 09:24 GMT		3 points
	You think the French are bad at translating movie titles. Go check out the Germans!

	hachi:	Mar 26th, 2011 at 10:01 GMT		7 points
	@savo: OK, clearly the joke went over my head. Thank you for pointing out there even was a joke, now I got it. It's a bad idea getting on Sporcle as soon as I get up :)

	Statto2:	Mar 26th, 2011 at 10:37 GMT		3 points
	"Les sentiers de la gloire" was actually banned in France for many years.

	WCRoentgen:	Mar 26th, 2011 at 10:47 GMT		13 points
	English translators also make curious choices. "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" (book and film) is titled in the original Swedish as "Men Who Hate Women" (Män som hatar kvinnor).

	ray7:	Mar 26th, 2011 at 11:09 GMT		3 points
	the strangest thing to me is what happened to "In Bruges": in french it's "Bons Baisers de Bruges" which is probably a homage to "Bons baisers de Russe/From Russia with love" and in German it's "Brügge sehen und sterben" which means something like "see Bruges and die"

	peterlekarev:	Mar 26th, 2011 at 11:22 GMT		22 points
	@ICole1987 It's because of the metric system.

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	PeachSlice:	Mar 26th, 2011 at 11:45 GMT		24 points
	Check out the big brain on ICole1987

	ZeZapatiste:	Mar 26th, 2011 at 12:00 GMT		15 points
	@The_Snakes : Why don't you learn French to watch our own movies without translation ? I can't even think about seeing Amélie in English... Well I say that and I watch every American/British movie in English I have to say a lot of these are Canadian translation. For the record, here we say Pulp Fiction, LA Confidential, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Black Swan, There will be blood, Matrix, Seven, Toy story, American beauty, Apocalypse Now and Slumdog Millionaire ! A lot of American movies' titles aren't translated

	Statto2:	Mar 26th, 2011 at 12:11 GMT		9 points
	@ZeZapatiste:n I think The_Snakes was being sarcastic! Well I hope so anyway. I remember when LA Confidential came out some people mistook the title and thought it was a French film called "La Confidential"!

	beatrixkiddo:	Mar 26th, 2011 at 12:38 GMT		3 points
	off topic but do we not get a tennessee williams quiz on the 100th aniversary of his birth? there's not even a daily does quiz for him - it's harry potter in the missing word quiz and the beatles in the scrambles. bad sporcle. on topic i liked this - chance to show off that at least some of my school french lessons have remained with me.

	ajaxfam:	Mar 26th, 2011 at 13:00 GMT		1 point
	Great puzzle - one note though - I typed "the holy grail" and "monty python the holy grail" and did not get credit for the answer (even though "lord of the rings" worked for the elongated title).

	bart122333:	Mar 26th, 2011 at 13:26 GMT		-3 points
	I don't get why they translate movie titles. Here in Belgium we always keep the original title, whether it's in English, French, German, Spanish or whatever language. But of course the French still think French is the number 1 language in the world:)...

	barnztormre:	Mar 26th, 2011 at 13:30 GMT		6 points
	I need a Hambourg D'Big Kahuna.

	H0limkill:	Mar 26th, 2011 at 13:32 GMT		1 point
	Yep, a lot of these films haven't got a translation in metropolitan France. You'll never hear someone say "Histoire de Jouets", "Fiction Pulpeuse", "Chauffeur de Taxi" or "Le Pouilleux Millionaire", he'll sound ridiculous and even just, well, the title itself sounds horrible.

	Fex:	Mar 26th, 2011 at 13:41 GMT		9 points
	Here in Canada, there is a faction of French speakers that tend to be anti-English, especially in Quebec. It's a whole cultural preservation thing, I guess. Still, my grandmother only uses English swears, even when speaking French!!!!

	patate22:	Mar 26th, 2011 at 13:47 GMT		1 point
	This is sooo fun!! I was expecting something like the quiz "movie titles in Spanish" and it would be literal translation from French to English. And yeah I agree with others: Quebec movie titles and French movie titles are different. Translations are done in both countries, especially for Disney movies. (not all the time though)

	lovelyrita:	Mar 26th, 2011 at 14:14 GMT		2 points
	Half of these are translations. For the more recent films we tend to keep the English title. And to answer ICole1987's question, A Clockwork Orange is Orange Méchanique in French.

	asafe:	Mar 26th, 2011 at 14:26 GMT		5 points
	It's nice to get an easy bonus answer for La vie est belle, but I think it's wiser to avoid the obvious confusion by just choosing one of over 200 other movies :)

	jago706:	Mar 26th, 2011 at 14:29 GMT		10 points
	Interesting how the French translation of "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946) technically means "Life Is Beautiful" (1998 film), which is what I first put down before getting a hint.

	samcash13593:	Mar 26th, 2011 at 15:13 GMT		3 points
	i don't know much french, but i do know crepescule is twilight. I spent ages typing in twilight boulevard and variations on that.

	Commodore:	Mar 26th, 2011 at 16:26 GMT		3 points
	Le Sporcle Fantastique! [Cue la Marseillaise]

	dancastro:	Mar 26th, 2011 at 16:30 GMT		2 points
	@lovelyrita: in French it's spelled Mécanique. @samcash13593: you're right, crépuscule is the twilight, either before sunrise or after sunset. But a literal translation of Sunset Boulevard would be "Boulevard du coucher du soleil" and it would make a rather awkward title. Marketing explains many things!

	amusing_name:	Mar 26th, 2011 at 16:36 GMT		5 points
	Am I the only one who typed in The Seven Samurai and got Se7en? :d

	delToro87:	Mar 26th, 2011 at 16:42 GMT		5 points
	I remember being in Belgium when The Fast and the Furious 3: Tokyo Drift was released, except over there, as a reference to the previous film, 2 Fast 2 Furious, they titled it 3 Fast 3 Furious!

	exackerly:	Mar 26th, 2011 at 17:26 GMT		9 points
	Un jour sans fin had me stumped. Pas Le jour de la marmotte?

	ezois:	Mar 26th, 2011 at 18:07 GMT		4 points
	I'm glad Life is Beautiful was one of the bonuses. I wish I knew more movie titles. I kept typing in The Black Knight and Courageous Heart

	Stran:	Mar 26th, 2011 at 18:07 GMT		7 points
	How come only 48% guessed Treasure of the Sierra Madre - surely the easiest clue!

	JakeA:	Mar 26th, 2011 at 18:14 GMT		1 point
	I don't speak any French, so I guess 27 is Okay. But I'm mad I didn't get "Sunset Blvd." I kept thinking "crepuscle" meant it was one of the "Twilight" movies.