Meaning | Title |
There is no royalty in this Bogart/Hepburn romance, just an old boat whose name is the movie title | |
Named for a famous Don McLean song, and the baked good that, uh, features prominently in the film | |
This battle of the sexes comedy takes its title from the biblical body part that God used to create Eve | |
This World War II submarine flick's title isn't cryptic at all if you know German; far from involving footwear, it simply means 'The Boat' | |
There is a regrettable lack of potatoes in this film, for the title simply comes from a shortening of 'Mobile Army Surgical Hospital' | |
This geriatric action thriller doesn't have to do with colors or communists: the title is an acronym for 'Retired: Extremely Dangerous' | |
Does the action in this Gosling/Cooper film transcend coniferous forests? No, but it's the Mohawk translation of Schenectady, the film's setting | |
Tom Hanks is more lovesick than insomnia-stricken, but it's the pseudonym he is given on a talk-radio show in this nineties romance. | |
It's the French word for 'butterfly,' and the nickname of our prison-escaping main character Steve McQueen, who has one tattooed on his chest | |
Well there really was a trolley line in New Orleans that was so-named, but the title also has metaphorical associations with lust and carnality | |
This Bond movie got its title by accident: the last word was supposed to be 'Lies,' but a one-letter typo made the current title and MGM loved it | |
This Joseph Heller adaptation is titled in reference to a fictional bureaucratic stipulation that satirically underlines the paradoxical absurdity of war | |
This musical is not about bacon fat; its title comes from the pomade the era's males put into their hair, and the resulting subculture that sprung up | |
From an explosive burst of fire when air suddenly mixes with other gases; it's the arsonist of the movie's trademark fire, inasmuch as one can have such a thing | |
Absolutely no explanation of this Kubrick film's title is given. The source novel's author has given various explanations, but few involve timepieces or fruit | |
The documentary (and later TV show) in question here has nothing to do with aquatic life, but rather the practice of creating fake personal profiles on social media sites | |
The title of Tarantino's debut has no connection to the movie whatsoever: it derived from a video store customer mangling the title of 'Au Revoir Les Enfants' | |
People say this beloved Robbins/Freeman prison film's cryptic title kept audiences away, but at least they dropped 'Rita Hayworth and the' from the original novella | |
A colloquial term for the police. Says the film's protagonist: Don't let yourself get attached to anything you're not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the ____ | |
This Daniel Day-Lewis film changed its title to something more ominous than the source novel (Upton Sinclair's 'Oil!') because the director felt they didn't use enough of the book | |
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