Best odd titles
Best names for films - films may not be as good.
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- DirectorRuss MeyerStarsTura SatanaHajiLori WilliamsThree go-go dancers holding a young girl hostage come across a crippled old man living with his two sons in the desert. After learning he's hiding a sum of cash around, the women start scheming on him.Classic!
- DirectorSam PeckinpahStarsWarren OatesIsela VegaRobert WebberAn American barroom pianist and his prostitute girlfriend go on a trip through the Mexican underworld to collect the bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.
- DirectorJari HalonenStarsJorma TommilaTarja-Tuulikki TarsalaHannu HuuskaThe 21st-century tale centers on taciturn detective Lipton Cockton as he looks into a series of murders involving exploding victims.
- DirectorJ.F. LawtonStarsShannon TweedBill MaherKaren M. WaldronThe U.S. government, eager to protect the nation's avocado supplies, recruits feminist professor Margo Hunt to make contact with the Piranha Women, an all-female tribe who believe men are only good as a source of food.Avocado? Some hipster thing? Never seen the film, probably never will.
- DirectorCarl ReinerStarsSteve MartinRachel WardAlan LaddFilm noir parody with a detective uncovering a sinister plot. Characters from classic noir films appear as scenes from various movies interjected into the story.As suits (sic) a noir comedy, the name means nothing, but sounds deep.
- DirectorRenny HarlinStarsGeena DavisSamuel L. JacksonYvonne ZimaGovernment agents come after a amnesiac woman, who gradually remembers her past.fun movie - again, the name has certain gravitas that doesn't necessarily match.
- DirectorRobert AldrichStarsRalph MeekerAlbert DekkerPaul StewartA doomed female hitchhiker pulls Mike Hammer into a deadly whirlpool of intrigue, revolving around a mysterious "great whatsit".Let's have another kiss here. Kiss me, mr Deadly? Or, kiss me in a deadly way? Cool name in any case.
- DirectorRichard BrooksStarsDiane KeatonRichard GereTuesday WeldDedicated schoolteacher Theresa Dunn spends her nights cruising bars, looking for males with whom she can engage in progressively dangerous extreme sexual encounters.original title "Looking for Mr. Goodbar' is the one I like: it's a bit odd. Like an announcement on tannoy.
- DirectorSergei ParajanovStarsIvan MikolaychukLarisa KadochnikovaTatyana BestayevaA timeless Carpathian story - the young Ivan falls in love with the daughter of his father's killer among the Hutsul people of Ukraine.Well we had to go art of the erstwhile Eastern block, right? Very mystical sounding name.
- DirectorJirí MenzelStarsVáclav NeckárJosef SomrVlastimil BrodskýAn apprentice train dispatcher looks for love while aiding his colleagues in their resistance against the Nazis.Another - with a quirky name.
- DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsWilliam PetersenWillem DafoeJohn PankowA fearless Secret Service agent will stop at nothing to bring down the counterfeiter who killed his partner.Drrrama!
- DirectorPhilip RidleyStarsViggo MortensenLindsay DuncanJeremy CooperIn the 1950s, a young boy living with his troublesome family in rural USA fantasizes that a neighboring widow is actually a vampire, responsible for a number of disappearances in the area.Go on, tell me what it is, from the title.
- DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneMasayuki MoriKyôko KagawaA vengeful young man marries the daughter of a corrupt industrialist in order to seek justice for his father's suicide.let us have some bad now.
- DirectorSergio LeoneStarsClint EastwoodEli WallachLee Van CleefA bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.
- DirectorJulia DucournauStarsGarance MarillierElla RumpfRabah Nait OufellaA young woman, studying to be a vet, develops a craving for human flesh.One word. To the point.
- DirectorLina WertmüllerStarsTullio SolenghiGene GnocchiVeronica PivettiTunin and Zvanin are two metalworkers and left-wing militants who, with their families, look forward to the results of the 1994 elections.Less succinct...
- DirectorLina WertmüllerStarsGiancarlo GianniniMariangela MelatoLina PolitoWhen a friend is murdered by the Facists, a melancholy farmer takes up residence in a Roman brothel as he and an anarchist prostitute plot to assassinate Mussolini.A film festival has been named after this one.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsFernando ReyDelphine SeyrigPaul FrankeurA surreal, virtually plotless series of dreams centered around six middle-class people and their consistently interrupted attempts to have a meal together.Bunuel has many films with great names
- DirectorPedro AlmodóvarStarsVictoria AbrilAntonio BanderasLoles LeónAn unbalanced but alluring former mental patient takes a porn star prisoner in the hopes of convincing her to marry him.Well I could have picked What have I done to deserve this? too. Couldn't decide.
- DirectorTomas AlfredsonStarsGary OldmanColin FirthTom HardyIn the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet Agent within MI6.Feel this is a bit of a cheat somehow, since it is just the name of the book it is based on. Trips off the tongue in any case.