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Quid Pro Quo et Ultimatum Libido

by ElMaruecan82 • Created 8 years ago • Modified 8 years ago
All these titles have one thing in common, they are actually Latin nouns, names, adjectives or derivates from Latin verbs (with the exception of definite article 'the' that you might not consider and non included swords-and-sandals films like Gladiator (2000), Spartacus (1960) or Quo Vadis (1951), as they are more likely to have a Latin title)

Which of these Latin-titled movies is your favorite?

Discuss the list here, carpe diem and... Ars, Gratia, Artis!
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  • 32 titles
  • Guy Pearce and Carrie-Anne Moss in Memento (2000)

    1. Memento

    20001h 53mR83Metascore
    8.4 (1.4M)
    A former insurance investigator who now suffers from anterograde amnesia uses notes and tattoos to hunt down his wife's murderer.
    DirectorChristopher NolanStarsGuy PearceCarrie-Anne MossJoe Pantoliano
    Remember (imperative form)
  • Vertigo (1958)

    2. Vertigo

    19582h 8mPG100Metascore
    8.2 (445K)
    A former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed.
    DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsJames StewartKim NovakBarbara Bel Geddes
    Dizziness
  • Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann in Persona (1966)

    3. Persona

    19661h 23mNot Rated86Metascore
    8.0 (136K)
    A nurse is put in charge of a mute actress and finds that their personae are melding together.
    DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsBibi AnderssonLiv UllmannMargaretha Krook
    Mask
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Terminator (1984)

    4. The Terminator

    19841h 47mR84Metascore
    8.1 (966K)
    A cyborg assassin from the future attempts to find and kill a young woman who is destined to give birth to a warrior that will lead a resistance to save humankind from extinction.
    DirectorJames CameronStarsArnold SchwarzeneggerLinda HamiltonMichael Biehn
    He who sets bounds
  • Alicia Vikander in Ex Machina (2014)

    5. Ex Machina

    20141h 48mR78Metascore
    7.7 (618K)
    A young programmer is selected to participate in a ground-breaking experiment in synthetic intelligence by evaluating the human qualities of a highly advanced humanoid A.I.
    DirectorAlex GarlandStarsAlicia VikanderDomhnall GleesonOscar Isaac
    From the machine
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger in Commando (1985)

    6. Commando

    19851h 30mR51Metascore
    6.7 (182K)
    A retired Special Forces colonel tries to save his daughter, who was abducted by his former subordinate.
    DirectorMark L. LesterStarsArnold SchwarzeneggerRae Dawn ChongDan Hedaya
    Passing to, moving back and forth (gerundive form)
  • Amadeus (1984)

    7. Amadeus

    19842h 40mPG87Metascore
    8.4 (449K)
    The life and work of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart seen through the eyes of his contemporary and rival, Antonio Salieri.
    DirectorMilos FormanStarsF. Murray AbrahamTom HulceElizabeth Berridge
    Love God! (imperative form)
  • Salma Hayek, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Linda Fiorentino, Alan Rickman, Chris Rock, Kevin Smith, and Jason Mewes in Dogma (1999)

    8. Dogma

    19992h 10mR62Metascore
    7.3 (235K)
    An abortion clinic worker with a special heritage is called upon to save the existence of humanity from being negated by two renegade angels trying to exploit a loop-hole and reenter Heaven.
    DirectorKevin SmithStarsBen AffleckMatt DamonLinda Fiorentino
    Decree, order
  • Kate Winslet and Judi Dench in Iris (2001)

    9. Iris

    20011h 31mR76Metascore
    7.0 (20K)
    True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.
    DirectorRichard EyreStarsJudi DenchJim BroadbentKate Winslet
    Rainbow
  • Argo (2012)

    10. Argo

    20122hR86Metascore
    7.7 (653K)
    Acting under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1979.
    DirectorBen AffleckStarsBen AffleckBryan CranstonJohn Goodman
    Argonauts' vessel
  • Amen. (2002)

    11. Amen.

    20022h 12mNot Rated57Metascore
    7.2 (15K)
    During WWII SS officer Kurt Gerstein tries to inform Pope Pius XII about Jews being sent to extermination camps. Young Jesuit priest Riccardo Fontana helps him in the difficult mission to inform the world.
    DirectorCosta-GavrasStarsUlrich TukurMathieu KassovitzUlrich Mühe
    Truth, faithfulness
  • Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, and Harvey Stephens in The Omen (1976)

    12. The Omen

    19761h 51mR62Metascore
    7.5 (141K)
    Mysterious deaths surround an American ambassador. Could the child that he is raising actually be the Antichrist? The Devil's own son?
    DirectorRichard DonnerStarsGregory PeckLee RemickHarvey Stephens
    Indication, foreboding
  • Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Joe Pantoliano, and Carrie-Anne Moss in The Matrix (1999)

    13. The Matrix

    19992h 16mR73Metascore
    8.7 (2.2M)
    When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.
    DirectorsLana WachowskiLilly WachowskiStarsKeanu ReevesLaurence FishburneCarrie-Anne Moss
    Breeding animal, Mother (in respect to propagation)
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, and Emma Thompson in Junior (1994)

    14. Junior

    19941h 49mPG-1359Metascore
    4.7 (75K)
    As part of a fertility research project, a male scientist agrees to carry a pregnancy in his own body.
    DirectorIvan ReitmanStarsArnold SchwarzeneggerDanny DeVitoEmma Thompson
    Superlative form of adjective juvenis, meaning Young.
  • Benoît Poelvoorde in Podium (2004)

    15. Podium

    20041h 35m
    6.4 (4.5K)
    Bernand Fréderic is a mediocre bank executive, married, with a son. He used to have another profession: look-a-like of French star Claude François. Now, with the Imitators Gala Night coming up, he must choose between his wife or the only thing that makes him fully happy: the applause.
    DirectorYann MoixStarsBenoît PoelvoordeJean-Paul RouveJulie Depardieu
    Elevated place
  • Michael Cera and Elliot Page in Juno (2007)

    16. Juno

    20071h 36mPG-1381Metascore
    7.4 (563K)
    Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes a selfless decision regarding the unborn child.
    DirectorJason ReitmanStarsElliot PageMichael CeraJennifer Garner
    Goddess
  • Victor/Victoria (1982)

    17. Victor/Victoria

    19822h 14mPG84Metascore
    7.6 (25K)
    A struggling female soprano in 1934 Paris finally finds work after posing as a female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life when a visiting Chicago gangster finds himself inexplicably attracted to the seemingly male performer.
    DirectorBlake EdwardsStarsJulie AndrewsJames GarnerRobert Preston
    Conqueror / Victory
  • Sacha Baron Cohen in The Dictator (2012)

    18. The Dictator

    20121h 23mR58Metascore
    6.5 (351K)
    The heroic story of a dictator who risked his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.
    DirectorLarry CharlesStarsSacha Baron CohenAnna FarisJohn C. Reilly
    Chief magistrate
  • Tandem (1987)

    19. Tandem

    19871h 26m
    7.0 (1.4K)
    Michel Mortez is going to and fro France to compere a radio game he created 25 years ago. He is famous among the average Frenchmen. But he is also a poker. Rivetot, his assistant and technician, always goes with him. He is the only one to know what really lies under Mortez's appearance of playful don Juan. When the programme is condemned by the managers, Rivetot delays as long as possible the moment he will have to announce it to Mortez... Both malicious and tender, this bitter comedy also shows nostalgia.
    DirectorPatrice LeconteStarsGérard JugnotJean RochefortSylvie Granotier
    Finally
  • Al Pacino and Robin Williams in Insomnia (2002)

    20. Insomnia

    20021h 58mR78Metascore
    7.2 (330K)
    A Los Angeles detective chases a murder suspect in a remote Alaskan town.
    DirectorChristopher NolanStarsAl PacinoRobin WilliamsHilary Swank
    Sleeplessness
  • Solaris (1972)

    21. Solaris

    19722h 47mPG93Metascore
    7.9 (102K)
    A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.
    DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsNatalya BondarchukDonatas BanionisJüri Järvet
    Sunny
  • Venus (2006)

    22. Venus

    20061h 35mR82Metascore
    7.1 (14K)
    Life for a pair of veteran actors gets turned upside down after they meet a brash teenager.
    DirectorRoger MichellStarsPeter O'TooleJodie WhittakerLeslie Phillips
    Goddess
  • Terra Nova (1998)

    23. Terra Nova

    19981h 25m
    6.1 (39)
    A disturbed young woman (Jeanette Cronin) runs away from her New Zealand home and hides away in an Australian boarding house, named Terra Nova. There she finds that every one else in the boarding house is just as zany as she is, and on some levels make her seem sane despite the voices in her head and her strange visions.
    DirectorPaul MiddleditchStarsJeanette CroninPaul KelmanTrent Atkinson
    New Land
  • Aquarius (2016)

    24. Aquarius

    20162h 26mNot Rated88Metascore
    7.4 (21K)
    Clara, 65, lives her life to the fullest with her family and friends. A construction company wants her Recife oceanfront condo, as they've already bought all the other in the 3 story building. Clara's staying.
    DirectorKleber Mendonça FilhoStarsSonia BragaMaeve JinkingsIrandhir Santos
    Related to water or bearer of water
  • Naomi Watts in Diana (2013)

    25. Diana

    20131h 53mPG-1335Metascore
    5.6 (21K)
    During the last two years of her life, Princess Diana embarks on a final rite of passage: a secret love affair with Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan.
    DirectorOliver HirschbiegelStarsNaomi WattsNaveen AndrewsCas Anvar
    Hunting Goddess

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