Creative Titles
by wantapieceapizza | created - 28 Dec 2010 | updated - 04 Nov 2017 | PublicTitles that cataches your attention, are out of the ordinary or just plain long. I've tried to include titles that do not get them from other sources such as their original books or plays. I've also tried to avoid titles that are long just because they are descriptive.
Some things I've noticed and find interesting: A lot of them have question marks in the title. Most of the films are comedies. Spoofs and B-movies especially love long titles.
If you have any to add to the list, feel free to comment!
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1. Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996)
R | 89 min | Comedy, Crime
A parody of several U.S. films about being in the 'Hood', for instance Boyz n the Hood (1991), South Central (1992), Menace II Society (1993), Higher Learning (1995) and Juice (1992).
Director: Paris Barclay | Stars: Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Tracey Cherelle Jones
Votes: 61,521 | Gross: $20.11M
2. Why Should I Buy a Bed When All That I Want Is Sleep? (1999)
53 min | Documentary
Directors: Nicolas Humbert, Werner Penzel | Star: Robert Lax
Votes: 19
3. The Eye Wants to Sleep He Says But the Head Is No Mattress (1993)
Documentary, Short
Sleeping is good, but it is better to be awake.
Director: Joris Vermeiren
4. Borat (2006)
R | 84 min | Comedy
Kazakh TV talking head Borat is dispatched to the United States to report on the greatest country in the world.
Director: Larry Charles | Stars: Sacha Baron Cohen, Ken Davitian, Luenell, Chester
Votes: 442,166 | Gross: $128.51M
5. 5 Centimeters per Second (2007)
TV-PG | 63 min | Animation, Drama, Family
Told in three interconnected segments, Takaki tells the story of his life as cruel winters, cold technology, and finally, adult obligations and responsibility converge to test the delicate petals of love.
Director: Makoto Shinkai | Stars: Kenji Mizuhashi, Yoshimi Kondou, Satomi Hanamura, Ayaka Onoue
Votes: 63,780
6. Life is All You Get (1997)
115 min | Comedy, Drama
After he loses his job, his father, and his girlfriend, Jan's life is a shambles. Then suddenly he meets freakish street musician Vera, and a bittersweet romance unfolds...
Director: Wolfgang Becker | Stars: Jürgen Vogel, Christiane Paul, Ricky Tomlinson, Hristina Papamihou
Votes: 1,970
7. I Not Stupid (2002)
PG | 105 min | Drama, Comedy
Story about life of 3 EM3's student in Singapore, who struggling with their education and personal life.
Director: Jack Neo | Stars: Jack Neo, Yun Xiang, Richard Low, Selena Tan
Votes: 1,231
8. Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Hellbound, Flesh-Eating Subhumanoid Zombified Living Dead, Part 3 (2005)
Not Rated | 80 min | Comedy, Horror
The film makers take the movie The Brain Wouldn't Die (1962) and wiped the audio clean and dubbed it over with a new, comedic soundtrack.
Director: James Riffel | Stars: Alexandria DeFabiis, Stacy Dunn, Ian George, Eugene Sautner
Votes: 205
9. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
NC-17 | 124 min | Crime, Drama
At Le Hollandais gourmet restaurant, every night is filled with opulence, decadence and gluttony. But when the cook, a thief, his wife and her lover all come together, they unleash a shocking torrent of sex, food, murder and revenge.
Director: Peter Greenaway | Stars: Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, Alan Howard
Votes: 41,749 | Gross: $7.72M
10. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
PG | 95 min | Comedy, War
An unhinged American general orders a bombing attack on the Soviet Union, triggering a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn
Votes: 518,350 | Gross: $0.28M
I'd say this is the original creative title because it spawned so many homages and rip-offs and whatnot.
11. Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me (1971)
R | 90 min | Drama
Free-thinking student tries to put up with life at a straight-laced college in 1958.
Director: Jeffrey Young | Stars: Barry Primus, Linda De Coff, David Downing, John Coe
Votes: 111
12. If Footmen Tire You What Will Horses Do? (1971)
52 min | Drama, Horror
Based on the preachings of Reverend Estus W. Pirkle, this film warns what will happen to America if the citizens do not give up their depraved ways and turn to God and Jesus for salvation. ... See full summary »
Director: Ron Ormond | Stars: Judy Creech, Cecil Scaiffe, Gene McFall, Wes Saunders
Votes: 537
13. Homework (1991)
Unrated | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A middle agend woman asks an old boyfriend to her home. He thinks its only for casual sex, she is planning something else and she is taping in on video.
Director: Jaime Humberto Hermosillo | Stars: María Rojo, José Alonso
Votes: 828
Also known as "Homework, or How Pornography Saved the Split Family from Boredom and Improved their Financial Situation"
14. Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? (1971)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama
Georgie Soloway, a pop hit love song writer who cannot love, himself, or others. He spends his days with various women flying his plane, and dropping in to the world around him.
Director: Ulu Grosbard | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Barbara Harris, Jack Warden, David Burns
Votes: 1,072 | Gross: $0.23M
15. Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad (1967)
Not Rated | 86 min | Comedy
A domineering mother and her sheltered son fly face first into love, murder, and the meaning of family in this black comedy based on Arthur Kopit's Broadway play.
Directors: Richard Quine, Alexander Mackendrick | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Robert Morse, Barbara Harris, Hugh Griffith
Votes: 324
16. Scary Movie (2000)
R | 88 min | Comedy
A year after disposing of the body of a man they accidentally killed, a group of dumb teenagers are stalked by a bumbling serial killer.
Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans | Stars: Anna Faris, Jon Abrahams, Marlon Wayans, Carmen Electra
Votes: 286,757 | Gross: $157.02M
Also known as "Last Summer I Screamed Because Halloween Fell on Friday the 13th"
17. Not Another Teen Movie (2001)
R | 89 min | Comedy
A sendup of all the teen movies that have accumulated in the past two decades.
Director: Joel Gallen | Stars: Chyler Leigh, Jaime Pressly, Chris Evans, Eric Christian Olsen
Votes: 115,933 | Gross: $38.25M
Also known as "Ten Things I Hate About Clueless Road Trips When I Can't Hardly Wait to Be Kissed"
18. Echoes Without Saying (1983)
27 min | Short
A documentary short on Toronto's cultural institution, Coach House Books.
Director: Ron Mann
Get it?!
19. It's Better to Be Wanted for Murder Than Not to Be Wanted at All (2003)
127 min
Director: Marcel Sarmiento | Stars: Devon Alan, Laura Harris, Zooey Deschanel, Marco Leonardi
Votes: 55
20. Eyes Do Not Want to Close at All Times, or, Perhaps One Day Rome Will Allow Herself to Choose in Her Turn (1970)
88 min | Drama
Pierre Corneille's Othon adapted faithfully to cinema, set in the ruins of the Rome of now-a-days.
Directors: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub | Stars: Adriano Aprà, Anne Brumagne, Ennio Lauricella, Olimpia Carlisi
Votes: 332
21. Will Your Heart Beat Faster? (1980)
TV-PG | 104 min | Comedy, Musical
The film revolves around two couples who find themselves in conflict with the foreign commercial giants that control the Philippine economy, the Japanese and the Chinese.
Director: Mike De Leon | Stars: Christopher De Leon, Charo Santos-Concio, Jay Ilagan, Sandy Andolong
Votes: 163
22. Carry on Loving (1970)
88 min | Comedy, Romance
The Wedded Bliss computer dating agency aims to bring together the lonely hearts of Much-Snogging on-the-Green. Its owner, Sidney Bliss, has enough complications in his own love life, but ... See full summary »
Director: Gerald Thomas | Stars: Sidney James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims
Votes: 2,647
Also known as "Carry on Loving or It's Not What You Feel, It's the Way That You Feel It. or Two's Company but Three's Quite Good Fun Too. or Love Is a Four Letter Word or It's Just One Thing on Top of Another"
23. The 41-Year-Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It (2010 Video)
R | 82 min | Comedy
Follows Andy, who needs to hook up with a hottie, pronto, because he hasn't had sex in... well, forever - and his luck isn't the only thing that's hard. His equally horny teenage roommates ... See full summary »
Director: Craig Moss | Stars: Bryan Callen, Jessica Lee, J. Chris Newberg, Steven Sims
Votes: 6,944
24. I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her on a Meathook, and Now I Have a Three Picture Deal at Disney (1993)
Unrated | 16 min | Short, Comedy, Horror
A first-time feature-film director (who's also the writer and producer) is casting the lead actress. We meet him talking to his wife about the picture and the process. We meet the actress, ... See full summary »
Director: Ben Affleck | Stars: Jay Lacopo, Karla Montana, Johanna McCloy, Tommy Hinkley
Votes: 823
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