Worst Movie Titles Ever
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1. Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007)
G | 93 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
The young apprentice of a magical, eccentric toy store owner learns to believe in herself, and in her friends, upon learning some grave news about the future.
Director: Zach Helm | Stars: Natalie Portman, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Bateman, Ted Ludzik
Votes: 47,692 | Gross: $32.06M
Really? It's called that?
2. Love Actually (2003)
R | 135 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England.
Director: Richard Curtis | Stars: Hugh Grant, Martine McCutcheon, Liam Neeson, Laura Linney
Votes: 531,721 | Gross: $59.70M
Horrible title, actually
3. Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992)
PG-13 | 87 min | Action, Comedy
A tough police sergeant's overbearing mother comes to visit him and begins to meddle in his life and career.
Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Estelle Getty, JoBeth Williams, Roger Rees
Votes: 44,777 | Gross: $28.41M
Too easy
4. Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn (1983)
PG | 84 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
On a desert planet, warlord Jared-Syn is trying to convince a tribe of mutants that he's their messiah and gain unlimited power hidden in a crystal. Ranger Dogen and explorer Dhyana, who's father was murdered by Syn, must stop him.
Director: Charles Band | Stars: Jeffrey Byron, Michael Preston, Tim Thomerson, Kelly Preston
Votes: 1,932 | Gross: $5.30M
What exactly is a metal storm?
5. Crossing Delancey (1988)
PG | 97 min | Comedy, Romance
A Manhattan single meets a man through her Jewish grandmother's matchmaker.
Director: Joan Micklin Silver | Stars: Amy Irving, Peter Riegert, Reizl Bozyk, Jeroen Krabbé
Votes: 4,977 | Gross: $16.26M
6. Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010)
PG | 97 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Soren, a young owl, is kidnapped by the evil owls of St Aegolious and want to turn him into a soldier. He escapes with some of his friends and warns the mythical guardians about the evil plan.
Director: Zack Snyder | Stars: Jim Sturgess, Hugo Weaving, David Wenham, Emily Barclay
Votes: 87,663 | Gross: $55.68M
7. Not Without My Daughter (1991)
PG-13 | 116 min | Drama, Thriller
An American woman trapped in Islamic Iran by her brutal husband must find a way for her and her daughter to escape.
Director: Brian Gilbert | Stars: Sally Field, Alfred Molina, Sheila Rosenthal, Roshan Seth
Votes: 14,681 | Gross: $14.79M
"Leaving Iran so soon?" "Not without my daughter!"
8. Major League: Back to the Minors (1998)
PG-13 | 100 min | Comedy, Sport
A lousy minor league baseball team full of many different personalities gets a new manager, an aging minor league pitcher.
Director: John Warren | Stars: Scott Bakula, Corbin Bernsen, Dennis Haysbert, Takaaki Ishibashi
Votes: 8,136 | Gross: $3.55M
9. The World According to Garp (1982)
R | 136 min | Comedy, Drama
A struggling young writer finds his life and work dominated by his unfaithful wife and his radical feminist mother, whose best-selling manifesto turns her into a cultural icon.
Director: George Roy Hill | Stars: Robin Williams, Mary Beth Hurt, Glenn Close, John Lithgow
Votes: 29,086 | Gross: $29.71M
10. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
M | 129 min | Drama
The lives of a disparate group of contestants intertwine in an inhumanely grueling dance marathon.
Director: Sydney Pollack | Stars: Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Susannah York, Gig Young
Votes: 20,872 | Gross: $12.60M
11. Scream Blacula Scream (1973)
PG | 96 min | Fantasy, Horror
The vampire Mamuwalde (a.k.a. Blacula) is resurrected by voodoo and forced to kill again.
Director: Bob Kelljan | Stars: William Marshall, Don Mitchell, Pam Grier, Michael Conrad
Votes: 3,060 | Gross: $2.18M
12. Chattanooga Choo Choo (1984)
PG | 102 min | Comedy
Unscrupulous football team owner Bert (George Kennedy) will get one million dollars tax-free if he lives up to the terms of his recently deceased father-in-law's will. He has to restore the... See full summary »
Director: Bruce Bilson | Stars: Barbara Eden, George Kennedy, Melissa Sue Anderson, Joe Namath
Votes: 380
13. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
G | 144 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
A down-on-his-luck inventor turns a broken-down Grand Prix car into a fancy vehicle for his children, and then they go off on a magical fantasy adventure to save their grandfather in a far-off land.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Lionel Jeffries, Benny Hill
Votes: 50,739 | Gross: $7.50M
14. The End of the Affair (1999)
R | 102 min | Drama, Romance
A desperate man tries to find out why his beloved left him years ago.
Director: Neil Jordan | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore, Stephen Rea, Heather-Jay Jones
Votes: 23,959 | Gross: $10.66M
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say this is probably about an affair that ended
15. The King's Speech (2010)
R | 118 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of King George VI, his unexpected ascension to the throne of the British Empire in 1936, and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch overcome his stammer.
Director: Tom Hooper | Stars: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Derek Jacobi
Votes: 708,194 | Gross: $138.80M
Guy 1-"Hey have you seen the King's Speech yet?"
Guy 2-"Isn't that the one about the King who has to give a speech?"
I know this is a great movie but God, what a stupidly simple title.
16. Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)
PG-13 | 132 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
A single mother, with dreams of becoming a writer, has a son at the age of 15 in 1965, and goes through a failed marriage with the drug-addicted father.
Director: Penny Marshall | Stars: Drew Barrymore, Steve Zahn, Adam Garcia, Brittany Murphy
Votes: 30,562 | Gross: $30.17M
17. Sharky's Machine (1981)
R | 122 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Tom Sharky is demoted to vice after a bust goes terribly wrong. He and his team stumble across a mob murder tied to prostitution and government.
Director: Burt Reynolds | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Rachel Ward, Vittorio Gassman, Brian Keith
Votes: 6,727 | Gross: $35.61M
Seen this twice and I have no idea what the machine is.
18. The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!? (1964)
Not Rated | 82 min | Horror
Jerry falls in love with a stripper he meets at a carnival. Little does he know that she is the sister of a gypsy fortune teller whose predictions he had scoffed at earlier. The gypsy turns him into a zombie and he goes on a killing spree.
Director: Ray Dennis Steckler | Stars: Ray Dennis Steckler, Brett O'Hara, Atlas King, Sharon Walsh
Votes: 5,305
No brainer.
19. Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)
PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy, Crime
When an affluent couple lose all their money following a series of blunders, they turn to a life of crime to make ends meet.
Director: Dean Parisot | Stars: Jim Carrey, Téa Leoni, Alec Baldwin, Richard Jenkins
Votes: 154,289 | Gross: $110.33M
20. Secondhand Lions (2003)
PG | 109 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Fourteen-year-old Walter Caldwell's irresponsible mother Mae sends him to live with his bachelor uncles, Hub and Garth, so that she can go on yet another husband-hunting trip.
Director: Tim McCanlies | Stars: Haley Joel Osment, Michael Caine, Robert Duvall, Kyra Sedgwick
Votes: 61,824 | Gross: $41.41M
21. Newsies (1992)
PG | 121 min | Drama, Family, History
A musical based on the New York City newsboy strike of 1899. When young newspaper sellers are exploited beyond reason by their bosses they set out to enact change and are met by the ruthlessness of big business.
Director: Kenny Ortega | Stars: Christian Bale, Bill Pullman, Robert Duvall, Ann-Margret
Votes: 22,582 | Gross: $2.82M
22. Rizzoli & Isles (2010–2016)
TV-14 | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Detective Jane Rizzoli and Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Maura Isles team up to solve crimes in Boston.
Stars: Angie Harmon, Sasha Alexander, Jordan Bridges, Bruce McGill
Votes: 38,082
I know it's a tv show but the title is so bad I had to put it on the list.
23. Freddy Got Fingered (2001)
R | 87 min | Comedy
An unemployed cartoonist moves back in with his parents and younger brother Freddy. When his parents demand he leave, he begins to spread rumors that his father is sexually abusing Freddy.
Director: Tom Green | Stars: Tom Green, Rip Torn, Marisa Coughlan, Eddie Kaye Thomas
Votes: 51,405 | Gross: $14.25M
24. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)
PG-13 | 116 min | Drama
After years of mother-daughter tension, Siddalee receives a scrapbook detailing the wild adventures of the "Ya-Yas", her mother's girlhood friends.
Director: Callie Khouri | Stars: Sandra Bullock, Ellen Burstyn, Fionnula Flanagan, James Garner
Votes: 20,961 | Gross: $69.60M
25. Nights in Rodanthe (2008)
PG-13 | 97 min | Drama, Romance
A doctor, who is travelling to see his estranged son, sparks with an unhappily married woman at a North Carolina inn.
Director: George C. Wolfe | Stars: Diane Lane, Richard Gere, Christopher Meloni, Viola Davis
Votes: 26,364 | Gross: $41.85M
26. Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)
PG-13 | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Frances Mayes, a 35-year-old San Francisco writer, gets a divorce that leaves her with terminal writer's block and depression. Later, she decides to buy a house in Tuscany in order to change her life.
Director: Audrey Wells | Stars: Diane Lane, Raoul Bova, Sandra Oh, Lindsay Duncan
Votes: 59,655 | Gross: $43.61M
27. Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001)
R | 131 min | Drama, Music, Romance
When a fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during World War II, his fiancée falls in love with the local Italian commander.
Director: John Madden | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Penélope Cruz, John Hurt, Christian Bale
Votes: 35,966 | Gross: $25.54M
And what a mandolin it was!
28. eXistenZ (1999)
R | 97 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Jude Law, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ian Holm, Willem Dafoe
Votes: 107,260 | Gross: $2.84M
29. Zardoz (1974)
R | 105 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
In the late 23rd century, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.
Director: John Boorman | Stars: Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling, Sara Kestelman, John Alderton
Votes: 24,572 | Gross: $0.07M
30. Megaforce (1982)
PG | 99 min | Action, Sci-Fi
Story about a rapid deployment defense unit that is called into action whenever freedom is threatened.
Director: Hal Needham | Stars: Barry Bostwick, Michael Beck, Persis Khambatta, Edward Mulhare
Votes: 4,299 | Gross: $5.68M
31. Chato's Land (1972)
PG | 100 min | Drama, Western
In 1870s New Mexico, a half-breed kills a bigoted sheriff in self-defense but the posse that eventually hunts him finds itself in dangerous territory.
Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Charles Bronson, Jack Palance, James Whitmore, Simon Oakland
Votes: 6,269 | Gross: $0.42M
32. Navajo Joe (1966)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Western
A Native American warrior seeks revenge on the gang of sadistic scalphunters-turned-bank robbers who massacred his tribe.
Director: Sergio Corbucci | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Aldo Sambrell, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Fernando Rey
Votes: 4,554
33. Nuns on the Run (1990)
PG-13 | 89 min | Comedy, Crime
2 criminals want out but their boss kills those leaving. When the men are ordered to rob the triad, they keep the money and hide from the boss, triad and police at a convent, dressed as nuns.
Director: Jonathan Lynn | Stars: Eric Idle, Robbie Coltrane, Camille Coduri, Janet Suzman
Votes: 8,980 | Gross: $10.96M
34. Nuts (1987)
R | 116 min | Drama, Thriller
A high-class call girl accused of murder fights for the right to stand trial rather than be declared mentally incompetent.
Director: Martin Ritt | Stars: Barbra Streisand, Richard Dreyfuss, Maureen Stapleton, Karl Malden
Votes: 7,597 | Gross: $30.95M
35. The Last Mimzy (2007)
PG | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Two siblings begin to develop special talents after they find a mysterious box of toys. Soon the kids, their parents, and even their teacher are drawn into a strange new world and find a task ahead of them that is far more important than any of them could imagine!
Director: Robert Shaye | Stars: Joely Richardson, Rainn Wilson, Timothy Hutton, Chris O'Neil
Votes: 22,227 | Gross: $21.47M
36. Billy the Kid Versus Dracula (1966)
Passed | 74 min | Action, Drama, Horror
Dracula travels to the American West intent on making a beautiful ranch owner his next victim. Her fiance', outlaw Billy the Kid, finds out about it and rushes to save her.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: John Carradine, Chuck Courtney, Melinda Casey, Virginia Christine
Votes: 2,258
37. My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988)
PG-13 | 105 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
A creature from another planet tries to seduce a shy Earth physicist to gain control over his researches. The result of this important mission much exceeded her expectations.
Director: Richard Benjamin | Stars: Dan Aykroyd, Kim Basinger, Jon Lovitz, Alyson Hannigan
Votes: 27,737 | Gross: $13.85M
38. Kuffs (1992)
PG-13 | 102 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
George Kuffs, 21, leaves a pregnant girlfriend. He visits his brother Brad to bum money off him. Brad's shot and George IDs the killer at SFPD but to no avail. He inherits Brad's patrol district. He keeps it to get the killer.
Director: Bruce A. Evans | Stars: Christian Slater, Milla Jovovich, Ric Roman Waugh, Steve Holladay
Votes: 11,527 | Gross: $21.14M
39. Russkies (1987)
PG | 99 min | Drama
A group of American boys and a shipwrecked Russian sailor become friends during the Cold War.
Director: Rick Rosenthal | Stars: Whip Hubley, Joaquin Phoenix, Peter Billingsley, Stefan DeSalle
Votes: 1,628 | Gross: $2.19M
40. MacShayne: The Final Roll of the Dice (1994 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
MacShayne is back, now he is the head of security at the hotel where he stayed in the previous movie. And he has his hands full. First he has to take care of the grandson of the hotel's CEO... See full summary »
Director: E.W. Swackhamer | Stars: Kenny Rogers, Maria Conchita Alonso, Wendy Phillips, Daniel Hugh Kelly
Votes: 105
41. Rockula (1990)
PG-13 | 91 min | Comedy, Horror, Musical
A young vampire cannot lose his virginity because of a curse imposed upon him centuries ago.
Director: Luca Bercovici | Stars: Dean Cameron, Toni Basil, Thomas Dolby, Tawny Fere' Ellis
Votes: 1,242
42. The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain (1995)
PG | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When an English cartographer must tell a Welsh village that their mountain is only a hill, the offended community sets out to change that.
Director: Christopher Monger | Stars: Hugh Grant, Tara Fitzgerald, Colm Meaney, Ian McNeice
Votes: 18,708 | Gross: $10.90M
Worst...Title...Ever
43. Dinocroc vs. Supergator (2010 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 87 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Created in the laboratories of a biotech corporation, two ravenous mega-reptiles level everything in their way. Now, three defenders must try to save the day. Who shall live and who shall die in the battle between Dinocroc and Supergator?
Director: Jim Wynorski | Stars: David Carradine, Rib Hillis, Amy Holt, John Callahan
Votes: 2,225
44. Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain (1995)
PG | 93 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A city girl teams up with a tomboy to solve the mystery of Bear Mountain, Molly Morgan, and the buried treasure as well as learn about true friendships.
Director: Kevin James Dobson | Stars: Christina Ricci, Anna Chlumsky, Polly Draper, Brian Kerwin
Votes: 4,977 | Gross: $6.03M
45. You've Got Mail (1998)
PG | 119 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Book superstore magnate Joe Fox and independent book shop owner Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet, both blissfully unaware that he's trying to put her out of business.
Director: Nora Ephron | Stars: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Greg Kinnear, Parker Posey
Votes: 229,799 | Gross: $115.82M
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