Making it big in Hollywood is a tricky business. Actors have to have the right combination of looks, talent and luck; directors have to have an aesthetic, authority and luck; producers have to have smarts, a budget and luck, the list goes on.
Luck also, apparently, factors into the naming of films themselves. Because looking at this list of more than 100 movie titles, it would appear that the screenwriter, greenlighter or whoever was in charge of picking the title that would go at the top of the movie poster looked at whatever written material was closest to them, jabbed their finger down, named the movie after the word closest and hoped for the best.
Yes, many of the most successful movies are totally ungoogleable. Did you mean “Michael” the movie, or your friend Mike? Looking for a history lesson about the Titanic, or Kate and Leo? “Her” or her? Don’t even get us started on the very dangerous search term “Sex Tape.” One-word, vague movie titles are inescapable (four of the top 10 all-time highest grossing movies have one-word titles), common first names are top picks for movie titles (“Jack”? Guess what the main character’s name is. Just guess.”) and everything, if you stare at it long enough, just starts to look like found poetry.
We’ve divided our 110 favorite ungoogleable movie titles into four categories — names, places, nouns and concepts/adjectives/pronouns — for ease of viewing so you can see just how dazzling the world can be.
Names
Possible names for your future offspring, or a lovely Friday night on the couch? You decide.
-”Sabrina”
-”Ray”
-”Frank”
-”Ted”
-”Babe”
-”Michael”
-”Selena”
-”Troy” (See also: places)
-”Annie”
-”Evita”
-”Jack”
-”Emma
Places
Spring break! Or…not.
-”Fargo”
-”Chinatown”
-”Nashville”
-”Troy”
-”Chicago”
-”Nebraska”
-”Brazil”
-”Oklahoma”
-”Philadelphia”
-”Manhattan”
Nouns
Let’s name our movie after a thing. Just…anything.
-”Sex Tape”
-”Hook”
-”Blow”
-”Hitch”
-”Mask”
-”Vacation”
-”Avatar”
-”Flipper”
-”Wizards”
-”Psycho”
-”Dodgeball”
-”Predator”
-”Traffic”
-”Hair”
-”Casino”
-”Poetry”
-”Stripes”
-”Meatballs”
-”Juice”
-”Blade”
-”Neighbors”
-”Millennium”
-”Beaches”
-”Network”
-”Grease”
-”Cube”
-”Hairspray”
-”Gremlins”
-”Stepmom”
-”Dogma”
-”Alien”
-”Aliens”
-”Predator”
-”Crash”
-”Shaft”
-”Shampoo”
-”Lifeboat”
-”Flight”
-”Bachelorette”
-”Cars”
-”Houseboat”
-”Halloween”
-”Airplane”
-”Maniac”
-”Heat”
-”Titanic”
-”May”
-”Magnolia”
-”Scream”
-”Vertigo”
-”Radio”
-”Frogs”
-”Twilight”
-”Mud”
-”Savages”
-”Ghost”
-”Contact”
-”Teeth”
-”Gravity”
-”Jaws”
-”Rent”
-”Powder”
-”Saw”
Concepts/Adjectives/Pronouns
I like the way this words sounds. Great. Done. Movie done.
-”Her”
-”Up”
-”Misery”
-”Always”
-”Rush”
-”Wild”
-”Giant”
-”Armageddon”
-”Frozen”
-”Tangled”
-”Taken”
-”Suspicion”
-”Enough”
-”Splash”
-”Sideways”
-”Help”
-”If…”
-”Unbroken”
-”Happiness”
-”Brave”
-”Speed”
-”Go”
-”Alive”
-”Big”
-”Seven”
Got a movie title that’s impossible to Google? Let us know in the comments below!
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