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Movie Titles by Synonyms #3

Guess these movie titles, where most of the words have been replaced by synonyms.
Not all synonyms are exact
Quiz by Quizmaster
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Last updated: September 6, 2018
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First submittedAugust 1, 2015
Times taken45,655
Average score60.0%
Rating4.12
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Synonyms
Movie Title
The Swift and the Livid
The Fast and the Furious
The Starvation Contests
The Hunger Games
A Trolley Called Lust
A Streetcar Named Desire
Adolescent Freakish Assassin
Tortoises
Teenage Mutant Ninja
Turtles
Unmarried Caucasian Woman
Single White Female
Apparition Apprehenders
Ghostbusters
The Lupine of Barrier Avenue
The Wolf of Wall Street
A Few Appreciate it Warm
Some Like it Hot
We Purchased a Menagerie
We Bought a Zoo
Terrible Supervisors
Horrible Bosses
Synonyms
Movie Title
The Fuchsia Jaguar
The Pink Panther
Near Meetings
of the Tertiary Type
Close Encounters of
the Third Kind
Dame and the Hobo
Lady and the Tramp
The Emerald Kilometer
The Green Mile
Tomb of the Lightning Bugs
Grave of the Fireflies
The Au Pair Journals
The Nanny Diaries
Ebony Cygnet
Black Swan
Theodore
Ted
Bullion Digit
Goldfinger
Indianans
Hoosiers
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Level 71
Dec 5, 2015
I really enjoyed this. It was taxing enough to be a fun challenge, but not tooooo difficult. Thank you for your work in creating it. You did a good job as I had never heard of the movie 'Grave of the Fireflies' but managed to guess it from your clue.
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Level 82
Mar 10, 2016
worth seeing
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Level 92
Mar 10, 2016
Felt the same way with the supervisors clue. Took me a few tries to get the right descriptive synonym, but not too hard.
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Level 74
Mar 10, 2016
damn you - crypt of the thunderflies was what I tried
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Level 65
Sep 14, 2019
cave of the glowworms here ;P
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Level 67
Sep 13, 2018
It's the only non-American film on the list.
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Level 56
Sep 13, 2018
Oh lord where's my violin
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Level 82
Sep 14, 2018
And is, predictably, the least guessed answer since American movies are by far the most popular and widely seen around the world.
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Level 36
Sep 14, 2018
It’s absolutely fantastic. Very sad. Studio Ghibli I believe
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Level 58
Sep 22, 2021
It's the best film I never want to see again.

Expect to be devastated.

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Level 73
Mar 10, 2016
Fun quiz !

I went completely wrong on some of these at first :

Swift and the livid => Quick and the dead

Fuschia Jaguar => Pink Cadillac ^^

Not complaining, just commenting :)

It's nice to be able to guess your way through some of the ones you don't know

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Level 74
Sep 13, 2018
I got stuck on babysitters club
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Level 62
Mar 10, 2016
Surely it should be the Emerald 1.61 Kilometers?
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Level 51
Feb 6, 2018
I agree, kilometre is not a synonym of a mile.
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Level 56
Jun 5, 2018
But you got the answer right, didn't you? Kinda the point.
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Level 88
Apr 10, 2019
And warm isn't a perfect synonym for hot, but a synonym for serious is r/whoooosh.
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Level 80
Apr 23, 2023
5280 Emerald Feet
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Level 75
Mar 10, 2016
I've never heard of many of these movies, but I was able to score 100% just from the clues. Thank you.
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Level 56
Mar 14, 2016
Massive props for including Grave of the Fireflies! A very important animated film.
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Level 56
Sep 13, 2018
I came to the comments section to say this very same thing. Imagine my surprise that I had already said it two years ago! Hi, past me!
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Level 75
Nov 15, 2020
Nearly time for PrinceEric to swing by again...
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Level 80
Apr 23, 2023
He's late.
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Level 58
Feb 7, 2017
Well, I know I typed Nanny Diaries and it didn't take it. Did I need "The" as well?
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Level 52
Jun 7, 2018
I couldn't get "The Quick and the Dead" out of my head for the 1st clue, even though I knew it didn't fit. Once I saw the answer I was glad I didn't get it. I believe the "Fastchise" to be an American catastrophe, slightly above that city in Ohio or its river that catches fire.
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Level 69
Jun 13, 2018
I got stuck thinking Soup Number for Bullion Digit.

SMH... shook it off in time, though.

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Level 71
Sep 22, 2021
The theme song works with this title too; don't know about the rhymes though.
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Level 69
Sep 13, 2018
Can someone explain the Hoosiers clue to me :)
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Level 82
Sep 13, 2018
Hoosiers is a nickname for people from Indiana. The film is about a small town Indiana basketball team that, against the odds, goes to the championship game and beats a bigger city team.
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Level 72
Sep 9, 2023
@Anzi you beat me to it. Cheers @Kal, I assumed it was something like that.
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Level 75
Sep 13, 2018
Maybe obscure but Lair of the white worm sprang to mind. Dreadful film though.
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Level 66
Sep 13, 2018
As others have said, kilometer is not a synonym for mile. A kilometer is a good 2,000 feet shorter than a mile.
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Level 75
Nov 15, 2020
I'll call the police. Stay where you are if you're safe.
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Level 64
Sep 13, 2018
The mere mention of Grave of the Fireflies is enough to get me watery eyed. Good quiz, Quizmaster. But I hate you now.
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Level 76
Sep 13, 2018
Someone doesn't know what a synonym is.
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Level 68
Sep 13, 2018
Really fun quiz. Thanks. Got most, but not Indianans. I figured it was a name that Americans called people from Indiana, but who knows what that is when you live in NZ?! Now I know :-)
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Level 75
Nov 15, 2020
After reading a good few comment sections on this site, I've got a slight inkling that kiwiquizzer might be from New Zealand. I'm still gathering evidence, but that's what my preliminary findings suggest.
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Level 66
Sep 24, 2023
This comment feels kinda mean :/
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Level 43
Sep 13, 2018
I always give my friends these quizzes at lunch and you should have seen their reaction at “Grave of the Fireflies” lmao
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Level 31
Sep 16, 2018
Can a kilometre be classed as a synonym for a mile?
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Level 65
Sep 14, 2019
I tried cave of the glowworms :D sounds like a great movie hehe
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Level 71
Dec 13, 2019
took me a while to figure out why GoldMember was not working. I got there eventually. Very fun quiz, thank you for making it!
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Level 71
Sep 22, 2021
Gloves would look rather different if that was the case
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Level 67
Apr 3, 2020
Got Grave of the Fireflies just from guessing, never heard of it
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Level 59
Feb 4, 2021
Never heard of Grave of the Fireflies but was able to guess it based on the description. Got all the rest. Good quiz!!
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Level 58
Sep 22, 2021
It's a fantastic anime, but also the saddest film I ever viewed. People often mention Schindler's List or Titanic when it comes to sad movies but they look rather bright in comparison...
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Level 67
Aug 22, 2021
STELLA!!!
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Level 82
Sep 22, 2021
I want a badly-drawn version of the Streetcar Named Desire poster but with the title as "A Trolley Called Lust" is comic sans font on it
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Level 84
Sep 22, 2021
How did so many people know what "au pair" means? And how did so relatively fewer people get Grave of the Fireflies? Like everyone else, I had never heard of it, but it was the obvious answer based on the synonyms. I thought "au pair" meant that my order came with gravy.
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Level 26
Sep 28, 2021
I put grave of fireflies but it did not count however I simply wrote streetcar and it was immediately accepted. I understand Grave of Fireflies isn't the exact title but could you please accept it?
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Level 56
Jun 21, 2022
panthers aren't always jaguars
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Level 76
May 27, 2023
Maybe say "The Emerald Kilometer (or at least 6/10ths of it)", or something along those lines. Those two words are hardly synonyms...loved "Near Meetings of the Tertiary Type"