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Movie Posters by Description

Name the movie, based on a description of its poster.
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Last updated: September 16, 2018
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First submittedDecember 25, 2013
Times taken42,908
Average score61.1%
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Description
Movie
An alien finger reaching out to touch a human finger, creating a spark of light
E.T.
Silhouette of a T-Rex skeleton
Jurassic Park
Man wearing a fedora and swinging a whip
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Young man stepping out of a car with gull-wing doors. He looks at his
watch in amazement
Back to the Future
A woman holding a rose next to her bare navel
American Beauty
Five men in a police lineup
The Usual Suspects
Giant flying saucer shooting a beam of light at the top of the Empire State Building
Independence Day
A woman's face, but her mouth has been replaced by a moth
The Silence of the
Lambs
Massive shark swimming towards a naked woman
Jaws
Woman in a yellow body suit and holding a samurai sword
Kill Bill: Vol 1
Crazed-looking man chopping a door with an ax while a horrified woman screams
The Shining
Man kneeling before the ruins of the Statue of Liberty
The Planet of the Apes
In the foreground, a woman's leg as she puts on panty hose. In the background,
a young man looking on
The Graduate
A man and a woman stand back to back. She is wearing thigh-high boots,
and grabbing his tie over their shoulders
Pretty Woman
Lithe, elegantly-dressed woman with a very long cigarette holder in her mouth
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Man sitting on a park bench. He has a crew cut, wears a suit, and
has a small suitcase
Forrest Gump
Hand making a peace sign. Attached to it are women's legs,
and a military helmet hangs from the index finger.
M*A*S*H
Man holding a polaroid of a woman holding a polaroid of the man ...
Memento
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Level 10
Mar 18, 2014
fun quiz
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Level 81
Mar 18, 2014
nice one
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Level 72
Mar 18, 2014
Good one.
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Level 78
Mar 18, 2014
How stupid were they to spoil the whole movie with the Planet of the Apes poster?!
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Level 58
Mar 18, 2014
The original poster doesn't look like the description above. It's a drawing of humans in a big cage with an image of Dr. Zaius on an inset. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063442/
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Level 78
Mar 18, 2014
Alright but there are still people who haven't seen the film. There is a tendency nowadays to casually reveal plot twists of older movies becuase they're so famous - but there'll always be new generations. They should be able to have a 'virginal' movie experience. I guess Psycho would've been a lot more thrilling for me hadn't the world been full of spoilers about this one damn scene.
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Level 92
Aug 10, 2021
I think there's got to be a statute of limitations for movie spoilers, and it probably isn't longer than a year. At some point, you just have to get used to the fact that things will be in the common consciousness, and referred to, even if you haven't yet seen the movies.
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Level 65
Oct 2, 2016
Chinese title of 'The Sixth Sense' is 'He's a Ghost'.
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Level 56
Oct 3, 2016
No, it's 第六感, which means "Sixth Sense." lol I wish it were that much of a spoiler, though! That would be hilarious.
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Level 82
Mar 18, 2014
Got all but the last two. Have definitely seen the MASH poster but couldn't remember which movie it was for. Memento was a great film but I don't think I ever saw the poster for it. Didn't catch that one until it came out on DVD.
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Level 91
Mar 18, 2014
Great quiz concept! It was a lot of fun :)
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Level 59
Mar 18, 2014
Loved the fact that Memento was included in this quiz, just rewatched it the other day, forgot how great it was!
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Level 84
Sep 8, 2019
Ha :)
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Level 62
Mar 20, 2014
Am I the only one who gets giddy when you realize you're going to get them all?
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Level 67
Mar 20, 2014
Wasn't the flying saucer over the White House and NOT the Empire State Building? I thought of Independence Day, but did not try it, because I was sure it was incorrect.
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Level ∞
Mar 21, 2014
That's how I remember it too! But eyewitness accounts are notoriously inaccurate. Instead of relying on my faulty memory, I used the internet. (Which, as we all know, is never wrong).
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Level 37
Jun 15, 2014
I recall movie posters having the Empire State, I know the DVD has the white house tho
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Level 65
Jan 8, 2015
There was a poster for both. Here's the empire state one: https://www.movieposter.com/poster/A70-13387/Independence_Day.html. And you can buy it for only $60!
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Level 76
Apr 18, 2020
LadyScroop's link is dead now, so here's the Empire State Building poster on Wikipedia.
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Level 83
May 4, 2014
Awesome quiz! I figured I'd be lucky to get 2 or 3 from the title, not the kind of thing that usually sticks in my head... or so I thought. I got 15, and had a lot of fun! Thanks.
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Level 84
Oct 3, 2014
Great quiz! Doesn't seem like movie posters have the same cache as they once did, but definitely some memorable ones when they are done right! Could do a series on these.
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Level 77
Oct 2, 2016
Shouldn't "id4" be accepted for independence day? Google still gives the movie as a first answer to "id4". It was marketed under that abbreviation.
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Level 82
Oct 2, 2016
YES! I always try ID4 before typing out the longer name. And am always disappointed.
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Level 82
Mar 6, 2019
and it's finally an acceptable type-in. Yay!
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Level 60
Oct 6, 2016
Pleasantly surprised to get any of these. I can barely remember any current film posters but these are iconic.
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Level 74
Oct 7, 2016
surprisingly great quiz. (great clues)
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Level 56
Dec 8, 2017
Wow. Did very well. But that says less about me and more about the effective marketing of the industry.
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Level 56
Dec 8, 2017
Did the Planet of the Apes really put that spoiler on their poster?
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Level 76
May 10, 2023
No, it didn't. At least, not for the actual theatrical release. This comes from years or even decades later, long after the ending became common knowledge. Most likely it's actually describing the home video/DVD cover, or just a poster sold in stores.
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Level 72
Feb 28, 2018
When, oh when is Jet Punk gonna accept BTTF for Back to the future? So much time gone to waste typing those extra letters... (And writing this comment.)
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Level 94
Nov 23, 2018
BTTF worked for me... Admittedly it is not universally accepted on each quiz Back to the Future is an answer but on this one it is.
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Level 72
Aug 10, 2021
Seem it was added as a type-in in between our comments! And on most other quizzes as well. It makes me very happy!
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Level 65
Nov 23, 2018
great idea
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Level 85
Nov 23, 2018
He's not holding the Polaroid.
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Level 43
Nov 25, 2018
Good quiz. Got all except M*A*S*H
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Level 67
Nov 27, 2018
The B2TF poster is quite hilarious really. Does Marty's watch somehow tell him the year that he has travelled to? And he's shocked to see this, rather than the actual 1950's around him?

Or is he just amazed that it's 1:45pm?

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Level 65
Mar 6, 2019
I can't believe how many people got the M*A*S*H answer incorrect.
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Level 76
Mar 6, 2019
Obviously not the most memorable film. Most people will probably remember the TV series, but not all of them know that it was preceded by a feature movie. Kinda similar to "The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams".
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Level 67
Aug 10, 2021
The ‘Planet of the Apes’ description is not of the original poster since it is describing a major spoiler at the end of the movie.

The original poster showed clothed apes handling and caging humans.

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Level 66
Aug 10, 2021
Ah Memento, back when Nolan could be bothered to have named characters. Great movie.
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Level 82
Aug 10, 2021
I haven't plugged one of my own quizzes in ages, but this one took a lot of work, and I just updated it today, seems to fit here, so here you go:

Top Grossing Films by Genre

Enjoy

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Level 64
Aug 10, 2021
Very good idea!

Thanks!

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Level 76
Oct 13, 2022
So close to clicking 5 stars...and then there was Pretty Woman.