Films (Movies) with Animals in their Titles

Charlton Heston thumps a beach: "You maniacs! You finally, really did it! You blew it up! Damn you!" (spoiler: we're still on Earth).

1968

Edward Fox is hired as an assassin to kill the French President in this adaptation of Frederick Forsyth's novel.

1973

Al Pacino decides to rob a bank so he can pay for his partner's sex change operation. "Attica! Attica!"

1975

During the Vietnam war, Robert De Niro is forced to play Russian roulette with his soldier pals. This is understandably quite traumatic.

1978

David Lynch's drama follows the life of a kind and intelligent man disfigured by a disease in Victorian London.

1980

High school student Michael J Fox discovers he can transform into an animal (and win basketball games).

1985

David Cronenberg's film shows that you should always check your teleporter for insect pests before stepping inside.

1986

A stuttering Michael Palin steals some diamonds. He is forced to reveal their location when a double-crossing member of the gang threatens to eat his favourite aquatic pet.

1988

Sigourney Weaver tells the story of primate researcher Dian Fossey in Rwanda.

1988

FBI agent Jodie Foster visits Anthony Hopkins in a high-security psychiatric hospital, hoping to solve a serial killer case.

1991

In this acclaimed Belgian black comedy, a filmcrew following a serial killer find themselves increasingly caught up his crazy world, eventually assisting in his murders.

1992

Bill Murray is a miserable weatherman who eventually realises it's better to be kind - but only after being trapped in a time loop re-living the same day over and over again.

1993

An SAS unit are sent on a mission to the Scottish Highlands, and find themselves desperately battling some werewolves.

2002

A large number of venomous legless reptiles are released to kill a witness on a passenger flight.

2006

A suave animated animal (voiced by George Clooney) outwits three stupid farmer neighbours and steals their chickens for his family and friends.

2009