Films (Movies) With Body Parts In Their Titles

Alec Guinness plays nine characters in this Ealing Studios comedy. He murders all his posh relations to get his hands on the dukedom he believes is rightfully his.

1949

Paul Newman is a convict who won't bow to the system. There is a comedic scene about an egg-eating bet.

1967

You're gonna need a bigger boat.

1975

Steve Martin plays Dr Hfuhruhrr in this silly film, in which he can communicate with cerebellums in jars.

1983

Our archaeologist hero Indy must rescue a sacred stone from an Indian cult (necessitating a wild ride through a mine).

1984

How do you get 1.21 Gigawatts of power for your car without any plutonium?

1985

Ricki Lake (daughter of Divine) wins a spot to dance on a 1960s music show, and champions racial equality, in John Waters' amusing film.

1988

Christy Brown is born into a working class Irish family. He has severe cerebral palsy but learns to write and paint without using his hands.

1989

John Travolta (FBI agent) and Nicolas Cage (Criminal mastermind) swap features on the operating table.

1997

Ray Winstone is the dysfunctional head of a dysfunctional family in this film by Gary Oldman. The title is what you might find written over your bed if you're going for an operation.

1997

Wikipedia calls Stanley Kubrick's final film "an erotic mystery psychological drama". It stars Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise, who were married at the time.

1999

Daniel Day Lewis is an oil magnate in the 1890s. He's not very nice and he doesn't get any nicer.

2007