Name As Many Movies As Possible And We'll Guess Your Top 3 Favorites

Movies are the most popular form of entertainment in the world today. After a century of cinematic history, we as a global society have more or less perfected this art form, creating some of the best storytelling techniques, acting styles, and special effects imaginable. What Hollywood can pull off now used to exist only in the realm of pure imagination, and so audiences the world over laugh, cry, and cheer with delight as films captivate us.

What films we like say a lot about who we are. Some people prefer action films, others like romance or dramas. Of course, a great film remains great regardless of the conventions of genre. So this quiz is working with some of the best of modern cinema’s achievements. Anyone who can identify all these films correctly will show themselves to be a true cinephile, a love of all films in a wide-ranging variety of these. But knowing everything isn’t necessarily the point. The wrong answers are just as important as the right ones in figuring out one’s tastes and movie watching habits.

Name as many of the movies on this quiz as possible and we'll then try and guess everyone top 3 favorites! Ready?

Question 1

This Disney film from the 90s featured a lion’s pride.

In the 90s, Disney began to make a revival, returning from a long spell of failures with a series of innovative films with beautiful art and amazing scores. This movie was inspired by the story of Hamlet, but it actually told the story of a pride of lions. It also has striking similarities to a popular manga, Kimba the White Lion. Name this movie.

Question 2

Which superhero movie had Heath Ledger as The Joker?

When this superhero film came out in 2008, there was only one Marvel film in existence, and the Marvel phenomenon had not yet entered the public consciousness. This was just another superhero summer movie, the usual action Blockbuster audiences have become used to. Then audiences went to the theaters to see it—and were blown away by Heath Ledger’s performance. Which movie featured his final masterful role?

Question 3

Which suspenseful movie about a clown is based on a Stephen King book?

When this movie came out in 2017, people would not stop discussing the way its villain—a shapeshifting interdimensional clown—instilled dread in its cast of child stars. A period piece, the movie was set in the 1980s, before kids could call for help on a cell phone when things got bad. What is this movie about a ravenous clown?

Question 4

This fantasy film started a legendary trilogy about Hobbits.

Few movies have affected audiences quite like this masterpiece of cinema—the first in a trilogy of films based on the classic high fantasy book series by author JRR Tolkien. The action scenes in which brave heroes battle monstrous orcs or face off against the Black Riders gave this film its Hollywood feel, but its message—about hope and goodness triumphing over the greatest adversity—resonates as true on a deeper level.

Question 5

Name the Pixar film where toys face their end.

Toys are the items which children play with, but in this movie, they have lives of their own. However, because Pixar made this, and Pixar makes everything deeper and more nuanced than is expected, this movie deals with toys contemplating the nihilistic end of their usefulness to the boy they love—and an even more final ending. Name this Pixar movie.

Question 6

In which Star Wars film did audiences first meet the First Order?

Star Wars has been one of the most influential movie series of all time. It might be considered the first ongoing movie series in which an expanded universe openly welcomed its fandom. the series grew and changed with each installment. The prequel movies began in 1999, and then the sequels began in 2015 in this trilogy of trilogies. Which Star Wars film introduced the First Order?

Question 7

Choose the Afro-futurist Marvel superhero film from the list below.

When this sci-fi superhero action film hit theaters in February of this year, audiences flooded theaters to see it. Set in the fictional nation of Wakanda, this movie tapped into the sci-fi genre known as Afro-futurism, using bead-based communications tech and high-tech fighting implements inspired by traditional tribal warfare. Choose the name of this movie from those listed below.

Question 8

In which cyberpunk classic did “the One” awaken to fight machines?

Every so often, a movie comes along that changes everything. This classic cyberpunk thriller did just that when it was released in 1999. Created by the Wachowskis, this film took inspiration from such eclectic sources as Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman, Grant Morrison’s The Invisibles, classic cyberpunk anime, and the philosophers Slavoj Zizek and Plato. Name this sci-fi masterpiece.

Question 9

Name the comedy that features women preparing for a wedding.

In this comedy film from 2011, the main character is Annie Walker (played by Kristen Wiig) who is about to be part of her best friend’s wedding. The lead up to the wedding is full of drama, petty arguments, more drama, and melodrama. Still, love and friendship shine through it all. Name this movie.

Question 10

Which sci-fi film is about planting ideas in people’s dreams?

This movie from director Christopher Nolan stars Leonardo DiCaprio. DiCaprio is a thief, specializing in stealing secrets from people’s subconscious as he infiltrates their dreams. The film has some stunning parallels to The Matrix and was a powerful philosophical exploration of the nature of consciousness, reality, and memory. Which sci-fi movie was about heists in people’s dreams?

Question 11

This Disney film is a modern telling of the “Rapunzel” fairytale.

Disney has done a lot of work to make classic fairytales their own. Some of these adaptations have been with fairly obscure fairytales. Not so with the tale of Rapunzel. The fame of this character does not mean that the film was unoriginal though, and this movie combed through old tropes as it created something new.

Question 12

Which movie is about racing across post-apocalyptic Australia?

In this post-apocalyptic future, life is no longer precious. Two things are: water and the fuel to race high speed cars across the desert. This 2015 movie was basically a two-hour car chase. But car chases seldom have ever been so uniquely orchestrated, with spear acrobatics, fire guitars, and motorcycle jousting featured in the film.

Question 13

This Marvel team superhero movie brought the MCU together.

This is the movie that brought the Marvel Cinematic Universe together. Before this, there has been individual movies for Iron Man, the Hulk, Captain America, and Thor. This was the first team film to bring such disparate characters from their own films together in one epic tale as they assembled to beat back an alien invasion.

Question 14

Which western movie features a former slave trying to free his wife?

This western revenge movie from director Quentin Tarantino stars Jamie Foxx as a freedman who is recruited by a bounty hunter to help bring in a target, only to then be recruited by said bounty hunter as a partner. The two then engage in a quest to help free the wife of Foxx’s character. Name this film.

Question 15

Select the Disney movie inspired by Polynesian culture.

One of Disney’s most recent movies, this tells the story of a Polynesian girl who has power over the tides. She sets out from home to find the divine figure Maui, and together they heal a wounded land spirit, Te Ka, who had been turned into a raging out of control volcano.

Question 16

The Daywalker fights vampires in this 90s action movie.

Wesley Snipes was the star of this comic book movie about a vampire hunter whose mother was bitten while pregnant with him, and who has all the powers of the vamps but none of their weaknesses. The movie is very much a product of its time with uber dark goth styles, over the top choreography in its fights, and 90s club scenes, but it is a classic. Shine some light on the name of this movie about the Daywalker.

Question 17

Astronauts leave the solar system to save Earth in this film.

When this space movie from director Christopher Nolan came out in 2014, it explored scientific concepts normally reserved for science (fiction?) books which Hollywood chose to ignore. The theoretical physicist Kip Thorne was one of the film’s executive producers, lending it scientific accuracy. The film deals with wormholes, the gravitational effects on regional space-time, and tesseracts, among other concepts.

Question 18

In this suspenseful movie, a man visits his girlfriend’s perilous family.

Key and Peele got their names out in the world as a comedy duo. Jordan Peele followed this up by stepping away from comedy to make a truly harrowing movie which he wrote and directed in which a young man visits his girlfriend’s family. The family is less enlightened, and more predatory, than they at first present themselves.

Question 19

This is a live action adaptation of a classic sci-fi anime.

This movie is a live action remake of a Japanese anime classic. Starring Scarlett Johansson as the Major, the film was steeped in controversy before it came out due to the choice to cast Johansson rather than a Japanese actress. That said, the film was a wonderful adaptation of the original cyberpunk classic.

Question 20

Leonardo DiCaprio got the Oscar for Best Actor for this Western.

This intense Western film tells the story of the trapper and woodsman Hugh Glass, who is attacked by a bear while leading his fellow trappers through the wilds to escape a war party of the Native Arikara tribe. After his son is taken from him, Glass goes on a quest for vengeance. This intense film won DiCaprio the Academy Award for Best Actor—something the actor had been working years for.

Question 21

Name the movie about making the world’s biggest social media site.

This movie was written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by David Fincher, telling the story of how the world’s most popular social network was created by a young arrogant genius while attending Harvard. Throughout the film, the protagonist, played by Jesse Eisenberg, is constantly losing and trying to save face. Name this film.

Question 22

A snow witch learns to let go in this kids’ film.

When this movie came out, it was the coolest thing around. Everyone was singing its song, or signing comedy covers of its main song, or having karaoke sessions of its main song. By the end of the hype, it was time to let it go. What is this film about a snow witch?

Question 23

Which movie was a biopic of the musical group NWA?

NWA was a rap group that rose to prominence in the 90s, composed of the legendary performers Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, MC Ren, and DJ Yella. This movie tells the events of their rise to fame, and how they got caught up in the East-West rivalry, the activities of the notorious Suge Knight, and the group’s relationships with artists like Snoop Dogg and Tupac Shakur. What movie portrays the

Question 24

What Boston movie had characters infiltrating the mob and the police?

This 2006 film from director Martin Scorsese won the Academy Award for Best Film. Starring Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio, DiCaprio plays a mobster who has infiltrated the police, while Damon plays a cop who is recruited right out of the Police Academy to infiltrate Boston’s Irish Mob. What Boston crime movie are we talking about?

Question 25

This romantic story tells of love between a woman and fish.

Guillermo del Toro has a long history of exploring the macabre elements of fairytales, and treating them with a respect that is seldom seen from others in Hollywood. His most recent hit film won the Academy Award for Best Film, telling a story about love between a human woman and amphibian humanoid.

Question 26

What was Daniel Craig’s first Bond film?

Daniel Craig has been the most recent of a series of actors to play the character of James Bond, the MI6 secret agent codenamed 007. Daniel Craig started in this role when he first appeared in a Bond origin film in 2006, based on author Ian Fleming’s first Bond novel. The film was at once a deconstruction of the character and a standalone intense spy drama or intrigue, international plots, baccarat, and parkour.

Question 27

This Pixar movie’s sad opening left only one direction to go.

This movie is about an old man who fills a bunch of balloons with helium and turns his house into a flying machine, going on a vacation at the end of his life after years of wanting to do so. But the most famous part of the show is its opening fifteen minute sequence, a tragic tale of love and loss.

Question 28

P.T. Barnum’s a singing success in this touching musical.

In real life, P.T. Barnum was not the sort of person who should be considered good or compassionate or even remotely decent. However, audiences would never know this if they saw this spectacular musical starring Hugh Jackman as Barnum. Over the course of the film, he gathers people to him and creates the famous Barnum & Bailey Circus. What 2017 movie was about P.T. Barnum?

Question 29

What movie tells the true story of a free man enslaved?

This movie is based on memoir of Solomon Northup, a free man born in New York who was carried off in Washington, DC and sold into slavery. The movie won Best Picture at the Academy Awards. Actor Chiwetel Ejiofor played Solomon Northup in this harrowing film based on true historical events.

Question 30

This Pixar movie is about how people feel inside.

This 2015 3D-animated movie from Pixar tells the story of feelings. Literally. The characters Joy, Sadness, and Anger are literal manifestations of the emotions they symbolically represent as they live inside the head of a girl named Riley Anderson. Multiple psychologists were consulted on the film to give it a psychological realism.

Question 31

In which comedy was a fashion model turned into an assassin?

This comedy starring Ben Stiller came out in 2001. In the movie, Stiller plays a legendary fashion model who has spent years perfecting his iconic facial expression, “Magnum.” He is arrogant, vain, and has the intelligence of the average generic hair product. He is also brainwashed to become an assassin.

Question 32

The story of a dinosaur amusement park. Need we say more?

Dinosaurs. People either love them, or they’re wrong. These massive real world dragons went extinct millions of years ago, but in this film from director Steven Spielberg that is based on a book by author Michael Crichton, an amusement park is about to be opened in which genetic science has brought these creatures back to life. Then the power goes out and the T-Rex reminds the park’s visitors what a Jurassic apex predator can do.

Question 33

What award-winning movie about a boy was filmed 2002-2013?

This movie about coming of age was filmed over more than a decade, starring childhood actor Ellar Coltrane as Mason Evans Jr. The film came out in 2014, getting nominated for six Academy Awards and winning won, while also being praised with a heap of other accolades as it told the story of a young boy growing up, and the heartbreak that can bring.

Question 34

What movie features an astronaut trying to get home from Mars?

In this 2015 sci-fi movie by director Ridley Scott, Matt Damon stars as the astronaut Mark Watney who ends up getting stranded on Mars and having to survive for more than a year on the planet while stranded on his own. This maybe the funniest movie ever made about a person dealing with the crippling depression of loneliness as they struggle to survive the vastness of space.

Question 35

What comedy is about a London cop transferred to a country town?

One of the three comedy films by Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg known as the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, this movie is a buddy cop comedy. Pegg plays Sergeant Nick Angel, a super cop who takes his job too seriously and so gets transferred to a rural town in West Country, where he befriends the movie-obsessed cop Danny Butterman.

Question 36

In this movie, we learn the origins of the Purge?

The Purge has become a modern hit among moviegoers, a suspenseful film phenomenon that reflects our very human worries about society and our insecure role in it, about how people turn on one another, and how we are alienated and preyed upon by a system that does not care about our wellbeing but will victimize us to maintain the appearance that all is fine. This story tells the origins of the Purge.

Question 37

This 2018 movie has an ensemble of women pulling a heist.

A sequel and spin-off of Ocean's Eleven (and its sequels Ocean's Twelve and Oceans Thirteen), this heist movie stars Sandra Bullock and broke ground with an all-female cast. The movie received mixed reviews, but with Anne Hathaway, Cate Blanchett, Mindy Kaling, Rihanna, Awkwafina, and Helena Bonham Carter joining Bullock, none could question the sheer amount of talent brought to the big screen.

Question 38

Which sci-fi movie explores linguistics and first contact?

This sci-fi movie about first contact came out in 2016 and stars Amy Adams as a linguist sent to establish a way of communicating with a pair of aliens who have landed on Earth—the pair being among those from twelve different pods sent to Earth. The movie looks at language which does not have a linear pattern, and how said language affects perceptions of time as a simultaneous phenomenon.

Question 39

The Enigma Machine—the first computer—is invented in this WWII movie.

Starring Benedict Cumberbatch in the role of the historical computer scientist and code breaker Alan Turing, this movie shows how Turing invented his computer—the Enigma machine—which he used to decrypt German coded messages. The film ends not with Turing’s successes—though he was successful—but with the tragedy of how his country mistreated him.

Question 40

Name the suspenseful movie about five teens in a cabin.

Joss Whedon is the mastermind behind Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, and The Avengers. In this movie, he examines the nature of suspenseful movies, their tropes and stock characters, delivering a genuinely anxiety-inspiring tale of tends staying in a forest cabin when they are set upon by a family of zombie hillbillies. The movie is as funny as it is intense.

Question 41

What action movie is about an ex-mobster avenging his dog?

This neo-noir action film was a highly stylized tale of vengeance and intense martial arts in which Keanu Reeves reminded the world he knows how to throw down. In the movie, monsters make the mistake of putting down the dog belonging to Keanu’s titular character. It is then revealed he was the mob’s greatest hitman, and he puts his talents to use against them.

Question 42

Which Disney movie stars a rabbit as a beat cop?

Children’s movies have a unique ability to tackle big issues in unique ways. This Disney movie examines themes of systemic injustice, police profiling, and other topics through the metaphor of sentient animals who cohabitate a city together. Its protagonist is a rabbit who becomes a cop and uncovers a massive conspiracy.

Question 43

What cyberpunk movie is a virtual reality love letter to the 80s?

This movie from director Steven Spielberg was an adaptation from Ernest Cline’s debut novel. It tells the story of Wade Watts, known online as Parzival, a boy growing up in the impoverished multi-story trailer parks of “the Stacks,” and spending his days in the virtual world of “the OASIS.” A cyberpunk tale of virtual reality and corporate greed, this movie’s main focus is 80s pop culture, with references to Akira, Voltron, Pac-Man, and Spielberg’s Jurassic Park.

Question 44

Name the fairytale film about the Spanish Civil War.

The Spanish Civil War was a time of inhumane deeds and inhumane ideologies, both of which are part of the focus of this fairytale from director Guillermo del Toro about a little girl, Ofelia, who is living between two worlds—one world of otherworldly monsters like the metaphorical Pale Man and a giant all-consuming frog—and the other world of literal monsters like her Franco-supporting stepfather, Captain Vidal.

Question 45

A guitarist battles his girlfriend’s seven exes in this movie.

Who wouldn’t want to prove their love by defeating the exes of their new paramour in single combat? That is the plot of this film about a boy in a band who, while dating a high school girl, falls for a new girl of his own age. This new girl, Ramona Flowers, has a past. And that past involves dating psychic vegan rock stars, superstar actors, and a hipster industrialist—all of which must be defeated.

Question 46

A haunted heiress weds a young industrialist in this gothic tale.

This movie came out in 2015 and starred Tom Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain and Charlie Hunnam in a dark tale of Victorian romance and ghosts. Wasikowska’s character, Edith Cushing, is haunted by her deceased mother, then goes off to live with Hiddleston’s character (Thomas Sharpe) after marrying him. But ghosts abound, and treachery is afoot in this tale of a haunted house atop a high peak.

Question 47

A giant lizard smashes a city in this monster movie.

Giant monsters wreaking havoc on major urban areas are among life’s simple pleasures that we can only enjoy thanks to the modern age of filmic special effects. This particular movie is one of a whole series of one of the world’s most famous massive monsters. What movie is about a scaly reptile smashing skyscrapers?

Question 48

Which movie is about a line of children’s toys?

Movies about children’s toys have a less than respectable reputation. In the past, such movies were designed as propaganda pieces to convince children to swear their loyalty to the toy companies. This 2014 movie actually had a compelling plot, funny jokes, and engaging characters, using modern 3D animation to bring the toys to life on screen.

Question 49

This movie's about an Amazon warrior from the isle of Themyscira.

This superhero film takes place in the First World War, and stars Diana of Themyscira, an amazon from the all-female Amazon island nation. Diana joins soldier Steve Trevor to try and stop an attack by the god of war, Ares, involving new technologies being used to spread destruction on a massive scale.

Question 50

The Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy concludes with friendship and robots.

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost star in this film that concludes the Three Flavours of Cornetto trilogy. In the movie, Pegg plays a guy who never got over high school, trying to bring his old friends group back together to visit pubs in their home town. Then sentient robots attack.

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