Questions tagged [movies]
A puzzle that makes use of cinematic knowledge, such as movie titles, actors, directors, and film awards.
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Ideological rebus
The answers form one word.
#1
#2
#3
#4
Hint for #3:
Image credits:
clue 1 #1: dtstuff9, CC-BY-SA 2.0
clue 1 #2: See Li, CC-BY-SA 2.0
clue 1 #3: Mingle Media TV, CC-BY-SA 2.0
clue ...
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I send you all to the Connect-Wall
Here's a random code-wall for you though; I think of it as unfair to the point of impossible, but some people of this site never cease to surprise me. You need to split the 16 words into 4 groups, ...
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A rebus I've just watched
These two rebuses will give you a clue to what movie I've just watched. Can you guess it?
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Which movie will we watch?
A friend invited me to a movie night. But instead of telling me which movie we are going to watch, she just gave me a bunch of movie tickets:
Can you tell me which movie we will watch?
Hint 1:
Hint ...
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I have a King of Enchancia, but not 2
1- Created by a man born in a Dutch Broken Land
2- Eosinophil Granule Ontogeny Transcript
3- Tittle
4- Golden flecks powered by bacteria
5 Kentucky Fried Chicken
What movie am I?...
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I shouldn't have asked him.. again
My roommate (rm) always looks busy in front of his laptop, so I try to start talking to him
Me: Hi, the last time we talked you told me your favorite book, and I like your taste! it's a very good ...
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What am I wearing today?
Captain of serenity.
Lover of Polish beast slayer.
Sister of double victor.
Foul-mouthed one-eyed soldier.
Murgo-hating emperor.
Owner of runaway bum.
Fateful answerer of "What do you want?"
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The Starting Point
This is just the start of the program. What we start never goes unfinished.
The signal went dead.
Our assets have been located successfully, there was one step ...
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Terribly Translated Theatre
We've got some real short movie descriptions for sale! Solve them now and win imaginary points! Come one, come all! We'll even let you take home the posters!
A gang of all shapes and sizes decide ...
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Name a famous actor
In my name you can find a time of light,
and I almost share it with a certain Christmas song.
In my famous work, I am a mad man
accompanied by D major and a vintage accent.
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At my Wits' End
Some years back, toward the beginning of the school year, I got a call from my kid about a leadership opportunity that he wanted to pursue after normal school hours. I was pleasantly surprised, so of ...
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Code Movie Wall
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #36: Twisted Classics 1
I'm thinking of a movie. The Connecting Wall below (click it for a bigger version) should have made guessing the movie really simple, ...
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Do you know me?
This is a character from a movie. If you want to know who I am
look at the picture down and try to find a solution for this puzzle:
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Word Ladders go to the movies
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #36: Twisted Classics 1
You love movies. You had several (9) VHS tapes, neatly organized in their sleeves, up on a shelf. However, due to a certain incident, ...
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Password Strength
An entry to Fortnightly Topic Challenge #35: Restricted Title 1 - based on this xkcd.
I am the password manager, helping others remember passwords.
I am the password manager, receiving many calls ...
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Film plots explained badly
Everybody slept for most of the movie.
An Apple computer discovered some plant and eventually make everyone do exercise.
It’s a Shakespeare adaptation but with cats and monkeys.
90+ ...
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Another Sensational Crime Fiction?
William Herschel III, heir to the Herschel Paper Company, is dead. His body was found in fishing gear, discovered near the family estate's lake by his Labrador. Police immediately suspected foul play. ...
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The gang's all here
Of us there are three
one of which is part tree;
The other one you should not fear,
but it will make you burst in tears;
As for the last one, and there is no bluffing,
that's the one you'll ...
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A Fountain of Colors
A Fountain of Colors
A rock overlooks as my garden unfurls.
His pebble admires as the nice sky, it swirls.
The odd-looking pink one is chipper today.
The lily exposes when Chopin I play.
There's ...
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Misspelled Movies
Continuing in the Twisted TV Titles and TV Title Mondegreens vein, here are some Misspelled Movies.
Each title is a homophone of (i.e. sounds the same as1) a real movie title, but is spelled and/or ...
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Pictured Depictions of Movie Quotes Misquoted
Self-explanatory, right? I'm looking for
The incorrect quotation, as depicted by the pictures below.
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2.
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6.
Hint for #2:
Hint for #5:
****SPOILERS**** The intended ...
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The one with that guy who does stuff in those places
you!
You, with the face!
You're a right smart lookin' cookie, aren't you!
Maybe you can help me.
You see, there is this movie I've been trying to think of; it's right on the tip of my tongue (...
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Find an iconic movie title with these 8 numbers…!
Here is a code with symbols as hints (Note: The footnote on the second page has nothing to do with the puzzle, it's just there for copyright purposes):
I am psyched to find out if or how somebody ...
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Another attempt at movie rebus puzzle
After I received a good response to my last movie rebus puzzle, and in the light of Fortnightly Topic Challenge #26: Rebus, here is another set of movie rebuses.
Have fun solving. And all suggestions ...
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I'm the other form
The other form, they call me
Horror is all they can see
I am not a killer bee
Yet a queen I serve fiercely
Dark in color, light in steps
Silently we close our gaps
Next, a thing - your ...
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The Revenge of the Post-Christmas - Christmas Movie Rebuses
Rather enjoyed my first outing as a poser in Post-Christmas - Christmas Movie Rebuses so I have made some more. Hopefully these should be a little trickier!
Deduce the three movies from the images.
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Post-Christmas - Christmas Movie Rebuses
You wait all holidays for a Christmas movie rebus and three come along at once!
Can you deduce the films from the images?
If you enjoyed these, there are some trickier ones here:
The Revenge of ...
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A Heroic Narrative of two
We two were the ones
destined to do great things
We started as did Jon
aware of Nothing
A world we didn't know
turned out to be our home
Waited where we were
with glorious foretellings
While ...
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Minimalist posters 2 - Can you find the movie?
My friend wants to watch a movie, but it's never easy with her, so instead of telling me the title she gave me this :
What is the movie ?
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What was I supposed to get again?
My friend was in quite the predicament and he needed me to grab him something. Knowing secrecy was of the utmost importance, I never wrote down the item, but encrypted the situation. Seemed like a ...
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Find all the names
My name is A and I am the main character of a video game!
Please do not mistake my name for the one of my friend B like so many have done before!
I saved B multiple times but B simply won't stop ...
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Yet Another Simple Chess Rebus
This is an entry to the 19th Fortnightly Topic Challenge
Here is a relatively simple chess rebus:
Hope it will be answered soon. If not, will add hints. :)
To Make it not too broad and take you ...
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Who's this Pokemon? The last one
Based on Who's this Pokemon? who's this Pokemon, that:
Is one of the first b^e Pokemon, where b is something related to
a ...
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First Gym: Brock! Who's this Pokémon?
This question is the second one in a series of Poké-related questions I hope that I can ask.
Who's this Pokémon that:
Was (already?) released by the time the generation that has almost as many ...
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Minimalist posters - Can you find the movie?
- Let's watch your favorite movie !
- If you can guess what it is ! It's hidden in this five minimalist posters
- But I don't have time to watch 5 movies...
- Oh don't worry there's only one !
...
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Word association: Guess the movie title!
So I was inspired by Braincraft's video about Remote Associates Test so I thought I'd give it a try here on Puzzling.
I kind of tweaked with the mechanics a little bit and included words that are ...
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Mr Ling Designed My Jewellery
I wonder about my wife sometimes. She's getting harder to comprehend all the time.
Take last weekend, for example:
my nephew had come over to visit and was telling me all about the movie club that ...
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A riddle about a substance in a movie. (You will need to have seen it, sorry)
I contain a deadly poison of powerful effect, Don't worry you'll be
safe from me, or so I should expect,
My deadlyness is well reserved for beings otherworldly, For you I
could well be useful ...
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Can you guess what am I?
I am a song, I am also a movie. And I am the recommended
answer to the Lord of Death.
What am I?
HINT:
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Let's play the name game
An accident leaves only me and my spherical friend
I'm quite the hubristic tricky trickster
I break backs and grew up in gloom
I'm a pompous member of the snake crew
I die a lot to save the ...
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What's the phrase?
I was given the following number by an analyst for the government.
He is a bit of a riddle buff and figures he should make my pursuit of a certain disturbance in my production line a game. He says ...
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The German Terrorist
The CIA has arrested and interrogated a German terror suspect who was trying to enter the country with a Syrian passport. The suspect is low on the totem pole, but he does have information that Daesh ...
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I'm Back in Black
I have worn black for pretty much the entirety of my adult life.
I was 'killed' by something within me.
When I came back from the 'dead' I was wearing black.
I wore black for the rest of my life.
Who ...
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Time to unlearn. What's this movie quote?
This Java snippet describes a quote from a movie. Can you find the quote?
void function (int number, int attempts) {
{
if (number > 1) {
do {
System.out.println('something');
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Another program movie rebus
Here's my take on the subject:
a = new Date()
b = new Date(a.getTime()+24*3600*1000)
all:
a.getDay() != b.getDay()
Which movie quote is hidden in the above ...
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That's a good rebus; I don't know if it's worth $5,000 but it's pretty gosh-patootin' good
And since this is a movie rebus, if you need a clue:
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Program rebus (VBA)
The code snippet below in VBA contains all the clues to find an old movie quote. Who said it, and in what movie?
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