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The Best Movies with Only One Word for a Title

Updated June 16, 2020 10.2k votes 531 voters 41.8k views155 items

List RulesOne word titles only. "2," "III," and other types of numerals count as a word. Do not add District 9 or Rocky II to this list.

A list of the best 1 word title movies, ranked by film lovers and fans of economy of words. All the films listed here have a short title, made up of just one word. These one word titled movies cross genres and eras and star many of Hollywood's most famous faces. From sci-fi classics like Alien and Gattaca, to comedies like Airplane! and Ghostbusters, movies with one word names come in all shapes and styles.

The next time you are browsing Netflix, consider some of these short titled movies, and if you come across one that is not included here, add it for others to vote on. I purposefully have not included Crash on this list at the time of publishing, but you may add it if you feel passionately about that particularly bad Best Picture winner.

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Moon
2009
Actors: Kevin Spacey, Mary Tyler Moore, Kaya Scodelario, Sam Rockwell, Dominique McElligott
Directed by: Duncan Jones
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Psycho
1960
Actors: Alfred Hitchcock, Janet Leigh, Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Martin Balsam
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
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Jaws
1975
Actors: Steven Spielberg, Richard Dreyfuss, Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, John Searle
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
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Cinderella
1950
Actors: June Foray, Mike Douglas, Verna Felton, Jimmy MacDonald, Lucille Bliss
Directed by: Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi
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8½
1963
Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Marcello Mastroianni, Barbara Steele, Nino Rota, Anouk Aimée
Directed by: Federico Fellini
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Vertigo
1958
Actors: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Alfred Hitchcock, Barbara Bel Geddes, Ellen Corby
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
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Fantasia
1940
Actors: Walt Disney, Corey Burton, Leopold Stokowski, Jimmy MacDonald, Paul Smith
Directed by: Wilfred Jackson, James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, T. Hee, Ford Beebe
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Goodfellas
1990
Actors: Robert De Niro, Samuel L. Jackson, Joe Pesci, Ray Liotta, Paul Sorvino
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
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Superman
1978
Actors: Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Terence Stamp, Margot Kidder
Directed by: Richard Donner
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Up
2009
Actors: Christopher Plummer, Ed Asner, Laraine Newman, John Ratzenberger, Delroy Lindo
Directed by: Pete Docter
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Rocky
1976
Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Joe Frazier, Burgess Meredith, Carl Weathers, Talia Shire
Directed by: John G. Avildsen
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Casablanca
1942
Actors: Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Claude Rains, Paul Henreid
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
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Bambi
1942
Actors: Sterling Holloway, Sam Edwards, Cammie King, Ann Gillis, Will Wright
Directed by: James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Paul Satterfield, Bill Roberts, Norman Wright
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Titanic
1997
Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Kathy Bates, James Cameron, Bill Paxton
Directed by: James Cameron
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Nosferatu
1922
Actors: Max Schreck, John Gottowt, Alexander Granach, Gustav von Wangenheim, Karl Etlinger
Directed by: F. W. Murnau
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Alien
1979
Actors: Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto, Harry Dean Stanton
Directed by: Ridley Scott
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Batman
1989
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Directed by: Tim Burton
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Misery
1990
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Directed by: Rob Reiner
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Aladdin
1992
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Directed by: Ron Clements, John Musker
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Airplane!
1980
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Directed by: Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker
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Poltergeist
1982
Actors: Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, Heather O'Rourke, Zelda Rubinstein, Beatrice Straight
Directed by: Tobe Hooper
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Ghost
1990
Actors: Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Patrick Swayze, Tony Goldwyn, Vincent Schiavelli
Directed by: Jerry Zucker
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Halloween
1978
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Directed by: John Carpenter
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Moana
2016
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Spaceballs
1987
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Directed by: Mel Brooks
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