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The Best Movies With Man in the Title  

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Have you ever noticed how many movies there are with man in the name? This list ranks the best movies with man in the title, regardless of genre or rating. What is your favorite movie with man in the name? This is kind of an odd way to categorize movies, but that's also why it's so fun! There are probably one or two movies with man in the title that you instantly think of, but you might be surprised how many others there are too as you scroll through this list.

This ranked poll of films with man in the title includes movies like Iron Man, Bicentennial Man, and Man of Steel. Don't forget that this list is interactive, meaning you can vote the film names up or down depending on much you liked each movie that has the word man in it.
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The Quiet Man is listed (or ranked) 1 on the list The Best Movies With Man in the Title
John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Barry Fitzgerald
The Quiet Man is a 1952 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by John Ford. It stars John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Barry Fitzgerald, Ward Bond and Victor McLaglen. The screenplay by Frank ...more
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valan... is listed (or ranked) 2 on the list The Best Movies With Man in the Title
John Wayne, James Stewart, Lee Marvin
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is a 1962 American Western film directed by John Ford starring James Stewart and John Wayne. The black-and-white film was released by Paramount Pictures. The ...more
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The Thin Man is listed (or ranked) 3 on the list The Best Movies With Man in the Title
Myrna Loy, Cesar Romero, Maureen O'Sullivan
The Thin Man is a 1934 American comedy-mystery film directed by W.S. Van Dyke and based on the novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett. The film stars William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and ...more
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The Man Who Knew Too Much is listed (or ranked) 4 on the list The Best Movies With Man in the Title
James Stewart, Doris Day, Alfred Hitchcock
The Man Who Knew Too Much is a 1956 suspense thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart and Doris Day. The film is a somewhat altered remake in widescreen VistaVision and ...more
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The Third Man is listed (or ranked) 5 on the list The Best Movies With Man in the Title
Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, Joseph Cotten
The Third Man is a 1949 British film noir, directed by Carol Reed and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, and Trevor Howard. It is considered one of the greatest films of all ...more
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A Man for All Seasons is listed (or ranked) 6 on the list The Best Movies With Man in the Title
John Hurt, Orson Welles, Vanessa Redgrave
A Man for All Seasons is a 1966 British biographical drama film based on Robert Bolt's play of the same name about Sir Thomas More. It was released on 12 December 1966. Paul Scofield, who had ...more
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The Music Man is listed (or ranked) 7 on the list The Best Movies With Man in the Title
Ron Howard, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett
The Music Man is a 1962 musical film starring Robert Preston as Harold Hill and Shirley Jones as Marian Paroo. The film is based on the 1957 Broadway musical of the same name by Meredith ...more
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The Wolf Man is listed (or ranked) 8 on the list The Best Movies With Man in the Title
Bela Lugosi, Claude Rains, Lon Chaney
The Wolf Man is a 1941 American drama horror film written by Curt Siodmak and produced and directed by George Waggner. The film stars Lon Chaney, Jr. as a werewolf named "The Wolf Man" ...more
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My Man Godfrey is listed (or ranked) 9 on the list The Best Movies With Man in the Title
Carole Lombard, Jane Wyman, William Powell
My Man Godfrey is a 1936 American comedy-drama film directed by Gregory La Cava. The screenplay was written by Morrie Ryskind, with uncredited contributions by La Cava, based on 1101 Park ...more
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The Invisible Man is listed (or ranked) 10 on the list The Best Movies With Man in the Title
Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, Una O'Connor
The Invisible Man is a 1933 science fiction film based on H. G. Wells' science fiction novel The Invisible Man, published in 1897, as adapted by R. C. Sherriff, Philip Wylie and Preston Sturges, ...more
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The Old Man of the Mountain is listed (or ranked) 11 on the list The Best Movies With Man in the Title
comicspies1 added Cab Calloway, Mae Questel, Bonnie Poe
The Old Man of the Mountain is a 1933 animated short in the Betty Boop series, produced by Fleischer Studios. Featuring special guests Cab Calloway and His Orchestra, the short was originally ...more
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Abbott and Costello Meet the I... is listed (or ranked) 12 on the list The Best Movies With Man in the Title
Lou Costello, Bud Abbott, William Frawley
Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man is a 1951 comedy horror film directed by Charles Lamont and starring the team of Abbott and Costello alongside Nancy Guild. The film depicts the ...more
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The Man Who Would Be King is listed (or ranked) 13 on the list The Best Movies With Man in the Title
Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer
The Man Who Would Be King is a 1975 film adapted from the Rudyard Kipling short story of the same title. It was adapted and directed by John Huston and starred Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Saeed ...more
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The Man On The Flying Trapeze is listed (or ranked) 14 on the list The Best Movies With Man in the Title
comicspies1 added The Man On The Flying Trapeze
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The Man Who Came to Dinner is listed (or ranked) 15 on the list The Best Movies With Man in the Title
Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Mary Wickes
The Man Who Came to Dinner is a 1942 American comedy film directed by William Keighley, and starring Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan and Monty Woolley as the title character. The screenplay by Julius ...more
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The First Bad Man is listed (or ranked) 16 on the list The Best Movies With Man in the Title
comicspies1 added Tex Ritter
The First Bad Man is an American animated cartoon directed by Tex Avery, and features narration by singing cowboy Tex Ritter. It was released by MGM on September 30, 1955.
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A Clean Shaven Man is listed (or ranked) 17 on the list The Best Movies With Man in the Title
comicspies1 added A Clean Shaven Man
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Tarzan, the Ape Man is listed (or ranked) 18 on the list The Best Movies With Man in the Title
Bo Derek, Richard Harris, John Phillip Law
Tarzan, the Ape Man is a 1981 adventure film directed by John Derek and starring his wife Bo Derek, Miles O'Keeffe, Richard Harris, and John Phillip Law. The screenplay by Tom Rowe and Gary ...more
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Tarzan, the Ape Man is listed (or ranked) 19 on the list The Best Movies With Man in the Title
Robert Douglas, Denny Miller, Joanna Barnes
Tarzan, the Ape Man is a 1959 action adventure film starring Denny Miller as Tarzan, Joanna Barnes as Jane, Cesare Danova, and Robert Douglas. The movie is loosely based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' ...more
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The Incredible Shrinking Man is listed (or ranked) 20 on the list The Best Movies With Man in the Title
William Schallert, Paul Langton, Billy Curtis
The Incredible Shrinking Man is a 1957 science fiction film directed by Jack Arnold and adapted for the screen by Richard Matheson from his novel The Shrinking Man. The film stars Grant Williams ...more
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The Man Who Planted Trees is listed (or ranked) 21 on the list The Best Movies With Man in the Title
Christopher Plummer, Philippe Noiret
The Man Who Planted Trees is a 1987 Canadian short animated film directed by Frédéric Back. It is based on Jean Giono's novel The Man Who Planted Trees. This 30-minute film was ...more
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The Man from Planet X is listed (or ranked) 22 on the list The Best Movies With Man in the Title
William Schallert, Robert Clarke, Margaret Field
The Man From Planet X is a 1951 American science fiction film. starring Robert Clarke, Margaret Field and William Schallert. It was directed by Edgar G. Ulmer.
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The Man from Snowy River is listed (or ranked) 23 on the list The Best Movies With Man in the Title
Kirk Douglas, Jack Thompson, Gus Mercurio
The Man from Snowy River is a 1982 Australian drama film based on the Banjo Paterson poem The Man from Snowy River. The film had a cast including Kirk Douglas in a dual role as the brothers ...more
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A Man Called Horse is listed (or ranked) 24 on the list The Best Movies With Man in the Title
Richard Harris, Judith Anderson, James Gammon
A Man Called Horse is a 1970 American Western film starring Richard Harris and directed by Elliot Silverstein. Based on a short story by Dorothy M. Johnson, "A Man Called Horse", ...more
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Eat Drink Man Woman is listed (or ranked) 25 on the list The Best Movies With Man in the Title
Sylvia Chang, Chien-lien Wu, Winston Chao
Eat Drink Man Woman is a 1994 Taiwanese film directed by Ang Lee and starring Sihung Lung, Yu-wen Wang, Chien-lien Wu, and Kuei-mei Yang. The film was released on August 3, 1994, the first of ...more