Ash Ketchum

List your ten favorite films with one-word titles

Here are the rules:
No initials or acronyms (E.T., M*A*S*H, Z.P.G.)
No single-letter film titles (M, Z)
No hyphens (BEN-HUR, G-MEN)
No articles: if there’s an “An” or a “The” or an "El" it’s not one word
No words followed by numbers or numerals (STALAG 17, SAW II)
No shortened versions of longer titles, e.g. GODZILLA (1956) is actually GODZILLA, KING OF THE MONSTERS, although the 1998 GODZILLA is fair game.
Foreign titles are okay (GOJIRA, the original Japanese title for GODZILLA)
Punctuation is okay, like exclamation points (HELP!) or ellipses (IF…)

Here’s my list (in alphabetical order):

AKIRA (1988)
ATTACK! (1956)
BAMBI (1942)
CASABLANCA (1943)
GOJIRA (1954)
GOODFELLAS (1990)
PSYCHO (1960)
SCARFACE (1932)
THEM! (1954)
YOJIMBO (1961)



This was a tough list to compile. I had to take out the following to keep it down to ten:

BANANAS (1971)
FANTASIA (1940)
PINOCCHIO (1940)
SERPICO (1973)
SHAFT (1971)
SPARTACUS (1960)

Wolf359

Aliens
Braveheart
Crash
Frailty
Ghost
Gladiator
Hero (Jet Li)
Predator
Robocop
Unforgiven

Cardsfan111

In no particular order:

Jaws
Halloween
Airplane!
Superman
Alien
Aliens
Hoosiers
Outbreak
Se7en
Zodiac

Thought it might be tough coming up with 10 based on your guidelines. Instead, I had to eliminate several.

The Bus

Snatch.
Ballast
Rejected
Syriana
Gwoemul
Che
Grindhouse
RocknRolla
Gomorra
Volver

I just did recent movies I liked to make it easier.

chris_sc77

Top 5

Aliens
Brazil
Magnolia
Oldboy
Se7en

wendersfan

• Satantango
• Vertigo
• Katzelmacher
• Persona
• M Blowup
• Stalker
• Sunrise Rosetta
• Contempt
• Banshun
• Pickpocket

Ginwen

Trainspotting
Brazil
Casablanca
Barcelona
Aliens
Rushmore
Manhattan
Magnolia
Hellraiser
Candyman

BambooLounge

Limited myself to 10 that were not yet mentioned:

1. Sciusciŕ
2. Amarcord
3. Pi
4. Casino
5. Marnie
6. Ratatouille
7. Network
8. Notorious
9. Stagecoach
10. Chinatown

Shannon Nutt

I say GoodFellas shouldn't count, since the official spelling has a capital "F", not a lowercase one...much like the James Bond movie GoldenEye. Same deal with RocknRolla.

BambooLounge

Also, it is Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)...Sunrise is the USA "short title"

Mountain Biker

No particular order...

Jaws
Halloween
Aliens
Phantasm
Deliverance
Commando
Poltergeist
Tron
Dragonslayer
Timerider

sauce07

Leon
Jaws
Predator
Goodfellas
Memento
Fargo
Heat
Platoon
Ratatoullie
Trainspotting

Michael Corvin

the dirty dozen

Braveheart
Memento
Leon
Rocky
Heat
Unbreakable
Jaws
Ghostbusters
Gremlins
Twister
Clerks
Dogma

*edit - dammit sauce, just beat me with Heat, Memento & Leon. None of which had been posted yet.

RobCA

Airplane!
Beetlejuice
Chicago
Clueless
Memento
Moonstruck
Pleasantville
Psycho (1960)
Speed
Tootsie

Barry Woodward

Clerks
Closer
Collateral
Léon
Magnolia
Memento
Rocky
Se7en
Serenity
Superbad

Honorable mentions:

Adventureland
Alien
Aliens
Brazil
Breakdown
Brick
Dogma
Election
Fargo
Ghostbusters
Jaws
Juno
Psycho
Rushmore
Sideways
Swingers
Sydney (a.k.a. Hard Eight)
Unbreakable
Unforgiven
Waitress
Zodiac

Jediturtle

Cool thread idea. This was actually quite hard to narrow down. No particular order...

Rebecca
Rope
Psycho
Suspiria
Opera
Zodiac
Alien
Halloween
Scream
Clerks

Honorable mentions:
Vertigo
Spellbound
(probably a lot more Hitchcock once I get further through his catalog!)

Aliens
Batman
Blade
Cloverfield
Tenebre
Phenomena
Dracula
Frankenstein
Ghostbusters
Hatchet
Hellraiser
Hostel
Nosferatu
Oldboy
Saw
Se7en

Heck...I could probably get a good list with just Hitchcock (that I've seen) and Argento! Once I get through the rest of Hitchcock's movies, I bet I'll be able to get 10 favorites just from him!

Mondo Kane

Platoon
Eraserhead
Yojimbo
Coffy
Brazil
Psycho (1960)
Irreversible
Freaks
Ghostbusters
Supervixens

Some that missed the list because their original titles are longer:

Companeros!-Vamos a matar, compańeros
Satyricon- Fellini-Satyricon
Nosferatu-Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (Symphony of Horror)
Kikujiro-Kikujirô no natsu

emachine12

Speed
Clueless
Crank
Bolt
Ghost
Cars
Babel
Gladiator
Fearless
War

Honorable mentions:

Taxi
Eragon
Cello
Closer

Geofferson

In no particular order:
Shane
Superman
Aliens
Goodfellas
Vertigo
Heat
Jaws
Leon
Rocky
Duel

sundog

Anatahan (1953)
Eureka (2000)
Ikiru (1952)
Ninotchka (1939)
Playtime (1967)
Rififi (1955)
Satantango (1994)
Stalker (1979)
Vertigo (1958)
Viridiana (1961)

Ghostface180

Goodfellas
Memento
Scream
Heat
Psycho
Jaws
Suspiria
Ghostbusters
Snatch
Aliens

Zen Peckinpah

I'm going to go the "10 That Haven't Been Mentioned Yet" route too, since I feel like the top 10 I'd do would be a regurgitation of a lot of mentioned films on here:

Thief
Manhunter
Sideways
Adaptation
subUrbia
Videodrome
Rollerball (1975)
Watchmen
Darkman
Birdy

BambooLounge

My top 10 "just Hitchcock"

1. Rebecca
2. Notorious
3. Spellbound
4. Vertigo
5. Psycho
6. Marnie
7. Lifeboat
8. Suspicion
9. Saboteur
10. Rope

And there are still another 7 "one word title" films in his oeuvre.

inri222

Mirror
Solaris
Nostalghia
Ugetsu
Rashomon
Pixote
Harakiri
Diabolique
Spider
Naked

devilshalo

Without looking at the responses so far:

JAWS
Caddyshack
Braveheart
Se7en
Godzilla
Aliens
Alien
Ghostbusters
Batman
Superbad