Here's a few I thought of where you can never tell by titles alone that they're at all related:


The Last Picture Show
Texasville

Chinatown
The Two Jakes

Clerks
Mallrats
Chasing Amy
Dogma
Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back

James Bond movies


Any more?

Manhunter
Silence Of The Lambs
Hannibal

First Blood was followed by First Blood Part II:Rambo and Rambo 3

The Man with No Name "Trilogy" (Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)

Born Losers, Billy Jack, Trial of Billy Jack, Billy Jack Goes to Washington

The Star Wars films

Raiders of the Lost Ark and its two sequels

Romancing the Stone and Jewel of the Nile

King Solomon's Mines and Alan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold

You can connect 1 to 2 and 2 to 3 though. I'm looking for titles with ZERO connection.
"Billy Jack" in title connects 2-4
Beginning a film with "Star Wars:" or "Indiana Jones and the" is a common beginning.

Though to your credit "Indiana Jones and the" wasnt added to Raiders till the most ecent VHS set.

A Fish Called Wanda
Fierce Creatures

Casualties of War (1989)
The Visitors (1972) - sort of a fictional sequel to Casualties of War

maybe:
The Carpetbaggers
Nevada Smith - the character Nevada Smith (played by Steve McQueen) appeared earlier as a supporting character in the film The Carpetbaggers (played by Alan Ladd), more a spin-off I suppose, as Nevada Smith tells the story of the character's early days

also maybe:
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Mysterious Island - because of the Captain Nemo connection

A Very Brady Sequel

I didn't think Fierce Creatures was a sequel to A Fish Called Wanda. I don't think the cast plays the same characters.

Okay.. this is wrong, wrong, wrong. None of these movies are sequels. The best you could feasibly argue is that Jay & Silent Bob is a sequel to the other 4 as one. And because of that, it makes it the weakest, lamest thing that Kevin Smith has done.

It's true that there is minimal connection between the movies but that alone does not garner a sequel. That would be like saying Pulp Fiction is a sequel to R. Dogs. The fact that fans and Smith himself started to correlate these movies as such is really how I feel his writing style weakened in his last 2 movies. And it was a smart move on his behalf to kill it. I am looking forward to his next flick SOO much now that he does not need to appease people who got way to sucked into the concept of his movies being one universe.

How?

Yojimbo
Sanjuro

M. Hulot's Holiday
Mon Oncle
Playtime

Dirty Harry
Magnum Force
The Enforcer
Sudden Impact
The Dead Pool

El Mariachi
Desperado
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (forthcoming in 2003)

The Fugitive
U.S. Marshals

Gettysburg
Gods and Generals (forthcoming in 2003)

The Absent-Minded Professor
Son of Flubber

Kiss the Girls
Along Came a Spider

The 400 Blows
Antoine et Collette
Stolen Kisses
Bed and Board
Love on the Run

Going My Way
The Bells of St. Mary's

The Hunt for Red October
Patriot Games
Clear and Present Danger
The Sum of All Fears

The Hustler
The Color of Money

In the Heat of the Night
They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!
The Organization

Interview With the Vampire
Queen of the Damned

The Ipcress File
Funeral in Berlin
Billion Dollar Brain

Metropolitan
Barcelona
The Last Days of Disco

Smoke
Blue in the Face

Terms of Endearment
The Evening Star

True Grit
Rooster Cogburn

Where Is the Friend's Home?
Life and Nothing More
Through the Olive Trees

Wings of Desire
Faraway, So Close

I didn't include Eric Rohmer's Six Moral Tales series nor his Comedies & Proverbs series, as they are series in theme only, not in continuing characters.

I beleive kiss the girls is the sequel to Along came a spider... in the books at least.

This is true. The films were done in reverse order, but no mention is ever made of one in the other, so it's debatable as to whether one is a prequel or sequel to the other. Only Morgan Freeman's character connects them.

It's the other way around in the movies. Not that it matters much.

Also, the "Man With No Name" movies aren't really sequels. Clint Eastwood plays a different character in each (although the characters are quite similar).

First there was "The Brady Bunch Movie", then the next year Paramount came up with the sequel called "A Very Brady Sequel".

Thread Subject: Sequels that do not have similar title as original

The Brady Bunch Movie and A Very Brady Sequel have very similar titles.

What the original poster is asking for is movie sequels that have totally different titles, such as Hannibal -> Silence of the Lambs.

Old Yeller & Savage Sam
Horse Sense & Jumping Ship

El Topo
AbelCain (If it ever gets released)

Dolemite
The Human Tornado

The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Shock Treatment

Purple Rain
Graffiti Bridge

Evil Dead 2
Army of Darkness

Uptown Saturday Night
Let's Do it again
A Piece of the Action

If...
O Lucky Man
Britannia Hospital

Black Caesar
Hell up in Harlem

Ah, you are correct. I jumped the gun on that one.

I can redeem myself though...

The Pink Panther
A Shot in the Dark

The Robe
Demetrius and the Gladiators

Friday the 13th 1-8
Jason Goes to Hell
Jason X

Nightmare on Elm Street 1-5
Freddy's Dead
Wes Craven's New Nightmare

Aladdin
Return of Jafar

Every Which Way But Loose
Any Which Way You Can

Similar or different? - both have the words "Which Way"

Gone With The Wind
Scarlett

Pitch Black
The Riddick Chronicles (if it's released)

Child's Play I/II/III
Bride of Chucky

The Tiger of Eschnapur
The Indian Tomb

c'mon folks, where's the disco love?! how's about:

Saturday Night Fever
Stayin' Alive

ah ha! such an obvious answer that hasn't been said!
-di doctor-