86% of people can't guess these popular movies from around the world from just one screenshot. Can you?

By: Andrew Katz
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86% of people can't guess these popular movies from around the world from just one screenshot. Can you?
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These are some of the most popular movies from around the world! And yet, 86% of people can't guess each of them from one single image. Are you part of that 86% or are you up to the challenge?
Schindler's List
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Which movie title corresponds with this scene?
Life Is Beautiful
Schindler's List
Steven Spielberg released two movies in 1993. That dinosaur film made him a lot of money. SCHINDLER'S LIST won him his first Oscar.
Jurassic Park
Jaws

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The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
The Movie DB
Which movie title corresponds with this scene?
High Noon
Unforgiven
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
1966's THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY is the final chapter in Sergio Leone's Man With No Name trilogy.
Dirty Harry

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The Untouchables
The Movie DB
Which movie title corresponds with this scene?
The Untouchables
THE UNTOUCHABLES (Brian de Palma, 1987) won legendary actor Sean Connery his first and only Oscar. Connery was the original James Bond on film.
Full Metal Jacket
Car 54, Where Are You?
Scarface

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Seven Samurai
The Movie DB
Which movie title corresponds with this scene?
The Magnificent Seven
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Seven Samurai
1954's SEVEN SAMURAI was master Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's tribute to the American western film. Six years later, it was remade as THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, as an American western film.
Se7en

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Pursuit of Happyness
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Which movie title corresponds with this scene?
I, Robot
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
The Pursuit of Happyness
Will Smith, star of 2006's THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS, began his acting career on TV's THE FRESH PRINCE OF BEL-AIR in 1990. However, it was his breakout role in 1993's SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION that set him on the path to feature stardom.
Bad Boys

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Taken
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Which movie title corresponds with this scene?
Taken
2008's TAKEN spawned two sequels, TAKEN 2 (2012) and TAKEN 3 (2014). There's also a spoof, TOOKEN (2015).
The Giver
A Walk among the Tombstones
Silence

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Braveheart
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Which movie title corresponds with this scene?
Apocalypto
The Last Temptation of Christ
Braveheart
Mel Gibson won his first and only Academy Award for directing and producing 1995's BRAVEHEART. He spent time out of the limelight after several unfortunate comments and an arrest were publicized, but he returned in 2016 as the director of HACKSAW RIDGE.
Signs

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Titanic
The Movie DB
Which movie title corresponds with this scene?
Titanic
TITANIC (James Cameron, 1997) won eleven out of the fourteen Academy Awards it was nominated for, tying 1950's ALL ABOUT EVE for most nominations and 1959's BEN-HUR for most Oscars. (This latter was subsequently matched by 2003's LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING.)
Good Will Hunting
The English Patient
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

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The Bridge on the river
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Which movie title corresponds with this scene?
The Bridges at Toko-Ri
Victory
The Great Escape
The Bridge on the River Kwai
American screenwriters Michael Wilson and Carl Foreman were victims of the Blacklist, so the sole writing credit and Oscar win originally went to Pierre Boule, author of the French novel on which THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (David Lean, 1957) was based -- which is weird, because Boule's only language was French.

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The Green Mile
The Movie DB
Which movie title corresponds with this scene?
The Green Mile
Stephen King, author of the original serialized book, has called THE GREEN MILE (Frank Darabont, 1999) the most faithful film adaptation of any of his books. He was particularly unhappy with the film version of THE SHINING.
The Mist
Dead Man Walking
The Shawshank Redemption

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Ben Hur
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Which movie title corresponds with this scene?
Ben-Hur
BEN-HUR (William Wyler, 1959) was the first film to win eleven Oscars. Even though that record has been tied twice (by TITANIC and THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING), there were fewer categories in 1959 than in 1999 and 2003.
Planet of the Apes
Gladiator
The Wizard of Oz

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Cast Away
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Which movie title corresponds with this scene?
Cast Away
The beginning and the end of Robert Zemeckis' CAST AWAY (2000) were shot about a year before the middle island section of the film, to allow for star Tom Hanks to lose the weight he needed to lend plausibility to his character being stranded on a deserted island.
Saving Private Ryan
Thinner
The Da Vinci Code

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Pulp Fiction
The Movie DB
Which movie title corresponds with this scene?
The Tree of Life
Pulp Fiction
Towards the end of PULP FICTION (Quentin Tarantino, 1994), Jules says he wants to retire and become a drifter. In KILL BILL: VOL. 2 (Tarantino, 2004), Samuel L. Jackson turns up as Rufus, a piano playing drifter.
Reservoir Dogs
Get Shorty

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Gladiator
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Which movie title corresponds with this scene?
Top Gun
A Beautiful Mind
Gladiator
GLADIATOR (Ridley Scott, 2000) is actor Oliver Reed's last on-screen role. When he died before principal photography was over, the filmmakers altered the script to accommodate his absence rather than recast his role.
Any Given Sunday

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The Godfather
TMDB
Which movie title corresponds with this scene?
Superman II
My Dinner with Andre
The Conversation
The Godfather
During an early shot in THE GODFATHER (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972), in the scene where Vito Corleone returns home and his people carry him up the stairs, Marlon Brando put weights under his body on the bed as a prank, making it harder to lift him.

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The Shawshank Redemption
The Movie DB
Which movie title corresponds with this scene?
Prison Break
Bruce Almighty
The Shawshank Redemption
1994's THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION is writer-director Frank Darabont's first feature-length foray into the Stephen King universe. He followed this with THE GREEN MILE and THE MIST.
Bob Roberts

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Saving Private Ryan
TMDB
Which movie title corresponds with this scene?
Band of Brothers
Philadelphia
Saving Private Ryan
Steven Spielberg sent the main cast of 1998's SAVING PRIVATE RYAN to Dale Dye's boot camp, except for Matt Damon. This helped build the resentment that the characters were supposed to feel at risking their lives to save one man.
Turner and Hooch

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Blood Diamond
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Which movie title corresponds with this scene?
Blood Diamond
At least six Oscar winners were involved in making BLOOD DIAMOND. The movie, which stars Ed Zwick, was released in 2006.
Django Unchained
Titanic
Guardians of the Galaxy

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Man on Fire
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Which movie title corresponds with this scene?
Body of Lies
Man on Fire
MAN ON FIRE (Tony Scott, 2004) screenwriter Brian Helgeland first saw the original MAN ON FIRE (1987) in the late '80s, when he rented it from his local video store after asking for a recommendation. The clerk who recommended it? Quentin Tarantino.
Gladiator
A Beautiful Mind

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Road Home
YouTube
Which movie title corresponds with this scene?
The Road Home
Star Zhang Ziyi and director Zhang Yimou worked together two more times after 1999's THE ROAD HOME. This was the first movie role for Zhang Ziyi.
The Longest Journey
Spartacus
On the Road

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12 Angry Men
The Movie DB
Which movie title corresponds with this scene?
Marty
On Golden Pond
Angry Birds
12 Angry Men
1957's 12 ANGRY MEN was remade as a TV movie for Showtime forty years later. In the original, the jury foreman was portrayed bt Martin Balsam; in the remake, Courtney B. Vance.

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Life is Beautiful
TMDB
Which movie title corresponds with this scene?
Life Is Beautiful
When multi-hyphenate Roberto Benigni won his first Oscar of the night for LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL in 1999, he made his way to the stage by walking across the tops of the theater's seats. Inspirations for this Italian comedian include Charlie Chaplin and Peter Sellers.
Schindler's List
Chocolat
Son of the Pink Panther

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Central Station
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Which movie title corresponds with this scene?
The Station Agent
Cinema Paradiso
Amores Perros
Central Station
1998's CENTRAL STATION nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. In addition, its lead actress Fernanda Montenegro was nominated for her performance as the letter-writing schoolteacher.

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Requiem for a dream
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Which movie title corresponds with this scene?
Requiem for a Dream
In just his second feature film, 2000's REQUIEM FOR A DREAM, Darren Aronofsky directed an actress, Ellen Burstyn, to an Academy Award nomination. Aronofsky also directed BLACK SWAN and THE FOUNTAIN.
Black Swan
Noah
Pi

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A Beautiful Mind
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Which movie title corresponds with this scene?
Cinderella Man
Gladiator
Requiem for a Dream
A Beautiful Mind
2002's A BEAUTIFUL MIND won four Oscars: Picture (Brian Grazer and Ron Howard), Director (Howard), Supporting Actress (Jennifer Connelly), and Adapted Screenplay (Akiva Goldsman).

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Hachi: A Dog's Tale
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Which movie title corresponds with this scene?
The Good Dinosaur
Leon: the Professional
Hachi: A Dog's Tale
2009's HACHI: A DOG'S TALE is director Lasse Hallstrom's remake of 1987 Japanese film, HACHI-KO. It's the true story of a loyal Akita who waited for his master every day at a train station in Japan. He would not stop waiting, even after his master died.
xXx: the Return of Xander Cage

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My Sassy girl
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Which movie title corresponds with this scene?
My Girl 2
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Girl, Interrupted
My Sassy Girl
MY SASSY GIRL (Yann Samuel, 2008) is an English-language remake of 2001's MY SASSY GIRL, a South Korean movie. The literal title of the film in Korean is That Bizarre Girl.

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The Shining
The Movie DB
Which movie title corresponds with this scene?
The Shining
Author Stephen King was not a big fan of director Stanley Kubrick's loose 1980 film adaptation of his novel, THE SHINING. To create the snow-covered hedge maze, the crew laid down massive quantities of salt and crushed Styrofoam.
Popeye
The Departed
The Tonight Show

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Apocalypse Now
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Which movie title corresponds with this scene?
Apocalypse Now
There are at least three versions of the Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 APOCALYPSE NOW, two of which have been officially released -- unless you count alternate credits as different films, in which case there are four official releases.
Full Metal Jacket
Silence
Schindler's List

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The Dark Knight
TMDB
Which movie title corresponds with this scene?
Batman
The Dark Knight
When Heath Ledger won the Academy Award for his role in THE DARK KNIGHT (Christopher Nolan, 2008), he became one of only a handful of posthumous Oscar winners.
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Daredevil

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The Pianist
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Which movie title corresponds with this scene?
Schindler's List
Life Is Beautiful
The Pianist
When Adrien Brody accepted his Oscar for Best Actor for his leading role in THE PIANIST (2002), he started his speech by giving award presenter Halle Berry a surprise deep kiss. Brody has since appeared in KING KONG (2005), PREDATORS (2010), and THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (2014).
The Thin Red Line

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3 Iron
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Which movie title corresponds with this scene?
Ben-Hur
Spider-Man
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
3-Iron
Director Kim ki-Duk wrote the screenplay for 2004's 3-IRON in one month. The movie was filmed in sixteen days and the film editing was done in ten days.

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Terminal Movie
YouTube
Which movie title corresponds with this scene?
Saving Private Ryan
Catch Me if You Can
The Terminal
2004's THE TERMINAL was the third time Tom Hanks starred in a Steven Spielberg feature film. Their other collaborations are SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (1998) and CATCH ME IF YOU CAN (2002) - and, more recently, BRIDGE OF SPIES (2015).
The Adventures of Tin-Tin

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It's a Wonderful Life
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Which movie title corresponds with this scene?
Mr. Deeds Goes to Washington
It's a Wonderful Life
The gym floor that opens up to reveal a swimming pool in IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (Frank Capra, 1946) was real and was located at Beverly Hills High School in Los Angeles.
Rear Window
Vertigo

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Spring Summer Fall Winter Movies
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Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
Autumn in New York
Six Days Seven Nights
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
Director Ki-duk Kim plays the adult monk at the end of 2003's SPRING, SUMMER, FALL, WINTER… AND SPRING. For the triple crown, he also wrote the script.

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Phone Booth Movies
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Which movie title corresponds with this scene?
Daredevil
Phone Booth
In PHONE BOOTH (Joel Shumacher, 2002), film time is real time -- the movie takes place over eighty-one minutes -- the running time of the movie.
The Conversation
The Call

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I saw the Devil
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Which movie title corresponds with this scene?
The Omen
The Return
I Saw the Devil
I SAW THE DEVIL's (Kim Jee-woon, 2010) Choi Min-Sik also played a serial killer five years earlier in Park Chan Wook's SYMPATHY FOR LADY VENGEANCE.
Devil in a Blue Dress

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Children of Heaven
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Angel
Children of Men
Children of Heaven
CHILDREN OF HEAVEN (Majid Majidi, 1997) is Iran's first film to be nominated for an Oscar. The film follows a brother and sister - and a pair of missing shoes.

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A Seperation
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Which movie title corresponds with this scene?
A Girl Walks Home at Night
Three Kings
An Education
A Separation
A SEPARATION (Asghar Farhadi, 2011) is the first Iranian film to win a Golden Globe and the first Iranian film to win the Oscar. The film explores the end of a marriage in modern-day Iran.

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The Sixth Sense
The Movie DB
Which movie title corresponds with this scene?
Unbreakable
The Sixth Sense
New Kid on the Block Donnie Wahlberg played the home-intruding mental patient at the beginning of THE SIXTH SENSE (M. Night Shyamalan, 1999). The film starred Bruce Willis and Haley Joel Osment.
Sense and Sensibility
In The Realm of the Senses

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A moment to remember
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Which movie title corresponds with this scene?
A Day at the Races
A Walk in the Clouds
A Night Like This
A Moment to Remember
A MOMENT TO REMEMBER (John H. Lee, 2004) won the Grand Bell Award -- South Korea's equivalent of the Oscars -- for Best Adapted Screenplay in 2005. The film features a love story that turns tragic following a medical diagnosis.

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Departures
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Which movie title corresponds with this scene?
Arrival
Departures
DEPARTURES (Yojiro Takita, 2008) won 2009's Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film for Japan. The story is loosely based on Coffinman, a memoir written by Shinmon Aoki.
The Terminal
Airplane!

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The Exorcist
The Movie DB
Which movie title corresponds with this scene?
The Omen
The Exorcist
In THE EXORCIST (William Friedkin, 1973) Father Dyer was played by William O'Malley, an actual reverend who spent most of his career teaching in Jesuit high schools.
Bates Motel
Night of the Living Dead

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The Secret in their Eyes
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Which movie title corresponds with this scene?
The Lives of Others
The Secret of Roan Innish
Open Your Eyes
The Secret in their Eyes
THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES (Juan José Campanella, 2009) won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film for Argentina. In the film a retired lawyer writes a novel, seeking closure for an unsolved murder case.

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Leon the Professional
The Movie DB
Which movie title corresponds with this scene?
Leon: The Professional
Luc Besson's 1994 film, LEON: THE PROFESSIONAL, was the feature debut of actress Natalie Portman. Portman was only thirteen years old at the time of the film's American release. The has since starred in many films, including BLACK SWAN (2010).
Beautiful Girls
La Femme Nikita
The Fifth Element

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Gran Torino
The Movie DB
Which movie title corresponds with this scene?
Heart like a Wheel
Up
Gran Torino
2008's GRAN TORINO was an Eastwood family affair: Clint directed it, his son Scott acted in it, and his son Kyle provided the musical score.
Dirty Harry

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Inglorious Basterds
Youtube
Which movie title corresponds with this scene?
The Inglorious Bastards
THE INGLORIOUS BASTARDS (Enzo G. Castellari, 1978) is the first of three films Castellari made with actor Fred Williamson. It was made long before Quentin Tarantino's seemingly misspelled INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (2009).
The Dirty Dozen
The Magnificent Seven
Inglourious Basterds

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Scarface
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Which movie title corresponds with this scene?
Carlito's Way
The Untouchables
Rollerball
Scarface
SCARFACE (Brian de Palma, 1983) inspired Iraqi Demagogue President Saddam Hussein to name his international money laundering corporation "Montana Management." The film featured Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer.

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