# Alphabet movies
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphabet-movies/468596
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [October 19, 2008, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphabet-movies/468596 "2008-10-19T02:03:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2008, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphabet-movies/468596/1 "2008-10-19T02:03:45Z")
With W out now, I can think of M, the old Fritz Lang picture, and Z, the Greek political thriller, and a few years ago didn’t they make a modern Othello entitled O? What other letters have formed the complete titles of films?
I know they haven’t filmed Thomas Pynchon’s V., but that would be a beauty.
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2008, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphabet-movies/468596/2 "2008-10-19T02:21:31Z")
I thought I remembered an old horror movie called _Q_. Not only did it exist, but according to IMDB, there are five movies with the title _Q_.
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### Author:  [@kitemaker\_chuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitemaker_chuck)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2008, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphabet-movies/468596/3 "2008-10-19T02:27:45Z")
> [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](#):
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> With W out now, I can think of M, the old Fritz Lang picture, and Z, the Greek political thriller, and a few years ago didn’t they make a modern Othello entitled O? What other letters have formed the complete titles of films?
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> I know they haven’t filmed Thomas Pynchon’s V., but that would be a beauty.
If you mean films with a single letter or films with more than one letter (like titles that are acronyms), I can think of one of the latter:
MIB
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### Author:  [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2008, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphabet-movies/468596/4 "2008-10-19T02:48:57Z")
[A full listing](http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/oct/14/ask-parky-w).
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2008, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphabet-movies/468596/5 "2008-10-19T20:23:05Z")
That listing misses the American TV miniseries **V** , about invading aliens.
If you add numbers, there is at least a movie for every number, but most of them are short or indy films. Nevertheless, there’s
**The One** – martial arts film
**Five** Arch Oboler’s end-of-the-world flick
**Seven** – the psycho-killer film
**8 1/2** – Fellini
**10** – the Bo Derek film.
We’ve also got **pi** and **$**.
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### Author:  [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2008, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphabet-movies/468596/6 "2008-10-19T20:38:55Z")
“O” was nice and artistic and stuff, but I sorta preferred “The Story of O”. 😉
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### Author:  [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2008, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphabet-movies/468596/7 "2008-10-20T04:54:06Z")
Not a single letter title, but back in the fifties there was a film called “DOA”, meaning “dead on arrival”.
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### Author:  [@kellner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kellner)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2008, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphabet-movies/468596/8 "2008-10-20T05:41:12Z")
It’s stretching the rules a bit, but there is the excellent _I… comme Icare_. (“I as in Icarus”)
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### Author:  [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2008, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphabet-movies/468596/9 "2008-10-20T05:48:54Z")
[Sssssss](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070622/).
Joe
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### Author:  [@drillrod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drillrod)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2008, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphabet-movies/468596/10 "2008-10-20T12:17:26Z")
Vin Diesel was in **XXX**
**X2**
**F/X** and it’s sequel **F/X-2**
I believe that the official title of Spike Lee’s \*\*Malcolm X \*\*was simply **X**.
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### Author:  [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2008, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphabet-movies/468596/11 "2008-10-20T12:38:09Z")
Not to forget THE ALPHABET MURDERS [The Alphabet Murders (1965) - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060094/)
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2008, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphabet-movies/468596/12 "2008-10-20T13:07:57Z")
There’s **X, Y, and Zee**
> **[X, Y and Zee (1972) ⭐ 5.8 | Drama](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069516/)**
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> 1h 50m | R
Oddly enough, this is listed in the IMDb under the UK title of **Zee and Co.**. You’d think in the UK it’s be **Zed and Co.**.