# best film without an A in the name... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 16, 2009, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-film-without-an-a-in-the-name/493319 "2009-04-16T19:41:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![johnspartan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@johnspartan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnspartan)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-film-without-an-a-in-the-name/493319/1 "2009-04-16T19:41:00Z")
Was thinking about this in the car the other day (so now you know what those wandering people in front of your car are thinking)… What’s the best movie ever made that does NOT have a letter A in the title? So, that means no Citizen K **A** ne, nor C **A** s **A** bl **A** nc **A** , nor St **A** r W **A** rs, nor The Godf **A** ther… Gone with the Wind, maybe? The Princess Bride? ---
**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-film-without-an-a-in-the-name/493319/2 "2009-04-16T19:51:02Z")
**Fight Club?** I know, but my options are limited! ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-film-without-an-a-in-the-name/493319/3 "2009-04-16T19:59:02Z")
The trilogy: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (I doubt if you’ll get other such long titles without the given letter). ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-film-without-an-a-in-the-name/493319/4 "2009-04-16T19:59:05Z")
To crib like a mother, and to get us started, here are 31 movies on the AFI’s “100 Years … 100 Movies” list without “a” in the title: Schindler’s List Some Like It Hot Psycho One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest High Noon Midnight Cowboy Double Indemnity North by Northwest West Side Story King Kong From Here to Eternity The Sound of Music Vertigo Tootsie Close Encounters of the Third Kind Network The French Connection Forrest Gump Ben-Hur Wuthering Heights The Gold Rush City Lights Rocky The Deer Hunter The Wild Bunch Modern Times Duck Soup Mutiny on the Bounty Pulp Fiction Unforgiven Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-film-without-an-a-in-the-name/493319/5 "2009-04-16T20:00:15Z")
**Duck Soup City Lights Psycho Notorious Red River M The Big Sleep North by Northwest The Thirty-Nine Steps Z Touch of Evil** ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-film-without-an-a-in-the-name/493319/6 "2009-04-16T20:01:45Z")
Damn. I came in here to say Close Encounters. ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-film-without-an-a-in-the-name/493319/7 "2009-04-16T20:02:33Z")
The Incredibles ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-film-without-an-a-in-the-name/493319/8 "2009-04-16T20:02:45Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > The trilogy: > > The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring > The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers > The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King > > (I doubt if you’ll get other such long titles without the given letter). You. You’re good. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-film-without-an-a-in-the-name/493319/9 "2009-04-16T22:16:09Z")
_The Big Sleep The City of Lost Children Close Encounters of the Third Kind Contempt Do the Right Thing The Double Life of Veronique Duck Amuck L’Eclisse The General Greed In the Mood for Love Intruder in the Dust King Kong Love Me Tonight Meet Me in St. Louis Modern Times Night of the Hunter Ordet Pinocchio Shoeshine Some Like It Hot The Spirit of the Beehive Sunrise Sweet Smell of Success Topsy-Turvy Underground Vertigo The Wild Bunch The Wind_ ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-film-without-an-a-in-the-name/493319/10 "2009-04-16T22:24:12Z")
> [@ArchiveGuy](#): > > … > Duck Amuck > … > The General > … I don’t think those fit. ---
**Author:** ![bonzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@bonzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bonzer)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-film-without-an-a-in-the-name/493319/11 "2009-04-16T22:25:47Z")
_8 1/2_ ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-film-without-an-a-in-the-name/493319/12 "2009-04-16T22:26:14Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > I don’t think those fit. You’re right. :smack: Too quick on the draw. Then how about _Sherlock Jr._ and _One Froggy Evening_ to replace them? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![bonzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@bonzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bonzer)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-film-without-an-a-in-the-name/493319/13 "2009-04-16T22:30:42Z")
A borderline case: _Sunset Blvd._ (Depends on whether you think this is the correct title or not.) ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-film-without-an-a-in-the-name/493319/14 "2009-04-16T22:33:33Z")
Memento Tombstone The Lion in Winter ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-film-without-an-a-in-the-name/493319/15 "2009-04-16T22:36:40Z")
Here are my favorites: Pulp Fiction Reservoir Dogs Moonstruck ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-film-without-an-a-in-the-name/493319/16 "2009-04-16T22:54:26Z")
You guys have already listed some critical faves, so I’ll round it out with some fun titles for a cornball night: Gold Diggers of 193\_ Swing Time Ben-Hur The Producers The Dirty Dozen Sleeper The Sting Telefon The Towering Inferno The Right Stuff Dirty Rotten Scoundrels The Hunt for Red October Fight Club Ed Wood Erin Brockovich The Bourne Identity and a surprising number of James Bond titles [in chrono. order]: Dr. No Goldfinger You Only Live Twice The Spy Who Loved Me For Your Eyes Only Octopussy License to Kill GoldenEye Tomorrow Never Dies The World is Not Enough … or 10 out of 22 titles. Weird, no? ---
**Author:** ![ENugent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4af34b/32.png) [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-film-without-an-a-in-the-name/493319/17 "2009-04-16T22:58:28Z")
Gone With the Wind? ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-film-without-an-a-in-the-name/493319/18 "2009-04-16T23:46:50Z")
Since the classics are already listed, I think I’ll go with my personal favorites too. Brick Go Bye Bye Love Clerks The Crow The Quiet Room Suicide Kings If Lucy Fell Empire Records eXistenZ Leon Light It Up Little Boy Blue Foolproof Mononoke-hime ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-film-without-an-a-in-the-name/493319/19 "2009-04-17T00:06:33Z")
It ---
**Author:** ![Leiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Leiko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leiko)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-film-without-an-a-in-the-name/493319/20 "2009-04-17T00:21:05Z")
Here’s the non-A movies from my collection: 1776 Bedknobs and Broomsticks Hot Fuzz Juno Moulin Rouge! The Princess Bride The Producers (Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder version) School of Rock UHF If you made me list my favorites of all the movies I own, that’d be a pretty close list. (Though Shaun of the Dead and most of the Mel Brooks is missing.) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-film-without-an-a-in-the-name/493319.md?page=2)