# 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:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-film-without-an-a-in-the-name/493319/41 "2009-04-18T07:08:32Z")
Nominees for the 2002 _Sight and Sound_ “Top Ten” poll: _The Bellboy_, _Belle de jour, Besieged_, _The Bicycle Thief_, _The Big Sleep_, _The Birds_, _Bitter Coffee_, _Blowup_, _Blue_, _Blue Velvet, Boom!, Boy, Boys Don’t Cry, Brief Encounter, Brink of Life, Broken Blossoms, Brother, Burnt by the Sun, Ceddo, The Celluloid Closet, Chungking Express, Chunhyang, El Cid, The Circus, City Lights, Cleo from 5 to 7, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Close-up, The Clowns, Un Coeur en hiver, Coffy, Come and See, The Conformist, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Culloden, The Deer Hunter, The Young Girls of Rochefort (Les Demoiselles de Rochefort), Detour, Le Deuxième Souffle, The Devil in Miss Jones, The Devils, Do the Right THing, Do You Remember Dolly, Don’t Look Now, Double Indemnity, Drifting Clouds, Duck Soup, Dune, Dust, 8 1/2, L’eclisse, El, Exodus, The Exorcist, Eyes Wide Shut, Fires Were Started, Forrest Gump, The 400 Blows, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Gertrud, Get Shorty, God Told Me To, Gold Diggers of 1933, The Gold Rush, Goldfinger, Gone with the Wind, Good Morning, Boys!, Greed_… ah, my fingers are tired. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-film-without-an-a-in-the-name/493319/42 "2009-04-18T07:15:08Z")
Oops, subtract: _Chunhyang, Fires Were Started_, and _Come and See_. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-film-without-an-a-in-the-name/493319/43 "2009-04-18T09:28:29Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > My Best Friend\* (in the original French, _Mon meilleur ami_ - does that rule it out?) I think we gotta go with the official title applied by the author of the work. Which knocks out **ArchiveGuy** ’s: Sciuscià El espíritu de la colmena La double vie de Véronique La cité des enfants perdus and **MrDibble** ’s: Dom za vesanje Trzy kolory: Bialy and **tr0psn4j** ’s: History of the World: Part I and **Walloon** ’s: Ladri di biciclette Silný kafe Nära livet Kauas pilvet karkaavat ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2009, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-film-without-an-a-in-the-name/493319/44 "2009-04-25T14:21:52Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > I think we gotta go with the official title applied by the author of the work. > Which knocks out […] > and **MrDibble** ’s: > Dom za vesanje Luckily _Der Himmel über Berlin_ still stands, then. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2009, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-film-without-an-a-in-the-name/493319/45 "2009-04-25T19:04:12Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > I think we gotta go with the official title applied by the author of the work. If that’s the case: 羅生門 七人の侍 蜘蛛巣城 用心棒 影武者 乱 Rashomon Seven Samurai Throne of Blood (aka Spiderweb Castle) Yojimbo (aka The Bodyguard) Kagemusha (aka the Shadow Warrior) Ran 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2009, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-film-without-an-a-in-the-name/493319/46 "2009-04-25T19:10:48Z")
The M tricks. Neo goes back to kindergarten and learns all the different ways to write the the 13th letter of the Alphabet. The M Tricks. "There is No “A” " * * * Pi ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2009, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-film-without-an-a-in-the-name/493319/47 "2009-04-25T21:09:16Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > Little Miss Sunshine Beat me to it. ---
**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 27, 2009, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-film-without-an-a-in-the-name/493319/48 "2009-04-27T16:45:37Z")
> [@Terminus\_Est](#): > > If that’s the case: > 羅生門 > 七人の侍 > 蜘蛛巣城 > 用心棒 > 影武者 > 乱 So, is ああっ女神さまっ (Oh! My Goddess!) in or out? (The first two characters, “あ”, transliterate as “a” in English) ---
**Author:** ![Engineer\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9fc29f/32.png) [@Engineer\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Engineer_Dude)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2009, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-film-without-an-a-in-the-name/493319/49 "2009-04-27T18:54:52Z")
The Big Lebowski The Fifth Element Fletch Ghostbusters Resident Evil The Shining Shrek Shrek 2 Shrek the Third The Simpsons Movie Twister We Were Soldiers ---
**Author:** ![usar\_jag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f0a364/32.png) [@usar\_jag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usar_jag)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2009, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-film-without-an-a-in-the-name/493319/50 "2009-04-27T20:45:15Z")
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