Right - if the name of the movie was “Bill dies at the end” - that would be a spoiler - “kill bill” is what the movie is about - the search to “kill bill” - but does not, in and of itself, say whether or not Bill does indeed die during the movie.
Naked Lunch
I haven’t seen it, but the title tells me exactly what’s going to happen.
“The Bus That Couldn’t Slow Down”
I’ll see your “universally known as” and raise you an IMDb.
Personally I consider this the most misleading film title of all time. No nudity! No lunch!
Attack of the Clones
The Search for Spock says what they are out doing, not if they succeed, or if he comes back alive or in a pine box.
It says they are attempting a voyage home. It makes no statement as to whether they successfully arrive. Although one can surmise so, there is nothing in the title that is a step beyond expectation entering the film.
My candidate - “The Impossible”. It’s the heartwarming true story of one family that survived the tsunami in Dec 2006.
[spoiler]It’s called “the Impossible”, because that’s what happened. This one family is vacationing in Thailand when the tsunami hits and separates them in the flood. The mother and oldest son get swept away and manage to stay together, but are miles away from everyone else, and mom gets banged up. Their part of the story is surviving the flood, and getting help, getting her to the hospital, the boy losing her and thinking she’s dead before finally reuniting with her, and hoping for the rest of the family. Meanwhile, dad manages to find the two younger boys, but is searching for the mother and oldest boy. He sends the two younger boys with another couple for evacuation, and then they get pulled away with a bunch of other children, so now he doesn’t have any of his family. He’s surveying all the hospitals and such, and in the climatic scene, the two youngest boys and the dad all wind up wandering around the hospital and the oldest boy seeing them, and they reunite.
But the clencher is that mom is greatly ill from the near drowning and impalement on sticks, she’s infected. They’re rushing her off to surgery. But she lives, and they all go home together. Thus, the impossible occurs - they all survive and find each other. [/spoiler]
Except, of course, we know going in it is the true story of one family and it would be trivial to find out the spoiler that the title gives.
As Shatner said, when the film was being released, you KNOW that at the end they’re not going to turn around and say “Well, we couldn’t find him!” so the title really does kinda give it away, I’ll grant. But given all the buzz at the time about Nimoy directing, this wasn’t exactly a big surprise or secret.
Not in English, but allegedly the Japanese title for Sixth Sense was He’s a Ghost! complete with the bang at the end.