Bébé’s Kids is all about her kids. It was also a bad movie.
Legend of Zelda …Oh, that’s a video game.
It’s been a while since I’ve seen it, so I’ll leave it up to you, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
Petulia is mainly about George C. Scott’s character.
Damn it! I thought of another one but my listing it would be my admitting that I saw such rancid garbage.
Freddy Got Fingered
What you must think of me… :o
Ooops, Double Post, Double :o :o
Does Bringing Up Baby count? Baby (a leopard) isn’t the main character. And what about The General? The General (a train) isn’t the main character. Or The Exorcist, which arguably is not mainly about the guy performing the exorcism?
Kill Bill isn’t mainly about Bill.
The Blair Witch Project, where Ms. Witch doesn’t ever show herself.
It has been aptly noted that the main character of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (the Gene Wilder version) is Charlie Bucket, while the main character of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (the Johnny Depp version) is Willy Wonka.
I think my favorite example of this is “The Third Man,” where not only is the main character not the Third Man, but it takes most of the movie’s running time to figure out just who that Third Man was, and why it’s important.
**Edward, my Son **is another film (like Rebecca) where the title character is never even seen on screen.
Goldfinger
JFK
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Henry IV Part 2
Le Pacte de le Loupe
The DaVinci Code
The title character in The Thin Man (1934) was the murder victim, which made it confusing when five sequels still referred to him in the title.
Oh! The Pink Panther! Not a character, strictly speaking, but the cartoon character is sometimes shoehorned into the credits sequence.
The main character in Heathers is not Heather Chandler, Heather Duke, or Heather McNamara, but Veronica Sawyer.
Have you people entirely but understandably forgotten cheesy 80s college moves, and chief amongst them, The Sure Thing and Porkys?
So, the main characters are the title characters. Bebe’s name is in the title, but only in that the title is referring to her kids as a group. If Bebe were the main character, then Bebe’s Kids would be an example.
[Nitpick]The Pink Panther is a diamond. The cartoon character is based on the image that’s seen when you stare at the Pink Panther diamond in a certain light.[/Nitpick]
The character who is Dead at 17 in the movie of that name is barely seen onscreen other than in photos. Which is too bad, because the actor is my cousin!
Not exactly in the title but in No Country for Old Men the character that seems like the lead is totally a secondary character.
You could make an argument that The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde isn’t about the titular character(s), but about the lawyer solving the case, but that may be grasping at straws.
Twice.
MyFootsZZZ, Dr. Strangelove totally fits. Sellars’ British lieutenant, Gen. Ripper & the crew of the bomber get WAY more attention that the Doctor.