# Movies that are "remakes" but with different titles **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [October 21, 2023, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894 "2023-10-21T17:41:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2023, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/21 "2023-10-21T18:31:14Z")
Yes, really! ---
**Author:** ![slicedalone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slicedalone/32/12515_2.png) [@slicedalone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slicedalone)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2023, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/22 "2023-10-21T18:46:35Z")
Just mid-career Audrey Hepburn, annoying little kid, and valuables hidden unbeknownst to her. Otherwise: Husband/ No husband Heroin / stamps Villain out in the open / Villain hidden untll end of picture Scary as shit / semi-comical romance Claustrophobic / exotic locales Blind / 20-20 vision ---
**Author:** ![Wolf333](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf333/32/3460_2.png) [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2023, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/23 "2023-10-21T19:04:38Z")
Nope. That’s just an old leetspeak spelling of my name. The Departed is a remake or parts of three Infernal Affairs films. Non-serious answer: Point Break was remade as The Fast and the Furious ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2023, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/24 "2023-10-21T19:06:43Z")
> [@Wolf333](#): > > La Femme Nikita was remade as Point of No Return I was confused by this until I realized that _Point of No Return_ and _The Assassin_ were alternate titles for the same movie. ---
**Author:** ![Wolf333](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf333/32/3460_2.png) [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2023, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/25 "2023-10-21T19:10:52Z")
Dammit, now I learned something new. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2023, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/26 "2023-10-21T19:26:02Z")
My actual answer: _Flubber_ was a remake of _The Absent-Minded Professor._ But some YouTube friars I watched recently pointed out the similarities between _Evan Almighty_ and _The Santa Clause_. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2023, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/27 "2023-10-21T19:29:07Z")
_Six Days, Seven Nights_ (1998) is a poor imitation of the great Italian film _Swept Away_ from 1974. It was also remade with the original title in 2002 with Madonna in the lead role. I haven’t seen that one and don’t care to. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2023, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/28 "2023-10-21T19:29:15Z")
The French film _La Cage aux Folles_ (“Birds of a Feather”) was remade in the U.S. as _The Birdcage_. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2023, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/29 "2023-10-21T19:29:15Z")
> [@Wolf333](#): > > Point Break was remade as The Fast and the Furious Really? I had not heard that. Googling, the first Fast and the Furious movie was based, in part, on an article about street racing. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2023, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/30 "2023-10-21T19:31:13Z")
Similarly, _Le Dîner de Cons_ was remade in the US as _Dinner for Schmucks_. And the Canadian (I think French Canadian) film _Starbuck_ was remade as _Delivery Man_. ---
**Author:** ![Wolf333](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf333/32/3460_2.png) [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2023, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/31 "2023-10-21T19:32:20Z")
No, it was a joke. The overall plot is nearly the same. LEO goes undercover in an extreme sports subculture to catch some thieves, becomes friends with the leader of the thieves, falls for the leader’s sister/friend that he treats like a sister, LEO lets friend/thief get away at the end. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2023, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/32 "2023-10-21T19:34:48Z")
> [@Llama\_Llogophile](#): > > **The Magnificent Seven** was a remake, or maybe more accurately an adaptation, of **The Seven Samurai**. And _The Magnificent Seven_ then yielded, as a comedic remake/adaptation, _Three Amigos!_. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2023, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/33 "2023-10-21T19:34:48Z")
_ **The Assassin** _ is the title under which I saw it. My question was inspired by Harvey Keitel’s performance in _ **The Assassin** _ as a “fixer” a lot meaner and nastier than Winston Wolf in _ **Pulp Fiction** _. Back when I was an EFL teacher, I got ahold of a videotape of the former just as I finished having my class analyze the latter. We all had a good laugh when I played the Keitel segments back-to-back. With regard to _ **Charade** _ and _ **Wait until Dark** _: In both movies, Hepburn has something of extreme value in her possession without realizing it. She’s terrorized by the bad guys who are intent on recovering it, and she doesn’t know whom she can trust. Her husband is not around and she’s on her own. One of the men she fears actually turns out to be a nice guy and endangers himself trying to help her. I don’t claim any direct connection, but those similarities suggest to me that whoever wrote the screenplay for the latter was at least influenced by the former. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2023, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/34 "2023-10-21T19:36:11Z")
> [@Wolf333](#): > > Dammit, now I learned something new. I _hate it_ when that happens! ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2023, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/35 "2023-10-21T19:41:40Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > > [@Llama\_Llogophile](#): > > > > **The Magnificent Seven** was a remake, or maybe more accurately an adaptation, of **The Seven Samurai**. > > And _The Magnificent Seven_ then yielded, as a comedic remake/adaptation, _Three Amigos!_. Among many others, > **[Seven Samurai | Remakes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Samurai#Remakes)** > > Its influence can be most strongly felt in the Western The Magnificent Seven (1960), a film specifically adapted from Seven Samurai. Director John Sturges took Seven Samurai and adapted it to the Old West, with the samurai replaced by gunslingers. Many of The Magnificent Seven's scenes mirror those of Seven Samurai. The film's title itself comes from the US localized title of Seven Samurai, which was initially released under the title The Magnificent Seven in the United States in 1955. Ho The Inv... My throwaway, [_Manhunter_](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091474/) \> [_Red Dragon_](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289765/). ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2023, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/36 "2023-10-21T19:51:30Z")
[12 Monkeys](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_Monkeys), if not exactly an expanded remake of [La Jetée](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Jet%C3%A9e), at very least uses a whole lot of the same plot elements and in the opening credits of the former, the latter is listed as the inspiration. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2023, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/37 "2023-10-21T19:52:10Z")
The novel _I am Legend_ (1954) by Richard Matheson has been adapted to film three times under three titles: _The Last Man on Earth_ (1964 with Vincent Price), _The Omega Man_ (1971 with Charlton Heston), and _I am Legend_ (2007 with Will Smith). There are significant plot differences between the four works (one novel and three films) so you may not count them as strictly remakes. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2023, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/38 "2023-10-21T19:57:06Z")
That was the other set of 3 I was trying to recall. Thank you for this. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2023, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/39 "2023-10-21T20:16:15Z")
Wikipedia has lists of such films, such as [this one](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English-language_films_with_previous_foreign-language_film_versions) of “English-language films with previous foreign-language film versions.” (In some cases the English-language film has the same title in translation, in others the titles are completely different.) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2023, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/40 "2023-10-21T20:25:07Z")
_ **True Lies** _ was a remake of _ **Who Was That Lady?** _ with real-life husband and wife Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. I had an incredible feeling of _deja vu_ watching the latter, but it didn’t click that I was seeing essentially the same movie until it got to the torture scene. Then everything fell into place. As an aside, Larry Storch was the torturer in the original, and Jamie Lee Curtis played the same role as her mother (the hero’s wife) in the second. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894.md?page=3)