# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2023, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/121 "2023-10-25T22:15:12Z")
> [@slicedalone](#): > > And eventually “Of The!!!” Ha! Apologies if someone already mentioned “Dial M for Murder” —\> “A Perfect Murder” ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2023, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/122 "2023-10-25T23:54:55Z")
Many may disagree, but I say that _Kill Bill_ is quite similar to _I Spit On Your Grave_. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2023, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/123 "2023-10-25T23:56:06Z")
I’ve noticed similarities between _Superman_ and _Man Of Steel_. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2023, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/124 "2023-10-26T00:45:26Z")
The Coen Brothers remade a French film called _Going Places_ as a _Big Lebowski_ spin-off called _The Jesus Rolls_. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2023, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/125 "2023-10-26T12:18:07Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > Outland was pretty much a sci-fi remake of high noon. So much so that Time magazine’s review called it High Moon. If you can ever get your hands on it, Harlan Ellison once wrote an extended rant/review of **Outland** complaining about its many, many flaws. In particular he harped on how taking “High Noon” and just transplanting it onto a moon of Jupiter is an fundmentally stupid idea, because the psychology doesn’t even remotely work. Tough for-the-duration miners aren’t going to act like middle-class types inn a Western town, especially when it turns out that the company they work for has been giving them drugs to burn out their souls. Marshall Sean Connery ought to have no problem getting up a posse of badasses to confront the hit men Peter Boyle was sending in. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2023, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/126 "2023-10-26T21:01:39Z")
The Post Apocalyptic genre does an awful lot of “remakes”… “World Gone Wild” with Bruce Dern and popstar Adam Ant is a remake of Seven Samuria/Magnificient Seven. Steel Dawn is a loose remake of Shane with Patrick Swayze as the mysterous stranger. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2023, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/127 "2023-10-30T18:53:38Z")
_The Incredible Journey_ was remade as _Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey_. ---
**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 30, 2023, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/128 "2023-10-30T20:00:27Z")
That was all John Turturro. The Coen’s have writer credits for the characters, but nothing else. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2023, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/129 "2023-11-06T20:10:07Z")
I caught _ **I Am a Camera** _ on Silver Screen this morning. Released in 1955, it stars Laurence Harvey and Julie Harris, with Shelley Winters in a minor role. I realized almost immediately that it’s basically the same story as _ **Cabaret** _. This is not surprising, since both movies were based on the 1945 book _ **The Berlin Stories** _, published in 1945, and the 1951 play with the same name. You learn something new every day. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2023, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/130 "2023-11-06T20:19:56Z")
> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > > [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > > > > [@mbh](#): > > > > > > _Throne of Blood_ is a samurai version of _Macbeth_. > > > > > > _Ran_ is a samurai version of _King Lear_. > > > > _O_ is a high-school basketball version of _Othello_! > > _She’s the Man_ is a high-school soccer version of _Twelfth Night._ _West Side Story_ is a New York street gang version of _Romeo and Juliet_. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2023, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/131 "2023-11-06T21:00:14Z")
And I bet they are the first to point that out. That was an unwatchably bad movie. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2023, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/132 "2023-11-06T21:15:17Z")
Dennis Dugan’s _Brain Donors_, with John Turturro, is a remake of The Marx Brothers _A Night At The Opera_. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2023, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/133 "2023-11-06T22:07:48Z")
Erich Kästner’s 1949 novel _Das doppelte Lottchen_, (“The Double Lottie”, translated into English under the title _Lisa and Lottie_) has been filmed as: _Two Times Lottie_, 1950, West Germany _Hibari no komoriuta_ (Hibari’s Lulliby), 1951, Japan _Twice Upon a time_, 1953, UK _The Parent Trap_, 1961, US (the one with Hayley Mills) _Kuzhandaiyum Deivamum_ (Child and God), 1965, India (Tamil) _Leta Manasulu_ (Tender Hearts), 1966, India (Telugu) _Do Kaliyaan_ (Two Buds), 1968, India (Hindi) _The Two Lottes_ 1992, Japan _Charlie & Louise – Das doppelte Lottchen_, 1994, Germany _Khaharan-e gharib_, 1996, Iran _The Parent Trap_, 1998, US (the one with Lindsay Lohan) _Kuch Khatti Kuch Meethi_ ( A Little Sour, A Little Sweet), 2001, India (Hindi) _Das doppelte Lottchen_, 2007, Germany ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2023, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/134 "2023-11-07T17:05:55Z")
Ellen Barkin’s movie from the 90s, _Switch_, is a remake (or strong homage at least) to _Goodbye Charlie_ from the mid-1950s with Debbie Reynolds. ---
**Author:** ![veryfrank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/87869e/32.png) [@veryfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/veryfrank)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2023, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/135 "2023-11-07T21:00:20Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > I realized almost immediately that it’s basically the same story as _ **Cabaret** _. This is not surprising, since both movies were based on the 1945 book _ **The Berlin Stories** _, published in 1945, and the 1951 play with the same name. The Sylvester Stallone flick _Cobra_ was based (meh…) on the novel “A Running Duck,” which was later published as “Fair Game” and adapted into yet another bad action movie (starring one of the lesser Baldwins and Cindy Crawford). I guess if filmmakers want another crack at some novel, just switch up the title and change a bit of the plot. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2023, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/136 "2023-11-07T21:20:23Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > > [@RickJay](#): > > > > Double Indemnity” was essentially remade as “The Postman Always Rings Twice” and “Body Heat” and probably a few more; the Snyder-Gray murder case has inspired a lot of fiction. > > Damn, look at the Depiction in popular media page here- > [Ruth Snyder - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Snyder) TIL: _Cheers_ star George Wendt, and _Ted Lasso_ star Jason Sudeikis, are grandson and great grandson, respectively, of Tom Howard, who took the infamous death chamber photo of Ruth Snyder with a camera strapped to his ankle. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2023, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/137 "2023-11-12T17:10:10Z")
_The Longest Yard_ was a 1974 movie about a football game between prisoners and guards. I knew there was a 2005 remake, also titled _The Longest Yard_. But I just found out there were two non-American remakes; _Mean Machine_, a 2001 British movie and _Captain Masr_, a 2015 Egyptian movie. ---
**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:** [November 12, 2023, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/138 "2023-11-12T19:15:39Z")
I just discovered an obscure one. _Berkeley Square_ was a 1933 movie starring Leslie Howard, about a man who time travels to 1784, taking the part of his ancestor. He falls in love with one of the women in the house, but gets in trouble because he can’t avoid showing off his knowledge of the future – mentioning a painting to its artist, who hasn’t finished it or shown it to anyone, for example. It was remade as _The House on the Square_ (American title: _I’ll Never Forget You_) in 1951 with Tyrone Power, who has been changed to be an atomic scientist. He makes many of the same mistakes as in the original. He also tries to invent things like electric lights. He is sent to Bedlam for saying he knows the future. He also falls in love with a different sister. Both have a scene with the sister looks into his eyes to see the world he came from. The films are notable as one of the first that featured time travel as a plot element (not including the various silent versions of _A Christmas Carol_ and Will Rogers’s _A Connecticut Yankee_). ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2023, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/139 "2023-11-13T01:09:23Z")
_Groundhog Day_ was remade in Italy as [Stork Day](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0374358/). ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2023, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/140 "2023-11-13T01:25:51Z")
The 2001 German movie _[Mostly Martha](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mostly_Martha_(film))_ (German title: _Bella Martha_) was remade in 2007 as the American Ron-Com _[No Reservations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Reservations_(film))_ _Mostly Martha_ is about working through profound grief by love and laughter. It is 92% at Rotten Tomatoes. _No Reservations_ is a stereotypical Rom-Com with a plot gimmick orphan taken in by a workaholic. Hijinks abound. It is 42% at Rotten Tomatoes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894.md?page=8)