I just went to look up a movie listing for “Crush” and found that there 5 with that identical title, all unrelated.
(Plus “The Crush”, which I wouldn’t count as the same, but some people might.)
Since you can’t copyright titles, anyone can make a movie called “Gone With The Wind”, as long as it was about a new story.
These all happened to be made in the last decade, so the title “Crush” could end up being made 50 times this century.
But back to the question - What title has been used the most?
Do different versions of the same story count? The IMDB lists nine different versions of The Phantom of the Opera (all under that title, at least as variants)-- six theatrical films and three TV versions. I recall a lot of different versions of Dr. Jeckyll and Mister Hyde and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Orc are you restricting this to cases where different movies have the same title?
There are tons of Frankensteins and Sherlock Holmes as well, though the different Sherlocks are different stories, and many of the Frankensteins are sequals and stuff. Odd, this doens’t contribute anything relavent to the discussion. oh, well…
i got both the regular and extended versions of that song on mp3! “put a dinosaur bone in your butt…”
There are 30 theatrical Hamlet movies (all just that one-word title), plus another 16 TV movies. There are also 11 each for Romance and (A) Love Story. There are 11 Davids and 12 Lauras.
Y’all suck; you just aren’t observant enough. Lazy Hollywood producers have poorly attempted to reuse the title of Stephen King’s “It” in hundreds of movies.
IMDB counts at least 1607.
Or, perhaps that is a mostly inane and asinine response.
I don’t think the OP is asking for titles that are obviously based off the same source (ie, Dracula, Jekyll+Hyde), but rather movies using the same name but not of the same source. I have nothing else to add, though
I saw 7 movies titled “Monkey Business”, as well as “Too Much Monkey Business”, “Manhattan Monkey Business”, “No Monkey Business”, and “Some Monkey Business”.
If anyone wants to spend a bit of time, you can download the IMDB database, sort it and find the answer. It’s available at ftp://ftp.imdb.com/pub/interfaces.
I did a quick check of some data downloaded theough Bill H’s link.
the downloaded list has 41 titles of a 40’s series called “Popular Science” which appears to be the most repeated title in their database. The next is 39 versions of “Hamlet”. The greatest number attached to a title which seems to be separate stories would appear to be “The Kiss” (17). The top counts (>= 15):
41 - Popular Science
39 - Hamlet
33 - Unusual Occupations
28 - Macbeth
27 - Carmen
23 - Romeo and Juliet
22 - Anna Karenina
21 - Cinderella
20 - Othello
17 - A Midsummer Night’s Dream
17 - The Kiss
17 - Jack and the Beanstalk
16 - The Three Musketeers
16 - Secrets
16 - Julius Caesar
16 - Don Giovanni
15 - Mutt and Jeff
15 - Desire
15 - Anna
I just did some quick filtering of the data, so there may have been some anomalies in the counting. YMMV. An actual search in imdb itself yields 13 movies titled “The Kiss”,
9 titled “Secrets” and 12 titled “Desire”.
If multiple versions of the same story count, the IMDb lists no less than 20 movies called “Cinderella”, 15 that are a.k.a. “Cinderella” and 57 with “Cinderella” somewhere in the title.