Guess the Movie Trivia
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100 free Guess the Movie trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Every question here describes one film and asks you to name it. Some clues are a plot in a sentence, some a single prop or location, some a director and a year, and a few are the poster tagline. Recognise the detail and the title follows. The fifty picks run from 1930s Hollywood to the most recent Oscar winners, and they deliberately mix blockbusters with festival favourites from Japan, Italy, Germany, Brazil, Korea, India and Latvia. Four answer choices keep each one fair: three distractors from the same era and genre, so you can reason toward the title even when it does not come to you straight away. Built for film buffs, pub-quiz hosts and anyone who likes shouting titles at the screen. Play it on your phone or print it for a movie night.
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Q 01Which 1933 film has filmmaker Carl Denham sail a struggling actress to an uncharted island, where villagers seize her as an offering?
King Kong
King Kong's creatures were brought to life by Willis O'Brien's stop-motion animation, puppets moved a frame at a time decades before computer effects.
Q 02Which 1971 musical follows poor Charlie Bucket, whose Golden Ticket wins a tour of a secretive sweet-maker's plant?
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory hid five Golden Tickets in Wonka Bars worldwide, and Charlie finds the last one with money picked up from a gutter.
Q 03Which 1975 comedy has Arthur's squire clap coconut shells because the budget ruled out real horses?
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Monty Python and the Holy Grail turned the missing horses into a running gag, with Arthur debating whether coconuts could grow in a temperate climate.
Q 04Which 1954 Japanese film has peasants hire warriors to guard their harvest from bandits, later remade as a Western?
Seven Samurai
Seven Samurai was reworked into The Magnificent Seven in 1960, and its recruit-a-team structure has been copied by action films ever since.
Q 05Which 1957 courtroom drama unfolds almost entirely in one jury room, where a single holdout resists a guilty verdict?
12 Angry Men
12 Angry Men never names its jurors until the last scene, when Juror 8 and the old man who first backed him trade surnames on the courthouse steps: Davis and McCardle.
Q 06Which 1957 epic has British prisoners of war in Thailand build a railway crossing for their Japanese captors?
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Bridge on the River Kwai gave the Colonel Bogey March a second life, whistled by the prisoners as they march into the camp.
Q 07Which 1969 Western has two train-robbing outlaws flee a posse to Bolivia, then ends on a freeze-frame?
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid freezes on the pair running out to face the Bolivian army, with only gunfire on the soundtrack telling you how it ends.
Q 08Which 1991 road movie ends with two women driving their Thunderbird off the Grand Canyon's edge rather than surrender?
Thelma & Louise
Thelma & Louise gave Brad Pitt his breakout role as the drifter who charms Thelma, and the pair are cornered only 100 yards from the canyon's rim.
Q 09Which 2019 whodunit has Benoit Blanc probe a novelist's death, helped by a nurse who vomits whenever she lies?
Knives Out
Knives Out makes Marta's inability to lie without vomiting a plot engine, so she answers Blanc's questions accurately but never completely.
Q 10Which Spielberg film has an Indiana lineman sculpt Devils Tower from debris in his living room after a UFO sighting?
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Close Encounters of the Third Kind gives the visitors a five-tone musical phrase, and coordinates broadcast from space point scientists to the Wyoming monument.
Q 11Which 1993 thriller has surgeon Richard Kimble walk away from a bus crash to hunt the one-armed man who killed his wife?
The Fugitive
The Fugitive's bus-and-train wreck was filmed in a single take with a real locomotive at Dillsboro, North Carolina, where the wreckage can still be seen from passing excursion trains.
Q 12Which Coen brothers film has a Minnesota car salesman hire two criminals to kidnap his wife for her father's ransom?
Fargo
Fargo opens with a caption calling it a true story from 1987, yet its end credits carry the usual notice that the characters are fictitious.
Q 13Which Kubrick film puts gang leader Alex through the Ludovico Technique, conditioning that leaves him unable to fight?
A Clockwork Orange
Q 21Which 2006 dystopian thriller is set in a 2027 Britain where there have been no births anywhere for two decades?
Children of Men
Children of Men sends its hero toward the Human Project, a secret research group in the Azores trying to cure the infertility that has pushed humanity to extinction.
Q 22Which wordless 2024 animated film follows a dark grey cat surviving a rising flood aboard a boat with other animals?
Flow
Flow was animated in Blender, a free program anyone can download, by director Gints Zilbalodis and his team, and it still won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature, Latvia's first.
Q 23Which 2006 film has two Victorian stage magicians feud over a teleportation trick, with David Bowie as Nikola Tesla?
The Prestige
A Clockwork Orange has Alex call his gang his droogs, a word lifted from the Russian for friend as part of the film's invented slang.
Q 14Which 1963 war film has Allied prisoners dig three tunnels named Tom, Dick and Harry out of Stalag Luft III?
The Great Escape
The Great Escape's famous motorcycle leap was not ridden by Steve McQueen but by his friend Bud Ekins, after insurers refused to let the star attempt it.
Q 15Which Sergio Leone Western sends three gunslingers after buried Confederate gold to a cemetery standoff?
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is an Italian production shot mostly in Spain, where the circular Sad Hill Cemetery was purpose-built for the finale.
Q 16Which Tim Burton comedy has a newly deceased couple hire a sleazy bio-exorcist to drive new owners from their house?
Beetlejuice
Beetlejuice's afterlife caseworker Juno tells the Maitlands they must haunt their house for 125 years before moving on, and warns them never to call her former assistant.
Q 17Which 2016 film has Amy Adams's linguist decode the circular script of squid-like aliens as nations edge toward war?
Arrival
Arrival's scientists nickname the two heptapods Abbott and Costello, and learning their language starts to reshape how Banks experiences time.
Q 18Which 2004 British comedy has a downtrodden London salesman and his friends hole up in a pub during a zombie outbreak?
Shaun of the Dead
Shaun of the Dead grew out of an episode of Spaced, the sitcom in which Simon Pegg's character hallucinates a zombie apocalypse while playing video games.
Q 19Which 2023 Toho kaiju film set in postwar Japan was the first non-English film to win the visual effects Oscar?
Godzilla Minus One
Godzilla Minus One's 610 effects shots were all made by a crew of just 35 artists, led by Takashi Yamazaki, who also wrote and directed the film.
Q 20Which 2014 film has a programmer spend a week at his CEO's remote estate running a Turing test on a humanoid robot?
Ex Machina
Ex Machina's Caleb wins the trip in an office contest at search-engine firm Blue Book, and finds the CEO living with a servant who supposedly speaks no English.
The Prestige is named after the third and final part of a magic trick: after the pledge and the turn comes the prestige, when the thing that vanished is brought back.
Q 24Which 1938 screwball comedy pairs a paleontologist with a scatterbrained heiress and her tame leopard from Brazil?
Bringing Up Baby
Bringing Up Baby used a real leopard named Nissa in two roles, with her trainer standing just off-screen holding a whip for every scene.
Q 25Which Frank Capra film has a naive new senator filibuster for hours to expose a crooked dam scheme?
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington has James Stewart's Jefferson Smith coached from the gallery as he talks non-stop while fellow senators deliberately ignore him.
Q 26Which 1949 thriller has a pulp novelist arrive in occupied Vienna to find his friend Harry Lime has apparently died?
The Third Man
The Third Man's zither theme by Anton Karas topped international charts in 1950, and Lime's final flight runs through Vienna's sewers with police behind him.
Q 27Which 1950 Kurosawa film tells one forest murder through four clashing accounts, including the victim's via a medium?
Rashomon
Rashomon gave its name to the Rashomon effect, for witnesses who contradict one another, and its Golden Lion at Venice introduced many Western audiences to Japanese cinema.
Q 28Which 1956 sci-fi film has alien seed pods grow emotionless duplicates of a California town's residents?
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Invasion of the Body Snatchers was shot to end with its hero screaming at passing traffic as truckloads of pods drive by. The studio insisted on adding a framing story with a more hopeful close.
Q 29Which 1978 film follows three Pennsylvania steelworkers whose Vietnam captors force them to play Russian roulette?
The Deer Hunter
The Deer Hunter takes its title from the friends' hunting trips, where Mike insists a deer must be killed with 'one shot', a creed that returns at the roulette table. It won five Oscars, including Best Picture.
Q 30Which Spike Lee film builds one sweltering Bedford-Stuyvesant day toward violence at Sal's Italian-American pizzeria?
Do the Right Thing
Do the Right Thing gives Radio Raheem a soliloquy on love and hate that pays homage to Robert Mitchum's tattooed-knuckle preacher in a 1955 Charles Laughton film.