Movies With Titles That Just Keep Going

Short titles kept it simple, and these movies clearly said absolutely not. Names stretch on, keep going, and somehow still have more to add like they’re being paid per word.

Half the fun is trying to say the full title without forgetting what movie you were talking about in the first place.

1. Andrew Dominik’s Western Drama (2007) (Shortened Title Version)

So much drama sits in the title that the ending feels spoiled before the opening credits even roll.

Haunted, magnetic stillness defines Jesse James in Brad Pitt’s performance, turning each scene into something resembling a painting. Nearly three hours of runtime make the title feel like the short version.

Two Oscar nominations followed, and the film is still widely admired for its cinematography and atmosphere.

2. Kubrick’s Cold War Satire (1964) (Shortened Title Version)

Stanley Kubrick gave this film a title that reads like a full joke before the movie even begins.

Across the film, Peter Sellers plays three completely different roles, and every one of them lands as unforgettable. Cold War paranoia gets skewered so sharply that audiences laughed nervously straight through it.

Critics still rank it among the great film comedies, and its satire remains remarkably sharp.

3. Borat! Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan (2006)

Walking into real-life situations with a fake accent and a notebook, Sacha Baron Cohen somehow created one of the most quoted films of the 2000s.

Sounding like a school assignment translated through three different languages, the title sets the tone before anything even happens. Much of the film’s comedy comes from unscripted interactions with real people, and its $18 million budget led to more than $262 million worldwide.

4. Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines, Or How I Flew From London To Paris In 25 Hours And 11 Minutes (1965)

Nothing says confidence quite like a movie title that includes the exact travel time down to the minute.

Released in 1965, this beloved British comedy follows a wild international air race packed with slapstick, charm, and gloriously impractical flying machines.

Stuart Whitman and Terry-Thomas lead a cast that clearly had just as much fun making it as audiences had watching it. Theme song became a genuine hit.

Playful energy helps explain why the film still holds onto its charm.

5. The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension (1984)

Buckaroo Banzai is a neurosurgeon, rock musician, and dimension-hopping hero, and the title still somehow undersells him.

Released in 1984, the film developed a fierce cult following despite baffling studio executives on first release. Peter Weller plays Banzai with a deadpan cool that makes saving the world look like a Tuesday errand.

The ending teases a sequel that never arrived, and fans are still waiting. Some cliffhangers age like fine cheese.

6. The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill But Came Down A Mountain (1995)

Peak floppy-hair charm from Hugh Grant meets a stubborn Welsh village and a cartography dispute that somehow turns into a love story.

Based on a story tied to a real Welsh hill, the film follows a community determined to have their landmark recognized as a mountain. Every scene lands like a warm cup of tea handed over by a very polite neighbor.

Box office numbers disappointed at first, yet the film later found its audience on home video, proving quiet victories still count.

7. Everything You Always Wanted to Know… (But Were Afraid To Ask) (1972) (Shortened Title Version)

Borrowing the title of a bestselling book, Woody Allen turned the material into a loose anthology of absurd comedy sketches. One segment includes an oversized runaway visual gag, which quickly makes clear how far the film is willing to push its absurdity.

Gene Wilder turns up in a sketch so committed and strange it really has to be seen to be believed.

Critics were divided, audiences stayed entertained, and the title kept curiosity doing plenty of the box-office heavy lifting.

8. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery Of Prodigious Bribe To American Regime For Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan (2020)

Fourteen years later, Sacha Baron Cohen returned with a title even longer than the original, which felt both inevitable and deeply correct. Filmed secretly during the early months of the pandemic, the movie captured a genuinely surreal moment in American history.

Recognition followed when Maria Bakalova earned an Oscar nomination for her fearless performance as Borat’s daughter.

Released on Amazon Prime Video, the sequel reached a very large streaming audience and added another absurdly long title to the Borat franchise.

9. Birdman Or (The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance) (2014)

Michael Keaton plays a faded superhero actor trying to reclaim his dignity on a Broadway stage, and the parenthetical subtitle makes the whole thing feel even more philosophical.

Alejandro González Iñárritu shot the film to resemble one continuous take, a choice that became central to its style.

Drumming on the soundtrack rattles through your chest like a kettle boiling over on a quiet morning. Four Academy Awards followed, including Best Picture, so ignorance apparently turned out to be quite virtuous.

10. Known As Marat/Sade – 1967 (Shortened Title Version)

Set inside an asylum, the film unfolds as a staged performance centered on Jean-Paul Marat and directed within the story by the Marquis de Sade. Essentially functioning as a full plot synopsis, the title races ahead at full sprint.

Director Peter Brook adapted Peter Weiss’s celebrated stage production, creating one of the most challenging and intellectually dense films of the period. Glenda Jackson delivers a performance that still leaves critics searching for the right adjectives.

Some titles truly earn every single word.

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