Cryptic Movie Riddles

Are you a film buff? If you think you know your stuff when it comes to the big screen, check out these cryptic movie riddles. The answer to every clue is a famous movie. How many can you get?

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Cryptic Movie Quiz

1. Best weapon.

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Top Gun.

2. Well-behaved colloquial men.

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Goodfellas.

3. Putting dots on locomotives.

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Trainspotting.

4. The absence of light with a soldier from the Middle Ages.

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The Dark Knight.

5. Furious male bovine animal.

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Raging Bull.

6. First number took flight over Swiss clock’s home.

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

7. Town inhabitant with slender stick.

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Citizen Kane.

8. Frightening film.

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Scary Movie.

9. Cease living before rigid.

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Die Hard.

10. Dad goes after the deity.

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The Godfather.

11. Insane greatest amount shortened.

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Mad Max.

12. The end of the world immediately.

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Apocalypse Now.

13. Crooning while the water comes down.

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Singin’ in the Rain.

14. Cab chauffeur.

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Taxi Driver.

15. A few enjoy information technology heated.

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Some Like It Hot.

16. Knife jogger.

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Blade Runner.

17. The one after the second guy.

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The Third Man.

18. Water supply hounds.

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Reservoir Dogs.

19. The expensive pursuer.

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The Deer Hunter.

20. Near meetings of the tertiary sort.

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Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

21. The opposite of down.

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Up.

22. Strewn with boulders.

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Rocky.

23. The necromancer from down under.

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The Wizard of Oz.

24. Soft, wet, shapeless mass of books.

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Pulp Fiction.

25. Celebrity conflicts.

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Star Wars.

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26. Rear the one after one before the time still to come.

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Back to the Future.

27. Plunders belonging to Noah’s misplaced boat.

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Raiders of the Lost Ark.

28. Disappeared alongside the breeze.

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Gone with the Wind.

29. Murder a sarcastic feathered creature.

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To Kill a Mockingbird.

30. Quietness of the young sheep.

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Silence of the Lambs.

31. The first meal of the day association.

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The Breakfast Club.

32. The monarch’s daughter on the day of her wedding.

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The Princess Bride.

33. Distant advance.

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Fargo.

34. A timepiece mechanism with citrus fruit.

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Clockwork Orange.

35. Combat society.

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Fight Club.

36. Plaything fable.

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Toy Story.

38. The everyday people thought to be guilty.

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The Usual Suspects.

39. Everything concerning the first woman.

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All About Eve.

40. Well-behaved desire stalking.

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Good Will Hunting.

41. Courageous organ.

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Braveheart.

42. Man of noble rank belonging to the circles.

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Lord of the Rings.

43. Physically in contact with the liquid foremost.

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On the Waterfront.

44. A dozen annoyed guys.

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12 Angry Men.

45. Spook apprehenders.

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Ghost Busters.

46. Out of money before rear elevation.

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Brokeback Mountain.

47. Fiery seats on horses.

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Blazing Saddles.

48. Every one of the head of state’s guys.

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All the President’s Men.

49. 24 hours after the earth pig.

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Groundhog Day.

50. The opposite of east border fable.

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West Side Story.

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