Movie puzzle (May 2020)

The seven clues below refer to movie titles which each contain a double letter O.

1. 2002 Phillip Noyce movie based on a Doris Pilkington Garimara book

_ _ _ _ _ _ - _ _ O O _   _ _ _ _ _

2. 1990 Ray Liotta crime classic

_ O O _ _ _ _ _ _ _

3. 2018 Best Picture Oscar winner that upset the Shirleys

_ _ _ _ _  _ O O _

4. 1969 Alain Delon crime thriller La Piscine, in English

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _   _ O O _

5. Seventh installment of the interminable hockey mask killer series (1988)

_ _ _ _ _ _   _ _ _   _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _   _ _ _ _   _ _ _ : _ _ _   _ _ _   _ _ O O _

6. Popular 1993 movie about the Jamaican bobsleigh team

_ O O _  _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

7. 1973 Raymond Chandler book adaptation starring Elliot Gould

_ _ _  _ _ _ _  _ O O _ _ _ _

DOUBLE TROUBLE: as an extra challenge, can you discover the hidden theme word that ties everything together? Afterall, you only live...

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Movie puzzle (March 2026)

How many movie titles can you make from the letters above?

There is a 1988 comedy based on the Great Train Robbery, which stars a well-known singer.

Horror fans may discover the not-very-well-received Lou Diamond Phillips horror in which certain creatures attack a small Texas town. 

If you can reuse letters, there is an award-winning comedy drama well known for its use of animatronics, about a particular farm creature who wants to do the work typically done by another type of farm animal.

Reusing letters also helps you find a 2015 Italian neo-noir crime flick that spawned a tv series, and a very well-received minimalist movie about a Nigerian footballer living in Vietnam, directed by Bao Le.

But to be a star, you'll have to find the one-word movie title, a classic thriller, that uses each letter once. Can you find it?

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Monthly movie puzzle (February 2026)

How many movie titles can you make from the letters above? A five-letter one starring Tom Hardy? Another four-letter one starring Sam Rockwell? Or there's the latest in a space adventure series.

A movie in which Nicole Kidman plays the foster mother of a man trying to find his way home?

If you are allowed to use letters more than once, you'll find a David Fincher classic. Or Ryûhei Kitamura's  2012 slasher starring Luke Evans as a highway crime victim who turns out more murderous and hellbent on destruction than his gang of assailants.

Real movie loons might find a 2007 Brendan Cowell film too, about a Melbourne cop driven crazy by an incessant ringing in his ears.

And what about a 2018 movie title that uses each letter once?

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Monthly movie puzzle (January 2026)

CATEGORY FIND

In this Word Find puzzle, we haven't told you precisely what words to find, just how many types of words you should find! Words of the same type start with the same letter of the alphabet. For example, three school items might be pencil, pen and paper, all starting with the first letter P. These first letters in order spell the name of a famous writer (and occasional actor).  Once you have found all the words in the grid, the unused letters in order spell out a related title.

Find:

A vegetable
2 occupations
3 things on which food is served
4 colours
5 modes of transport
6 animals

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Monthly movie puzzle (January 2018)

CROSS-STITCH 002

Grab a pen and answer the clues of our murder mystery-themed Acrostic and use the individual letters to reveal a quotation in the grid. Remember, the first letters of your answers will reveal the source of the quotation.



For an added challenge, follow the arrow maze contained within the quotation grid to reveal a further related word or phrase.

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Movie puzzle (January 2025)

Decode the Christmas tree for a movie quote, then guess the movie title. A source of further illumination is provided in the strings of Christmas lights.

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Movie puzzle (August 2022)

Lost in Space

An SF and superhero movie wordfind puzzle

Find all of the science-fiction and superhero movie titles in the grid. There's thirty titles in the list below the grid but thirty-one titles hidden in the grid.  Can you find them all?

ADASTRA   AVATAR   ALIENS   BIG   BLADERUNNER   CYBERPUNK2077   DEADPOOL2   DUNE   GHOSTBUSTERS   HANCOCK2   INCEPTION   IRONMAN   JURASSICPARK   MATRIX   MEMORIA   MOONFALL   MORBIUS   PASSENGERS   SONIC   STARWARS   STRANGERTHINGS   TENET   THEMARTIAN   TMNT   TRON   VENOM   XMEN   2001   2012

Some questions for when you are done:

• What is the title of the secret thirty-first movie?
• Which three movies in the list haven't been made yet?
• How many movies in the list have you seen?

Email us for a pdf version of this puzzle: cinecalreviews@gmail.com

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Movie puzzle (May 2022)

 

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Choose a starting point and pass along the paths between the letters to reveal the title of a movie. All letters and paths are used at least once.

Now it is your turn. Can you fit the movie EIGHTH GRADE into the circles so that it may be read by moving along an uninterrupted path?

Finally, what connects these two movies?

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Movie puzzle (December 2021)

 

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HARD TO FOLLOW 009

Choose a starting point and pass along the paths between the letters to reveal the title of a movie. All letters and paths are used at least once.

Now it is your turn. Can you fit the movie OUT OF AFRICA into the circles so that it may be read by moving along an uninterrupted path?

Finally, what connects these two movies?

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Movie puzzle (November 2021)

 

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HARD TO FOLLOW 008

Choose a starting point and pass along the paths between the letters to reveal the title of a movie. All letters and paths are used at least once.

Now it is your turn. Can you fit the movie THE POWER OF ONE into the circles so that it may be read by moving along an uninterrupted path?

Finally, what connects these two movies?

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Movie puzzle (February 2021)

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CROSSWORD 002

'MOVIE EXTRAS'

ACROSS

1 Modern address features

5 See 35D

11 Dandy

14 London's has restaurants; NYC's has lofts

15 Dasyprocta member

16 Famous bed-in participant

17 Movie title: Kurosawa action drama (var.)

20 Without

21 The year Pope Leo IX crowned

22 HPV and HIV, for example

23 Trapezium location

25 Rocker Lenny's daughter

26 Jane of literature

27 A Quiksilver subsiduary

28 Don't take action against

31 Excessive, to a txter

32 It is less formal than -san

33 Strategies

36 A Patrick Stewart and Vin Diesel feature

38 Gaga headliner?

39 Mowgli, for example

41 Sun chaser?

42 ... Awibre (Egyptian pharaoh)

43 Routine finishes

45 A shorter way for a commuter

46 Egyptian seaport

48 She played Mindy to Robin's Mork

49 OMG, to a non-texter

50 "My treat!"

51 May lead-up

52 Spot-the-Clooneys spot

53 Movie title: spooky Shyamalan thriller

58 It has atomic number 50

59 Yucatan capital

60 Actor married to Naomi once

61 Choose

62 Bogus

63 First word in two Leone titles

DOWN

1 When to wind the clocks back (abbrev.)

2 Loud report at the fireworks

3 Movie title: Besson scifi classic

4 A piece of cake

5 Henpecks

6 Groan!

7 Tropical bird of South America

8 Most populated

9 Reference list abbreviation

10 Movie series: Pacific ...

11 Movie title: Rinsch sfx spectacular but box office bomb, inspired by a Japanese epic

12 Sign at the station?

13 Grace's partner, often

18 Air ticket abbreviation

19 Comfortable with

23 See 35D

24 Palindromic mechanism

25 ... garden

28 Kitschy

29 The most populous city on the African continent

30 Desktop feature

32 Brickmaker's need

34 Spoke pigeon English?

35 (With 23D and 5A) Movie title: Litvak classic film noir (and theme)

37 Wows

40 Young ones

41 Studio behind the Hollywood remake of 17A

44 The Pevensie children's destination

45 Citrus maximus

46 ... voce

47 Not a cool cat

49 Article in the L.A. Times?

51 Declare to be the case

52 Sonny and Cher output

54 Linguistic suffix

55 AC/DC hit

56 Dry

57 Anne Baxter role

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Movie Puzzle (January 2021)

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WORD BANK 007

Each clue can be answered by pairing two words from the Word Bank. These bankwords will each be used just once. It sounds easy but things are made more difficult by deliberately misleading clues and answers!

1. Thing sought by Willem Dafoe's mercenary in The Hunter (2011)
2. He is driven
3. The okay
4. Partners KIT
5. Downplaying the negatives
6. A Stephen King work
7. Self harm of a sort
8. A pencil and paper game
9. PALS
10. A Marvel superhero
11. Like some tattoos
12. Spar imaginatively
13. Commotion
14. A medieval carol?
15. Fast and reckless thief

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Movie puzzle (September 2020)

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HARD TO FOLLOW 007

Choose a starting point and pass along the paths between the letters to reveal the title of a movie. All letters and paths are used at least once.

Now it is your turn. Can you fit the movie EVERYTHING IS COPY into the circles so that it may be read by moving along an uninterrupted path?

Finally, what connects these two movies?

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Movie puzzle (July 2020)

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HARD TO FOLLOW 006

Choose a starting point and pass along the paths between the letters to reveal the title of a movie. All letters and paths are used at least once.

Now it is your turn. Can you fit the movie ISLE OF DOGS into the circles so that it may be read by moving along an uninterrupted path?

Finally, what connects these two movies?

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Movie puzzle (June 2020)

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STARS AND CIRCLES 003

Each eight-letter answer, an English word or phrase, also happens to be a movie title and needs to be entered into the grid across the way, 1 to 8

Each answer in the puzzle features a star, a circle, and a letter. Once you've got all the answers, further eight-letter movie titles will be revealed in these starred, circled and lettered squares.

A further clue to help you are the names of the directors of each film. This extra help may be highlighted and revealed if you need it.

CLUES

1. A short break from elementary study (4,4)

2. A small break of a different kind (8)

3. Who it is all for, when it's worthless (3,5)

4. Especially punning, but also other forms of lexical wit (8)

5. 90s TV show with Anderson and the Hoff (8)

6. Portending evil, harm, or trouble (8)

7. Canine off its leash, running wild (5,3)

8. Delectable, or to make the ultimate sacrifice (2,3,3)

DIRECTORS

1. Jacque Tati

2. Gregory Hobilt

3. Alfred Hitchcock

4. Patrick Creadon

5. Seth Gordon

6. Scott Derrickson

7. Akira Kurosawa

8. Gus Van Sant

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Movie puzzle (April 2020)

The answers are all movie titles or pairs of movie titles.

WHAT IT'S ABOUT AND AN ANAGRAM

COP'S IRE

MOVIE MATH

WALL - STREET - 5 = X (2008), where X = ?

MOVIE YING AND YANG

A 2007 SCI-FI ADVENTURE AND A 2016 DRAMA ABOUT CHIRON.

A GANGSTER CRIME DRAMA SET IN NY AND A 1994 WESTERN WITH ANDIE MACDOWELL

A 2018 NEO-NOIR MYSTERY CRIME FILM SET IN HOLLYWOOD AND A 1981 FAMILY DRAMA WITH A FATHER AND DAUGHTER PLAYED BY A FATHER AND DAUGHTER

A 2004 AMERICAN TEEN HIGH SCHOOL COMEDY WITH LINDSAY LOHAN AND A 2016 ACTION COMEDY DIRECTED BY SHANE BLACK WITH RUSSELL CROWE

PROBABLY INACCURATE AND AN ANAGRAM

NIL GERMS

SYLLABLE SWITCHAROO

A LIZA MINELLI MUSICAL AND A 1992 NON-NARRATIVE DOCUMENTARY

A LIKELY REACTION TO IT AND AN ANAGRAM

O, MOTHER!

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Movie puzzle (March 2020)

At first glance, the cinema guide of the Puzzle Club's annual International Film Festival bewilders, but look again. You'll see the titles have been carefully selected this year to celebrate three universals of film.

What are the three universals of film being celebrated?

Ae To Cut

The Govni Eso

Men Tripolis

Fama Leus

Farllo

Asmaris Halls

Toisto Cry

At Lienn

Can you make any sense of it?

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Movie puzzle (February 2020)

HARD TO FOLLOW 005

Choose a starting point and pass along the paths between the letters to reveal the title of a movie. All letters and paths are used at least once.

Now it is your turn. Can you fit the movie title THE SEVEN-PER-CENT SOLUTION into the circles so that it may be read by moving along an uninterrupted path?

Finally, what connects these two movies?

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Movie puzzle (December 2019)

Decode black. Punctuation is shown in green. A source of further illumination is provided in orange.

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Movie puzzle (November 2019)

How many movie titles can you make from the letters above? 

Starting small, there's a fairly recent Disney Pixar animated film series, and a colourful spy thriller with Helen Mirren.

What about a 2017 Martin Freeman film about a father's race to save his baby? A Freddie Highmore and Helena Bonham Carter drama?

There is also a Taylor Lautner action thriller about a group of parkour enthusiasts who get involved in crime.

If you can reuse one letter, there's a gruesome sequel with Ed Norton and a 1971 crime flick starring Michael Caine that was remade with Sylvester Stallone in 2000. Reuse two letters for a sci-fi movie that spawned sequels and a string of tv series.

And what about a recent movie title that uses each letter once?

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