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12 Angry Men
A 1957 American courtroom drama in which a single juror's doubts about a homicide case slowly turn the room toward acquittal across one summer afternoon.
Looking for 3-syllable movies? Here are 29 movies that fit — each linked to a full profile.
Syllables are counted across the whole name (multi-word names sum). "Apple" is 2 syllables; "Macaroni and Cheese" is 6.
List of 3-syllable Movies
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Asylum
A 2005 British-Irish romantic drama directed by David Mackenzie about the wife of a psychiatrist at a 1950s mental hospital who begins a destructive affair with a patient.
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Avatar
A 2009 American science fiction film about a paraplegic marine inhabiting a remotely controlled alien body on a moon whose ecosystem is targeted for mining.
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Beowulf
A 2007 American computer-animated fantasy film directed by Robert Zemeckis adapting the Old English epic poem about the warrior Beowulf and his fights with Grendel and a dragon.
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Braveheart
A 1995 American epic historical drama directed by and starring Mel Gibson as the 13th-century Scottish warrior William Wallace, who led a revolt against the English king Edward I.
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Cabaret
A 1972 American musical drama directed by Bob Fosse about an American singer at a seedy Berlin nightclub in 1931 as the Nazi Party rises to power.
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Forrest Gump
A 1994 American comedy-drama following a slow-witted but kind-hearted Alabama man whose life intersects with several decades of American historical events.
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Goodfellas
A 1990 American crime film tracing the rise and fall of New York mob associate Henry Hill from his 1950s youth to his 1980 turn as a federal witness.
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Gravity
A 2013 science fiction thriller directed by Alfonso Cuaron about two astronauts stranded in low Earth orbit after debris destroys their space shuttle.
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I Am Sam
A 2001 American drama directed by Jessie Nelson about an intellectually disabled father who battles in court to retain custody of his seven-year-old daughter.
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Inception
A 2010 American science fiction thriller about a corporate-espionage team that infiltrates dreams to plant ideas in a target's subconscious.
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La La Land
A 2016 American musical romantic comedy-drama written and directed by Damien Chazelle about an aspiring actress and a jazz pianist trying to build careers in Los Angeles.
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Memento
A 2000 American neo-noir psychological thriller written and directed by Christopher Nolan about a man with anterograde amnesia hunting the men he believes murdered his wife.
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Moneyball
A 2011 American biographical sports drama directed by Bennett Miller about Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane and his data-driven approach to building a competitive baseball team.
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Nomadland
A 2020 American drama written and directed by Chloe Zhao about a woman in her sixties who lives in a van and travels the American West as a modern itinerant worker.
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Pulp Fiction
A 1994 American crime film weaving together the parallel stories of two hitmen, a boxer, and a gangster's wife over a few violent days in Los Angeles.
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Quo Vadis
A 1951 American epic historical drama directed by Mervyn LeRoy about a Roman general who falls in love with a Christian woman during the reign of Emperor Nero.
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Rear Window
A 1954 American thriller about a photographer immobilized by a broken leg who becomes convinced his neighbor across the courtyard has committed murder.
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Schindler's List
A 1993 American historical drama about Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist who used his Krakow factories to protect more than a thousand Jewish workers from Nazi extermination.
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The Dark Knight
A 2008 American superhero film in which Batman, the Gotham district attorney, and the police commissioner together face a chaos-driven criminal called the Joker.
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The Matrix
A 1999 American science fiction film about a hacker who learns that his reality is a computer simulation built to harvest energy from sedated human bodies.
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The Queen
A 2006 British historical drama directed by Stephen Frears about Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during the week following the death of Princess Diana in 1997.
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Titanic
A 1997 American romantic disaster film about a love affair between a steerage artist and a first-class passenger aboard the doomed 1912 ocean liner.
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Underworld
A 2003 action horror film directed by Len Wiseman about a centuries-old war between vampires and werewolves, told through the perspective of a vampire warrior named Selene.
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Vacation
A 1983 American road comedy directed by Harold Ramis about the Griswold family's disaster-filled cross-country drive to a theme park called Walley World.
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Vertigo
A 1958 American psychological thriller about a retired San Francisco detective hired to follow a friend's wife, and the obsession that follows.
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Xanadu
A 1980 American musical fantasy film directed by Robert Greenwald, starring Olivia Newton-John as a roller-skating muse who inspires an artist and an aging musician.
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Yojimbo
A 1961 Japanese samurai film directed by Akira Kurosawa, in which a wandering ronin manipulates two rival gangs into destroying each other in a 19th-century town.
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Zodiac
A 2007 American mystery thriller directed by David Fincher about the hunt for the Zodiac killer who terrorized the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1960s and 1970s.
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