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4-syllable Movies

Every movie on this page is pronounced in exactly 4 syllables — full profile for each.

Looking for 4-syllable movies? Here are 21 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.

Table of contents 21 entries
A Quiet PlaceCasablancaCitizen KaneGladiator
Gone with the WindHawaiiInterstellarJurassic Park
Mary PoppinsNorth by NorthwestOppenheimerSansho Dayu
Sleepy HollowSome Like It HotThe ApartmentThe Avengers
The GodfatherUnforgivenWest Side StoryZootopia
Zorba the Greek

List of 4-syllable Movies

    1

    A Quiet Place

    A 2018 American post-apocalyptic horror film directed by John Krasinski, in which a family lives in silence to avoid blind extraterrestrial creatures that hunt by sound.

    2

    Casablanca

    A 1942 American romantic drama set in wartime Morocco, where a jaded American expatriate must choose between love and the anti-Nazi resistance.

    3

    Citizen Kane

    A 1941 American drama tracing the rise and isolation of newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane through a reporter's investigation of his final word.

    4

    Gladiator

    A 2000 epic historical drama directed by Ridley Scott about a Roman general betrayed by the new emperor Commodus and forced into the arena as a gladiator seeking revenge.

    5

    Gone with the Wind

    A 1939 American historical romance about a Southern plantation heiress whose life is upended by the Civil War and Reconstruction.

    6

    Hawaii

    A 1966 American epic drama directed by George Roy Hill adapting James A. Michener's 1959 novel about Calvinist missionaries arriving in the Hawaiian Islands in 1820.

    7

    Interstellar

    A 2014 American science fiction film about a former NASA pilot leading an expedition through a wormhole in search of a habitable replacement for Earth.

    8

    Jurassic Park

    A 1993 American science fiction film about a tropical-island theme park stocked with cloned dinosaurs that escape containment during a preview visit.

    9

    Mary Poppins

    A 1964 American musical fantasy about a magical English nanny who arrives at a strained Edwardian London household and rearranges its priorities.

    10

    North by Northwest

    A 1959 American spy thriller about a Madison Avenue advertising executive mistaken for a government agent and pursued across the country.

    11

    Oppenheimer

    A 2023 American biographical thriller written and directed by Christopher Nolan about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist who led the Manhattan Project.

    12

    Sansho Dayu

    A 1954 Japanese period drama directed by Kenji Mizoguchi, often released abroad as Sansho the Bailiff, about a Heian-era family torn apart and sold into slavery.

    13

    Sleepy Hollow

    A 1999 American gothic horror film directed by Tim Burton, very loosely adapting Washington Irving's 1820 short story about a New York town haunted by a headless horseman.

    14

    Some Like It Hot

    A 1959 American comedy about two Chicago musicians who witness a mob killing and flee disguised as women in a touring all-female band.

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    The Apartment

    A 1960 American comedy-drama about an insurance-company office worker who lends out his apartment to executives for their affairs in exchange for advancement.

    16

    The Avengers

    A 2012 American superhero film bringing together six Marvel heroes to repel an alien army led by Thor's adopted brother Loki against New York.

    17

    The Godfather

    A 1972 American crime epic about the Corleone family's struggle to maintain control of a New York organized crime dynasty across the post-war decade.

    18

    Unforgiven

    A 1992 American revisionist Western directed by and starring Clint Eastwood as a retired outlaw who takes one last job to track down two cowboys who maimed a prostitute.

    19

    West Side Story

    A 1961 American musical updating Romeo and Juliet to 1950s Manhattan, where rival white and Puerto Rican street gangs collide around a love affair.

    20

    Zootopia

    A 2016 American animated buddy cop film from Walt Disney Animation Studios set in a city of anthropomorphic mammals, where a rookie rabbit officer and a con-artist fox uncover a conspiracy.

    21

    Zorba the Greek

    A 1964 drama directed by Michael Cacoyannis, in which a young Anglo-Greek writer travels to Crete and is transformed by his friendship with the exuberant peasant Alexis Zorba.

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