In one of this week’s latest releases on blinkbox, Orlando Bloom and Forest Whitaker play Cape Town cops during South African’s Apartheid era. The title of this film is
Zulu, which also happens to be the title of a
really famous movie. This isn’t the first time this kind of thing has happened.
Here are 15 movies that share a title with a completely unrelated film
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The biopic of slain rapper The Notorious B.I.G.
Not to be confused with… Notorious (1946), Alfred Hitchcock’s classic spy thriller starring Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman.
2. The Kid (2000)
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In which image consultant Bruce Willis is confronted by his younger self, as the result of some magical plot point.
Not to be confused with… The Kid (1921), one of Charlie Chaplin’s most famous features, in which The Tramp takes an abandoned child under his wing.
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Disney’s mega-hit musical about two princess who fight back against social expectations and learn to ‘let it go’.
Not to be confused with… Frozen (2010), the horror movie where they get stuck on a chairlift and eaten by wolves (spoiler alert?).
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The Naomi Watts movie in which she plays the real-life CIA operative Valerie Plame, who was at the centre of a White House scandal during the Bush administration.
Not to be confused with… Fair Game (1995), in which supermodel Cindy Crawford played an implausibly attractive lawyer on the run from South American money launderers.
5. Red (2010)
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Where a group of retired government agents played by Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman and John Malkovich saddle up for one last mission.
Not to be confused with… Red (1994), Krzysztof Kieslowski’s achingly beautiful masterpiece about destiny, friendship and faith.
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The family ‘comedy’ where absent father Michael Keaton is killed and resurrected as a lovely snowman. The tagline was ‘Snow dad’s better than no dad’.
Not to be confused with… Jack Frost (1997), the low budget horror in which a serial killer is transformed into a murderous snow man after an accident with a truck load of ‘genetic material’.
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The adaption of a young adult novel from Twilight author Stephenie Meyer. It was a sci-fi thing that starred Saoirse Ronan.
Not to be confused with… The Host (2006), the South Korean monster movie from director Bong Joon-ho (Snowpiercer).
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The Kiwi comedy horror about a flock of mutated killer sheep!
Not to be confused with…Black Sheep (1996), The knockabout 90s comedy in which Chris Farley plays the idiot brother of an ambitious politician.
9. Crash (2004)
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The Academy Award-winning picture that taught us racism is bad.
Not to be confused with… Crash (1996), the David Cronenberg joint in which James Spader uncovers a subculture of people with a fetish for car accidents.
10. Twilight (2008)
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In which a teenager falls for a hundred year old high school student (Robert Pattinson).
Not to be confused with… Twilight (1998), in which Susan Sarandon falls for a 73 year old detective (Paul Newman).
11. Man of the House (2005)
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Where grumpy US Marshal Tommy Lee Jones is tasked with protecting a sorority house.
Not to be confused with… Man of the House (1995), in which Chevy Chase enters a battle of wills with his new wife’s adolescent son, played by Home Improvement’s Jonathan Taylor Thomas.
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The Kevin Smith comedy in which a widowed Ben Affleck comes to term with being a single father.
Not to be confused with… Jersey Girl (1992), the romantic comedy that felt like a
Pretty Woman rip-off, except instead of being a prostitute, the girl is from New Jersey.
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The Edward Norton period drama that’s best know for not being
The Prestige.
Not to be confused with… The Illusionist (2010), the touching animated film about a magician who heads up to Scotland in the twilight of his career. It’s from the director of
Belleville Rendez-vous.
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The John Woo action flick in which John Travolta plays a bomber pilot who steals a bunch of nukes.
Not to be confused with… Broken Arrow (1950), the classic James Stewart western in which he befriends an Apache leader, broaching peace between their people.
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In which Mel Gibson plays an American Revolutionary hero.
Not to be confused with… The Patriot (1998), in which we’re expected to believe that Steven Seagal is both a doctor
and a world-class research immunologist.
16. Zulu (2014)
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In which Orlando Bloom and Forest Whitaker both play
Sewth Effrikkan coppers.
Not to be confused with… Zulu (1964), the classic war film with Michael Caine, depicting the battle at Rorkes Drift.
Zulu is now available on blinkbox, as is Zulu
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