300 Movie Charades Ideas
Movie titles are the heart of classic charades. Cranking an old film camera is the first hand signal most people learn. This deck has 300 films from every genre and era, from family picks like Frozen and Minions to cult favorites like The Grand Budapest Hotel and Kill Bill.
Act out the title word by word, recreate a famous scene, or (in the phone version) describe the plot without saying the title. Mixing animated films with grown-up thrillers keeps every age in the game.
Movie charades words (A–Z)
- 101 Dalmatians
- A Bug's Life
- A Quiet Place
- A Star Is Born
- About Time
- Aladdin
- Alice in Wonderland
- Amélie
- American Pie
- American Sniper
- Anchorman
- Annabelle
- Ant-Man
- Aquaman
- Arrival
- Avatar
- Baby Driver
- Back to the Future
- Bambi
- Barbie
- Beauty and the Beast
- Beetlejuice
- Big Hero 6
- Birdman
- Black Panther
- Black Widow
- Blade Runner
- Blades of Glory
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- Borat
- Brave
- Braveheart
- Bridesmaids
- Bullet Train
- Captain Marvel
- Cars
- Casablanca
- Casino Royale
- Casper
- Cast Away
- Catch Me If You Can
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- Chicken Run
- Cinderella
- Citizen Kane
- Civil War
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
- Clueless
- Coco
- Coraline
- Creed
- Cruella
- Darkest Hour
- Dawn of the Dead
- Dead Poets Society
- Deadpool
- Despicable Me
- Die Hard
- District 9
- Django Unchained
- Doctor Sleep
- Doctor Strange
- DodgeBall
- Don't Breathe
- Dumb and Dumber
- Dumbo
- Dune
- Dunkirk
- Edge of Tomorrow
- Elf
- Encanto
- Enchanted
- Eternals
- Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Face/Off
- Fantastic Beasts
- Fast & Furious
- Fight Club
- Final Destination
- Finding Nemo
- Ford v Ferrari
- Forrest Gump
- Freaky Friday
- Free Guy
- Frozen
- Ghost in the Shell
- Ghostbusters
- Gladiator
- Godzilla
- Good Will Hunting
- Goodfellas
- Grease
- Gremlins
- Groundhog Day
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Hacksaw Ridge
- Halloween
- Happy Feet
- Harry Potter
- Hercules
- Hobbs & Shaw
- Hocus Pocus
- Home Alone
- Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
- Hook
- Hotel Transylvania
- How to Train Your Dragon
- Hugo
- I Am Legend
- Ice Age
- Inception
- Inglourious Basterds
- Inside Out
- Insidious
- Interstellar
- Iron Man
- It
- It's a Wonderful Life
- Jaws
- John Wick
- Jojo Rabbit
- Joker
- Jumanji
- Jurassic Park
- Justice League
- Karate Kid
- Kill Bill
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- King Kong
- Kingdom of Heaven
- Knives Out
- Kung Fu Panda
- La La Land
- Lady and the Tramp
- Life Is Beautiful
- Lilo & Stitch
- Logan
- Luca
- Mad Max
- Madagascar
- Maleficent
- Mary Poppins
- Matilda
- Mean Girls
- Megamind
- Midsommar
- Million Dollar Baby
- Minions
- Minority Report
- Mission: Impossible
- Moana
- Monsters, Inc.
- Moonlight
- Mrs. Doubtfire
- Mulan
- Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Neighbors
- Night at the Museum
- No Country for Old Men
- No Time to Die
- Now You See Me
- Ocean's Eleven
- Oldboy
- Open Season
- Oppenheimer
- Orphan
- Pacific Rim
- Paddington
- Paranormal Activity
- Parasite
- Pearl Harbor
- Pirates of the Caribbean
- Pitch Perfect
- Pocahontas
- Predator
- Pretty Woman
- Psycho
- Pulp Fiction
- Puss in Boots
- Ratatouille
- Rio
- Rocketman
- Rocky
- Saving Private Ryan
- Saw
- Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
- Scream
- Se7en
- Shaun of the Dead
- Shazam!
- Shrek
- Sing
- Sinister
- Smile
- Space Jam
- Spider-Man
- Split
- Spy Kids
- Star Trek
- Step Brothers
- Suicide Squad
- Superbad
- Surf's Up
- Tangled
- Tarzan
- Ted
- Tenet
- Terminator
- The Adam Project
- The Addams Family
- The Avengers
- The Babadook
- The Bad Guys
- The Batman
- The Big Lebowski
- The Big Short
- The Blair Witch Project
- The Boss Baby
- The Conjuring
- The Croods
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- The Dark Knight
- The Descent
- The Devil's Advocate
- The Exorcist
- The Expendables
- The Fall Guy
- The Fifth Element
- The Flash
- The Godfather
- The Goonies
- The Grand Budapest Hotel
- The Great Wall
- The Greatest Showman
- The Green Mile
- The Grinch
- The Hangover
- The Hobbit
- The Hunger Games
- The Incredibles
- The Interview
- The Invisible Man
- The Irishman
- The Jungle Book
- The Last Samurai
- The Lego Movie
- The Lighthouse
- The Lion King
- The Little Mermaid
- The Lord of the Rings
- The Mask
- The Matrix
- The Maze Runner
- The Mitchells vs. the Machines
- The Mummy
- The Nightmare Before Christmas
- The Notebook
- The Parent Trap
- The Pianist
- The Polar Express
- The Princess Bride
- The Princess Diaries
- The Purge
- The Secret Life of Pets
- The Shape of Water
- The Shawshank Redemption
- The Shining
- The Silence of the Lambs
- The Sixth Sense
- The Social Network
- The Theory of Everything
- The Twilight Saga
- The Wizard of Oz
- The Wolf of Wall Street
- Thor
- Titanic
- Tokyo Drift
- Top Gun
- Toy Story
- Train to Busan
- Transformers
- Trolls
- Tron
- Turning Red
- Unforgiven
- Up
- Us
- Venom
- WALL-E
- War Horse
- Wedding Crashers
- Whiplash
- Wicked
- Wonder Woman
- World War Z
- Wreck-It Ralph
- X-Men
- Zombieland
- Zoolander
- Zootopia
How to act out movie charades
- Signal “movie” first, then hold up fingers for the number of words.
- For long titles, act out the most visual word and let the guessers fill in the rest.
- Recreate the scene everyone remembers. It is usually faster than spelling out the title.
Best for: Teens and adults. Pick animated titles for kids.