25 Hilarious Film Titles Lost In Translation

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What’s in a name? Well a lot, apparently. Coming up with a film title can be as tricky as coming up with the story itself. See if you can guess these 25 English language films from the literal translation of their foreign title.
Hollywood has all manner of focus groups and think tanks involved in the process of creating a film’s title, but the results can be scuppered by bizarre translations abroad. Scroll down slowly and let us know how many you got right.

Answers in the picture captions… no cheating!

Invisible Horse rider (Slovenia)

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

California’s Great Earthquake (China)

Super Power Dare Die Team (China)

Ghostbusters

S.O.S. Fantômes (France)

Ghostbusters

Six Naked Pigs (China)

The Full Monty

If You Leave Me, I Delete You (Italy)

Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind

Slightly Pregnant (Israel)

Knocked Up

An Unexpected Ending (Mexico)

Thelma & Louise

His Powerful Device Makes Him Famous (China)

Boogie Nights

Mr. Cat Poop (China)

As Good As It Gets

This Dead Person Is Very Alive (Spain)

Weekend at Bernies

What Happened Yesterday? (Spain)

The Hangover

Lost in Tokyo (Spain)

Lost In Translation

Very Bad Trip 2 (France)

The Hangover: Part 2

Die Slowly, Now More Than Ever (Germany)

Die Hard With A Vengeance

Vaseline (Argentina)

Grease

The Teeth of the Sea (France)

Jaws

Do Not Touch The Old Women (Italy)

The Producers

I’m Drunk and you’re a prostitute (Japan)

Leaving Las Vegas

Santa is a Pervert (Czech Republic)

Bad Santa

The Unbelievable Trip In A Wacky Aeroplane (Germany)

Airplane!

The Eighth Passenger Is Death (Hungary)

Alien

Dimwit Surges Forth (Thailand)

The Waterboy

Meetings and Failures in Meetings (Portugal)

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