The turbulent adventure comedy is known in German under the (shortened) title “The daring men in their flying machines”.
9) I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her on a Meat Hook, and Now I Have a Three-Picture Deal at Disney (1993) (21 words) With his 16-minute film debut, Ben Affleck (yes, the Ben Affleck) didn’t manage to land a movie deal with Disney, but it did make the top ten longest movie titles.
7) Les yeux ne veulent pas en all temps se fermer, ou Peut-être qu’un jour Rome se permettra de choisir à son tour (1970) (22 words) The film by French filmmaker couple Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet also has the alternative title “Othon”. But why short when it can be long.
7) Powers of Ten: A Film Dealing with the Relative Size of Things in the Universe and the Effect of Adding Another Zero (1977) (22 words) “Zehn Hoch” (Eng. title) is an experimental journey from the very big to the very small, in a single zoom. Parodied in a famous Simpsons coaching gag.
6)The Fable of the Kid Who Shifted His Ideals to Golf and Finally Became a Baseball Fan and Took the Only Known Cure (1916) (23 words)
Over a hundred years old, naturally silent short film, the title says it all about the plot.
5) Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat As Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade (1967) (24 words)
English film adaptation of the play “The Persecution and Murder of Jean Paul Marat performed by the Charenton Hospice Drama Company under the direction of M. de Sade” by Peter Weiss.
4) On the Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Sigmund Freud in Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious, or Can the Avant-Garde Artist Be Wholed? (1978) (25 words) Two men dressed as pandas are talking about selling plums. To ask? Experimental film by Owen Land.
