Solutions:

Film #1 is Soylent Green, directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Charlton Heston from 1973. A science fiction movie taking place in a dystopian future. The first scene was spoofed in a Simpsons episode where Abe goes to a similiar suicide center and wants to hear the Glenn Miller Orchestra while watching a videos of policemen beating up hippies.

Film #2 is The Big Store from 1941, a Marx Brothers movie. Only Harpo Marx is in the first scene, in the hint video you can see Groucho and Chico as well which should make finding the film very easy if you know the Marx Brothers. If you don't know them, you really should watch some of their movies! ;-) Googling for something like 'painted on moustache' would have lead to Groucho Marx as well.

Film #3 is This is Spinal Tap, directed by Rob Reiner from 1984. It's a mockumentary about a British rockband called Spinal Tap. The movie is hilarious and I highly recommend to watch it, even more so if you ever have played in a band yourself: I bet at least some of the scenes will remind you about your own experiences - and the similarities between this fake documentary and Some Kind of Monster, a real documentary about Metallica, are really funny.

Film #4 is Bananas by Woody Allen from 1971. You can see him for a brief period of time at the end of the hint video which should make finding the movie very easy. Googlin for any of the spoken lines would have worked as well.

Film #5 is Dead Man by Jim Jarmusch and starring Johnny Depp with music by Neil Young from 1995. It's a Western (some call it Anti-Western) shot entirely in Black & White. In the first scene you can see Iggy Pop sitting at a campfire dressed as a woman, in the second you see Johnny Depp. Finding the movie title wasn't really hard, everyone who got there solved it.

Film #6 is The Maltese Falcon from 1941, starring Humphrey Bogart. It's one of the most famous and genre defining film noirs and identifying Bogart leads to the solution almost instantly making this one rather easy to solve as well.
The hint is a picture of the movie's ending screen where the eponymous Maltese falcon is seen in the background.

Film #7 is City of Women by Federico Fellini from 1980. The fact that I had to replace the uploaded videos with captions probably made this one a bit harder than it was supposed to be but I think the hints made it easy enough to find the movie as Fellini is probably the most famous Italian director. The additional hint which I posted 2 days ago is a video of the singer Fish (from Marillion) performing one song from his album Fellini Days.

Film #8 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre from 1948, directed by John Huston and again starring Humphrey Bogart. Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston and Tim Holt can be seen in the first scene where they find some gold. In the beginning of the hint video you can see a newspaper giving away the location (Mexico) and the year (1925) of the movie's setting. Googling for 'movie mexico 1925 gold' or something similiar should lead to this film very quick.

Film #9 is Fitzcarraldo by Werner Herzog and starring Klaus Kinski, from 1982. You can see captions from a scene where Kinski's character communicates with the natives lurking in the jungles around the river by playing opera music. The bonus video shows a very famous scene of the movie where a whole ship is transported across a mountain.

Film #10 is Ghost World from 2001. In the first scene you can see Thora Birch listening to Skip James' Devil got my woman. The hint video shows some more of the cast, notably Scarlett Johansson and Steve Buscemi.

Film #11 is A Scanner Darkly from 2006, based on the novel of same name by Philip K. Dick. The movie material was animated after it was shot with real actors giving it a very unique look. The hint video showed more of the cast again: Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr, Woody Harrelson and Winona Ryder.

Film #12 is M by Fritz Lang from 1931. Peter Lorre who already appeared in the video of The Maltese Falcon can be seen in the first video again. The hint video even gives away the movie title in a way as it shows a scene where a street thug writes the letter 'M' (for murderer) on Peter Lorre's shoulder with a piece of chalk.

The bonus movie is World on a Wire by Rainer Fassbinder from 1973. It's a science fiction movie dealing with computer created realities, produced for television.

Links to the giveaways: http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/No6yQ/ridge-racer-unbounded-bundle
http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/8U73n/hell-yeah-wrath-of-the-dead-rabbit

Thank you all for participating in this quiz, I hope you enjoyed it. :-)


I had problems with Youtube blocking some of my videos, so you have to follow a link in an annotation for film #6 or you end up in a dead end. Sorry!


Hi there.

Inspired by BrutoDetestsSB's Movies based quiz I made my own quiz about some of my favourites.

At the end of this quiz you have the chance to win the Ridge Racer Unbounded Bundle (+ a secret bonus game).
All you have to do is guess what films the following youtube clips are from. Correct answers are the films' English titles and (if they're different) their original titles.

There are 12 regular movies. Additionally to that there's a bonus movie at the end which I think might be too hard for the regular puzzle; solving this as well gives you the chance to win the secret bonus game.
Some of the clips are in German but understanding the dialogues is not necessary to find those titles.

The usual puzzle rules apply here: Don't share solutions or links, don't give hints to others.

The giveaway is open until Wednesday 3rd of October, 21:00 CEST (GMT+2)

So, without further ado here's the first movie: http://www.itstoohard.com/puzzle/lDKo10aB


Hints:

  • Film #7: I had to replace some videos with captions because of copyright issues, so here are a few hints for film #7 as it's probably too hard now. I hope this helps:
    It's an Italian film from the 80s. You can see the film's protagonist in the pictures but you don't see any of the 'creatures' who give the movie its name in them.
    This video is a hint.
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Nice, I've not seen that film. And don't know/recognize the cast, so at the moment for me it's too hard :D

12 years ago
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Made it as far as 7 so far, but then found this when I tried to play it: "This video contains content from (redacted in case it's a spoiler), who has blocked it on copyright grounds."

In any case, this is fun so far. Thanks!

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yeah, same here. gotta love movie quizes, but damn those publishers are fast to protect their precious copyrights!

12 years ago
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Yes, sorry about that. Youtube blocked the videos for #7 because of copyright issues.
If you go back to film #6, you will find a link in the video where you can continue the puzzle. :-)

12 years ago
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If you cheat, Memoir will find you and slaughter you and your family.

12 years ago
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Better listen to him, you wouldn't be his first victim! >:)

12 years ago
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And if you cheat, you won't be the last either... >:D

12 years ago
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Can I subscribe to this service for my puzzles? It looks promising.

12 years ago
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Yup. 3 month subscription costs one Fortix, unless I volunteer.

12 years ago
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The quiz is back again and I hope it stays this way now.
I have added a link in an annotation to film #6 and in its video description. Please follow this link to continue the quiz.

12 years ago
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On Film #8! :)

12 years ago
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thanks! done with the puzzle and a bonus as well. had a lot of fun and your quiz brought some good memories. DEM MOVIES ARE GOOOD

12 years ago
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Made it! Great quiz, and afterword, you should post up the films as everyone should watch em. All good as hell.

12 years ago
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Removed a post as it may be construed as a hint. Easily the hardest part for the uninitiated.

12 years ago
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Yup, I will post the solutions once the giveaway is over.

12 years ago
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Aaaaaand I'm already stuck...on 2. Glad I got the first one though, there aren't many who can say they recognized the movie by the thumbnail.

12 years ago
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And I definitely know what 7 is, even though I'll never get near it =\

12 years ago
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The hint video doesn't help you?

12 years ago
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Not at all. I've nearly exhausted Google as well. :(

12 years ago
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Solved! Thank you very much. Liked the quiz, although I find it to be a bit easier than Bruto's.

12 years ago
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Both done. Thank you.

12 years ago
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Thank you for the puzzle. I'm glad I had the opportunity to be on the other side as solver this time, instead of puzzle creator.

12 years ago
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im stuck with the first one XD

12 years ago
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Hello, How many solvers are there so far?

12 years ago
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Hi. The last film has 22 solvers (and 16 entries in the giveaway), the bonus film has 13 solvers (10 entries).

12 years ago
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cant play 7 ???

12 years ago
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Go back to #6 and follow the link in its annotation or description. I had to replace the seventh video because of copyright issues.
Post again if you're still having trouble reaching the correct #7, please. :-)

EDIT: The annotation in #6 should be harder to miss now. I already changed this yesterday but I'm a youtube noob and only saved but not pusblished the changes.

12 years ago
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Stuck on #4 ;cccc

12 years ago
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At the moment 32 people solved the regular quiz and 22 solved the bonus question.

12 years ago
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Great puzzle, got the main one and the bonus! Thanks for the enjoyment :D

12 years ago
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C'mon what is Q7? I've spent nearly whole day to crack it and I have tried nearly all of the Italian movies from 80s. The other questions were way too easy, but this one... man....

12 years ago
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Main quiz solved 37 times,bonus quiz 25 times.
Still more than enough time left to solve this puzzle.

12 years ago
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Two days left now.

12 years ago
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I got stuck on #7 and then gave up.

12 years ago
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me too

12 years ago
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I added another hint for film #7.

12 years ago
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I've tried almost every supernatural/horror Italian movie. Nothing, just nothing.

12 years ago
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One day left.

12 years ago
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Last bump before this ends. Only a few hours left but it's still enough time to solve it.

12 years ago
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Gonna try it

12 years ago
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AND stuck on the second one.

edit: 9
edit already to late but now I want to slove it damn it, 11

12 years ago
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woot got it, but to late

12 years ago
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Hmm, according to the solution I'd only be able to solve 9 and 12... I should watch more movies indeed...

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Closed 12 years ago by ReinekeFuchs.