Unrelated Movies & TV Shows With Same Title [7] Quiz

Answer: Bones

"Bones" starred Emily Deschanel (sister of Zooey Deschanel) as a forensic anthropologist named Dr. Temperance whose nickname was "Bones" due to her skill at analyzing skeletal remains to solve murders. She is called upon to assist people like F.B.I. Special Agent Seeley Booth, played by David Boreanaz.

Snoop Dogg played Jimmy Bones in the 2001 film "Bones", a man who was shot to death but returned as a ghost, seeking revenge against his killers, but also to make things better in his neighborhood. Pam Grier played Pearl, Jimmy Bones' former lover.

Answer: Taboo

All those are Nat Geo shows, but "Taboo" was the docu-series from 2002 to 2014 exploring cultures that had rituals that may have seemed unusual or taboo to Westerners.

Tom Hardy starred as James Keziah Delaney in the BBC's "Taboo" (2017), battling the government and business competitors as he tries rebuilding his family's business empire.

The recent high school grads of the film "Taboo" play a card game called Taboo and confess some interesting secrets to each other. There also happens to be a 1999 Japanese movie and a 2015 Iranian film titled "Taboo".

Answer: Criminal Minds

"Criminal Minds" debuted in 2005, at first with Mandy Patinkin in the role of the leader of a group of profilers. He left after two seasons and then Joe Mantegna took over as leader of the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit.

The 1998 movie "Criminal Minds" starred character actor John Saxon and was one of the many films in the 1990s that featured a Tarantino-influenced dark comedy criminal tone.

Answer: After Life

In three seasons of "After Life" (2019-2022) Mr. Gervais played Tony, a man who decides to battle back against life when his wife dies of breast cancer, and he decides to say and do whatever he feels like.

Ms. Joy's character Mara deceives people into thinking she can communicate with their deceased loved ones. There is also a 1998 Japanese film and a 2023 Indonesian film, both called "After Life" that deal with recently-deceased souls.

Answer: Prison Break

In the popular TV show "Prison Break", Wentworth Miller played Michael Scofield, the brother of Dominic Purcell's Lincoln Burrows, who was unjustly imprisoned. Michael was a structural engineer who put a plan in motion to get himself incarcerated in the same prison in order to launch an escape, guided by his full body tattoo of the prison's layout.

In the film "Prison Break", Mr. MacLane's character, Joaquin Shannon, actually foiled a prison break while incarcerated instead of perpetrating one.

Answer: The Killing

One of Stanley Kubrick's earliest films was the 1956 black and white film noir about a life-long criminal Johnny Clay, played by Sterling Hayden, who hatches a plan to rob a racetrack. Kubrick had met producer James B. Harris while playing chess in Washington Square Park when they decided to team up for a movie. Similarly, in the movie, Johnny Clay proposes a heist plan to Maurice Oboukhoff in a scene set at the 42nd Street Chess and Checker Parlor in New York City.

The U.S. version of the detective series "The Killing" was based on a Danish show, also called "The Killing". The American version was set in Seattle with Mireille Enos as detective Sarah Linden.

Answer: The Blacklist

"The Blacklist" TV series did, however, win an Outstanding Stunt Coordination for a Drama Series Emmy Award in 2014 (despite my witnessing a serious injury on set once while filming on a rooftop).

The Paramount Pictures silent film "The Blacklist" was directed by cinema legend Cecil B. de Mille's older brother William de Mille. Charles Clary played the coal company manager Warren Harcourt.

Answer: "Peacemaker" / "The Peacemaker"

The "Peacemaker" / "The Peacemaker" pair of titles is the one with all those movies and TV shows. None of the other title pairs comes close to fulfilling all the categories.

Here are the films called "Peacemaker":
A 1990 film starring Robert Forster about an intergalactic sheriff trying to resolve a dispute between two space aliens on Earth.
A 2023 film "Peacemaker" about a group of thirty nuns and priests who are found dead at a monastery Saint Martin in 1891.

And here are the TV series that are called "Peacemaker":
A 2022 "Peacemaker" superhero TV series starring John Cena.
A 2020 thriller TV series from Finland about a United Nations peace-negotiator.

Films called "The Peacemaker" include:
A 1956 film western with James Mitchell as a former gunfighter turned preacher trying to settle a ranching dispute.
A 1997 action film starring George Clooney and Nicole Kidman.
A 2016 feature documentary called "The Peacemaker" about the international peacemaker Padraig O'Malley.

There is also a 1922 silent film called "The Peacemaker" and a reality TV series called "The Peacemaker" from 2010 about the world of American gangsters and the violence in that culture.

Answer: Madeleine Stowe

Both the TV series and the film were titled "Revenge" but they had nothing to do with each other. Madeleine Stowe played the matriarch of the wealthy Long Island family that Emily VanCamp, as the character Emily Thorne, sought revenge upon.

Ms. Stowe also plays the wife of Tiburon Mendez, the Mexican crime boss played by Anthony Quinn in the film "Revenge". Mr. Costner's Michael J. "Jay" Cochran had unfortunately fallen for her at first sight in that Tony Scott-directed film.

Answer: The Fall

The documentary was called "The Fall" looking back on when young Mary Decker tripped on Zola Budd's feet and she...fell. The incident followed the two track stars for the rest of their careers.

"The Fall" is also the title of a 1999 thriller that takes places in Budapest, a 2004 film about an amateur photographer coming to grips with her mother's suicide, a 2006 film about a patient in a hospital in 1920s Los Angeles telling fantastical tales to a young girl, and a 2008 film about two brothers confronting a crime from their past.

The TV series with Gillian Anderson also starred James Dornan of "Fifty Shades of Grey." Ms. Anderson played a detective on the trail of Dornan's serial killer in Belfast.