Unrelated Movies & TV Shows With Same Title (9) Quiz

Answer: The Watcher

The real-life Broaddus family had bought a house in Westfield, New Jersey at 657 Boulevard in June 2014 for $1.35 million. They promptly received threatening letters, and although the culprit has never been discovered, the family (renamed Brannock in the series "The Watcher") sold it five years later for $959,000. Unlike the series, the couple never actually moved in, renting it out instead. Regarding those other "The Watcher"s: The Las Vegas-set series was an anthology type series depicting the dark side of Vegas in a different story each episode.

The 2000 film was a serial killer thriller with Keanu Reeves in the bad guy role, and James Spader as an FBI agent. The 2012 series featured a doctor experiencing dreams that reveal a mysterious past.

Answer: Line of Duty

The British TV series "Line of Duty" (2012-2021) takes place in an unnamed city. It followed Detective Sergeant Steven "Steve" Arnott in his new capacity as the leader of the AC-12, a unit assigned to ferreting out police corruption within the ranks. The 2013 film followed the lives of four best friends who took different paths in their lives, some as law-abiding agents/officers, and some as criminals.

In the 2019 film, Aaron Eckhart's disgraced cop joined up with a live-streaming news journalist in an attempt to rescue the police chief's 11-year-old daughter who was kidnapped.

Answer: Continuum

One of the 2012 "Continuum" TV series featured Rachel Nichols as Detective Kiera Cameron who came from the year 2077 to contemporary Vancouver, Canada hunting down other time-traveling criminals that came from the future. It lasted four seasons until 2015, when the release of an unrelated feature film with that same title "Continuum" continued the theme of time travel as a scientist struggled getting a test subject back from a time jump.

The other 2012 TV series lasted two seasons and was about a woman who awakens on a spaceship with no memory of how she got there and is at the mercy of the ship's computer. Around the rest of the world, a 2013 technothriller film called "Continuum" starred Haley Joel Osment of "The Sixth Sense" and Gillian Anderson of "The X-Files"; it was known by the title "I'll Follow You Down" in its home country of Canada.

Answer: Forever

In the 1991 film "Forever," Ben Gazzara played a rich businessman whose daughter investigated his past love life after he died. In the 2015 film "Forever" Deborh Ann Woll played an investigative reporter recovering from heartbreak; Ioan Gruffudd co-starred, but also starred in the 2014 "Forever" TV show which, unlike its title lasted only two seasons. Mr. Gruffudd played a medical examiner who was seemingly immortal, waking up again and again every time he dies.

The 2018 series starred Fred Armisen and Maya Rudolph of "Saturday Night Live" as a married couple living very ordinary lives until both die and find themselves in an unconventional world.

The 2023 Swedish film titled "İlelebet" was known as "Forever" in English-speaking countries.

Answer: Euphoria

The "Euphoria" documentary explored happiness in America. In 2006, Ivan Vyrypaev directed the Russian "Euphoria" about a romantic triangle. The Israeli series about troubled teens in the 90s was based on the true story of a teenager murdered outside a club. Paula Kelly directed the 2013 Canadian "Euphoria" about a little girl named Lily traveling with her mother.

The 2017 film with Charlotte Rampling was about two sisters traveling and getting to know each other better. The beautiful Ms. Golino stepped behind the camera this time to direct a story about two brothers getting to know each other. Zendaya's multi-series HBO series premiered in 2019 and was about troubled teens. And finally, the 2022 film which starred Cate Blanchett and Giancarlo Esposito was about destructive forces in capitalism and the economy.

Answer: Eureka

There was, by the way, another children's TV show, this time animated, and this time with an exclamation mark in its title ("Eureka!") in 2022 that also focused on inventions; in that one a little girl invented things to make her prehistoric world better.

The 2006 TV series "Eureka" was built around the fictitious premise that President Harry S Truman authorized a top-secret community in the Pacific Northwest that would foster valuable intellectual resources working on scientific achievements. Gene Hackman was joined in the cast by Theresa Russell, Joe Pesci, Rutger Hauer, and Mickey Rourke in director Nicolas Roeg's tale of a prospector in the Arctic who struck gold and became astounding rich, only to be plagued by troubles. Viggo Mortensen played a father trying to retrieve his daughter from an outlaw in the 2023 "Eureka", produced by several non-American companies.

Answer: True Blood

The TV series "True Blood" found Anna Paquin playing Sookie Stackhouse, a human who lived in a new world where humans co-exist with vampires after a substitute nutrient is discovered for vampires. Sherilyn Fenn joined Fahey and Lowe in the cast of the 1989 film "True Blood" in which Fahey's Ray Trueblood character was framed as a teenager for the murder of a police officer. The murder though, was committed by a fellow gang member of Trueblood's.

Answer: Bloodline

In addition to all these "Bloodline" titles there are more in the form of "Blood Line", "Blood Lines", and Bloodlines". Sissy Spacek co-starred in the TV series about a Florida Keys family with skeletons in the closet. In the 1979 film, based on a Sidney Sheldon novel, Audrey Hepburn assumed control of her father's pharmaceutical company. Of the four horror films called "Bloodline," 2004's was about two brothers on a camping trip where a horrific murder occurs. 2010's Italian horror film was about two journalists assigned to a hardcore movie set where 15 years earlier a serial killer had struck.

The 2013 horror film was about a man studying for the priesthood who discovers his bloodline is linked to evil, and the 2018 horror film was about a school guidance counselor who becomes a vigilante killer of child abusers.

The 2005 Benzino film was about two brothers in Miami who grew up to become men on opposite sides of the law. The 2008 documentary explored the possibility of Jesus and Mary Magdalene having married and having children. And the 2018 film, was about a school guidance counselor who turned vigilante serial killer targeting child abusers.

Answer: Angel

The TV series "Angel" starred David Boreanz as a vampire angel; it was a spin-off of the Emmy Award-winning series "Buffy The Vampire Slayer." In 1983's "Angel" high schooler Molly turned tricks on Sunset Boulevard, unbeknownst to her family and friends. Cliff Gorman played a cop looking to capture a serial killer in the same area.

The 2007 "Angel" also starred Michael Fassbender who falls for budding writer Esme in early 20th century England. The 1937 Marlene Dietrich "Angel" was a comedy-drama romance about a neglected wife, Lady Maria Barker, who falls in love with playboy Tony, who happens to be friends with the Lady Maria Barker's husband.

Answer: Hell on Wheels

The TV series "Hell on Wheels" featured a former Confederate soldier and slaveholder tracking down the Union soldiers that killed his wife. The story then gets involved with the building of the transcontinental railroad. The 1967 film "Hell On Wheels" featured a race car driver and his brother, a mechanic, who become adversaries when a girl comes between them.

The "Hell On Wheels" documentary focused on a group of Texas women who came together in an attempt to re-establish the sport of roller derby.