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Mystery Movie Sort Trivia Quiz
Of the thousands of movies produced, here are 16 that can be uniquely categorized into four different boxes of four movies each. What are the box categories? You'll have to figure that out for yourself.
The FatherThe Lion KingParasiteRomaA Fantastic WomanPulp FictionDjango UnchainedInglourious BasterdsNixonToy StoryThe Silence of the LambsAmistadA SeparationFinding NemoOnce Upon a Time in HollywoodBeauty and the Beast
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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Inglourious Basterds
Answer: Quentin Tarantino Movies
The 2009 Tarantino thriller is set primarily in Nazi-occupied France and follows several different storylines all culminating in an alternative history take on the assassination of top German officials. The film stars Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, and Diane Kruger, among other greats.
2. Django Unchained
Answer: Quentin Tarantino Movies
Tarantino honors the classic spaghetti Western with "Django Unchained" starring Jamie Foxx as the titled, escaped slave, accompanied by a brave German abolitionist, Dr. King Schulz (Christoph Waltz). Django wants to free his wife (Kerry Washington) who is enslaved by the rich and sadistic Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio). With Dr. Schulz's help, he draws up a plan to "purchase" his wife from the plantation owner, but things go awry when pride gets in the way.
3. Pulp Fiction
Answer: Quentin Tarantino Movies
Perhaps Tarantino's best known work centers around four independent storylines in Los Angeles, that eventually come together in a violent conclusion. John Travolta, Uma Thurman, and Samuel L. Jackson star in the masterpiece that was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar at the 1995 award show. The contents of the mysterious briefcase are still unknown.
4. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Answer: Quentin Tarantino Movies
The 2019 comedy-drama film is a homage to 1969 Hollywood. Starring Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, and Leonardo DiCaprio, the movie follows multiple storylines, culminating in an alternate history interpretation of the Manson family murders - Tarantino's version is a significant upgrade to reality.
5. Parasite
Answer: Best International Feature Film Oscar Winners
The 2019 South Korean film directed by Bong Joon-ho also won the Best Picture award, the highest Oscar honor for a film for that year. Starring Song Kang-ho and Lee Sun-kyun, the movie explores a poor family that lives the lavish lifestyle of their rich employers while they are away. The film centers around the themes of class conflict and social inequality.
6. A Separation
Answer: Best International Feature Film Oscar Winners
The 2011 movie was written and directed by Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi and stars Leila Hatami and Peyman Moaadi. It was the first Iranian film to win the Best Foreign Language film Oscar and follows a secular, middle-class Iranian family where the husband and wife are going through a divorce and the impact the separation has on their 10 year old daughter.
7. Roma
Answer: Best International Feature Film Oscar Winners
The 2018 Spanish-language drama film was written and directed by Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron and stars Yalitza Aparicio and Marina de Tavira. The movie was also awarded the Best Picture Academy award. Cuaron based the plot of the movie in part on his growing up in Mexico City in the 1970s, and explores themes of love, heartbreak, and class struggle.
8. A Fantastic Woman
Answer: Best International Feature Film Oscar Winners
Chilean director Sebastian Lelio wrote the 2018 movie, alongside Gonzalo Maza, about a transgender woman living in Chile and the hardship and discrimination she faces in the South American country. The Best Foreign Film Oscar winner features Daniela Vega, who became the first transgender presenter in Academy Award history, and Francisco Reyes, who plays the main character's older boyfriend.
9. The Father
Answer: Movies Starring Anthony Hopkins
The 2020 psychological drama film was directed by Florian Zeller and stars Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman. Hopkins would receive his second Academy Award win for Best Leading Actor for his role as Anthony in the film. Olivia Colman plays his daughter Anne - the plot of the movie centers around Anthony's rapidly progressing dementia and his inability to navigate the world or understand what is going on around him.
10. The Silence of the Lambs
Answer: Movies Starring Anthony Hopkins
The 1991 psychological horror film was directed by Jonathan Demme and is based on the novel by Thomas Harris about Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), the jailed cannibalistic psychiatrist serial killer, and his aiding of the young FBI agent Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) in locating and apprehending a new serial killer dubbed "Buffalo Bill". Hopkins won the Academy Award for Best Leading actor for his performance in this movie, despite appearing for only 17 minutes of screen time.
11. Nixon
Answer: Movies Starring Anthony Hopkins
The 1995 biographical drama was directed by Oliver Stone and starred Anthony Hopkins as the titular US president with Joan Allen and Ed Harris in supporting roles. The movie centers around the Watergate scandal and Richard Nixon's eventual resignation from office. While the movie was favorably reviewed, it is considered a box office bomb, recouping only $14m of its $44m budget.
12. Amistad
Answer: Movies Starring Anthony Hopkins
The 1997 Steven Spielberg movie follows the legal battles following the real tale of the "Amistad", a ship that was overtaken by captured African slaves and docked in the United States. Anthony Hopkins plays John Quincy Adams, a then ex-US president who eventually represented the Africans in court and got them pardoned and release for the ship's mutiny.
The movie also stars Djimon Honsou, Morgan Freeman, and Matthew McConaughey.
13. The Lion King
Answer: Animated Movies
The 1994 Disney classic was directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff and starred Jeremy Irons and Matthew Broderick. Partially inspired by "Hamlet", Simba is a young lion cub who is tricked by his uncle Scar into believing that he led to the death of his father, the King Mufasa.
He is exiled from his home and has to grow up away from his family before eventually returning to face his uncle.
14. Toy Story
Answer: Animated Movies
The 1995 Pixar movie was directed by Jonathan Lasseter and starred Tom Hanks as Woody, a cowboy doll, and Tim Allen as Buzz Lightyear, a Space Ranger Action figure. The film opens with the toys spying on their owner Andy's birthday party, worried that he might find some new toys that will eventually replace them. Buzz Lightyear, Andy's new favorite toy, is initially unaware that he is a toy.
15. Beauty and the Beast
Answer: Animated Movies
The 1991 romantic fantasy Disney movie was based on "La Belle et la Bete", a fairy tale authored by French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve. Walt Disney had wanted to adapt it into a Disney movie since the 1930s. Gary Tousdale and Kirk Wise directed the film, with voice actors Paige O'Hara and Robby Benson playing Belle and "The Beast", respectively.
In the movie, French girl Belle is imprisoned by an ugly beast in his castle after her father accidentally gets lost and imprisoned. In exchange for his life and freedom, the Beast demands that Belle stay with him.
16. Finding Nemo
Answer: Animated Movies
Andrew Stanton directed the 2003 animated Pixar movie that starred Ellen DeGeneres and Albert Brooks. Marlin, a clownfish, loses his partner and all but one of his children to a large hungry barracuda. He vows to keep his surviving son, Nemo, safe. However, Nemo's recklessness gets him captured by Scuba divers and domesticated as a pet by humans in Sydney.
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