The Ultimate “Emojis for Films” Trivia Quiz

Consider yourself a film buff or cinephile? Then, put your knowledge to the test! In this article, we’re providing the ultimate “guess the emoji” movie quiz where you guess the names of popular movies based on just a few emojis. A film analysis expert also partnered with us to provide the rules and fun emoji combinations, whether you’re into comedies, dramas, romance movies, or horror films. Oh, and stay till the end for film emojis you can copy and paste, plus other fun movie quizzes to pass the time!

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An illustration of emoji combinations that represent iconic films.

Film analysis expert Klarissa Beckstead says you play the “Guess the Movie by Emojis” game by looking at the emojis and using context clues. Each emoji represents a film’s title, plot, or an iconic scene, and each player has 15-20 seconds to try to guess the movie. Whoever guesses the most films correctly wins!

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Guess the Movie by Emojis: Comedies

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If you want to get the laughs going, kick off your “guess the movie based on emojis” game with some comedy. Beckstead says each emoji relates to another to clue the film—some may need to be said aloud to get the film, while others rely on context clues for commonalities.^{[1]
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Expert Interview} Here are some classic comedies:
- 🍻🎓🚔 - Superbad
- 👓🕺🦙 - Napoleon Dynamite
- 👬🏠🥊 - Step Brothers
- 🏌️🐊🖐️🚫 - Happy Gilmore
- 🏫🚗🎡 - Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
- ⏰🐿️🏘️ - Groundhog Day
- 🎥🌴💣 - Tropic Thunder
- 👰‍♀️💍🍰✈️ - Bridesmaids
- ✊💥🤰 - Knocked Up
- 🍻🎲🐯🏨 - The Hangover
- 🕵️‍♂️🐬🏈 - Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
- 🤴🗡️🥥🐇🏆✨- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- 👮🏫💊🚔 - 21 Jump Street
- 🍍😙💨 - Pineapple Express
- 🇬🇧🔫🕺🏻👓🦷 - Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
- 🐖🛢️ - Delicatessen^{[2]
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- 🌊🎰🕚 - Ocean’s Eleven^{[3]
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Guess the Movie by Emojis: Family Films

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Playing with children or just a huge fan of family films? Check out these kid-friendly emoji combinations that represent your favorite Disney, Pixar, and DreamWorks movies:
- 🎤✨⚔️😈 - KPop Demon Hunters
- 🧞‍♂️🕌🐒 - Aladdin
- 👨‍🍳🐀🍝 - Ratatouille
- ❄️👸🏼👭⛄ - Frozen
- 🚀🧑‍🚀🤠🦖 - Toy Story
- 🏠🎈☁️👴🏻 - Up
- 👸🏼💇🏼‍♀️🏰 - Tangled
- 😊😢😡🤢😳 - Inside Out
- 🎼🐈‍⬛🎺🐈🎶 - The Aristocats
- 🧜‍♀️🤴🦀🐠 - The Little Mermaid
- 🏴‍☠️🦥🍫🗺️ - The Goonies^{[4]
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- 🦙🧪🏞️ - The Emperor’s New Groove
- 👸🏾🐸💋 - The Princess and the Frog
- 🦊🐰👮‍♀️🚓 - Zootopia
- 🪽🏛️🏺💪🏼⚡️ - Hercules
- 🧜🏻‍♀️🐠🦀 - The Little Mermaid
- 🌹👸📚🦁 - Beauty and the Beast
- 🎩🍫🏭✨ - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- 🏡👦🏼😈😈 - Home Alone^{[5]
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- 🎲🦁🐘🦏 - Jumanji

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Guess the Movie by Emojis: Dramas

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Drama is the perfect category for film buffs and casual moviegoers because it covers some of the most iconic films. If you’re not sure about which movies to include in your game, this is the best place to start:
- 🧊🚢 - Titanic^{[6]
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- 🛩🏝🏐😭 - Castaway
- 📚🏫🧑‍🏫🎭🕯️ - Dead Poets Society
- 🦽👟🍤🏓 - Forrest Gump
- 🚶‍♂️👴👦 - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- ✈️👨🏾‍✈️🥃 - Flight
- 😠⏱️🥁 - Whiplash
- 🥄⚾️ - The Shawshank Redemption^{[7]
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- 🚂🚽💉 - Trainspotting
- 👨‍👦💼🏙️😢📈 - The Pursuit of Happyness
- 🏭✡️📜😢🔴 - Schindler’s List
- 🧠📚🏫👨‍🏫🍏 - Good Will Hunting
- 🦍🏙️🚢 - King Kong
- 👯‍♀️🚗🚓🏞️ - Thelma and Louise^{[8]
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- 😘🤿👰‍♀️🚎 - The Graduate
- 🕺🐺 - Dances with Wolves^{[9]
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- 🍳🥓♣️ - The Breakfast Club
- 🏕️🚐🌲📖🏔️ - Into the Wild
- 🐺💸📈🛥️ - The Wolf of Wall Street
- 🤬🐂 - Raging Bull^{[10]
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- 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡 - 12 Angry Men^{[11]
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Guess the Movie by Emojis: Romance & Rom-Coms

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You don’t have to be a rom-com queen to be familiar with the movies in this section. Here are some emoji combos that represent the most adorable and passionate romances on screen:
- 📓💑🏞️ - The Notebook
- 🎄💑💌🎶🇬🇧 - Love Actually
- 👰🏻‍♀️⚡👰🏼‍♀️ - Bride Wars
- 🍝🙏❤️ - Eat Pray Love
- 💃🕺🍉 - Dirty Dancing
- 💅🏼💄👠👩🏻 - Pretty Woman
- 🇮🇹❤️🍦💇‍♀️ - Roman Holiday^{[12]
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- 💔🔙⛰️ - Brokeback Mountain
- 📚🎥❤️🇬🇧👩‍❤️‍👨 - Notting Hill
- 🏰👸📖✍️ - The Princess Diaries
- 👱🏻‍♀️💖👜🐕⚖️ - Legally Blonde
- ⏳️🧳👰‍♀ - The Time Traveler’s Wife
- 🫀🇮🇹💌👰🏼‍♀️🙋🏽‍♀️ - Return to Me^{[13]
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- 😈👠👗 - The Devil Wears Prada
- 🗽🥪☕️😩🙋‍♂️👱🏼‍♀️ - When Harry Met Sally
- 🚫😴🌧️🏙️ - Sleepless in Seattle
- 💍💍💍💍💀 - Four Weddings and a Funeral
- 🇮🇹🚲☀️🍑🧑‍🦱 - Call Me By Your Name
- 📰💎🙋🏼‍♀️🏍️🙋🏼‍♂️🔟 - How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days^{[14]
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Guess the Movie by Emojis: Horror & Thrillers

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Whether you’re into classic horror or modern thrillers (or both), this section is screaming your name. Some of the options are pretty straightforward, while others require a bit more thought. Play with other horror fans to determine the ultimate cinephile:
- 🪓🏨🚪❄️ - The Shining^{[15]
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- 🤡🎈🌧️ - IT
- 🚿🗡️🩸 - Psycho
- 🦅🦉🐦 - The Birds
- ❄️✍️🔨🦶 - Misery^{[16]
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- 🤮 ✝️ 👿 - The Exorcist
- ⏰🍊🧐 - A Clockwork Orange
- 📼📞😱 - The Ring
- 🥜🚘🫅 - Hereditary
- 👀🚫😁 - Eyes Without a Face^{[17]
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- 👱‍♀️📦❓ - Se7en
- 🇸🇪💐🐻 - Midsommar
- ⛺️ 🌳 🎥 - The Blair Witch Project
- 👤🔪🎃 - Halloween
- ⚫🦢🩰 - Black Swan
- 🐈🐕🪦 - Pet Sematary
- ☕️📺🦌 - Get Out^{[18]
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- 💤🖐️🔪 - A Nightmare on Elm Street
- 🧙‍♀️🩰🪱 - Suspira^{[19]
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Guess the Movie by Emojis: Action

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From classic franchises to critically acclaimed films, action movies can be described with more than just guns and blast emojis. Here are some emoji strings that represent more complex storylines and titles:
- 🏢🔫🎅💥🚓 - Die Hard
- 🕸🕷🦸🏻‍♂️ - Spider-Man
- 🦇🏙️🃏💣🚓 - The Dark Knight
- 🤵🔫🍸 - James Bond (007)
- 🕵️‍♂️🚗🔫🗂️🌍 - The Bourne Identity
- 🗺️🔑🇺🇸🏛️🔍 - National Treasure
- ⚔️🏛️🛡️💪🔥 - 300
- 🧳🚨🔫📞 - Taken
- 👰🏼‍♀️⚔️ - Kill Bill^{[20]
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- 🧟‍♂️🎢🤠🧟 - Zombieland
- 🎧👶🚘💨💨 - Baby Driver
- 🏎️💨🏁 - Fast & Furious
- 🏍️🕶️✈️🔝🔫 - Top Gun
- 🌍💧🔥💨✨ - The Fifth Element
- 🔥🎸💀🚛💨 - Mad Max: Fury Road
- 👨🏼‍✈️🇺🇸❄️🪖 - Captain America: The Winter Soldier^{[21]
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Guess the Movie by Emojis: Sci-Fi

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Sci-fi movies are some of the most fun to guess because they usually include rare, obscure emojis. From the classic red and blue pill for The Matrix to the ocean wave and book for Interstellar, here are some cool emoji combos you won’t see often:
- 🔵💊🔴 - The Matrix
- 🗡️🏜️🪱 - Dune
- 🤖👊👾🌊 - Pacific Rim
- 🦖🏞️🎟️ - Jurassic Park^{[22]
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- 🌌🪐💫☄️ - Star Wars
- 👽🥚🚀😱 - Alien
- 👨‍🌾👨‍🚀🌊❄️📚 - Interstellar
- 🚀🌝 - Trip to the Moon^{[23]
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- 🤖👩💡🧊 - Ex Machina
- 🧑‍🚀🔴👶🏼🦍 - 2001: A Space Odyssey^{[24]
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- 🌀🧠💭💤 - Inception
- 👽☎️🏠 - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial^{[25]
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- 🎮🕶️🌍🏆 - Ready Player One
- ⏰⬅️🚗💨⚡️ - Back to the Future
- 🤖👮🏼‍♂️ - RoboCop^{[26]
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- 🌎🐵🌍🦍🦧🌏 - Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
- 🔄☀️😶💭 - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- 🗺️ ❌🌎🦖 - Journey to the Center of the Earth^{[27]
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Guess the Movie by Emojis: Fantasy

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Like Sci-fi, fantasy movies also feature super interesting and unusual emojis. From crowns and swords to aliens and dragons, there are endless options for creating an emoji string that represents your favorite film. Here are some of our favorite ideas:
- 🌍👽🌿 - Avatar
- 📖🐉💭 - The Neverending Story
- 🐉🏰💍🗺️🧙‍♂️ - The Hobbit
- 🧙‍♀️📚🏰⚡ - Harry Potter
- 👸👰 - The Princess Bride
- 👑🦁📖🏹🚪 - The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
- 💪⚔️🏜️🗿✨ - Conan the Barbarian
- 😶❤️🐟👨 - The Shape of Water
- ✂️🖤🥀🏰 - Edward Scissorhands
- 🏴‍☠️💀⚔️🌊 - Pirates of the Caribbean
- 👦👑⛵🌴👹 - Where the Wild Things Are
- ⚡🔱🏛️🌊🗡️ - Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
- 🧙‍♂️ 👬 👬 🏔️ 🏹 🧝‍♂️ 💍 - The Lord of the Rings
- 🌳🐺👠👑 - Into the Woods
- 👸🎶🐿️✨👗🗽 - Enchanted
- ⚾️💭🚜 - Field of Dreams^{[28]
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Guess the Movie by Emojis: Musicals

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Musicals can be represented with more than just music notes and microphones. In fact, some of the options below don’t even include those classic emojis! Here are some of the greatest musicals of all time in emoji-form:
- 🎹🌃✨🌴💔 - La La Land
- 🎭🌹🎶🕯️ - The Phantom of the Opera
- 🇵🇷💃🏻🌹 - West Side Story
- 🏔🎼🇦🇹👒 - The Sound of Music
- 🤢🧙🏻‍♀️🎀🔮 - Wicked
- 💊🌃💵📹 - Rent
- 🕺💃🛢️⚡️🎶 - Grease
- 🐈🐈‍⬛🐈🐱 - Cats
- 🎶🇫🇷😩😂 - Les Misérables
- 📜🪶⭐️👆🏼 - Hamilton
- 🇫🇷👠👯‍♀️🎭🗼 - Moulin Rouge!
- 🎪🎩🐘 - The Greatest Showman
- 🕺🏻🌧️☂️🎬 - Singin’ in the Rain
- 👠🕺🔬🧪🚀🩸 - The Rocky Horror Picture Show
- 🏡🌪🌈🪄👠📽️ - The Wizard of Oz
- 👯‍♂️💁🏼‍♀️🎷🎻 - Some Like It Hot^{[29]
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Best Film Emojis

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If you’re searching for film and movie-related emojis, we’ve got you covered. Here are the most common emojis that you can copy and paste for social media, texting, and more:^{[30]
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- 🎥 (movie camera)
- 📽️ (film projector)
- 🎬 (clapper board)
- 🎞️ (film frames)
- 🎦 (cinema)
- 📺 (television)
- 🍿 (popcorn)
- 🎟️ (admission tickets)