10 Best Movies Named After Popular Songs

Following on from Boys Don't Cry, here's another 1990s award-winning drama about a trans person, named after a British "crying"-themed pop song. A niche category if ever there was one.

Neither the transgender twist, nor the pop song title, however, were part of Neil Jordan's original script for his drama about the bond between an IRA volunteer and his British soldier captive.

Even after Jordan decided that making the soldier's romantic partner into a trans character would open up plenty of new narrative and thematic directions, the film remained titled The Soldier's Wife right through its production. It was only when Stanley Kubrick, a friend of Jordan's, suggested that this would make audiences think they were buying tickets for a war movie that Jordan sought something more abstract for a new title.

The name of The Crying Game was borrowed from a 1964 hit for British teen idol Dave Berry and both this version and a new one by Boy George feature on the movie's soundtrack.

Not only did the movie The Crying Game become one of the big sleeper hits of the era on its release in 1992, picking up six Oscar nominations, but the song was also a hit like never before, becoming Boy George's only big solo success in the US.