10 Best Movies Named After Popular Songs

Wong Kar-wai named his luscious, romantic story of an extra-marital affair in socially conservative 1960s Hong Kong: Hua Yang De Nian Hua. It's a name which roughly translates as The Age Of Blossoms and was a title taken from a song by Zhou Xuan, a 1940s singer and actress known as the "Golden Voice" and a major icon in China but little known overseas.

Wong, who has always enjoyed using song titles for his movies (his previous film, Happy Together, took its English-language name from the 1960s psychedelic pop hit by The Turtles), struggled to find an appropriate equivalent English-language golden oldie of nostalgic romanticism.

Until deep in post-production, Wong planned to simply title the movie Secrets internationally. That was until listening to Bryan Ferry's cover of the 1935 Frances Langford song I'm In The Mood For Love from As Time Goes By, Ferry's 1999 album of retro and jazz standards. After that, Wong not only chose to give the movie the international title In The Mood For Love, but also to include Ferry's song alongside Zhou's on the soundtrack.

Much of In The Mood For Love, repeatedly referred to by critics as one of the masterpieces of twenty-first century world cinema, is an atmospheric mood piece and Ferry's lush take on the 1930s standard is certainly a good fit for that. Plus this movie is a 2-for-1 when it comes to films named after popular songs.