10 Best Movies Named After Popular Songs

Edgar Wright's action flick about a young getaway driver was always embedded in music. Wright conceived of the concept of an action story in which the car chases were cut to the rhythm of the songs on the soundtrack when directing the video for Mint Royale's Blue Song back in 2003 (a clip from which, featuring Noel Fielding, makes a cameo on a TV in the movie).

Music is so much the essential heart of what makes this movie tick that it would be almost more strange if it wasn't named after a song. Fortunately, Wright found the perfect title nestled in the second side of Simon and Garfunkel's much acclaimed 1970 swansong album Bridge Over Troubled Water.

Baby Driver the song is an unusually breezy (for Bridge Over Troubled Water) slice of Beach Boys-style rock 'n' roll about a young man who just wants to drive his car and get laid. While the movie undoubtedly has some darker edges and deeper troubles, it's still a pretty good fit for its overall fun, adventurous tone.

The song never gets to act as the backing for one of the film's signature vibrant vehicular action scenes, so is perhaps not the piece of music for which audiences will most remember the movie, but it does play us out over the closing credits.