Film Language Tag: Credits, Opening
Text credits appearing at (or very near) the beginning of an audiovisual work. (See also title sequence, which should be used when the emphasis is on more than just the opening text credits).
"Say It To Me Now" (Opening Sequence), Once
Guy (Glen Hansard), a busker, gets robbed. At night, Girl (Markéta Irglová) approaches him about his music.
Are You Watching Closely?, The Prestige
John Cutter outlines the three stages of a magic trick to a young girl while Angier drowns in a water tank in front of Borden.
Big Dealer Man, Coffy
Coffy (Pam Grier) goes over to the Dealer Man's (Morris Buchanan) apartment.
Closing Sequence, Chinatown
In Chinatown, as "Jake" Gittes (Jack Nicholson) tries and fails to explain the truth to Lieutenant Lou Escobar (Perry Lopez), Evelyn (Faye Dunaway) is shot. Katherine (Belinda Palmer) is taken by her father/grandfather Noah Cross (John Huston).
Consolidated Life (Opening Sequence), The Apartment
CC Baxter (Jack Lemmon) introduces his company and the current predicament with his living situation.
Freestyle and Credits, Climax
The dancers freestyle in a circle and the opening credits roll.
Hud Opening Title Sequence, Hud
A car drives across the Texas Panhandle landscape.
One Is the Loneliest Number, Magnolia
Establishing various lives across the San Fernando Valley.
Opening and Interviews, Climax
Opening credits and interviews with the dancers in the film.
Opening Credits, Run Lola Run
The opening credits interspersed with shots of characters from the film.
Opening Credits, It's a Wonderful Life
The opening credits of the film, displaying the cast and crew on story book pages.
Opening Credits, The 400 Blows
The opening credits appear over traveling shots of the Eiffel Tower from streets in Paris.
Opening Credits, The Red Shoes
The opening credits of the film, set over images that resemble fairy tale books.
Opening Credits, Roma
The opening credits of the film.
Opening Credits, Drive
The opening credits roll as Driver (Ryan Gosling) drives through Los Angeles.
Opening Credits, The Landlord
The film opens with shots of the Park Slope neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, while trust-fund kid Elgar (Beau Bridges) details his plans to renovate a building in the area
Opening Credits and Sequence, Tokyo Story
Opening credits and establishing shots of Onomichi.
Opening Credits and Sequence, Ran
After a successful boar hunt, Lords Ayabe (Jun Tazaki) and Fujimaki (Hitoshi Ueki) each hope to arrange marriages between their daughters and Lord Hidetora Ichimonji's (Tatsuya Nakadai) son, Saburo (Daisuke Ryu).
Opening Credits and Sequence, Unforgiven
At Greely's Saloon and Brothel in Big Whiskey Wyoming, two men, Quick Mike (David Mucci) and Davey Bunting (Rob Campbell), cut the face of Delilah, a prostitute (Anna Thomson). The Town Sheriff, Little Bill (Gene Hackman), lets the perpetrators off easy. Taking justice into their own hands, Strawberry Alice (Frances Fisher) and the other prostitutes place a bounty on their heads.
Opening Credits and Sequence, Persepolis
Instead of boarding her flight to Tehran, Marjane ("Marji") (Chiara Mastroianni) reflects on her youth in Iran. Living with her mom (Catherine Deneuve), dad (Simon Abkarian), and grandmother (Danielle Darrieux), young Marji (Gabrielle Lopes) witnesses the start of the Iranian Revolution.
Opening Credits and Sequence, Chinatown
A woman (Dianne Ladd) asks private investigator, J.J. "Jake" Gittes (Jack Nicholson), to look into her husband, Hollis Mulwray, who she believes is having an affair.
Opening Sequence, Easy Rider
Wyatt (Peter Fonda) and Billy (Dennis Hopper) buy cocaine in Mexico and smuggle it into the US.
Opening Sequence, Lawrence of Arabia
T.E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) dies in a motorcycle accident.
Opening Sequence, City of God
Rocket (Alexandre Rodrigues) gets stuck between the police, an escaped chicken, and Li'l Ze (Leandro Firmino) and his gang.
Opening Sequence, Nashville
Opening credits and Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson) records a song while Opal (Geraldine Chaplin) prepares to write about it.
Opening Sequence, American Psycho
Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) gets a meal with Timothy Bryce (Justin Theroux), Craig McDermott (Josh Lucas), and David Van Patten (Bill Sage).
Opening Sequence, Stranger Than Paradise
Eva (Eszter Balint) gets off her plane, and Willie (John Lurie) answers a phone call.
Opening Sequence, Persona
A projector screens a series of images. After, a boy (Jörgen Lindström) wakes up in what looks to be a morgue.
Opening Sequence, The Phantom of the Opera
At the Paris Opera House, a production of Faust is underway
Opening Sequence, A Brighter Summer Day
During a time of political unrest in Taiwan, Chang Chen/Hsiao Si'r (Chang Chen) is forced to attend night school after failing a test. Si'r and his father (Chang Kuo-chu) listen to a radio broadcast acknowledging distinguished students.
Opening Sequence, Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) treks through the Peruvian wilderness in search of a lost idol.
Opening Sequence, The Worst Person in the World
Julie (Renate Reinsve), a medical student in Oslo, realizes she isn't living the life she wants and flits through a series of majors and relationships. She then meets Aksel (Anders Danielsen Lie), a comic book artist, at a party.
Opening Sequence, Inglourious Basterds
Opening credits and Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz) arrives to a farm.
Opening Sequence, The Jackie Robinson Story
An offscreen narrator explains the importance of Jackie Robinson's story as a young Jackie (Howard Louis MacNeely) walks with his back turned to the camera.
Opening Sequence, The Favourite
Sarah (Rachel Weisz) helps Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) get ready and make plans.
Opening Sequence, The Shining
Jack Torrence (Jack Nicholson) drives to the Overlook Hotel and completes his interview for a job as a caretaker of the building. Meanwhile, Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and Danny (Danny Lloyd) have breakfast.
Opening Sequence, Farewell My Concubine
In 1977, Beijing Opera stars Cheng Dieyi (Leslie Cheung) and Duan Xiaolou (Zhang Fengyi) are summoned to give one last performance together for the first time in over twenty years. Some fifty years earlier, a mother (Jiang Wenli) looks for someone to take care of her son (Ma Mingwei).
Opening Sequence, Mother
Mother (Kim Hye-ja) dances in a wheat field. Sometime earlier, she watches her son Do-joon (Won Bin) across the street while he talks with his troublemaker friend Jin-tae (Jin Goo).
Opening Sequence, Cléo from 5 to 7
Cléo (Corinne Marchand) goes to a fortune teller (Loye Payen) to see if the fortune teller can predict the results of her biopsy.
Opening Sequence, Bound
Corky (Gina Gherson) meets Violet (Jennifer Tilly) in an elevator.
Opening Sequence, Triangle of Sadness
Carl (Harris Dickinson) attends a casting call for a modeling agency.
Opening Sequence, Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
Promo and press interview with Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt), followed by opening credits.
Opening Sequence, All About My Mother
Manuela (Cecilia Roth), a nurse and single-mother, celebrates her son, Esteban's (Eloy Azorin), 17th birthday. For his birthday, Esteban asks for details of his mother's life so he can write about her.
Opening Sequence, Romola
In 15th Century Florence, Romola (Lillian Gish) lives with her father, Bardo Bardi (Bonaventura Ibáñez), and Carlo Bucellini (Ronald Colman).
Opening Sequence, Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Opening credits, then Jeanne has a visitor.
Opening Sequence, Forrest Gump
In 1981, Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) waits at a bus stop where he begins to talk to other passengers about his life and what brought him to Savannah.
Opening Sequence, Secret Ballot
Opening credits and establishing shots of an unnamed Iranian island.
Opening Sequence, Down by Law
Opening shots of New Orleans and introductions to main characters.
Opening Sequence, Touki Bouki
Mory (Magaye Niang) works at a butcher in Dakar, Senegal.
Opening Sequence, The Battle of Algiers
An informant tells the French Army the spot where Ali la Pointe (Brahim Hadjadj) is hiding. Opening credits roll.
Opening Sequence, Sense and Sensibility
When Mr. Dashwood (Tom Wilkinson) dies, his wife (Gemma Jones) and daughters Elinor (Emma Thompson), Marianne (Kate Winslet), and Margaret (Myriam Francois) lose their home to his son, John (James Fleet), from another marriage. Mr. Dashwood tells John to look out for his girls, but John's wife, Fanny (Harriet Walter), is less generous. Fanny's brother, Edward (Hugh Grant), comes to visit.
Opening Sequence, Volver
Raimunda (Penelope Cruz) and Soledad (Lola Dueñas) return to their hometown with Raimunda's daughter Paula (Yohana Cobo) to visit their mother's grave and their elderly aunt (Chus Lampreave).
Opening Sequence, The Sound of Music
Maria (Julie Andrews) sings "The Sound of Music," and the opening credits roll.
Opening Sequence, She Done Him Wrong
Opening credits and establishing shots of New York City in the 1890s.
Opening Sequence, The Godfather
Don Vito Coreleone (Marlon Brando) listens to requests on the day of his daughter's wedding.
Opening Sequence, Poltergeist
Late at night, after the family has all fallen asleep, Carol Anne (Heather O'Rourke) begins talking to the television.
Opening Sequence, Bringing Up Baby
David Huxley (Cary Grant) is missing one bone that would complete his skeleton of a Brontosaurus. He is also about to marry his fiance, Alice Swallow (Virginia Walker).
Opening Sequence, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
On his way home, Arash (Arash Marandi) steals a cat from a yard.
Opening Sequence, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Newly engaged John (Sidney Poitier) and Joanna (Catherine Houghton) arrive at Joanna's hometown in San Fransisco.
Opening Sequence, Handsome Antonio
Antonio (Marcello Mastroianni) finds out that he must return home and find a wife.
Opening Sequence, Get Out
Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) and his girlfriend Rose (Allison Williams) get ready to drive up to Rose's parents' house for the weekend.
Opening Sequence, Sunset Boulevard
Joe Gillis (William Holden) begins the story of his demise.
Opening Sequence, Aftersun
Sophie (Frankie Corio) and her father Calum (Paul Mescal) go on a vacation to Turkey.
Opening Sequence, Night of the Living Dead
Barbra (Judith O'Dea) and Johnny (Russel Streiner) visit their father's grave when something goes terribly wrong.
Opening Sequence, Paris, Texas
Travis (Harry Dean Stanton) wanders in the desert and collapses.
Opening Sequence, 8½
Guido (Marcello Mastroianni) dreams of himself escaping from a traffic jam and flying high in the sky.
Opening Sequence, Sweet Smell of Success
Press agent Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis) picks up a newspaper with a column by J.J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster).
Opening Sequence , The Boys in the Band
Various characters within the film are depicted living their daily lives in New York City.
Opening Sequence, Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Marianne (Noémie Merlant) instructs her students on how to paint a portrait.
Opening Sequence, Fruitvale Station
Couple Oscar (Michael B. Jordan) and Sophina (Melonie Diaz) discuss their New Year's resolutions. At the Fruitvale BART station, White officers detain Black citizens, and Officer Ingram fires a gunshot.
Opening Sequence , Waiting to Exhale
On New Year's Eve, four women in separate households navigate relationships with the men in their lives.
Opening Sequence , The Silence of the Lambs
Clarice Sterling(Jodie Foster), an FBI trainee, is assigned to interview a serial killer(Anthony Hopkins).
Opening Sequence, I Saw the TV Glow
Owen (Ian Foreman) watches a trailer for a new TV show, The Pink Opaque.
Opening Sequence, O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Ulysses Everett McGill (George Clooney), Pete (John Turturro), and Delmar O'Donnell (Tim Blake Nelson) escape from a Mississippi chain gang in search of Everett's buried treasure. They encounter a blind seer (Lee Weaver).
Opening Sequence, The Hunger
Miriam Blaylock (Catherine Deneuve) and John (David Bowie) invite a young couple from the nightclub to their home.
Opening Sequence, A Woman Under the Influence
Opening credits and Nick's workplace.
Opening Sequence, Yi Yi
The family has gathered for Ah-Di's (Hsi-Sheng Chen) wedding.
Opening Sequence, Cotton Comes to Harlem
Deke "Reverend" O'Malley (Calvin Lockhart) drives back into Harlem.
Opening Sequence, The Children's Hour
Children from the Wright-Dobie School for Girls ride bikes, play outdoors, and perform in a piano recital for their parents to watch.
Opening Sequence, TÁR
Someone is shown filming Lydia Tár (Cate Blanchett) on a private flight while texting about her. The opening credits roll while a shamanic melody plays in the background.
Opening Sequence, Blue Velvet
Opening credits and establishing the eerie suburban setting.
Opening Sequence, Reservoir Dogs
The assembled cast of criminals have breakfast at a diner before their heist.
Opening Sequence, Taxi Driver
Opening credits and establishes New York City setting through neo-noir filming techniques
Opening Sequence, Everything Everywhere All at Once
A stressed Evelyn (Michelle Yeoh), her husband Waymond (Ke Huy Quan), and her daughter Joy (Stephanie Hsu) prepare for an event at their laundromat.
Opening Sequence, The Birds
Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) pretends to work at a bird shop to impress Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor) who is looking for a couple of love birds.
Opening Sequence, Edge of the City
Drifter Axel Nordmann (John Cassavetes) looks for a job at the waterfront and calls his parents.
Opening Sequence, Hereditary
The Graham family prepares for a funeral.
Opening Sequence, Pink Flamingos
Edie (Edith Massey) begs Divine (Divine) to get her some eggs.
Probing Siri (Opening Sequence), The Artifice Girl
Deena (Sidna Nichols) uses her phone's Siri for assistance, posing ethical questions of an increasingly challenging nature.
Tear Me Down (Opening Sequence), Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Hedwig Schmidt (John Cameron Mitchell) and her band perform "Tear Me Down" in a restaurant in Kansas City.
The Heavens Over Berlin (Opening Sequence), Wings of Desire
Damiel (Bruno Ganz) and Cassiel (Otto Sander), two angels, observe the lives and listen to the thoughts of Berliners.
Wai-Tung Exercises While Simon Works, The Wedding Banquet
Wai-Tung (Winston Chao) works out while a voiceover of his mother discusses his father's health and Wai-Tung's prospects for an arranged marriage. Wai-Tung calls his partner, Simon (Mitchell Lichtenstein), to cancel plans before bumping into an old acquaintance.
