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Title: Have there ever been movies with the same name, released in the same year?
Question: I was thinking about the typical citation standard for referencing movies, where one writes the title and the release year, in the format " Title  (Release year)" e.g.  Jurassic Park  (1993).  This works quite well, except if there ever is a movie which has the same name as  another movie  that came out during  the same year .  Does there exist an example of two movies with the same name, and same release year?

Answers:
sents: text: It's quite rare, but yes , it has happened with Hollywood movies.
text: One example is Chaos (2005).
text: Chaos (2005)
text: Action, Crime, Drama Director:
text: Tony Giglio Stars: Jason Statham, Ryan Phillippe, Wesley Snipes
text: Distributed by:
text: Capitol Films, Lionsgate
text: Two cops, a rookie, and a grizzled vet, pursue an accomplished bank robber.
text: — Chaos (2005) , IMDB Crime, Horror, Thriller Director:
text: David DeFalco Stars:
text: Kevin Gage, Sage Stallone, Kelly K.C. Quann Distributed by: Dominion Entertainment, Dinsdale Releasing Two girls, looking to score some ecstasy at a rave, follow a young man to a house where terror awaits.
text: There, a gang of felons captures and torment the girls, drawing them into a nightmare of violence.
text: —
text: Chaos (2005) , IMDB The way Wikipedia disambiguates or distinguishes the two is by adding a distributor of the film in with the release date: Chaos (2005 Capitol film)
text: Chaos
text: (2005 Dominion film)
text: Incidentally, Wikipedia lists the Capitol film's release date as 2006, rather than 2005, based on a German release date.
text: Looking at the release dates for this film , you can see that this movie has been released in '05, '06, '07, '08
text: (in USA and UK) and '09, yet IMDB considers it a 2005 release because it was first released in 2005 in the UAE, which technically makes this fit your criteria.
text: Another piece of trivia: the Dominion film was first (August '05, versus Capitol's December '05).
answer_details: author: movies.stackexchange.com/users/42655/Ghoti and Chips
score: 16
sents: text: Here is another example of the movies with same name and same release year.
text: Night Club (1989)
text: Genre:
text: Comedy Director: Sergio Corbucci Stars: Christian De Sica, Mara Venier,
text: Massimo Wertmüller
text: From IMDb, The nightlife of young carefree friends in a wonderful 60s
text: Rome Night Club (1989) Genre:
text: Drama Director: Michael Keusch Stars: Nicholas Hoppe, Elizabeth Kaitan, Ed Trotta
text: From IMDb, A young married couple try to convert an old warehouse into a nightclub, but face opposition from both the council and local mobsters.
answer_details: author: movies.stackexchange.com/users/48608/Nog Shine
score: 8
sents: text: Another example is two of the adaptations of Jane Austen's Emma that came out in 1996, both which retained the name "Emma".
text: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118308/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116191/
text: In this case, one of them was made for Television in the UK, while the other was made for theaters in the USA.
answer_details: author: movies.stackexchange.com/users/42015/GendoIkari
score: 3
sents: text: In 1965, two movies about Jean Harlow, each named "Harlow" were released.
text: One with Carroll Baker and one with Carol Lynley.
text: There were two TV movies called 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea in 1997.
text: In addition to Steven Spielberg's 2005 War of the Worlds film, there were two direct-to-video retellings of the story that year.
answer_details: author: movies.stackexchange.com/users/64413/Joe Schreck
score: 1
sents: text: Black Rain (1989)
text: Genre:
text: Drama Director: Shôhei Imamura Stars: Yoshiko Tanaka , Kazuo Kitamura, Etsuko Ichihara From IMDb, Mr and Mrs Shizuma, and their niece Yasuko, make their way through the ruins of Hiroshima, just after the atomic bomb has dropped.
text: Five years later, Yasuko is living with her aunt and uncle, and her senile grandmother, in a village containing many of the bomb survivors.
text: Yasuko does not appear to be affected by the bomb, but the Shizuma's are worried about her marriage prospects, as she could succumb to radiation sickness at any time.
text: Black Rain (1989)
text: Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller Director: Ridley Scott Stars:
text: Michael Douglas, Andy Garcia, Ken Takakura
text: From IMDb, Two NYC cops arrest a Yakuza member and must escort him when he's extradited to Japan.
answer_details: author: movies.stackexchange.com/users/42844/Silver Bebs
score: 1

Summary of the answers:
There are a number of cases of films with the same name being released in the same year: Chaos (2005), Night Club (1989), Emma (1996), Black Rain (1989), among others.
There many examples for movies realeased in the same year and under the same title