| 100% | LEFTATHOME | 10 | Like Macaulay Culkin, in a 1990 movie |
| 51% | FANTASTIC | 9 | Like Mr. Fox in a 2009 movie |
| 50% | HOMEALONE | 9 | Macaulay Culkin Christmas comedy set in a Chicago suburb (2 wds.) |
| 50% | EERIE | 5 | Like silence in a horror movie, say |
| 47% | ETS | 3 | Aliens, like the one in a Spielberg movie: Abbr. |
| 47% | ALONE | 5 | "Home ___," 1990 film starring Macaulay Culkin that features his character in a shopping sequence |
| 47% | EPIC | 4 | Massive in scale, like a big-budget action movie |
| 46% | EVIL | 4 | Like a twin in some horror movies |
| 46% | REMADE | 6 | Like the movie A Star Is Born, in 1954, 1976, and 2018 |
| 46% | GORY | 4 | Like a graphic scene in a horror movie |
| 45% | ETS | 3 | Aliens, like the one in a 1982 Spielberg movie: Abbr. |
| 45% | MONOLITH | 8 | Large column of stone, like in the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" |
| 43% | ARTY | 4 | Like a movie filmed in black and white where everyone speaks with a fake British accent |
| 43% | FEATURED | 8 | In a movie |
| 43% | EPIC | 4 | Grand in scope, like a historical movie |
| 43% | HOMEALONE | 9 | Christmas movie starring Macaulay Culkin as a kid who foils two burglars unassisted |
| 42% | YEMEN | 5 | Country created in a 1990 merger |
| 42% | ADLIB | 5 | Speak impromptu, like in a movie when you forget lines |
| 42% | ROLE | 4 | Part in a play or a movie |
| 42% | OSAGE | 5 | Title county in a Meryl Streep movie |
| 42% | EASTLA | 6 | Title locale in a Cheech Marin movie |
| 42% | IRENE | 5 | Title woman in a Jim Carrey movie |
| 42% | CAST | 4 | All of the performers in a movie |
| 42% | AMISTAD | 7 | Title ship in a 1997 Spielberg movie |
| 42% | NEMO | 4 | Title fish in a 2003 Pixar movie |
| 42% | SELMA | 5 | City in a 2014 Ava DuVernay movie |
| 42% | DEVITO | 6 | Schwarzenegger is his twin in a movie |
| 42% | END | 3 | When the credits roll in a movie |
| 42% | LILO | 4 | Title girl in a 2002 Disney movie |
| 42% | PRADA | 5 | The devil wears one in a movie |