Gerunding the Movie Titlings

Imagining the mind of a being in the movie business is rarely straining. Limiting one's scope, relying on stereotypes, repeating what works seems enough. Supporting this thinking was a recent downpouring of movie titles beginning with an "ing" word, properly known as a "gerund".

Sensing a chance for fun, we are compiling a listing of such titles. Missing many titles, and quite a few letters, the following is appearing for your considering:

• Acting on Impulse
  Arguing the World (Documentary about 40's leftwing intellectuals)
  Asking for Trouble
• Banning
  Battling for Baby (Courteney Cox)
  Becoming Colette (Klaus Maria Brandauer)
  Being at Home with Claude (Roy Dupuis)
  Being Human (Robin Williams way past his prime)
  Being John Malkovich (John Cusack, John Malkovich)
  Being There (Peter Sellers is a simpleton)
  Blowin' Smoke
  Blowing Wild (Gary Cooper)
  Bluffing It (Dennis Weaver)
  Bowling for Columbine
  Boxing Helena (Sherilyn Fenn; wait til you hear what this is about!)
  Breakin' (Lucinda Dickey)
  Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo (Lucinda Dickey)
  Breaking All the Rules (Carl Marotte)
  Breaking Away (Bon giorno, papa!)
  Breaking Free (Jeremy London)
  Breaking Glass (Jonathan Pryce)
  Breaking Home Times
  Breaking In (Burt Reynolds)
  Breaking Loose
  Breaking the Ice
  Breaking the Rules (Jason Bateman)
  Breaking the Silence
  Breaking the Sound Barrier (Ralph Richardson)
  Breaking the Surface (Michael Murphy)
  Breaking the Waves (Emily Watson)
  Breaking Through (Jobeth Williams)
  Breaking Up (Salma Hayak)
  Breaking Up is Hard to Do
  Breaking with Old Ideas
  Breathing Fire
  Bringing Down the House (Steve Martin)
  Bringing Out the Dead (Nicholas Cage)
  Bringing Up Baby (Katherine Hepburn; hold that tiger!) Bringing Up Father
  Burning an Illusion
  Bustin' Loose (Richard Pryor)
  Busting (Elliott Gould)
  Buying the Cow
• Calling All Husbands (George Tobies)
  Calling Bobcat (Jayce Bartok)
  Calling Bulldog Drummond (Walter Pidgeon)
  Calling Doctor Death (Lon Chaney Jr)
  Calling Dr Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore)
  Calling Dr Kildare (Lionel Barrymore)
  Calling Homicide (Bill Elliott)
  Calling Northside 777 (James Stewart)
  Calling Philo Vance (James Stephenson)
  Calling Wild Bill Elliott (Gabby Hayes)
  Capturing the Friedmans
  Changing Lanes (Ben Affleck, Samuel L Jackson)
  Changing Habits (struggling artist infiltrates a convent)
  Chasing Amy (Ben Affleck)
  Chasing Buddha
  Chasing Destiny
  Chasing Dreams (Kevin Costner)
  Chasing Papi (Roselyn Sanchez)
  Chasing Rainbows
  Chasing Sleep (Jeff Daniels)
  Chasing the Deer
  Chasing Yesterday
  Checking Out (Jeff Daniels)
  Clockin' Green
  Comin' At Ya!
  Comin' Round the Mountain (Bud Abbott and Lou Costello)
  Comin' Thro' the Rye
  Coming Apart (Rip Torn)
  Coming Home (...in which Jane Fonda makes up for it all...not really)
  Coming Out and Under Fire
  Coming Out of the Ice
  Coming Soon
  Coming Through (a scrawny Kevin Branagh plays D H Lawrence)
  Coming to America (back when, if Eddie Murphy was in it, it had to be funny)
  Coming Unglued
  Coming Up Roses (Dafydd Hywel)
  Conceiving Ada (about Ada Lovelace and the world's first computer, in 1830)
  Courting Courtney
  Cracking Up (Jerry Lewis & Milton Berle)
  Crashing Hollywood
  Crashing Las Vegas (Leo Gorcey)
  Creating the Perfect Man
  Crossing Delancey (Peter Riegert; good pickles!)
  Crossing the Bridge (Josh Charles)
  Crossing the Line (Hugh Grant)
  Crossing to Freedom
  Cruisin' Down the River
  Cruising (Al Pacino)
  Cutting Class (Roddy McDowall, Donovan Leitch)
• Dancin' Thru the Dark
  Dancing at Lughnasa (Meryl Streep)
  Dancing at the Blue Iguana (Daryl Hannah)
  Dancing in September (Nicole Parker)
  Dancing in the Dark (Martha Henry)
  Dancing in the Dark (Bjork)
  Dancing on a Dime (Grace McDonald)
  Dancing on the Moon (Natalie Vansier)
  Dancing with Danger (Cheryl Ladd)
  Dealing: or the Berkeley to Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues Barbara Hershey
  Deconstructing Harry (Woody Allen)
  Deconstructing Sarah (Sheila Kelley)
  Defending Your Life (Albert Brooks)
  Digging to China (Kevin Bacon)
  Diving In
  Divorcing Jack (about "the troubles")
  Doin' It
  Doin' Time (Jeff Altman)
  Doing Time (Ronnie Barker)
  Doin' Time on Planet Earth (Adam West)
  Doubting Riley (Project Greenlight winner's second movie)
  Dreaming of Joseph Lees (Samantha Morton)
  Dreaming Out Loud (Frances Langford) Driving Me Crazy
  Driving Miss Daisy (Morgan Freeman)
  Drowning by Numbers (Joan Plowright)
  Drowning Mona (Bette Midler, Danny DeVito)
  Drowning on Dry Land
  Dusting Cliff Seven
  Dying to be Perfect (Esai Morales)
  Dying to Belong
  Dying to Remember
  Dying Young (Julia Roberts)
• Eating (Frances Bergen)
  Eating Raoul (Paul Bartel; gloriously amoral)
  Educating Rita (Michael Caine)
  Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story (Martin Sheen)
  Entertaining Mr Sloane (Beryl Reid)
• Facing the Enemy (Linden Ashby)
  Fakin' Da Funk
  Falling Down (Michael Douglas is mad as hell)
  Falling for the Stars
  Falling From Grace (Mariel Hemingway)
  Falling in Love (Meryl Streep)
  Falling in Love Again (Elliott Gould)
  Feeling Minnesota (Keanu Reeves; what the hell? Jacks?)
  Feudin', Fussin' and A-fightin' (Donald O'Connor)
  Fighting Back (Tom Skerritt)
  Fighting Trouble
  Finding Buck McHenry (Ossie Davis)
  Finding Forrester (Sean Connery)
  Finding Graceland
  Finding Kelly (Christine Lakin)
  Finding Nemo
  Finding North
  Finding the Way Home (George C Scott)
  Fishing With Gandhi
  Fleeing by Night
  Flipping (not burgers, but witnesses)
  Flirting (Noah Taylor)
  Flirting With Disaster (Ben Stiller, Mary Tyler Moore)
  Flirting With Fate (Joe E Brown)
  Floating (Chad Lowe) Floating Away (Paul Hogan)
  Flooding
  Floundering (John Cusack)
  Flying (Rita Tushingham) Flying Blind
  Flying Down to Rio (Delores Del Rio)
  Flying High (Hedda Hopper)
  Flying Wild (Leo Gorcey)
  Following (Jeremy Theobald; eerie black and white startler)
  Following the Fuehrer
  Foolin' Around (Gary Busey)
  Forsaking All Others (Clark Gable)
• Galloping Thru
  Gambling on the High Seas
  Gleaming the Cube
  Getting Away with Murder (Dan Aykroyd)
  Getting Even (Edward Albert)
  Getting Even With Dad (Macaulay Culkin)
  Getting Gertie's Garter (J Carroll Naish)
  Getting Gotti (Lorraine Bracco)
  Getting It On
  Getting It Right (Peter Cook)
  Getting Out (Rebecca de Mornay)
  Getting Over
  Getting Over Allison
  Getting Personal (Michael Landes)
  Getting Physical
  Getting Straight (Elliott Gould)
  Getting Up and Going Home (Tom Skerritt)
  Getting Wasted
  Giving Up the Ghost
  Gleaming the Cube (Christian Slater)
  Glorifying the American Girl (Eddie Cantor)
  Going All the Way (Ben Affleck)
  Going Ape (Tony Danza)
  Going Bananas
  Going Berserk (John Candy)
  Going Bye Bye
  Goin' Cocoanuts (Donnie and Marie Osmond)
  Goin' Down the Road (Doug McGrath)
  Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story
  Going Hollywood (Bing Crosby, Marion Davies)
  Goin' Home (Robert Mitchum)
  Going Home (Jason Robards)
  Going in Style (George Burns)
  Going My Way (Bing Crosby)
  Going Nomad
  Going Overboard (Adam Sandler)
  Going Places (Dick Powell)
  Goin' South (Jack Nicholson)
  Going Steady (Alan Reed)
  Goin' to Town (Mae West)
  Going Undercover (Viveca Lindfors)
  Guarding Tess (Nicholas Cage)
• Hangin' With the Homeboys (John Leguizamo)
  Hanging Up (Meg Ryan)
  Harnessing Peacocks
  Having a Wild Weekend (The Dave Clark Five)
  Having Babies
  Having It All
  Having Wonderful Crime (Pat O'Brien)
  Having Wonderful Time (Ginger Rogers)
  Headin' for Broadway (Rex Smith)
  Heading for Heaven (Stuart Erwin)
  Heading Home (Gary Oldman)
  Healing by Killing
  Hearing Voices
  Hiding Out (Jon Cryer)
  High-Ballin' (Peter Fonda)
  Hijacking Hollywood (Henry Thomas)
  Hittin' the Trail
  Hitting a New High (Lily Pons)
  Housekeeping
• Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (Halle Berry)
  Inventing the Abbots (Liv Tyler)
• Jilting Joe
  Jumping (animated)
  Jumping at the Boneyard (Tim Roth)
  Jumping for Joy
  Jumping Ship (Joey Lawrence)
• Keeping It Real: The Adventures of Greg Walloch
  Keeping On (Danny Glover)
  Keeping Secrets (Suzanne Somers)
  Keeping the Faith
  Kicking and Screaming (Eric Stoltz)
  Kicking the Moon Around
  Killing Dad
  Killing 'Em Softly (George Segal)
  Killing Me Softly (Joseph Fiennes)
  Killing Mr Griffin (Jay Thomas)
  Killing Mrs Tingle (oops, high school shootings, rename it Teaching Mrs Tingle!)
  Killing the Badge
  Killing Zoe (Eric Stoltz)
  Kissing a Dream
  Kissing a Fool (David Schwimmer)
  Kissing Jessica Stein (Jennifer Westfeldt)
  Knocking on Death's Door
• Laughing at Trouble
  Leaving Las Vegas (Nicholas Cage)
  Leaving Lenin
  Leaving Normal (Meg Tilly)
  Living a Lie (Peter Coyote)
  Living at Risk
  Living Free
  Living in a Big Way (Gene Kelly)
  Living in Fear (Monica Cross)
  Living in Oblivion (Steve Buscemi)
  Living in Peril (Rob Lowe)
  Living it Up (Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis)
  Livin' Large (Blanche Baker)
  Living on Tokyo Time (Minako Ohashi)
  Living on Velvet (Kay Francis)
  Living Out Loud (Holly Hunter)
  Livin' the Life
  Looking for Alibrandi (Greta Scacchi)
  Looking for an Echo (Armand Assante)
  Looking for Danger (Huntz Hall)
  Looking for Lola
  Looking for Love (Connie Francis)
  Looking for Miracles
  Looking for Mr Goodbar (Diane Keaton)
  Looking for Richard (Al Pacino)
  Looking for Trouble
  Looking Forward (Lionel Barrymore)
  Looking on the Bright Side
  Lookin' to Get Out (Jon Voight)
  Losin' It (Tom Cruise)
  Losing Chase (Helen Mirren)
  Losing Control
  Losing Ground (Seret Scott)
  Losing Isaiah (Jessica Lange)
  Loving Evangeline (Nick Mancuso)
  Loving in the Rain
  Loving Jezebel (Hill Harper)
  Lovin' Molly (Anthony Perkins, Beau Bridges)
  Loving You (Elvis Presley)
• Making Contact
  Making It (Joyce Van Patten)
  Making Love (Michael Ontkean, overstuffed and earnest)
  Making Mr Right (John Malkovich)
  Making of a Male Model
  Making the Grade (Judd Nelson)
  Meeting Daddy
  Meeting Venus (Glenn Close)
  Mixing Nia (Karyn Parsons)
  Moonlighting (Jeremy Irons, illegal Polish workers)
  Moving (Richard Prior)
  Moving the Mountain
• Navigating the Heart
• Owning Mahowny (Philip Seymour Hoffman)
• Packin' It In
  Painting the Clouds with Sunshine (Virginia Mayo)
  Passing Glory
  Passing Stones Tom Ellis
  Passing Through
  Peddlin' in Society
  Picking Up the Pieces (Sharon Stone)
  Playing By Heart
  Playing for Keeps (Marisa Tomei)
  Playing for Time (that controversial Vanessa)
  Playing God
  Playing Mona Lisa (Alicia Witt)
  Playing to Win (Shelley Fabares)
  Presenting Lily Mars (Judy Garland)
  Pumping Iron (Arnold Schwarzenegger)
  Pushing Hands (Sihung Lee)
  Pushing Tin
  Puttin' On the Ritz (Harry Richman)
  Putting Pants on Philip (Laurel and Hardy)
• Quitting
• Racing with the Moon (Sean Penn)
  Raining Stones (Julie Brown)
  Raising a Riot (Kenneth More; read the book!)
  Raising Arizona (Nicholas Cage)
  Raising Cain (John Lithgow)
  Raising Helen (Kate Hudson)
  Raising the Heights
  Raising the Wind (Paul Massie)
  Raising Victor Vargas (Victor Rasuk)
  Rappin' (Mario Van Peebles)
  Rationing (Wallace Beery)
  Reaching for the Moon (Douglas Fairbanks)
  Reaching for the Sun (Joel McCrea)
  Regarding Henry (Harrison Ford does the simpleton bit)
  Replacing Dad (Tippi Hedren)
  Returning Lily (Lainie Kazan)
  Ridin' Down the Canyon
  Ridin' for Justice
  Riding High (Dorothy Lamour)
  Riding in Cars with Boys (Drew Barrymore)
  Riding on Air (Joe E Brown)
  Riding Shotgun (Randolph Scott)
  Riding Tall (Andrew Prine)
  Riding the Rails
  Riding the Sunset Trail
  Riding the Wind
  Riding West
  Riding with Buffalo Bill
  Rockin' in the Rockies (the Three Stooges)
  Rockin' the Blues (Mantan Moreland)
  Romancing the Stone (Kathleen Turner)
  Rowing With the Wind (Hugh Grant)
  Running (Michael Douglas)
  Running Brave (Robby Benson)
  Running Delilah (Delilah is a reincarnated spy)
  Running from the Guns (Jon Blake)
  Running Hot (Eric Stoltz)
  Running on Empty (Christine Lahti)
  Running Red (Jeff Speakman)
  Running Scared (Gregory Hines)
  Running Wild (Brooke Shields)
• Saving Grace (Tom Conti)
  Saving Private Ryan (Tom Hanks)
  Saving Silverman (Jason Biggs)
  Scattering Dad (Olympia Dukakis, Andy Griffith)
  Searching for Bobby Fischer (Joe Mantegna)
  Seducing Maria
  Serving Sara (Elizabeth Hurley)
  Serving in Silence (Glenn Close)
  Shaking the Tree (Courtenay Cox)
  Shattering the Silence (Joanna Kerns)
  Shining Through (Michael Douglas)
  Shooting Elizabeth (Jeff Goldblum & Mimi Rogers)
  Shooting Fish (Kate Beckinsale, great soundtrack, so-so movie)
  Shooting High (Gene Autry)
  Shooting Stars
  Shooting Straight
  Shopping
  Silencing Mary (Melissa Joan Hart)
  Singin' in the Rain (Gene Kelly, Debby Reynolds)
  Singing the Blues in Red
  Sitting in Limbo
  Sitting Pretty (Ginger Rogers, Clifton Webb)
  Sleeping Together
  Sleeping with the Enemy (Julia-America's-Little-Sweetheart-Roberts)
  Slipping into Darkness
  Smashing the Crime Syndicate (Broderick Crawford)
  Smashing the Money Ring (Ronald Reagan)
  Smilin' Through (Jeanette MacDonald)
  Smiling Along
  Spanking the Monkey (Jeremy Davis)
  Speaking in Strings
  Speaking of Murder (Buster Keaton)
  Splitting Heirs (Eric Idle)
  Stacking (Christine Lahti)
  Stalking Danger
  Stalking Laura
  Stalking the President
  Standing Tall
  Starting Over (Burt Reynolds)
  Staying Afloat (Larry Hagman)
  Stayin' Alive
  Staying Together (Stockard Channing)
  Stealing Beauty (Jeremy Irons)
  Stealing Harvard
  Stealing Heaven (Denhold Elliott)
  Stealing Home (Blair Brown)
  Steaming (Vanessa Redgrave)
  Steppin' in Society (Edward Everett Horton)
  Steppin' Out (Liza Minelli)
  Stompin' at the Savoy (Jasmine Guy)
  Streetwalkin' (Julie Newmar)
  Striking Poses (Shannen Doherty)
  Surfacing
  Surviving
  Surviving Picasso (Anthony Hopkins)
  Surviving the Game (Rutger Hauer, a remake of the story about hunting a man for sport.)
  Swimming
  Swimming to Cambodia (Spalding Gray)
  Swimming with Sharks (Kevin Spacey)
  Swingin' Along (Ray Charles)
  Switching Channels (Kathleen Turner)
  Switching Goals (Mary-Kate and Ashley)
• Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story (Patricia Wettig)
  Taking Care of Business (James Belushi)
  Taking Off (Buck Henry)
  Taking Sides(Harvey Keitel)
  Taking the Heat (Alan Arkin)
  Talkin' Dirty After Dark (Martin Lawrence)
  Taming Sutton's Gal
  Teaching Mrs Tingle (Helen Mirren)
  Telling Lies in America (Kevin Bacon)
  Telling You
  Testing the Limits
  Thinkin' Big
  Thrashin' (Josh Brolin)
  Trading Favors (Rosanna Arquette)
  Trading Hearts (Raul Julia)
  Trading Mom (Sissy Spacek)
  Trading Places (Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy)
  Travelling North (Leo McKern)
  Trembling Before G-d (documentary)
  Trippin'
  Trusting Beatrice (Steve Buscemi)
  Turning to Stone (Nicky Guadagni)
• Understanding Bliss
  Understanding Jane
• Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise
• Waiting for Guffman (Christoper Guest, Eugene Levy)
  Waiting for the Light (Teri Garr)
  Waiting for the Messiah
  Waiting for the Moon (Linda Hunt)
  Waiting to Exhale (Whitney Houston)
  Waking Life (animated, from film)
  Waking Ned Devine (Ian Bannen)
  Waking the Dead
  Waking Up Horton (Dirk Benedict)
  Waking Up in Las Vegas
  Waking Up in Reno
  Walking and Talking (Anne Heche)
  Walking My Baby Back Home (Buddy Hackett)
  Walking Tall (Joe Don Baker)
  Walking to the Waterline (Hallie Foote)
  Whistling in Brooklyn (Red Skelton)
  Whistling in Dixie (Red Skelton)
  Whistling in the Dark (Red Skelton)
  Winning (Paul Newman)
  Winning London (Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen)
  Wombling Free David Tomlinson) Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (Robert Duvall)
  Wrestling with Alligators (Joely Richardson)