The Nth Degree
Ordinal Movie Titles

There's a difference between "six" and "sixth", the difference between "six days" and "the sixth day". Counting numbers are called "cardinals" and ordering numbers are called "ordinals". In this list, we look at some movie titles that include an ordinal number. In some cases, it's hard to judge exactly how the number is being used, but let's say an ordinal usage includes telephone numbers, addresses, floors in a building, flight numbers, highway designators, room numbers, and so on.

• The First Deadly Sin (Frank Sinatra);
• The Third Man (Orson Welles);
• Born on the Fourth of July (Tom Cruise);
• The Fifth Element (Bruce Willis);
• The Sixth Sense (Bruce Willis);
• The Seventh Seal (Max von Sydow);
• The Adventures of Buckeroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension (John Lithgow);
• Agent 8 3/4, (Dirke Bogarde);
• The Ninth Directive;
• Tenth Avenue Angel;
• Riot in Cell Block 11;
• Twelfth Night (Helena Bonham Carter);
• The Thirteenth Guest (Ginger Rogers);
• Saturday the 14th (Richard Benjamin);
• 15 Malden Lane (Cesar Romero);
• The Night of January 16th (Robert Preston);
• Number 17 (Leon Lion);
• The Eighteenth Angel;
• K-19: The Widowmaker (Sean Connery);
• Twentieth Century (John Barrymore);
• Bat 21 (Gene Hackman);
• Catch 22 (Alan Arkin);
• Laughter on the 23rd Floor (Nathan Lane);
• Hill 24 Doesn't Answer (Edward Mulhare);
• The Twenty-Fifth Hour (Anthony Quinn);
• The 27th Day (Gene Barry);
• 29th Street (Danny Aiello);
• Adalen 31;
• August 32nd on Earth (a movie from Quebec, set in Utah);
• Miracle on 34th Street (Maureen O'Hara);
• Private Hell 36 (Ida Lupino);
• To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday (Peter Gallagher);
• Forty-Second Street (Ruby Keeler);
• The Mayor of 44th Street;
• Miss 45 (Zoe Tamerlis);
• Code 46 (Tim Robbins);
• The Forty Ninth Parallel (Leslie Howard);
• Formula 51 (Samuel Jackson);
• Fifty-Second Street (ZaSu Pitts);
• Passenger 57 (Wesley Snipes);
• Psyche 59;
• Interstate 60;
• Highway 61 (Jello Biafra);
• Private Detective 62 (William Powell);
• Roadhouse 66;
• The Fighting 69th (Jimmy Cagney);
• Murder at 75 Birch (Melissa Gilbert);
• The Eighty-First Blow (WWII);
• 84 Charlie Mopic (Jonathan Emerson);
• The 87th Precinct: Ice;
• The House on 92nd Street (Leo G Carroll);
• FBI Code 98;
• Car 99;
• Pickup on 101 (Jack Albertson);
• Tragedy of Flight 103;
• PT 109 (Cliff Robertson);
• Across 110th Street (Anthony Quinn);
• O.S.S. 117 Double Agent (Curt Jurgens);
• Freefall: Flight 174 (William Devane);
• Paragraph 175;
• One Eight Seven (the reference is to the section of the California penal code dealing with murder; Samuel L Jackson);
• Black Sea 213;
• Corvette K 225 (Randolph Scott);
• RKO 281 (the making of "Citizen Kane");
• Hijacked: Flight 285 (Casey Sander);
• Highway 301 (Virginia Gray);
• 301/302 (about adjoining apartments);
• Stop Train 349 (Jose Ferrer);
• Badge 373 (Robert Duvall);
• 376-EVIL;
• The Disappearance of Flight 412;
• The Girl in 419;
• Fireball 500 (Frankie Avalon);
• Murder on Flight 502;
• Rough Air: Danger on Flight 534 (Eric Roberts);
• U-571 (Matthew McConaughey);
• L. 627 (Didier Bezace);
• 633 Squadron (Cliff Robertson);
• Code 645;
• State Department - File 649 (Virginia Bruce);
• Route 666 (Lou Diamond Phillips);
• 711 Ocean Drive (Edmund O'Brien);
• Convict 762;
• Procedure 769: The Witnesses to an Execution;
• The Taking of Flight 847 (Lindsay Wagner);
• Miracle on Interstate 880;
• Dial 1119 (Virginia Field);
• Murder at 1600 (Wesley Snipes);
• Cell 2455 Death Row (Vince Edwards);
• The Last of the Mohicans (Daniel Day-Lewis);