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* The title character in ''Film/TheGhostWriter'' never gets a name.
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* ''Film/CantHardlyWait'' uses this as a conceit, with most of the characters aside from the central six being unnamed in dialogue and referred to only by epithets in the credits. "Girl Whose Party It Is", "Stoner Guy", "Girl Mike Hits On #1", and so on.
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* ''Film/TheCrow'': Top Dollar (played by Michael Wincott), Myca (played by Bai Ling) and Grange (played by Tony Todd) are never named in the film. Similarly, the gang members who kill Eric and Shelly are known only by their nicknames (Tin-Tin, T-Bird, Funboy and Skank).

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* ''Film/TheCrow'': ''Film/TheCrow1994'': Top Dollar (played by Michael Wincott), Myca (played by Bai Ling) and Grange (played by Tony Todd) are never named in the film. Similarly, the gang members who kill Eric and Shelly are known only by their nicknames (Tin-Tin, T-Bird, Funboy and Skank).
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* ''Film/ThingsToDoInDenverWhenYoureDead'':
** The Man With The Plan's name is never revealed.
** The same goes for the hitman who he hires, Mr. Shush.
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* ''Film/FutureWorld2018'': The main villains the Warlord, Big Daddy Love Lord and the Drug Lord are only called by these titles or nicknames instead of their real ones.

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* ''Film/FutureWorld2018'': The main villains the Warlord, Big Daddy Love Lord and the Drug Lord are only called by these titles or nicknames instead of their real ones. This also goes for the Prince and his mother the Queen.
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* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol3'''s BigBad the High Evolutionary is only known as [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep the High Evolutionary]] with no reference to his canonical comic name of Herbert Wyndham. Presumably, given [[AGodIAm he openly views himself as God]], he has discarded something that would bring him down to other life-forms such as a name.

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* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol3'''s BigBad the High Evolutionary is only known as [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep the High Evolutionary]] with no reference to his canonical comic name of Herbert Wyndham. Wyndham (which, considering he is all but stated to not be human, probably isn’t his name anyway). Presumably, given [[AGodIAm [[AGodAmI he openly views himself as God]], he has discarded something that would bring him down to other life-forms such as a name.

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