43 Latin Phrases from Movies (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

Updated: Apr 14, 2026

Famous latin phrases used in movies, ranked and accompanied by short MP3 and WAV soundbites.

11 Sic transit gloria mundi.

The Red Death in The Masque of the Red Death

12 Homo gargantuoso. Homo... Aye. Well... whew. Erm... that's the wrong homo.

Quote from Carry On Screaming!

13 What's this, then? 'Romanes eunt domus'? People called Romanes, they go the house? -It says 'Romans, go home'. -No, it doesn't.

John Cleese in Monty Python's Life of Brian

14 What's Latin for Roman? Come on! -Romanes? -Goes like? -Annus? -Vocative plural of annus is? -Anni? -Romani.

John Cleese in Monty Python's Life of Brian

15 'Eunt'? What is 'eunt'? -Go. -Conjugate the verb 'to go'. -Ire, eo, is, it, imus, itis, eunt. -So eunt is? -Third person plural, present indicative. 'They go'.

John Cleese; Graham Chapman in Monty Python's Life of Brian

16 'Domus'? Nominative? -'Go home'. This is motion towards, isn't it, Brian? -Dative! No, not dative! Accusative, accusative! 'Domum', sir. 'Ad domum'. -Except when domus takes the... -The locative, sir. -Which is? -'Domum'. -'Domum'.

John Cleese in Monty Python's Life of Brian

17 Humanum est erare.

Boris Karloff as Hjalmar Poelzig in The Black Cat (1934)

18 Lupis pilum mutat, non mentem.

Boris Karloff as Hjalmar Poelzig in The Black Cat (1934)

19 Vi veri veniversum vivus vici... -By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

Hugo Weaving as V; Natalie Portman as Evey Hammond in V for Vendetta

20 Do you even speak Latin? -Fallaces sunt rerum species. -Which means? Wait. What? What did you just say? -It means you can either drive yourself home or I can have you collected.

Tony Stark Iron Man; Natasha Romanoff Black Widow; Robert Downey Jr.; Scarlett Johansson in Iron Man 2