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resolved Alien tries to convey, I'm from space. Film
A movie where an alien who looks like a human doesn't speak the language, but tries to convey that he's from space, up to and including picking up a toy spaceship and wooshing it around. As far as I remember, the humans he's talking to still don't get it.
openOne of those weird 70s films Film
At least, I think it was from the 70s, if only because the picture and sound quality of what I saw seemed pretty common for movies during that decade.
Actually, this was just a clip I saw on either You Tube or Dailymotion many ages and moons ago, and what I remember from it was there was a girl who was being attacked and/or assaulted in the woods, and while she's on the ground, she keeps looking up at a nearby transmission tower/pylon that seems to emanate a loud electrical buzzing sound that grows louder and louder as the scene progresses, which keeps cutting between her face and the tower for the rest of the scene.
I don't know if it was a Sam Peckinpah movie, it seemed similar to his style though.
openHas anyone seen this tv show? Film
I keep thinking about this show I watched a couple years back but I can't seem to remember the name.
The show was set up kinda like black mirror. The only thing I can remember is the plot from the first 2 episodes.
One of the episodes was about a cab driver, and his gps became like an ai. It would reveal information about his passengers, leading to the cab driver killing them. One of his passengers was an old lady, but it turns out she was a baby sitter who was abusing the kids she takes care of. Another passenger was a guy he worked with, but it turns out the guy had lied against him to get a promotion at the job they used to work at.
In the other episode we're looking at the life of this girl. I don't remember much detail but the girl is looking for her highschool friend, it seems her friend had fallen off the face of the earth and no social media had been active in a while. She connects with their past mutual friend and they discover something weird is going on and their friend is in danger. That's all I can remember, it's been years. But I can't seem to find anything online about this show and I'm afraid I might be crazy or something since there's literally nothing online when I search up the plot. If anyone knows the show or has seen the v show please let me know.
Thanks in advance
resolved Horror Movie Where a Redhead Woman inflates due to a Parasite Film
I keep having this burning memory of seeing pictures of this one horror movie from the 1990's-2000's (whatever year it was) of a redheaded woman becoming inflated by the parasite of the movie. I know the memory, but I can't remember the movie.
resolved Film about an immigrant child who becomes a chess master. Film
I remember that I went to see this movie back when I was in high school. It was about an immigrant kid who fled to Paris with his father and later joined a chess club. One of the gags that I remember in this film was one where the father, due to not being fluent with the local language, accidentaly insults the chess club a bunch of times after a woman at a refugee centre told him some things about it (namely that its website sucked).
(edit: I found the name, it's Fahim!)
Edited by Janker72resolved Pirate Movie Film
Possibly Claymation movie about rather incompetent pirates. I do not remember much about it but maybe you can help. It would have came out only like 10-15 years ago, cause I saw it in theatres when I was little. Please help.
openHelp finding the title of a movie Film
I remember a scene from this movie. The scene was set in a desert, there were gangsters who had kidnapped a girl and there was the girl's father who had to bring a ransom or information to free her. At a certain point the man fights with the gangsters to give his daughter the opportunity to escape. She gets into a car and runs away but immediately gets stuck in the desert sand. She then gets out of the car and tries to escape on foot but she falls and is recaptured by the gangsters.
Can anyone figure out what movie this is?
openUnknown Film
It was either a TV series or a movie I watched in 1998 or 1999, late at night. The program screened in Sydney, Australia. So I am guessing this movie or TV series originates from 1990s (or possibly 1980s). I may be wrong, but I think the program may have screened on Channel Ten.
I only remember one or two scenes. In one scene, a man and a woman are initially looking at one another while talking, looking through each other through a fish tank. They eventually come close together and face each other, and start becoming intimate with one another. Another guy is spying or stalking this man and woman being intimate and eventually leaves. As the guy leaves, his car explodes, becoming airborne. The car explosion scene is interposed with the man and the woman making love (seen through the window).
There is a female character, who is very fit and seems to be skilled fighter. She later in the episode or movie protects the woman that I have mentioned above by fighting the man that she was intimate with (the man that I described above).
I have been cracking my brain to remember the name for years, but unsuccessful.
Many thanks in advance
resolved Movie about a duo of brothers Film
I remember years back in a school class we watched this movie about a boy and his brother with a disability. What I remember the most is that the brother had a tendency for making crude jokes, and I remember the film had a bit of a tragic ending with the brother dying. I think the film had a rural-ish setting. I remember looking it up after watching it and reading that it was the only credited role for the actor who played the brother of the lead character.
Does anybody have a clue as to what I'm talking about?
opendoes this movie have a page? Film
"As You Are" is an indie movie about these high school stoners, Jack and Mark, who fall in love and then Mark dies at the end. I couldn't seem to find it with a simple search although I thought it was a somewhat popular movie, does anyone know where to find the page or if there can be one made? Idk if it's under an alternative name or something.
resolved ww2 holocaust movie Film
So I remember watching a movie set during the holocaust all in German and I think maybe another non English European language. But, from my memory it follows a young jewish boy trying to escape the Germans and one scene in particular I remember is he is working on a farm and his left arm gets damaged in an accident and he gets taken to the hospital but the German nurses leave him in the hallway on a stretcher because he is a jew and when a doctor finds out he screams at them for leaving him there and takes the boy into surgery and I think he does wind up losing his arm. I remember watching it on either Prime Video or Netflix probably 6-8 years ago.
openmovie where a kid gets stabbed while walking home Film
A live action film where a white child walks home after he gets stabbed by some mexicans he works with at a restaurant.
openSome betrayal old movie on MGM Film
Towards the end of the movie there was this war camp and sieging a city or something. One of the besiegers snuck into the city to see this girl and he gets caught, he's also forced to lead an attack on his own people. There's this guy who gives him "a raised you with my own hand, baptized you" and then he shoots him.
There were horses, armor and grassy fields if I recall correctly. Language was english.
openApparently This Isn't Braveheart Film
A movie that begins in feudal Scotland. To defend his people, the main character joins a league of immortals. He wins the conflict, but lives to the modern day while everyone he knew dies. An immortal can only be killed by another immortal, and one of the other immortals has been busy killing the rest of their league in the interim. MC teams up with a woman from the modern day to beat him.
For the longest time I thought this was the plot of Braveheart...it's not though. Does this movie exist???
openTrain Scene in Movie Film
A man gets his foot caught in the railroad as a train comes toward him. A girl shouts "Buddy! Buddy!"
openplease help!!! Film
It was a movie and i remember two girls maybe more were held hostage in either a van or small rv. So one woman reached out the window and signaled the truck behind them that she was in danger. The truck then got in front of the hostage vehicle and slowed down causing them to also slow down. This allowed that woman to jump out with minor injuries. The truck driver assumed that she was the only one in danger and returned to normal speed. Another woman ignored this and still jumped out, leading to her death. The 1st woman ended up leaving the body and a trail was left in the mud.( It had been raining). This story covers the news as they look for the woman who left the body.
openadult swim cartoon show Film
i want to say this was 7-10 years ago it was a cartoon that was for adults a show and it was a scene on a train a man and woman had s*x is the bathroom and the woman left a fort print on the mirror or glass . people found out and tried to find the woman that left the foot print seeing which persons foot fit
It may have been film or tv. I never saw it myself, but I was told about it, and want to find it. It was about these soldiers fighting a war against sapient spiders, and who were actually being kept in a matrix-style simulation where they thought they were still fighting, or they thought they had won, but either way, they had lost.