When you find yourself trying to remember a show (or any works) that's on the tip of your tongue but just out of reach, come here - the collective brain of the TVTropes community can probably help. Post all the details you can remember (examples help). If you're looking for a trope, head over to Trope Finder. Have general questions about tropes? Visit Ask The Tropers!
Find a Show:
openTrying to find a film with an island of giant animals Film
I'm trying to find this film that I rented and only bothered to skim through because I found it so boring. It was back in the 2000s, pretty sure it was before the 2010s, and I think it was a film adaptation of The Mysterious Island. I remember it involved a band of characters being stranded on an island that a Mad Scientist had populated with various giant versions of normal animals, and there was a climatic scene where a bunch of soldiers or pirates or something armed with guns were swarmed by various giant animals, including a giant snake and a giant chameleon (or maybe it was a lizard, but I know it did the tongue-grab thing) and many of them were Swallowed Whole on-screen.
This ring any bells for anybody? Might have been the 2005 film for Mysterious Island.
openMovie about two sisters with missing father Film
There's this movie about these two sisters living on an island and there father goes missing during sailing. There's also a tourist boy in the flick..
openUK live action false accusation of wife's murder Film
It's at least ten years old (saw some of it on TV when I was a kid, so it's probably even older). There was a middle aged, dark haired, sarcastic man whose wife went on holiday but for some reason everyone thought he had murdered her. The cop in charge of the investigation at one point gets him to "write a confession" and the man writes about how he killed his wife and made her into sausages, but then signs it "Sweeney Todd." There is a scene where someone is giving him a Rorschach test, and says "what does this look like?" and he says "it looks like a Rorschach ink blot test." When pressed, he says the blot looks like a butterfly perching on a geranium. The doctor asks him if he doesn't think it looks like, for instance, a woman dead in a pool of blood, and the man says "well of course I do, but I'm not going to tell you that, am I?"
openSome movie about a mouse... Film
So, there was a mouse movie that I watched a long time ago. I remember quite a bit of it actually, just not the title of the film.
Basically the movie started with a funeral, this old rich guy had just died or something, and they were carrying him in his coffin down the steps of the church where they held his service. It was cold, dark, and rainy outside. The coffin slipped out of their hands and went down the stairs, opened up, and flung his body into an open manhole to the sewer.
Later, his house, or some other house, was going to be moved into by this family. I think the old dead guy was the owner of a yarn factory, and it used to be his house or something. There was a mouse inside that was causing trouble, so they hired an exterminator named Caesar to come kill it. Thus, the long game of "cat and mouse" began of Caesar trying to catch and kill it. I remember at one point he found mouse poop, picked it up with tweezers, and ate it to taste how to find the mouse (weird movie, I know).
The younger guy who owned the house ended up going to the yarn factory at one point, where a switch was thrown and made all the machines start working. He ran through the factory, but the machines were stripping and unraveling his clothes and tying them up into yarn balls, which he then used to cover his manhood since he was now naked. He got to the main office to find a person there, who saw the whole thing happen, and he ended up dropping the yarn balls in shock before it cut to the next scene.
I think in the end, they couldn't kill the mouse, so in a pure "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em" fashion, they teamed up and became friends. That's really all I remember, it was a hilarious movie and I want to watch it again. Thanks!
openBoard game movie? Film
There were two kids, brothers. I don't think they got along well. They find a board game and start playing it, which starts messing with reality, including freezing their sister and bringing in a astronaut that turns out to be a previous player of the game.
It's not Jumanji.
openLost trailer Film
There once was a trailer i watched when i was a kid i believe it was back in 2012 or 2013 all i know is that in the trailer i saw a kid and his parents playing the ps vista and 2 guys with guns go in and try to rob them, but all of the sudden its the zombie apocalypse so basically the family has to decide whether they trust the guys with guns or try to survive the zombie apocalypse. Please i have been looking for this for a while. Ps i remember it was a redband trailer so it might be a little hard to find all o want to know is the name
openFilm about a Miller's Daughter? Film
A film revolving around a miller's daughter being courted by three suitors. One of them was a water spirit that gifted her an item (possibly a fish scale) that would let her walk on water and even visit him in his home. She ended up using the gift, but did NOT end up with the water spirit.
openA creepy kids show from cartoon network maybe Film
I remember a woman...probably called Jenny or smth. She was some sort of hunter detective, she was brown haired and there were other two kids helping her fight monsters. I remember a scene with a monster that looked like this: no face with a black hood.
openComedy movie where two boys become gangsters Film
In (I believe) the 80's, there was a live-action movie with a set-up that sounds serious, but it was a comedy and everything was played for laughs.
A white boy from the suburbs travels with his father into a big city, but somehow gets separated from his father and meets up with a street-smart black boy. They become friends and decide to become criminals and steal cars, even though they're both too young to drive. Somehow, they end up in some kind of competition with a gang of adults (Mafia?) and of course the plot follows the standard "kids are better than adults" formula (only here, the thing they're better at is stealing cars). In the end, the white boy's father shows up and he returns home.
I really don't know the details. The crime they were committing might not have been stealing cars. The video box art was the two boys looking "cool" and wearing sunglasses while leaning against a car, so that image may be tainting my memory. The movie itself might not have featured cars that prominently.
The one scene I remember with absolute clarity is the opening scene: The white boy and his father are on a fishing trip, and the dad decides to give the kid the birds and the bees talk, only for the kid to interrupt him and tell him they already learned all that in health class. Because of this, the first word spoken on-screen in the movie is "Sperm".
openbritish? television series about gay men with amazing piano music Film
noo one will probably be able to tell me but there was a series i watched about two gay men summering in a fancy house and it had amazing piano music but i c an't find it anywhere please help.
openMultiple stories, bear narrator, 2d animation Film
It was a 2D animated cartoon video that seemed like several stories were somehow related. I don't think they were all part of a greater linear story. I think it was just about several animals and how they were included in certain stories. I don't remember how many stories there were.
There was, I believe, a bear who would talk to the viewer as a narrator/introduce the story that was about to come up. And I think he was also involved in some of the stories as well. Somehow I think his eyes were covered by his fur? He had a rough, old man's voice.
I only barely remember 2 stories from the anthology:
- One I'm not as sure about: I think it involved a race between the different animal characters that was underwater or just in the water at the beach? If underwater, I think it's possible that non-aquatic animals were underwater too.
- I remember this one more clearly: One of the animal characters was, for some reason, building a very tall house. It was as if she/he kept getting told to make the house bigger or knew that more characters would be living in the house so she/he had to make it bigger to fit them. Or that there were more animals who would be living with her and making all of these demands for how their room in the house should be designed.
The animal characters were all about the same size to each other, i.e. a mouse character would be the same size as a bear.
Edited by toodloooopenMovie about a bad girl mistakenly got placed in an afterlife world for good people Film
I saw the beginning of this movie while travelling on a Royal Carribean cruise. The movie was about an afterlife world for good people. For every good/bad deed that people did in their life, they got a corresponding positive/negative score. The people with top highest score are put into a special afterlife world together. However, a bad girl was mistakenly placed there. Every time she did something bad, weird things happened to the world. Can somebody help me with the name of this movie please? Thank you so much in advance
Edited by vinsanityopenWestern Movie about Boys kidnapping girls to be there brides Film
There's this movie about Boys kidnapping girls to be there wives and the dads of these girls are trying to get them back..does anybody know the title of the movie?
openZombie Movie Film
I remember watching a typical zombie apocalypse film many years ago, but the name eludes me. The one scene I remember clearly is a propeller-powered plane crash landing onto the roof of a mall or some other sort-of tall building. The main characters were trapped there, as the building in question was completely surrounded by tens of thousands of zombies. I'm pretty sure the survivors eventually repaired the plane and escaped.
Edited by ToltecSpiritopenRobot eye in spaceship Film
A movie I saw as a child, only thing I remember is a creepy eye moving around the walls inside the ship and a boy, I found a "Flight of the Navigator" but I don't recognize it, the eye in it isn't creepy enough, but if that is the only movie with these things then I guess that's it
Edited by DarkburrowopenGirl on an island Film
Okay, I remember a movie about this girl on an island with her lizard(?), I watched it in like 2010ish, It also had a person who was afraid of leaving her house. That person thought the girl needed help so she went to the island and the girl didn't want to leave or have people there so she slingshoted lizards(?) so the people would get scared and leave
openSuper old vhs Film
Okay this is a long shot because the film was pretty old and I don’t remember much but it’s been bugging me for years so I thought I’d give it a shot. I used to watch this live-action video when I was young where a kid or maybe two kids, went to bed and entered this other world (obviously a set) kinda looked like a park. There were creatures there but I can’t remember at all what they looked like except that they were people in bad consumes. Can’t remember if they were animals or not... if someone remembers and says one I would probably remember. Also I think on the same video at the end there were magicians doing magic and then a puppet teaching how to make bubbles with water and dish soap, kind of like a cheap knock off of Sesame Street. Sorry I know this is all jumbled but I thought might as well see if anyone else recognizes it.
openA Christian Movie about A Chicago Boy Film
There's this movie about this boy who moved from Chicago to a new town does anybody know the title?
There is a scene where their are women talking about a fire in their friends apartment. Although they are uninterested once they find out nobody was hurt