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openthat tv episode of anthology series maybe Robert Ryan starred Film
there was I think a Robert Ryan-starred tv episode...perhaps a movie, perhaps both (if that is possible) about the husband getting left out in the 1950s / 1960s desert to die by his wife & her lover...only to survive...& ends with the duo returning to find him..seeing him escape..& the duo running off into the desert themselves to escape the law....
openDisease movie Film
I remember watching a movie in high school (2009 or earlier) about a disease outbreak, but all I remember about it was a shot where it zoomed in on the main character's face and he said "It's airborne" when it previously wasn't.
openHeart almost telekinetically extracted Film
Hi everyone, you wouldnt be able to help me remember the name of a film that has a scene that is almost a carbon cooy of the heart ripping nour scene from The Temple Of Doom, would you?
I can remember a man being locked upright in a metal cage, I believe this man was the main hero and a necromancer/magic user of some description was hovering his hand over the heros chest and then the heros heart starts to push forward until it is literally straining against the inside of his chest and you can see its shape as it is close to bursting through the main guys chest. He is screaming but the ritual gets interrupted so he doesnt actually lose his heart...
Every search is bringing up the temple of doom but I just watched that and it is 100% not that... but it did get me thinking about this film but I can’t remember anything else concretely about it.
Possible that the villain had a hooded cloak on with some dark warpaint in a line over his eyes but not entireley sure...
Please help me end my misery!
Edited by Frohawkopennot a show, but a weird movie I've been trying to find for years Film
All I remember about it is there is a young boy, who's name I think was Jake, maybe, not definitely. He goes to some place that is like a prison camp or something. The warden or whatever is this pro wrestler or something, and if you see his real face you melt or something? And, spoiler, at the end of the movie he wakes up in some market or something and it was all a dream. Maybe this was all a dream I had. But if you know what I'm talking about, I'll be so grateful
openi cant remember and its killing me inside Film
There was this one episode where someone was forced to go to their mom's friend's house and the kid played legos with the other kid but before they left, the other kid couldn't find one of his legos and it was the kid's pocket or something. I also remember that the house was far off and the kid was only allowed to have books and legos.
openDark TV Program with a Dwarf Film
I've been dwelling on a program that I watched perhaps 15 or 20 years ago. The program was memorable in that it was dark with twisted characters, physically and morally, who seemed to delight in demeaning their dwarf serf. It was very dimly lit and had a medieval locale with castles and whatnot. I believe there was quite a bit of prosthesis use as I recall everyone having a fairly grotesque physical form. I don't recall the overall conflict to the program or whether it was a one-off or series.
It may have been on PBS because I seem to recall a pledge break during the program. The dwarf was the main character of the program and the story centered on him.
All of this is very hazy so particular details expressed above may not be accurate. Dark, serious, medieval program with a dwarf that is treated roughly. Maybe PBS. Perhaps 90s. Maybe very early 2000s. Maybe late 80s.
Edited by wolf_larsonopenName of movie? Film
Look i saw a chinese kung fu movie back when i was a kid. I saw the movie but i forgot the title. Here is the plot or what i remember of it. There was a chinese kid living in mid to late 1800 china. He was getting bullied by another chinese kid and his gang of bully friends. He tried to fight them but he lost miserably because he didn't know kung fu and then was beaten by the whole gang. After that he went home but his parents where upset for him fighting he was going to get whipped but his mom saved him from getting whipped by his dad. He was sent to study but he hired his best friend who was very smart to do his homework but he said to his friend that he will train to get his vengeance from those bullies. Eventually he becomes a karate master and fights every single bully that hurt him but now he is an adult and a karate master. They all sign some kind of death wish thing where it says whoever looses must die or pay some hefty price and loose all their honor. He beats every bully in the gang untill he reaches the finall fight against the main bully that beated him in the beginning of the movie. He wins in an epic fight and is given a lot of money. Some time goes by and he finds the main bully the guy he won the fight against in a restaurant that happens to be the same one he went to eat at. He finds out ita his bullies birth day and that the bully wants to forgive and forget but he doesnt and goes into mortal kombat with him and kills him. He gets thrown out of his village by all the villagers because he killed a husbanf and a father. He gets kicked out and his wife and daughter die. He goes to a mountain village to retain his anger and learn to be a better person by becoming a rice farmer and working with a blind girl who teaches him to be a kind person. He goes back to his village but he finds out it has been modernized and sees cars and trains and it basically it is 1900s industrial revolution china. The world's strongest man is in town and is in a fighting tournament and he is undefeated. The guy in the beginning comes back and challenges him. But he doesn't sign the death note wish. And he begins to fight the worlds strongest man and he wins, but he saves his life because during the fighting he falls down and almost hits a board with a nail in it. But the hero saves him by grabbing his hand so his head doesn't hit the board with a nail. He is humble about his win and the worlds strongest man congratulates him on his win. The hero goes around town with his cash and finds his old smart friend. He now has an accounting and book keeping business. He asks his friend for a loan so he could start a kung fu school. The friend is skeptical at first but he agrees with him and helps him start his kung fu school seeing how he has changed. That is as far as I know so please some one give me an answer!
openOlder Movie, Just Caught Ending Film
I'm trying to remember the title of a movie I just caught the ending of on TV some years ago.
The ending has a guy who seemed to be a sort of former greaser/bad boy type talking with a police officer because it turns out he was on parole or some such and had driven a car against the law. The police officer only found that out because a woman who seemed to be friends with the guy on parole filled out an insurance form without realizing he'd get in trouble for driving the car. She and several others lie to the police officer that they'd made a mistake and that someone else had been driving. The former bad boy tries to be honest but the police officer, not wanting to arrest the guy, pretends to believe the lie and lets him go.
I remember the title had the word "May" in it somewhere (as in the month) and the colors looked like it was a slightly older movie, say from the 50s.
openPossibly a Netflix/Amazon's exclusive show Film
A woman, marries a man, older than her. the man is very rich. The couple has a child, who is suffering from some kind of disease. The woman is not much happy. Then a man( almost the age of that woman ) comes into the picture, he is probably a writer, and falls in love with the woman. The woman and the young man start dating each other. But then at one point the old man, doubts on both of, them and he asks his wife to confess, then he tries to hit that young guy, and as a matter of reflex the guy hits the old man. The old man dies on spot. Then the guy and the woman decide to dispose the old man's dead body. the young guy and the woman both carry the dead body to the cruise and dump it into the sea. Then after that scene, the young guy's friend comes into picture, he promises the guy that he could double his money, so the lover(young guy) convinces the woman to give him some cash, so that he could double it, and live ther lives happily after. But then the guy's friend turns on him, and doesnt showup with the money. So the woman and lover are looted in this scenario. At the end, a scene is present where child of the lady reads some papers, which are present in some locker. And a gun, is also present in the same locker. the kid then fires the young man (i.e the lover of the woman). And then atlast the woman is also arrested for the case of murder of her husband. The End.
Guys the above is the story that i remember though it might not be much detailed. but thats what i remember. Also the series contains of i think may be 12 or 13 episodes. But on Amazon/Netflix exclusive i had seen it in the form of movie(i.e all the episodes were put together as a movie.) Also as per my knowledge the original series or movie was not english, probably some foreign language. Please anyone knowing above plot please reply!!! Thanks in Advance!!
Edited by TjeetuopenLittle Buddha and Dog Food Film
So there was this movie with lots of things thrown together: - Some child that was the Buddha reincarnation... all wise, snark and with some powers as to alter lottery drawings (only mentioned), he wast sting with his miracles I guess - Some greed reporter lady that had to shelter him... - His guardian, a monk with had two running gags about falling from the window (with the window frame) eating cans of pet food on a regular basis...
openELEVATOR MOVIE Film
I haven't actually watched this movie, just read the description somewhere. I really want to watch it but I've forgotten the title, so any help is appreciated.
The movie is about a guy and a girl in an elevator who get stuck in there, not for a few hours but for a few weeks. They survive by eating from a bag of groceries which the woman had with her when the elevator stopped and which magically refills every morning. As it was only a description of the movie that I read, I do not know what happens next, but the text went something like "and over the course of the following weeks the woman would reveal that she was more than she appeared to be" or "not what the man thought she was", something like that.
It's probably an older movie and I'm not entirely sure that it's in English, but it might be. I can't really remember anything else about it but I hope this little information I do know will be enough for someone to recognise the movie I'm talking about. Again, any help is appreciated!
openMonster Romance? Film
I can only remember one scene from old live action movie:
I assume this hot blonde is captured cause she's in a bright forest sitting in front of what appears a plant man who gives her a small piece of himself, I think, to feed her and she's totally cool in eating it.
I'm not really sure if the scene is related but some hunters are in a boat in a swamp finding her, capture monster or both?
Edited by UpTopopenFilm where boy becomes Jack Frost? Film
Pretty sure it was a film anyway. I can't remember much about it.
It was an animated film about this boy in a wood full of snow and ice and I think I remember some magical creatures? The lnly thing I'm really sure about is that, at the end, the boy ended up growing fairy wings and the narrator said that he became Jack Frost.
openCan’t remember name of movie/show! HELP! Film
This cartoon is old with bad animation, like heads to big for bodies etc, well there is this witch that lives in a castle with some pet giant black birds that talk and then this girl has to scale the castle wall with the long rope to get to her. That’s all I can remember.
Edited by NamekianqueenopenCan't remember the name! Film
There was this asian drama show I saw on netflix that I really liked but I can't remember the name. From what I remember it was about this one girl who desperately wanted to be a fashion designer, but her styles were wayyyy to wild. She was in some sort of class where the teacher said that if she wanted to stay, she would have to win some sort of contest. This is all I can really remember. sorry if this isn't that good of a description.
openPlaying with toy guns on the highway Film
I just caught a glance of this movie a few minutes ago. Two guys are driving on the highway. One is driving a red convertible, one the other is driving a black motorcycle. They're playing with toy guns, then get seperated by a tunnel divider. After passing the divider, the guy in the convertible starts pointing his toy gun again at who he thinks is his friend on the black motorcycle, but then turns out to be a cop who promptly pulls him over.
openPlease help me find an old animated movie Film
The only thing i remember is that it started in a car. It was driving through a tunnel and there were lights flashing on both sides, then it drove out of the tunnel and turned to the left. On the right there were barriers and behind them a forest i think. You could not see them but in the car there was a child and his parent(s), they were talking and the parent(s) started to tell the kid a story when they got out of the tunnel. Please, if anyone has any suggestions, write them! Thank you.
Edited by JohnBenccsonn
I once saw a trailer for a short (?) which its name I don't exactly remember, but it was something along the lines of The Dreamer and the Pit, or The Pendulum and the Dreamer, or The Dreamer and the Pendulum, and so and so. I think it was about a girl that goes to another dimension, or realm, through maybe a secret entrance? Yeah, maybe it was like Coraline, but the other world wasn't a "Reverse" world. Anyway, the thing I vividly remember is that at the end of the trailer there was a shot of a girl slowly turning towards the camera, revealing that she had a pig's face sewn (?) onto her own face.