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openTv show about woman lawyer. PLEASE HELP :) Film
Tv show about women lawyer retiring to Italy. She then sees her goddaughter pass the bar exam and start her new job. It turns out her father was charged with a posny scheme. And now that woman that’s retiring is broke. She needs money. She tried to get her job back but they wouldn’t let her. So she hounded another firm. That’s all I know. I’m trying to help my dad remember a new tv show he saw and wanted to watch with me. If anyone knows anything all feedback is appreciated. Thanks :)
openHallmark Movie from 201- Film
I saw this around 2010 on Hallmark, it was an original movie (I think), colorized. It was about a woman who dated this man in this small town who took care of horses. She had two children, if I remember correctly, a son and a daughter. In one scene, the boy (I think it was the boy) saw the man in a room looking back at him with a slightly sinister smile. He saw the devil's tail appearing from the back of the man. I think the end had the woman finding out who the man actually was and he was jeered out of town. It has been a while since I last saw it, so I am probably not getting all the details right, but this is all I can remember, please help, thanks.
openChinese film about a barefoot doctor in the Chinese countryside Film
It was around 2012 when I seen this film. The film was from China, and it had a premise of this girl that worked in the countryside during the 60s or 70s. The girl become wheelchair bound, and that the plot was told through flashback.
openOld short film about time as a currency Film
You know the movie "In Time", with Justin Timberlake? When I first saw the trailer my first thought was "sweet, they're doing a remake". I distinctly remember watching (on Eurochannel, so it's probably European) a short movie (half-hour-ish) with pretty much the exact same premise - time is a currency, the wealthiest people have centuries of years' worth (and regularly do live for centuries), people whose time ran out are shown dying suddenly, and so on. The main differences (other than it being old, i.e. 90s at most, possibly earlier) is that people have a card with their time account (rather than it being on the forearm), and it shows the ceremony all newborns go through where they get 30 years to start with. There's also a sad scene with a young woman at a bar where she keeps swiping her card to hear her balance, which is ticking ever closer to zero.
I can't find any information about it ANYWHERE (starting with In Time's IMDB page of course), and nobody else seems to have heard about it. Anyone know what I'm talking about and can verify I'm not *completely* crazy? :-P
openCreepy Child horror film Film
Hi there. This time around I'm trying to find the name of a live action horror film. In it a nanny is tasked with caring for a boy named Eric Keys. We don't see much of the child and everytime the nanny approaches his door there is a noticeable growling sound. Though when he talks, he sounds like a normal little boy. At one point in the movie, the Nanny tries to bring him some lunch only to hear the same growling noises. She slips the tray through the door only for it to come sliding back very quickly almost as if it were thrown at her. The little boy screams "I don't like tunafish!" At another point, she reads a poem written by the little boy. The last line is "Ended up dead" it's complete with a drawing of the nanny and Eric hanging by their necks. Needless to say, she didn't take that well. Google turned up nothing but I distinctly remember scenes from this film or show or whatever it was. If anyone can help, I'd appreciate it.
openDisney Channel Original Movies Film
Is there any other DCOM about a kid whose uncle is younger than them? I could only find Johnny Kapahala: Back on Board but I thought there was an earlier film like that too from 2002-2005.
openChinese film set in ancient China Film
I watched half of it on Netflix several years ago. I remember reading on Wikipedia that it's an adaptation of a play, or something to that effect.
I think it was about a baby being the Sole Survivor of a royal family and being raised to kill his parents murderer. All I clearly remember was this scene where a guy kills a newborn by throwing him on the floor.
openplease help finding the name Film
ı cant remember the name of a sitcom which contains an old mom and dad and their 2 daughters one is blonde one is brunette and their husbands. Please help if you know this show!!
openPrison movie? Please Help Film
I saw a movie a couple of months ago and went to show my mum and can't for the life of me remember it, hoping you guys can help.
I'd say it was made it the 80s but was set way before then in America at a time that getting a job was difficult. A guy is sent to this prison and befriends one of the new guards. The new guard enters his cell and drops his baton but the inmate doesn't attack him, he just hands it back to him. The inmate befriends an older guy at the prison and also gets friendly with the head of the prison who is trying out a new rehabilitation technique of sending prisoners out to town for good behavior and trusting them to come back. So the prisoner is allowed to go to the library everyday and in civillian clothes but he ends up sexually assaulting the lady he met at the library and isn't allowed out anymore. The head of the Prison lost his job because of this and was really angry.
I remember the prisoners beat a guard to death in the laundry room and I remember the prisoner ended up asking for the death penalty and talking to a priest a lot.
I know it sounds depressing as hell but it's really really annoying me and the only similar movie I can find is the Shawshank Redemption which it isn't. Please Help!
openAirship Steampunk Animated Movie Film
12-ish years ago I watched a movie with my family, it may have been foreign (I live in the U.S.). It was probably rented from the library or blockbuster, so I don't know when it would've actually come out. It was either oddly animated 2D or cel-shaded 3D animation. I don't remember much about the plot, but it had a steampunk aesthetic that reminds me of the non-atlantean tech from Disney's Atlantis. People lived in the sky, on floating islands and in airships. There was a war, or an attack or something. The story was a little intense, too; there was some death, and some blood. The main characters were a boy and a girl, one of them loses their father. The boy had to use a turret on a ship at some point. I'm thinking it was probably an anime movie, but I don't remember enough about it to confirm.
EDIT: It was Aero-Troopers and even though it was steampunk, it wasn't like Atlantis much at all so I don't know why I thought that.
Edited by AmimiaopenFilm set in East Germany Film
This is probably super obvious but I can't for the life of me remember what it's called. It's a German language film, a secret police guy crushes on the girlfriend of a guy he's spying on so he tries to get rid of the guy somehow.
openObscure 90a VHS Film
I will be amazed if anyone knows what I am talking about. My mum bought me a VHS from a kida soft play thing in what was probably 1992ish. It had a weird name and had a few short films/animations on it. All I can remember is the first 'film' being an animated tiger and the one that really stands out is non animation with a boy and a witch? And he ends up in the witches house in the woods? It used to scare me to death. Thats all I can really remember, very obscure indeed.
the front of the vhs might have had a moon on it. id know it if i saw it. im sure the vhs haa a very strange title
thanks
open90s or early 2000's Film
I remember them glowing green in the film and something to do with fireflies. Maybe they rubbed the glowing substance from the bugs on themselves or ate them. It was slightly scary of I remember right. Can anyone help?
openKids movie or show with intestine bouqet Film
Idk if its a movie or tv showor if its a kids movie but its animated and me and my bf remember in great detail a scene where someones getting married and they like shove their hand into someones belly button amd yank out their imtestines through their belly button (it pulls slightly then snaps) and they hold it as a bouquet and it looks like pink cauliflower with cords hanging like stems. What is this movie my god 😂
openMovie about instant messaging? Rom-Com, please please help. Film
Okay, so I understand this may be a pointless endeavor as I don't have a lot of details on this movie but here it goes... It's similar to the Tom Hanks/ Meg Ryan movie "you've got mail". From what I remember, a guy is in an outdoor cafe with a friend, he hears a girl he likes give an email to a friend of hers. He writes down the email and starts messaging it. But it wasn't her email it was her bosses. The guy and boss start instant messaging back and forth about their days and their lives and end up falling in love. Someone please please PLEASE help, I would be indebted to you. If I had to take a wild guess I'd say somewhere between 2007-2011.
openIt's not ''Veggie Tales'' fyi Film
I remember this trailer for a Christmas movie involving vegetables (?). It was a CGI film from 1998-2001 and I think it was on a Stuart Little VHS tape.
openCan Mr. Miyagi dodge bullets? Film
Does anyone remember the name of this film? Based on what i remember of the grain of the picture, I guess it was made between the 70's and 90's. ...So, there's this kid on the "wrong side of the tracks" getting chased by gang members and he runs into a store at one of the corners. (Which didn't match the rest of the building, that store alone looked like a warehouse, anyway). "Mr. Miyagi", asks him what he's doing and then the gang members burst through the door, shooting at "Mr. Miyagi" to get to the kid. (Plot-Wise, I think that's a little overkill. I can see gangsters beating up a random kid, but not shooting a random kid. Unless he stole something from them. Anyway's, besides the point) "Mr. Miyagi" dodges all the bullets, disarms them and scares them off. Shazam, that happened! The kid asks him how he did that and if "Mr. Miyagi" would teach him how to dodge bullets. As the movie continues, "Mr. Miyagi" is teaching the kid the composition of gun-fu and the secret to dodging bullets. And at the end, "Mr. Miyagi" is ambushed by multiple gangsters, (which now seem more like mafioso, whatever) and they all unload clip after clip trying to shoot "Mr. Miyagi". The kid is going to "Mr. Miyagi's" workshop where he's been learning from "Mr. Miyagi" and hears gunfire, then looks around the corner and runs towards "Mr. Miyagi", together both dodging bullets. The movie ends with the Big-Bad getting shot by one of the bullets from one of his own guys. Anyway's, the movie was somthing like that, but i cant remember the name of it. I checked IMDB, Mr. Miyagi, Filmography and didn't recognize the film I was looking for. Does anyone remember the name of this film? Thanks!
Edited by Z1ll10n1nf1n17yopenOld "Mech", Rocks! Film
Does anybody remember the name of this film? It starts out, (obviously) in the future (although, the film itself looks like it was made in the 70's). There's spacesuit looking clothes, mechs are the main choice of vehicles, etc. The main characters are running an obstacle course as part of they're military-mech training, (that looks strikingly like the metal geometric half sphere, made from smaller triangles they had at recess when i was a kid), but room by room going down. Designed to help them get into there mechs as quicky as possible. The next day, the main characters (a male and a female) are running late for training, because they making-out! Meanwhile they're base get's hit and they get separated from the rest of they're team. The Big-Bad destroy's that base and every other base and the result is: post-apocalyptic world. Fast-Foreward, the main characters are still together, but struggling to survive. The guy remembers where a mech is (from before the apocalypse), that fell into a sinkhole and convinces her to go with him. They pack-up splunking gear and the equivalent of a mechanic's tools, but for mech's and head-out. They finally get there and spulunk into the sinkhole, but they have to leave some of the tools up-top, because they can't fit. They reach the mech and nearly fix-it-up, she splunks up to the surface to get something they need to finish fixing the mech just as the same Big-Bad (in his mech) is walking by. The Big-Bad see's her and tries to step on her. She does everything she can to dodge him from stepping on her, while staying beneath his mech to prevent him from shooting her. She manages to get the tool needed to fix they're mech and splunks back down, landing on top of they're mech and finishes fixing they're mech. He starts it up and I forget how he gets it out from the sinkhole to the surface of the desert, but he does and the old mech beats the new mech. The End. Anyway's, I can't remember the name of this film and hoped someone else does. Thanks!
openRecent film based on an anime or manga Film
Hey guys. My mom was reading the paper, the NY times, and mentioned a film she read about that she thought she might enjoy. But my dad threw out the paper and she can't recall the title, and well, here we are. This was about a week ago in the Friday paper, if it helps. My mom said the film was live action, based on a manga or anime (she can't recall which) and featured a young girl or boy befriending a "large Michelin-Man type creature." That's all I got. Hope this helps! Thanks.
Hi I'm thinking of a movie that has a scene where it shows a character (who is a hitman/assassin) talking on the phone to someone, and in the background is his target standing on a chair with a noose around his neck. Partway through (or just after) the phone conversation, the hitman kicks the chair out from underneath his target leaving him to dangle and die by hanging, making it look like a suicide.
If you can think of what this is thanks! It's on the tip of my tongue!