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openFORIEGN SHOW?? Live Action TV
THIS IS DRIVING ME CRAZY PLEASE HELP ME. ok so all that I remember is that it is a foriegn tv show it looked like a middle eastern setting maybe? it started it out with this woman walking home in a desert looking area. a car drives up offers her a ride as you expect it goes badly the dirver tries to grope her and she fights back car crashes and shes sstuck inside a man runs up rescue her and they parrt ways. apprenlty the man is in some sort of gang (Nazi related? idk he has a nazi tatto on his chest) he woounded she finds him patches him up they become friends her borther is pissed tht she brought him into the house because he regonizes him as part of the local gang. he evntually leaves said gang and the rest of the show is about how he is hunted by former gang and balanicng his new friend ships with the people he once terroized
openGritty Arab, Turkish or Israeli spy thriller / crime drama tv show? Live Action TV
I took a Greyhound-like bus ride last week, and in the seat ahead of me, a Middle Eastern-looking younger guy binge-watched a TV show that had Arab subtitles. it seemed llike a gritty spy thriller or crime drama.
it seemed to be set in a government agency or the secret service or some special police task force: an ensemble drama with a male lead, very modern and cold looks (lots of blue, steel, light grey, bad weather). there was a coworker or data analyst etc. who wore a hijab. everything looked sleek and "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."-like. I didn't see supernatural elements, but there were quite a lot of bombs, snipers etc.
it could have been the Turkish show "Icerde", but the colors of "Icerde" look too saturated. I don't think it was Israeli spy drama "Fauda" because the setting was much less bright/sunny. it reminded me of "Spooks", the British spy drama. the episodes were on Youtube, and the show looked very new (2012 or later). Good videography, high production values and just all-around interesting: I was sure that I could find it on Google right away. it looked like a popular, big-budget show.
openA show that I watched through a YouTube ad Live Action TV
I believe I saw the ad sometime in 2016, the ad was an hour long (it was skippable) but it caught my interest so I watched the whole thing. The show had a dedicated You Tube channel for it that had a couple of other shows on it. I remember the little title screen for it was the name of the show on a neon sign. I believe the name is a common English phrase.
So the protagonist is this white woman who I believe is technically unemployed but she's a thief. She's a more... high rank thief because she has several connections that allow her to steal things that are more secure I guess, and she has several disguises.
She goes to a hotel, she orders a drink from the bartender, who sneaks her a piece of paper (that had something written that allowed her to enter the rooms) and she puts the paper in her drink so that there is no evidence. She's going in and out of hotel rooms, taking people's things and putting them in her bag. As she is in one of the rooms the bartender calls her to tell her that the guest staying in the room is returning to the room. She hides in the closet. The guest arrives with a middle aged man. I believe the guest is of middle eastern descent?? I'm not too sure. The guest is a hit man and the middle aged man asks the hit man to murder the middle aged mans wife. The protagonist overhears everything and makes a run for it when the two men part ways.
Later she meets the man at a bar (she probably planned it but it may have been a coincidence) and tries ends up planning a date with him. She was wearing a disguise where she has a blonde wig and plays as a writer and maybe a teacher as well.
After the first date at a fancy resturaunt, they are in an elevator and she reveals that she is wearing a wig, they later have sex. The morning after the sex, while the hitman is showering, the woman finds some files regarding the murder and finds out the address of the woman the hitman is going to murder.
She goes to the house of the woman who is about to be murderd and warns her about the hitman. The woman to be murdered takes out a gun to defend herself later on. The protagonist tells the woman to stay in a closet. The protagonist and hitman meet in the house. The hitman realizes the woman lied about everything.
I think the hitman ended up killing the woman he was meant to kill?
I think the protagonist ends up feeling bad, buys a bunch of some type of drug, and gets messed up by them in her hotel room. The hitman bust into her room and all I remember is I think he flushed the drugs down the toilet.
openAudio Easter Egg in playstation 1 (?) game. Videogame
Playstation 1 was the first cd-based gaming system I can remember my family having when I was a kid, and one day I suddenly got curious about what would happen if you put a game disc in a CD player: Normally the answer is "nothing" of course, but in the case of the game I happened to try it with, the developers actually did put a short audio track on the disc: It was simply a few seconds of silence followed by someone saying "Hey, this isn't a CD that you listen to, this is a CD that you play!" (or something along those lines).
openGiant robot piloted by people Western Animation
i know, i know the title is vague but sadly that's what i'm working with, now i'm fairly certain this was from the 80s or 90s as i had a VHS or two of it as a child but i can't for the life of me remember anything about the name of the show.
There is one episode that has stuck with me though and it is based on easter island and there are bird people there that attack them and some of the heads get up out of the ground i think and attack them also... i would really love to remember what this show was because it's been driving me up the wall for years.
openScorpiodile-spider of Pirate Island
There was a two-part movie (or three part? or short show? So long...) I once watched in the mid-90s when I was very young (about seven or eight) about a group of kids getting stranded on some recluse island. There were pirates on it and in the end I think they escaped on some stereotypical old-timey pirate ship. But there's the part that stuck with me for all these years: at one point they went into some caves with a monster inside. It was some sort of spidery thing, but exactly a spider: I distinctly remember a huge glowing crocodilian maw, maybe pink or red or something. I'm also absolutely sure it had a scorpion's tail and claws, too. It also spun webs everywhere. We never saw much of it, and it appeared twice. But as a child, it absolutely terrified me (probably because it left too much to imagination). Once in a while I remember it and want to see the monster again, to laugh at how silly it probably looked (or marvel at it if it's still creepy, or at least not cheesy), but I was never able to find it. Now comes the real problem: since I'm german, this movie (show) might have been very well from Eastern Europe. Nevertheless, does anyone know it?
Edited by AhoolloohaopenKidnapped People Documentary Live Action TV
Okay, so I remember a few years ago there was a marathon on TV that was almost like 'I Shouldn't Be Alive', but it was a different series about people who had been kidnapped or taken in one way or another. They were interviewed and provided some (if not all) of the narration as re-enactments showed some of what happened. Each episode focused on a different escapee. The title card was greyscale of a girl standing in a field, looking away.
One episode was this older black woman who had been kidnapped with a few other women, and were kept in a large hole in a man's basement. I believe one of her friends in the hole, who was mentally disabled, ended up being killed.
Another episode dealt with a young woman who was from somewhere in eastern Europe, who ended up being tricked into a human trafficking ring in the US. She and her friend were forced to strip at clubs and had no freedom.
The only other episode I remember had a woman who talked about being raised in a cult when she was a young girl. All I remember of that one is that she escaped on a helicopter when the FBI (I think) raided to cult.
I searched google quite a few times, but I can't seem to find it anywhere.
openSomething with "swordsman" in the title Literature
It's a book about swordsmen and zombies (actually quite a serious book) in medieval Eastern Europe during the winter. Read it in English class in secondary school.
openJapanese (?) animation movie, 2010s Film
I remember my family rented some DVD from Redbox (this was probably 2010 or so.). I think the protagonist was a young teenage boy from modern Japan, and there was time travel or something of that ilk, but what I do remember is a scene (the climax or very near to it) where a main character is fighting the big bad who has magic of some sort, and the main character retaliates by using their own magic to make the water in a nearby lake go up in hundreds of rivulets, like gravity got flipped in a polka dot pattern on this lake, and this display of power had something to do with an (Eastern) dragon. The movie ends with the protagonist taking a groupie with a flip phone of himself and a few friends, possibly friends from the past/other world, and the boy returned to his own world/time. One of the people in the pic puts up a V sign next to their face. I think there was an Eastern dragon on the top of the cover, and the title was a Japanese word, not something translated into English words. It's not a lot to go on and vague, but does anyone know what the movie was?
Edited by Lizzie221openNo Title
(Mixed Example) Video Roundup: 1: Russian animated Christmas themed, a kid flys (in a magic carpet?) over Europe and it turns out was All Just A Drean. 2: Also Russian animated (eastern?) , 12 days of Christmas song. 3: Kellogg Cereal commercial, a woman goes up a cabinet and nothing in it. The only other part was that it had Honey Smacks in it. Filmed on Video.
openKid that goes into space with a violin-hidden spaceship
Sooo I have been searching around the internet about this TV Cartoon from the 1980's-1990's probably. There was this kid that at night, while lying to his parents that he was playing violin, he was actually travelling into space and finding odd-civilizations. Don't quite remember anymore, but there was a particular episode where he went into this weird 2D world. If it helps, it was aired in Eastern Europe some 10-15 years ago . Thanks:D
openSome horror-genre children's books from the '90s...not Goosebumps, I don't think... Literature
All right, so there's a few different ones. I have a partial name for two of them: 1. "Bites" is one but I don't think that can be the whole name. It was a short collection of stories, most I think if not all involving vampires. I only remember one story though, about a boy who was adopted by a vampire couple. They invited their friends over to help hunt him. It was really odd because if I remember right they said they would have kept him if they could, and they reassured him that all the things he'd need to defend himself were in the garden. I think he defeated all the vampires except one but I don't remember which one. I would like to remember the rest of the stories if only I could...
2. "The Mask" another scary story anthology. The Mask was one of the stories. I don't know the full title, but that story was about a boy who got picked on for going trick or treating without a cool costume. Then he showed them the *human* mask he wore every day and it turned out he was a monster or alien or something. Again I don't remember the other stories or the full title.
3. Okay this one is the hardest for me. Again I think this is an anthology of scary stories and may or may not be a completely different book. (I think yes, because there were no vampires in this one.) I have no idea of the title of the book OR the title of the story. It's about a girl who's discovered literally in a basket on the doorstep of a childless couple. They're white (and American, I think) while she looks Middle Eastern or something like that, and it takes forever to adopt her, but they do. I do not remember what they name her, but I remember the line, "Fondly, her parents called her 'princess'." (yes, I tried Googling it, got nothing.)
The mom dies when the girl's only a few years old, so the dad sends her to boarding school and takes her on trips around the world on her holidays. (He's some kind of scientist. Archaeologist?) During the Main Plot, he takes her to Egypt and the girl (who's now 14-16, somewhere in there, don't remember precisely) goes around Cairo by herself for a bit. She finds a dump but then suddenly *bang* everything changes, and it's like she's transported into the past to when the place was a beautiful ancient city. She takes photos of it and a really weird cab driver takes her back to the hotel. She develops the photos but her dad thinks she's going crazy. The cab driver tells her at some point that she was born in the past, at the Ancient City of (Whatever, it's a name I can't remember) and her real father's the King. She goes back with the cab driver (Who is apparently the King's servant/slave/whatever) and sees her real father's funeral procession, takes photos of that. Returns to present and shows the photos to her dad and the (curator? director?) of the museum, who both still think the whole thing's crazy. She goes back to the cab driver, who takes her to the past again, and this time she doesn't reappear. Her dad and the museum people dig up the old dump and find the tomb she took pictures of, and there, next to the sarcophagus of the King, is...a mummified girl - with a camera hanging around her neck. O_O
So yeah, I remember that story in pretty vivid detail, but not the names of any characters, or the ancient city, or what book it's from. Help would be good if anyone knows anything about it.
Thanks very much in advance.
Kaylee
openSomething tells me it wasn't a classic Western Animation
Given Easter is coming soon I'm curious if anyone is familiar with one thing related to the holiday I saw on VHS years ago. It was 3D in appearance so I guess that means it was either CGI or claymation. As for the plot what I can truly remember is the villain of the special captured the Easter Bunny and his best friend where he tied them above a pool, they get eaten by a shark but eventually manage to escape by singing a song that made the shark sad so he spit them back out or something.
openlooking for the name of 70's euopean fantasy show Live Action TV
The show,as far as I can remember,aired around the latish 70's.I'd be positive it was european or eastern european dubbed into english.There were dragons involved,but I doubt any were actually seen.A boy was killed and his younger brother wanted to follow him into the afterlife,probably to fight the dragons,one of the boys was called Crispin,I think.This is my last remaing childhood memory that I'm unable to identify,it was shown in Ireland,but I'd imagine it popped up elsewhere on these islands.Thanks for the help:)
openAn episode from a tv series, probably a fantasy series
I saw a part of an episode that men were holding a woman captive on a longship and they were in a lake, there were 2 armies surrounding them, one on the eastern shore with the woman's brother leading it and one on the western shore with the woman's uncle leading it. The name ( brigwid was mentioned) Rings a bell?
Edited by WrathfulPiteousnessopenNo Title Live Action TV
Trying to remember a Show, It was set in France I believe. It was a period piece. That followed the life of a French Peasant who raised in status through out her life only to lose it all and end up poor again. I also remember that it had a sequel told a similar story but followed the first woman's daughter. I also remember it aired on Canadian TV from no earlier then 1994 to around 2000 on showcase around 11 am Atlantic 10 am eastern,it was about half an hour long.
openNo Title Webcomic
Some years ago I've stumbled upon a comic on the net, took a liking to it and forgot about it, until recently when something with a similar theme jogged my memory; but after scouring all of my bookmarks and googling xyz times, I still can't find it and it's driving me crazy!
The premise goes something like this: the comic is set in some sort of savage horror low fantasy world (think Tarzan or a bit like Conan) and the main protagonists are a group of female warriors, some sort of amazon beastmasters who are bonded to these huge beasts that act as companions and bodyguards as well as riding animals/beasts of burden. The beasts are not mindless albeit not very intelligent, though intelligent enough for every one of them to have a different character (and outlook; they are not generic, though they are all of the same species). The bond between the amazons and the beasts is somewhat emotional, so when one of them is upset/angry/happy etc., the other can feel that sentiment and acts accordingly/similarly. The beasts look somewhat like big bald saber-toothed ogres that walk on all fours but can stand upright if needed (probably last of their kind).
IIRC the group (there is 5-6 girls, each with her beast) sets out from their village to counter some big threat that endangered them all, some sort of...necromancer? Something to do with death or undead all in all. Which they have to defeat before he closes in with the village or the whole world could be in danger...and that's about all I can remember.
The art for the comic/graphic novel was beautiful and the author was...Korean? Japanese? Something like that. Though the art style was not typical manga or some other form of eastern animation, more western like...The comic was a project of sort and I think the idea for it was to actually go into print but the guy needed more money to make that happen. I looked on the kickstarter too but with no luck.
So! If anyone has any idea what this comic/graphic novel could be, please help and thank you!
openNo Title Videogame
This FPS game from The '90s that I only played briefly, I only remember 2 things 1. It was set in real life with real weapons and human enemies no monsters 2. When you get a game over it shows a still picture this Middle Eastern looking guy (who I assume is the Big Bad) saying "you lose" and it gets kind of echoy. I think the game may have been made by Lucas Arts.
Edited by BootlebatopenNo Title Western Animation
i'm hoping you can help me!
i was in germany in 1996 and watched an old animated film dubbed in german (only caught about the last half an hour or so). i'm pretty sure it was from eastern europe—the names in the credits looked more polish or slavic rather than russian. for some reason i felt like i had seen it as a child so it was probably from the 70s or possibly earlier.
the details i can remember: a boy and girl are underground (in a castle?) trying to escape. the evil (queen? witch?) had vulture-like minions working for her and to fool them, they flew to the stairs that wound around a large column and had various dark spots for doorways—one of them disguised itself as a doorway to throw off the children's count.
the children spoke with blind people who asked about what it was like above ground and the children told them—especially about sunlight.
and at some point some large mechanical robot like creature destroyed the "castle" they were in and the blind people could feel the sunlight coming in and were then "freed."
needless to say, it was a bizarre story and the part of the minion disguising itself as a dark doorway really tripped me out. i have always wondered about this movie and want to see the whole thing, especially because while watching it as a young adult, i had flashbacks of watching it as a child (possibly in Korea or the U.S.). I hope someone here can help! thanks!!
An animated movie where two kids are given a snowflake and asked to go to another dimension/ world. They have to get back before their snowflake melts, Along the way they meet snow white and she has some sort of a north eastern accent I believe. They also meet other fairytale characters and at the end all of the characters are there in some large room. Some witch shows up and they decide to let her in at the end.