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openkorean(?) anthology film series? Film
a while ago i watched this series of movies. they were korean i think but it could be a different country. i watched it through a friend streaming them on discord. apparently there were a lot but i only watched a few. i asked that friend about the title and they just said "strange tales i think?" which gives me nothing, do you know how many tales there are bro let alone strange ones. i was wondering if someone knows these films. i remember several of the stories. spoilers i suppose. the stories between the stores were always narrated by this one old man. one of the stories involved a child praying to a shrine that she would get every question on the test right, and it comes true and warps the world around her wrong answers so they are correct, which makes havoc ensue. another story involves a character who gains a condition where they often hear music and have to act along to it, and she finds another person with the same condition. i dont remember exactly how it ended but i do remember they died because of a certain special song. another story involved a man finding a supernatural NES game, which would summon the man's childhood friend who would play the same game with him when he was young. i dont remember a whole lot about this story but i remember something about the childhood friend dying in a river on their way home. another story which i can only remember the concept of was about a world where snobby business men acted like dogs. the last story i can remember and put into words was about a story about half the length of the other ones about a golden egg. i dont remember anything else about it.
if anyone could help me find these films that would be GREATLY appreciated, they were really fun
resolved I can't find western movie, can someone help? Film
Movie is about one cowboy, aka main character, i think with no kill rule. During stand off he accidentally kills his enemy. Main character decided to retire because of that. I don't remember much about it, but twist was that aformentioned enemy turned out to be alive and faked his death to break main character. Any ideas what movie is it?
openIDK what it is Film
This movie came on late at night. It involved a middle aged (40-45?) married couple, who'd been married for years. Only he worked, & she kept a Flawless home! She had obvious OCD, plus she may have had a problem leaving the house. As she was cleaning, she found evidence of his infidelity (which doesn't surprise me because their sex life was,at best, pitiable). Surprisingly...she eventually murdered him. Also, the dialogue was her narrating it with her thoughts, I think. She just cleaned & straightened, & it was dead quiet, except for the sound of her voice... eerily so! Very obviously controversial, so it may be one of those films they felt was better left to gather dust on the shelf. Only saw it once. Thanks, I hope it's a helpful description.
openMovie about car chase and kidnapping Film
I'm looking for the title of this movie I saw during a flight. I missed beginning, so I don't know the title. It was released during the early 90's, possibly 1993-1994.
Some guy has kidnapped a girl (willingly or not, I can't be sure) and is fleeing on a car while being chased/hunted down by the police. Naturally, the girl isn't happy about it, but during their ride they both start to know one another and like each other.
During the climax, the man release the girl unharmed. He's apprehended by the police who taunt him along with the girl's wealthy and jerkass father. The girl then grab a gun and have the guy released and they both escape on the car together.
Thanks.
resolved Child Abuse drama with fantasy ending Film
I randomly remembered a drama (?) movie aid heard about, but I can only remember the ending. It was a kid with an abusive father, and the movie ends with him building a plane and flying away or something like that. Apparently he movie doesn’t provide a definitive answer on what actually occurred. Did the child escape, and the plane was a fantastical description? Or was he killed by his father? I put a question mark near drama because it might have also been tonally weird, maybe advertised like a family movie or something
resolved 2000s Disney/Family Channel Movie Film
This movie aired sometime in the 2000s or early 2010s. It was a live-action direct-to-TV superhero movie that followed the oldest kid in a superhero family. The family didn't really have powers; their gimmick was that they protected people by flying these airships around. The ships were definitely bird themed; they might've been called falcons. The branding of the family also surrounded birds.
The oldest kid/protagonist's arc was that some threat happened that rendered his parents unable to fly the ship. He ends up learning to fly it himself and saves the day/becomes a real hero.
resolved A biopic about Mozart that actually portrayed Mozart and Saleri as best friends like they were irl Film
Hey guys, I am looking for a biopic movie/tv on Mozart which portrayed him and Saleri as best friends like they were in real life and not like Amadeus (1984 film) where they slandered Saleri and painted him in a horrible light? Does anyone know which works of media portrayed him in a good light?
openComedic Car Crash Film
It's driving me bananas, but everything I think it might be turns out to not quite be it— I chose film as the medium but it could be a cartoon or something. All the action occurs in one static shot (wide shots are comedy!), the view is of a wide open field and there's a car going out of control off the road for some reason, and it crashes into the one tree in the whole field. It does not cut to the interior of the car at any time during the proceedings. Wide shots are comedy.
resolved Netlix movie about gang who decides to raid pre-Columbian temple Film
Hi everyone, new troper here and this my second query on "Ask The Tropers".
Do you guys know the name of recently released Netlix movie about a gang who hatches a scheme to raid pre-Columbian temple? Because I added this movie to my movie's list, but then our account was deleted, and now (since we have new account) I can't find it. Can you help me?
EDIT: Found it! It's not movie, but a series, and it's called "Bandidos".
Edited by Filip04open"Story of my life... the end" in mysterious girl's journal Film
I remember seeing a scene from whatever this was, it looked low-budget, on US TV about 10-15 years ago. A young adult guy finds a young adult woman passed out on the sidewalk. He is giving normal-guy vibes, she is giving manic pixie dream-girl vibes. He carries her into a house and lays her on the bed, and I remember he takes her boots off. She's asleep. He looks through her bag or something, and finds her journal. He opens it to the first page spread and it's cutely decorated with big lettering saying "The Story of My Life." He turns the page, and it's blank. The next page is also blank. He then flips quickly through the journal, all blank pages to the end, where again it has cutesy lettering and decoration, saying "The End." There was no dialog. I am of the impression it was on PBS and was some kind of indie short film but I'm not sure. I don't think that scene was the entirety of the piece, I think it was the beginning, but that was the only part of it I saw.
openImmortal old man who wants to die Film
My sister remebers seeing this movie a couple of years ago. Her memory is vague, but she is completely sure it's live action and she was sad for a while.
She only remebers the ending (take it with a grain of salt). The old man says that as he's immortal having friends is useless and he has assisted to many funerals, so he'll rather be alone or is condemned to be alone (or something along those lines). She remembers him saying it as he stares through a window / the window is close and the camera "spins".
Something was up with his immortality, but doesn't know if she's filling the gaps or if it actually happened in the movie.
Thank you.
resolved 80's horror film involving escaped monsters on remote planet Film
A 1980's movie where a ship lands on a remote, always-night planet (think the Derelict planet and LV-426 in the Alien franchise) with hidden monsters of various types infiltrating the ship. Said monsters are escapees from 10,000 year old evils in a can left there by aliens. A key scene in this movie takes place in the opening— an earlier ship that lands, and during a photo-op, one of the two spacesuit-clad passengers SITS on one of the sealed evils in a can, with predictable results (specifically, we see a small section of the canister dissolve, and minutes later, he starts convulsing and spitting out mists of blood.)
openNoughties Ghost Town Film Film
I watched this this film once when I was a kid so I can't provide a lot of details, but it's from the late 90s/early 2000s, 2005 max.
I think it was about 2 girls who go into a town in which everyone is a ghost or is possessed. I have a vague memory of photography being involved somehow. Perhaps theyet a photographer in the town?
Thanks for the help
openHorror film about a snuff website that begins with a forklift hitting a girl Film
Horror film with mostly white cast, possibly non-english language around 00s
- Film starts from a perspective of a security camera in a store following a girl. Girl notices the camera following her and starts motioning to it before a forklift suddenly swerves to her then the footage cuts to the opening before it hits her
- Slasher story about group of friends being picked off, at some point they discuss a website that hosts snuff films including the girl being hit by the forklift.
- As Final Girl and guy are out, guy says he put the group of friends on the website and fed them information believing that it was a practical joke but the killers are using them as part of snuff film
- The film may ended with the Final Girl screaming at the killers while they prowl around her
openPost-apocalypse sci-fi movie where men hunt virgins Film
I don't remember where I saw this, but I think it was a 1990s or 2000s film, possibly 1980s. I must have seen this over ten years ago. It looked like a very low-budget B-movie. The costumes looked very cheap and the acting was terrible. The introduction showed a post-apocalypse kind of society where men hunted down virgin women. The women were stereotypically dressed in all white costumes. The men were hunting the virgins to use them for trading (for slavery or forced marriage). I remember a man chasing a woman (dressed in white) through a desert looking area with dirt and boulders. She was desperately trying to escape him. He caught up to her and wanted to rape her instead of capturing her, which would have ruined her value since she would no longer be a virgin.
I only remember watching a few minutes of the beginning and I thought it looked like a terrible film so I stopped watching. Since then I have grown a certain appreciation for low-budget B-movies so I'm interested to know what it is. It is possible that it was one of those "skin flicks" they used to show on Cinemax, Showtime, and HBO late at night in the 1990s and 2000s, but really I could have seen this anywhere.
openKorean Movie- Good Girl + Bad Girl Film
This was a movie on You Tube back in 2010-2011 when they weren't as on top of pirated material.
I remember watching a lot of Korean movies around the same time (like Jenny and Juno) but I'm not 100% sure this was Korean.
There were two girls at the same school, one was a goody-two shoes stereotype, with straight hair, she was a really good student, and a "bad girl" who slacked off and maybe rode a motorcycle/moped and had this layered wavy hair and bangs.
I think the smart girl was in charge of tutoring the rebel girl, or they had a pact to get one girl's grades up while making the nerdy girl cool or something.
They used to hang out at the same place, a cafe maybe, red background. I think they originally met up there to study.
In the end they both had the same hair cut like the rebel girl, and maybe both sped off on the motorcycle.
I wish I had more to go off of but this was 10+ years ago when I was really young.
-cantremember
Edited by cantrememberopenRoad movie / action thriller (probably 1990s)? Film
I'm looking for an American road movie / action film / thriller, probably from (the second half of) the 1990s. My memory is very fuzzy and unreliable, but I dimly remember the following:
- a family travels by (a red?) car and is harassed by a (biker / rocker?) gang on a desert highway
- some family members (mother and/or daughter?) are kidnapped or tricked to come with the gang
- father sets out to rescue them(?)
- mother has short, dark brown hair
- "realistic" thriller (no comedy / horror / scifi / fantasy)
- set in USA
- climax: shooting in a biker bar(?)
- some similarties to "Breakdown" / "Kalifornia", but none of the two; probably lower budget, no famous actors (at least I don't remember any), possibly a tv movie.
Thanks a lot for any hint!
Edited by clueless66openSome movie from a long time ago. Film
I dont really know the details, all I remember is that the main character was a boy, it was animated, it took place in medieval times, and there was a scene where a man was trapped under a giant church bell.
This film was in black & white,circa(maybe)1950s.When I was four, I was watching a movie (it was already on) while Mom was flitting about in the kitchen,at about eight a.m. Every other time, my parents were adamant about monitoring All our TV exposure. But the phone rang, & she was sidelined for a few minutes. That being said...a scene in the movie showed a (solarium/ conservatory?) room, located towards the center of the home. With plants, & low lighting, there was a white bassinet, within, with such a darling baby, fast asleep. I didn't see the parents around, but a Cat started walking stealthily into the room. It crawled upon the bassinet, & then atop the baby, where it proceeded to suction the air from that dear child! Of course, I didn't see the rest of the movie, as I started crying & my Mother spirited me away. Never heard of nor saw the movie, again. But, even though it was so upsetting, it's always bothered me that I never finished the movie. Please find it. They say we all have our demons to face. This is mine. TY!
Edited by Plucki