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openLittle Boy Chased By Crazy Man Film
A boy of about 10 is staying with a middle-aged man in a house during the winter. The boy is playing outside and sets a trap to catch a cat - it works. The boy goes inside the house and the man is busy makng dinner. In response to the boy coming into a room unannounced, the man says something like "what part of a closed door says to you 'come in'?". Another (younger) man enters the house. Seems to be the middle aged man's friend or relative. The younger man suddenly has a seizure and is on the ground convulsing, then he seemingly 'snaps' and starts chasing after the boy as if to hurt/kill him. The boy manages to elude the man and is hiding upstairs when he looks out of a window and sees a policewoman walking around outside the house in the snow. He calls out to her to help him but by the time she realizes, the psycho man approaches and attacks her and she falls down.
Edited by NernopenCroc film Film
I remember seeing a movie once when I was young. I don't remember much about it other than a Crocodile was supposedly at the center of the plot. I do remember one scene and that was that at the end of the move there was a wedding and the bride did the usual Bouquet Toss, only for the croc to leap out of the water and catch the bouquet.
Now I have been trying to find it mostly out of curiosity.
openi remember the scene but not the movie title Film
a young girl (16-18 years old) with a short skirt bends over in a public place like a park or amusement park. the scene is on youtube but i can't remember.
Edited by iniuramopenOld western Film
Okay, a Western film that I watched recently on tv and can’t remember the name of. It was indicative of the genre, because that’s why I stopped at the channel, but not very famous.
It opens with a slate explaining why Tombstone is called Tombstone, then a card parlor where an old man gets shot by the sheriff. His son then enters and kills the sheriff before riding off to his siblings’ mine. His brothers are the best shots around, and combined with the sister giving stern words, the men chasing the cowboy leave. The officials want to take the mine, so they plant a fake tax bill on the father’s body. Then an impersonator of Shotgun Kelly (I think) appears to help the family.
openmonster tv show Film
it was a sort of animal planet mermaids type tv show. it interviewed a survivor of a military unit that was attacked by a monster in an abandoned American town. the interviewer goes to the town and discovers an underground bunker.
openAnimated film about a native American (Hiawatha?) Film
I watched an animated film sometime between 1994 and 2000 about a native American. I seem to remember it being called something like "The Legend of Hiawatha". It's not the Disney Silly Symphonies short, it had a mostly serious tone. What sticks out to me is that he film starts out with the protagonist (Hiawatha I suppose, unless I misremember the title) as a young boy. His mother prepares a chicken to eat. Afterwards he befriends a talking raven, and because the raven has wings like the chicken, he insists on calling the raven a chicken. Later scenes have him as an adult, and he has to journey to... a snowy land? Or up a mountain? To fulfill some sort of quest? I can't really remember what that was about.
openMight be impossible Film
The only thing I remember from this film is someone's old man's face splitting open and there is a blue wolf that's all I remember if you could tell me the name with that little info that would be amazing
openA Sci-fi Flim Film
Many years ago I remember seeing some sort of sci-fi film. The only thing about the plot that I can remember was one space ship being on the run from a group of others. I think they were all the same kind of ship but the protagonist ship had blue engines while the antagonist had red. Every now and then the one ship would be able to take out one from the group. The only moment I can remember was when the protagonist were able to hide themselves (in a gas cloud or something) and get the jump on the antagonist and were able to destroy two of the ships for the price of one.
openSome sort of Arabian Nights film Film
Back when I was a kid, there was a movie that I think seemed overly long that seemed to be Middle Eastern like Aladdin. It had a kid with like a desert rat (no not "street rat" it had some cute brown furry critter like this◊), and it was I think live-action but not sure. It may have been an Aladdin movie but I dunno.
openLooking for a movie Film
It's a mix of Live-action film and 3D Animation that came out sometime in the early-to-middle 00's.
The story is about a boy around nine or ten years old who lives with his mother or grandmother (can't remember which one it was) in a large ranch, while his grandfather has been missing for a some time now. The woman keeps a wooden box with the grandfather's picture in it and throws in those paper slips from the wall diaries to count the days he's been missing.
The grandfather in question was studying a mystical race of tiny elf-like creatures that lived hidden under his yard. He even has an album of photos taken of them, which the woman shows to the boy. In fact, I remember the boy being like "woah, she's so beautiful" or something like that (I watched it dubbed, sorry).
Soon the boy somehow stumbles in the mystical kingdom and turns into one such creature himself. It turns out that the Really 700 Years Old applies to all of them - the girls is actually 900, the protagonists passes for 1000, and the girl's younger brother is "only" 300 years old (and looks like a satyr/dwarf from a Disney film for some reason).
Eventually, the boy finds his grandfather - who is imprisoned in there and has also been transformed - and tries to free him.
Towards the end of the movie there's a skin where they are using a straw to navigate through the puddles because the creatures are too tiny to swim.
Eventually, both the boy and his grandfather manage to make it home, back to normal.
Other details: The woman starts keeping a box diary for the boy as well. The real world scenes are in live action while the mystical kingdom are in CGI. The girl is the princess of her Kingdom and the boy falls in love with them. The house is in a massive field with dry grass and wheat.
Unfortunatelly, I've looked up and there are no examples on TV Tropes. Please, help!
openHomophobic Old PSA Film
Anyone know this PSA? It was from the 1950s or 1960s. I remember it being a lot like Boys Beware, except the protagonists were girls. It featured a mother lamenting that her daughter was "too close" to her friend.
Edited by Pichu-kunopenI don't even know why I want to find this one... Film
There was a movie that my parents saw at the movies that really upset me when I was little...
The movie mainly had black actors. Towards the beginning the main character I assume sees a girl on the street as he's riding by in his car and the following exchange rolls out:
"Hey, girl! What's your name?"
- girl ignores her*
There was a scene where the main character(again, I think?) was picking up a teenage girl (I think her name was Coco?)from school and later that night the girl said something that the guy didn't like so he slapped her in the face. Then the teen sees a guy in a car and goes over to flirt with him (complete with licking her teeth at him). Skipping ahead a bit, some shit goes down and the teenage girl ends up getting shot and killed.
There was also a scene at night where two guys are sitting in a car with a third who got shot in the eye.
There's also a mother that's addicted to drugs and goes into a room with a bent spoon on the table to shoot up, I believe? Later into the movie, the mother calls the main character to beg him to help her. Some of the dialogue that I remember is this: "There's no food in the house! The kids need clothes for school!" A bit after that scene(the part I remember the most),the main character comes over to deal with her, and eventually hits said mother in the face and her son comes in and tries to fight the guy saying "leave her alone!" The guy slaps him to the ground too. Some stuff is said/happens and then leaves. The mother is then seen comforting the boy. Afterward, the mother goes back to tie off again. The next scene we get a shot of her children watching TV until they hear a "thud" and then the boy gets up to investigate only to find his mother on the ground foaming at the mouth with him shaking her crying out "Mommy!? Mommy!!" while his sister is standing there crying.
I think that the last scene of the movie has someone being cremated in a casket...
Does anyone know what I'm talking about based on that description? Can anyone help me out? I wouldn't blame anyone if they couldn't...
openHorror/Thriller Film
Wife, husband & her little sister go to some cliff to take pictures, sister falls down after railing breaks, big sister grabs her but little sister still falls to death, big sister goes to therapy to conquer fear of heights along with other members that die one by one apparently by her little ghost sister haunting her but in the end she was trying to warn her from husband who wants to kill her for inheritance I think?
Both sisters are also blonde & adults.
openA movie Film
First there was some girl celebrating her birthday and receives a sword and a dress, and talks about how she's going to Paris. Then she gets taken to some island (I think?) and is pretty disappointed about having to eat porridge for breakfast. Then she meets a girl who she thinks is her sister for some reason, and adopts a baby pig. The girl's brother is angry about them pretending to be sisters and trips over the laundry she did. (I think he said something like "Of course it took a while because you washed it with pig's piss anyway") At some point she has a dream about a dead baby who went to the Island of the Dead that talks about how she can't blow her own nose and burps. Then the girl and the other girl's brother become friendlier and she tells them the story with the dead baby. The other girl finds a sword and they clank swords and declare themselves sisters. Later the first girl's mother shows up and gives her cocoa and cakes but she only eats porridge now. At the end there's a montage of the kids doing stuff.
openOld Movie (Animation) Film
I recall that when I was younger, I used to watch this movie/ program about a girl (I think her name was Maya). I do not remember much, apart from the fact that she end up "falling" into a world that existed inside a giant's umbrella. I remember that in this fantastic world she meets a kid who lost her parents in an accident, where they were flying in a hang glider expirience. So I remember that maya want to help this kid overcome her fear of flying. I also remember something about the giant almost closing the umbrella and destroying this world. Another thing about this Maya..is that I remember she weared a red dress whit a white apron and that she had a red magic ribbon.
openGuy pretends to be gynecologist Film
I saw a clip of this film on You Tube. A man (looked a bit like Ryan Reynolds) is in a hospital, and he's in disguise as a gynecologist. He's not doing it so he can look at lady parts, but because he's in hiding or on the run or something. But sure enough, a pretty young lady comes in for a checkup, and he has to bluff his way through it.
open(Not the awesomes) Film
The main character was a brown-haired boy with a blue shirt and he had the ability to stop time by saying "stop" And he made time resume by saying "go" and when he stops time he gets a nosebleed
Also his dad was a superhero that could fly and there was a scene where he caught his son while he was falling and he told his son to stop using his time stop powers Ps when he stopped time he breaks the 4th wall and talks to you
Edited by JimmyCakesetopenDiscovery Channel Survival Series Film
15 or 20 years ago, the Discovery Channel ran a survival series regarding survival stories in different climates/conditions. One was about Alan Cooper, who tried to drive his Morris car from Kenya north through the Sahara desert and died with some of his companions. The 2nd was a couple and their baby that got stuck in a snowstorm (after Hot-tubing) and left their car to find a ranger station and the wife died from eating snow in order to produce breast-milk. The 3rd was about Juliane Koepcke, the only survivor of a plane crash in the jungle and was rescued by a canoe. Another nights episode told the story of a family driving in an African desert and got a flat tire, were stranded and the husband was picked up by someone with a car that he got into an argument with, then when he finally got back,his family was dead from the heat. What is the name of this series and how can I view it again?
There was a trailer I watched a year or two ago for an upcoming big-budget historical drama with steppe nomads (no, not Genghis). I think it's a Chinese production and a film, though it might also be Russian and/or a series. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
ETA: I think it's The Golden Horde / Золотая Орда.
Edited by mahidevrans