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openFantasy movie or miniseries Film
Movie or miniseries. Similar to Voyage of the Unicorn. Family (father and kids) get transported to another realm. Daughter gets involved with the bad guy then seeing he really is a bad guy. Good guys need the family's help to beat the big bad. Near the end gets transported to Stonehenge and the dad and bad guy fights.
openParents of multiples "documentary"? Film
I remember watching part of this in the 90s or early 2000s. It seems like it was a television "documentary", but also like a tv movie with actors portraying a "based on real life" story. It was about parents with a daughter who then had multiples, like quadruplets or quintuplets or something. Tried searching for it but most of the results were too recent.
openHalloween cartoon Film
There was this short cartoon that was in black and white that aired in 2009 and it played during the switch from cartoon network to adult swim and it was during Halloween. The main charecter was in their bed sleeping and some weird looking guy would come into it try to break into his room and take him but he kept failing comedicaly to do so everytime.
openseemingly useless item Film
Adventure movie where a group has to rescue someone. There is a ceremony were each character receives a magical item. One of the characters is mad because they only got a useless stick. The group sets off in the daytime. At some point during the adventure someone is stuck under water and only the useless stick can reach through the water and save the person trapped underwater.
openLooking for a friend Film
I have a friend who apparently doesn't know how to submit one of these himself, so I'll do it for him. I fixed a bit of his poor grammar, but left some of it intact since I don't know exactly how to phrase it without losing its meaning.
A family is having a reunion or something, then a pretty Asian woman comes out of the car with guys that have guns and they kill everybody in the house (an Asian man survives). The Asian lady kidnaps a little Asian girl and brainwashes her into thinking the Asian woman was her mother. The girl grows up and there's a black man in a bathtub and they make out, but then he knows that something is wrong with her and she brutally kills him. The next scene I think is where the girl pretended to be a Japanese wrestler's wife, but he saw dead bodies (heads??) and they fight but the guy dies. The next scene is at the wrestler's funeral, there was a wife and her kids (boys notably) the wife gets slapped by the enemy??? A dude kills the enemy and his clan.
openAn animated Halloween movie Film
The plot is that four children are trying to find the soul of a dead friend and end up traveling all over the world and seeing the Halloween and Day of The Dead analogues of various cultures. In the end they get a chance to bring their friend back to life by each sacrificing a year of their lives via eating parts of a piece of skull shaped candy.
openCrazy security computer is obsessed to kill the protagonist Film
I saw this film a long time ago, so details may be murky. An office tower has an overzealous security computer, that tries to "terminate" intruders by weaponizing pretty much everything available in the office. The protagonist uses his entry card as a tool, bending it, making the computer think it's invalid, so it starts trying to kill him in various, creative, ways. Instead, it manages to kill everyone else.
The film was made somewhere in the '80s or '90s.
Edited by petersohnopenWhats your favorite Woody Allen movie Film
So I remember something, not sure if tv show or movie, in wich a charackter primary charackter asks somone "whats your favorite woody allen film", then the conversation goes something like this: "i dont know, annie hall?", "why", "its the most famous one right?", "why does everyone choose annie hall". Can anyone help? I would really like to see that again.
PS: It might have been in a book but i dont think so, and i think the guy that asked, is a killer
openWeird movie (Solved) Film
So I remember my brother telling me about some weird movie, but I can't remember the name. I'm not even sure if it's real or if he was just playing with me.
It was about these two dudes who move into the neighborhood and introduce themselves to their neighbors in a corny way (I'm sure there's a better word than corny, but it was in a strange way). Anyway, their cat gets kidnapped and so they go on an undercover mission to get their cat back.
Anyone know what this is? Or if it even existed?
Edited by PoshDemonopenJust like a doll Film
A film that is about a doll (Barbie?) that turns human and a girl is trying to prove it to her father. She ends up turning back and the girl regrets it.
openChristmas Carol adaptation Film
I once saw a film of "A Christmas Carol" where the Ghost of Christmas Present had a magic power with his torch (or something similar) that I think might have made people be nicer. I remember that he used it on some random people on the street, and then he used it on the Cratchits and I think it made the latter start talking about how full they were from dinner. I don't know which film this is from, though, and I wasn't able to find any information about this specific version online.
openPlease help Film
It aired on history channel around between 2006-10 i think i dont remember the wxact year but it was between that time Story was of an army wife cheating affair with his husbands junior i think?it seemed like a very old show there was a scene where the woman came out in a towel and the boy sees her who was there for some bussiness sent by the womans husband i think please help
Edited by AtelopenAirport scene from a film Film
A group of passengers, all wearing the same shirt with "___ Bound" printed on it, board a plane, and just as it is about to depart, we cut to a tarmac crewmember who proclaims, "Time for me to do my job." Cut back to the plane, captain/FO announces they'd have to deplane. What film does this appear in?
openTv show or movie where a girl tries to die crossing red signs Film
the only thing i remember is that this girl tries do get in a car accident after her mom gets into one. Her mom ran over a red sign and got into a car accident so later on she tries to do the same by crossing red lights because she also wants to die or something along those lines. For some reason i don't remember its name
openFrench movie about a man getting his friend to pretend to be his wife Film
He had a mistress who trashed his apartment with a chainsaw until it got stuck, then his "wife" actually sided with the mistress in order to try and woo her.
openmovie in which they hold a little girl in a laboratory Film
maybe in the 60s or 70s. they get rid of all women (off-screen) and leave only the little girls alive or just one. then they keep her in a laboratory or something. they want to do an experiment that will change women in some way. i hope you guess the movie title or at least some suggestions ?
openA movie about a boy and his grandfather trapped in a house Film
I'm trying to remember a movie I saw a long time ago with my own grandfather.
It's about a boy who likes to dress up like a commando who lives with his mother and grandfather in a big house or mansion.
One night someone breaks in and it's just the boy and his grandfather trapped inside.
At one point, the grandfather hides inside a suit of armor and at another point, IIRC, the boy tries to kill the home invader with a stick of dynamite hidden in a toy train.
Does this ring any bells, fellow tropers?
openMovie or tv show Film
I’m looking for a movie or a tv show where there were 2 women and one of them was very evil (she had red hair) and I remember a scene where she killed the blond woman and put her in a suitcase?? Then another scene I remember she switched somebody’s eye drops with some sort of acid and she was looking from the outside... that’s all I know. Please help!!
openMovie homejacking Film
I’m looking for another movie I saw when I was little, it has to be around the 90’s or early 00’s? about a house full of people there was some sort of party going on, and there was art like paintings and stuff and I remember one of the bad guys cut a finger of an older man for his ring. Than there was a scene where a girl was hiding in the ceiling I think (not sure) and there was a big spider next to her but she had to be quiet so she didn’t got caught. There were 2 boys, brothers I think and one of them was evil and in the end she was about to shoot the evil Brother and he said something like “you can’t shoot me” or something like that. I hope this was enough information. (Sorry if some words or sentences are wrong i’m Belgian 😂) thanks anyway!
Posting for my mother: This was a movie she rented in the 80s. Sort of a family adventure type, live action. What she remembers is a boy getting advice from an oldish woman before he embarks on an adventure. After he leaves the camera zooms in on a plant that seems to be moving, and the old lady addresses it like it's alive.
Anybody remember any old lady with a magic plant adventure movies from the 80s?!