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open1980s/90s Hong Kong comedy about insurance agents Film
What is the title of this Hong Kong movie?: I watched it on the International Channel (before it became AZN Television) around 1998–2001, when they used to show a Cantonese movie every week; this means it was a Tai Seng (now [[ Tai Seng Entertainment) license. The movie is a comedy about the sales team of an insurance company, the lengths to which they go to sell their products, and may (or may not) have Amy Yip Chi Mei as the female lead. (I can provide more plot details if requested.)
openNo Title Film
There was a 90s kids movie, might have been made-for-TV, about a modern girl who somehow ends up traveling back in time to October of 1929 where she inhabits the body of her identical-looking great grandmother and tries to stop her great uncle from putting the family farm up as collateral for a loan to invest in the stock market, since she knows that Black Tuesday is about to happen. Then she holds a carnival at the farm and while she isn't able to talk her "brother" out of putting the farm up, the money the carnival brings in is enough to let them keep the house. Then she returns to the present and talks with her great uncle, who reveals that he knew what she did and shows that the family had actually somehow become wealthy as a result of her changing the past.
openBritish comedy serial episode about man murdering his mother-in-law Film
First off, this is about a TV show so the medium really is not "film".
I posted this question on a different forum sometime ago, but I haven't had any luck there. In what comedy series does a man kill his mother-in-law, then acts all indignant about it?
I think this is an episode of a British comedy from the 80s, possibly even just one scene or sketch from one episode. When the murderer's girlfriend or wife comes home, the murderer starts lamenting with her: "Yes, it's terrible. Society should protect people like your mother from people like me.It's a disgrace!" Please note that these are just paraphrases- I have no idea what the character actually says.
Does this ring a bell with anybody? Or do you know how I could conduct somemore research?
Cheers, sandokan
openAmerican film with a discussion of toilet etiquette Film
I'm trying to find the title of an American movie with a scene in which a young man and a young woman at a bar discuss male and female toilet etiquette. It was released sometime between 2012 and 2015, inclusive; it is not That Awkward Moment). Is it possibly Group Sex?
Edited by DocWastonopenSpy movie spoof Film
I'm looking for a spy action movie spoof. I don't know when it came out. It is about an American spy who has a mission in Russia. Two scenes I remember are: -When the protagonist must do a parachute jump through the toilets of a plane, but he finds himself tangled by misusing one of his gadgets and falls down without a parachute -When the protagonist is facing the villain's right hand man, he stirs this latter by telling him his mother's or fiancee's name
openMovie about some guy's life becoming a living hell Film
Something I used to do in my early years of watching digital cable was watching trailers for whatever movies Charter (my local cable company) was offering for on-demand rental at that time. Something that always stuck to me was a trailer for a live-action comedy that started like this:
"For the next 90 minutes, York Daily's (I'm guessing at the spelling here) life will become a living hell. And you get to watch!" I wanna say this was narrated by John Leader (longtime trailer announcer for Universal), but again, I'm guessing. I haven't seen this trailer in years, and a recent search through Charter's on-demand section proved fruitless. Anyone else remember this line, and do you know what trailer it was from?
openSci Fi/Horror Alien Invasion Film Film
This has been bothering me for a number of years. I remember a film on TV featuring aliens invading or reaching Earth and one growing/gestating inside a watermelon or some other big fruit. A man was going to cut into it but was distracted and never actually did it in one scene so the alien was never discovered. It was then given to a woman who put it in the back of her car to drive somewhere. Of course while she is driving the creature hatches from the melon (if it was one) and attacks her with tentacles causing a crash. I never found out the name of the film and have never seen it on any channel since!
If I remember correctly it looked like a 70s/80s film though could've been later.
openDepressing 90s BBC drama Film
I only remember this because I watched it far too young and it gave me nightmares for weeks. A British BBC (or channel 4?) drama about a loser kid - I think called Simon. He is particularly dim and the kids at school relentlessly mock him. I think there's a scene where he wears an unusual coat to school. One day 2 other kids trick him into helping steal lead from a roof - he gets caught and sent to a boys home. Eventually he hangs himself in his cell. The final shot is his dead face as we hear a voiceover of a school lesson where a teacher is asking him something like "Simon what is the universe?" and he is saying "there's nothing. Just like stars and that." Depressing as hell. Usual for British drama in the 90s.
openBlue eyes? Film
There's a film I saw a trailer for a long time ago, and I'm trying to figure out what it was. Here's what I remember:
-I originally saw the trailer in early 2012 (at least some time before Paranorman came out, since I also remember seeing the trailer for that)
-There was a female voice narrating over it.
-The trailer itself consisted mostly of shots of a planet (pretty sure it was Earth) and people who only had one thing in common: the color of their eyes (they were blue, if I'm remembering correctly).
Does anyone recognize this?
Edited by Storygirl000openWhen the murderer may be friends or family... Film
Somebody is sent to investigate a murder. As he pursues it, he finds his relatives/friends may be involved, but he continues despite increasing personal risks. Isn't this the structure of several films?
openShaman Crawling Out A Woman's Back Film
My aunts were discussing a movie scene that scared them as kids, and it was apparently about a woman who had some form of growth on her back. They remember a Native American Shaman crawling out of the growth, and they remember it being painful. Does this sound like anything?
openOh, crap, I'm the antichrist Film
Circa 2000, a movie in which a guy becomes aware that he is - I don't know if he's the antichrist, or just a demon, or what, but it's bad news with Religious Horror themes - possibly on his thirty-third birthday. At one point he is looking at a crucifix, the corpus of which jump scares the viewer by detaching from the cross. At the end, the deadline to transform into the whatever seems to come and go without effect, but then he goes Satanic after all and the babe has to save the world by shooting him.
openInsect horror Film
I just remember that the bugs flew into peoples mouths or ears and took control of peoples bodies and actions. Also the house was surrounded and it came down to one girl left and she blows up the house and escapes. She eventually finds a priest who is revealed to be infected with these bugs and he lunges at her and it ends.
openLine from TV show or movie: Do you remember what we do when we say goodbye? Film
Late last night a couple of lines of dialogue from an old TV show or movie popped into my mind from the far recesses of my brain. I cannot remember where the scene comes from, and it is driving me crazy. It seems to me that this was from the end of an episode or movie and that it may have been set in the past (16th-18th century). This would have been something I saw on TV in the US sometime between 1998 and 2010.
Woman: Goodbye. Man (flirtatiously): Do you remember what we *do* when we say goodbye? Woman (softly): I think I do. They kiss.
openRomance movie made in the new 10's Film
I saw this live-action film years ago, about a straight couple. The one thing I remember from the movie is that the main leads loved a series of paintings that belonged to a man's private collection, bu when the man died they could only get hold of one. However, the man's will stipulated in a clause that whoever adquired that specific painting would automatically own all of his collections. I remeber online critics laughing at how cheap that development was. I think it might have taken place in the southern United States.
Edited by NazoopenMovie about girl who runs away with white cat? Film
I saw this movie when I was younger and it was about a young girl who has a white cat and runs away from home to escape her mean mother who likes her sister more and the mean soap maker man who wants to marry the mother and kill the cat. The girl runs away and there’s a scene where she gets to a house with a bunch of salve/maid girls and the man finds the cat and brings it to the front door and asks if the girl is there and if the cat belongs to them and when they say no he says he’ll kill it? Or he threatens to kill it so they say yes. There’s also treasure or something in the house? There’s a basement stairway leading into a dark room and it has a stag horn symbol or stag horns hanging on the wall. There may be other people trying to find the treasure too? But there are secret passageways and the girl and her new kid friend use them to go to the creek and find a crayfish. I think the little girl also knows how to hunt with a homemade crossbow and her dad died one day when they went rabbit hunting and he got killed by a wolf. I think I remember the dad going “Once you can hit that rabbit target in the eye, you can go hunting with me.”
I also know this is a book series because I stumbled upon the first book and read it one day.
openAlternate realities and a man in search of a wife Film
I actually have no idea of the genre as I am pretty sure it was described to me a while ago (that or my brain made it up). Anyhow, there is a guy with a wife and children who finds that alternate reality versions of himself keep coming by to try and steal his life. After fending them of for a while, he joins a forum of himselves and realizes that he is not the original him in that universe. IN the end, the selves ask his wife to choose, and I think she chooses him, since she knows him best, but many of them don't give up and there is a chase and it gets hazy after that but I think they either all jump to another dimension or kill off the others.
Does anyone know the title of a movie I caught on cable a few years back, in which two women and a man encounter one another on a foggy road, and gradually realize they're not only from different times, but are actually long-lost relatives? Both women had died in childbirth, the one from the 50s leaving the one from the 80s orphaned, and the one from the 80s leaving her son to grow up into the embittered and lonely man from the New 10s. Then, after they figure this out, they have to save the life of another man: the soldier father of the 50s woman, who'd originally been killed in WWII leaving his pregnant wife a widow. By saving him, they alter the course of their own lives and undo four generations of tragedy.
Edited by Sharlee