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openWoman sorting through children's books and cartoon. Film
I have very little information to offer. It was a VHS tape which featured a cluttered room full of books sort of suspended in space, live action, with a presenter woman, youngish and dark haired, searching through various books for stories she was going to "tell" to the viewer. She found two books and it then went to animation or showing the illustrations for the stories. I have no memory of what the stories were except that I keep thinking of the Magic Finger by Roald Dahl. It is possible that one of them featured a similar character to the fat, mustached Mr. Greg from MF as that is the only image i can think of.
The second is a cartoon that was posted about before in which a boy's older sister invites her friends, "a bunch of crazy girls" over and he asks his dad to help him "block the invasion". there was also the line, "he'll be my Romeo and I'll be his Juliet", spoken by the sister about her crush. Curious to know what happened in the end although I don't remember the name of the show - it wasn't Dexter's Lab or Phineas.
Edited by HarmoniousManatineopenI Can Only Remember One Scene Film
It's from a movie I watched recently (I'm not sure if I watched it in theaters or on DVD/Netflix, though I feel like it was probably released within the last decade). The scene I can remember is an action scene. The main character (or possibly the co-main character) is under attack from a bunch of henchmen, and this somehow spills over onto an outdoor film set, where they are (coincidentally) filming an action scene. I seem to remember this being set sometime in the first half of the 20th century because the stunts they were filming were incredibly basic (like the action scene was a novel concept at the time), but then the actual fight happens (destroying parts of the set in the process), and the director is wowed by how amazingly realistic the fighting is.
openGOLDEN/BLOND hair girl and bald man trying to steal her hair / OLD CARTOON .- NAME? Film
I'm looking for cartoon/name, it's and older cartoon..probably 70-80-90's..it was about a little girl with short golden hair, that I think lived in the some sort of magical forest with her mushroom friends protecting her against bald man who was always trying to steal her hair so he could wear it, he always pictured him self in the mirror with her hair but always failed to steal it from her. anyone know the name of that cartoon plz???
openA Nickelodeon Film About Halloween Film
Do you remember this movie? I remember it aired on my country's Nickelodeon and was about Halloween.
openWHAT MOVIE IS THIS? Film
im pretty certain it played on disney channel, approximately sometime between 2004-2010. the movie followed a young teenage boy (probably 14-15) who lived in a small, unexciting town whee nothing happened. but in this town there was a TV show all the children enjoyed, including this boys younger sister. the show was about a puppet of sorts- i think it was a frog but i could be confusing it with vague Kermit memories- one day this puppet goes missing and the beloved puppeteer is devastated. the young boy decides to help his sister out and solve the mystery of the missing puppet. eventually they find out the puppeteer was behind it because he decided he wanted to leave the life he had behind or something along those lines. the puppet gets shoved in a box and thrown off the bridge. that's all i can remember but i assume it has a happy ending. please help me, everyone thinks i dreamt this and i know i didnt
openMovie / serie Film
All I can remember is the first episode. It starts of with a guy robbing a casino, he had been working their for a month to get acces to everything. He changes the playing cards so he can see which cards who has. Using this he wins a poker game, winning a lot of money. However, someone altered his vision, which made him think he would win. Im pretty sure it's kinda a magic movie/serie
openChinese-American (?) Short Film Film
What's the name of this short? It's about a girl whose mother and sister moved from China to California. She doesn't fit in well and is always fighting with her sister The short ends with her and her sister getting their hair cut due to lice.
openCant stop figuring it out Film
2 of them, both remember just a few seconds of them but they are bugging me
1st All I remember is a windy wall inside a structure that gets triggered by the blood of a special person on opposite sides of the earth kind of recent
2nd wounded wife flying a helicopter and firing a missile at a falling car blowing it up before it hits the ground mid 80's I believe
open90s-2000s Comedy Movie with headless guy. Film
I remember watching the movie multiple times when I was young, it seemed like a dark comedy and I remember a scene where the main character walks in his friend's house and his friend is a normal disembodied head, I think I remember something about the head being in the microwave or fridge. There was a bunch of other weird stuff going on.
Edited by krisfulksestopenPointing robot named Vonus? Film
This was a live action thing, the scene I remember is a goofy human-looking robot named something like "Vonus" (or something that rhymes with "Bonus") being followed around by two guys who ask: "can you tell us where [...] is?" "No, but I can point!"
Pretty sure this was a movie and not a TV show... probs from the 70s or 80s. Might have been a sequel. One of the main characters may have been a much less goofy human-looking robot young man treated like his creators sun.
openPointing robot named Vonus? Film
this was a live action thing... the scene I remember has a goofy human-looking robot named something like "vonus" (or something rhyming with "bonus") being followed around by two guys. They ask: "Can you tell us where xxx is?" "No, but I can point!"
Pretty sure it was a movie and not a tv show, probs from the 70s or 80s. *Possibly* the 90s.
Edited by BatteryPoweredAmpopenI have no clue Film
It's an old movie, the background was simple and black, and all the characters resembled stick people. There was no sound other than the music, and the n character was a blue stick boy that worked really hard trying to get up to the surface, from the society that lived deep underground. At the end, he escaped with a girl, and they saw the sunset for the first time at the end.
I know this is really obscure, but I would love to find this movie again.
openSpooky Movie Film
My Dad told me about part of a movie he saw the other day and he doesn't know what it's called. He said there were three people (two guys and a girl) at a bus stop at like four in the morning. Another man started harassing them, so they hid themselves in a building of some sort. After a while, one of the guys decided to go out of the building and try to escape, but was killed. A minute or two later, the guy and girl lost sight of the killer, and someone tried to get into their hideout. They kill this person, thinking it was the guy who killed their friend, but it turns out to be another random guy. My Dad said he watched this for about an hour before he turned it. Thanks in advance!
PS: Sorry the description isn't the best. I'm going off what my dad told me, and it is very possible he could be exaggerating or getting some details mixed up. I will gladly take a more detailed, more accurate account if you know what movie he saw.
Edited by NemoHerringopenSci-Fi Movie with Underwater Sphere and Movie Where Man Impersonates Translator Film
I have two movies I'd like to track down. I saw parts of both of them on TV a few years ago.
1. Two guys (I'm almost certain there were two) are in the desert and appear to be lost, and they watch from on top of a sand dune as some arms dealers meet with some clients down below. I believe both groups had camels. The two men get spotted and are told to come down, so they comply. They are asked if they are the translators, so to get out of trouble they say that they are. As I recall, they speak gibberish to one group and english to the other, and manage to get the two groups to fight. I seem to remember the men eventually ending up at some kind of concert or something later on, and that one of the men might have been a writer.
2. People are exploring deep under water, and they find a large structure (perhaps an ancient spaceship or submarine) and get inside. It appears to be the work of aliens. They find a large levitating sphere with a mirror-like surface inside, and at some point someone ends up inside the sphere. I think at least part of the time it was rippling. I also think that when they were inside the sphere it basically simulated their real life so they didn't figure it out right away.
openChinese or a Hong Kong movie (90s) Film
It is a movie about two criminals - a man and a woman - who intrude into an apartment of a police officer (probably the one who had been after them). The officer tried to defend himself and his family but he was disarmed and tied down, his wife was raped in front of him before his eyes were stabbed with the brass knuckles with spikes and, finally, they poured acid into his mouth. His little daughter was also murder while old gramophone was playing.
Later on, a different police officer was trying to catch them but I didn't see the end of the movie. His sidekick was a guy who wore glasses and played Mahjong.
Anyone knows the title of the movie?
Thanks!
openRomantic Drama Film
A good looking, nice seeming guy befriends the daughter of a rich family living in the suburbs, and seems to be a good boyfriend, but he is really casing the parent's house for a group of other criminals. He goes over for dinner at some point, and is spotted by the girl's younger brother doing drugs. Later, he and the girl go out, and when they return, he duct tapes the girl because their criminal conspiracy is robbing the family. The parents and brother are duct-taped, but eventually escape, along with the girl, and fight off the criminals.
What's the title?
openCollege girl seeing her dead friend? Film
I'm looking for a tv-show that I think was set in college (but I'm not sure), because the girl had her own room and I think I remember an old building or something. But now that I think about it, I don't remember seeing any classes. Anyway, I remember two girls and one of them was a bit heavy-set and had black hair, and she was a bith goth I think (but again, not sure). Oh, and I think she died at some point, but the other girl still saw her (but again, totally not sure). Sorry if I sound crazy, I just can't find anything on google, but I'm sure I saw this show at a point in my life.
Help !
Edited by ScandalousBusynessopenMovie about man and woman implied to be autistic meeting; European and at most 2 years old Film
Movie mostly taking place in an animal slaughterhouse; a man and a woman (the protagonists) meet and they both are socially awkward (implied to be autistic, maybe?) but they connect.
Relatively recent movie, released in 2016, 2017 or 2018. Movie was Icelandic iirc, or from a Northern- or Eastern-European country.
openOld Scifi film? Film
I'm trying to find an old scifi space marine film? I only remember the ending where the main character holds a little boy and watches space.
Live action Disney-type-esk movie. I only remember bits and parts of the trailer: A rollerblading angsty teenage boy zooms down the street with his little sister in hand who kind of looks like Mara Wilson (I dont think its mara Wilson) with the quote that I remember the most... Fake Mara Wilson: "You're gonna get in trouble!" Angsty teenage older brother: "I'm always in trouble".
The rest of the trailer is super vague, just him turning into a hero basically, complete with a master plan and falling down a chimney.
Pretty sure it is NOT "A Simple Wish"
What is this movie?