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openBack in time to China to find immortality Film
I have vague memories of a movie involving your average American dude going to a Chinese shop or something. He touches something magical, gets transported to ancient China. Then they are trying to find something to do with immortality... sounds familiar to anyone?
openLooking for a film Film
A lady in a red dress in a pitch black room that disappears in one scene. A man and a woman on an alien ship going through different rooms.The man is lockpicking a door and a woman is next to him in another scene.
openEarly 2000's Horror Movie Film
I saw this film around 2005 or so. It was part of a horror movie series, and there was a lot gore and swearing. There were 8 people in a house, including this kid, and his dad wanted to find him before the house killed him.
openGlass bathroom short film Film
This was a short film circa 80s-90s that I think I saw as filler on HBO. In it, there's a dinner party somewhere in France, and this pretentious American lady goes on and on about how she loves it in France because everyone's so progressive, not like those backward, Puritanical Americans, etc. etc.
Then she excuses herself to use the bathroom, which is just a toilet with a big, transparent glass door. The rest of the short is just her trying to devise a way of using the bathroom without anyone seeing her, trying and failing to cover the glass. Meanwhile the dinner party goes on, and nobody pays any attention to what is going on right behind them.
Anyone else know this one?
opensilent film style Film
it's from the late 90's early 2000's and has a silent film style but i think with some slight color use. they are underground and there's this king and his daughter or princess and then there's the hero maybe some other women. anyhow they actually used the style of old films with this giant demon with props painted to be the different body parts moving about. i don't remember if they keep up the silence through the whole thing or not. very b styled film.
openEDUCATIONAL SHOWS I WATCHED AS A KID Film
I cannot remember the name of these two series and my friends believe I have lost it. The first one stars a person in a pink bunny costume and her brother, a blue bunny. The only episode I remember is the one where they learn the difference between whales, orcas, and dolphins. The other show is an animal education show where a green gekko/lizzard is taught by the narrator about nature. One episode, the lizzard thing gets mad at a sea turtle for "stealing air."
Please prove to me my childhood actually existed.
openSister's werewolf movie Film
My sister joined me to watch An American Werewolf in London, and for some reason, it reminded her of another movie. I don't remember it, but she does, and I want to figure it out for her. She mentions a few details: -The main character was a football-playing jock who became a werewolf. -The werewolf had a penchant for biting women on the butt. -He had a stalker, a woman with a crush.
Any help?
openLampshading Endless Ammo in Westerns Film
Ok, does anybody know the movie that a conversation after a shootout that goes something like this? :
Sidekick/bystander: "Nice work, you just killed 9 men with a 6-shooter" Hero: "I know, and I've still got 2 bullets left"
openLooking for the name of a movie (possibly about assassins/hitmen) Film
Hi I'm thinking of a movie that has a scene where it shows a character (who is a hitman/assassin) talking on the phone to someone, and in the background is his target standing on a chair with a noose around his neck. Partway through (or just after) the phone conversation, the hitman kicks the chair out from underneath his target leaving him to dangle and die by hanging, making it look like a suicide.
If you can think of what this is thanks! It's on the tip of my tongue!
openTv show about woman lawyer. PLEASE HELP :) Film
Tv show about women lawyer retiring to Italy. She then sees her goddaughter pass the bar exam and start her new job. It turns out her father was charged with a posny scheme. And now that woman that’s retiring is broke. She needs money. She tried to get her job back but they wouldn’t let her. So she hounded another firm. That’s all I know. I’m trying to help my dad remember a new tv show he saw and wanted to watch with me. If anyone knows anything all feedback is appreciated. Thanks :)
openHallmark Movie from 201- Film
I saw this around 2010 on Hallmark, it was an original movie (I think), colorized. It was about a woman who dated this man in this small town who took care of horses. She had two children, if I remember correctly, a son and a daughter. In one scene, the boy (I think it was the boy) saw the man in a room looking back at him with a slightly sinister smile. He saw the devil's tail appearing from the back of the man. I think the end had the woman finding out who the man actually was and he was jeered out of town. It has been a while since I last saw it, so I am probably not getting all the details right, but this is all I can remember, please help, thanks.
openChinese film about a barefoot doctor in the Chinese countryside Film
It was around 2012 when I seen this film. The film was from China, and it had a premise of this girl that worked in the countryside during the 60s or 70s. The girl become wheelchair bound, and that the plot was told through flashback.
openOld short film about time as a currency Film
You know the movie "In Time", with Justin Timberlake? When I first saw the trailer my first thought was "sweet, they're doing a remake". I distinctly remember watching (on Eurochannel, so it's probably European) a short movie (half-hour-ish) with pretty much the exact same premise - time is a currency, the wealthiest people have centuries of years' worth (and regularly do live for centuries), people whose time ran out are shown dying suddenly, and so on. The main differences (other than it being old, i.e. 90s at most, possibly earlier) is that people have a card with their time account (rather than it being on the forearm), and it shows the ceremony all newborns go through where they get 30 years to start with. There's also a sad scene with a young woman at a bar where she keeps swiping her card to hear her balance, which is ticking ever closer to zero.
I can't find any information about it ANYWHERE (starting with In Time's IMDB page of course), and nobody else seems to have heard about it. Anyone know what I'm talking about and can verify I'm not *completely* crazy? :-P
openCreepy Child horror film Film
Hi there. This time around I'm trying to find the name of a live action horror film. In it a nanny is tasked with caring for a boy named Eric Keys. We don't see much of the child and everytime the nanny approaches his door there is a noticeable growling sound. Though when he talks, he sounds like a normal little boy. At one point in the movie, the Nanny tries to bring him some lunch only to hear the same growling noises. She slips the tray through the door only for it to come sliding back very quickly almost as if it were thrown at her. The little boy screams "I don't like tunafish!" At another point, she reads a poem written by the little boy. The last line is "Ended up dead" it's complete with a drawing of the nanny and Eric hanging by their necks. Needless to say, she didn't take that well. Google turned up nothing but I distinctly remember scenes from this film or show or whatever it was. If anyone can help, I'd appreciate it.
openDisney Channel Original Movies Film
Is there any other DCOM about a kid whose uncle is younger than them? I could only find Johnny Kapahala: Back on Board but I thought there was an earlier film like that too from 2002-2005.
openChinese film set in ancient China Film
I watched half of it on Netflix several years ago. I remember reading on Wikipedia that it's an adaptation of a play, or something to that effect.
I think it was about a baby being the Sole Survivor of a royal family and being raised to kill his parents murderer. All I clearly remember was this scene where a guy kills a newborn by throwing him on the floor.
I'm not sure how old the movie is, it was probably made in the early 2000's. I only saw like 2 minutes of it when I was young. What I saw was these kids (age 8-12) maybe fighting. Like an actual brawl. At one point blood actually splattered onto the screen. It wasn't in color but it wasn't in the old black and and white either, most likely a screen filter to make the scene have a different vibe to it. That's all I remember. Any help is greatly appreciated.