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openKorean Movie- Good Girl + Bad Girl Film
This was a movie on You Tube back in 2010-2011 when they weren't as on top of pirated material.
I remember watching a lot of Korean movies around the same time (like Jenny and Juno) but I'm not 100% sure this was Korean.
There were two girls at the same school, one was a goody-two shoes stereotype, with straight hair, she was a really good student, and a "bad girl" who slacked off and maybe rode a motorcycle/moped and had this layered wavy hair and bangs.
I think the smart girl was in charge of tutoring the rebel girl, or they had a pact to get one girl's grades up while making the nerdy girl cool or something.
They used to hang out at the same place, a cafe maybe, red background. I think they originally met up there to study.
In the end they both had the same hair cut like the rebel girl, and maybe both sped off on the motorcycle.
I wish I had more to go off of but this was 10+ years ago when I was really young.
-cantremember
Edited by cantrememberopenRoad movie / action thriller (probably 1990s)? Film
I'm looking for an American road movie / action film / thriller, probably from (the second half of) the 1990s. My memory is very fuzzy and unreliable, but I dimly remember the following:
- a family travels by (a red?) car and is harassed by a (biker / rocker?) gang on a desert highway
- some family members (mother and/or daughter?) are kidnapped or tricked to come with the gang
- father sets out to rescue them(?)
- mother has short, dark brown hair
- "realistic" thriller (no comedy / horror / scifi / fantasy)
- set in USA
- climax: shooting in a biker bar(?)
- some similarties to "Breakdown" / "Kalifornia", but none of the two; probably lower budget, no famous actors (at least I don't remember any), possibly a tv movie.
Thanks a lot for any hint!
Edited by clueless66openSome movie from a long time ago. Film
I dont really know the details, all I remember is that the main character was a boy, it was animated, it took place in medieval times, and there was a scene where a man was trapped under a giant church bell.
resolved Recent horror film Film
I think it was released in 2020 or thereabouts. The film itself has some young adults play some sort of trendy mystery game that is also the title of the film, but then the lights go off for a bit and someone winds up dead, and they all start killing each other. The big twist is that the victim, whose name I think is David, actually killed himself while trying to do something stupid with a sword for his Instagram, and they were killing each other for nothing. The main character's name may be Bea, and I think she has some issues with the rest of the cast because they're richer than she is.
openDetective is investigating a crime scene in the rain, finds dead woman in barrel Film
Film is definitely American. Not a foreign film. All characters speak American English. The scene has a gritty bluish sort of color grading from what I remember. It's raining and very overcast.
The detective mentions that the killer purposefully dumped the body right before/during the rain so the evidence would wash away. He may have mentioned something about a storm/flood coming in and the killer planned around that weather event. I'm not very certain about that part though.
As I recall the police were called out because a worker in an excavator/crane/bulldozer was working at the landfill/garbage dump, and he was moving trash or barrels/scooping things up when the barrel came open, revealing the woman's body inside. I think the excavator vehicle is still there near the body's location while the scene happens. The woman's body (as I recall) is stuffed pretty tight inside. She may have been a prostitute but I can't recall that very well.
Detective yells at police:
For standing around instead of hurrying up with collecting evidence before it washes away.
AND/OR:
For walking all over the crime scene (I vaguely recall he verbally reprimands them in regards to them either getting their shoe prints all over the place OR because they're basically dirtying up the crime scene that's already a mess due to the rain)
Detective is white male, in his 30's-40's, maybe early 50's at most.
detective has to make his way carefully down the hillside because it's very steep and muddy. I recall him wearing regular shoes/dress shoes that got all muddy. While he gets down the hill he definitely at some point slips/falls/slides down in the mud.
The crime scene is POSSIBLY a garbage dump area and not landfill (maybe that's semantics but it could help.)
She was possibly stuffed inside some other object like a fridge but I'm almost positive it was an oil barrel
I think the detective is wearing a darker colored suit, and has no hat or any rain gear. He's ill-prepared for the rain and the muddy terrain. Don't quote me on this part though.
The police are wearing rain gear and I believe at least one of the cops has that waterproof coverings for his police cap/hat
openGuy willingly undergoes clinical death to hunt down ghostly homicidal maniac. Film
There was this black comedy slasher movie where a homicidal maniac's ghost kept murder people after his death. The protagonist in order to stop him willingly enters a freezer to enter a state of clinical death / out-of-body experience, in which state he can actually combat the maniac. The film ends with both the protag and the maniac, including the maniac's equally ax-crazy girlfriend and the protag's dead best friend in a cloudy tunnel to heaven, which then turns into a gruesome fleshy thing which takes the bad guys to Hell.
resolved 2000s comedy film Film
a comedy film about four guys helping a young boy who's getting bullied?
all I really remember is that the climax is a big fantasy/medieval re-enactment/fight thing where the four guys dress up as the band Kiss and fight the main antagonist
resolved Movie about stroke victim Film
I remember as a kid seeing a movie about a stroke victim. There's an early scene where a young guy in his 20s is at a gym and suddenly can't pick up a dumbbell. He stumbles around a bit before collapsing. Someone calls 911 and as the guy is wheeled away on a gurney he starts vomiting. Later in the movie after he's recovered, he's in a college class but his brain is still a bit screwy so he can't focus, so he packs up his stuff and leaves.
openAsian movie about a runner Film
I'm trying to remember the name of an asian movie i saw more than 10 years ago, the plot was about a girl (in high school i think) who did athletics (she ran 100 meters i think). Surely there could be many movies but i don't remember more.
openSuccessful but lonely romance writer? Film
I saw a clip of a movie once, and based on the clip itself, I would say that this was a late 90s/early 2000s cable TV movie - definitely not Lifetime or Hallmark or anything, because it was way too racy for that, so probably Showtime or Cinemax or something.
Anyway, the scene in question involved a woman who appeard to be a really successful author who was on a book signing tour, when she's approached by a very handsome man wanting to get her to sign his copy of her book. He asks her if she would consider having dinner with him that night, and she appears to hesitate even for a split second, he adds something to the effect or, "Please don't think about it, sometimes a spontaneous answer is the best," or something like that. She then takes him with her into the back of the book store where they proceed to get it on, but then it turns out it was all some fantasy she was daydreaming about while signing books.
resolved Fever dream soviet-russian(?) movie Film
I remember watching it a couple times; it's, as far as I know, only in Russian, so I don't know if anyone here has even heard of it but it's worth a shot. It had some guitarist guy get transported (I don't remember how) onto some barren desert planet. He finds (two?) other guys who have some kind of flying machine that is essentially a porta-potty-sized giant tin can with helicopter blades on top. All sorts of weird stuff happens along the way, including our main guy getting abandoned and taken back by the other two, some underground industrial complex being found, and other weird fever-dream-esque shenanagins.
The main guy later comes back home (just normal real life) and I think at the end finds one of the guys from said deserted planet? I'm not sure on that detail as I could be remembering it from another movie. One of the (many) main details that makes the movie unique that I remember is that on the planet it was customary to do some weird 'crouch, slap your knees(?), and make a sound' move as a greeting or something? Again, the whole movie feels like a fever dream. Also, the movies was made around when the Soviet Union collapsed, either a bit before or after, can't remember.
I'll honestly be surprised if anyone else knows what I'm talking about, but hey, ya never know.
resolved Netflix movie with horses? Film
There was this movie on Netflix (don't know if it's there anymore) about a girl who moved to the country and getting adjusted to it. There was a horse farm nearby and she bonded with one in particular. There was also a guy she became friends with, and there was a bit of Will They or Won't They? but they ended up not getting together.
resolved A black and white vampire/werewolf movie Film
I saw most of this movie on television a long time ago. The plot goes something like this. A vampire who had been imprisoned for years escapes and confronts a reformed werewolf who used to be his loyal servant. The werewolf is terrified at first and refuses to work for the vampire anymore, but the vampire uses his hypnotic powers to revert the werewolf back to his previous personality. The vampire takes on the identity of a famous professor and starts killing and blood draining people while also hunting a young woman he wants to turn into his bride. He is opposed by an older woman who previously defeated him and helped the werewolf reform. The vampire's crimes are also investigated by a police detective who refuses to believe in vampires even as the evidence piles up. He still doesn't believe in anything supernatural even after his two lackies witness the werewolf turn into a wolfman up close while unsuccessfully trying to arrest him. The older woman is unsuccessful in preventing the vampire from kidnapping the young woman. When the vampire is about to turn the young woman into a vampire, the werewolf looks at as his cross necklace and remembers the older woman's words which remind of why he turned good. He turns back into a human and kills the vampire by using a rock to pound a large nail into his chest, but then also dies afterwards for some reason while vampire's body rapidly turns into a rotten corpse. The older woman and the investigator find the bodies of the vampire and werewolf. The investigator is still skeptical and in the final line of the film he breaks the fourth wall by asking the audience if they believe in vampires. I think the movie was partially a parody because it lampshaded a lot of vampire tropes.
opencartoon robot show? Film
I don’t remember much about this show but i remember it came out in 2000s and it was either 2d robots or monster characters i specifically remember then having circles for hands and feet or at least one of them did and i remember they performed the song monster mash, i’ve looked everywhere and i can’t find it
resolved Opera singer joins army in WWII Film
I remember seeing the start of this film on TV sometime in the 1980s, but it was much older than that. At a guess, I'd say 1950s or early 1960s.
I can only clearly remember two parts. The first is the opening narration in which the narrator says that all men between 21 and 45 were required to register for the draft, this having been decided by a congress full of men slightly older than this. The second is the protagonist, a famous opera singer who has been drafted, filling out his enlistment papers and handing them to the sergeant. The sergeant looks at the papers and tells him he had made a mistake, and that the question asked him for his weekly income, not his yearly income. The protagonist replies that that his is weekly income,and the sergeant does a double take.
openInternet Indie Film Film
This was an indie film that was available on the internet in the mid and late 2000s, though I don't quite remember what website it could watched on (it definitely wasn't YouTube because of the homosexual themes, which would have gone against their TOS).
The film focused on a pair of women who were ex lovers that went their separate ways and got with different people; one of the women is currently living with a new female lover, while the other is engaged to be married to a man.
The bride-to-be has a shower the night before, and her ex lover is invited (I think they played the age-old, "We're just friends" card to throw people off). At one point, the pair step outside to chat with each other, and they start to make out with each other, showing they haven't quite gotten over each other, BUT, while the non-bride is quit to try to put a stop to it, the bride-to-be seems to think what they're doing it totally okay, because it's not as if she's cheating on her fiancee with another man.
I think the "lesson" of the film was about commitment, and that both women had to realize they both had commitment issues, but for entirely different reasons/context.
openNo Title Film
It was a Live-Action movie, part of the time it was black and white. Three Asian characters were Avatars in a videogame, a hot 20 something women, a show-off 20 something male, and a sniper old man. They traveled through plains and later mountains. At the end, they fought a dragon, and the sniper old man got the finishing strike.
Anybody know what this is called?
openScary walking tree(s) in asian fantasy movie Film
Once I saw an asian fantasy movie with walking trees. Could have been of chinese origin, but I am not sure. The story was about some romance. I do not clearly remember, because I saw that movie on the tv about 15-20 years ago. But I clearly remember that forest with those weird, scary trees, pulling out their roots of the ground and beginning to walk around. Does anybody know of that movie with these scary walking trees?
Edited by BasiltheRatresolved Late 80s-Early 90s Drama Christian-themed film (Home video only?) Film
In middle school several years ago, one of the tapes one of my classes watched was a drama Christian-themed movie, which might be on video only. It's about two teenagers or young adults who are in love, but I don't remember the conflict, perhaps the young woman has poor faith in God or Jesus. I think there is a church scene with a prayer or other speech spoken. Then there's a scene where the two characters are in a car and one of them is driving recklessly in a curvy road or whatever. Maybe one of them tries to tell the other to stop that driving behavior. The car crashes and both of them die. The young man goes to heaven while the young woman goes to hell and maybe the devil can be heard as well as the sight of darkness and fire. The hell scene was pretty scary to me.
I don't remember where I saw this, but I think it was a 1990s or 2000s film, possibly 1980s. I must have seen this over ten years ago. It looked like a very low-budget B-movie. The costumes looked very cheap and the acting was terrible. The introduction showed a post-apocalypse kind of society where men hunted down virgin women. The women were stereotypically dressed in all white costumes. The men were hunting the virgins to use them for trading (for slavery or forced marriage). I remember a man chasing a woman (dressed in white) through a desert looking area with dirt and boulders. She was desperately trying to escape him. He caught up to her and wanted to rape her instead of capturing her, which would have ruined her value since she would no longer be a virgin.
I only remember watching a few minutes of the beginning and I thought it looked like a terrible film so I stopped watching. Since then I have grown a certain appreciation for low-budget B-movies so I'm interested to know what it is. It is possible that it was one of those "skin flicks" they used to show on Cinemax, Showtime, and HBO late at night in the 1990s and 2000s, but really I could have seen this anywhere.