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resolved French crime comedy film Film
a (fairly recent, last ten years or so) French film about a group of people who get coerced into selling drugs? the opening scenes is of a woman (one of the main characters) living with her daughter on an island after the events of the film, and the first few minutes establish the characters of the main group
one of the scenes i remember is where a guy manages to slap three people at once because they try to give back cocaine that they bought from him
at another point in the film, one of the main characters sleeps with the daughter of a drug lord, although he doesn't know she's the daughter of a drug lord
Edited by NoNameLegionopenOld kids movie Film
It was a kid's movie. I only watched 1 or 2 scenes from the very beginning and this was in like ~2005 so I can be wrong about any details. Supposedly it was a kind of scary movie (scary for kids at least) It starts with a bunch of boys playing outside, I think they were playing soccer. Boys no older than 10yo. Then everyone stops because the gang of bullies arrives. One of the boys whispers about the main bully: he killed a dog and sewed it's ears onto his jacket. It's either an American or a European movie. That's all I have. Have been looking for this for over 7 years.
Edited by LisaPopenFamily with wild Animals Live Action TV
I remember that as a child between 2010-2014 I had seen on tv a scene of a family (a man with children) in a tent that was in their house, probably the living room and then some wild animals arrived, (not giants like elephants) one by one one they saw, a parrot, I assure you it is not Ace Ventura or Jumanji from the 90s, also the scene seems to have been done in late 2000-early 2010, please help me find the scene, or I tried to ask on reddit but it didn't work.
resolved Wild West Game Videogame
In the late 90s - early 00s, my family went to Wall Drug and there was a Light Gun arcade game there. It was Wild West themed. The Attract Mode had this big Fat Bastard type yelling, "They call me Nasty Ted!" and then it cut to a handsome guy who said, "I'm too good-looking for jail." I always wanted to play it or find a longplay of it but never found it again.
openCreepypasta chat room
It was a creepypasta about a girl home alone. She kept texting this guy, and it starts innocuously enough, but then she sees someone in her backyard. She continues to text him as the figure enters her house, and it's implied she dies in the end.
I thought it was called "Emily is Away" but when I searched it up, I kept getting the videogame of the same name.
openMovie about dreams Film
I remember about a movie that used to be one of my favorites, from what i remember it was about a girl and her father living together on a farol or sm, dont want to spoil much of the plot but on a part the girl founds some strange man that was on some dream prison that they if they stay they wont woke up, what i was always searching about is the name
resolved A video clip about not sleeping at night Music
Hello, i'm here because i've got a melody stuck in me head but i can't find out the title of the song. All i can remember is that it was about being a night owl and the singer in the videoclip was a white guy wearing Mc Hammer style gold parachute pants. I know its slim but i also know internet can do miracles, so thank you if my very lackluster description somehow ring a bell to you. Have a nice night
resolved Artists collaboration and competition to create story Webcomic
I once saw a website where a lot (> 20) artists did collaborate to create a story of a giant world where every artist created their own character.
Every week 2 artists had to draw the encounter of their 2 created characters and had to draw how this encounter concluded. Then the work of one of the two artists were selected to be canon.
On the website there was a giant map as a overview and you were able to view all the created versions of the webcomics.
openSun sets in the credits Live Action TV
When I was about four or five years old I caught the credits of some show in my grandmother's house. The only things I can remember were the background footage being a close-up of a sunset and the music being a children's choir singing something (not sure what though). The only other things I recall are the credits themselves being in plain white text and both the text and the music stop when the sun disappears below the horizon. It's stuck with me ever since and I still have no idea where it came from.
openAlmost-Eurovision singer Music
Can't remember how many contests ago or which country — there was an artist who was supposed to go to Eurovision but got replaced by the powers that be with someone more generic before the competition. I remember people sharing his music around to give him more visibility but that's it. He was a twink if that helps
openSitcom from the 90s to early 2000s
I remember a scene from a sitcom that must've aired sometime in the nineties or early two thousands. In the scene, the Dad tells his sons he has superpowers and used his super speed to see if they cleaned their rooms. When his older son is skeptical, he claims he's just jealous that his little brother has superpowers and he doesn't. The younger son asks what his superpower is and the Dad says he can shoot fire out of his tongue when he rolls it up. Naturally, the little boy tries breathing fire.
openTrying to find tv show I watches
It's about a teen I think he's from Australia or newzealand and he's working for these bad guys and I think he's trying to find hes missing dad or find out who killed him he becomes friends with some one from he's school who is a genius and they team up the first episode he's breaking into a house to steal a necklace he climbs the building with ease and he opens a safe and finds jewly and he rides a skateboard not sure if the dad is dead and he could probably be trying to find out what happend to him the guys hes working with could be responsible he also has a older sister who is trying to keep him out-of trouble he's hair is kinda long i think it's curly in one episode I think he finds he's dad car and it's not conspiracy 365 the teen isnt white
openMafia TV show, long episodes 10-20 years ago
Can you please find a show for me here is its plot 2 kids lost their mom, mafia killed her and want to kill these kids as well cuz they saw too much one random woman is running away at the start when she took the kids they ran away with a boat from one harbor with them to somewhere else this woman does not know much about them but knows their mom got killedshe is trying to save them by contacting police firstly but unfortunately, a high ranking police detective or smth like that is corrupted and trying to get these 2 kids only for the mafiaso she became wanted and marked as kidnapper of themcuz she cannot rely on the police, she trying to get to the paris for a help some ppl finds out she is that wanted one in the train while she was trying to escapeshe came to the one house where was her partner or smth like that and old man who owns that big house, but later mafia arrives there, trying to get info on where are these kids and that woman, then mafia kills both cuz they dont wanna cooperate anyways one of the kids saw that, and that corrupted cop saw him as well, and makes gestures so that kid can leavethat corrupted cop starting disliking his cooperation with that mafia and their actions, so he would like to change the sides, but ofc he cannot do that so quickly and simply, otherwise he might die kids were like 12-13 that woman was mature, brown hair ig, was not very skinny there was also one scene which happened after the train incident, where she tried to disguise herself one the girl was sick so she tried to get her help one doctor contacted them and invited them to his house he acted like does not know them but he knew that doctor just recognised them from the TV where it was showing her being WANTED but they escaped the episodes are long and it was released about 10-20 years ago
openDiamond Brothers book with a coded message Literature
I was going to see if one of the books in the Diamond Brothers series had an example of a coded message, but I forgot which one.
I remember one scene in which someone was given a letter that seemed innocuous, with "Ma" talking about how things are going. It began "Bad news, I'm afraid." and said something about the recipient's granddad being in hospital, if I recall correctly. However, it turned out that the first letter of every other word created a message when they were put together. Said message was something along the lines of "BIG ED TAKING OVER, COME HOME AT ONCE." I also remember that the titular brothers were in police custody, but I might be conflating it with my memory of another book since they frequently ended up there, at least once for wasting police time.
It's definitely not "I Know What You Did Last Wednesday" since the brothers never got arrested in that book.
Edited by Riolugirlresolved Pollution Pirates Videogame
There was an Edutainment Game I vaguely remember playing at school in the late 90s (97-98?). I think there were like four missions but the only one I remember playing was called Pollution Pirates.
It had like a live-action video of these two guys on a boat one was older and the other was tall and skinny. They were dumping stuff in the water.
I don’t remember the gameplay but I remember at the end when you won they showed the two guys getting locked in a jail cell.
openHelping my mom find a book about a billionaire Literature
A recent book (the kind you’d find in Facebook communities) that my mom is looking for the name of.
The basic plot is that a billionaire goes into hiding, but silences his wife by giving her $500 million, telling her to never tell anyone about him. The billionaire vanishes, but unbeknownst to him, the woman was pregnant. Now with a son, the billionaire returns for them.
openSpace adventure with a group of 4 Videogame
I remember seeing this in around the early 2010s, but I recall seeing some sort of space adventure game that has a group of 4 people. One of them could even get a randomized superpower. I think the last section of the game involved a parkour section
openTeenager's Lies Coming True Film
American, mid-2000s. A crass comedy about a teenager boy who gains the power to make his lies come true. His life falls apart because of the unforeseen consequence of said lies.
One lie was that his mum and dad were a rock star and a fashion designer, which leads to them filing for divorce.
Any help is great. Thanks.
resolved Card game Anime Anime
On Cheez TV or Toasted TV there was an Anime series that based around a card game sorta like Yu-Gi-Oh!
Elements I remember include
- Believe there four main characters
- The male hot headed boy protagonist
- Shorter glasses wearing boy who was The Smart Guy
- A girl who was friends with them
- A slightly ditzy girl who was new to the area and was mostly used to ask questions about the game so it could be explained to her and thereby to the audience
- Before each game the players would hold out their decks in front of them and shuffle them
- One game has the protagonist playing the game outside in near a waterway and some storm clouds start rolling in. The opponent points to the sky and makes a speech about how the storm is harbinger of his victory. The opponent gets exactly the cards he needs for his tactics and while the others are wondering how the ditzy girl points out that he swapped his shuffled deck for an unshuffled one while they look up at the storm clouds in the sky.
- The characters going through rooms beating top players until the come to a girl's room and while they are looking for the occupant, a phone starts to ring and the ditzy girl answers. It turns out it's the ditzy girl's room and she is the player, pretending not to know about the game for some reason I forget and have a game.
I saw a clip from this TV show (or was it a movie?) where a Nazi who ran a death camp managed to evade all consequences and is now an old man and somehow gets sent back in time to his own death camp as a prisoner and tries to beg for his life with the commander, tell him "I'm you from the future" or something like that. I'm 99% sure it's not a Twilight Zone episode either. I'm trying to remember what it was.