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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.
openMovie About a Woman who gets abused by her father constantly Film
I was watching a video on Facebook about a woman named Lisa, who's constantly abused by her father and stepfamily...it was pretty bad. When her grandmother found out, she managed to get her out of the house and said house ends up catching ablaze after she escaped.
Does anybody know the name of the movie?
openHulu live action show (movie?) about a black woman marrying a chinese man Film
It was either a live action tv series or a movie on Hulu, all I can remember is that it was in England and had a Chinese man in a marriage with a black English woman, someone else was watching it so I completely missed what title it was, I don't even know whether it was a movie or a live action tv show though it was long enough.
openSome old VHS about farming. Film
I remember when I was younger I watched some old VHS about farming. It had a main character that could do magic and it had a music video in it set to the song "Down on the Farm" from this album. http://us.napster.com/artist/larry-siegel/album/real-songs-for-real-kids-vol-1/track/down-on-the-farm What was the name of that VHS tape?
resolved Generation female witches Film
The movie focused on a teen girl who was an environmentalist, she made clothes made out of recycled garbage and was bullied at school for it. She, her mom, and her grandma live together in a house in the woods. She finds out that they are witches but are hiding it from her. The magic is only passed down to females and there are three specific powers that can be active at the same time. I don't remember all of them but I'm pretty sure one of them is the power over nature. The grandma wanted to tell her but the mom was against it. Also I believe either the mom or the grandma was an artist.
Edited by chrisscrossresolved 80s movie with Santa having a broken foot Film
I havn't been able to locate this movie. I know is 80s or early 90s at most. It has an American family in what I think was Denmark finding that Santa Claus lives there (yes, not in the North Pole, he explains himself it was too cold) and how he wasn't going to be delivering gifts that they for having a broken foot. I remember he at one point changes dresses showing the different versions of Santa all over the world. Then it turns out he was faking the injure because he wanted to expend at least one Xmas nights in his house but is convince otherwise at the end of the movie.
openUnknown Film
It may have been film or tv. I never saw it myself, but I was told about it, and want to find it. It was about these soldiers fighting a war against sapient spiders, and who were actually being kept in a matrix-style simulation where they thought they were still fighting, or they thought they had won, but either way, they had lost.
resolved Alien tries to convey, I'm from space. Film
A movie where an alien who looks like a human doesn't speak the language, but tries to convey that he's from space, up to and including picking up a toy spaceship and wooshing it around. As far as I remember, the humans he's talking to still don't get it.
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