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openTrain Scene in Movie Film
A man gets his foot caught in the railroad as a train comes toward him. A girl shouts "Buddy! Buddy!"
openplease help!!! Film
It was a movie and i remember two girls maybe more were held hostage in either a van or small rv. So one woman reached out the window and signaled the truck behind them that she was in danger. The truck then got in front of the hostage vehicle and slowed down causing them to also slow down. This allowed that woman to jump out with minor injuries. The truck driver assumed that she was the only one in danger and returned to normal speed. Another woman ignored this and still jumped out, leading to her death. The 1st woman ended up leaving the body and a trail was left in the mud.( It had been raining). This story covers the news as they look for the woman who left the body.
openadult swim cartoon show Film
i want to say this was 7-10 years ago it was a cartoon that was for adults a show and it was a scene on a train a man and woman had s*x is the bathroom and the woman left a fort print on the mirror or glass . people found out and tried to find the woman that left the foot print seeing which persons foot fit
openThe Lost World and Return to the Lost World Film
I'm looking for an adaptation of The Lost World and a sequel to it. They were direct-to-video/tv, and had one of the characters played by John Rhys-Davies.
openMovie with beach scene and mayoral race Film
I only remember small pieces of this movie. And it might even be two separate movies for all I know. It’s a live action movie, taking place in the US I believe. The first scene I recall is the protagonist losing the engagement ring he plans on giving his girlfriend while in the small town the movie takes place in for business. Almost the entire town volunteers to help him. They go to the beach and comb the sand until one of them finds it. The other scene I recall is the protagonist announcing he is going to run for mayor to stop the rich man (possibly his own boss?) from taking over the town or maybe kicking the townsfolk out to build something in its place. The protagonist may also have ditched his girlfriend for a local girl as well. This I am less sure on. Any help would be appreciated.
openMovie about a woman whose family is brainwashed by an eldritch abomination and lures men to her home Film
I remember a film about a woman whose family is possessed/brainwashed by an eldritch abomination/demon they worship. They lure people to the home and lobotomize men as vegetables and lock them in a room.
At the end a man is lobotomized and locked in a room by the woman as a Fate Worse than Death either for rejecting her advances or rejecting the cult
openNightclub scene with telephones Film
OK, I am old, and asking a question about a movie even older than I am! Black and white, a scene in a nightclub where each table had a telephone on it and you could reach out to others by asking the operator to connect you to Table 7 or Table 23. Can anyone help? THANK YOU!
openVampire movie where a guy gets his face bitten off Film
I can really only remember the climax of the movie:
A group of people (maybe scientists trying to study vampires) awakens a vampire, who proceeds to kill most of them before they can take him down. One guy basically dares the vampire to bite him and make him immortal. The vampire responds by biting the guy's face off, which turns his whole face into a sort of fanged, vertical mouth.
If I had to guess, I'd say that the movie came out around 2010ish, and was set in the modern day.
I already checked all the relevant tropes I could think off (Monster Mouth, Tear Off Your Face, Our Vampires Are Different, stuff like that) and couldn't find anything.
Thanks in advance.
openNo Title Film
On here at the bequest of a friend. He remembers flipping through the channels at home as a kid, placing this sometime in the early-to-mid 1990s, and seeing the following strange film clip: It began with the image of a live-action person vomiting. (It could have been a guy or a girl, he remembers nothing else about the person.) Then, as the person continued to vomit, the camera zoomed out to show the doorway of the room they were vomiting. The camera was outside, you could see the person vomiting through the door. On the side of one wall by the doorway, on the outside, you could then see a HUGE insect. He said it took up most of the wall and resembled a giant ladybug or beetle. Does anyone have any idea what this could be? Thanks
This could also be a Live Action TV episode, but from the sound of it, I think it might have been a movie on cable. Wish I could describe this better, but it's not my memory :(
openA neighbor knocking at the door, complaining about loud music Film
I need to find the title of the movie sampled at the end of this song. Sounds like a Blaxploitation film
https://youtu.be/841DCy9Xz_8?feature=shared&t=242
"- Yeah, it's Cecil, your neigbor from downstairs. - Yeah? - Every night I hear this loud music, ya playin' this music, over and over and over again, I can't sleep! - Boy, I'm gonna tell you: screw you, buddy!"
Edited by FarwyndopenLate 90s/Early 2000s stranger danger PSA Film
Watched this several times as a kid in elementary and middle school (late 2000s, USA). It was live-action, and judging by the aesthetics/fashions, as well as the technology shown (internet chatrooms), it was likely made in the late 1990s or early 2000s. Definitely was on a VHS.
I remember it being a series of vignettes. I don't know if they were all one video, or a compilation of multiple, but here are the ones I remember:
- A middle-school aged boy messaging someone in an online chatroom about trading baseball cards, and the trader offers to meet in person. The boy leaves for the meeting, and when his mom asks where he's going, he says "nowhere, mom." He goes to a park, and the guy offering the trade is waiting in a windowless white van. He opens the door and the kid climbs inside.
- A little girl on a playground is approached by an old man with a missing dog poster. He says his dog Sammy ran off into the nearby woods, and he wants the girl's help because Sammy "loves the sound of children's voices." It ends with the man leading the girl into the woods while she's calling out for Sammy.
- Two middle/high school aged girls are approached by a man in a mall parking lot, claiming he's a talent scout who wants to have them audition for a new reality/competition show. He leads them to a van where he says there's a film crew ready to record. He opens the back, there's a cameraman and a boom mic operator in there, the girls get in, and he shuts the door behind them.
- Some boys and their dads are gathered around a campfire. One of them, uncle Johnny, talks about how much he loves spending time with his "favorite nephew" and tousles his hair. That night, the kid's asleep in his tent, and awakens to the sound of someone unzipping the door. "Uncle Johnny, what are you doing here?" Then it cuts to uncle Johnny holding up a finger to his mouth and going "Shhhhhh..."
It's not Saying No! To Strangers
, it's not the TV series Missing, it's not McGruff the Crime Dog, it's not J.J. Bittenbinder, and it's not Never Be a Victim
. It may or may not be Feeling Safe, Staying Safe
, but I can't find any footage to confirm.
resolved Movie Where Man gets sent to life in prison for attacking his Wife's murderer Film
I saw this video on Facebook of a movie where a man gets life in prison for attacking the man that killed his wife, Grey.
All I know is that the guy who killed the wife is named Kovic...I don't know the title though.
openhorror movie starting with a honeymoon and a piano falls on a lady Film
my coworker is trying to remember a horror movie that begins with a couple on a honeymoon trip. the husband is worried that he left the stove on at home, but his wife reassures him that everything's alright. then a piano falls on the wife. is this familiar to anyone?
Edited by Professional_NoobopenOdd memory of an movie ad on the radio. Film
This is probably gonna be a hard one but when I was a little kid (this would be about late 80s/early 90s) I was in the car with my dad and this scary ad for a movie came on. All I remember for sure is hearing some woman screaming something like "We have to escape"! At the time I asked my dad why she was screaming like that and he said something like "This bad guy showed up at her house and had some kind of monster with him". Seeing as I was a little kid he might have been lying to me for some reason (e.g. maybe the bad guy was really a Serial Rapist or something and he didn't want to tell me about that sort of thing), but whatever it is, I'm still curious. I know this is really vague, but maybe someone can figure it out.
openLollipop knife Film
The main character is pursued by 4 assassins. One of them is introduced as often dressing as a teenager to lure her target. There is a scene where she is on the bed of a man and use her lollipop to stab him. Another scene has the main character trying to steal data from a computer when a security guard or policewoman finds him. To distracter her, he have intercourse with her near the data center.
openChristopher Film
I recall the name being Christopher, but I looked it up and nothing came up. It’s an animated movie about a kangaroo that gets kidnapped by an eagle, dropped into a supermarket, gets raised by two mammals of some kind, and then has a bittersweet ending where he reunites with his family when he’s an adult.
openSomething about an age-changing carousel Film
I really only remember the end parts, because I don't think I caught the whole thing. I do remember distinctly that there's a magical carousel or roundabout or what-have-you that causes people to get younger or older when they ride on it.
I think the main group of protagonists were looking for some people, and when they found them they had turned back into kids. One of the protagonist kids (I can't remember if they were all kids or a mixture, but there was a kid) got on, went around, came back off as an adult, and was enthralled by the fact he had stubble now. Then there was a maybe-side character who got on and turned into a kid, I think in the post-credits he got put through the foster system or something? He continued to smoke and/or drink as a kid, it shocked them.
If it helps, the first kid I mentioned was white, and the second guy I think was black.
It's been in my memory for a long while, and I've tried several times to figure it out before. Maybe this will work
Edited by TrueEnderopenAn animated movie regarding a kid with a marble [SOLVED] Film
I recall the movie taking place in a house/orphanage with multiple bunk beds, All the kids were wearing green shirts, I recall a scene where the protagonist was playing catch with several other kids and the ball rolled into the basement, the protagonist kept a marble that was cyan or white, I recall this one who was ginger or had brown hair stole his marble. The protagonist noticed someone took his marble and yelled who took it. It was 2D and I never finished it
Edited by Zvlphvr

A movie that begins in feudal Scotland. To defend his people, the main character joins a league of immortals. He wins the conflict, but lives to the modern day while everyone he knew dies. An immortal can only be killed by another immortal, and one of the other immortals has been busy killing the rest of their league in the interim. MC teams up with a woman from the modern day to beat him.
For the longest time I thought this was the plot of Braveheart...it's not though. Does this movie exist???