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openBurnt head Film
Movie set in a large American park, where towards the end the villain dies with his head burned by fire.
resolved A Dog Named Zeus, And... Film
I remember watching this movie on some cable network back in the '00s or '10s, not quite sure when. It had a dog (maybe a golden retriever, but I am not exactly sure the breed) named Zeus as the protagonist of the story, and it was very much a story grounded in reality besides the dogs being able to talk to one another. I do remember now that it must have been a made for TV movie, as it had that look of having a lower budget with shakier camera work and not even bothering animating the dogs' mouths to move to match their dialogue. Hopefully this is enough of a trail for tropers to go out on the hunt, thanks!
resolved Possessed doll and monster in closet Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgCxszTQ7RI
This is a promo for the TV channel, Scream.
Can anyone please identify the movies for me?
0:01 to 0:06 (father opens bedroom closet to find monster, we see ghost in wall)
0:12 (possessed doll tugging something)
Any help would truly be appreciated, thank you.
openFIlm between 2001-2004 about a teen getting into huffing? Film
I have a question about a film I watched somewhere between 2002 and 2004
The film opens with two teens huffing something straight out of a can or a bottle or something, like properly sucking it out of it.
Then they start smacking each other
Then an entire "this is how we got here" is the whole film
Then the film ends with that same scene, then what happens just after that. I remember one of them sticking a big shiny sticker on an obvious gash on their head.
They were both female, I think.
Thanks for your help and knowledge
resolved fantasy young adult movie Film
The main character is a young woman, probably in her early 20s. One day she suddenly awakened some kind of psychic powers, but she accidentally erased her parents' memories of her, so she ran away from home. She then met a bunch of runaways who has the same powers as her. This group usually divides the members by the strength of their psychic powers, and I think the strongest category is red. This girl's powers were categorized as red, and I remember the main villain is a guy who was also a fellow red.
resolved Comedy movie where man thinks he's in a play acted adventure, but it's real Film
A guy goes to visit a friend or relative in England, and gets invited to take part in a roleplay adventure. However, by coincidence he stumbles on to a real crime, and thinks everyone involved is actors. Meanwhile the police are also after him because the actual criminal shot one of the actors.
openSwedish kids' movie with kids with swords in the countryside and a dead girl Film
I watched this in the early 2010s, I'm pretty sure it was in Swedish but might have been some other similar language. First there was a rich young girl celebrating her birthday and receives a sword and a dress, and talks about how she's going to Paris. But instead she gets taken to the countryside and is pretty disappointed about having to eat porridge for breakfast. Then she meets a girl who she thinks is her sister for some reason, and adopts a baby pig. The second girl's brother is angry about them pretending to be sisters and trips over the laundry she did, and says something like "Of course it took a while to wash them because you washed them with pig's piss anyway". At some point the first girl has a dream about a dead baby who went to the Island of the Dead where she appears as an older kid and talks about how she can't blow her own nose and burps. Then the girl and the other girl's brother become friends and she tells them the story with the dead baby. The other girl finds a sword and they clank swords and declare themselves sisters. Later the first girl's mother shows up and gives her cocoa and cakes but she refuses them as she only eats porridge now. At the end there's a montage of the kids doing stuff.
Edited by HqamiopenLooking for a CGI movie from the early-mid 2000s Film
I only watched the last third of the movie, but it involves a girl saving her city inside an At-at thingy from an Evil Chancellor who tried to execute her father with spinning spikes. Then in that ruckus, some guy assassinated an empress and chaos ensued inside the city in th At-at thingy as the girl and the chancellor in his One-Winged Angel form fight.
Edited by alnair20aug93openHindi bollywood movie Film
I'm looking for a movie that I think was a Hindi bollywood film. It was maybe from the early 2000s or from 2010 to 2014. It was from the brighthouse (the cable company) days and I believe it was a teen drama. I don't remember if it was in English or just subbed.
I cant remember if the students were in college or last year of high school. Some definitely drove mopeds around. There was a boyfriend and girlfriend that ended up having sex one night. The girl was on top of him and her boyfriend decided to get his phone and record her. She told him to stop, but in the midst of the things I guess that's all she did. Nothing was really shown during the scene, you could hear a faint moan and her saying once or twice dont record.
The next part that I remember was the boyfriend and friends would frequent this bar or pool hall. One of the boyfriend's friends stole the phone while they were in this bar or pool hall. The friend decided to take the phone and he saw the video the boyfriend recorded. He took the video off the phone. He started sending the video out all around school. A bunch of people started teasing the girlfriend and the girlfriends mother even saw the video while at the school. Her mom I believe worked at the school.
I never got to finish the movie so that is all I got to work with. Thank you in advance if anyone can figure it out.
resolved Animated(?) movie about aliens and a human astronaut Film
The protagonist is a young alien, and there's one human who i think crashed on the alien planet. I think the human needed a breathing device on the planet, and that the protagonist's father and the human both get killed off
openHorror 80's-90's anthology movie Film
It came on late at night about over a decade ago on METV it I think starts with a group of college kids on campus in the day telling scary stories to scare each other. One has to do with two girls lost in the city at night they go to get gas at a gas station but they don't see anyone so they go in back and then are like 3 dogs who bark at them a guy unchains them and one of the girls get mauled to death. Another one is about a killer being in a mall. The last one ends with a skeleton breaking through a door with an axe. Reminiscence of the "heres johnny" scene in the shining, the skeleton prop looks very cheap. Then it ends on a jumpscare with them saying how bad the last on was until the same skeleton slashes at the camera.
Scared me bad when I was younger.
resolved A movie about a lonely man who can only get into a relationship with an AI Film
It was a Sci-Fi romance movie.
The opening scene conscisted of the MC narrating an emotionaly loaded letter, don't remember what it was actualy about. As he spoke into a microphone, his monologue was being written down, in the handwriting of a deceased person.
His job is essentially writing letters that look like they were written by someone who was once close to the commisioner.
After the narration is done, he clocks out & goes home. Equipped with a headset in bed, he is going through multiple possible chat partners for the night.
Eventually, MC finds a suitable option that is seemingly just looking for someone to talk to on a lonely night. Only for the conversation to devolve into telephone sex.
The stranger wanted MC to narrate to her how he is forcing a cat's tail down her throat. Also, the MC was extremely uncomfortable during the scene.
The next day, the MC downloads an AI onto his desktop to compensate for his loneliness. One of their first interactions consisted of the AI trying to convince the MC to delete all of his old e-mails. He hesitantly agrees.
Afterwards, the MC goes on a date with a human woman. At first it goes great, but then he blows it right before the end.
The next day, the MC tries to get to know the AI a bit better, and even spends the night with her, chatting about loneliness, love & thelike.
And thats all I remember. Any and all guesses would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
openQuotes Film
These past few days, I've been trying to alphabetize GetAStupidAnswer.Live Action Films because it's starting to trigger a "too long" warning and it might need to be split soon. I've been alphabetizing by the film the quote comes from. However, I found a few that aren't Pot Holed and could use an identifier. What films do these quotes come from:
- Is that a moon?
- Who put the bomp in the bomp sh-bomp sh-bomp? Who put the lam in the ram-a-lam-a-ding-dong?
- "The power of voodoo." "Who do?"
- How you livin', chicken boy?
openPoorly Made 90's Movie About Video Gamers Film
I am guessing it was made in the 90's. I saw it on TV over 10 years ago. It was probably the most poorly made movie I've ever seen.
My vague memory of the plot, which might not be accurate, is that the government hired a bunch of adult video gamers to play a video game to save the world. Or maybe to rescue a player. I vaguely remember there being a rescue mission involved.
Almost the entirety of the movie (like at least 90%) consisted of footage of the players sitting on their couches (all in separate houses) talking to each other on headsets, and footage from the video game (VERY basic low-quality graphics/animations).
The game characters were some kind of soldiers. Maybe sci-fi soldiers, I'm not sure.
At least one of the players was a woman.
One of them was an overweight guy, and I remember something about him eating too much pizza or junk food and getting constipated, and then he came back from the bathroom and announced that he had given birth to a piece of (camera zooms in on his mouth) "gray matter"
I might be a bit loose on some of the details but that's what I remember.
openPeople trapped in a room have to lick each others' sweat to survive Film
I'm starting to think this was just a vivid dream I had, this film has absolutely zero online footprint that I can find. It's a generic "strangers kidnapped and trapped in a room" plot. There are three women about in their 20s and one older man, he looks at least 60. They're in a small room with a sealed door and a dirt floor. They're not allowed to talk to each other or there are punishments, they have to figure out questions and riddles without speaking. The kidnapper/observer talks to them over a speaker in the room. The first thing they have to figure out is each persons' number that the kidnapper gave them. The only water in the room is a small bottle in a corner, but I remember them not being allowed to drink it for some reason. When they're informed that only one will get out alive, one of the women seduces the old man to protect her. They end up licking each others' sweat to combat the thirst and having sex. While they're doing it, she has a flashback and realizes she knows who he is, he like murdered her sister or something, I don't remember, so she kills him while on top of him. One of the other women is revealed as being in on the entire thing as an observer, she's the only one who survives.
I saw this movie some time within the last 12 months, that's all I can say for certain. I'm about 95% sure it was either on Amazon Prime Video or Netflix, but it's not in my watch history on either one, and I haven't been able to find some kind of internet archive that tracks past movie circulation on streaming services, so if it was there but removed I can't figure out.
Just as a pre-emptive "no it's not that", I'm not talking about the movie where they're trapped at the bottom of a well in a small cave with offshoot chambers and not allowed to eat anything and one of the small sidechambers has a barrel of stagnant water and the one guy controls the water and uses it to get sex from the girl. I think it's called Hunger? Anyway, not that one, this is completely different.
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openWoman Ripping Clothes scene search Film
Does anyone know of a movie or series that has a scene in which a woman explicitly Ripping a cloth?
Edited by Nakelle2017openFight and Kiss Scene Film
Scene in a live-action film or tv show where a girl and a guy are punching each other to the song True by Spandeu Ballet and then they kiss
Rating: PG-13 or R
Years: 2000s
open"Cobra" or "Hydra" serial killer Film
Saw it on late night TV in the mid or late 1970s. In a major US city (NYC?) there's a serial killer of young men & women in their mid twenties — like, 23-26 or so. The movie is about the search for the killer and/or the media frenzy around them, not about the killer themselves. Other than their ages the authorities can't find any demographic similarities the victims had. Then they somehow figure out that they were all born at the same hospital. The killer is seeking some kind of revenge on the doctor who delivered them, or something like that. The killer was killing all the babies one particular doctor had delivered during his time working at that one particular hospital. Or maybe a nurse who assisted in the deliveries. Or maybe the doctor/nurse is the one doing the murders for some reason.
The killer may have been nicknamed "Cobra" or "Hydra" by the media. I think that because after each new victim is discovered there's this animated interstitial of a wicker basket and another snake head pops out, either cobras or possibly a hydra where all the heads are the same animal.
Edited by randomsurferopenA videotape about military moving. Film
My dad used to be in the coast guard, and to deal with the constant moves, my parents bought me a video tape about kids who had to do many military moves and how they dealt with it. There was a kid named Eli, a black kid who played piano, a girl who said she liked "bagels on Sunday and the moon in [her] window, and other kids. There was a lot of singing too. Anyone know it?
Edited by Loopytires55

I can identify most of these movies, but not these three. Do they seem familiar to anyone?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfIOgP09zD0
(Almost forgot the link)
1:14 woman with long brown hair wearing some strange bra (solved!)
1:15 blonde woman dressed as Alice falling down some rabbit hole like thing (solved!)
1:26 blue (?) bald person with glasses (solved!)
I tried so hard finding these on my own but no luck. Can anyone please help? Thank you.
Edited by thestormtrooper