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openslave ship Film
I remember somtime in The '90s my dad was watching some old movie in black and white. Itt showed some slaves rowing on a ship but then one of them gets a hammer some how (?) and knocks out the captain. I stopped watching after that. I assume it's a movie but could be a show
Edited by BootlebatopenJapanese film that was linked to mass suicide? Film
I remember hearing a story about a Japanese film from the 20's that was linked to suicides/mass suicides. I believe I remember hearing that the final scene had a couple jumping into a volcano.
openHelp!! Film
So I'm looking for the name of a TV show I used to watch as a little girl. Around 2003-2005 maybe. I don't remember much about it other than one episode even though I used to watch it all the time. There were 2 characters. I can only remember a white creature that sort of looked like the abominable snowman and didn't talk but it mumbled. The other character I believe was smaller but I'm trying to remember them living on some sort of i don't know if it's a different planet or some undergroud place. There was a traintrack and they would get on it to go places. The show was sort of clay-animated like Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer movies but it wasn't anything close to Christmas. If anyone may know it please let me know, I've been trying to find it forever. And I believe the title is the name of the 2 characters but i don't remember. Thank you
opencountry club murderess, title of the movie please ? Film
This is a pretty old movie probably made for tv, it's where there is this country club and the main character is a girl who is a new employee there and she has to deal with the popular boy liking her when the clubs owners daughter, the princess actually has laid claim to him. so this country club princess fakes nice with the employee girl but she secretly sabotages her the employee girl realizes this and figures out that the princess chic is crazy and someone in the club shows her an old picture where it is revealed that actually this princess girl was actually the ugly duckling once and that her sister was actually the more liked popular one who actually bears a great physical resemblance to this new employee girl. It also turns out that the older sister one day mysteriously disappeared leaving her perfect life and perfect boyfriend behind and now only sends generic postcards to the family and or boyfriend saying that she is okay. Then the main character suspecting that princess did all this and murdered her sister she decides to pretend to haunt her as she looks like the sister and she manages to spook her, but then there is this big showdown where princess tries to murder the main character viciously attacking her but then they are caught and she is sent to like a mental asylum where she is seen to look still like a psycho continuing her nervous habit of applying lip balm ominously.
Edited by JustMeSriLankanopenDinosaurs and times travel!!! Film
I watched it in 2001 but the movie was 60s, 70s or early 80s. I remember seeing a film about time travel, Agroup of scientists use a "claw" or "footprint" of a "lizard like" humanoid that lived among dinosaurs to fix the "position in time" and go back in that time... After some time there they kill a Tryranosaur Rex (don't remember if it was and accident or not), they try to come back and the Present is ruled by those "lizard" creatures... Quickly they defeat it and they manage to go back to the T-Rex time and kill the humanoid-lizard (or not kill the Trex, can't remember), in the end they come back to their original time and everything is fine.
It's "vibe" is like 'The Time Travellers' but it is NOT, nor 'A Sound of Thunder', 'Journey to the Center of Time', any 'The Land That Time Forgot',
Thanks for any clues!
openVHS Tapes About Manners and Life Lessons Film
When I was a kid, born 1994 so like early 2000's, there were these tapes I used to watch that would teach you different life lessons. Like there was this one about table manners where someone was eating corn really weird. And one that was basically the Gift of the Magi story. Sometimes it was animals and sometimes it was people, definitely animated though.
openSome sort of candy world Film
Okay so there's this movie where the girl slides down her playground in her backyard and then two bear-like human creatures bring her through a vortex sort of thing. They eventually end up in another world- where it's all pretty and pastel- colored. All the trees have candy instead of fruit, and as she picks one, it automatically grows back. I vaguely remember the creatures she meets warning her not to take any for some reason. Please, if you could help me find the title of this movie- it would be wonderful! I watched this in 2004, if that helps.
openChinese film about a barefoot doctor in the Chinese countryside Film
It was around 2012 when I seen this film. The film was from China, and it had a premise of this girl that worked in the countryside during the 60s or 70s. The girl become wheelchair bound, and that the plot was told through flashback.
openCartoons in the Attic Film
I've been trying for a while to remember this dang show, but with no success. It was on VHS and had a brother and a sister that ventured up in to their (grandparents?) attic. Up there they discovered a talking stuffed animal (a rabbit I believe) that would show them cartoons (I remember one being the 1930s Jack Frost) and teach them life lessons. There were also sock puppets. A barbershop quartet and some female singing and dancing ones. I was born in '92 but my grandmother owned these so I'm not too sure what time they were actually released.
openVague recollection of a movie featuring an old hag and some children... Film
I just remembered I once watched a movie featuring some ugly old hag with magic powers (maybe she was a witch?) and a group of children of varying ages, and I can't remember the name of the movie. All I remember is a few elements; a part where the children tried to get up from bed but couldn't because the old hag prevented them from doing so using her magic; a part where the children are catapulting things by putting items onto a see-saw thing and jumping onto the other end, but the hag casts a spell that makes them jump so hard that everything they catapult lands into a pot of boiling water and makes one of the children slowly walk towards the see-saw while the children can only watch and plead the hag to undo the spell; maybe a phrase that probably went something like "I'll be here when you don't need me, and I won't be here when you do need me" (not sure as I watched the movie when I had no clue about English and had Croatian subtitles on); a part where the hag breaks a tiny metal toy (I think it was some bells attached to a tiny metal stick?) that belonged to the youngest child (a toddler), and then returns it at the end of the movie by having it fall from the sky into the toddler's hands. But really, these are all foggy recollections so things may or may not be accurate.
openPlot twist: The Town was a bunch of cannibals? Film
A movie from circa '70s-early 80's where this town had a supposed monster in the woods that was eating people and was like brown and stuff (though that could be wrong) and the big plot twist in the movie was that the monster wasn't actually a MONSTER, but actually the town was a bunch of cannibals that would kill and eat outsiders.
openOld owl cartoon on a cheap VHS Film
OK this one is incredibly difficult. I was about 2 or 3 so the details are few. I remember it was a vhs probably from the 80s or 90s maybe even earlier. All I remember is little owls climbing a tree trying to get to class. The owls were shaped like little triangles and I think there was a triangular fox at the bottom of the tree. They climbed up branch by branch. Please help me remember!
openWoman sorting through children's books and cartoon. Film
I have very little information to offer. It was a VHS tape which featured a cluttered room full of books sort of suspended in space, live action, with a presenter woman, youngish and dark haired, searching through various books for stories she was going to "tell" to the viewer. She found two books and it then went to animation or showing the illustrations for the stories. I have no memory of what the stories were except that I keep thinking of the Magic Finger by Roald Dahl. It is possible that one of them featured a similar character to the fat, mustached Mr. Greg from MF as that is the only image i can think of.
The second is a cartoon that was posted about before in which a boy's older sister invites her friends, "a bunch of crazy girls" over and he asks his dad to help him "block the invasion". there was also the line, "he'll be my Romeo and I'll be his Juliet", spoken by the sister about her crush. Curious to know what happened in the end although I don't remember the name of the show - it wasn't Dexter's Lab or Phineas.
Edited by HarmoniousManatineopenGREAT MOVIE but i can't remember its name Film
The main male character has the map for finding the filosofal stone. He takes his daughter with him, tells her about the story and start to dig here and there in the city in order to find the stone. They end up breaking into a hypermarket and dig a big hole there, steal a scubadiving costume for the grandpa (main male character). He jumps into the water, finds the "stone" and then he dies, while the cops come into the hypermarket and find his daughter.
openMelting Man in Body Horror Scene in 80s-ish Horror Movie Film
Since childhood I've been trying to discover the identity of a movie I caught on TV. Several young adults or teens were exploring a house/building, one young man ended up alone in the center of a room that promptly shut him in and began heating up. The walls glow, the soles of his shoes start to stick to the floor. In his last moments he twists in agony and his head turns around to an unnatural degree (literally) as though his neck is affected by the heat the way that his shoes are. Dying to know what the heck this movie was.
openOld film where a woman showers while wearing a men's shirt Film
I watched a documentary several years ago about some actress. I believe she was dark-haired, and she was very pretty. Part of the documentary mentioned that for a certain movie, the director wanted her to do a nude scene, but she refused, so for the movie she ended up in a scene taking a shower in an outdoor shower wearing a large, wet, and very thin men's shirt that clung to her body so tightly that she might as well have been nude. A group of soldiers in some sort of vehicle passes her, very pleased with the sight, and one of the men jumps out and beckons to her with both hands, arms spread, a "come here baby!" gesture. I think he looked kind of Hispanic, definitely not white. She kind of teases him a little bit, and I'm pretty sure she then pulls out a gun (from where, I do not know) and shoots him. The showering seemed like kind of a trap to lure men to her, I think. The movie was older, like Wizard of Oz-era. I think it was in color, but I am not positive. Does anyone know this movie?
openpresident of US gets ebola (not sure whether its ebola) Film
the president finishes a speech and comes out of a building surrounded by people and someone shoots him with a virus at least thats what they called it. anyway then he was taken to a hospital and the second they found out that it is ebola they sealed the hospital with everyone in it and it seems someone had a cure he makes a call and asks for money i guess then give a clue where the cure is the cure lasts for about a week i'm not sure then the president orders to blow up the hospital to stop it from spreading when they find a child who has immunity they stop the bomb and they make somesort of a cure. i hope this is enough
openMan's Hand Freezes While Playing Piano Film
I'm not entirely sure if this is a film or a TV show, but I remember channel surfing one evening and found this scene: A man is outside, perhaps in someone's rather large backyard. He is seated on a bench in front of a piano. There are lots of people watching him. The scene takes place at night, and there are tiki torches (?) lit around the backyard/courtyard. Everything is going well, until suddenly, the man's right hand freezes, and a Scare Chord is emitted (I think). The camera is now close up on the stiff right hand, where the viewer can see a ring on the man's finger. The ring has a dark, possibly black, gemstone in the center of it. It could be possible that the ring is causing his hand to freeze. It looked like the scene was slowly fading to another scene or a flashback or something, but about that time is when I changed the channel. The movie looked pretty old, probably from the 60's or 70's, and was in full color. What is this movie/show?
openOld VHS about a girl in a sewer in an inflatable boat?? Film
Not much I remeber about this show. Recall watching it at an extremely young age and have no idea what it is. I vaguely remember the girl(?) up on land and going down in the sewers because it was raining?? Not sure.

I live in Australia and there was this kid/teen show in the 90's/2000's about a teenage girl who I think, from memory, had a cockney accent. She had blonde hair and I think her name was "Precious" or another "P" name similar to that. She was pretty rude and gave her mum a hard time, dressing in less clothing than her mum liked and was always complaining. I can not remember the name of the show. I thought it was Precious but nothing comes up. She lived in a terrace house from memory. The animation style was different. More roughly drawn than your typical clean line animation style. I think it aired on ABC after school and didn't run for years and years. Any ideas?