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I think I asked this before but never really got an answer so trying again
There was this movie I saw at the cinema as a kid (early 00's most likely). It was about two anthropomorphic mice kids, a boy and a girl, who lived in a huge library or school (or at least this was where most of the setting took place). The antagonist character (also a mouse, or possibly rat) was this old librarian or teacher, I think she had her hair in a bun and wore a purple or dark blue dress, who was really strict and grumpy, always complained and didn't let them do anything fun. Specifically, she didn't allow them to go to a specific place... of course, shortly after they tried sneaking into this place. They went to some kind of Magic World filled with books and possibly numbers I think? I remember several scenes where a bunch of stairs led to a magic mirror where the mirror image would show who you "really are", your true self ect. The mice kids found this after sneaking into the forbidden place, the boy looked into the mirror and saw himself as a prince/hero-type character, and both him and the girl were amazed at this. Later, by the end of the movie, the librarian/teacher character would go into this world to look for the kids, find them with the mirror, then she looked into the mirror and saw her mirror image melt and turn into some weird monster. She was all "nooo, but why, this wasn't supposed to happen" and I think she might have melted herself too? Or transform into a monster at some point? Anyway, after this, the mice kids get carried away by a flood of paper/books.
Anyone have any idea what this can be?
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A movie about a circa 1960s reporter interviewing a former southern United States slave woman that had lived to be over 100. As she describes her life story, the movie has flashbacks to key moments in the emancipation, the formation of black communities, and pushback in the form of the Ku Klux Klan. At some point late in the movie, the reporter is reassigned to cover something NASA related and has some moral choice about which story is more important.
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A co-worker recognized the Woody Guthrie song "Do Re Mi" from the soundtrack of a film he watched. It takes place in the Depression/Dust Bowl era, and may have George Clooney in it. (It is not O Brother, Where Art Thou?) I know that's not a lot to go on, but if anyone has an idea, I'd like to hear it.
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This one came to mind when I was watching an episode of King of the Hill. When Bobby was at the military camp, he was put in "the hole," where he lasted for three days. His grandfather had been in the same place years earlier and lasted only two days.
This reminded me of a movie from years back and I can't remember what it was, but it may have been an old Kung Fu movie or something. Anyway, there was a scene where a pupil was buried up to his neck in dirt and left there until he couldn't take it any more. When the pupil finally gave up, he was pulled out of the dirt and was told that he had lasted a day longer than his master had. Does that sound familiar to anyone?
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Hello all TV Series Shows and Movie Buff's I need your help, I'm obsessed in trying to find the name of an older TV series Show i think around 1995-2007 or it might be earlier or later and taking place in the ocean a lot, with young teens in a boat or sail boat that find an orange alien light up Power source or generating talking ball from another planet with a mans voice Named O.J. and there trying to Keep O.J. Safe from the bad guys that are chasing them on Hover Craft Motor cycles and there is a black haired I think Chinese or Japanese girl chasing another black haired girl (Who resembles a lot like the teenage girl in the movie Spy Kids) and she's on Hover craft Motor cycles shooting guns and I think there using laser guns and the tv show is made to look like it's in the future a bit and here are some guesses that may help for the title name of the TV show I think has 1 of these words in it: Sea, Ocean Pacific, Sky. and some other word or words after that?
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There was a comedy film about a guy who was the son of Italian mob.Since his father (or family) is working with the Russians he has to visit Russia.There he meets the russian mobster's son and they hang out together.They visit an arms dealer who sells them antiquated pistols (which results in main character getting shot).Then they visit an alcoloholic 'doctor' to take the bullet out etc.The movie wasn't that old.I am hoping someone knows its name.Thanks in advance.
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I'm looking for a Korean, or at least Asian Action drama-ish movie I saw about 4-5 years ago. I remember the story quite well but don't remember the name...but I do believe it was also a Korean term, although the movie also had some British actors. I googled the movie back then with the name, after watching it and found basically nothing so it must be really obscure.
Assassins break into the house of a family. They kill the husband and injure the wife. The child hides in a cupboard, and one of the killers opens it. Then the other one says that they have to kill the child now, because it saw them. So they do that.
You see that the wife was the only survivor and is now in hospital. She was apparently some kind of agent, that's why the killers targeted her family. She asks a relative - her father or uncle, not sure - to avenge her family. He promises to do that.
He hires three assassins for that. The problem is that he is a bit older and has beginning dementia. He keeps forgetting who the three men are or why he hired them. I think they write notes for him so he remembers. I remember there was one large action scene with a brawl in a public park between several people. At the end, the old man has completely forgotten his plan. But the three hired assassins still do their job, but I think it is implied that they also die in the attack.
I hope this sounds familiar to someone.
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This has been bothering me for quite a while. All I remember about this is that there are two brothers. The older brother has this girlfriend and then for some reason (I think he was frozen in ice or something) fast forward, the older brother remains the same age he was a few years back and his younger brother is now older than he is. I think said younger brother is dating the older brother's girlfriend. It's not an anime, but a Western live action film (or series) if I recall correctly.
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A cowboy movie I saw in the 1970s on TV: This one was what appeared to be from the 1960s or 1970s. The main plot of the movie was two guys who were in competition with one another and they had to go from (I think) an East Coast city to somewhere on the West Coast or the Southwest (maybe San Francisco or Phoenix). It was a kind of a race. To prove they'd made it there, they had to bring a menu from a specific famous restaurant in that city. When one of them arrived first, he took all the menus so the other guy couldn't get one and beat him back. Any ideas?
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I never actually saw this one, but saw various allusions to it on the Internet many years ago. I still wonder where it comes from. It must be from some rather old movie or TV show, likely British.
Anyway, there's a scene where one character reveals his obvious racist or fascist leanings in conversation with another character, who reacts by graciously offering to introduce him to a distinguished gentleman who shares his ideas. One moment later, this gentleman is revealed to be Adolf Hitler (or possibly just some local Nazi leader with a painting of Hitler prominently displayed in his office).
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A long time ago when I was in middle school, I saw this one Western movie (it was set in the early 20th century because there was a Ford Model T car in it), about an Indian boy who befriends a white man and his horse. What's the title of this movie?
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This is a film I read about a month or so ago in Fangoria, and it's bugging me that I can't remember the name, or find it on their website. The things I remember:
-It was about a haunted Ship wreck. -(I think) It was Canadian (I think Quebec, specifically). -The filmmaker had previously made documentaries about real-world shipwrecks, and some of the materials from those influenced the film.
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Movie (I saw it on TV), I think it was probably a spoof of the Stepford Wives or so? Humanoid robods posing as humans, at some point the useless cop wants to prove it and stabs the non-robot doppelganger in the thigh. At some other point hot girls that are robots in disguise suddenly kangaroo-jump away when they notice they're being watched.
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A movie that was on television by the mid-90s or so that I only caught the ending. The movie seemed to be about some guy that ended up unwillingly part of human experimentation towards a cure for a disease that leaves people stuck in wheelchairs (I think multiple sclerosis, but maybe something else).
The ending had the protagonist confronting the doctor, who gives a monologue about how the protagonist spent maybe a few hours unable to walk, but his female assisting has spent her whole life in a wheelchair. The doctor believes he found a cure, but things escalate until the protagonist kills him. After his death, there's discussion over whether or not to publish the doctor's findings.
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This is a scene that keeps bothering me. This has a girl who keeps talking to this black man in a bar or cafe, while the black man seems on the verge of breaking into tears. At some point, the black man starts shouting nonsense towards the girl while she stares at him. Very weird. Any ideas?
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When I was in mid-late elementary school sometime (between 2005 and 2008) My dad showed me a movie (it was either PG-13 or Rated R I believe) about some superstorm that was going to rise ocean levels to an astronomical level. I remember NYC got flooded and the buildings were underwater and there was a huge scene about escaping one of the buildings. I want to say it was about global warming? The movie could very well have been made before 2005. I almost want to say the superstorm was hurricane. Or maybe weather was going out of whack all over the planet.
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A teen boy marries his crush so their families can be taken to safety during a huge evacuation, because he helped the government figure out (reason for evacuation) was going to happen. Unfortunately it turns out that even though he married her, only he and she can be brought to the special bunker and their families have to fend for themselves.
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This is an old black and white movie I saw on Turner Classic Movies a while back. A criminal on the run holds a doctor at gunpoint. The criminal wants the doctor to use some technique and turn him into a different man. The doctor uses it and the criminal gets amnesia.
The doctor takes the former criminal under his wing and eventually turns him into a doctor as well. He works at a women's prison where he gets recognized by his former gun moll who sets out to ruin him. The gun moll is stopped by one of the criminal's former friends. The friend kills himself and the gun moll by driving their car off the road.
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A Singaporean film set in the 60s where a poor child has to win third place in a marathon just to win a pair of running shoes. Watched this in school three or four years ago.