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openthat tv episode of anthology series maybe Robert Ryan starred Film
there was I think a Robert Ryan-starred tv episode...perhaps a movie, perhaps both (if that is possible) about the husband getting left out in the 1950s / 1960s desert to die by his wife & her lover...only to survive...& ends with the duo returning to find him..seeing him escape..& the duo running off into the desert themselves to escape the law....
openTV SERIES FROM 90'S - CYBERSPACE AND GREEN TOXIC WASTE!!! Film
I have this specific question for a weird cause - I can not live - I need to remember these TV series from 90's for teens. All I can remember is that there were toxic waste leak in a town. Somehow it affected some kids and through internet - cyberspace they interacted with another world, with some kind of cyborgs... can anyone relate???
openMilitary moving video for kids Film
When I was little, my dad was in the coast guard, so I had this VHS all about how to deal with moving around so much. It has a bunch of songs, and one was called “How do you make friends?”. There were interviews with a bunch of military kids. This one girl said she liked “bagels on Sunday, the moon in [her] window” and another kid said that she liked buying stuff in vending machines at hotels. Does anyone know what I’m talking about?
openPlease Help! Film
Ok Someone Please Help Me!! I can’t for the life of me remember this show!! Here’s The Plot: A Boy Gets teleported to another land where people fight with monsters the way you call the monsters is with theses crystals. The boy is the chosen one and him and his new friends a girl and a guy. Have to stop the evil person turning all the monsters evil. I know that’s not a lot to go on but I really can’t remember anything! Please help!
openTv show Film
So when i was in jail i was watching this tv show and cant remember the name of it for tge life of me. I only seen 1 episode and from i remember there was a white couple and they had an adopted black boy is is probably around 8 or 10 years old. The husband or bf said he was going somewhere and killed somebody and wrapped the body up and put him in the back of his black range/land rover and went home. And the wife/gf took the vehicle unknowingly knew there was a body in the back. She went to the mall and stole a bunch of cloths for their adopted black son and while she was putting the cloths in the back of the range/land rover and she seen tge body but wasnt to suprised. I'm guessing she knew her husband/bf kills people. She went home and parked in the garage. And their adopted son invited and friend and his friends mother over for dinner without asking permision. So tge adopted kids parents were freaking out because they had the body in the back of the land rover. And when they showed up for dinner they tried acting as normal as possible. Also the mother of the adopted black boy was trying to get him into some private school and was trying to bribe the lady into getting her son into the schooll. I wish i remembered a little more. Hopefully someone can help me find the name of this show
openTeacher and her dream rock Film
The movie is about a teacher who keep dreaming in class and her rock away wake her up in her hand
resolved European movie parodied by "Marge vs the Monorail" (SOLVED) Film
In "The Simpsons S4 E12 "Marge vs. the Monorail"", Marge visits North Haverbrook and finds a creepy scientist type called Sebastian Cobb. The character design, accent and personality are apparently a parody of a character from a feature taking place in Europe, where he also has to be taken on a trip, except across multiple countries.
Does anyone know what movie it is? It's probably an Art Film from the seventies, and has a painfully long running time. I'm not sure if the movie is actually an European production, or just takes place in Europe.
Edited by Mac_RopenMovie I can't find or remember the name of. Film
I'm trying to find a movie bit I barely remember the movie I only remember one scene where the girl walks in on her mother who has been replaced by a robot glitching and throwing dishes on the ground the girl runs away then sees her father and hits him in the head thinking he's also a robot but he's not so he bleeds and the girl runs away. I know in a later scene the girl is in a store and gets kidnapped and replaced with a robot that looks just like her as well. That is all I remember from the movie could someone please tell me the name it's been bugging me for a while also it isn't the stepford wives since no scene in it matches what I can remember.
openneed help with this tv show: Film
About a lawyer or detective who has a relationship with the person being convicted of a murder that happened 17 years prior where a girl was hit with a stick and died. the case is reopened 17 years later as new evidence has been found . The guy goes through a trial and tells police to test his blood against the blood on the murder weapon The blood doesn’t match and they celebrate him not going to jail The main chick is then speaking to a guy in a wheelchair in the last episode and he says that a couple years prior the guy had a blood transfusion which is why the blood did not match. Short series, 7 episodes max
Edited by xxxxxhelloopenMovie with bloodsport MC. Film
Movie trailer from some point in the last few years. It involved some violent underground event.
After dark. Big venue. Outdoors. Master of ceremonies in a (high-up) booth cracking jokes coming off as diegetically funny in a scary context.
I keep thinking of Nerve, but watching the trailer again, I don't think that that's it.
Edited by CaswinopenBoy and Girl walking on roof movie (still unsolved!) Film
This should be fairly easy. I remember watching a movie on TV, maybe it was a TV show, but I am almost certain it was a movie, maybe it was a made for TV film. I saw it in 1991-1992. I remember a young boy and girl seen together walking on the top of a house. I remember the mother running up one side of the stairs and the father another (maybe it was a duplex). That is all I remember. I think the girl had blonde hair or brownish blonde, and I the boy had brownish hair. I think the mother was played by Cynthia Nixon (Sex in the City), I cannot remember who played the father. I also remember a shopping scene. Does this ring any bells to anyone? Thanks.
Edited more information: This was vividly a day shot not night shot. Someone on another site suggested Adventures in Babysitting, which features roof scenes with children, but night shots not day shots. I was thinking perhaps they were older children, perhaps teenagers, and the movie the Boy Who Could Fly came into mind. I will check that one out. I am thinking why no one replied is because I am perhaps remembering the scene incorrectly.
I honestly do not understand why I have not figured this out yet. Someone should know it.
Edited by thestormtrooperopenA group of people go camping, all are murdered by one of them, he's found out by a video recording Film
A group of people go camping (it's like a trek, they camp in different locations) and they're dropping dead one by one. They suspect the killer is one of them, and at the end only a young woman remains. She records herself with a video camera, explaining the situation, when the murderer appears and kills her.
The murdered arrives to the car that was the final location, gets the car key from near one of the tires and drives to a near motel.
A kid founds the camera, and the last image of the film is the police arriving to the motel.
openA sci-fi B-movie involving cannibals, neck-burrowing parasites, set in space Film
A sci-fi B-movie, possibly made in the 80s or 90s, that I watched on VHS as a kid. It was long before I spoke English so I could not remember the title, only the contents.
It involves the following:
- Cannibals
- Snake-like parasite burrowing into the back of people's necks, only poking their heads out.
- (Cannibalized) victims' brains are put into a machine and converted it into a glowing serum, which the snake parasite slurps up.
- The main characters stumbled upon the stuff above. The guy gets infected with the snake parasite.
- Some or all of the above happens on a spaceship.
- A fighter character dressed in black appear at around midpoint. He removes the parasite from the male main character. He has a wrist-mounted grappling hook which he uses as both a weapon and means of navigation (like Bionic Commando).
openWaxing lyrical with the song "Fast Car" Film
May have been in a sitcom, but I'm thinking a comedy film. The situation is a character has to reveal something painful about their past, I think as part of some sort of exercise where people form a circle and take turns doing so. Instead of actually using something from her life, one of the main characters starts reciting "Fast Car" by Tracy Chapman, specifically the verse that starts "See, my old man's got a problem. He lives with the bottle, that's the way it is". No one in the room seems to realize it's a song and she's applauded for making a breakthrough
Edited by MikeKopenGuy and dog fight a landshark (SOLVED) Film
A guy with his dog finds himself in a forest (after having a conversation with some sort of a robot in a shelter? possibly post-apocalyptic) next to an abandoned overgrown trailer park and a river. He sees a fin sticking out of the ground and realizes that a landshark is nearby, he distracts it by throwing an object and then flees towards a river, where he has to kill the landshark (which has a round toothy maw lined with tentacles) by throwing a grenade into its mouth. Might be a TV series instead of a film.
UPD: Found it, it was Love and Monsters
Edited by CommissarTarkinopenA historical kung fu movie with a cheesy title and a boat Film
I saw this film in the early 90s on video, so it's probably 70s-80s. I remember renting it because of its really cheesy title (think "Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires", but it's not that film). The style was somewhat Shaw Brothers and a historical setting, but all I really remember about it is the party of heroes (including one token female) travelling up a broad river and having their boat upset by a prankster who I think joins them after they've all dried out on the bank.
openCampers get killed one by one by a dude from the group, he's found out by video evidence Film
A group of people go camping (it's like a trek, they camp in different locations) and they're dropping dead one by one. They suspect the killer is one of them, and at the end only a young woman remains. She records herself with a video camera, explaining the situation, when the murderer appears and kills her.
The murdered arrives to the car that was the final location, gets the car key from near one of the tires and drives to a near motel.
A kid finds the camera, and the last image of the film is the police arriving to the motel.

All I remember about it is there is a young boy, who's name I think was Jake, maybe, not definitely. He goes to some place that is like a prison camp or something. The warden or whatever is this pro wrestler or something, and if you see his real face you melt or something? And, spoiler, at the end of the movie he wakes up in some market or something and it was all a dream. Maybe this was all a dream I had. But if you know what I'm talking about, I'll be so grateful