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openfilm about migration from romania Film
I remember watching a film on Polish TV (most probably it was one of the TVP channels) sometime during the early 00s (might have been late 90s but I doubt it) about an illegal immigrant from Romania. The plot was as follows: the film began with the main protagonist, the kid named Petru Milanieu (as I’ve heard it) riding a Dacia 1310 (or similar) together with his father, then they skidded and ended up somewhat blocked on a bridge. The father was some kind of a scientist and then some bad Ceausescu guys came to interrogate them, asking about the stuff the father allegedly poisoned the sheep with and they all decided to leave Romania. Then they traveled to the West, crossing some border hidden among the crates in a semi-trailer attached to a Volvo FH tractor (I remember that one guy in the semi-trailer told his son to shut up or he’ll kill him), then they arrived in West Germany, some older told the protagonist the sausage doesn’t grow on trees there and you don’t find stereos on the street („Tutaj kiełbasa nie rośnie na drzewach, a wież Hi-Fi nie znajduje się na ulicy”). Then the kid rode somewhere on a backseat of a Mercedes W124 (might have been a W201, I wasn’t distinguishing them yet) drinking Coke from a can and chatting with some girl telling her he wanna be the next Beckenbauer. I forgot the title, perhaps somebody recognizes the movie?
openJapanese 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.
openDinosaurs 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!
openNo Title Film
It's a movie that I only saw a trailer for, in mid-2005 (in a theather), and it has been bugging me since then.
I think it was an American thriller/horror - something that felt a little like The Grudge (but that wasn't it). The things I think I remember about it are: 1. The protagonist was a white woman in her 20s/30s; 2. There were some shots of her swimming in a pool, wearing a swimming cap, goggles and one-piece swimsuit, filmed from underwater; this, probably combined with some other shots I can't remember, gave me the feeling there was some kind of water theme in the movie (which led me to thinking it was Dark Water, but it wasn't) 3. Lots of dramatic music (yeah, like that's gonna be helpful...) 4. Some very dramatic scene of the protagonist running (?) between the cars on some city street (at night?), there might have been a car crash involved (I'm... really not sure what I saw)
I cannot find a single trace of this movie. I watched tons of trailers for films released in that timeframe, none fit it. I've checked literally all even vaguely fitting movies that were screened in my country (Poland; not that it would help a lot) from mid-2005 to mid-2006, and none ring a bell. Though of course, I could have always missed something.
At this point, I'm almost certain that I'm mixing up two different movies (still, I'd like to know, what movies?) or just dreamed the whole thing up (which is not impossible). I'm just giving it a last chance here; maybe someone proves me wrong.
Edited by interimdisposeresolved No Title Film
A black-and-white film I saw on UK telly somewhere between 1990 and 1994, although I'm pretty certain it was American.
It starts with a record spinning on a player, and I think it ends the same way. There's a girl who is playing the star in the nativity, and all she needs as her costume is a pair of sneakers (there- it must've been American, I specifically remember her saying "sneakers" not "trainers")
As she's moving the star across the sky, she slips on a pipe or something and falls down, possibly knocking part of the set down.
Years later, a family knocks on the door asking to use the phone as their car has broken down and the children are late for the nativity- some in costume and one in a pair of sneakers. The original girl may or may not have died in the years between. I really can't remember.
Tried asking my mum about this, because I do remember crying over it later that night when I first watched it, but she doesn't remember it at all.
Thanks everyone!
openSeveral obscure B-Movies Film
A French YouTuber named Durendal asked his audience to help him find some obscure B-Movies he saw once in his childhood and would like to use in his Video Review Show Le Cinéma De Durenda
. So if anyone of you tropers knows one of the following movie based on his blurry memories that would be great! You could even directly tweet him the name of the movie, he put an #EngineeredHashtag for each of them.
- #LCDDLeprauchaun: A Horror Film with a leprauchaun/goblin, which include your usual Dwindling Party of teenagers, colorful Environmental Symbolism, a female Afro Asskicker hunting the creature who died while reloading her gun in a haystack, the leprechaun literally going through her stomach Alien-style. Oh, and also the creature takes a giant piss in the heroes' car. (Is it one of the Leprechaun movies?)
- FOUND: Funny Man
- #LCDDFIGE: A young Bare-Fisted Monk who fights some kind of zombies or possessed (I think it might be Chinese Vampires) with a Magical Gesture while screaming "FREEZE!" ("FIGE!" in the French dub) and the monsters stand still.
- FOUND: A Chinese Ghost Story 2
- #LCDDMeurtreAuPetitDej: Some kind of Renaissance aristocrat goes outside to take his breakfast after a night of love and is suddenly killed by a weird drill contraption in the stomach. This one is weeeeeird and even Durendal is not positively sure he didn't make this one up in his damaged brain.
openName of old animated show or movie? Film
This may be a very vague description, but here it goes.
Trying to remember an older animated TV show or animated movie. There is only one distinct part that I can remember. I'm pretty sure it was narrated too.
There was a scene where a character was either outside or looking outside, it was lightning and he was really scared. His mother told him to get back inside. There is also a scary tree in the scene. I'm not sure what kind of characters the mom and son were. Maybe bears? It was not Rock-A-Doodle.
openPlease helpp Film
so i wanna say i watched this almost 10 years ago so it was either a movie or a tv show where a couple different people magically received this letter that they were accepted into this dance school i believe , i only remember two parts one part was a guy that when he stepped into these shoes it could control what he was doing and would make him dance and they other pet was a ballerina that was being controlled like a puppet with strings. It was very long ago so so i don’t remember all the details so i apologize about that
openRomance movie starring Christina Ricci Film
I remember this film with a rather hilarious scene where Christina Ricci's character accidentally bumps into a guy riding a bicycle and they both tumble down into a lake. Don't know the title though...
openA Bunch of Singing Mice People Film
There was this VHS (movie?) I watched way back in the early 90's as a kid. I don't remember much about it save the following:
1: It was a live-action musical type show aimed towards kids, where everyone was dressed up as talking mice, with makeup, ears, and tails similar to "Cats".
2: There were a couple main characters, but the only ones I remember are this one female mouse played by a blonde lady who sort of looked like Audrey from Little Shop of Horrors but with mouse makeup, as well as this kind of "Greek Chorus" group of mice who served as backup singers for most of the songs. They were different in that their costumes had mouse masks rather than ears and makeup. Both of them sang with high-pitched voices.
3: I remember a couple songs, but not the lyrics- there was one involving the greek chorus mice singing about a "recipe", but the most vivid one I recall was some kind of dream sequence or something like that: the aforementioned lady mouse was in a black void with haunted house fog covering the floor, and she meets this other mouse, a male dressed in a gaudy suit and hat who acted and sounded like a used car salesman/carnival barker. He sings a song introducing himself as "Something Something Von Mousetrap" (not his actual name obviously; all I remember is that it was long and his surname was Von Mousetrap). The sequence ended with Von Mousetrap trapping the lady mouse in a big metal cage that rises up from the floor around her, and she cries for help as he laughs maniacally, but then it fades away and the lady mouse wakes up. I don't remember what happened in the middle sequence: I think it was about Von Mousetrap trying to trick her into signing some kind of contract or selling her something?
resolved [Solved] Phantom of the Opera-esque movie with a flooded city and slingshot murder. Film
So, saw this on Russian TV at some point. The movie was clearly heavily inspired by Phantom of the Opera, but I could not find it anywhere by looking at Phantom adaptation lists. Overall picture quality, I say puts it in early to mid 2000s. I tuned in somewhere in the middle of the movie. Fantasy setting, in a Venice-like city on water. And it's raining heavily, so it's flooding. Medieval/renaissance style.
Scenes I recall: The main villain is a disfigured young man in a half mask, the Phantom, as I'll call him from here on out. He invites a princess/noblewoman (possibly his sister?) to his house and shows her his pet monkey (Fez and all that, tiny monke). He also then shows her his disfigured face and reveals to her that her royal family did this. Maybe he's her discarded brother/true heir to the throne or something. She is shocked by the revelation. Main hero is the prince (actor similar to Jason London in my memory, but looking through his filmography I could not find it). He talks to the princess about this Phantom guy, but ultimately the princess is super depressed. A scene I recall fairly well is her sitting on the window and saying "When it's raining no one can see that I am crying." and then jumps off to her death. The prince later brings her body to the king and/or queen (the more I think about it, it may as well be ONLY the queen, as she is for sure a character).
The city keeps flooding with heavy rain
Climactic battle is the Phantom barricaded in some house, and the royal guards are trying to knock the door down, while the Phantom is taking them out... WITH A REGULAR SLINGSHOT from the top window of the house. And cackling like the joker while he does it. The guards get hit and fall into the canal.
The prince grabs a knife/sword or something and slides down some rain drains and stabs the Phantom. The Phantom's final words are something like "THIS. ISN'T. FUNNY." as he was cackling earlier.
Final scene is after the rain has stopped and city unflooded, the Prince says to the queen that he plans to go travel the world and asks her permission or just notifies her expecting her to be mad. And the queen replies with "You are a man now and may do as you please." showing that there was character development? He then rides out of the town on a horse.
Any help is appreciated.
Edited by Shirokurouresolved [Solved] Scientist named Henderson has his research questioned. Film
This was a made-for-TV movie, from The '70s, I think. A scientist named Henderson is doing research into contagions. His pretty lab assistant mindlessly pours a dud batch down a drain without sterilizing it first. The scientist shrugs it off, but the girl has angst over it. The girl's boyfriend despises the scientist, and does a soapbox speech at a campus protest. The man starts out like he's praising Jesus, but takes the approach that runaway germs that overrun the world would regard Henderson as their god. "And every day, I would say, 'Thank you, Henderson! Thank you, Henderson!'" The girl almost leaves her beau to bed Henderson, but at the last moment, goes back to her beau. Does anyone remember what this TV movie was named?
Edited by oneuglybunnyopenA movie about an impossible to leave island. Film
A bunch of characters end up stranded on an island. I don't remember if they were shipwrecked or arrived via crashed airplane. On the island they find a modern-looking town and a small community living reasonably comfortable lives. When the characters ask where they are and how they can go back to mainland, they are told that the island isn't marked on any map and is somehow impossible to leave. Communication with the outside world is also out of the question as there's only static on the radio. In one scene I remember two men took a small motorboat and sailed it in a straight line away from the island, using sun as a navigational point. They eventually ran out of fuel, but they used makeshift paddles to continue their journey. When they finally spotted land, it turned out they arrived back on the island, even though they were sure that they didn't get turned around. I think the island might have been located somewhere in Bermuda Triangle, but I'm not sure. I watched it on TV not long before Lost started airing, but I'm sure it wasn't an episode of that show. It also couldn't be older than the 80s and most likely was from 90s or early 2000s.
openChildren's stranger danger PSA Film
This was a PSA that was likely made sometime in the 90s, possibly early 2000s. It wasn't McGruff the Crime Dog, or anything featuring a mascot or cartoon character. It consisted of several vignettes:
- A boy talks to someone in an online chatroom about meeting up to trade baseball cards. He leaves the house, and when his mom asks where he's going, he says "nowhere." He meets the trader in the park, and he climbs in the trader's windowless white van.
- A little girl on a playground is approached by an old man who asks her to look for his dog Sammy because he "loves the sound of children's voices." She agrees, so he leads her away to go look in the woods.
- 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 interview them for some kind of show. He leads them to his film crew, who are waiting with a camera inside a windowless van.
- Some boys and their dads are camping, including one boy and his uncle Johnny, who talks about how he loves spending time with his "favorite nephew." That night, the kid awakes to the sound of someone entering his tent.
"Uncle Johnny, what are you doing here?""Shhh..."
openAbout slavery Film
I menaged to saw a few minutes of a nice movie, it was about an european (or maybe american) attorney who was trying to free some slaves, including an african prince that was kidnapped and sold with the other people. Each one with his own language, they start almost threatening each other (the attorney is stuck up and a bit snobbish, while the prince is obviously very suspicious about his intentions) but then they build a friendship even if they cannot comprehend what the other is saying
openTry to find old shasher movie Film
Years ago I came across a slasher movie from the 80's about a group of teens out camping and falls victim to an alien served by a priest who believes the alien is an angel. The film ends with repeating dream within dream by the two last survivors who are married. Can any of you find out the name of the movie.
open3 Levels of Bosses Film
In the Sponge Bob episode “Karate Island”, Sandy has to fight 3 levels of bosses to save Sponge Bob, or something like that. There is something like this in a Teen Titan’s episode as well.
Does this have an origin in a movie, like a Bruce Lee movie, where he has to fight 3 increasingly harder bosses to be crowned? I’m really curious, thanks!

This is a weird one but I remember reading in some book about stupid things people did (I no longer have the book unfortunately) and it talked about some movie that when it was released somewhere (I forget where) they made them remove all references to something (again, I forget what) after which the film made no sense whatsoever. Anyone know what movie this was talking about
Edited by Bootlebat