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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.
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.
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.
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.
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 JustMeSriLankanopenHelp!! 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
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 Bootlebatopen90's / 2000's animated kids show Film
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?
openLATE 90S TO 00S LIVE ACTION FILM Film
I think this was the beginning, a young woman visits her parents with her husband or finance, who looked like Joaquin Phoenix, can't remember what she looked like. The father was mad about something and started beating the young husband or finance's car like crazy, and his daughter pleaded him to stop, I can't remember if the mother did anything. I think this was the Hunt for Red October, but maybe it wasn't. It was in color. I think I saw it around the late 00s on TV. Can anyone please help? Thanks.
openAn old fantasy TV series Film
Trying to find a TV series. I watched it like a 15 years ago or even 20.
First scene I remember: a girl is standing in some cave and talking to a voice from somewhere. Shortly after the voice says that she is in his mouth and she really is.
Next thing I remember: something about... getting sword from a tree? This one maybe from a different show.
And there were some witchcraft like one bad witch was attacking a good character with a flying auto-aiming dagger.
openCGI animated film with alien invasion Film
I'm trying to remember this movie I watched years ago which I'm pretty sure was CGI. There was an alien invasion with giant robots and people were hiding underground and for a while we followed this kid with a small yellow robot. And one of the aliens made a Heel-Face Turn because I think their leader was possessed by some sort of Eldritch Abomination or something
openLive action movie featuring macaw Film
This is a tough one and I wouldn't be surprised if nobody here can find it, especially since I didn't actually watch the movie, I just remember seeing it in a video-renting store. This would be around the late 90s/very early 2000s - almost certainly between 1996 and 2001. I'll always remember the cover; there was a side-view of a young woman's (I think) face leaning in towards a macaw. I think it was one of the red ones but I can't remember for sure. The background was kind of yellowish, probably a sunset. It was called something like "The Secret/Promise/Legend of the Macaw" or "The Macaw's Secret/Promise/Legend" but I haven't been able to find anything by searching those up. This has been driving me crazy because I'm certain I didn't imagine this, but it must be really obscure since I've never found so much as a trace of it. I remember thinking I would have really liked it, since I was really into birds as a little kid.
openOLD MOVIE FROM CHILDHOOD Film
I so vividly remember the very smallest bits of a movie whose name nor premise I am hopeless to remember... All I remember about it, is that it was an adventure film, and it was entirely CG animated, and had a lot of colorful characters, the main character being a shaggy, dog-like creature with hair all over his body, and, another character being a train, which was red, and had eyes. I remember it from my childhood.
openComedy Wuxia Film Film
...with some Mel Brooks-esque humour like random anachronisms and homages to films like Titanic, such as in one scene when a female character used an axe to free the male protagonist off a post which he was tied on. Another scene had an attractive woman being filmed on by a bunch of males, with one brandishing what appears to be a modern camcorder. A dubbed version of it was aired on GMA News TV in the Philippines some time ago.
openAnimated film or show Film
I've been trying to remember the name of this animated movie (or show) I used to watch. It may be early to mid 90's. The basic plot I remember is that this group of girls somehow end up in some strange place and it smells really bad, and they are trying to get back home and they have to get passed a villain. The part I remember the most is the villian's face before the screen cuts to black. She has like a purpleish gray face and a toothy grin. I also remember the only way they escaped was by singing.
There was another one I couldn't remember the name of. It was a live action about 3 kids who travel with a bear (person in a costume) and they fly on a flying curbed. It was just be an episode I thinking of but they sing. The boy sings about a green and yellow zoot suit. Sorry if this is vague.
Edited by ColossalSealopenMovie my mother watched Film
She said it was called "Thomas Sina" but she wasn't sure on the spelling, tried looking it up and couldn't find much. Other than that, it'd have to at least 50 years old and she saud it was about a girl and her cat.
openFantasy/Sci-fi made for tv(?) films Film
When I was younger I seen a few films from what appeared to be quite a long series that were playing over consecutive late nights on BBC 1(I can remember seeing a good 5 or 6 in the tv paper). I remember them appearing a bit low budget, and I feel that they had some sort of opening that repeated over each one, which makes me think they were tv films. It was definitely a fantasy or sci-fi and had the main character travelling between different worlds or times. I'm sure the opening shows a scene in a medieval setting where someone is fighting a dragon or similar lizard monster. There's only one moment I can picture clearly and it's where the main character (late teens boy) gets betrayed (I think) by a guy (black, older. Maybe a professor?) who is in a large brown metal suit. A sort of cross between a space suit and an old diving costume.
I'm sorry that's exceptionally vague, but it's a memory from early childhood and it now and then comes back to mind. I'm Questioning whether it's even real or not! Any help would be great, thanks.
Edit: I should add that although they were shown on BBC, they seemed American/Canadian.
Edited by GenericSnakeopenA couple come to inherit a house from dead/dying aunt/uncle, but get attacked by cannibals. Film
So, I'm not sure if aunt/uncle was already dead by the time they arrived, but I remember that nephew hasn't talked to him/her in a long while, and he was surprised to be a heir to the house. So, he and his wife arrive and almost instantly meet some neighbours/relatives, they get to know each other, and then it turns out that neighbours/relatives are cannibals. I don't remember how it ended, but there was a scene when wife got kicked into the pool.
The movie was rather old (1980-1995?), seemed to be American, was made in color, didn't have any magic or mystic stuff going on.

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.