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openMovie/TV show Film
It's a movie/TV show that includes a wedding. Two people meet, a boy and a girl, and he wants her to stay so they can be together, but she explains that she has to go Back home. And they are a little bored, so they play dare and without knowing, he dares her to kiss her uncle. And steal wedding cake.
openMovie with people faking rabbits mauling them Film
This is a movie I saw a brief amount of back in the early 1990s. One scene has a bunch of people holding up rabbits and pretending the rabbits are killing them, with lots of fake blood. They cop to the joke and spend a long while still in the dirty clothes.
(Bonus question because I don't know where else to find this out succinctly: the first two episodes of the series H 2 O Just Add Water seems to be that generic "young people with magic powers hide them from normies with the help of one Secret-Keeper". Without spoiling much, does it stick with that formula of hiding from everybody or does it expand into something more interesting such as having the community at large discover it and deal with the implications?)
openTV show brain freeze Film
I can't remember the name of a tv show about several high school age kids who had a black, gothic looking canvas book that brought to life any creatures the kids drew on the pages. I really don't even remember the year I saw it, but I think the 90's.
openLive-action film with animated retelling of The Good Samaritan Film
I'm looking for a vaguely-recalled film I watched as a kid, probably sometime in the '90s. I believe we had it on VHS, so I think it was a movie rather than a TV show (although it may not have been feature length).
It was live-action, featuring a pre-teen or teen boy as the main character. Unfortunately, I can't remember what the overall plot was. I only remember a shorter sequence that involved the boy drawing a cartoon character, which then becomes animated and is involved in a retelling of "The Good Samaritan," narrated by the boy. I think the cartoon character was male, blond, and colored with colored pencil—I want to say he was wearing something resembling a blue tracksuit and maybe had a skateboard...although that doesn't seem to make a lot of sense with the Good Samaritan storyline. Despite the Bible story retelling, I don't think the overall film was overtly a collection of Bible stories or a religious education film, because I don't recall us having any such tapes in our collection. I think the Good Samaritan interlude was instead related to something analogous in the boy's live-action storyline?
If that vague sequence happens to be familiar to anyone, I'd appreciate any ideas or additional details you remember! I don't know why this suddenly popped into my head, but it's bugging me that I can't remember what it is.
openJaws of a T-rex/monster coming up from underground Film
I never watched this movie, but remember seeing the cover of the VHS in video-rental stores when I was a kid - probably mid-late 90s, 2000/2001 at the most recent. It looked a lot like the cover of Jaws, except with a T-Rex or similar monster's jaws coming upwards through the ground and some people standing at the top. It scared the crap out of 6-year-old me and I'd like to know what it is just for curiosity's sake. (I always thought it was a T-rex or other dinosaur as a kid, but seeing as Google's giving me nothing for that, I'm starting to think it was something else. Anything about "movie cover with jaws" is just giving me various Jaws posters.)
openHogs Hollow or Eve or something Film
Name of the movie where the opening shows the world as a flat disk and is on the back of four hogs and which are on the back of a turtle and the main character is the niece of death and has a white streak of hair which normally is brown and the general theme of the movie is christmasy and the holiday they are celebrating has the word hog in it somehow. I also believe they were all british.
Edited by kaepeaopenWerewolf Samurai Film Film
I remember watching a Japanese film at a friend's house that involved a samurai (or samurai-esque) character who was half dog/wolf spirit and could transform. This was live-action, NOT anime. It featured other creatures from Japanese folklore. I don't think this was any sort of big-budget film, maybe like the Japanese equivalent of a B-movie.
resolved [Solved] Indie film about a hotel with a haunted room = Film.Appetite Film
I remember this indie / art film from the late Eighties to early Nineties about this hotel in London or thereabouts, which had this one room where a murder / suicide occurred. It was closed off afterward, and became a kind of legend among the hotel staff. The hotel also has this one morose chef who goes on a drug binge every month or so, and creates oodles of elaborate desserts, far beyond what the guests and staff can possibly consume. Anyone remember this peculiar but nondescript film?
Edited by oneuglybunnyopenCan Someone Help Me Please? Film
Can someone help me with this title please? Am looking for the title of a movie I once watched from a VHS tape but it was recorded from BBC TV so it could be a TV series. It’s black and white. It’s a musical comedy. In the story, a show director (or producer, am not sure) has gout. He together with his actors find themselves fighting over a beautiful woman (widow I think). Also there is a part where the actors hit the head of a famous boxer who had come to see their show with French bread.
openMimi the poodle Film
A story about three dog friends who go through hardship. One dog was red. One was scruffy with hair over the eyes. One was a poodle called Mimi. Under a large pine tree, they decided they couldn't stay together, so decided to go their separate ways and promised to meet each other in the first snow. Mimi the poodle got captured by a circus like ringmaster character and forced to perform. The ringmaster treated her very badly. The scruffy poodle was taken in by a homeless man with a white beard. He was treated well. The big dog somehow was around a school playground, I think. The red dog eventually finds mimi the poodle performing and sets her free. The three dog friends eventually find each other again at the first snow. The scruffy dog takes them back to the homeless man, who decides to take them all in. They stay together until the ending.
This show was aired possibly in 1990 but no later than 1995 to my recollection. The drawings were simple. Thanks in advance.
openA Hans Christian Mystery Film
The basic premise is of the little mermaid story, but the drawings, though very simple, looked slightly anime-ish. The mermaid was called Freida (? unsure of the spelling) and she had these two little sidekicks. One was pink with a oval round nose and sounded like he had a cold when it spoke. The other sidekick was a female and drawn larger than the pink sidekick. I think she was white. The one scene I remember was of the prince riding through the forest, then next he was on the grass on his back, laughing with the girl he chose to marry. Freida and her sidekicks were in the distance watching them while Freida does a voice-over. She does a lot of voice over. Freida hiding behind a blue-sh white curtain, pulling it aside and another voice-over debating whether she can do it (kill the prince) or not. A scene showing her hand holding a thin knife, trembling. An anguished Freida wailing silently, voice over saying she can't do it. In the end, she flings herself to the sea. The scene ends with her two sidekicks pink and white lamenting her turning to sea foam and the sun dawning as the ending notes start.
This show was aired maybe around 1990, maybe earlier or just after. Thank you for any suggestions
openKorean Movie/Documentary/TV Special Film
I've been looking for this show or movie or documentary that I watched as a kid (early 2000s). I can't remember the title or any names but can recall some parts of the plot. I am pretty sure it is a Korean film/show but not 100% certain.
The story is about a woman who may have had a family and definitely had a dog (light golden-colored?). One day (at a birthday party?) the dog was running around and happened to knock over a (helium?) tank. As the woman tried to pick the tank up, it exploded and shot pressurized material into her eyes and blinded her. Infuriated, she got rid of her dog and spent a lot of time depressed. The dog somehow got trained as a seeing-eye dog and somehow made its way back to the woman as her guide dog. I remember one pivotal scene where the woman begins learning how to read braille and it becomes a turning point from depression to hope for the future.
This has been bothering me for a while and nobody around me seems to remember or have heard of such a story. It would be really appreciated if someone could help me out, thanks!!
Edited by jjffryanopenHorror film? Film
I need to find the name of a film that my partner's daughter has been watching at school - I only have the details she gave me so I am sorry there isn't much to go on. I think it is rated 15, and it isn't animated. A girl lives in a haunted house. When she goes into the bathroom and turns on the bath taps blood comes out of the taps into the bath. She described dead bodies covered in blood rising out of the floor of the house. Ghosts. She also described a dark hairy hand looming over the girl. The girl wants to move house but they cannot afford to. I really hope you can help me!
Edited by Shandy4openMovie about a few guys on a truck Film
I don't remember much about this movie other than the fact that it was a bunch of guys inside of a truck, driving, and at (what I think was) the end, the truck didn't have the back-rack anymore. If I recall correctly, there was fighting on the road.
openAmerican Comedy on a cruise ship Film
OK, there was an American comedy on a cruiser ship. I don't remember specifics except... two scenes. In one scene two - a passenger and a waiter argue about a dress code for a ship restaurant and the waiter says that for a dinner he should wear "only a tie" (as opposed to bow tie)... and the passenger (he was a rather fat guy...) comes to a dinner later wearing only a tie... and nothing else (he was naked, much to everyone's confusion). Another scene, it was the same passenger, had him whining that a washing machine in his cabin is broken (while in fact he threw his clothes out through the cabin window...)... I know it's a long shot to ask about the movie title while this is all I can provide...
openbad guy with snakes Film
This is gonna sound REALLY vague but maybe someone can help. I remember my dad was watching some old black and white movie on tv and I watched with him but only saw 2 scenes. One was of a bald guy in a dark alley who my dad said was a bad guy. After that it went to a commercial. When it came back it showed this guy in a classroom(?) who had a pet snake (maybe 2 snakes I forget) resting on this arm. I asked my dad who he was and he said he was the Big Bad. I might have watched more but all I remember is this tiny fragment. Any takers?
openLiving TV Film
Horror show (Twilight Zone? Outer Limits? Night Gallery?) about a guy with an old-fashioned TV with legs that he can get rid of, keeps reappearing in his house. At one point it actually chases him, using it's legs like a big spider. I actually watched it on the same type of TV, gave me nightmares for years. Anyone remember it...could have been a movie...
openLitle kid with a heart problem becomes friends with a huge kid Film
Looking for the name of a movie where there is a huge kid who gets bullied because he's dumb and he becomes friends with a little kid who is smart for his age. It was narrated by the huge kid and ends with a downer ending because the little one died of a heart condition (I think). It was an adaptation of a book too.

It is a subtitled series set on a remote island where a woman from (??) Finland/Denmark /Norway has a stroke and sells up her house to move to an island where she once went on holiday and wants to buy the hotel. She can't so she builds one next door and jeapordises the one she wanted....and I think she may have ended up setting fire to hers/his or them both...