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Condo scene Film
There was a live-action movie I watched in high school, so it couldn't have been newer than the mid-2000s. All I remember is there's a scene where the white male protagonist is in a condo with a glass wall, I think overlooking a pool, at night. Then he opens a drawer and pulls out a small cardboard box (may have been bullets or cigarettes or something else).
Deconstruction of Superman movie Film
I think it was a movie. I remember seeing something about the plot being a man and a woman finding a baby in a rocked. The baby grows up and learns he has powers. Unfortunately he's not interested in using them for good. I'm not sure what it was called or if I got the plot right but I think that was the basic of it.
Made up fairy tale movie (found it) Film
The movie was a fake fairy tale (it had the whole medieval setup, Once Upon A Time storytelling etc) about a girl who was cursed by a fairy as a baby to be unable to disobey orders and requests.
In the fairy's words, she had just created the most obedient child in the world. She displays this by telling the baby to stop crying, and she instantly stops.
Right afterwards, the scene changes to a Time Skip where she's a young girl. She was told by her mother to get down the stairs and practice her violin. The girl - aware of her curse - tried to go down slowly but her mother repeated the phrase and she went down the stairs with Super Speed. She was also ordered to never reveal her curse to anyone.
By the way, the girl was blonde, living in a rural but really nice house (two stories and very bright), while the fairy was dressed in black.
Never mind, I found it. It was a film adaptation of Ella Enchanted.
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80s/90s Animation About a Kids Club Film
Not sure if this is a movie or show, I just remember watching it on vhs tapes. It involved a club of kids that met in a tree house or clubhouse and they had certain problems like getting along with siblings or something. For example, the one I remember is this little brother went camping and took and picture of his sister squatting (it was a children's show so it didn't show anything graphic at all) and he was gonna put the slide of the picture in during a school dance or something and they end up making up or something like that. Another storyline ended with them writing thank you notes for cookies or something. I want to say the name has something to do with humanity society or tree house society but I've Google all variations of that.
Thanks in advance, new to this site and this is awesome!
TV Show - Cold Case? CSI? Law and Order? Film
Im trying to find this episode where a guy was lead back to a place by a women and she handcuffed or tied him to a bed. Then I think she gave him like a blue pill like viagra or something. Then a guy comes out of nowhere maybe from a closet or another room and got taken advantage of by the guy. I think this is Cold Case, or CSI, or maybe even law and order? This is all I can remember about this episode.
70s or 80s Horror Movie Film
I only remember one scene but I've been trying to find this movie for ages. The Scene is: a young couple check into a hotel, the manager is creepy, they find a hidden slide in their room and their door starts opening on its own, so they go down the slide. There's a split in the slide so the woman ends up outside the hotel screaming for her husband, and the guy lands in this big pile of bones, sees a hole in the wall, and watches the manager remove parts of his face starting with his nose. I saw it when I was little but it stuck with me and I'm pretty sure it was 70s or 80s horror. Anyone know it? Thanks.
zombie comedy movie? Film
A zombie movie that I feel like was also a comedy. It had a decipherable plot that revolved around an infected city being cordoned off. It was interspersed with humourous news report sketch moments which discussed the progression of the disease. I think it is on Netflix (at least, in the UK).
Japanese Short Film about a man trying to distract a suicide victim Film
I saw at a film festival a short live-action Japanese film. In it, a middle aged energetic man seemingly tries to cheer up a woman he doesn't know, who isn't interested. I think he does some magic tricks? It ends with her getting up from the bench and walking away.
He then howls in rage and the camera pans over to her shoes and reveals they were on a rooftop and he was trying to dissuade her from suicide. And failed.
IRA movie that starts with an assassination and a gunfight Film
It’s a movie about the IRA, I remember a family at a table when all of a sudden some guy bursts in and shoots the dad at the table. In the next scene there’s a big gunfight with the IRA in a building and the military outside, and the IRA end up retreating. One of them is injured and pretends to be dead, but shoots a guy as he walks in. He surrenders afterwards, but gets executed by some guy who I think was wearing a suit. It could have not been a suit, but he definitely wasn’t dressed like a soldier.
please name the movie Film
i only remember the scene on youtube. a teenage girl in a short skirt bends over in front of a boy and a woman at a public place.
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Horror Movie Featuring Either Zombies or Aliens Film
When I was a kid I saw part of a movie where either zombies or aliens were hiding under the guise of being human, but when they were found out they peeled off their skin revealing hideous creatures underneath. This was the late 80s early 90s, but I feel like this movie might be older than that...as far back as the 70s to early 80s. I've been trying to find this movie for yrs, so any help will be appreciated.
Anyone Know What Movie This Gif Comes From? Film
It's an old B&W movie featuring a cyclops. (To see the gif I'm talking about do a Google Image search for Cyclops rhett hammersmith horror. It's the 1st 1.)
Edited by ToneeRhianRose
Friends steal a band's van and equipment for revenge, end up becoming actual band. Film
I never actually saw this, but found a synopsis on a Wiki Walk and thought the premise was interesting: A group of young people go out to a local concert because the singer is related to one of them - said singer turns out to be becoming a Small Name, Big Ego because his band is beginning to become a local draw, and treats the main characters poorly. In a fit of anger, they decide to steal his van with all the band's equipment in it and just drive off with no destination in mind. The van breaks down a few cities away, and, needing money to get it repaired and drive on, they come up with the idea of pretending to be a band and conning their way into their first show. None of the "band" members have ever played their instruments before, and they had no time to prepare any original material, and it shows, but somehow they get paid and keep getting booked; gradually they get better at playing music and actually become a respectable band. The article mentioned that the Fake Band were depicted by a real one (who had to purposely play badly, then gradually get better over the course of the movie), and several real American indie bands appeared as themselves.
Movie about a salesman Film
The salesman character was a little slow and he hated to be pitied or helped in ways he didn't feel earned.
For example: at one point he got hit by a bus but refused a payout, citing that he was at fault for not looking both ways before stepping out into the street. Another was him discovering a regular customer had passed away and her kids were going through her things which led him to find out that she had a room full of stuff she'd bought from him over the years, implying that she had been buying things she didn't need to help him make his sales goals.
Occasionally there'd be a voice over from the main character telling a joke about salesmen, with the very last one having the punchline of the salesman in the joke itself realizing that he ended up in the wrong joke.
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A specific older film Film
I'm looking for a film. It involves a pair of kids, a boy and a girl, stranded on an island by themselves. Early on, they had an adult, but he ends up being found dead. Both kids do grow up and use their skills to help survive for years on the island. They do eventually escape, and are found by the biological father of one of them. Also, they do end up having a baby while stuck on the island.
It's relatively old-ish, being either from the late 80s or early 90s, or possibly around the early 2000s.
Uncle Fester Enters Orbit in The Electric Chair Film
For some reason, I have this image in my head that I think is from The Addams Family movies - but apparently it's not. Basically, Uncle Fester is in an Electric Chair, which is turned on, and the voltage causes the chair to explode, sending it and Fester into the air - where the scene cuts to Fester seated in the chair, with the Earth in the background, before falling back down. My cousin also remembers something like this, but I don't actually think it exists.
Is there any scene, in anything, that depicts a character taking the Chair to the Earth's atmosphere?
end of Horror Movie Film
A few years ago, I was switching channels on TV and I stumbled upon the Downer Ending of what seemed to be a supernatural horror film.
It has a young man visiting his father in prison. Then it turns out, that a demon took posession of the boy and then he kills the dad. The next scene reveals that the demons also killed the guards.
Cue end credits.
I'm kinda intrigued about the film because I missed everything else leading to that point.
A movie about a character in a toy world. Film
The premise is that the main character is a kid who likes toys that gets summoned to a toy world to fight an evil overlord. He gets the ability to copy the powers of any one toy so he picks his favourite - a Buzz Lightyear like toy that was recalled because of a defect that made it fall apart if you bent its limbs wrong, it turns out the evil overlord is the toy itself who wants to conquer the toy world as revenge for being recalled and the kid defeats him by using the defect to make him fall apart.
Black and White animated movie I don't remember (Solved) Film
So this is a movie in black and White monochrome that begins with a boy trying to escape by a window of some weird prison cell after being warned by a bald boy. When he's about to escape a man entera through the door and shoots the bald one. Later in the movie, the bald kid is shown to have survived and he's now incredibly fat and is the leader of a mafia Group or something. The setting was the typical dystopian future were The main plot was about scientists doing experiments with children that suffered from cancer in Hopes of finding immortality. There was a success:a manchild that looked incredibly old and pale that never talks in words (he does make somewhat gutural noises) Pd: the plot is the Main character searching though all the city to find the woman that worked for the Big bad Evil company that had been kidnapped at the start of the movie proper due to having rediscovered the secret of immortality)... She was kidnapped because if the secret of immortality would end Up giving the Big Evil corporate company Avalon (its name was either this or camelot) control over pretty much everything. After all attempts to reason with her fail, he shoots her in the back, causing her to fall into the sewers and sink into the Walter, while the corporate leader breaks down as all his efforts have ended Up being for nothing Just found it. It's called rennaissance
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Trying to figure out what movie has this scene Film
Okay, so all i can remember about the movie was that it has a scene where a child hides in a pool and holds their breath while dead bodies and body parts fall in the pool and sink to the bottom. I think it’s some art house flick or something.
Chinese or Russian Historical Drama [RESOLVED] Film
There was a trailer I watched a year or two ago for an upcoming big-budget historical drama with steppe nomads (no, not Genghis). I think it's a Chinese production and a film, though it might also be Russian and/or a series. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
ETA: I think it's The Golden Horde / Золотая Орда
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School Bus Hijacking Movie Film
School bus driving at night full of kids and a male bus driver. A couple men hijack the bus and shoot the driver in the head and his blood is all over the inside of the bus. All the kids are screaming and crying and begging for their lives. The hijackers tie all the kids hands together and duct tape their mouths and lead them off the bus. I remember a little black girl with her hair in two buns the most. I think she was wearing a red shirt and jeans shorts. The men take all the kids into a house and leave them there and that's all I remember.