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Tv show or movie where a girl tries to die crossing red signs Film
the only thing i remember is that this girl tries do get in a car accident after her mom gets into one. Her mom ran over a red sign and got into a car accident so later on she tries to do the same by crossing red lights because she also wants to die or something along those lines. For some reason i don't remember its name
Camp teenager movie? Film
I remember a movie about teens in a camp. I think there were two camps (one for boys and one for girls) and for some reason they have to endure a storm? What I do remember is that one of the girl counselors is a virgin and has sex with one of the guys, but shortly before she gets an allergic reaction (I think it had something to do with bees?) so she points out that she never thought she would do it with her face all weird or something. Does it ring any bells?
French movie about a man getting his friend to pretend to be his wife Film
He had a mistress who trashed his apartment with a chainsaw until it got stuck, then his "wife" actually sided with the mistress in order to try and woo her.
movie in which they hold a little girl in a laboratory Film
maybe in the 60s or 70s. they get rid of all women (off-screen) and leave only the little girls alive or just one. then they keep her in a laboratory or something. they want to do an experiment that will change women in some way. i hope you guess the movie title or at least some suggestions ?
A movie about a boy and his grandfather trapped in a house Film
I'm trying to remember a movie I saw a long time ago with my own grandfather.
It's about a boy who likes to dress up like a commando who lives with his mother and grandfather in a big house or mansion.
One night someone breaks in and it's just the boy and his grandfather trapped inside.
At one point, the grandfather hides inside a suit of armor and at another point, IIRC, the boy tries to kill the home invader with a stick of dynamite hidden in a toy train.
Does this ring any bells, fellow tropers?
Movie or tv show Film
I’m looking for a movie or a tv show where there were 2 women and one of them was very evil (she had red hair) and I remember a scene where she killed the blond woman and put her in a suitcase?? Then another scene I remember she switched somebody’s eye drops with some sort of acid and she was looking from the outside... that’s all I know. Please help!!
Movie homejacking Film
I’m looking for another movie I saw when I was little, it has to be around the 90’s or early 00’s? about a house full of people there was some sort of party going on, and there was art like paintings and stuff and I remember one of the bad guys cut a finger of an older man for his ring. Than there was a scene where a girl was hiding in the ceiling I think (not sure) and there was a big spider next to her but she had to be quiet so she didn’t got caught. There were 2 boys, brothers I think and one of them was evil and in the end she was about to shoot the evil Brother and he said something like “you can’t shoot me” or something like that. I hope this was enough information. (Sorry if some words or sentences are wrong i’m Belgian 😂) thanks anyway!
Movie about evil sibling(?) Film
All right, I remember watching this movie years ago, but I can't for the life of me remember the name. Basic plot was that there was two sibling boys (well, I think they were siblings, but I'm not sure. They were definitely related, though...), and one of the siblings was evil to the point of murderousness and the other was good. I do remember two specific scenes, though, so maybe that'll help identify the movie I'm thinking of.
One scene I remember is where the family is ice skating, and the evil sibling flings his younger sister onto a patch of dangerously thin ice, and the ice breaks, and the good sibling has to save her.
The second scene I remember is the very end, where the two siblings are hanging off a cliff, and the mom is holding onto them both, one on each arm, and she can only pull up one, and she decides to drop the evil sibling (morbid, I know) and save the good one.
I have been trying to remember what movie this was for YEARS, and if any of you know what movie I'm talking about, I would be greatly appreciated.
A movie about a serial killer Film
It was weird, with one scene showing light-up signs as a visual metaphor for thought?, and the serial killer in the end said that he did it because his victims would have suffered from bad diseases. I'm pretty sure the serial killer told the police? in a video that he was not abused as a child or anything.
Asian horror film Film
I remember in near opening scene, there is a man inside water tank challenge. I think it's a ghost film. the rest of film is set in a house. couple as main character.
"Daddy's Little Girl?" (still unsolved) Film
Family film, live action, circa I don’t even know, late 1990s? Possibly/probably relatively obscure, so if this rings any bells to anybody let me just say you're awesome. Anyway, the movie is about, or at least features, a girl, 12ish years old, whose father is a comic book artist. There’s a scene at a birthday(?) party, at a backyard with a pool; there’s a live 60s-esque rock band who’ve been hired to perform, singing lyrics along the following lines: “ooh, she’s daddy’s little girl” (trying to search these lyrics only turns up an unrelated song.) The other kids there are teasing the girl because of something in the latest issue of her father’s comic book. It’s a vaguely TMNT-esque publication, with anthropomorphic animals as the characters, and the Master Splinter-type character has his adopted-daughter-type figure start wearing a training bra now that she’s growing up; all the girl’s friends recognize this as being a thinly veiled stand-in for the girl’s own blossoming into womanhood, the father writing his own relationship with his daughter into the comic. That's about all I've got. Thanks.
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Turtle pulled underwater and eaten? Film
My little sister remembers watching a movie in theaters when she was a kid (early 2000s-ish) with a scene that really freaked her out. There was a big turtle swimming in the water that was suddenly pulled under the water. And a few seconds later its empty shell got spat out on to the land - the turtle having been eaten by some kind of animal/monster under the water. It was a kids film, animated, that's all she can remember about it.
Film with crazy guy. Film
So basically, I'm trying to remember the name of this film. In it, a woman takes her daughter to star in a play where all the children are dressed up as faeries. Her mother cannot find her afterwards and goes from nervously calling her name to outright ripping the masks off other children's faces in an effort to see if they are her daughter. With it established that her daughter has been kidnapped, the police are called but all they find are the wings from the little girl's costume tied eerily to a post. The culprit was a man named Vivian. He often sings a song called "Don't sit Under The Apple Tree with Anybody Else but Me." and as stupid as it sounds there was a nursery rhyme about how his father was a dollar and his mother was a song. In the end, the woman finds Vivian and is ultimately killed by him but upon being killed, she reunites with her daughter.
Movie about man that resurrects women by playing flute? Film
When I was like 7 I saw a movie that for some reason got stuck in my head but I don't remember much about it. Actually, I remember almost nothing. What I remember: It takes place in some kind of village near mountains and a glade. I remember lots of grass. From the clothes, I remember it looked like Asterix and Obelix era (plain dresses, wooden houses). Gives me the idea of northern Europe? I know, not very helpful. The villagers "find" a man who I think seemed to be from a different village and could not communicate with him for some reason. There is a nice young lady that he has a close friendship with. One day when the girl is in the field she is killed by a rock? And they create a wooden structure, they put her body there for a watch (some kind of cultural thing I assume). And the mysterious man plays some kind of instrument (flute I think) and that brings her back to life? This might sound crazy but I often think about this movie and the scenes I remember. I am not sure how much of that is my imagination after 13 years. I would really appreciate if someone could give me the title or if you also remember this movie but not the title, maybe some more scenes that could help me with my search. Have a great day!
Alien dogs Film
I think it was Disney, about a kid that finds a dog, but then the kid can understand dogs. And the dog explains he came from another planet to make sure a plan to dominate the planet is going through.
Comedy indie film about mathletes Film
I'm looking for an indie film I saw a couple years ago on Sky. It was set in an American boarding school, with a main character who was a brilliant mathematician with a gigantic afro who had skipped a couple grades to get into college early. The main drive of the film was him making friends with his frat boy roommate. The mathlete scenes were intentionally goofy, with ridiculously complicated problems being solved really quickly. There's a scene set in the school library where the kid with the afro hits on/is hit on by another mathlete girl.
Any help you could give me would be appreciated, this is driving me mad.
(SOLVED) Old sepia educational cartoon with songs. Film
Been looking for this forever. It's a series of educational cartoon videos that my teacher showed to the class in Year 4. I always thought it looked like it was from the 50's because it was traditionally drawn with black line art on a sepia background. There were various educational songs, one was about animals I think. I'm pretty sure one of the songs was 'Chicken Soup and Rice' by Carole King. Characters were mainly children drawn in a style similar to Peanuts. Any idea what this could be?
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Sci-fi-ish detective movie (70s) Film
I remember catching this intriguing film on the sci-fi channel in the 90s but the costumes and set designs were more like early/mid 70s, including the futuristic planned community (I'll get to that).
What I remember is an opening shot of a really tall building with lots of elevators, sort of Blade Runner-esque but not as good effects. Then a hardboiled detective character fries an egg (no pun intended) and talks into a high-tech typewriter (heavy zeerust in this movie) that records his speech as text. I think he is interrupted and someone comes in, after some trouble with the voice-typing machine. The detective says something about eggs and cholesterol and sort of implied that they were either illegal in the future the movie takes place in or that no one ate them. Then, the detective learns of and is sent to solve a murder in a planned futuristic community.
It had some similarities to the Kim Newman story "Tomorrow Town" but it was a movie with different (but similar) characters, if I recall correctly.
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Holloween movie for kids with a strangely too scary monster Film
So, Sorry If this is super vague, but there was a halloween time monster movie that was shown on a somewhat kid friendly channel sometime before 2013 and deff after 2000 (But not needing to be made during this timeframe, just shown). The reason it sticks in my memory is due to it's crazy scary monster design that scared the LIVING CRAP out of me when I was around . The monster was a very tall cloaked thing, that was half skeletal and half fleshy and somehow had greenish goo associated with it. The monster ate Children and made it's lair in a tunnel? cave? Sewer? but somewhere urban. The plot was that a local town was being terrorized by it and the climax was when the monster stole a local boy (A sibling of one of the main cast of kids it revolves around) and the Gang has to fight the monster in it's lair. I also remember that one of cast members either is a pizza delivery man or interacts with one via the story. It is Quite possible that the movie is a tv movie or that this was not made for kids, but IDK how I could have seen it without it being on a kids channel?? (Oh! And It's not IT by steven king btw) Thanks for reading and helping if you can. <3 Happy halloween!!
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Teen/grown woman treated like small child by older parents Film
Possibly a Made-For-TV movie. Sorry I'm not giving much information. I was very young and this is pretty much all I remember.
It was a teenager or a young woman, with older parents, who kept treating her like she was still a small child. Her “I can’t take it anymore” moment came on either her birthday or Christmas, when she unwrapped their gift, and it was a doll. They acted like they’d given her something wonderful. They were very excited to give it to her. She was outraged.
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Killer dog movie Film
Its an older film about killer dogs 2 I believe I remember them being vampiric in nature one white and one black it was a horror movie and in the end there was one puppy vampire dog thing. Sorry don't have more info but like I said older movie with 2 main dogs and they might have turned other dogs and there was a vampire man controlling them.
Nativity! (2009) Film
Nativity is a 2009 British Comedy Musical Film directed by Debbie Isitt. It stars Martin Freeman as Paul Maddens, a hapless Primary School teacher at St. Bernadette's Catholic School in Coventry
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Barber shaves a balloon Film
I remember seeing a TV Show or movie where a male asks a barber for a shave. The barber (I don't remember if male or female) applies shaving cream to an inflated balloon to demonstrate their steady hand with a straight razor, but the balloon pops. The barber chuckles a bit and produces another balloon, and the second time is able to successfully "shave" the balloon. The customer is satisfied with the demonstration and still wants the barber to shave him.
I thought this was from Gran Torino but I recently watched it and there was no balloon in the barber shaving scene.
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Name Of Asian Balloon Movie? Film
I watched this movie when I was really young (2008-2010? but the film itself was probably older, it had decent graphics as far as I could tell though and it was definitely in colour) so my memory is pretty vague of it, but here goes anyway. I think it was Asian, possibly Japanese. Might not have been but that's my guess. It was live action, by the way, it couldn't have been an animated one. The plot had something to do with a boy who had a bundle of balloons and kept losing them over the course of the movie, pretty sure the last scene had him looking up or sth while the last balloon flies into the sky. There was a bicycle scene in there somewhere. Iirc it was a mostly silent film, help would be appreciated.
EDIT: Flight Of The Red Balloon might be it, not sure though.
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