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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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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.
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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"Daddy's Little Girl?" 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.
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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Orthodox Jew (Comedy?) Film
A movie aired on cable in the mid to late 1990s, but could have been any age at the time. I perceived the protagonist as a caricatured Orthodox Jew of the Woody Allen variety, so I suppose it was a comedy - but it could also have been a drama that came across other than intended. I remember two scenes. In one, he was some kind of captive and a Tora was in danger of falling into a campfire; possibly hilarity ensued as he rescued it? In the other, he woke up in some kind of hospital and was startled by the first thing he saw, which was a crucifix worn by an attending nun. Any idea?
Scandinavian comedy about brother-sister duo, brother is inventor and salesman Film
I'm searching for a film which I haven't seen, but people are looking for it in a facebook group, and I'm myself interested. :-)
- main characters are brother and sister, the brother is an inventor, both are kind of nutty
- there occasionally appears a fairy-tale or fantasy character, but the film itself is not a fairy-tale
- at one point they need to put out a burning castle, so they call a giant who pees on it
- at the beginning, the brother pretends to be a salesman, for instance he offers giant lianas which are shown in huge (several meters long) concertina books (pop-up books?) or a zen garden with a little fountain and a small swing (or a small see-saw), the zen garden is hidden in a briefcase.
- at the end, they walk in an orchard and the brother presents apple trees whose apples pick themselves — they just jump into a basket on their own.
- seen about 30 years ago
- broacasted on Czech TV
- Scandinavian film (one person suggested it might have been in English, therefore it's perhaps British/American/Canadian/Australian...
- comedy
- there are some repetitive parts, so it could be a series or miniseries?
- from the 70's or 80's
I find this kind of fascinating. Does it ring a bell? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.
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Asian shallow hal? Film
So I remember this chinese and or korean movie where a guy gets into an accident and now ugly people look pretty and pretty people look ulgy to him. He falls in love with an ugly beggar woman thinking she's beautiful. I remember one scene in particular where the guy got his eyes fixed oversees and when the woman meets him at the airport he passes her by because he can't recognize her.
Thanks in advance!
Movie about wishing Film
I think I saw it on Disney Channel or Fox Family, 1999-2000ish. There were two sisters, the younger of whom wanted to wish upon a star, but it was daytime. Older sister suggested she wish upon the sun, since it's a star. She does so wearing sunglasses and recites the rhyme "star light, star bright, first star I see today." There was a scene afterward where a high school boy is getting bullied because someone snuck a Barbie doll into the back of his bookbag.
Tv film about wishing Film
I think I saw it on Disney Channel or Fox Family, 1999-2000ish. There were two sisters, the younger of whom wanted to wish upon a star, but it was daytime. Older sister suggested she wish upon the sun, since it's a star. She does so wearing sunglasses and recites the rhyme "star light, star bright, first star I see today." There was a scene afterward where a high school boy is getting bullied because someone snuck a Barbie doll into the back of his bookbag.
Recent giant staircase movie? Film
So my brother texted me this:
"Hey I have kind of a weird question. Did we watch a movie together a while ago where the main character was seeing a therapist or doctor of some sort and they had to climb up a giant staircase to get to the doctor’s office?
The staircase was one of those semicircle kinds, very fancy looking.
Maybe it wasn’t in the theater but it was a fairly new movie"
He thought it was I heart Huckabees but he isn't sure and I suggested it might be an Alfred Hitchcock movie but he doesn't think so.
Any help will be appreciated!
revisionist western - bodice ripping Film
Sometime during the 1971 to 1973, a scene on color TV showed inside a log cabin, a table, and a woman facing the camera. Then a cowboy approaching that woman from behind her back, wrapped his arm around her torso and then cupped her breasts followed by ripping her off her bodice only to deftly cover her breast before any exposure can occur.
I was shocked by this rather uncensored scene over TV airwave. I am guessing that this happened before FCC cracked down just not on 7 dirty words but TV rating as well.
My attempt to find the movie from various database was fruitless. Shocking scene, still remembered. I wonder if this is the original "bodice-ripping" that many romance writers draw their inspiration from.
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Human Body Documentary Film
I'm searching for an old documentary I used to watch in school. I believe it came out in the 90s or early 2000s. It starts with a live action story of the human actors outside, but then switches to a CGI explanation of the body. There was an episode on memory loss where a man forgot who his wife was. Drawn Together did a parody of this in which Toot, became dehydrated and began to hallucinate, in which it showed a picture of what was happening to her brain as her cells lost water. The documentary did a similar episode on dehydration too, with the human actors lost in the desert, and a CGI showing what was happening to their cells as they lost water.
Iron Man 3 Film
At the end of Iron Man 3, Happy is watching an episode of Downton Abbey where and man and a woman are looking at each other while a woman walks towards them. What episode is that from?
Giant Movie Film Film
I'm trying to find an old live action film about giants. It may have been on the Fox network. It was like a ripoff of Borrowers, and trying to be like Disney Channel original movies, but it wasn't that. The normal sized humans go into the world of giants, get trapped there, hide, and the father giant becomes obsessed with destroying them and 'proving that little people exist.' The giants had big ugly noses. It came out in the 90s.
Evil Teddy Bear Film Film
There are a lot of shows about evil teddy bears, when I search for them, but I'm looking for a specific one. The boy tries to throw the evil teddy bear away, in the garbage, but the bear says, 'so they thought they could get rid of me,' and comes back. I remember a scene where the teddy bear stuffs a sock in the boy's mouth and he's terrified but can't scream.
No Title Film
This could have been a TV show or a movie so I’ll post it in both threads. I would have seen it in the early eighties but I think the show itself was set in an earlier time, like 1930s or so. I remember a scene with a little girl holding a doll and signing to herself while sitting either on the edge of a parked train car or actually on the tracks kind of under the train. Then I think another train rolled toward her to couple with the one she was sitting on or under and her legs got crushed. The next thing I remember is she was in the backseat of a car with her head in her mother’s lap and the mother was crying and the girl was saying she couldn’t see (she was dying from blood loss). Really scared me when I was younger.
No Title Film
It's about an amnesia drug that was a failed attempt to develop a cure for PTSD.