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openMilitary moving video for kids Film
When I was little, my dad was in the coast guard, so I had this VHS all about how to deal with moving around so much. It has a bunch of songs, and one was called “How do you make friends?”. There were interviews with a bunch of military kids. This one girl said she liked “bagels on Sunday, the moon in [her] window” and another kid said that she liked buying stuff in vending machines at hotels. Does anyone know what I’m talking about?
openPlease Help! Film
Ok Someone Please Help Me!! I can’t for the life of me remember this show!! Here’s The Plot: A Boy Gets teleported to another land where people fight with monsters the way you call the monsters is with theses crystals. The boy is the chosen one and him and his new friends a girl and a guy. Have to stop the evil person turning all the monsters evil. I know that’s not a lot to go on but I really can’t remember anything! Please help!
openTv show Film
So when i was in jail i was watching this tv show and cant remember the name of it for tge life of me. I only seen 1 episode and from i remember there was a white couple and they had an adopted black boy is is probably around 8 or 10 years old. The husband or bf said he was going somewhere and killed somebody and wrapped the body up and put him in the back of his black range/land rover and went home. And the wife/gf took the vehicle unknowingly knew there was a body in the back. She went to the mall and stole a bunch of cloths for their adopted black son and while she was putting the cloths in the back of the range/land rover and she seen tge body but wasnt to suprised. I'm guessing she knew her husband/bf kills people. She went home and parked in the garage. And their adopted son invited and friend and his friends mother over for dinner without asking permision. So tge adopted kids parents were freaking out because they had the body in the back of the land rover. And when they showed up for dinner they tried acting as normal as possible. Also the mother of the adopted black boy was trying to get him into some private school and was trying to bribe the lady into getting her son into the schooll. I wish i remembered a little more. Hopefully someone can help me find the name of this show
openTeacher and her dream rock Film
The movie is about a teacher who keep dreaming in class and her rock away wake her up in her hand
openSuper old vhs Film
Okay this is a long shot because the film was pretty old and I don’t remember much but it’s been bugging me for years so I thought I’d give it a shot. I used to watch this live-action video when I was young where a kid or maybe two kids, went to bed and entered this other world (obviously a set) kinda looked like a park. There were creatures there but I can’t remember at all what they looked like except that they were people in bad consumes. Can’t remember if they were animals or not... if someone remembers and says one I would probably remember. Also I think on the same video at the end there were magicians doing magic and then a puppet teaching how to make bubbles with water and dish soap, kind of like a cheap knock off of Sesame Street. Sorry I know this is all jumbled but I thought might as well see if anyone else recognizes it.
openbritish? television series about gay men with amazing piano music Film
noo one will probably be able to tell me but there was a series i watched about two gay men summering in a fancy house and it had amazing piano music but i c an't find it anywhere please help.
openLost trailer Film
There once was a trailer i watched when i was a kid i believe it was back in 2012 or 2013 all i know is that in the trailer i saw a kid and his parents playing the ps vista and 2 guys with guns go in and try to rob them, but all of the sudden its the zombie apocalypse so basically the family has to decide whether they trust the guys with guns or try to survive the zombie apocalypse. Please i have been looking for this for a while. Ps i remember it was a redband trailer so it might be a little hard to find all o want to know is the name
openSome movie about a mouse... Film
So, there was a mouse movie that I watched a long time ago. I remember quite a bit of it actually, just not the title of the film.
Basically the movie started with a funeral, this old rich guy had just died or something, and they were carrying him in his coffin down the steps of the church where they held his service. It was cold, dark, and rainy outside. The coffin slipped out of their hands and went down the stairs, opened up, and flung his body into an open manhole to the sewer.
Later, his house, or some other house, was going to be moved into by this family. I think the old dead guy was the owner of a yarn factory, and it used to be his house or something. There was a mouse inside that was causing trouble, so they hired an exterminator named Caesar to come kill it. Thus, the long game of "cat and mouse" began of Caesar trying to catch and kill it. I remember at one point he found mouse poop, picked it up with tweezers, and ate it to taste how to find the mouse (weird movie, I know).
The younger guy who owned the house ended up going to the yarn factory at one point, where a switch was thrown and made all the machines start working. He ran through the factory, but the machines were stripping and unraveling his clothes and tying them up into yarn balls, which he then used to cover his manhood since he was now naked. He got to the main office to find a person there, who saw the whole thing happen, and he ended up dropping the yarn balls in shock before it cut to the next scene.
I think in the end, they couldn't kill the mouse, so in a pure "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em" fashion, they teamed up and became friends. That's really all I remember, it was a hilarious movie and I want to watch it again. Thanks!
openUK live action false accusation of wife's murder Film
It's at least ten years old (saw some of it on TV when I was a kid, so it's probably even older). There was a middle aged, dark haired, sarcastic man whose wife went on holiday but for some reason everyone thought he had murdered her. The cop in charge of the investigation at one point gets him to "write a confession" and the man writes about how he killed his wife and made her into sausages, but then signs it "Sweeney Todd." There is a scene where someone is giving him a Rorschach test, and says "what does this look like?" and he says "it looks like a Rorschach ink blot test." When pressed, he says the blot looks like a butterfly perching on a geranium. The doctor asks him if he doesn't think it looks like, for instance, a woman dead in a pool of blood, and the man says "well of course I do, but I'm not going to tell you that, am I?"
openBaby Doll from Life Skills Class Given Lobster Arm Film
I watched this movie on TV in the late 90s, possibly early 00s in the United States. There were two teenage boys, 15 -18 years old, who got a baby doll to take care of for life skills class. Shenanigans ensue and eventually they replace the arm of the baby with a lobster claw. I don't remember much else; it could be comedy (dark comedy, maybe) or horror, but my memory is so hazy that I couldn't be sure.
Edited by TenbeatopenLuciferina Film
A 2018 horror film produced in Argentina, and distributed in the US by Artsploitation. Starring Sofia del Tuffo
openMovie where a character commits suicide Film
Trying to find a film but I only remember one scene from it.
The main character (a teenage boy, I think) is speaking to an older male friend. The male friend gifts him a scarf in what is clearly a goodbye gift right before he commits suicide.
This might have been a made for TV movie, but I don't recall anything else about it.
openVague Memories of a Show Film
Hi! I was directed here by a friend because I haven't been able to figure out what movie this was. My brain associates it with shark boy and lava girl but its not the same, maybe it has some similar actors? If it helps, this movie was something I watched when I was a kid, 16-18 years ago.
Basically, a young boy and his grandpa are wearing these suits(?), and they have their lives displayed on the suits..? Im not sure why they were there, but there was some girl as well and a mean-ish boy they meet, and they have to complete these tasks in this weird space/video game adjacent world, where they die and turn into these dust/pixels, and if they have lives they come back obviously.
I remember the grandpa dies and its like, really sad, and the boy has to continue without him. the older ish teenage girl drags him along basically. Maybe there was a giant robot thing they had to fight? I vaguely remember there were these platforms that would appear in front of them as they jumped like it would in a video game, and there was some big bad with a plot twist. I dunno if they were like trapped in a game or what.
I appreciate the help!
openDeconstructive fantasy? Film
I vaguely remember finding this fantasy film on the website years ago, and I'm trying to find it again. The most I remember is the general plot, the Twist Ending (female warrior has a pet baby dragon that gets kidnapped by an adult dragon, finds and slays the adult dragon only to realize too late it was her dragon all grown up and she spent years on this quest), and that it might've been animated.
openMid-Late 60s caper movie with second identity Film
Ok, I’m getting nowhere with this on Google, and it doesn’t ring a bell with my quirky-movie fan mother, so I come to you. This was a movie that was almost certainly from the 60s. The star was a clean-cut, handsome 20-ish guy in the Redford/Bridges vein, and I believe he worked for his father in-law. His wife didn’t take him seriously, and he was clearly unhappy, so he created a second identity, a gruff tough guy with a limp, a cane, and I think a scar. He hooked up with a (French?) prostitute who essentially gave him lessons, accompanied by a clock on the wall that spun forward each session until he… finished, covering longer intervals over successive sessions until such time as his instructor… finished first, and who then didn’t want him to leave. He eventually used his second identity to rip off his boss/father-in-law, went home and swept his wife off her feet, and they all lived happily ever after. That’s what I’ve got from memories an TV viewing well over 30 years ago. Any suggestions?
Edited by dspitzleopenMicronations documentary Film
A live documentary about the micronations of the world which aired live and featured the Islamic Sultanate of Qarsherskiy, Sealand, Molossia, and other well-known micronation.
openSome movie from a long time ago. Film
I dont really know the details, all I remember is that the main character was a boy, it was animated, it took place in medieval times, and there was a scene where a man was trapped under a giant church bell.
openGlowing tracers rounds being fired from BB guns at neo-Nazis Film
I was watching a film on You Tube or Television (can't remember which but if it was the former it is definitely well-known) and the soldiers from the Islamic Sultanate of Qarsherskiy were firing B Bs that were glowing Green and Red called "tracer rounds" at a group of neo-Nazis near Aiden Stalnik's Forest Lake & Trail in Newport News, VA, USA. I also remember RC boats on Lake 'Aydn and model rockets packed with M80s fired off the boats from the middle of the Lake.
openRobin Williams movie Film
I'm pretty sure it was Robin Williams. I only remember one scene. Williams character was in a forest, I think he was lost. And he was said that he needed to walk, making sure to keep the sun on his back. And he was also traveling with a woman.

I have this specific question for a weird cause - I can not live - I need to remember these TV series from 90's for teens. All I can remember is that there were toxic waste leak in a town. Somehow it affected some kids and through internet - cyberspace they interacted with another world, with some kind of cyborgs... can anyone relate???