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resolved Horror film about some people inside an abandoned building Film
The general setting: A group of people using white hazmat suits are researching an abandoned building inside some forest. I only remember two scenes:
- At some point some guy is piercing the walls with a nailgun to leave "proof" that someone searched the room. After leaving that room he decides, for reasons beyond my understanding (that, or I didnt pay attention), to pierce a water pipe above him, and acts shocked after getting wet, and uses a radio to tell a workmate to search for the valve and close it.
- One woman discovers a corpse hanging and the end of some stairs. After a bit she founds out that the person is still alive and uses the radio to call for help. Other people arrive and put the guy in the ground, trying to know what happened. The guy says something, one of the researches recognizes the language as german, and then the guy dies for real.
The reason why I have a hard time finding what movie it was it's because I don't recognize the language the characters were speaking: it's not english, spanish (or any romance language) and I strongly believe that is not german (based on what one character said). The movie looks relatively new (I mean, it doesn't look like an 80's film).
Other than that, I only remember that the woman in charge is named after a common english word (I think her name was "Love") and the word "hilfe" was constanly shown written on the walls, sometimes changing the letters to spell "lifhe" or "lihfe".
resolved Live-Action thriller film about kidnappers Film
I only saw a few minutes of this movie, in about 2008 or 2009. This is what I remember:
- A woman was searching someone's house, not her own house.
- She found a room with videos and watched one, and realized they were videos of child snuff films. Whoever was living in that house was making them.
- The woman found a child, I don't remember if it was a boy or girl or if the child was her offspring.
- She was confronted with a man and woman who lived there, who appeared to be very average white adults.
- The woman was horrified by what was going on in the house, and she might have pointed a weapon at the couple while backing away.
- The couple wasn't violent, but pleaded with the woman for understanding, in fact they were apologetic and admitted they had a problem and needed help. I think the woman told them they were "sick" and they agreed.
- The woman still didn't trust them and took the child and left. I'm pretty sure it was at night as she left the house into the night.
This looked like a thriller or horror movie, certainly it had horrific themes. I don't remember any on-screen violence, but I'm guessing from the subject matter it was rated R.
resolved Chinese action movie with a giant hovercraft at the end Film
I recall this Chinese action movie which at the end, a giant hovercraft rampages through the city, so the hero "borrows" a sports car and uses it to keep up with the hovercraft and uses a sword to cut through its skirt to try and stop it.
I think this other scene was in the same movie where the villains attach chains to a supermarket's inside and rip it to pieces from the inside.
resolved girl survives mass decapitation Film
i think it was an asian movie, probably from japan or thailand. the main character is a high school girl who was bullied. one day, her class was going on a field trip, and in the bus, i think the girl was writing/drawing something in her book, when her bullies wrenched it off her hands and threw it to the floor. as the girl crouched to pick up the book, the entire bus was suddenly horizontally split in half, decapitating everyone in the bus except the main character. i don't remember if this was a whole movie or just a horror short.
resolved Astronauts locked on planet Film
Help me remember a movie about space, in begining was a group of astronauts, almost of them died in an accident, only a man and a woman survived. They were forced to stay on the planet without any things or food, and were forced to sit in some corridors or caves. The male astronaut, I think, was called Luka.
resolved Movie starring a very old actress playing a supposed bombshell Film
I haven't actually watched this movie but I found it time ago browsing this site. It was about a woman who was depicted in the movie as being very attractive, with multiple suitors. The actress portraying her was elderly, with a lot of make up to try to make her look younger. I think it may have been an actress who was famous in her youth.
resolved Scene at Stock Exchange Film
Is there a movie where one character brings another to the pits at the New York Stock Exchange and rhapsodises about how it's a site of pure, unfiltered capitalism?
resolved Movies in Creature Features show intro Film
I can identify most of these movies, but not these three. Do they seem familiar to anyone?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfIOgP09zD0
(Almost forgot the link)
1:14 woman with long brown hair wearing some strange bra (solved!)
1:15 blonde woman dressed as Alice falling down some rabbit hole like thing (solved!)
1:26 blue (?) bald person with glasses (solved!)
I tried so hard finding these on my own but no luck. Can anyone please help? Thank you.
Edited by thestormtrooperresolved Possessed doll and monster in closet Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgCxszTQ7RI
This is a promo for the TV channel, Scream.
Can anyone please identify the movies for me?
0:01 to 0:06 (father opens bedroom closet to find monster, we see ghost in wall)
0:12 (possessed doll tugging something)
Any help would truly be appreciated, thank you.
resolved A Dog Named Zeus, And... Film
I remember watching this movie on some cable network back in the '00s or '10s, not quite sure when. It had a dog (maybe a golden retriever, but I am not exactly sure the breed) named Zeus as the protagonist of the story, and it was very much a story grounded in reality besides the dogs being able to talk to one another. I do remember now that it must have been a made for TV movie, as it had that look of having a lower budget with shakier camera work and not even bothering animating the dogs' mouths to move to match their dialogue. Hopefully this is enough of a trail for tropers to go out on the hunt, thanks!
resolved fantasy young adult movie Film
The main character is a young woman, probably in her early 20s. One day she suddenly awakened some kind of psychic powers, but she accidentally erased her parents' memories of her, so she ran away from home. She then met a bunch of runaways who has the same powers as her. This group usually divides the members by the strength of their psychic powers, and I think the strongest category is red. This girl's powers were categorized as red, and I remember the main villain is a guy who was also a fellow red.
resolved Comedy movie where man thinks he's in a play acted adventure, but it's real Film
A guy goes to visit a friend or relative in England, and gets invited to take part in a roleplay adventure. However, by coincidence he stumbles on to a real crime, and thinks everyone involved is actors. Meanwhile the police are also after him because the actual criminal shot one of the actors.
resolved Animated(?) movie about aliens and a human astronaut Film
The protagonist is a young alien, and there's one human who i think crashed on the alien planet. I think the human needed a breathing device on the planet, and that the protagonist's father and the human both get killed off
resolved A movie about a lonely man who can only get into a relationship with an AI Film
It was a Sci-Fi romance movie.
The opening scene conscisted of the MC narrating an emotionaly loaded letter, don't remember what it was actualy about. As he spoke into a microphone, his monologue was being written down, in the handwriting of a deceased person.
His job is essentially writing letters that look like they were written by someone who was once close to the commisioner.
After the narration is done, he clocks out & goes home. Equipped with a headset in bed, he is going through multiple possible chat partners for the night.
Eventually, MC finds a suitable option that is seemingly just looking for someone to talk to on a lonely night. Only for the conversation to devolve into telephone sex.
The stranger wanted MC to narrate to her how he is forcing a cat's tail down her throat. Also, the MC was extremely uncomfortable during the scene.
The next day, the MC downloads an AI onto his desktop to compensate for his loneliness. One of their first interactions consisted of the AI trying to convince the MC to delete all of his old e-mails. He hesitantly agrees.
Afterwards, the MC goes on a date with a human woman. At first it goes great, but then he blows it right before the end.
The next day, the MC tries to get to know the AI a bit better, and even spends the night with her, chatting about loneliness, love & thelike.
And thats all I remember. Any and all guesses would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
resolved Some NASA kids origin story Film
I remember a movie that I guess was about some important NASA scientist when they were in school.
I remember that they were experimenting with home-made rockets. But they accidentally caused a forest fire, so they decided to stop and destroy their base (wiht a Molotov cocktail). But later in the movie turns out they didn't actually cause the fire, so they had to clean their name.
resolved Under the Weather? Film
I think there was some kind of Anime film where a girl has the power to bring sunshine to an otherwise perpetually raining place, except the citizens rely on her too much and complain whenever she doesn't bring sunshine in a day. Also, her power has a limit and using it too much will result in her disappearing? Or going to heaven? Basically death? And the power is a "Chosen One" kind of thing. Oh yeah, and the protagonist is actually a boy who has a crush on her.
resolved (SOLVED) Really bad Japanese live action film with lots of gore Film
EDIT: the film is called Mutant Girls Squad, thank you!
(this will be a bit NSFW) I watched this film sometime between 2008 to 2014, but it could very well have been made before then. Sorry for the long timeframe given, I was a kid when I watched this film so my memory's failing me now. All I remember from the film is it's about high school girls who have mutant powers, the only character I remember had the name Yoshi (it was either short for Yoshimi or Yoshie) and was able to transform her arms into octopus tentacles. I think the main girl might have had powers related to growing spines or needles from her body, and discovered these powers by accidentally killing someone. The central antagonists I believe were authorities trying to exterminate mutants. The movie was very gore-heavy, but was tonally very goofy and a bit raunchy. Only death I remember is Yoshi killing a character by ramming a tentacle up his ass... that was the kind of film this was.
I watched this movie as a kid because my mother had a habit of renting out tons of foreign films from Video Ezy (basically the Australian version of Blockbuster) without actually checking what they were or whether they were good. I was getting into anime at the time and saw the film was Japanese so decided to watch it. I'd like to find this movie just to revisit it, this fuckass weird movie has stuck with me all these years just from how bizarre it was, but I've never been able to find it.
Edited by p0megranatesresolved Canadian film from 2024 about girls growing up Film
I remember seeing a trailer for this film a year ago, but I’ve unfortunately forgotten the name of it. It was a Canadian film (I know this because it had a bunch of production companies from there), and it seemed to be a coming-of-age film about a girl dealing with teenhood and sex.
There was this one scene from the trailer where the main character got a dildo (or something like that) in order to expand her inside and get used to the feeling of sex. That, and maybe a joke or two about a Fake Orgasm.
I think it had a long title too. If there’s a timeframe for it, I’d say it was released this year or the last (2023).
Edited by CanuckMcDuck1resolved Movie about a redheaded woman in a wedding dress being depressed at a biker pub Film
I keep seeing these clips on a woman in her wedding dress going to the parking lot of a biker joint depressed, I know the scene, I just don't know the movie.

1 - There's a little boy said to be the reincarnation of the Buddha, he even punishes a villain sending him to a frozen hell... 2 - There's a girl from whom the boy is freeloading because she thinks she can profit from it... Even asking if he can predict the lottery numbers to which he answers that he can make the numbers he want appear in the lottery... 3 - There's a guy that acts as the Buddha guardian, but he keeps falling from a window with a loose frame, even coming back with the frame... and somehow the thing I remember the most about him is that he enjoys dog food...
The worst is I don't remember if the movie is japanese or chinese...