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resolved Movie about a duo of brothers Film
I remember years back in a school class we watched this movie about a boy and his brother with a disability. What I remember the most is that the brother had a tendency for making crude jokes, and I remember the film had a bit of a tragic ending with the brother dying. I think the film had a rural-ish setting. I remember looking it up after watching it and reading that it was the only credited role for the actor who played the brother of the lead character.
Does anybody have a clue as to what I'm talking about?
resolved 2000s adult movie Film
There's this movie I'm trying to find. The main character is a sex addict and he has a little sister who works as a sex worker. It was an American movie and I think it came out in the 2000s. I remember there's a scene where the sister calls the man while crying and it was one of the most emotional scenes of the movie, though I could be wrong.
resolved Girls controlling the weather Film
I think it is a Disney Channel movie, but I'm not sure.
I remember a Christmas movie about two girls that find Santa Claus' weather machine (don't ask), and decided to make it snow in their city, so I assume it was set in California for it to be special.
resolved black-and-white action? film Film
a black and white film about a British military base in Africa where the native soldiers rebel/go on strike, and the main characters (an officer and a soldier recently transferred) have to stop it. the revolt is eventually stopped bloodlessly when the main characters blow up a jeep.
resolved Movie Where Man gets sent to life in prison for attacking his Wife's murderer Film
I saw this video on Facebook of a movie where a man gets life in prison for attacking the man that killed his wife, Grey.
All I know is that the guy who killed the wife is named Kovic...I don't know the title though.
resolved Film about an immigrant child who becomes a chess master. Film
I remember that I went to see this movie back when I was in high school. It was about an immigrant kid who fled to Paris with his father and later joined a chess club. One of the gags that I remember in this film was one where the father, due to not being fluent with the local language, accidentaly insults the chess club a bunch of times after a woman at a refugee centre told him some things about it (namely that its website sucked).
(edit: I found the name, it's Fahim!)
Edited by Janker72resolved Horror Movie Where a Redhead Woman inflates due to a Parasite Film
I keep having this burning memory of seeing pictures of this one horror movie from the 1990's-2000's (whatever year it was) of a redheaded woman becoming inflated by the parasite of the movie. I know the memory, but I can't remember the movie.
resolved Alien tries to convey, I'm from space. Film
A movie where an alien who looks like a human doesn't speak the language, but tries to convey that he's from space, up to and including picking up a toy spaceship and wooshing it around. As far as I remember, the humans he's talking to still don't get it.
resolved 80s movie with Santa having a broken foot Film
I havn't been able to locate this movie. I know is 80s or early 90s at most. It has an American family in what I think was Denmark finding that Santa Claus lives there (yes, not in the North Pole, he explains himself it was too cold) and how he wasn't going to be delivering gifts that they for having a broken foot. I remember he at one point changes dresses showing the different versions of Santa all over the world. Then it turns out he was faking the injure because he wanted to expend at least one Xmas nights in his house but is convince otherwise at the end of the movie.
resolved Generation female witches Film
The movie focused on a teen girl who was an environmentalist, she made clothes made out of recycled garbage and was bullied at school for it. She, her mom, and her grandma live together in a house in the woods. She finds out that they are witches but are hiding it from her. The magic is only passed down to females and there are three specific powers that can be active at the same time. I don't remember all of them but I'm pretty sure one of them is the power over nature. The grandma wanted to tell her but the mom was against it. Also I believe either the mom or the grandma was an artist.
Edited by chrisscrossresolved Opera singer joins army in WWII Film
I remember seeing the start of this film on TV sometime in the 1980s, but it was much older than that. At a guess, I'd say 1950s or early 1960s.
I can only clearly remember two parts. The first is the opening narration in which the narrator says that all men between 21 and 45 were required to register for the draft, this having been decided by a congress full of men slightly older than this. The second is the protagonist, a famous opera singer who has been drafted, filling out his enlistment papers and handing them to the sergeant. The sergeant looks at the papers and tells him he had made a mistake, and that the question asked him for his weekly income, not his yearly income. The protagonist replies that that his is weekly income,and the sergeant does a double take.
resolved A black and white vampire/werewolf movie Film
I saw most of this movie on television a long time ago. The plot goes something like this. A vampire who had been imprisoned for years escapes and confronts a reformed werewolf who used to be his loyal servant. The werewolf is terrified at first and refuses to work for the vampire anymore, but the vampire uses his hypnotic powers to revert the werewolf back to his previous personality. The vampire takes on the identity of a famous professor and starts killing and blood draining people while also hunting a young woman he wants to turn into his bride. He is opposed by an older woman who previously defeated him and helped the werewolf reform. The vampire's crimes are also investigated by a police detective who refuses to believe in vampires even as the evidence piles up. He still doesn't believe in anything supernatural even after his two lackies witness the werewolf turn into a wolfman up close while unsuccessfully trying to arrest him. The older woman is unsuccessful in preventing the vampire from kidnapping the young woman. When the vampire is about to turn the young woman into a vampire, the werewolf looks at as his cross necklace and remembers the older woman's words which remind of why he turned good. He turns back into a human and kills the vampire by using a rock to pound a large nail into his chest, but then also dies afterwards for some reason while vampire's body rapidly turns into a rotten corpse. The older woman and the investigator find the bodies of the vampire and werewolf. The investigator is still skeptical and in the final line of the film he breaks the fourth wall by asking the audience if they believe in vampires. I think the movie was partially a parody because it lampshaded a lot of vampire tropes.
resolved Netflix movie with horses? Film
There was this movie on Netflix (don't know if it's there anymore) about a girl who moved to the country and getting adjusted to it. There was a horse farm nearby and she bonded with one in particular. There was also a guy she became friends with, and there was a bit of Will They or Won't They? but they ended up not getting together.
resolved Fever dream soviet-russian(?) movie Film
I remember watching it a couple times; it's, as far as I know, only in Russian, so I don't know if anyone here has even heard of it but it's worth a shot. It had some guitarist guy get transported (I don't remember how) onto some barren desert planet. He finds (two?) other guys who have some kind of flying machine that is essentially a porta-potty-sized giant tin can with helicopter blades on top. All sorts of weird stuff happens along the way, including our main guy getting abandoned and taken back by the other two, some underground industrial complex being found, and other weird fever-dream-esque shenanagins.
The main guy later comes back home (just normal real life) and I think at the end finds one of the guys from said deserted planet? I'm not sure on that detail as I could be remembering it from another movie. One of the (many) main details that makes the movie unique that I remember is that on the planet it was customary to do some weird 'crouch, slap your knees(?), and make a sound' move as a greeting or something? Again, the whole movie feels like a fever dream. Also, the movies was made around when the Soviet Union collapsed, either a bit before or after, can't remember.
I'll honestly be surprised if anyone else knows what I'm talking about, but hey, ya never know.
resolved Movie about stroke victim Film
I remember as a kid seeing a movie about a stroke victim. There's an early scene where a young guy in his 20s is at a gym and suddenly can't pick up a dumbbell. He stumbles around a bit before collapsing. Someone calls 911 and as the guy is wheeled away on a gurney he starts vomiting. Later in the movie after he's recovered, he's in a college class but his brain is still a bit screwy so he can't focus, so he packs up his stuff and leaves.
resolved 2000s comedy film Film
a comedy film about four guys helping a young boy who's getting bullied?
all I really remember is that the climax is a big fantasy/medieval re-enactment/fight thing where the four guys dress up as the band Kiss and fight the main antagonist
resolved Guy willingly undergoes clinical death to hunt down ghostly homicidal maniac. Film
There was this black comedy slasher movie where a homicidal maniac's ghost kept murder people after his death. The protagonist in order to stop him willingly enters a freezer to enter a state of clinical death / out-of-body experience, in which state he can actually combat the maniac. The film ends with both the protag and the maniac, including the maniac's equally ax-crazy girlfriend and the protag's dead best friend in a cloudy tunnel to heaven, which then turns into a gruesome fleshy thing which takes the bad guys to Hell.
resolved Recent horror film Film
I think it was released in 2020 or thereabouts. The film itself has some young adults play some sort of trendy mystery game that is also the title of the film, but then the lights go off for a bit and someone winds up dead, and they all start killing each other. The big twist is that the victim, whose name I think is David, actually killed himself while trying to do something stupid with a sword for his Instagram, and they were killing each other for nothing. The main character's name may be Bea, and I think she has some issues with the rest of the cast because they're richer than she is.
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.

It is a live action movie (most likely USA production) at some point in the early 2000's (dunno exact year). The protagonist looks like the typical white male action buzzcut dude. He lives in one of those working class buildings, has a ton of debt, and is trying to get money by cheating on dice games with his telekenisis. He also constantly fails because at that point his telekenisis is really minor and he can't control it or use it at will, so he gets even deeper in dept. I'm pretty sure this is the opening scene in the movie.
I don't recall what exactly follows, but he gets caught up protecting a young blond haired girl who can see the future and records her visions with drawings. Some organization wants her or something. There's a huge gunfight scene where protagonist's powers turn out to be really fucking epic.
I don't recall how the plot goes, but by the end of the movie the dude's financial situation hasn't improved any. The final scene is still him trying to cheat on dice with his telekenisis, but we don't find out if he succeeded or not.
Ringing any bells for anyone?
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