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Identify this movie: Dystopia, Vietnam, Revenge

Movie I am thinking of came out in the 1980s; takes place during some sort of war in the future. Plot includes a boy who loses both parents to a hitman-type in a track suit and pony-tail. The boy's ...
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Recent precog apocalypse movie

Trying to remember the name of a recent sci-fi/disaster movie, probably from the last 5-6 years (watched it on DVD). If featured an apocalypse where someone who knew it was coming had written down a ...
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Mecha movie with robots synced to their pilots' movements

It's a movie that I watched with my dad when I was really young. I know it does not really help but I can't remember the year I watched it in. I'm 17 so I guess I watched it around 2001. In my memory ...
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Horror story writer moves with his family into a house where the previous family was murderered

I watched a movie a few months back. The movie starts with four people hanging on a tree. The hero is a writer of horror stories. He comes to a house along with his family. He finds a projector with ...
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Identify this thriller/horror movie

The scene depicts a father, who I believe has a shotgun slung around his back, searching for his son in what I believe is a house. He hears his son calling for him, shouting for help in a ghostly ...
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Who is this actor? (and from what movie is he?)

Maybe someone can help me identify the actor and the corresponding movie this image is from: Initially I thought it's Marcello Mastroianni, but now I think it's just a (slight) resemblance between ...
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Horror movie with Blind Ghosts

Posting for a friend. He saw this movie featuring "blind ghosts" on American broadcast television late at night sometime in the '70s. The ghosts were transparent, and had some sort of "film" over ...
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Russian spy movie with the tagline “What would you do if your best friend was a Russian spy?”

1990s movie about a group of people who are convinced that someone in their group is a Russian spy. They go on a retreat together and somewhere in the movie, a pet cat is found dead in the kitchen. In ...
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Which movie has the quote “when you gaze long into an abyss…”

Which movie has this famous Nietzsche quote: "And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." I remember watching it, can't remember which movie. It's driving me crazy. It's ...
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I'm looking for a old animated movie between 80s - 90s

When I was a young boy (early 90's) I watched an animated movie, possibly an anime, and it always stuck in my head. Problem is I can't remember the title. I will try to describe it so can you ...
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Car chase and a grenade stuffed into a helmet

I can never forget one scene from it, where some guy on a motorcycle is chasing a car full of bad people. Then he gets too close and is partially pulled in the window. As he's wearing a helmet, the ...
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What film is this where woman is having possible hallucination?

All I remember: A woman gets in an elevator and has a vision of a nun behind her. Her husband talks to a doctor saying his wife is having hallucinations. At a barbecue, she sees some kind of demon ...
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Couples exchange partners; man regrets decision

I am looking for a movie I saw in the last few years. I only remember part of the plot. A couple have another couple over who are friends of theirs. The man insists on doing a couple exchange with ...
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What was this movie with a real-life Assassin game?

I saw part of this film on television long ago; probably in the late 1970s. It was a live-action, action-genre film in which the protagonist participated in an international game like ...
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Identification an old sci fi movie

I've been remembering parts of an older scifi movie for awhile now but can't remember the name or find it. It's been driving me crazy today. It's an older movie, I remember it from tv and that was ...
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Identify this movie where seprated couple get back together and go to the flea market again

A movie made after 1990. The only thing I can remember is that this is the story of a couple who, at some point of the story, buy an object at a flea market or so. Then they break out, get back ...
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I'm looking for an old anime movie, I think it was made in between 1998-2002

About 2000ish, from what i can remember there were 3 main characters,a father and two sons, the younger son was you could say good, and the father and older brother were evil. The father had a scar ...
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Trying to figure out what show or movie this scene is from

I saw a scene in either a movie or TV show where a man is in a relationship where his feelings for a girl are apparent but the girl does not reciprocate in the same way. He is given an opportunity to ...
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A student who plays basketball but likes to read

I am looking for a movie I saw about 15 years ago on TV. There was a student who came to a university (I guess) because the university wanted him to play in the local basketball team. As a student ...
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I have pictures of some scenes from this movie

Please help me to identify the movie those pictures belong to.
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old anime/mecha movie 80's/90's?

I was wondering if someone could help me? Im looking for an old anime that i watched as a kid. It was a movie on our local tv so I can point you in that direction. But all I can remember is that the ...
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From which movies are these pictures?

I have 2 pictures and I would like to know from which movies they are from. These are the pictures:
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Movie Identification Related To “Paint It Black” Motto From 70s / Early 80s

I am trying to remember a movie that I watched in late 90s: Whole movie related to "Paint It Black", but I couldnt remember any reference to Rolling Stones's song in the movie. There was someone ...
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Identify movie with playboy-type guy and two topless women

I saw this movie a few years ago (probably 3-4 years). I did not see it in a theater, it may have been an old VHS or online. It seemed like an 80s B-movie. The scene in particular I remember, a ...
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Identify a horror movie: waitress

This movie was probably released around Titanic (1997), but not very sure. A young waitress was serving in a bar/night club and some drunk men put her on the table and asked her to dance. Then ...
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Please help me identify Sci Fi Movie

When I was kid, I remember vaguely channel surfing at my friends house. There was a sci-fi movie it seemed maybe out of space. Premise: there were these woman, unclothed maybe they were aliens or ...
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Sci-Fi Martial Arts Action Movie with androids and a female lead

Looking for an older most likely 1990's science fiction movie that has a female lead who learns martial arts from an android. I remember the movie was set in post apocalyptic world and had a bit of a ...
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Identify the movie about mental individual with Multiple Personality Disorder

I watched this movie about 10-15 years ago. It was a comedy about a guy who imagined that he is someone else eg. a clown, ballerina or a doctor. But all that was just in his head. Quite similar to ...
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Black and white science fiction movie with aliens and dome

I saw this science fiction a long time ago. I recall a light plane having to land. The pilot and a woman struggling to survive in a town that has had some kind of dome placed over it. I recall ...
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Help me to identify this movie on war

I watched this movie long long back, and the movie is quite old. What I roughly remember is a captain is ordered to capture a village in Italy. The Italian officer in command is only willing to ...
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Need help identifying movie and/or TV show by plot point

There was a movie or a show where a guy has a date with a girl. He thinks it goes well, but she doesn't return any of his calls so he begins to think something terrible has happened to her. He ...
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Can you identify a sci-fi movie involving a pistol that shoots highly explosive ammunition?

I know that the movie is likely from the '80s, possibly from the '90s. It may contain either human like aliens or some form of time travel. One of the two main characters - maybe the bad guy - is a ...
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Identify a movie about an Asian family forced into the mountains in the winter

This may be set in china or somewhere in Asia. A family had to flee their town because of an invasion or some emergency. They may be running from people searching for them. They are gone for ...
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Three teenagers dance in a huddle to a love song

Sorry this is going to be really vague as I only have a faint recollection of one scene from the movie. It's a scene where a girl and a guy (maybe drunk), late teenage, are in a living room/lounge ...
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Identify a movie from the 90's about a man washed up on a beach without memory

I'm looking for the name of a movie I vaguely remember watching around 1997 The plot was about a man being washed up on a beach with memory loss. He's taken in by a woman who is a psychology ...
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Can anyone identify this 1990's comedy, with imaginary friend?

It is where a young woman has an emotional crisis in her life, with her cheating boyfriend and controlling mother. And her imaginary friend from when she was little comes back and causes more chaos ...
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Looking for animated movie with owl smoking cigar and small bat

Like in title I'm looking for some old animated movie which I remember from past - I think it was around 1995 or something like this. I remember owl which always smoked cigar, and he had helper - ...
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Movie where a little boy and an alien outrun the police in a spacecraft?

I remember watching this movie on the Disney Channel around 1998, but even then it seemed old and out of date. The flying saucer was reflects like polished chrome or like a mirror and a ramp opened ...
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Movie depicting aliens physically connected into group-mind

I think this was a made-for-TV movie, and I think I saw it in the late '80s or early '90s. A small group of humans are fleeing on a spaceship from a bad guy, also human, on another spaceship. The ...
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Movie about superhero with amnesia [closed]

Hero is African-american. Story happens in California. The beginning the hero wake with Injuries. He is having amenesia or some memory loss. He can't remember. He soon discovers that he is a ...
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Identify a mystery movie about foreknowledge of memory loss

I'm trying to remember this movie. Hopefully someone can help me out. There's this guy who had severe memory loss, but somehow he knew it was going to happen ahead of time, and he had planted clues ...
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What 70s or 80s scifi movies had cyborgs?

I've been looking for a movie that I saw when I was growing up. What I remember from it was there was a cyborg and I think he was supposed to be bad but he was helping out the good guys or something ...
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Identify Movie: comedy about train robbery

Stupid comedy about two idiots who robbed train. For grabbing they stolen new car looks like that This car belonged to the local sheriff. He was crazy about this car! He cleans his car ten times a ...
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How to identify a movie from a screen shot

Movie identification questions with only a screen shot are not considered high quality questions, but they are indeed questions. I would like to know what steps can be taken to identify a movie from ...
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What 70s/80s sci-fi movie took place on a space station where the oxygen is running out?

Need to identify a sci-fi movie from the 70s/80s. It involved a woman on a space station of some sort who was slowly dying due to lack of oxygen. She has a photo of her kids on her desk when she ...
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Scary movie about spiders

I saw a scary movie about spiders about 10 years ago, and I came across this image which I am sure is from the movie. Can anyone identify the movie?
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Name of movie where a red ballon is the star

I saw most of this movie back in the early 90's at school. No idea how old it was back then. Doubt it was a blockbuster movie. Possibly foreign. The movie was about a red balloon that seemed to be ...
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What is the name of the movie with two scuba divers that are abandoned at sea?

Two scuba divers go out on a boat with other divers. When the come back up the boat is gone. The rest of the movie follows the two of them as they try to survive in the ocean all by themselves.
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Identify horror movie taking place in a psychiatric hospital

I tried googling this movie but couldn't find it out. I saw it originally around 2007 if I recall correctly, it's a horror movie taking place in a psychiatric hospital. The plot starts when a new ...
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Can anyone identify this Bollywood movie circa 1980s?

Does anybody know the name of the Bollywood movie in this Youtube clip?

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