The process of giving details about a movie in order to identify which movie the asker is trying to remember
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Identify film where eating and toilet taboos are reversed
Can anyone identify a (possibly French) film where the cultural taboos about going to the toilet and eating (not at the same time!) are reversed?
I remember seeing a scene with someone knocking on a ...
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Identify this movie: man's wife turns back into a monster when he talks about it
I'd say it's a movie from the 80's or 90's.
At one point the main character sees a monster in the street (I'd say at night, in an alley). It's quite a big monster and the monster can talk. They ...
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Identify film about a girl lost in a strange city
From what I recall, a girl who is about twenty years old finds herself in a strange and gloomy stop-frame animated city. A very distinct scene, which should identify the film, involves the girl ...
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Movie about a toy factory and war toys?
I'm looking for a movie about a toy factory. From what I remember, it was about competing sides making toys - one side made violent war toys and the others made nice friendly ones. The makers of the ...
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Which movie is this? No actor names.. nor character names
I watched one movie when I was a boy, around 18 years ago maybe and I did not know the name nor the name of any actor, even worse it is not a popular movie. I am asking here because years of googling ...
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Identify this movie: a guy and a girl become colorful in a black and white world
As the title suggests the movie is black and white but two actors become colored in the b&w world. One of them accepts this but the other (the girl) begins to wear grey makeup to hide the fact ...
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Help identifying a very old children's VHS?
I don't have a whole lot to go on here, but I am trying to identify a very old children's VHS. I would have seen the VHS in the very early 90's, but I believe the actual short films were from the 50's ...
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What is the name of this SF-movie with (intelligent?) ants?
I try to remember a movie I saw long time ago on TV. It must be at the beginning of the 90s, possibly the end of the 80s. The movie might be older though. It was something about a scientist ...
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Identify the movie about a man who pays woman's fare on a bus and falls in love
I once saw a movie, and now I don't know
who directed it
who played in it
what was the title of the movie
in which country it was made
what was the year of production, etc.
In other words, I ...
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What ('70s cop?) movie is this from?
Can you identify this film? You can hear him say "...just what..." at ~0:57 in this clip.
I guess he's a policeman in a '70s film, and there's a "LT. V..." on the office door window, must be some ...
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Identify this movie: Kids that build some sort of space craft
This movie was about a bunch of kids that were building a type of space ship and they built something that projected a bubble around their craft and this bubble allowed them to travel great distances ...
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An Animated Short Film About Horses Living In Heaven
a long time ago (about 16 years ago) I watched a large portion of an animated short film. Thinking about it now, I'm not sure it was suitable for an audience of 6-8 year olds. I still have some very ...
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Identify a movie where boy controls his family
I saw a movie when I was little. A woman hits a little boy with her car. The little boy took her home. He then turned out to have his whole family under his control. His sister locked in her room with ...
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Alien invasion movie?
I saw this movie a long time ago. The action takes places in a small town as far as I can remember. The people there get "infested" with some sort of parasite and they start losing their teeth. I only ...
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Identify thriller/horror movie with mirrors
I remember watching parts of a movie on tv some years ago. I missed the beginning, and saw some parts from the middle and the end. I didn't really understand what was happening, but I can provide some ...
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Trying to find a certain movie or a TV episode about immortality
I have once seen a movie (or a TV episode, but probably not) with the following plot:
In the beginning, a reporter is making a story on immortality and does interview with a an elderly couple who ...
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Movie about a guy who receives a mysterious list of all his girlfriends, past and future
I watched a movie a few years ago, and now can't remember the title.
The main character received a mysterious email at work containing a list of every woman he had, or would have sex with--past and ...
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Identify this movie: the protagonists are searching for what is beyond by reaching clinical death and coming back
I saw this movie 10-15 years ago and can't really remember the details. What I remember is that the protagonists developed some way to achieve temporary clinical death. They are basically trying to ...
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What is this recent movie about family secrets?
This should be easy for someone to remember.
It was possibly made in 2009-2010, set in an isolated seaside town in New York.
The wife thinks her husband is cheating on her but he's really taking ...
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Kids that fight troll-like monsters with water guns filled with milk?
I remember watching this kids movie where they are being attacked by some sort of trollish type monsters/creatures and they could only be defeated by using water guns filled with milk to shoot them ...
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Movie about a kid with a terrible illness (with many phases of body function losses)
I've been looking for this movie about a boy who gets a rare illness.
This illness starts when the boy is between 5-9 years old and is based on a real person's story. The illness has many symptoms ...
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Help to identify an animated movie from the late 70's or early 80's
I suddenly remembered seeing a movie on T.V. when I was a kid. I have no idea what the story was about, but I remember the following things:
was animated in a very distinct non-Disney style (unlike ...
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Science Fiction Movie that may have never actually existed
In the 1980s Genesis spin off group "Mike and the Mechanics" released a song called, "Silent Running (On Dangerous Ground)." The video (a copy on youtube) is the subject of a question I've been trying ...
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Identification : Film where colour fades throughout to represent dying protagonist
Ok, I can usually find things using Google but no luck this time!
This is a film from around mid-90s I think, but could be +/- 10yrs.
Male lead, who I think gets a kind of lethal injection which has ...
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Identify Movie: Two foster kids talk (as captives) through an air duct between their rooms?
Several years ago I remember seeing part of a movie - perhaps even a TV only movie - but I can't remember the name of it.
I think the premise was that a (married?) couple acted as temporary foster ...
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A movie about a bank robbery?
I remember watching this movie at least 12 years ago.
It involves a guy sending letters to his criminal associates detailing a planned robbery. After he has posted them, he gets arrested.
Then the ...
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Late 90's/early 00's movie about a revolutionary leader and an agent hunting him
I do not have actors' names for the movie for which I am searching.
I think it was done in the late 1990's or early 2000's. In the first scene a truck on a country/road in a Latin American country ...
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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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What was that movie where the bad guys are trapped in a 2d plane in space
I'm trying to remember what movie this was. The bad guys, like 2 or 3, were trapped in a 2 dimensional plane that flew out into space. Family guy did a short parody once I think. I asked a few people ...
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Identify a movie about a boy who can bring anyone back to life for 8 minutes
I had a friend tell me this story once .. The boy can bring anyone back from the dead (not physically i think but like a spirit) and talk to him and find out how that person died, ask him questions ...
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Movie where jury gets swapped just before a trial begins?
I was having a chat this morning about jury duty and I thought of a scene from a film.
The set up is that whoever is being tried in this case has the jury paid off, and the prosecutor or cops ...
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Identify these plot elements from Tarzan movies
I recently re-watched Tarzan and his Mate (1934), and the surprisingly violent content in it reminded me of a couple of fragmented images that I would like to track down from other Tarzan films.
The ...
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Two men talk in a small room about god and other deep meaning subjects?
One of the two men wants to kill himself and he is saved by the other one. All the other scenes take place in a small apartment room where they talk about different things like family or god.
Other ...
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Movie about army reserve soldiers on rotation and they are stranded with combat knives
I am trying to remember the name of a movie where there is a group of soldiers from the reserve (or health backup? but there is indeed a doctor/paramedic guy in the group). They go out in rotation (I ...
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Help Identifying a Science Fiction Movie
I'm looking for the name of a movie from the 1950s. It involved an alien race that put a forcefield around a major city (Maybe LA) and some survivors were stuck inside. The most identfying thing I can ...
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Please help identify this 80's anime movie
I have a memory of watching a movie on TV when I was a kid. I wasn't familiar with anime at the time, but looking back I believe it was anime. I would have watched it sometime between 1982 and 1986 on ...
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Some apocalypse where every human turns into a dumb person
Once I watched a movie, not sure but probably in past 7 years, it was on national TV, so certainly it was not a new movie at that time. There were 2 brothers. One of them was super intelligent. He saw ...
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What horror movie is this?
Approximately 30 years ago, I watched a horror movie which I have been trying to identify for years. The problem is that after so many years I don't remember a lot about the movie and the only things ...
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Cheesy-looking pac-man monster in an alternate reality where most people disappeared
I think this was a made for TV movie, and a Stephen King novel, but I just looked up his works and nothing rang a bell.
The story was about an airplane that flew through some kind of portal or vortex ...
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What is the name of this Vietnam War-related movie?
I am looking for a name of a movie that takes place in Vietnam or is related to Vietnam War (a movie describing someone's memories from the Vietnam War). I remember that the plot was focused on a man ...
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Movie where a guy can see what is going to happen in next 2 minutes
Last night, i was watching a movie in local Cable channel, which dont even displayed the name of the movie till the end.
The movie was about a guy, who has some power to see what is going to happen ...
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Identify the movie where all phones on Earth ring in unison at the end
Can you help me identify the movie where a computer, an artificial intelligence, dies and makes all phones on Earth ring in unison at the end?
Here's a list of memories I have from this movie:
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Identify the movie where a cartoonist turns into an animation
I remember a movie, probably italian or some similar latin language, where a cartoonist is slowly transformed into an animated character. It was released, I think, in the same decade as Who Framed ...
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Serial killer movie where cat gets murdered on doorstep?
I'm looking for the title of a Thriller/Horror film where there is a guy and his cat that moves to an estate. I remember that it is winter. I think the guy is a writer. He starts unraveling a mystery ...
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Seeking a circa 50s/60s science fiction movie with a Portal
I was recently watching Schoolhouse Rock with my son and the cartoon for "Nouns" came on. There is a rectangular portal that acts like a giant television that the animated girl watches and at one ...
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Disney movie with a teenage android?
I remember watching a movie on TV when I was a kid, so in the mid- to late-80's. I expect it was a Disney movie, as at that age the majority of movies I watched were on the "Sunday Night Disney Movie" ...
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Movie about a startup during the dotcom
I can't seem to remmember or find the name of the movie or the company that was in the movie.
The movie was about a mobile game developer (developing on old Nokia phones) company that was based in ...
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What is the name of this movie about a secret group of freaks/monsters
I'm looking for the title of this movie I watched years ago set in modern times where the hero comes across this society of monsters (mutated people with strange powers) living underground in secret. ...
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Identify Movie: Sci Fi , chip implants in humans
I remember some scene when someone connects to a computer and put on some glasses and gets some 3d interface or something like that.
I think I remember some kind of cube that he tries to open as some ...
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Movie where holding their breath makes people invisible
I remember watching an English language (probably live-action) film as a kid (on the TV, but I don't think it was a series) about which I remember the part where there was a group of people who could ...
