Questions tagged [identify-this-movie]
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Cartoon where dream-people realize they are dreamed, travel to real world to bring dreamer into it (while keeping him asleep) [closed]
I once saw this cartoon as a kid, and it seems a lot cooler when I think back upon it. In the cartoon, there are scientists that are looking through telescopes and somehow figure out that the world ...
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Thriller movie with woman afraid to leave her apartment [closed]
I watched it in the 90's on TV, the movie or possible TV episode was most probably from the 80's.
It was in colour and I'm quite sure it was American.
The protagonist was a young woman, living alone ...
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Name of movie about people who have died and are waiting to move on (to heaven or a new life) [closed]
I'm trying to find the name of a film about people who have died and are waiting to move on..
I think the film is 15-30 years old.
They are not yet in heaven - Their lives are replayed and they are ...
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Movie (maybe show?) where clinic is held hostage for adult son who dies [closed]
At the latest, I saw this movie in January of 2008 on TV. I'll describe what I remember and see if it rings any bells.
There were three adult men, including what I believe to be a father and a son. ...
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Please identify this horror movie about a girl who was used to trap actors in a house [closed]
I watched it about 11 years ago starts with an audition for actors to go into a house to act a reality horror movie only for them to be trapped in a real horror house.
The horror starts with one guy ...
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Movie where stranded people kill (but not eat) a person to survive famine [closed]
I've seen this movie between 2006 and 2007 on cable TV.
I am not sure but the protagonist could be Robin Williams .
In the movie, a group of people are struggling to survive famine. And they come up ...
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Japanese movie about young man living in "blind spot" [closed]
There is a Japanese movie stuck in my head:
It's about a young man, who delivers flyers (coupons, advertising maybe?) around the city, and he sometimes breaks into flats and houses that he can see ...
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A young punk gets mentored by a classy old gentlemen [closed]
I've been trying for ages to find the title of a film that I watched once when I was a child. The story, as I remember it, goes like this:
A relatively young, 20-30-ish guy, very hot-headed, but with ...
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A man wins the jackpot at a slot machine [closed]
So I remember watching this movie a couple of years back on my laptop, it involves a man who is chased by someone (I think) and enters a casino in which he has a earpiece and the person tells him to ...
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East Europe (Poland?) dystopic, post-apocalyptic movie from the 70'-'80s [closed]
This is an old movie (about '70s-'80s) from East Europe (possibly Poland).
The main characters are two men (I think they were hibernated or something): they find themselves in this post-apocalyptic ...
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Early '90s horror/thriller movie/tv show - guy's head and arm trapped by closing electric car window [closed]
From a young age, early nineties, I've always remembered quite vividly a couple of scenes from what I 'think' was a movie (I was young so could have made it up although that's unlikely as it scared ...
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Guy has a dream with premonitions that come true [closed]
I have seen this old movie (black and white, Arabic language, Egyptian accent) back in 1998 (but the movie must have been made before 1970)
The plot begins when a little boy sees his mother in a ...
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Please identify this horror movie about ghosts that only attack in the dark [closed]
I remember watching an movie when I was younger, at least a good 7 years, it was about this family who moved into an haunted house (of course) but the ghosts were different, they could only attack in ...
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Movie about an old lady who takes the blame for murders committed by a serial killer [closed]
The movie begins with some statement like: this is based on a true story, but the parts that are hard to believe is the part that happened in reality! "Go figure" -- I don't remember it exactly.
The ...
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Horror Ghost Movie; Water dripping from basement knob [closed]
Well I've been trying to get the name of this movie for years. It aired on TV in Canada at least 5 years ago.
Here goes:
I think the movie may or may not have "lakehouse" in the title.
The movie ...
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Movie about two sisters, one of them is professional killer [closed]
It's a movie about two sisters, one of them is professional killer. At the start of the movie the killer one meets with a man and his guards and she kill the guards with guns and the main guy protects ...
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Obscure movie about orphans forced to work in mill/factory [closed]
This movie has bugged me for years, I watched it on television a couple times (perhaps Disney channel but perhaps HBO) in the very early 90's. I was a young child and it sort of disturbed me.
I ...
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Help identifying an old alien movie [closed]
I need help identifying an old alien / sci-fi movie. I think it was from the 80s or early 90s possibly. I remember a couple of things about the movie such as these scenes:
The movie begins or ends ...
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Identify the movie where a man is sent to prison and has cellmate with a calendar tattooed all over his arms [closed]
It is a movie about someone breaking into a guy's house, and the homeowner runs after the guy and I think in self defense kills him (unsure about this part) He gets sent to jail and put in a cell with ...
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Horror movie that takes place in a hospital, includes time manipulation [closed]
I watched this move about 5 years ago and I can only remember certain details about the movie:
I think a bunch of teenage kids sneak into an old abandoned psych ward or maybe hospital.
There is a ...
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Hollywood movie where a person takes different roles but escapes most of time [closed]
I read about a hollywood movie where the plot goes on similar to this.
A person takes different roles (pilot, banker, etc., ) and cheats continuously but escapes most of the time. He starts cheating ...
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Man hides from boss by disguising himself as an armchair [closed]
I slightly remember a scene taken in an office (maybe in USA) in which there are two men: one who enters the office (I suppose a boss) and another one which always camouflages/disguises himself; in ...
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What is the short in which a man has a nightmare complete with broken physics? [closed]
It's been at least two years now since bits of a movie short started echoing around in my head and I'd like to get them out. I've searched using every term I can think of and can't root out the clip. ...
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80s/90s obscure movie taking place in boy's bedroom [closed]
My daycare provider played this movie for us and can't find anything about it online. What I remember:
opening credits are animated but the movie is not. However the set is meant to appear hand-...
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A movie about a Soviet(?) ballet composer? [closed]
I'm looking for this movie, but I barely remember it. It seemed to be from the 2000's and I'm not sure but I think it wasn't in English.
It was a very cute film, about an ageing Soviet composer (...
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Horror movie about fog [closed]
I'm looking for a movie about some friends, who are going somewhere in a car. Then they get into a great fog, and they couldn't go further, so they stop. Then the film has a flashback like thing about ...
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80s sci-fi movie with "tank men"? [closed]
I vaguely recall seeing a movie in the 80s (which I assume was made in the 80s) and can't find any information about it.
There were two "tank men" - they had the torsos and heads of men, but with ...
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Identify this thriller revenge movie [closed]
If I remember correctly, it is a movie about a man getting revenge by killing off another family.
The main character is short and caucasian.
It begins with him being shown as a homeless man with a ...
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Man is recruited to talk to a captured alien [closed]
I need a real movie-buff on this one. I'm looking for movie which concerns a man who is recruited to try and talk to a captured alien. Now this is where things are getting a little hazy so I'll just ...
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Time travel movie with a loser watching an apple rot, and there are moon people [closed]
I'm trying to find a movie which I watched around 2008-2009 winter with the following details:
The story starts 50-200 years before today. There is no electronic devices around.
The protagonist was a ...
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Movie in which a crime lord executes hencemen in his office [closed]
I've had these particular scenes in my head for years but I'm curious as to what movie they came from, I must have seen it at least 15 years ago.
If a henchman messed up in someway he would be ...
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Movie with intro where man kills two girls in a field [closed]
This has been driving me crazy for 10 years, maybe more. I saw it on TV and only watched the intro and got kinda scared (yeah I was very young) so I didn't watch past the intro, thus I can't describe ...
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Help identifying a post-apocalyptic movie with a monster [closed]
The movie must be from the 80's maybe early 90's. All I can remember is that it is about a group of people (women and men, young as far as I can remember) wandering through a desert in some kind of ...
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Guy prepares revenge for 10 years for the murder of his daughter and wife [closed]
I saw this English movie a few years ago and I don't know its name.
There's this guy whose name I don't know (hitherto referred to as "X man") in his house with his wife and daughter.
2 guys kill the ...
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Dead wife haunting her husband's new wife [closed]
So I remember seeing a movie about a guy who got married very fast and moved into a house with his new wife and then strange things started happening. The cat drowned in the bathtub. There was hair in ...
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Name of B western movie that starts with horse race [closed]
Looking for name of B western movie in color from "50-60 seen on TV. It starts out with a horse race in a town out west. A stranger rides in at the last minute, hands a couple of law books to an old ...
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Horror movie about a mask that turned people into demons [closed]
When I was a kid, I was subjected to a horror movie that I was probably too young to watch and it scared the pants off me. I remember the plot quite vividly.
A cinema screening was showing a ...
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Man tries to kill a group of people with complex traps [closed]
I don't know the name of this horror movie around 2000-2010. English movie.
It's a group of people in a place
There is a man in a wheelchair, a blonde woman (called Sarah), a black man (called Cole), ...
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Can you name this Sci-Fi film set around receiving a signal from space and building a structure? [closed]
Trying to remember the name of a film. This one has been bugging me for ages!
Published in the 00's, the film's plot goes something like this:
The Nazi's broadcast a video into space to celebrate ...
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Movie about the last member of a man-like dead species [closed]
I heard the plot for this movie from a friend. Humans are homo sapiens, but historically there have been other species in the homo genus, neanderthal being one of them. Perhaps the movie is about a ...
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Seemingly tall man answers door but he's actually short [closed]
I'm trying to identify an 80's comedy that has a sketch in it along the following lines:
A gent approaches a timber door, either at a castle or a large wooden factory door, he taps on it and a high ...
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Movie where second bomb was planted in ambulance [closed]
I'm looking for an action movie where:
an explosion killed people and second bomb was planted in an ambulance which helped people after the first explosion
it was a West vs East themed action movie
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Strange movie with a hand going through a meat grinder, but it didn't actually happen [closed]
My uncle once rented a strange movie for my cousin and me to watch. It was entirely not appropriate for our age, and we talk to this day about how weird it was. We saw it probably 20-25 years ago, and ...
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90's early 2000 movie about students kidnapping their teacher [closed]
I'm trying to identify a movie, hope that I can help you help me.
The plot revolves around some highschool mature looking kids (a group that includes both girls and boys) who kidnap their teacher ...
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Show with car going over cliff into the (actual) Grand Canyon [closed]
I was at the Grand Canyon last week and did a tour of the west rim. During the tour, one of the guides pointed to the bottom of the cliff and there was (what appears to be) a mangled up car that is ...
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80s - 90s Movie about school siege [closed]
I saw this film in my childhood.
Some group of terrorist enter the school (boys' school i guess) and capture the school. the boss of the group has watch in which he will use that to trigger the bomb ...
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Animation of man sent to kill future omnipotent leader [closed]
Cartoon movie where animation reminded me of the old Hobbit movie. It was about a powerful being who turned evil. There was a scene where humans were being killed almost in conveyor-belt fashion.
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Robot is prize for winning arcade game, then tries to kill everyone? [duplicate]
A local teen gets the high score on an arcade game, and he wins a real life replica of the main enemy in the game. It arrives at his door one day. At first he and his (I'm pretty sure girlfriend, ...
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Getting a free meal at a restaurant by putting an insect in the food [closed]
Forgot the name of the movie, but as the title says, it's the only scene I remember from this movie. I also remember that it was a great movie, I think it was made for not so long ago. It was in ...
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Sci Fi movie with maroon droid, and hero droid with spherical feet [closed]
I remember seeing a sci fi movie in the 80s. It was set on a space station. One of the main characters was a levitating squat droid with spheres for feet (which probably powered his levitation), and ...
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