The process of giving details about a movie in order to identify which movie the asker is trying to remember
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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 ...
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Identify this movie about a deaf girl that finds a dog and trains him to be a service dog
I saw this movie about 10-15 years ago.
It is a movie about a deaf girl. One day she walks across the street and doesn't hear a car comming and an ownerless dog saves her life.
She takes the dog ...
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What movie is playing in the theater in Conspiracy Theory?
There is a relatively brief scene in Conspiracy Theory where the main character (Jerry/Mel Gibson) runs into a theater.
There are a couple of shots where you can plainly see what is being played on ...
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One-eyed, tentacled aliens that disguise themselves as humans
I saw this when I was very young, so my memories are spotty.
I cannot recall if this is a movie or a TV episode (older), nor whether it was color or black and white (though my memories include ...
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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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Identify Movie - If you commit a crime your punishment is premature aging
I remember seeing a movie back when I was a kid that revolved around the idea of a punishment that revolved around "age payment." If you committed a horrendous crime, rather than lock you up, they ...
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What is this animated christmas TV Movie about a sentient ornament?
I have vague memories of a TV movie from the late nineties about a sentient Christmas decoration. It was called something like "the Littlest Christmas Ball." In terms of plot, I have nothing, but I ...
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What's the title of this German movie about a couple moving in to a new house?
It's a German drama about a young couple that is moving into a new house. The man is kinda short and has a mustache, the girl is pretty. The man's brother and another female friend is joining for a ...
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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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Looking for the title of an 80s or early 90s spy movie or thriller [closed]
I'm looking for the title of a movie I've seen in the 80s or early 90s. But all I remember of it are the following sequences:-
There was some sort of laser beam or beacon at night.
A man and a ...
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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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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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Movie about a couple moving into a neighborhood and are acually salespeople?
What's that movie about a couple moving into a neighborhood, having a "perfect" life and they are trying to impress and influence the neighbors to buy tings. They are acually employed salepeople.
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Movie about a guy working in a crooked organization
I saw a movie a few years ago but can only remember some elements of the plot.
A guy starts working at a new company. I think they were selling stocks over the phone. The company were either selling ...
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Trying to remember title to a “road” picture about guys in a Tank, possibly set in the Middle East
A group of guys (soldiers) area in a tank, they're Americans I think, who are either lost, defected, went AWOL, or something. They travel throughout a desert area and I cannot remember whether they ...
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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 asking the scientist what should be the color of the pill they have developed, deciding on orange/purple?
There was a movie with following scene (to the best of my recollection):
Manager: What should be the color of this pill for market, orange or purple?
Scientist: [Delves into the intricacies ...
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Who knows this film? It's about a boy and his big idea for society
This is what I remember:
A boy, living on a farm or so, tells someone, could've been the postman, about his idea, his big idea for society and the world. It's about being good, sharing or something ...
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A killer who used some kind of device on people's foreheads
I'm looking for a movie that I wanted to watch, but never got around to it and no longer remember much about the movie.
In the theater trailer there is a serial killer who carries some kind of ...
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Eighties movie featuring a destruction derby-scene, with a Darth Vader “doll” on roof of car (?)
Has anyone seen a movie featuring a scene with a destruction derby and a car with a life size
Darth Vader doll on the roof? I may be mistaken, but I am wondering if there's a scene with an airplane ...
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Guy thinks he is chased by cops
So what is the name of this movie:
So it is comedy,from US,around 1995-2000.
Main character is short guy with blonde hair(short cut) look like Simon Pegg.
He works in some large company(desk job),he ...
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What is this 60's movie about small “mafia”?
Does anyone recognize this movie?
The film is set around 50s/60s in I'm guessing New York. There are a few kids that caught a police officer with two young prostitutes (I believe it was on the roof ...
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Trying to identify a martial arts movie, I thought it was called “The Golden Arrow”
Hi I'm trying to identify a martial arts movie, I thought it was called "The Golden Arrow".
I saw it sometime in the early 90s
I can't remember all that much, but the scene I remember is when the ...
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Identify this movie: Blonde woman shot in front of school
I forgot the genre, but it was recent (last decade) and set in the US. There was this annoying senior year high school student who was sitting in a luxury car outside of High School talking on her ...
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Trying to identify a martial arts movie where one team hand their medals to the other team
This was a martial arts movie, I remember that it was team-based: members of teams fight against each other one-on-one and win points for their team, the points determine the winning team in the end. ...
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What film has a boy living with a killer instead of his father?
Trying to remember a film that I watched around 2003 about this boy who lived with his step-father and crept in his cart and watched him kill and cremate the body? Anyone know what it is called? I ...
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Identify a hollywood 2000's romance genre movie
Genre : Romance + Thriller (Thriller, in the sense there is no crime nor shooting)
Actors : Male part is played by someone similar in age/appearance to Ryan Reynolds/Gosling. Female protagonist, not ...
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What is the title of this samurai movie?
The movie starts by a samurai walking through woods and practising his skill (he makes a few steps and then cuts through air). I also remember that a lot of the story revolves around him living in a ...
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Asian movie about a guy recording sounds and sending them to his girlfriend
About 2 years ago on some film festival I saw an Asian movie and I would really like to buy it somewhere or at least watch it again.
It is a movie about a sound recording guy that gets sacked, and ...
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What is the name of the John Woo movie that has this telephone caller id tracing battle scene?
The main scene I remember is that some kidnappers do a sophisticated setup (which they are kind of proud of) to avoid tracing of the caller id. Basically they set up a battery of anti-tracing devices ...
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Boy carves Initials onto turtle shell; years later, turtle is gigantic
Years ago (late 80’s to early 90’s), we watched a movie in which a seaside town is terrorized by a sea-monster which turns out to be a giant turtle. At the very end of the movie, the turtle sinks into ...
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Please identify this US Army movie
I believe this movie is about 10 years old and has a US military base whose commander is conducting some form of medical experiments on soldiers believed dead or missing in action during the Vietnam ...
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Movie or episode which ends with the line, “All of my tears”
Very long time ago, I guess more than 20 years, there was a series of shorter movies with a fiction and science fiction theme.
I am trying to track down a specific episode. I don't know what the ...
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Identify this movie about hypnosis and mind-reading
The movie I am looking for consists of two stories which are almost separate, almost as if someone took two movies and concatenated them.
In the first part of the story, the protagonist learns to ...
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Identify this Movie about a world full of Vampires searching for supplement for blood
Identify this Hollywood movie set in a world where maximum of world population become vampire and they live in fear of sunlight in closed houses with black or closed windows and having black window ...
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Movie in which time is money
I saw this movie on an American PBS station, I think in the late '70s or early '80s. The premise was very similar to the Justin Timberlake film "In Time". Time is used as currency, and people die ...
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Movie about a serial killer who drowns his victims
I have seen this movie on HBO, between 10- 12 years ago. At that time I was not a Hollywood movie buff but I really liked the story. This was a suspense movie and am guessing it must have been made in ...
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Upcoming movie about an android
At some point in the last year, I saw a preview for a movie at the theater. What I remember is a person dressed in a hoodie walking into a private bathroom at a gas station or something. The ...
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Old Indian movie where the star has a dog helping him
Its in the 80s most likely. I was a kid and I watched this movie with my father so I do not remember much other than remembering that I loved that movie.
The movie is a typical Bollywood Film about ...
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What is the name of the (non-English language) movie which is mostly set in a school
In 2009, while traveling to the USA on British Airways I watched a non-English movie which probably is a Spanish, French or German movie. I was watching the movie with English subtitles and I could ...
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Identify this sci-fi movie where a woman gets turned into a man
I remember seeing this movie between 2000 and 2008 on one of the premium tv channels like HBO or Showtime. In the movie there is this girl that’s not entirely happy with her life. Early in the movie ...
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Western with extremely sweat-lathered horses
I recently watched a western that showed some (feasibly only one) extremely sweat-lathered horses. They'd been ridden hard, but I honestly can't remember if it was in the context of a horse-race, ...
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A comedy movie about a detective and three women
I remember watching a Hollywood comedy movie in 2001 on Star Movies channel in India. The movie was from the 1990's. I have forgotten the name of the movie, but here is the plot:
There is a ...
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Trying to find a film with a political joke about pot and california
I watched a film that had the main protagonist attending a conference where the (iirc) American president was making a speech.
The speech referenced the politician doing different things and getting ...
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Movie with the same weapon as in “The Rock”
What is the name of the movie which uses the same "VX Poison Gas Pearls" as a weapon that "The Rock" used. Maybe they have another name in the movie, but it was the same prop that was used in "The ...
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Identifying martial arts movie (possibly with bodybuilders)
I'm trying to find an asian (I think) movie that I watched when I was a kid back in the 90's. The movie itself may be from the late 70's -80s. It had some crazy fights in mid air and what-not, it was ...
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What is this movie with a group of kids and a paper route?
I remember watching a movie a few times about a group of kids with a paper route. The main kid is a teenager that just moved to the area.
The main scene I remember is the main kid trying to deliver ...
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Epic fantasy with one good female twin and one evil male twin?
A few years ago I saw an epic fantasy movie involving two twins. I think the twins were elves. The female twin was good and the male twin was evil. They were connected, so that hurting one of them ...
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I'm looking for an old anime/mecha show or movie from 80's/90's?
I'm 25 (born 1987). When I was young (must have been very young) I saw a show or movie that was an anime, but the kind that has a mature drawing style, smaller eyes, more serious, and the character ...
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Identify this movie where a woman is backing away from a rat-like creature?
I think it's a common one - I've certainly seen it several times before. This movie has a short clip of a black and white film where a woman is seen (who may have locked herself in a laundry room - ...
