The process of giving details about a movie in order to identify which movie the asker is trying to remember
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Psychological thriller in which the verse “My father was a penny” keeps recurring on a wall?
I dont recall much of that movie except that it was a psychological thriller, and a verse was scribbled on a dilapidated wall. In one scene, the villain impersonates a nurse and escapes from the ...
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Identify this film about a Boy, girl and Girl's Dog
I remember watching a movie where a mature boy has a crush on a girl and tries to impress her. But the problem is that the girl has a dog (most probably a female dog) which creates problems that ...
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Heist movie where a guy uses camouflage and fails
This movies dates before 2000. It is about a heist, if I recall correctly, a diamond is the objective. The particular scene I remember is one guy using a camouflage to blend with the floor of the ...
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Trying to find a movie from the '80s about warriors put on an island to fight for their country instead of war
As I remember of the story line, each country would send their champion to jungle island to fight it out in a 'winner take all' battle with other country's champions instead of their respective ...
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Strange and haunting Science Fiction Film
What is the name of this movie:
Possibly filmed in the 70's or 80's, sort of like the movie Silent Running in that it has a greenhouse filled with lots of plants. I only remember the ending of the ...
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Movie where a guy loses on roulette
I remember some movie, I think it was from the 50s or 60s (maybe the 40s).
The main character had found a lot of money or something, but not that much. So he goes and runs into a casino with a ...
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A Horror movie where skeleton falls from tree and scratches woman's face [closed]
When my sister and I were younger we watched a lower quality horror movie with our uncle that had an impact on us, but we can't remember what the movie was called. We watched it in the early 90s, and ...
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Sci-fi movie where the protagonist meets his aged daughter in the future at the end [closed]
What is the name of this sci-fi movie where the protagonist meets his aged daughter in the future at the end? I think the movie is from the late 90s early 2000s. I think it was set in the space and ...
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Early 2000s comedy with man being interrogated
Trying to find a movie that I can only remember one scene. The main person is being questioned about being assaulted and he lies and describes the person as being "black but looks white or white and ...
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Teenage girl saved, alone on the ship
This is my first identify this movie question.
I only saw part of the movie of the movie perhaps in 2006 or 2007 (could not recollect correctly) on the PC of my friend.
In the part it was shown:
A ...
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Name of an independent film whose making was documented by another film…Heart of Darkness kind-of-thing
The film and, I believe, the Documentary about the making of the film start with C. Like Corvalis, or Cromanthus....
The documentary was shot up north in the US, maybe Wisconsin, Michigan. It stars ...
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Movie where a videogame becomes real
I remember seeing a movie in the late 90's to early 2000's about a video game company working on a video game. I think lightning hits the building or something happens and the game becomes real. ...
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80's Yakuza Film
I'm trying to remember the name of a film I haven't seen years.
Here are the bits I can remember (its been a long time since I seen it so the details are lacking)
It involves the Japanese Yakuza ...
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Seeking a sci-fi movie with a laser pistol and an amulet
I'm looking for a movie (Circa early 80s, maybe late 70s) about a teenager who finds a laser pistol and succumbs to "Power corrupts" eventually going on a killing spree. I remember that the gun ...
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Identify animated/non-animated '80s movie with a library
All I can remember is that it starts with a boy that is in a library late at night. At first its live-action, but then there are these animated colors (don't know how else to describe it) that flood ...
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Identify this movie: Boy meets girl in an apartment complex
What is the name of this film?
A boy meets a girl in an apartment complex playground. It's cold, snow on the ground, and she might be smoking. The boy is shy and a loner. The girl isn't what she ...
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Name of this psychological thriller?
I've been trying to remember what movie this is and can't find it anywhere on google. All I remember is that it took place in a hospital (or something similar) that had house a certain number of ...
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Identify this Indian movie about someone reporting his well being stolen
An Indian taxi driver told me about this movie, but I forgot the movie name
I found the plot to be very interesting. It is an Indian movie, about someone who report his well being stolen. The entire ...
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Movie with a cat and an anti-smoking organisation?
At some time in the 80s I've seen part of a movie of which I don't know the name. Since I couldn't see it to the end, since then I've always wondered how it continues (and also what was in the jacket; ...
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Movie with word play in the beginning?
I have seen this clip a very long time ago and I think it was actually from the beginning of a comedy.
There is a man (called Jack) sitting in a car and a few guys walk by saying "hi". Then another ...
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Help identify circa 1970s animated movie with bizarre wedding
I remember a movie from my childhood that was based on a common folk tale. It was in a very odd animation style (though I cannot remember which). The strongest memory was that there was a very strange ...
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Identify this movie with a very special kind of guillotine tobogan
I only remember one thing very clearly about the movie so I think it's going to be very hard to find.
The movie was taking place a long time ago: maybe featuring vikings or romans (I know that is not ...
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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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Anyone recognise this court based film about a mute man accused of murder?
Does anyone recognise this film? I can only remember two scenes from it and the vague plot:
I watched it about 20 years ago on TV in the UK. It is an American film, set in America. I would guess it ...
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Seeking a 1960s Sci-Fi movie about a female humanoid robot
I've only a vague recollection of this science fiction movie, probably released between 1965 and 1972, which features two humanoid alien men on Earth, hunting for a female alien, who has disguised ...
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Identify an old movie about analyzing a dream
I took an "intro to electronic music" class in university, and we watched several films that demonstrated the evolution of electronic music in cinema. I am trying to remember one of them we watched.
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Romantic movie about two people who speak different languages falling in love?
Its a romantic film about an out of towner staying in, I think, a hotel. They two of them don't speak the same language but fall in love. At the end of the movie he tracks her down at her families ...
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TV series about what a real man should be able to do on Discovery channel
Does anyone know the name of a TV series/documentary that ran on Discovery channel and is featuring a British actor whose name I cannot recall but I do remember that he show all the stuff that a "real ...
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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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Identify this gangster movie
A group of poor orphan boys are under care of a priest. Some of the elders of this group join the gangsters in robbing a bank and make some of wishes of the younger's true (buy them clothes, ball ...
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Identify this movie about ghost bar/casino
I have tried to identify this movie since a long time.
It seems like a 90's movies but I'm not sure. It's about different ghost like creatures, who come to a bar/casino where they play cards and ...
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Movie Identification: Kids movie about a kleptomaniac girl with a fear of fire and an abusive piano teacher
Somewhere in the late 70s to early 80s. I remember a movie that I enjoyed (though apparently not enough to remember) that featured a girl somewhere in the age range of 10-14. She is very bright and ...
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Trying to remember a movie about North African freedom fighters battling a European power
I watched it as a young kid so it had to be an early or mid 80's movie. World War I era. North Africans fighting for freedom from a European power. An older man leads the North Africans and I think he ...
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Identify a bollywood movie where a man changes to woman
I remember watching a Hindi movie where a man becomes woman after he commented badly about girls. Then an accident happened the next day when he awakes from his sleep. He turns into a woman.
Slowly ...
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Identify Movie with Women's Blood Siphoned Out to Feed Invading Aliens
The film is in color and is probably from the late 1970s or the early 1980s. I could not see the ff. scene in Battle Beyond the Stars or Star Crash.
A woman is strapped on to a vertical plane, where ...
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What horror movie feature a rock concert on an airplane?
In the late 90's early 2000's I caught part of this movie on at like 3AM on I think USA but could have been AMC. It is a movie about the first full scale rock concert on a plane, then people start ...
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Woman wakes up on spaceship in garden, what is it from?
A while ago I saw a short episode about a woman waking up in a garden on a spaceship she remembers being home on earth and has no memory of what happened to her. The space ship seems to be on the ...
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Identify World War 2 movie
I'm trying to find out what movie I have seen a few years ago.
The action takes place in occupied France if I remember correctly. The first part is more like love story between a man and a woman. ...
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Identify Movie with Character Eaten by Monster from a Trap Door on the Floor
The movie is in color and probably from the 1960s. I don't think it is Mysterious Island or Captain Nemo and the Underwater City.
The only scene I remember involves characters in a room, with wooden ...
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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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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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Rich man hires ex convict to spy on his wife
A rich man hires an ex-convict (prisoner, murderer) to spy on his wife because he suspects she's cheating on him; she's blonde. As time goes by they fall in love. He almost caught them together ...
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Stripper assassin and a ghetto-blaster
The scene I remember is what looks like an older businessman is sitting behind a desk when a tall, statuesque blonde comes in and puts down a ghetto-blaster. She starts dancing/stripping to the music ...
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Identify movie with a drug addict
I only remember a scene from this movie:
A drug addict is locked up by his mother in a house to stop him from getting drugs. Seeing how much he suffers going through withdrawal the mother decides to ...
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movie with old man guru reincarnated as bird [closed]
I think I saw this on TV sometime between 1975 and 1985. It's a movie with a small indie feel (sort of like Ken Loach or Mike Leigh), set in a rural area of Britain or the US. A young man (about 25) ...
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Movie where Michael Douglas kid is kidnapped
I remember watching a movie years ago, where there was an intense scene in which Michael Douglas son's kidnappers call his home asking for a ransom and he refuses to negotiate with them. He hears a ...
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Woman in alt-life, gets home early and catches boyfriend cheating
I can't remember the whole trailer. Basically a woman gets home just like other days, everything is normal, in other life, she somehow get home early and sees her boyfriend/husband cheating.
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What's that movie with the bridge and its builder?
What's that movie in which some captive war-prisoner is assigned a task by his captor of building a bridge to protect the homeland from an invasion? By the time the bridge is complete, the ...
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Identify this sci-fi space movie
I remember seeing a movie around 2000-2005 on the premium channels (HBO, Showtime, etc.). I believe that it had a wide release, but I'm not sure.
The movie is about a space ship (I think they're ...
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Identify a movie about an autistic woman learning to speak?
A man and a woman work together to teach another, young woman to speak, or are caring for her. Maybe the young woman is autistic. All I can remember is the woman saying "razor" and "mirror" and ...
