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 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 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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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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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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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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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 1970s Martial Arts movie: 2nd place Hero goes on quest. Disqualified Hero follows, takes over quest.
Guy fights to be the guy that gets to go on quest. Guy gets disqualified. 2nd place guy goes on quest. Disqualified guy follows along until first guy gets bumped off. Disqualified guy takes over. It ...
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Whodunit Movies
I am a big lover of whodunit movie style primarily because of my interest in the writings of Agatha christie and Stanley Gardner.
The movies which stand out among the ones(whodunit plot) I have ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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: 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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Which movie did one character manage to vomit all the poison he swallowed
It's fantasy martial arts (e.g. some people can fly) with some comic touches here and there. The budget wasn't massive (not at the level of a Hero or a Crouching Tiger...) but it felt epic ...
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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 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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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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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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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 ...
