The process of giving details about a movie in order to identify which movie the asker is trying to remember
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Late 1970s to mid 1980s animated children's movie
This may or may not have been on an RCA Selectavision Videodisc but I'm leaning towards that it is.
The main characters were male and female. I remember the main characters had long, downward curving ...
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Identify this movie: Dystopia, Revenge, 1980s
Movie I am thinking of came out in the 1980s, and was on HBO when I saw it in 86 or 87; takes place during some sort of war in the present-day or near future US, one that features rival gangs or ...
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Identify this movie: 90s sci-fi movie with invisible prison
I saw this science-fiction movie in the early nineties, perhaps the late nineties. I remember the following highlights:
The main character is sent, mistakenly, to an invisible prison.
The prison ...
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Which movie has the quote “when you gaze long into an abyss…”
Which movie has this famous Nietzsche quote: "And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
I remember watching it, can't remember which movie. It's driving me crazy.
It's ...
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Horror movie where people get drunk on and forced to drink blood
This is a horror movie that I can't remember the title of. All I can remember is that the action happened in a castle or mansion. The people of this place got seemingly drunk on blood for some reason. ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Mecha movie with robots synced to their pilots' movements
It's a movie that I watched with my dad when I was really young. I know it does not really help but I can't remember the year I watched it in. I'm 17 so I guess I watched it around 2001.
In my memory ...
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Recent precog apocalypse movie
Trying to remember the name of a recent sci-fi/disaster movie, probably from the last 5-6 years (watched it on DVD).
If featured an apocalypse where someone who knew it was coming had written down a ...
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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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How to identify a movie from a screen shot
Movie identification questions with only a screen shot are not considered high quality questions, but they are indeed questions.
I would like to know what steps can be taken to identify a movie from ...
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Horror story writer moves with his family into a house where the previous family was murderered
I watched a movie a few months back. The movie starts with four people hanging on a tree. The hero is a writer of horror stories. He comes to a house along with his family. He finds a projector with ...
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Who is this actor? (and from what movie is he?)
Maybe someone can help me identify the actor and the corresponding movie this image is from:
Initially I thought it's Marcello Mastroianni, but now I think it's just a (slight) resemblance between ...
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Three teenagers dance in a huddle to a love song
Sorry this is going to be really vague as I only have a faint recollection of one scene from the movie.
It's a scene where a girl and a guy (maybe drunk), late teenage, are in a living room/lounge ...
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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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I'm looking for a old animated movie between 80s - 90s
When I was a young boy (early 90's) I watched an animated movie, possibly an anime, and it always stuck in my head. Problem is I can't remember the title. I will try to describe it so can you ...
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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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From which movies are these pictures?
I have 2 pictures and I would like to know from which movies they are from. These are the pictures:
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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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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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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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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 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 depicting aliens physically connected into group-mind
I think this was a made-for-TV movie, and I think I saw it in the late '80s or early '90s.
A small group of humans are fleeing on a spaceship from a bad guy,
also human, on another spaceship.
The ...
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Black and white science fiction movie with aliens and dome
I saw this science fiction a long time ago. I recall a light plane having to land. The pilot and a woman struggling to survive in a town that has had some kind of dome placed over it. I recall ...
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Identify this alien invasion movie with invisible aliens
There was a movie that came out about 1-3 years ago at most that was about an alien race that invaded Earth and they hid in plain sight, and would literally snuff people right out of thin air. I think ...
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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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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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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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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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Identify this thriller/horror movie
The scene depicts a father, who I believe has a shotgun slung around his back, searching for his son in what I believe is a house. He hears his son calling for him, shouting for help in a ghostly ...
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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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What 70s or 80s scifi movies had cyborgs?
I've been looking for a movie that I saw when I was growing up. What I remember from it was there was a cyborg and I think he was supposed to be bad but he was helping out the good guys or something ...
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Horror movie with Blind Ghosts
Posting for a friend. He saw this movie featuring "blind ghosts" on American broadcast television late at night sometime in the '70s. The ghosts were transparent, and had some sort of "film" over ...
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Russian spy movie with the tagline “What would you do if your best friend was a Russian spy?”
1990s movie about a group of people who are convinced that someone in their group is a Russian spy. They go on a retreat together and somewhere in the movie, a pet cat is found dead in the kitchen. In ...
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A horror movie from the 60s, egg-like object
My mother asked me to help her identify a movie she would like to rewatch. Her memory of it is sketchy at best though.
The movie was released sometime in the 60s, it was in color and it was probably ...
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Car chase and a grenade stuffed into a helmet
I can never forget one scene from it, where some guy on a motorcycle is chasing a car full of bad people. Then he gets too close and is partially pulled in the window. As he's wearing a helmet, the ...
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Couples exchange partners; man regrets decision
I am looking for a movie I saw in the last few years. I only remember part of the plot. A couple have another couple over who are friends of theirs. The man insists on doing a couple exchange with ...
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What film is this where woman is having possible hallucination?
All I remember:
A woman gets in an elevator and has a vision of a nun behind her.
Her husband talks to a doctor saying his wife is having hallucinations.
At a barbecue, she sees some kind of demon ...
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Identify movie with playboy-type guy and two topless women
I saw this movie a few years ago (probably 3-4 years). I did not see it in a theater, it may have been an old VHS or online. It seemed like an 80s B-movie.
The scene in particular I remember, a ...
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Movie Identification Related To “Paint It Black” Motto From 70s / Early 80s
I am trying to remember a movie that I watched in late 90s: Whole movie related to "Paint It Black", but I couldnt remember any reference to Rolling Stones's song in the movie.
There was someone ...
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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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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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Identify this movie where seprated couple get back together and go to the flea market again
A movie made after 1990.
The only thing I can remember is that this is the story of a couple who, at some point of the story, buy an object at a flea market or so. Then they break out, get back ...
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Identification an old sci fi movie
I've been remembering parts of an older scifi movie for awhile now but can't remember the name or find it. It's been driving me crazy today. It's an older movie, I remember it from tv and that was ...
