Questions tagged [movie-identification]
Identifying a movie. Provide as many unique details as possible, such as when you watched it, ruled-out movies, estimated release year, memorable scenes, plot elements, character descriptions, settings, locations, actors, or any other memorable aspects. The more information you include, the better chance you have of finding the movie you're looking for.
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A drama movie about children and a possible mother figure struggling for survival in a tent or shack in a desert/plain
Main setting:
A group of young children, possibly with their mother, living in a tent or shack in a desert or a yellow plain surrounded by wheat fields. It was a scorching, treeless, yellow plain. I ...
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Movie like "Lord of the Flies" with boys trapped in a dark, sinister place, possibly a basement or a sewer
I'm trying to find a movie I saw about 10 years ago. I don’t remember the exact genre, but I think it might be a psychological thriller. The main plot involved a group of boys trapped in a dark and ...
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Movie where a young director's student film gets made (badly) by a major studio
I have a vivid memory of a 1980s style film (which I likely viewed in the 1980s or early 1990s) where a young, upcoming director, who looked like a young Patrick Dempsey, is approached by a major ...
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What film is it where the antagonist uses an expandable triple knife?
I am looking for a movie in which a special dagger appears. In the scene, the villain shows the protagonist a collection of weapons and elements of torture, with special emphasis on this dagger.
It is ...
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Identify a 1980's thriller in which a family moves into a country house and then their young son disappears
I am looking for a movie I saw in England in 1987 in which a family moves into a country house and then their young son disappears.
After a while the family starts hearing strange sounds which they ...
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Chinese movie where Wukong is fighting an army and throws his master away to save him
I remember a movie I watched around 2014 but couldn't remember its name. I think it's a Chinese movie.
It seems like a Monkey King movie. I remember a scene in which I think Wukong is fighting an army,...
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70s-80s animation with an island of robots
I'm looking to identify an old animation with an island of robots. My guess is that it's stop-motion animation because I remember it being peculiar. My subconscious is oscillating between "...
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80s/90s film reminiscent of "Payback," where a tortured man escapes and detonates a hotel bomb
I'm looking for an '80s or '90s movie where a guy gets beat up, tortured, and has some fingers cut off by some guys in a garage, then they throw him in a trunk. He tears through the back seat and gets ...
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Kids' educational VHS series about a man who's friends with a parrot and a chimpanzee
Could you help me identify a cheesy series of educational films?
When I was in elementary school (around 2004), I saw a series of live-action educational films for children where a white man ...
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Animated Cinderella-like short film on YouTube about a girl with a pet cow and an evil stepfamily
Can anyone help identify an animated short film on YouTube that’s similar to Cinderella?
This was a professionally animated short film about a girl whose biological parents were murdered when she was ...
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Italian meta-narrative film, 70s? Shot fired in cinema, from the screen, killing audience member
I'm looking for this Italian film, probably from the '70s. I saw this in my youth but can't remember the title. It's a bit "meta"—the film is about a film in a cinema—a spaghetti western.
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Animation featuring DC's Adam Strange saving planet Rann from a solar-powered war machine
I'm trying to find an animation featuring DC's Adam Strange, in which he saves the planet Rann (I think) from a supposedly unstoppable war machine, which turns out to have one weakness: it's powered ...
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What are all the movie clips seen at the end of Babylon?
At the end of Babylon (2022) (starring Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie) there are a number of movie clips that appear before we see the words
"Cinema de La finita"
Can anyone name all of them? ...
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Help ID a film about an African American scientist recounting her time in a secret research facility while wearing a white mask
I was a kid when I watched this but I never got to finish it and it has been bugging me. It's been over nine years.
It was a movie about scientists carrying out research in a secret research facility ...
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Movie with a man with a Chinese queue hairstyle riding a bike with a child in front and a woman in the back, all smiling
I've seen this picture on several websites. It shows three people who seem to be from a movie: a man (the cyclist), a child seated in front, and a woman at the back. They're all smiling as they ride ...
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Old movie were a Gregory Peck-like actor jests about "the Brownies"
I remember an old (B&W? - not sure) film I saw as a television re-run, probably between late 1960's, in which a character played by Gregory Peck or an actor that reminds me of Gregory Peck jests ...
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Which comedy film contains a highly stylized, rapidly cut sequence of drinking?
I'm looking for the name of a comedy film that contained a highly stylized, rapidly cut sequence involving drinking. The scene is shot from above, looking straight down to the character, who tilts his ...
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Pre-1990 movie about two teenage boys' secret relationship
When I was around 12 years old (1990), I saw on VCR a movie that caught my attention. Two years later I watched it again, but sadly lost the cassette since then. But, I remember some details that ...
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