"Identify A Movie For Me!" Thread: Part 3D

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SiKboy posted:

Considering the number of times someone in these threads gives a bunch of details then it turns out they were misremembering 90% of them, its got to be worth a punt.

Also it means you've watched CB4 and FoaBH, which is time well spent.

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 08:02

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regulargonzalez posted:

I think you're forgetting about Hercules in New York

We're all trying to forget Hercules in New York. But leading musclemen in movies go back a hell of a long way, particularly in Italy. The first really famous one was probably Bartolomeo Pagano, who played the Hercules analogue Maciste in what were known as "peplum" movies from 1914 to 1928:

Not modern bodybuilder size, of course, but those kind of people didn't even exist until modern training regimens and drugs came into the picture. Maciste movies ended when Pagano retired, but came back into vogue for about ten years after Steve Reeves revived the genre with Hercules in 1957. The last one was 1964's Hercules, Samson, Maciste and Ursus: The Invincibles, which may qualify as the first superhero crossover movie. It starred Sergio Ciani (AKA Alan Steel) as Hercules, and here you can see that it was pretty much the modern standard.

Reeves:

Ciani

# ¿ Jul 18, 2020 10:26

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Ipissedmyself posted:

I'm trying to think of the name of this film. I'll give it a brief synopsis.

The story follows some guy with a wife and son and odd things keep happening. It ends with him fighting a sheeted monster in a circle of occult worshipers and it turns out it is his wife under the sheet with her son strapped to her back?

Cheers

Kill List.

# ¿ Jul 19, 2020 01:14

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Cornwind Evil posted:

Man, my TV film must be drat obscure, everyone's drawing a blank.

This will be easier. Some Asian film where there's some crazy sex scene which is basically 'sex if sex was also a low key Dragon Ball Z fight' with a male/female couple. I am fairly sure it is not pornography, but I cannot say with 100 percent certainty.

It's not Asian, but the sex scene in Shoot 'Em Up takes place during a Hong Kong-style gunfight with Clive Owen participating in both at the same time.

# ¿ Aug 29, 2020 09:07

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JamOnBread posted:

I'm trying to remember the name of a movie I watched in college for a film class called History of World Cinema. The movie is possibly Romanian or Polish. It wasn't an old film, but I can't say exactly how recently it was released. It's about some orthodox religious people, one of whom has taken a vow of silence. A woman shows up, and I think she is being hunted (that may not be correct). Eventually the one who took the vow of silence leaves with the woman. I never finished the movie, so sadly that's pretty much all the information I have.

If you remember what college you go to, maybe look up their current History of World Cinema curriculum. These things tend to remain set in stone for years.

# ¿ Sep 5, 2020 21:32

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GreatGreen posted:

The last detail is really small. Basically there's a scene where somebody is walking or running down a hallway in a large mansion or castle or something, and they decide to open a door, which shows a kind of surreal scene of a spooky or haunted property, complete with grass and trees and a night sky, and a distant house on a hill with a lit window and people screaming. The person decides they don't want to go in that "room" and they close the door.

That sounds like one of the House movies.

# ¿ Nov 2, 2020 11:52

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oldpainless posted:

This sounds kind of like Insomnia

*sigh*

More like oldsleepless.

# ¿ Nov 20, 2020 11:33

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Origami Dali posted:

That Brando movie sounds nuts. A prequel to Turn of the Screw made in the vein of Last Tango in Paris, from the director of Death Wish.

If you want a good laugh: in the scene where Brando is in bed with Stephanie Beacham, he wore Y-fronts and wellies to make sure Winner didn't try filming anything Brando didn't want to be seen.

# ¿ May 17, 2021 12:28

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taco show posted:

Someone described this movie to me and I haven’t actually seen it but here we go:

A woman and a man meet and have a very short, passionate love affair for a few hours and then for some reason split up, never to see each other again. The woman writes a song about it which ends up being a huge hit and she becomes famous. The song is a super idealized version of the man and their relationship.

Years later the man shows up again, but she doesn’t recognize him. He tells her who he is and she refuses to see acknowledge it- because having the song is better than having the real thing.

I absolutely remember this movie existing. It was about 15 years ago I think.

# ¿ May 21, 2021 11:49

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Sirotan posted:

This is for a TV show so I'm not sure if this is the right place to post it but it's going to drive me crazy if I don't ask somewhere.

I swear this is from some '90s show, it's an episode several seasons in possibly a season finale episode. These two characters are somewhere in the woods or maybe just a wooded backyard (like filmed in Vancouver vibes), one is kind of a mentor character and the other is his student who at the beginning of the series was a fresh faced kid and now after a couple seasons has turned into kind of a angry aggressive rear end in a top hat/frenemy of his old teacher. They get into a fight and his teacher ends up killing him even though he doesn't want to. I also seen to remember feeling like the show really declined in quality once they killed off this character, and it lasted for only one more session after this episode and then was cancelled.

For some reason I've had this vague recollection in my mind for decades and up until 5 minutes ago I was sure it was from the last episode in season 5 of the Highlander TV series. Now that I've watched this episode again, I'm not sure I even made it this far in the series my first time around and have absolutely no idea what show I might be remembering!

I was going to say that was Highlander: the Series. Maybe you forgot that you saw it?

# ¿ Sep 9, 2021 10:53

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therattle posted:

Harold Pinter cast Dyer in several of his plays.

I worked on Severance (on the sales side.). Decent film actually. If you like that kind of thing.

It's like Hostel except good. I think I might rewatch it for the October Horror Challenge.

# ¿ Sep 24, 2021 13:23

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uncle blog posted:

Is there a movie with the tagline «Terror from beyond the grave»?

This is all I know.

From Beyond The Grave is a horror anthology movie from Amicus, and Australian horror movie Kadaicha had the tagline "Cast from beyond the grave". But I can't think of anything with that specific tagline - although it's too obvious not to have been used by someone.

# ¿ Sep 27, 2021 13:40

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The Demilich posted:

This is going to be a weird one.
When I was a tiny Demilich in the early 90's, I remember seeing a horrific scene on my grandpa's television.

The scene took place in a hospital, with two people side by side in the room each laying in their respective hospital beds. The camera zooms in on one of the individuals whose mouth opens and this kind of long/gross creature slowly crawls out of the person's mouth. This long creature then reaches across the gap between the beds with its body, and then crawls up and enters the other patients mouth and continues on down the person's throat until it was fully inside the patient.

Anyone have any guesses what this might be from?

I absolutely remember the scene from somewhere. I recommend taking this query to the Horror Thread in CD - when it comes to disturbing stuff they're faster even than this thread.

# ¿ Mar 1, 2022 11:46

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ChocNitty posted:

I think it's from a movie. I remember a guy singing Rod Stewarts "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?", with a heavy Chinese accent.

I'm sure that Jackie Chan did that in a movie once, but I can't tell you which one.

# ¿ Mar 14, 2022 10:31

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goblin week posted:

You know what? Yeah, I was seven, I misremembered the dog dick bites, that was it. Thanks

You may have been thinking of Dog Day Afternoon.

# ¿ Jul 6, 2022 13:48

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Scuffy_1989 posted:

That's it, thanks!

Monster woman doesn't take her clothes off, she just crawls up onto the bed over the woman who had been sleeping. But otherwise close enough.

# ¿ Jul 21, 2022 12:15

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Alan Smithee posted:

is it any good? John Carpenter, 80s, guys from Big Trouble and other notable horror movie peoples....sounds promising

If you like Carpenter movies, it's a must watch.

# ¿ Jul 21, 2022 17:51

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Kosmo Gallion posted:

A film set during WWII. A kid has been evacuated to the countryside. He's complaining about having to walk home from the town back to the farm and tells the adult he's with "I can't walk all that way, I've got a headache in my leg". I saw this in the early/mid 90s.

Hope and Glory?

# ¿ Jul 22, 2022 19:09

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artsy fartsy posted:

At one point there's a funny scene where he plays piano (maybe at a restaurant?) in front of some of these people and the song he plays is "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" and everyone is grossed out.

That doesn't really narrow it down, considering that anyone in their right mind is grossed out by that song.

# ¿ Oct 24, 2022 10:51

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Torquemada posted:

Welp

It's like Romeo and Juliet. The girl is only 14, but people think it's OK because they're both minors.

# ¿ Oct 25, 2022 10:02

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Hughlander posted:

As pointed out theres a bunch like that, the largest one I can recall is The Martian Chronicles:

That's not from The Martian Chronicles. It's a Ray Bradbury short story called Mars Is Heaven. The adaptation is on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAqtvKmCZZI

However, that's not what feedmyleg was after - it's too recent. From the description it could be Third From The Sun from S1 of Twilight Zone?

# ¿ Nov 13, 2022 12:46

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Machai posted:

My wife is trying to remember a what she believes to be a Christmas movie (cold/snowy weather, prepping for the holidays) where the beginning was very nice and heartwarming but the main characters (a couple and their children) "got snatched up by Nazis at the end". She says she watched it around 2010 probably on Netflix. It was a black and white film, probably from the late-40s to mid-50s with an actor that she thinks resembles James Stewart or Gene Kelly. In English, set in Europe/UK. Not a musical, maybe one song at the end.

The 1959 version of The Diary of Anne Frank?

# ¿ Dec 13, 2022 11:23

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filmcynic posted:

1995's The Hunted definitely has the locked-up dueling moment you mentioned, although the foreigner (Christopher Lambert) isn't actually in the scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY-4FCh9UFY

Lambert's done that scene several times. He also did it in Highlander: Endgame twice, once to set up Chekov's Gun and once to fire it.

# ¿ Dec 30, 2022 15:56

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filmcynic posted:

I had no idea that Lambert even had a signature move. Thanks!

Well, technically it's not Lambert's signature move because as was mentioned (and I missed) he wasn't part of the scene in The Hunted. However, John Wardlow was stunt coordinator on both The Hunted and the Highlander TV series in which Lambert appeared in the pilot. It's not impossible that Lambert learned it from him, and they used it in Endgame because Lambert's already atrocious eyesight was getting worse and it was safest to use a routine he already knew.

On a tangentially related note: if Lambert could be said to have a signature move it's the figure-eight twirl. But again that's not really his move. It was the signature flourish of legendary swordmaster Bob Anderson, a former Olympic fencer whose career spanned 50 years from coaching Errol Flynn on The Master of Ballantrae to training all the principal cast of Lord of the Rings (apart from Christopher Lee of course). He also performed Darth Vader's fight scenes in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.

# ¿ Dec 31, 2022 20:54

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I AM GRANDO posted:

And Garabaldi on Babylon 5 restored a motorcycle and loved Daffy Duck.

The motorbike actually appeared in all three PTEN shows that week, as it was the prize in a competition being run by the network. The other two (Time Trax and Kung Fu: The Legend Continues) were both set in the 20th century, but for B5 they needed to find a way to shoehorn it in. Giving Garibaldi an interest in antique motorbikes was the way they chose. His love for Daffy Duck was studio-mandated, though.

# ¿ Jan 2, 2023 13:04

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Mustached5thGrader posted:

That�s not it, but thanks. And the more I think on it�s it�s probably closer to 25

The Frighteners is more than 25 years old. It was Jackson's last movie before prepping Lord of the Rings in 1996.

# ¿ Feb 26, 2023 01:43

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Failson posted:

Google and Wikipedia failing me.

Memory from childhood: Sci fi movie, possibly TV movie or series pilot, live-action, 60s - 80s. Space ship crashes on an airless planet or moon. Another ship comes to their rescue. Survivors are afraid rescuer may be Soviet. Rescuer removes helmet, survivors relieved/surprised that the rescuer is Japanese.

Plot may include relativity time-shenanigans or a loop?

I thought the scenes were from The Green Slime, but nope, weren't in the movie when I rewatched it.

With that kind of stinger I would say it was an episode of The Outer Limits or The Twilight Zone.

# ¿ Mar 18, 2023 11:43

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magic cactus posted:

My brother recommended me a movie a while back and like an idiot I totally forgot to save the name and now he's forgotten it to.

All I can remember is it's a 70s/80s era film. I think the central plot was that there is a race or perhaps truckers were involved and a central point is that the main character is high on meth or speed or some other stimulant. More of a gritty vibe, possibly cyberpunk or dystopian, might have started with a C.

Vanishing Point is a very likely candidate. No trucks, but definitely gritty, somewhat dystopian, and involving a high speed journey with a driver on crank.

# ¿ Apr 26, 2023 13:28

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gently caress yes, I finally got one!

# ¿ Apr 26, 2023 15:39

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Freakazoid_ posted:

Looking for two movies that use the same character gimmick, possibly based off some other work of fiction. Both are probably 80's or 90's movies. Both have a support character that wears a stone boot, because without it they walk/run too fast. One is animated, the other is live action.

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen is your live action, maybe?

# ¿ Jun 10, 2023 21:09

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DandyLion posted:

Hard Candy? I don't recall the bowling alley scene but there is (apparent) surgical castration in the movie....

Absolutely not that.

# ¿ Jul 10, 2023 15:37

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Martman posted:

This was a trippy horror movie from only like... 5-8 years ago, I think it was on Netflix.

It's kinda bad and low-budget but something drew me to it. It's about a cursed book (it looked like a kinda cheap necronomicon ripoff) that fucks you up when you read it. Dudes keep being drawn to read it, but I can't remember 100% if it was for Hellraiser-like masochism reasons, just sheer insanity, or if there was some promise of a reward if you could complete the book. I think it opens with a scene of someone stealing the book from a dude who brags about having made it to something like page 17 and acting like that was some insane feat.

Are you sure it wasn't a convention reading of The Eye of Argon?

# ¿ Jul 28, 2023 07:26

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Disco Pope posted:

The second was a TV movie where a cop is killed and ends up in a dogs body. It's played totally straight. I remember the dog sitting under a tree monologing.

Could be Fluke?

# ¿ Aug 28, 2023 12:06

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codyclarke posted:

Some movie I saw recently had a thing where the guy would have to jam a spatula or something like that into where the microwave door meets the microwave, in order for the microwave door to stay closed enough so he could use the microwave. For the life of me I can't remember what movie that was. My apologies that that's all the information I can supply.

I remember it also, but not the movie or the context. So at least you know it exists.

# ¿ Dec 19, 2023 19:22

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Freakazoid_ posted:

Looking for what I think was some sort of crime drama movie or tv show from the 90's or early 00's. I don't recall anything about it except for the twist at the end: The real crime boss was a child, who was the son of the previous crime boss. The end scene consisted of some guy (probably the underboss) walking in on the kid while he was playing video games, discussing what their next move is going to be.

It wasn't a twist, but Kick-rear end?

# ¿ Feb 6, 2024 16:34

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magic cactus posted:

Howdy!

Trying to track down an old kung-fu movie but the name has escaped me. late 60's-mid 70s at the latest, 98% sure it's not shaw brothers. Plot concerns a woman out for revenge. What struck me was the set design, particularly one scene that takes place in a village at night, with the sky being this deep purple color that almost looked like an expressionist painting. I'm almost certain "snow" or "lady" or "vengeance" was in the title somewhere. I checked Lady Snowblood but that wasn't it. Thanks for any help.

Could be Revenge of the Shogun Women?

# ¿ Apr 9, 2024 09:44

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 08:02

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DeimosRising posted:

Are you sure you're not confusing elements of Lady Snowblood and its sequel with Female Prisoner Scorpion? Same lead and both are revenge stories, but Female Prisoner is set in the 60s/70s and has extremely stylized lighting and sets.

It's definitely not Female Prisoner Scorpion and I don't know how that much muddling could be made.

# ¿ Apr 9, 2024 18:21

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