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Movie Identification (Post here if you're looking for the name of a movie)

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  • #1602
    redz11
    Registered Users Posts: 198 ✭✭redz11


    redz11 wrote: »
    I remember a movie I saw on video at a friends house, it was most likely sometime between 1990 and 1995 ... I think! redface.gif

    The main scene that I remember is a teenage boy, in his bedroom. And some sort of vortex opened up in the middle of his bed, and it sucked in everything in his bedroom, and him, too.

    I'd know the scene straight away if I saw it again ... gave me nightmares for years! redface.gif

    I've a feeling it's a pretty mainstream movie, so hopefully someone here will know it!
    HellfireEire wrote: »
    Could it be Nightmare On Elm Street? There is a scene where the main male character is pulled down into his bed with his tv etc, killed and the room fills with gore.

    Here is the link *Warning* violent scene
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz9DWbfmSbI

    Yup, that's the one!

    Thanks - I knew it was a well-known one alright.

    Will probably get nightmares again now after watching that! :pac:


  • #1603
    iDann
    Closed Accounts Posts: 539 ✭✭✭iDann


    Hey,
    I can remember the name of this film, but here how it goes..
    Some man ends up in a parallel universe/reality and everything is different , I think his wife doesn't know who he is or something like that, but he does something anyway, that puts out some alert through out the city to kill him or catch him, so he goes on the run and he meets this other girl who's in the situation , think she was Asian and they make some portal/machine thing to go back to the real world.
    Its really bugging me that I can't remember the name, its years old I'd say, must deffo have been on Irish TV.

    Thanks.


  • #1604
    dunworth1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,341 ✭✭✭dunworth1


    iDann wrote: »
    Hey,
    I can remember the name of this film, but here how it goes..
    Some man ends up in a parallel universe/reality and everything is different , I think his wife doesn't know who he is or something like that, but he does something anyway, that puts out some alert through out the city to kill him or catch him, so he goes on the run and he meets this other girl who's in the situation , think she was Asian and they make some portal/machine thing to go back to the real world.
    Its really bugging me that I can't remember the name, its years old I'd say, must deffo have been on Irish TV.

    Thanks.

    first thought is that it might be "the one"

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0267804/


  • #1605
    malene
    Registered Users Posts: 482 ✭✭malene


    I'll throw this one out again.

    Just wondering if u know what film I'm on about. It's French language.

    Saw it years ago on C4 maybe. Husband has affair with young brunette, then near end, kills her, hides her behind wall of room that is being redecorated. The wall is plastered up. Then I think he feels guilty, goes back to get the body, makes hole in wall , body not there. Can't remember the rest. It came out in the 80's I'd say and in colour. Thanks.


  • #1606
    gaelicred
    Registered Users Posts: 630 ✭✭✭gaelicred


    Looking for a movie about 2 kids from ireland i think it was called Mickeybo and me but im not sure


  • #1607
    actuallylike
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,450 ✭✭✭actuallylike


    gaelicred wrote: »
    Looking for a movie about 2 kids from ireland i think it was called Mickeybo and me but im not sure

    http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Mickeybo+and+me

    :pac:


  • #1608
    Mickeroo
    Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 32,394 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    gaelicred wrote: »
    Looking for a movie about 2 kids from ireland i think it was called Mickeybo and me but im not sure

    Yea thats the name alright: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388154/


  • #1609
    gaelicred
    Registered Users Posts: 630 ✭✭✭gaelicred


    Thats the one thank you very much


  • #1610
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Help appreciated

    I think it was set in WW11, around that time

    It's about a platoon of US Army soldiers who are training and the bonds that form in the group

    One point in the film was homosexuality was not allowed in the army, maybe it still isn't, I don't know

    But anyway, one of the sergeants found two men embracing in a storeroom, he caught one but the other ran off
    To humiliate the man, they line all the men up and select him and lead him away so hundreds and hundreds see him

    I think he got booted out of the army then

    The rest of the film is about training, I'm unsure if we ever saw any fighting

    It wasn't some cheap budget film, it was well produced but I can't remember it and there are so many war films I cannot find it

    Anyone know :)

    I saw it in the early nineties, it's one of those Sunday matinee films that RTÉ are fond of showing


  • #1611
    Mickeroo
    Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 32,394 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Help appreciated

    I think it was set in WW11, around that time

    It's about a platoon of US Army soldiers who are training and the bonds that form in the group

    One point in the film was homosexuality was not allowed in the army, maybe it still isn't, I don't know

    But anyway, one of the sergeants found two men embracing in a storeroom, he caught one but the other ran off
    To humiliate the man, they line all the men up and select him and lead him away so hundreds and hundreds see him

    I think he got booted out of the army then

    The rest of the film is about training, I'm unsure if we ever saw any fighting

    It wasn't some cheap budget film, it was well produced but I can't remember it and there are so many war films I cannot find it

    Anyone know :)

    Biloxi Blues maybe? Just a guess, could be way off.


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  • #1612
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Thanks but not that

    Wasn't a comedy

    Were you posting pics in surfing forum just before you came over here? :pac:


  • #1613
    Mickeroo
    Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 32,394 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    mikemac1 wrote: »

    Were you posting pics in surfing forum just before you came over here? :pac:

    There is a distinct possibility :o


  • #1614
    UrbanSea
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,335 ✭✭✭✭UrbanSea


    Trying to remember the name of a film. Can't remember anything about it other than near the end where there are detectives that go into a block in the projects and I think they may be corrupt and shoot the guys living there who have drugs.


    Then this other undercover cop comes (a black guy) and is shot by another cop, who only realises he is a cop when he goes up to his dead body and sees a badge. Vague but it's only about 5 years old and I don't think it's an obscure movie


  • #1615
    actuallylike
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,450 ✭✭✭actuallylike


    UrbanSea wrote: »
    Trying to remember the name of a film. Can't remember anything about it other than near the end where there are detectives that go into a block in the projects and I think they may be corrupt and shoot the guys living there who have drugs.


    Then this other undercover cop comes (a black guy) and is shot by another cop, who only realises he is a cop when he goes up to his dead body and sees a badge. Vague but it's only about 5 years old and I don't think it's an obscure movie
    Sounds very like The Wire. You sure it was a movie and not a series?


  • #1616
    Mickeroo
    Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 32,394 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    UrbanSea wrote: »
    Trying to remember the name of a film. Can't remember anything about it other than near the end where there are detectives that go into a block in the projects and I think they may be corrupt and shoot the guys living there who have drugs.


    Then this other undercover cop comes (a black guy) and is shot by another cop, who only realises he is a cop when he goes up to his dead body and sees a badge. Vague but it's only about 5 years old and I don't think it's an obscure movie

    Training Day maybe?


  • #1617
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    UrbanSea wrote: »
    Trying to remember the name of a film. Can't remember anything about it other than near the end where there are detectives that go into a block in the projects and I think they may be corrupt and shoot the guys living there who have drugs.


    Then this other undercover cop comes (a black guy) and is shot by another cop, who only realises he is a cop when he goes up to his dead body and sees a badge. Vague but it's only about 5 years old and I don't think it's an obscure movie

    Sounds like Brooklyn's Finest
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn%27s_Finest


  • #1618
    Ann22
    Registered Users Posts: 8,004 ✭✭✭Ann22


    Anyone rememember this film? I saw it in the late 70s and it was set in modern times. There was this rich woman in a house who was some kind of vampire who had the bubonic plague. I've memories of black boils on her hand or somewhere, though I know they were supposed to grow in the armpit or groin. It sounds a bit mad. I don't think this woman was the main character, there were kids I think in it who were suspicious of this woman. The creepy woman's name was Elizabeth 'Chesterton' or something like that. I've a feeling towards the end she was fliting about a graveyard in a floaty nightie..think she was dead at this point.


  • #1619
    whiteonblu
    Registered Users Posts: 147 ✭✭whiteonblu


    I saw a film in Tesco a while back . i thought it was called the grandfather but I don't think it is it is the grandfather from 1998, The dvd cover had a man about to walk down a stairs to a basement. It was a horror type film and the title was the name of a relative like the grandfather the godfather, not that obviously. I think maybe he had family locked in basement


  • #1620
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,716 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    whiteonblu wrote: »
    I saw a film in Tesco a while back . i thought it was called the grandfather but I don't think it is it is the grandfather from 1998, The dvd cover had a man about to walk down a stairs to a basement. It was a horror type film and the title was the name of a relative like the grandfather the godfather, not that obviously. I think maybe he had family locked in basement

    It's The Stepfather.

    Going by the reviews it's best left on the shelf :P


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  • #1621
    whiteonblu
    Registered Users Posts: 147 ✭✭whiteonblu


    johnny_ultimate wrote: »
    It's The Stepfather.
    P
    It is thanks;)
    Going by the reviews it's best left on the shelf :
    Wow you're right

    Maybe it was the original i saw in tesco as i recall looking it up before and did not think the reviews wew as bad.. Anyway thanks for title


  • #1622
    pookiesboo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,666 ✭✭✭pookiesboo


    I saw this French film years back, it was like some drama/comedy (think along the lines of Amelie) about some French fella (he was heavy and didnt have any friends and I think he was simple) who takes in a young girl (she must of been about 7/8) not in a creepy way! havent seen it since, it was late on RTE one night, I reckon it was made in early 90's. One of those films you dont plan on watching through but do anyway.I always wondered what it was


  • #1623
    r3nu4l
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,399 ✭✭✭✭r3nu4l


    pookiesboo wrote: »
    I saw this French film years back, it was like some drama/comedy (think along the lines of Amelie) about some French fella (he was heavy and didnt have any friends and I think he was simple) who takes in a young girl (she must of been about 7/8) not in a creepy way! havent seen it since, it was late on RTE one night, I reckon it was made in early 90's. One of those films you dont plan on watching through but do anyway.I always wondered what it was

    Sounds like a Gerard Depardieu movie and I think I've seen it too but I didn't think it was in French, I could be wrong.


  • #1624
    Marty McFly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,224 ✭✭✭✭Marty McFly


    pookiesboo wrote: »
    I saw this French film years back, it was like some drama/comedy (think along the lines of Amelie) about some French fella (he was heavy and didnt have any friends and I think he was simple) who takes in a young girl (she must of been about 7/8) not in a creepy way! havent seen it since, it was late on RTE one night, I reckon it was made in early 90's. One of those films you dont plan on watching through but do anyway.I always wondered what it was


    OK the film I'm thinking of isnt French but It does sound a lot like Curly Sue?


  • #1625
    Sad Professor
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,680 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    r3nu4l wrote: »
    Sounds like a Gerard Depardieu movie and I think I've seen it too but I didn't think it was in French, I could be wrong.

    My Father the Hero. There was an American remake starting Depardieu as well.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102465/


  • #1626
    pookiesboo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,666 ✭✭✭pookiesboo


    Sad Professor wrote: »
    My Father the Hero. There was an American remake starting Depardieu as well.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102465/


    No Ive seen that, the girl was a lot younger and not his daughter. The plot thickens!


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  • #1627
    pookiesboo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,666 ✭✭✭pookiesboo


    Marty McFly wrote: »
    OK the film I'm thinking of isnt French but It does sound a lot like Curly Sue?


    Not Curly Sue either. I think he lived in a kind of run down bedsite type of place...


  • #1628
    pookiesboo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,666 ✭✭✭pookiesboo


    Marty McFly wrote: »
    OK the film I'm thinking of isnt French but It does sound a lot like Curly Sue?


    Im pretty sure it was French with subtitles also


  • #1629
    westies4ever
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,456 ✭✭✭westies4ever


    pookiesboo wrote: »
    I saw this French film years back, it was like some drama/comedy (think along the lines of Amelie) about some French fella (he was heavy and didnt have any friends and I think he was simple) who takes in a young girl (she must of been about 7/8) not in a creepy way! havent seen it since, it was late on RTE one night, I reckon it was made in early 90's. One of those films you dont plan on watching through but do anyway.I always wondered what it was


    Probably wrong but it wasnt 'Leon' was it?

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110413/


  • #1630
    pookiesboo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,666 ✭✭✭pookiesboo


    westies4ever wrote: »
    Probably wrong but it wasnt 'Leon' was it?

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110413/


    Nope! Although it does read like that except for him being simple and all. But it was more a lighthearted film.


  • #1631
    brian_t
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,727 ✭✭✭brian_t


    pookiesboo wrote: »
    I saw this French film years back, it was like some drama/comedy (think along the lines of Amelie) about some French fella (he was heavy and didnt have any friends and I think he was simple) who takes in a young girl (she must of been about 7/8) not in a creepy way!

    The Butterfly 2002 is probably too recent.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Butterfly_(2002_film)


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  • #1632
    pookiesboo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,666 ✭✭✭pookiesboo


    brian_t wrote: »
    The Butterfly 2002 is probably too recent.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Butterfly_(2002_film)


    Thanks but no thats not it either! Was definitely early to mid 90's I saw it so it could have been made in the 80's :confused:


  • #1633
    Norma_Desmond
    Registered Users Posts: 249 ✭✭Norma_Desmond


    pookiesboo wrote: »
    I saw this French film years back, it was like some drama/comedy (think along the lines of Amelie) about some French fella (he was heavy and didnt have any friends and I think he was simple) who takes in a young girl (she must of been about 7/8) not in a creepy way! havent seen it since, it was late on RTE one night, I reckon it was made in early 90's. One of those films you dont plan on watching through but do anyway.I always wondered what it was

    The City of Lost Children Maybe?

    "One (Ron Perlman), a former whale hunter who is as strong as a horse, sets forth to search for Denree, his little brother who was kidnapped by Krank's men. Helped by young Miette (Judith Vittet), he soon arrives in La Cite des Enfants Perdus (The City of Lost Children)."

    Ron Perlman's character sounds like the man you described and he is along with a little girl. It's french and made in 1995, so maybe?


  • #1634
    pookiesboo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,666 ✭✭✭pookiesboo


    Norma_Desmond wrote: »
    The City of Lost Children Maybe?

    "One (Ron Perlman), a former whale hunter who is as strong as a horse, sets forth to search for Denree, his little brother who was kidnapped by Krank's men. Helped by young Miette (Judith Vittet), he soon arrives in La Cite des Enfants Perdus (The City of Lost Children)."

    Ron Perlman's character sounds like the man you described and he is along with a little girl. It's french and made in 1995, so maybe?


    Thanks but no not that either! This thing was set in a smallish town and it was all local characters who lived there as well as the the man and little girl. He looked really fat and had no hair (Or friends) and the whole thing was set in the small town. It wasnt a sinister movie, one of those he takes in an orphan and they become friends. The main guy had a touch of the Forrest Gumps to him as in he was kind of slow


  • #1635
    SirDelboy18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,988 ✭✭✭SirDelboy18


    There's a movie I saw around 10 years ago, been trying to remember it's name for forever because I can't remember the cast, where this couple break down in the desert, and the wife goes off with a trucker for help - then everyone claims that the wife never existed. Any ideas?


  • #1636
    pookiesboo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,666 ✭✭✭pookiesboo


    SirDelboy18 wrote: »
    There's a movie I saw around 10 years ago, been trying to remember it's name for forever because I can't remember the cast, where this couple break down in the desert, and the wife goes off with a trucker for help - then everyone claims that the wife never existed. Any ideas?


    Breakdown. With Kurt Russell

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118771/


  • #1637
    SirDelboy18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,988 ✭✭✭SirDelboy18


    pookiesboo wrote: »
    Breakdown. With Kurt Russell

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118771/

    Oh that seems to be it. Thanks


  • #1638
    z6vm1dobfnca3x
    Closed Accounts Posts: 237 ✭✭z6vm1dobfnca3x


    A few years ago I remember seeing a documentary about how food is produced. I'm fairly sure that it was a German production. The documentary did not contain any music or dialogue, just raw sound and simply showed workers and machines doing routine work in factories and on farms. It was actually very interesting.

    Can anyone take a guess as to what I was watching?


  • #1639
    malene
    Registered Users Posts: 482 ✭✭malene


    I'll throw this one out again.

    Just wondering if u know what film I'm on about. It's French language.

    Saw it years ago on C4 maybe. Husband has affair with young brunette, then near end, kills her, hides her behind wall of room that is being redecorated. The wall is plastered up. Then I think he feels guilty, goes back to get the body, makes hole in wall , body not there. Can't remember the rest. It came out in the 80's I'd say and in colour. Thanks.


  • #1640
    brian_t
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,727 ✭✭✭brian_t


    malene wrote: »
    I'll throw this one out again.

    Maybe third time lucky !!

    Channel 4 have shown some weird and wonderful films in their time especially before they became more mainstream in the mid 1990's.


  • #1641
    brian_t
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,727 ✭✭✭brian_t


    Julio Sharp Hornet wrote: »
    A few years ago I remember seeing a documentary about how food is produced. I'm fairly sure that it was a German production. The documentary did not contain any music or dialogue, just raw sound and simply showed workers and machines doing routine work in factories and on farms. It was actually very interesting.

    Can anyone take a guess as to what I was watching?

    Our Daily Bread (2005)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Daily_Bread_(2005_film)


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  • #1642
    z6vm1dobfnca3x
    Closed Accounts Posts: 237 ✭✭z6vm1dobfnca3x


    brian_t wrote: »
    Our Daily Bread (2005)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Daily_Bread_(2005_film)

    That's exactly it! Great detective work!

    Thanks a million,
    Hugo.


  • #1643
    Silvics
    Closed Accounts Posts: 128 ✭✭Silvics


    Old aliens from outer space movie, saw it early 70s-terrified me then (8yo)-scenes i remember were a boy and a woman sitting on sand and sinking into it and finding themselves in an underground cavern, some sort of glowing orb which I related to an old round neon lamp, and on which a furry claw was placed....:eek:
    I'm sure it's some B-horror, probably well known, but have never seen it since....


  • #1644
    tricky D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,700 ✭✭✭tricky D


    Silvics wrote: »
    Old aliens from outer space movie, saw it early 70s-terrified me then (8yo)-scenes i remember were a boy and a woman sitting on sand and sinking into it and finding themselves in an underground cavern, some sort of glowing orb which I related to an old round neon lamp, and on which a furry claw was placed....:eek:
    I'm sure it's some B-horror, probably well known, but have never seen it since....

    Sounds a bit like: Invaders from Mars (1953 film) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invaders_from_Mars_%281953_film%29


  • #1645
    Ape X
    Closed Accounts Posts: 460 ✭✭Ape X


    Silvics wrote: »
    Old aliens from outer space movie, saw it early 70s-terrified me then (8yo)-scenes i remember were a boy and a woman sitting on sand and sinking into it and finding themselves in an underground cavern, some sort of glowing orb which I related to an old round neon lamp, and on which a furry claw was placed....:eek:
    I'm sure it's some B-horror, probably well known, but have never seen it since....
    Invaders From Mars I'd say.


  • #1646
    Silvics
    Closed Accounts Posts: 128 ✭✭Silvics


    Ape X wrote: »
    Invaders From Mars I'd say.
    Thanks so much...that looks like it. Off to Amazon now!:D

    And another that's eluded me-something to do with queen/woman and her tribe living underground and the most vivid part was her standing on steps as red lava flowed all round her and swallowed her up I guess...don't remember-whoever had me there had to take me out because I was screaming in terror..again-must have been early 70s


  • #1647
    s08t
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55 ✭✭s08t


    Hi. I watched a film on tv one sunday. This must be about a yr and half ago. I went on google a few times to try and see what it was but to no avail. Id say the film was out in late 90's to 00's. Il explain what the films about and any help would be much appreciated:

    It is about this girl in her teens and her parents are separated. Her dad takes her on a holiday to a beach house. So the film is set on a beach, they live in a beach house. The dad is tall and thin with glasses. The girl has blonde hair and starts dressing and acting older than her age. The girl wants to find a boyfriend but wants someone older and maturer than herself and tells one boy (who cheats on her) that her dad is her boyfriend just to make herself look good. So the dad plays along with it. Then at the end the dad finds a new woman and the girl finds a boy.
    Think dats it, too hard to think nw, its getting late but il write up more about it if I can think.
    Any help in thinking what the film may be called is much appreciated..thanks in advance. :):)


  • #1648
    Mickeroo
    Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 32,394 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    Sounds a bit like My Father the Hero.


  • #1649
    Cedrus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭Cedrus


    Sounds a bit like Lolita, check on IMDB


  • #1650
    pookiesboo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,666 ✭✭✭pookiesboo


    I second My Hero The Father, id recommend the original one too which was French 'Mon Pere, C'est Hero' which starred the same guy Gerard Depardieu!


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  • #1651
    s08t
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55 ✭✭s08t


    OMG, It is My father my hero, how did u's get it so fast....must of been my great explanation of it. Thank u so much Mickeroo and Pookiesboo. And Cedrus for your help too. WOO HOO Getting it out some night this wk, it is brill, very funny.


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