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

ianhmoore

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120024672#Comment_120024672

You're thinking of RainMan with Dustin Hoffman. Tom Cruise goes to take a bath and Dustin Hoffman freaks out, it was part of the backstory of why Dustin Hoffmans character was institutionalized to begin with "Raymond had saved an infant Charlie from being scalded by hot bathwater one day, but their father blamed him for nearly injuring Charlie, and committed him to the institution, as he was unable to speak up for himself and correct the misunderstanding."

ianhmoore

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118939096#Comment_118939096

You sure it wasn't the british movie Shooting Fish?

ianhmoore

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122026892#Comment_122026892

The alien guns used copper strips to work, the kid uses his copper coin collection to activate the gun or something. It's Tobe Hoopers (terrible) remake of Invaders from Mars.

Hangdogroad

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122054850#Comment_122054850

No, definetly not that. It was Australian and from very late 80s/early 90s.

Main character was a young woman who had some kind of ability to communicate with horses. She was kind of "kooky". There was a lot of footage set around some big Australian horse racing event, maybe the Melbourne Cup.

RickBlaine

I'm looking for two Japanese or Korean horror movies. They could actually be the same movie but I think they are different.

One involves seemingly normal people committing murder. I think a policeman kills a guy outside his police station (I think the station is no bigger than a terrace house), and I'm pretty sure a doctor is involved in another killing too. I think these people are being influenced by some strange young women.

I remember less about the other one except the end involves a women somehow burying herself at a beach and the main actor arrives at that beach looking for her not realizing she is buried.

Any help would be appreciated.

ianhmoore

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122055611#Comment_122055611

Daydream Believer (The girl who came late) from 1992? Romance story set in Australia

Nell Tiscowitz is a struggling actress with an affinity for horses. She meets wealthy rock music promoter and stable owner Digby Olsen. Nell's best friend and flatmate, Wendy provides dubious love-lorn advice. After Nell uses her 'telepathy' to help Digby tame horses they eventually fall in love.

Hangdogroad

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122079185#Comment_122079185

Thats it, thanks.

CPTM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122013866#Comment_122013866

Fatal contact: bird flu in America?

CPTM

Could the first one be Cure (kyua).. 1997? Or what sort of decade are you thinking?

In terms of the second one, there is a scene like that at the of Decision to Leave but again the decade might help

CPTM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122058309#Comment_122058309

Could the first one be Cure (kyua).. 1997? Or what sort of decade are you thinking?

In terms of the second one, there is a scene like that at the of Decision to Leave but again the decade might help

tom23

Ok lll give this ago. I can remember a brief clip of a film many many moons again. It was around 1982/3. It was a group of boys and one was wearing an old American GI army helmet with white t-shirt and he gets hurt or maybe upset. It’s set in America I think in somewhere like texas or one of those ‘small towns in America midwest’. Scant details… but it’s a clip in the memory muscle that’s been driving me **** nuts for years. I used to think that it was ‘buffalo’ something but I was wrong as I can’t find any reference to it.

Thanks I know all of that is as obscure as anything.

Quiet Achiever

Sounds a lot like Stand By Me

tom23

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122110650#Comment_122110650

I know…but it's not unfortunately. Driving me nuts for years.

CPTM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122110621#Comment_122110621

It's not Red Dawn is it? Probably unlikely because there are so many more memorable moments in that movie. But I'm just throwing it out there because it has a bunch of teenage lads in Colorado using Guerilla tactics to defend their town.. 1984ish.. so it ticks a few boxes

tom23

No not Red Dawn… great movie though! I’d say the movie thats in my head was made in the 70’s or something… it’s had to be on either Rte 1 / 2 or BBC as we had **** all channels. I wonder is it possible to look at old tv listings from those years?

Hangdogroad

FIlm that I saw on RTE in the 80s. Set in somewhere like the Oaklahoma dustbowl in the 1930s, I'd say made in the 70s/80s.

Young boy whos being bullied befriends this other lad in his class whos a bit of a loner, social outcast. This other boy looks older than the rest of the kids in the class. He has blond floppy hair and wears dungarees and no shoes.

A couple of scenes that stick in my head. One where the bullied lad is made by a teacher to stand in front of the class holding up his arms till he collapses from exhaustion. The lad in dungarees tries to help him but the teacher orders him to get back in his seat.

The two boys are out walking and they meet this eccentric tramp with a long beard whos going on about Jesus.

A disturbing scene where a bunch of children set a dog on an animal like a gopher. One of the boys finally kills it by dropping a rock in it. The boy in dungarees comes upon the scene and beats up this boy.

The tormenting and killing of the gopher didn't look faked to me, you could see the dog shaking it in its mouth and the gopher trying to escape.

Hangdogroad

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122119783#Comment_122119783

Bump. Ring any bells?

During the scene where the bullied lad is forced to stand in front of the class holding his arms up the camera focuses a number of closeups of his classmates faces looking on, one of these was a weird looking girl with freckles who was smirking.

It could have been something along the lines of ABC After School Specials, RTE showed a lot of them in the 80s.

The Mulk

A bit of a weird one, a movie shown on sky or super channel in the late 80s.Very B-movie effects

Two girls are either baby sitting or house siting, The house belonged to a scientist who had died. The finale of the film had a load of re-animated corpses 'floating' along corriders of a mortuary chasing the girls. I think they survive by turning some machine\experiment off.

Apologies for the vagueness

Spon Farmer

I think this sports underdog movie is from the late 90s. I can only remember one scene.

The film might be British but I’m pretty sure it in American so e game is soccer, Thr underdog team engage in dirty tactics. Two women (I’m sure they are on the underdog team and not just fans) lift up their team jerseys to flash their bare boobs at a player on the superior team (although the point of view is from behind the women) allowing a teammate to easily take the ball and score. The two women run off and resume playing. I think the rival team is left afraid of what the women will do next.

I have a vague recollection of that scene being particularly funny because the movie was aimed at a family audience (or at least was only PG) so it was the last think you’d expect to happen.

odyssey06

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122626405#Comment_122626405

Bend it like Beckham - thats British.

Seems a bit racy for Lady Bugs

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0104670/

She's the man?

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0454945/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

the beer revolu

That sounds like a scene from Gregory's Girl but that's from 1981!

Spon Farmer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122626756#Comment_122626756

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122635568#Comment_122635568

sorry I thought I responded last week.

It isn’t any of those. Maybe it isn’t soccer.

spurious

@Spon Farmer Badminton? About 29.13 in 'Van Wilder 2 - Rise of the Taj'.

A cinematic masterpiece, truly.

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

z80CPU

Harrison Ford turns out to be the bad guy and the final scene is of him standing over the grave of his partner is a snowy graveyard

A BBC Children's TV series:

Final episode is where the black gooey mass is going to take over, the heroine has to get a rainbow to complete and she just about does it, and the black goo mass vanishes

odyssey06

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122653596#Comment_122653596

Harrison Ford - sounds a bit like What Lies Beneath, but the ending is not quite as described:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Lies_Beneath

z80CPU

correct thanks

klondike99

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122604896#Comment_122604896

The Dead Pit? Serial killer doctor murdering patients, buries them in a pit on hospital grounds. Years later dead patients become zombies and rise from the dead. Late 80s.

The Mulk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122927672#Comment_122927672

Thanks, but the one i remember had the dead bodies floating along the corriders, powered by some machine. The special efects were pretty corny compared to The Dead Pit.

FullBack Jam

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122653621#Comment_122653621

Harrison Ford drowns in the lake in What Lies Beneath.

Sadb

This has been bugging me for ages, does anyone know/remember if Gustav Holsts- Venus, was used in any black and white movie?

I’ve checked IMDb and Wikipedia, but no joy

When I hear it I can picture a black and white scene of a woman in early 20th century clothes (big skirt, white blouse) in a living/sitting room, large house and she’s worried about something, maybe even pacing.

I’ve never really watched black and white movies but this scene is so vivid in my mind when that music plays.