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

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    #3572
    MfMan
    Registered Users Posts: 3,371 ✭✭✭MfMan


    Tony EH wrote: »
    Sounds like an episode of TJ Hooker.

    No, pre-dates that. I was very young when I saw it so it's definitely early-mid 70s at latest. I don't recall it being an episodic cop series either, more of a specific finite one.


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    #3573
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,371 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Can you remember if it was set in the US, the UK, or somewhere else?


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    #3574
    MfMan
    Registered Users Posts: 3,371 ✭✭✭MfMan


    New Home wrote: »
    Can you remember if it was set in the US, the UK, or somewhere else?

    Pretty sure it was US as they were dealing in dollars. Was in colour as as far as I remember.


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    #3575
    Riskymove
    Registered Users Posts: 10,885 ✭✭✭✭Riskymove


    MfMan wrote: »
    Pretty sure it was US as they were dealing in dollars. Was in colour as as far as I remember.

    How about....

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toma_(TV_series)

    There is a two part episode where Toma infiltrates a burglary ring as a driver??


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    #3576
    MfMan
    Registered Users Posts: 3,371 ✭✭✭MfMan


    Riskymove wrote: »
    How about....

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toma_(TV_series)

    There is a two part episode where Toma infiltrates a burglary ring as a driver??

    Spotters prize!! I'd say that's the very one; unfortunately IMDB or Youtube haven't much on this and the series doesn't appear to be available on DVD or anything.

    Great make.


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    #3577
    Imhof Tank
    Registered Users Posts: 2,122 ✭✭✭Imhof Tank


    Great thread!

    There's one driving me mad for a long time. Set around Manhattan and Long Island, late 90s perhaps, main characters are a judge trying to get his son who in financial trouble due to dodgy stock market dealings out of trouble. I could swear Ben Stiller was in it in a non comic role (cop? reporter maybe?) - but I've looked at full list of his films and nothing fits so maybe it wasnt him at all

    any ideas?


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    #3578
    actuallylike
    Registered Users Posts: 1,450 ✭✭✭actuallylike


    Imhof Tank wrote: »
    Great thread!

    There's one driving me mad for a long time. Set around Manhattan and Long Island, late 90s perhaps, main characters are a judge trying to get his son who in financial trouble due to dodgy stock market dealings out of trouble. I could swear Ben Stiller was in it in a non comic role (cop? reporter maybe?) - but I've looked at full list of his films and nothing fits so maybe it wasnt him at all

    any ideas?

    Boiler Room? You thinking of Ben Affleck?


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    #3579
    Aglomerado
    Registered Users Posts: 5,761 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    actuallylike wrote: »
    Boiler Room? You thinking of Ben Affleck?

    +1 ,saw it recently. Very good film!


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    #3580
    George White
    Registered Users Posts: 1,285 ✭✭✭George White


    Skerries wrote: »
    possibly a film from the 70's or 80's that was like the Count of Monte Cristo and set around the same time
    The only scene I remember is that the protagonist was locked in a cell with about 9 doors between him and freedom
    Someone smuggled a knife into his bread I think and he spends the night cutting away at the doors until he gets to the last one and he is too exhausted and the guards find him there the next morning
    Swashbuckler?
    The fifth Musketeer?


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    #3581
    George White
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    The Crowman wrote: »
    My mistake. The Greek wrestler thing seems to fit but I don't think the film I remember was so much a crime thriller, more of a family drama type thing. I think the main wrestler guy had a son or a younger brother and also a blond girlfriend.

    A Kid with Two Farthings?


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    #3582
    George White
    Registered Users Posts: 1,285 ✭✭✭George White


    The Crowman wrote: »
    This is a long shot but does anyone remember mid to early 90's they had a late night season on Sky1 (not the Sky movie channel, the original regular Sky channel) where they showed obscure horror B-movies? Can't remember most of them but one shown was the Incredible Three Headed Transplant (1971). There was another one I saw that's bugging me, it was this very off the wall black and white science fiction/comedy film from probably the early 60's. It was about these two astronauts who are sent to the moon and the only bit I can clearly remember is they meet this bunch of red indians on the moon. There was a bit where the two astronauts and the red indians are sitting around a campfire and they're smoking a peacepipe (I think). One of the indian's, who I clearly remember was wearing jeans starts dancing around the fire and there followed this bit that seemed to last for ages with no dialogue with just him dancing in a circle and the others around the fire. What the hell is this film or did I dream it?

    Robinson Crusoe on Mars?


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    #3583
    George White
    Registered Users Posts: 1,285 ✭✭✭George White


    darkdubh wrote: »
    You legend!

    The Surrogate - which bizarrely costars Barbara "Dick" Law, of Maxi, Dick and Twink fame.


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    #3584
    The Crowman
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 991 ✭✭✭The Crowman


    George White wrote: »
    A Kid with Two Farthings?

    Yes thats it, I remember the goat.

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048250/


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    #3585
    The Crowman
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 991 ✭✭✭The Crowman


    George White wrote: »
    Robinson Crusoe on Mars?

    Thanks but it wasn't that. This film was clearly played for laughs and it seemed to have a very low budget .


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    #3586
    ianhmoore
    Registered Users Posts: 51 ✭✭ianhmoore


    The Crowman wrote: »
    Thanks but it wasn't that. This film was clearly played for laughs and it seemed to have a very low budget .

    Try "Invasion of the Star Creatures". 1962 B&W movie that's more akin to a cross between slapstick and the airplane movies. The scene you're describing isn't set on the moon, it's during a chase scene in some underground caverns where they run into a native american indian band.


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    #3587
    ianhmoore
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    Hans Bricks wrote: »
    Can anyone think of a film by this description ? :

    Now I only remember it very vaguely since it's near 20 years when I saw it on telly. I'm certain it's from the 90's

    Setting : town in rural America. Could well be Colorado. I think it may have been a mountain town.
    Gets taken over by these like superior malevolent species of human being or something to that effect.
    Theres a scene where the whole town are gathered in a building at night during heavy snowstorm. (I think).

    That's all I can think of.


    Storm of the century. It was a stephen king mini series.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_of_the_Century


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    #3588
    The Crowman
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    ianhmoore wrote: »
    Try "Invasion of the Star Creatures". 1962 B&W movie that's more akin to a cross between slapstick and the airplane movies. The scene you're describing isn't set on the moon, it's during a chase scene in some underground caverns where they run into a native american indian band.

    Yes, thats it! I remember now the vegetable people or whatever they were supposed to be. I think I repressed the majority of this movie from my memory or else I was half asleep watching it. That season of films was on very late at night. Apart from TITHT I can only remember vague details about the other films shown in that slot.

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


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    #3589
    MfMan
    Registered Users Posts: 3,371 ✭✭✭MfMan


    Another one. A mystery/detective series from the past 30 years, Canadian made I'm pretty sure. The main protagonist, a mustachioed man with glasses, has or acquires clairvoyant powers. In one episode he meets an elderly Jewish man and can see in his distant past a scene where the man is alighting with other Jews from a (concentration camp?) train at night. In another episode, a suspended or former ice hockey player is watching games from a balcony stadium box. He frequently bangs at the box window with his hands in frustration; the window gives way one night and he falls out to his death. It subsequently transpires the retaining bolts on the window have been deliberately loosened by someone who knew his habits.

    Ideas?


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    #3590
    MonkieSocks
    Registered Users Posts: 8,271 ✭✭✭MonkieSocks


    MfMan wrote: »
    Another one. A mystery/detective series from the past 30 years, Canadian made I'm pretty sure. The main protagonist, a mustachioed man with glasses, has or acquires clairvoyant powers. In one episode he meets an elderly Jewish man and can see in his distant past a scene where the man is alighting with other Jews from a (concentration camp?) train at night. In another episode, a suspended or former ice hockey player is watching games from a balcony stadium box. He frequently bangs at the box window with his hands in frustration; the window gives way one night and he falls out to his death. It subsequently transpires the retaining bolts on the window have been deliberately loosened by someone who knew his habits.

    Ideas?


    =(:-) Me? I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude (-:)=



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    #3591
    MfMan
    Registered Users Posts: 3,371 ✭✭✭MfMan


    Yeah, that looks right, thanks.


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    #3592
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users Posts: 13,819 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    This should be good, I'm terrible at details:

    From what I recall, it's a film from the 80s or 90s, where a kid finds/discovers a robot alien/s that follow him around. It's/They're small, fly and mostly set in an apartment in a run down neighbourhood, iirc. There's cockroaches in it. That's about all I remember, and I could be mixing a couple of films together. Can't for the life of me find out what it is, if it exists!


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    #3593
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,371 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Sounds a bit like "*batteries not included", but there wasn't a small child in it. There were, however, tiny alien robots. It was lovely, Don Ameche and Jessica Tandy were in it, too.

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092494/

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xdXE7CHSQw


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    #3594
    Worztron
    Registered Users Posts: 8,667 ✭✭✭Worztron


    Potential-Monke wrote: »
    This should be good, I'm terrible at details:

    From what I recall, it's a film from the 80s or 90s, where a kid finds/discovers a robot alien/s that follow him around. It's/They're small, fly and mostly set in an apartment in a run down neighbourhood, iirc. There's cockroaches in it. That's about all I remember, and I could be mixing a couple of films together. Can't for the life of me find out what it is, if it exists!

    Hi PM.

    This it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batteries_Not_Included

    Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."



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    #3595
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,371 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Great minds and all that, Worztron. :D


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    #3596
    CastorTroy
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    Sounds right. Though when said about cockroaches and mixing movies, it made me think of Joe's Apartment as well


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    #3597
    Worztron
    Registered Users Posts: 8,667 ✭✭✭Worztron


    New Home wrote: »
    Great minds and all that, Worztron. :D

    Hi NH. We both posted at the same time with the same answer. You must have beaten me by just seconds. :)

    Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."



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    #3598
    Neon Demon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28 ✭Neon Demon


    I'm trying to identify the following film (my memory is a little hazy so some of this may be inaccurate).

    I think it's an 80's comedy about a copywriter or advertising executive. He becomes disillusioned with his job or has a breakdown of some sort. He starts creating ads, much to the dismay of his employers, that say stuff like "Porsche's are pieces of crap but they'll guarantee you a beautiful girlfriend".

    However this approach to advertising is an inadvertent success and he finds he's the most in-demand copywriter in the business.

    Any ideas?

    Many thanks.


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    #3599
    somebody_else
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    Crazy people with Dudley Moore

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


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    Neon Demon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28 ✭Neon Demon


    somebody_else wrote: »
    Crazy people with Dudley Moore

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

    Brilliant. Many thanks!


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    #3601
    astrofool
    Registered Users Posts: 16,459 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    Movie from the 90's (I think), that I thought starred Fred Savage but doesn't, movie title has the name of the character in it. Plot is about a pseudo socialist future where smart people are dumbed down using a device on their heads to make everyone equal (or basketball is played with a flat ball for the same effect), but is actually controlled in the background by a bunch of super smart people. Main character gets caught when he goes to an illicit chess playing gathering.


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