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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,306 ✭✭✭✭Drumpot


    I thought it was a movie with Tcheky Karyo (but couldn’t recognise it on IMDB) or maybe Jackie chan or somebody with some martial arts skill. It may be a foreign movie but I can vaguely remember the end.

    Its something like there was a dirty cop chasing a guy (think the hero) and at the very end of the movie the cop is in his office. I think the hero was hiding or something and he does this martial arts move (like at the end of kill bill) where he touches certain points on the baddies body and he starts to die. The baddy starts ceasing up and blood comes out of his nose and he dies I think a horrible death from within.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,244 ✭✭✭Brid Hegarty


    Help with this one please. Russell Crowe is pretending to be on the phone while parked in a convertible. There's a lady near by on the street some where, and he knows she can hear him. He says "sign that for 7 million". And if I recall correctly, she confronts him and tells him that she knows there's no one on the phone. They later have a date... on a boat I think!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,242 ✭✭✭lucalux




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,244 ✭✭✭Brid Hegarty


    No. I've seen that too though. Unless it wasn't Russell Crowe. I can't seem to find anything on him that matches with that.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,262 ✭✭✭Spon Farmer


    I don’t know if this is from a movie or a TV series.

    The police have a suspect in a murder and the lead detective gets a confession in the police station by speaking sympathetically with the suspect while holding his hand and he even kisses him at one stage. I think he even has his shirt off.

    I think it was in the introduction for the lead character and the case was not part of the crime that the story was about.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,262 ✭✭✭Spon Farmer


    That could be Kiss of the Dragon.

    Tceky Kayro is the corrupt French police detective and Jet Li is the hero cop over from Hong Kong to help with a case.

    It is a French film but as far as I remember most of the dialogue is English.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,306 ✭✭✭✭Drumpot




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,262 ✭✭✭Spon Farmer


    I don’t know if this is a movie or TV show but one character is telling another how getting hit on the head is serious matter and that characters who get hit on the head (especially multiple times) would be dead or at least suffering from brain damage.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,262 ✭✭✭Spon Farmer


    No, the film is an action comedy because the person being told the statement is hitting people on the head repeatedly.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,508 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    French film from circa late 70s/early 80s about a prostitute. Pretty sure it was set in Paris. One scene had her and another girl, who was black or mixed race, robbed by two clients. One of these guys was the spitting image of uk comedian Eddie Large. Later the criminal gang who are pimping her catch up with the two guys and they force them at gunpoint to strip and one of them to suck the other guy off. There was another scene where the girl is banging her head against a window from inside her apartment, people out on the street stop and stare and then the glass shatters.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,262 ✭✭✭Spon Farmer


    I was asked to inquire about this - none of it is familiar to me.

    an American comedy most likely from the 1980s. A businessman/inventor and his wife are constantly fighting. He creates or discovers a medical device that will make him a fortune. He does some underhanded business to make it look like he is bankrupt so the wife will divorce him and once she is gone he will make his “comeback”. The wife discovers the scheme and uses the medical device in the husband in an attempt to kill him. He survives but the side effect is that he suffers outrageous spasms at the worst possible times.

    There is a scene where he accidentally hits a blind woman in the street during a spasm. Every time he tries to say sorry she uses his voice to know where to beat him with her cane.

    anyine know what the film could be



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 94 ✭✭Thanatosgratus




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 270 ✭✭stopthevoting


    I actually know the name of the movie, but I think this is a suitable thread for this question. A few weeks ago I noticed a film called "A Surplus of Love" listed in the on-screen guide for one of the Virgin Media channels, with a short summary mentioning "orphan", "pickpocket" etc. When I selected the channel it turned out to be the 1948 version of "Oliver Twist". I didn't see the opening or closing credits so I don't know what title appeared on screen. But the only name for this movie that I can see on IMDB or Wikipedia or anywhere else is "Oliver Twist". There seems to be no mention anywhere of any alternate title "A Surplus of Love". Why did VM call it this in the listings for that day?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,306 ✭✭✭✭Drumpot


    I think this is a movie but it could of been some tv show.

    I want to say it has robin Williams in it as this character but I could be wrong.

    The scene is basically a man being ushered into a bath, I think by 2 family members. Im not sure if the bath is really warm or he thinks it’s really warm but he gets really upset and I think screams as he’s being helped into the bath.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,311 ✭✭✭jh79


    Long shot, but is it that Brendan Fraser movie where he is a caveman? California Man.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,306 ✭✭✭✭Drumpot


    Ha, no , good shout but it seemed like a serious movie/show where the person getting into the bath either had some sort of physical reaction (pain) probably because of a medical condition. They were crying, it was quite dramatic.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,508 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    Must have been a mix up. Surplus Of Love sounds like a Yank sitcom, not one of the better known adaptations of one of Dickens most famous novels.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,936 ✭✭✭nix


    Is it the movie "Jack"? Robin Williams plays a kid with rapid aging, so for the movie hes playing a 10 year old kid but he looks 40. I cant remember a bath scene specificly, but it could be the reason why he's so big but freaking out about taking a bath :D



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,306 ✭✭✭✭Drumpot




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,815 ✭✭✭SimonTemplar


    I've been thinking of a film recently. I saw it as a new release at the IFI about 10 - 15 years ago. It was a fairly low budget film from an eastern European country. I'm pretty sure it was a collection of 3 or 4 short stories, or at the very least it had distinct sections. One section involved some kind of carousel in a rural area and the carousel malfunction and the people ended up spending all night on it because they couldn't get off. Another section of the film involved a family in an apartment building.

    I don't usually go to the IFI so it would have received a lot of acclaim at the time.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,262 ✭✭✭Spon Farmer


    This from the 1990s or possibly late 1980s.

    It is a short film from the UK about two friends (possibly cousins) who buy a bus and start a tour of the M25. The driver is Brit and I think the tour guide is Italian.

    The story is about the trip where things spiral out of control.

    The only scenes I can remember are when the tour guide is telling the passengers about a “suspension tension bridge built by a suspension tension bridge builder” and later on he is ranting at the front of the bus when a passenger comments “I think he is foreign” and the tour guide screams something like “so what? What had that to do with anything?”

    I cannot for the life of me find the name of the film online.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,262 ✭✭✭Spon Farmer


    all I have is a line of dialogue

    a man has bruises and has been attacked or in a fight. He says in bewilderment:-

    “you should see the other guy - there isn't a mark on him”

    when I think of the line I’m picturing a black and white movie and a comedy.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,640 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Nice Guy


    I'm trying to think of a comedy movie that has the following scene. Someone is making a tearful goodbye to some characters and then I think the camera cuts to Scarecrow from Wizard of Oz and the person saying goodbye says the famous Dorothy line, 'Scarecrow, I think I'll miss you most of all.'

    I feel like it's from an Airplane, Hot Shots type of film with lots of wild gags but I can't think which one. Anyone recognise it?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,080 ✭✭✭Mr Crispy




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,882 ✭✭✭johndoe99


    i watched this film on the TV in the early 80's. It was set on a college campus where the seniors each had picked a freshmen that they continually hazed. But one particular senior took his hazing too far and sends his freshmen bonkers. I remember ending of movie show this mad freshman jumping from top of an apartment building to his death.

    Thanks.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,905 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,882 ✭✭✭johndoe99


    Its neither of those, film was set in the 70-80s, but thanks for looking.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,882 ✭✭✭johndoe99


    Just remembered a scene from a WW2 Movie, in the scene a British soldier spits brandy into a German officers eyes and they get the upper hand.

    Anyone know the movie?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 270 ✭✭stopthevoting


    I posted here last November about "A Surplus of Love" appearing in the on-screen guide for one of the Virgin Media channels, but it was actually "Oliver Twist" (1948 version) being shown.

    Another strange occurrence this afternoon; "Oliver Twist" was listed in the on-screen guide on Virgin Media 3. But it was actually a Ted Danson movie that was on. Although the title was wrong, the description was correct for the Ted Danson movie. I just looked it up now and it turned out to be a 2004 movie called "It Must Be Love" also known as "Surviving Love". https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0369003/ Very puzzling



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 505 ✭✭✭HorseSea


    OK a tough one from my mother, vague details. Maybe B&W film, pretty sure it's Irish. The bit she remembers is a policeman that taps on the window of a closed pub and a pint comes out, I think he repeats this several times as he goes about his beat. TIA.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 925 ✭✭✭rekluse


    I'm trying to think of the name of a film I saw a couple of years ago. I think it was relatively recently made. It was set in a rural, sleepy American town. The protagonist is a guy in his early 20's living with his parents and I think he is working as a mechanic. It transpires he is hoarding ammunition, machine guys,weapons and a full body amour suit, that he orders online. He ends up going on a full on mental killing spree in the town, walking down the streets in full on body amour shooting anything that moves. This ring any bells for anyone?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 925 ✭✭✭rekluse


    That's the one cheers ! Must give it a rewatch.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,262 ✭✭✭Spon Farmer


    I don’t know why but this popped into my head a few minutes ago.

    When TV3 (I’m certain it was them) first launched they had a movie review show.

    The host was a woman and when she quit she was replaced with Dave Fanning.

    Does anyone know her name ?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 270 ✭✭stopthevoting


    I don't know, but I do remember that Dave Fanning had a movie show on RTE. According to Wikipedia it ran from 1993 to 2001 with Dave Fanning, and returned for one series in 2012 with different presenters. It also says he later produced and directed a movie review show on Channel 6, which was later taken over by TV3 and renamed as 3E, and is now Virgin Media 2.

    Also according to Wikipedia, from 2006 Channel 6 had a show called Access Hollywood, which was an Irish format version of an American show. This was presented by Jenny Buckley. Maybe its the same one mentioned above that was produced and directed by Dave Fanning? But there doesn't seem to be any mention of him presenting it.

    So it's possible that the show you are thinking of is Access Hollywood with Jenny Buckley. But on the other hand TV3 itself was first launched in 1998 and maybe they had some other movie show then. I remember another movie show which I think was on TV3, but the name of the presenter was Gordon Hayden.

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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,262 ✭✭✭Spon Farmer


    No it isn’t Buckley.

    I’m certain it was TV3 - and that it was on the channel as BUFFY.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,311 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    There used to be a show called Popcorn on TV3. I 'think' it was presented by Taragh Loughrey Grant.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,262 ✭✭✭Spon Farmer


    That is the one.

    Now that you put her name in front of me I know that is the lady in question but if you had posted her photo first I wouldn’t known it was her.

    Can’t underStand how I didn’t remember a name like popcorn.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 641 ✭✭✭RickBlaine


    I don't know if this is a movie or a TV show. It contains a shot of some politician or some other type of community leader in a car and the camera is fixed to the side of the car as it drives through different neighborhoods in the city. It is a long unbroken shot and I think the purpose of it was to show the transition from a fairly run down area to a more affluent place. I actually thought it was from The Wire because it sounds like something they would do but it isn't (I rewatched the whole show recently). Probably within the last 5 - 10 years. Any ideas.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 641 ✭✭✭RickBlaine


    Thanks for replying but it definitely isn't The Sopranos. I said it is a long unbroken shot and The Sopranos intro is a montage. Anyway, I found it. It is from Steve McQueen's Widows in 2018. It is funny that the actor playing the guy in the car is Colin Farrell. I had initially thought the scene was from The Wire with Aidan Gillen's character. Both Irish actors playing American politicians running for mayor.

    https://youtu.be/d6NXtzAyjds?t=113



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,936 ✭✭✭nix


    Funny, I immediately thought of the wire to with Gillen when i was reading your post, was there not some such or similar type scene in it?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1 corncobtime


    Bit niche but does anyone know what movie this photo could be referring to?

    It's apart of IFCO's new campaign, it's supposed to represent an 18 cert movie with an irish connection (whether it be cast, crew, setting) but I can't find anything related to it at all.

    Cheers


    edit: sorry about the quality, its the best I could find.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,905 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Seems Victorian-Edwardian... could it be Wilde or a Dracula adaptation?

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,748 ✭✭✭tony1kenobi


    It looks like Stephen Rea in Interview With The Vampire.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,447 ✭✭✭✭Snake Plisken


    Gangs of New York perhaps Bill "The Butcher" Cutting Irish connection Daniel Day-Lewis




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,508 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    This is a film I just saw a clip of back in the late 90s/early 00s, either on Dont Feed The Gondolas or the Blizzard Of Odd. It was a low budget American indie movie. The clip showed a punk or skinhead sauntering down a street then somehow a car runs over his foot. The car reverses over his foot several times and he's shown screaming in agony. This long haired hippy guy who might have been the driver, cant be sure, runs over to him and picks up his now severed foot. It was really unconvincing looking, like something from a jokeshop.

    It wasn't Repo Man BTW.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14 wositelec


    I'm looking for the title of the prison movie or TV series from 80's or 90's. Definitely USA. I remember only short and violent scene, perhaps at the start of episode/movie. Two men are prisoners. Perhaps, they are brothers or only buddies. They wears blue jeans and light blue denim or chambray work shirts. Their main opposite man is nefarious prison guard. The warden says to prisoner: "You are free, so you go home", so the prisoner goes slowly (not runs). When he goes through long corridor and he is backed, warden shot him (short pistol, not rifle or shotgun) in his back. Unfortunately, the prisoner is dead (it was sudden and lethal shot in the back). Then, prison guard says to second prisoner: "You will be suffer". Second prisoner is scared, he cried probably and kneeled.

    Rejected:

    An Innocent Man(1989)

    Lock Up (1989)

    Death Warrant (1990)

    The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

    Murder in the First (1995)

    The Last Castle (2001)

    Oz (TV Series 1997–2003)

    TV Series - episodes connected with prison - rejected too:

    "Knight Rider" Knight Behind Bars (TV Episode 1985)

    "MacGyver" The Escape (TV Episode 1986)



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