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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: 33,775 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 544 ✭✭✭biketard


    I tried this one several years ago, but no-one was able to help at the time. Can't for the life of me find the original post. I'm hoping someone may have come along since then that recogises it.

    The film starts out with either Nazis or similarly nasty soldiers (possibly not even soldiers) killing a bunch of people in a small village and leaving a pile of bodies behind. Our future protagonist is shot in the head and left for dead. The story is all about him tracking down the killers one by one (if I remember right, they are now in pretty different locations) and killing them.

    At one point he sees a doctor who tells him that the bullet is still lodged in his head and could very easily kill him if he overexerts himself.

    The movie ends with him running away from killing the last guy (I think in an alley) with, I think, a happy look on his face (camera is looking right at his face and I think it slows to a stop) because he doesn't care now if the bullet in his head kills him.

    I would probably have seen this in the 80s, possibly up to mid 90s. I feel like it had a European feel to it.

    Thank you in advance for any help.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,577 ✭✭✭El Gato De Negocios




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,648 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    It wasn't Hobo, that only came out in 2011. It was least a decade earlier that I saw this clip.

    Pretty sure it wasn't Deadbeat At Dawn either. I dont think the guy was deliberately run over, but whoever was driving was panicking and reversing/ accelerating. I think the was scene was supposed to be played for laughs, though it was more gross than funny.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,350 ✭✭✭jh79




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,648 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    Never seen that, but from the overall synopsis there doesn't seem to anything matching that scene.

    Thinking about it more I think the hippy guy was wearing little or no clothes, only in his underwear maybe.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,350 ✭✭✭jh79


    I think i have it. Sean Moncrieff had an interview with the director because the movie was being shown in Cork and was quite graphic.

    Hustler White by Bruce LaBruce.

    From the link ..... "In the opening scene, Monti, fleeing a john in a stolen car, hits a pedestrian, severing his foot, but drives on.

    Be careful googling it , Bruce LaBruce is an infamous gay pornography director.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,648 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    Oh, that's it all right. Its coming back to me now. Yes, there was a gay angle to the movie now that I remember. Great detective work.

    Edit: found the scene! Its starts 30 seconds in. (Viewer discretion, foot scene is a bit graphic and more realistic than I remembered)





  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,272 ✭✭✭Spon Farmer


    This one popped into my head this morning for some unknown reason.

    A British TV movie (or possibly an episode of an anthology series) from late 80s or very early 90s. Set on a working class street, focuses on two brothers, at least one a teenager. An albino man moves into the street and the brothers play pranks on him (can’t remember how serious it gets). The mother apologises to the man but I think he leaves and the boys regret their actions.

    There were other plot lines too. And as I type I think one of the boys was narrating as an adult so the story may have taken place in the 70s.

    The albino had Beetles style white hair and sunglasses. I think he wore polo necks and a purple jacket.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Jack Daw


    Irish film shown in the Big Big Movie slot on Saturday evening on RTE in the 90's.

    Family name in the film was Cronin.Set in the 50's or 60's in Dublin I feel.

    Feature a younger boy (about 9) and his older brother (about 18) , father of the family was absent (either idea or abandoned them)

    The phrase "i'll rip your head off and shove it up your arse" was said in the film during a quarrell.

    Just popped into my head for some reason

    Does it ring any bells with anyone?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 544 ✭✭✭biketard


    I'm going to throw this one out there again and describe it differently in the hope that someone new recognises it (didn't have any luck a few years ago, but would still love to figure it out).

    Man at the beginning is shot in the head and left for dead on a pile of bodies. I think it's kind of a war crime situation, though I could be wrong. He spends the rest of the movie tracking down the people involved and killing them one by one. The whole time, he still has the bullet lodged in his brain and has been warned by a doctor that it could kill him at any time, especially if he overexerts himself. The final scene of the movie is him running away from killing the last of the… baddies, towards the camera, in slow motion, with a smile on his face.

    All of the above is assuming I remember it right, of course.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,335 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,758 ✭✭✭degsie


    A more recent "cult" movie I think. A young girl meets a monster in a cave or dark woods and if I remember there are nazi soldiers involved. I thought it was called Labyrinth or something like that. Thanks.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,624 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,758 ✭✭✭degsie


    Bang on! Yes now I remember it was Spanish. Thank you :)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1 Alawaiha


    I can't find the title of a thriller I saw as a child anywhere. It was probably a TV movie. It was on Polish TV around 2011, but it wasn't natively Polish. It was about an epidemic of a virus that causes coughing up blood. The main character's husband became infected with this virus, was taken to hospital, where doctors examined him and tried to cure him. It seems to me that the woman regularly came to the hospital to hear from the doctors how her husband was doing and whether there was any progress in investigating the mysterious disease in order to find a treatment for it. But the doctors were helpless, they couldn't save him, and he finally died. Shortly after his death, a terrible scene took place in which a woman returns home and finds that her daughter has also been infected with this virus, finding her ominously pale and coughing blood into her hands. The daughter was maybe 12-13 years old and had long, straight, loose hair, probably dark blonde. Some other person, who asked in some Facebook group, probably also about this movie, wrote that this virus caused such a strong cough that it resulted in broken ribs and punctured lungs.

    Trying to find this movie, I typed in all the words and phrases that fit it into Google. I also searched the Polish telemagazine in the same way. I asked people about this film on various forums, Facebook groups and subreddits, but no one knew the title. I also searched IMDb thoroughly using keywords. I checked a huge number of articles that mentioned films about epidemics. I also searched carefully on the Wikipedia. And I still haven't found the movie. So it's definitely not one of the famous movies like Contagion, Outbreak, Carriers and so on. It's definitely an extremely little-known film. I even reconstructed what this scene with daughter looked like using AI.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,704 ✭✭✭omri


    A scifi horror movie probably from late 80s. Watched as a kid, a spaceship was burrowed underground, with aliens that would control humans or maybe they could turn into humans by jamming some kind of thing into back of their neck. Main characters were able to get inside through some sort of trap tunnels going to the ship or den. They used a coin to hack access to those controled people or weapon the monsters/aliens used. I think it was US made movie but was never able to track it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,269 ✭✭✭Mr Crispy


    It sounds like the 1950s movie Invaders From Mars. I haven't seen it, but there was an 80s remake that I assume has the same story?



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 94,038 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,704 ✭✭✭omri


    It could be Invaders From Mars - but will know once I watch it. Thanks all.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,577 ✭✭✭El Gato De Negocios


    100% the remake of Invaders from Mars. Saw it in the cinema when it came out and the scene described above is a long needle being jammed into the back of people's necks.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,704 ✭✭✭omri


    Was there a bit where they used alien guns of some sort jamming something metal in them too?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51 ✭✭ianhmoore


    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."



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51 ✭✭ianhmoore


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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51 ✭✭ianhmoore


    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,648 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    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.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 652 ✭✭✭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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51 ✭✭ianhmoore


    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,648 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,384 ✭✭✭CPTM




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,384 ✭✭✭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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,384 ✭✭✭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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,481 ✭✭✭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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 206 ✭✭Quiet Achiever


    Sounds a lot like Stand By Me



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,481 ✭✭✭tom23


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



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,384 ✭✭✭CPTM


    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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,481 ✭✭✭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?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,648 ✭✭✭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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,648 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,337 ✭✭✭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



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,272 ✭✭✭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.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,624 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,575 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,272 ✭✭✭Spon Farmer




  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,335 CMod ✭✭✭✭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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 984 ✭✭✭z80CPU
    Darth Randomer


    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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,624 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    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

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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 984 ✭✭✭z80CPU
    Darth Randomer


    correct thanks



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26 klondike99


    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,337 ✭✭✭The Mulk


    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.



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