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

Basq · 16-10-2011 12:01pm

lynp27 wrote: »

looking for a film that has a autistic boy in it he solves a goverment code that was in a mgazine, then they try to kill him. i think bruce willis was in it

Mercury Rising..

lynp27 · 16-10-2011 12:04pm

Basq wrote: »

Mercury Rising..

cheers it was wrecking my head

johndoe99 · 16-10-2011 12:06pm

lynp27 wrote: »

looking for a film that has a autistic boy in it he solves a goverment code that was in a mgazine, then they try to kill him. i think bruce willis was in it

Mercury Rising

Dave147 · 16-10-2011 12:26pm

I have a very sketchy one for you.. there's a movie I saw years and years ago.. can remember very little, the main character is either Woody Allen or someone very like him. I only remember one scene from the movie I think he was in a restaurant and he was playing the piano to the crowd.. He was also seemed to be very socially awkward, talks to himself etc.

Not holding out much hope but would love to know what it was.

Mickeroo · 16-10-2011 12:57pm

Dave147 wrote: »

I have a very sketchy one for you.. there's a movie I saw years and years ago.. can remember very little, the main character is either Woody Allen or someone very like him. I only remember one scene from the movie I think he was in a restaurant and he was playing the piano to the crowd.. He was also seemed to be very socially awkward, talks to himself etc.

Not holding out much hope but would love to know what it was.

Long shot but would it be Shine with Geoffrey Rush? I seem to recall a scene where he plays in a restaurant.

EDIT: here it is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-QrSc_Jw3g

johndoe99 · 16-10-2011 3:15pm

i'm looking for the name of a tv series from i think the 80's. It was about students at Law School in some university in America. I can see the faces of the two lead actors but cannot place them in something else.

But I do remember one key scene, in the first episode, a student forgets to read an assignment and when asked a question by the professor, he does not know it and the professor ignores him from then on. He then comes into class the next day wearing a white blanket over his head and the professor then asks him a question to which he does not answer until the professor walks up and takes the blanket off.

Thanks.

Mickeroo · 16-10-2011 3:22pm

johndoe99 wrote: »

i'm looking for the name of a tv series from i think the 80's. It was about students at Law School in some university in America. I can see the faces of the two lead actors but cannot place them in something else.

But I do remember one key scene, in the first episode, a student forgets to read an assignment and when asked a question by the professor, he does not know it and the professor ignores him from then on. He then comes into class the next day wearing a white blanket over his head and the professor then asks him a question to which he does not answer until the professor walks up and takes the blanket off.

Thanks.

The Paper Chase??

Tipsy McSwagger · 16-10-2011 3:45pm

Dave147 wrote: »

I have a very sketchy one for you.. there's a movie I saw years and years ago.. can remember very little, the main character is either Woody Allen or someone very like him. I only remember one scene from the movie I think he was in a restaurant and he was playing the piano to the crowd.. He was also seemed to be very socially awkward, talks to himself etc.

Not holding out much hope but would love to know what it was.

Shine. Geoffrey Rush won an Oscar for playing the lead character.

Edit-damn you mickeroo

Dave147 · 20-10-2011 7:14pm

Mickeroo wrote: »

Long shot but would it be Shine with Geoffrey Rush? I seem to recall a scene where he plays in a restaurant.

EDIT: here it is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-QrSc_Jw3g

Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »

Shine. Geoffrey Rush won an Oscar for playing the lead character.

Edit-damn you mickeroo

Bang on lads, thanks a million. I remember really enjoying that scene but it was at least 10-12 years since I saw it. Amazed at this thread, I never thought I would ever discover this movie again!

Bobby Baccala · 23-10-2011 7:02pm

saw the start of this movie years ago but i cant remember the name:

A lad goes up to some black man, ties him to a pole and covers him in petrol and burns him.
then he goes back to his car turns up the volume of his radio and watches the black lad burn to death.
Thats about all i can remember.

Worztron · 01-11-2011 2:57pm

Two female students were living in a flat. They were constantly arguing. They often went to a local Chinese or chipper?
At end of college year the takeaway was closing down and they would also miss the flat and each other despite everything.
I reckon the movie was made in England.
Can someone tell me the title? Thanks.

brian_t · 01-11-2011 4:47pm

Worztron wrote: »

Two female students were living in a flat. They were constantly arguing. They often went to a local Chinese or chipper?
At end of college year the takeaway was closing down and they would also miss the flat and each other despite everything.
I reckon the movie was made in England.
Can someone tell me the title? Thanks.

Career Girls (1997) perhaps.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118818/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Career_Girls

Worztron · 01-11-2011 7:28pm

brian_t wrote: »

Career Girls (1997) perhaps.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118818/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Career_Girls

Yep, thats the one.

So it was a Chinese takeaway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IXxmXTOH98

Worztron · 02-11-2011 4:43pm

I remember this horror movie from many years ago. It was more than likely made in the 1980s. A group of people were in an enclosed chamber (it looked like a catacomb burial chambers). There were these flying things (orb like?) chasing them.

dinneenp · 03-11-2011 1:51pm

Recent English film (past 5 years I think)
about a small gang family
the son gets engaged to a girl
they end up killing his parents (I think)
one guy thinks he's going on a hit but gets hit
another scene he pushes someone's mum (the mum of a guy he just killed) in front of a bus....

cheers in advance,
Pa

Worztron · 03-11-2011 6:36pm

This was a horror movie (most likely from the 1980s). There was a scene where a topless woman's head changed to that of a nun's head.

gibraltar · 04-11-2011 1:32pm

Worztron wrote: »

I remember this horror movie from many years ago. It was more than likely made in the 1980s. A group of people were in an enclosed chamber (it looked like a catacomb burial chambers). There were these flying things (orb like?) chasing them.

Sounds like one of the phantasm movies

gibraltar · 04-11-2011 1:34pm

dinneenp wrote: »

Recent English film (past 5 years I think)
about a small gang family
the son gets engaged to a girl
they end up killing his parents (I think)
one guy thinks he's going on a hit but gets hit
another scene he pushes someone's mum (the mum of a guy he just killed) in front of a bus....

cheers in advance,
Pa

Down terrace?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1489167/

Worztron · 04-11-2011 6:48pm

gibraltar wrote: »

Sounds like one of the phantasm movies

You got it! Thanks.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=2lxFUS4QDbs

Tubsandtiles · 07-11-2011 11:38am

I'm looking for a film title where two friends (boys) grow apart in highschool when one gets in with the "it" crowd. The other friend is bullied by other people and ignored for years by his old friend, he ends up killing himself in the highschool bathroom which leads his old friend on a path of redemption and religion. The movie was made sometime in the 2000's. Thanks

marblemoon · 07-11-2011 11:10pm

I have one that I saw about ten years ago and occasionally comes back into my head just to annoy me. It's a romcom about a middle aged prince (or king) who has an American woman working as a nanny for his kids. The prince was played by a famous actor, Daniel Day Lewis is stuck in my head but I dunno why.
Anyway, I only remember two bits of the film. There was one where the prince mistakes the nanny for his masseuse (who I think was called Reno or Remy or something) while getting a massage, and talks about his feelings for the nanny. Then at the end there's something about the nanny's mother feeding her chickens chicken.
Pleaase help!

Mickeroo · 07-11-2011 11:12pm

marblemoon wrote: »

I have one that I saw about ten years ago and occasionally comes back into my head just to annoy me. It's a romcom about a middle aged prince (or king) who has an American woman working as a nanny for his kids. The prince was played by a famous actor, Daniel Day Lewis is stuck in my head but I dunno why.
Anyway, I only remember two bits of the film. There was one where the prince mistakes the nanny for his masseuse (who I think was called Reno or Remy or something) while getting a massage, and talks about his feelings for the nanny. Then at the end there's something about the nanny's mother feeding her chickens chicken.
Pleaase help!

The Beautician and the Beast?

marblemoon · 07-11-2011 11:14pm

That's it, thanks!

crow_eat_crow · 08-11-2011 7:09pm

Apologies in advance for the vagueness of the clues. This was a Western from the Sixties, I think. My main memory of it was that one of the characters had a peculiar weapon: he used drop a ball-bearing (or stone?) into a hole in the top of his shoe/boot, just above his toes. He would then whirl around and launch the projectile silently and accurately by kicking his foot, a little bit like a sling. (It may be that he would have a hole in the top of each shoe and have two ball-bearings that he used clack together quietly just before use, but I'm not sure about this.) I know this is a long shot, but maybe it rings a bell with somebody.
Thanks.

Blue850 · 08-11-2011 10:29pm

Adios Sabata

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066745/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z56v9zNoTpA

crow_eat_crow · 09-11-2011 12:46am

Nice one Blue. You're a beaut!

HugoBradyBrown · 09-11-2011 9:04pm

Can anyone identify a British film I saw once, maybe 30 years ago (and the film may date to the 1960's or even the 1950's)? The question is just to gratify idle curiosity,

B/W
Possibly a short.

It was set in a rough post-war school, possibly in a slum area, with a new idealistic teacher. One notable scene was where one pupil refuses to take off his coat in the classroom, and when he is forced to, it turns out he has no trousers, because his only pair is being cleaned. There is a sentimental scene later where the teacher provides a new pair for the pupil.

And if such a film really did exist, was it any good?

Thanks.

EraseAndRewind · 12-11-2011 2:46pm

apologies on the scarce details !

british film either made/set 70's/80's

2 girls mid teens start a relationship with an older married man one had blonde hair and the other dark

thats all i remember at the mo im afraid

Mickeroo · 12-11-2011 2:50pm

EraseAndRewind wrote: »

apologies on the scarce details !

british film either made/set 70's/80's

2 girls mid teens start a relationship with an older married man one had blonde hair and the other dark

thats all i remember at the mo im afraid

Rite, Sue and Bob too.

EraseAndRewind · 12-11-2011 2:52pm

jaysus that was fast ! your a star ! now off to track down a copy;)

t00054583 · 24-11-2011 10:20pm

Hi all.

Can you help me with this film Im trying to find as a christmas present. Its a film myself and my sister used to watch when we were young. Probably late 80's early 90's. It was a mining film with a mining pony. The pony stayed in stables in the mines and all I remember is at the end they were blowing up the mines and the pony having finished something returned to the the stables in the mine and as far as I remember was killed in the explosion.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

yellow hen · 24-11-2011 10:21pm

Jesus no but it sounds depressing!

brian_t · 25-11-2011 12:37am

t00054583 wrote: »

Hi all.

Can you help me with this film Im trying to find as a christmas present. Its a film myself and my sister used to watch when we were young. Probably late 80's early 90's. It was a mining film with a mining pony. The pony stayed in stables in the mines and all I remember is at the end they were blowing up the mines and the pony having finished something returned to the the stables in the mine and as far as I remember was killed in the explosion.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

How about "Escape from the Dark" also known as "The Littlest Horse Thieves" from 1976.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076320/

http://www.stojo.com/LittlestHorse.html

bullvine · 25-11-2011 10:27am

I have a particular scene from a movie and I cant remember what film its from, I'm not sure if its one of the Jack Ryan ones or Charlie Wilsons war, I think it might be set during the cold war but not 100%.

Its very very vague.

Basically it involves somebody taking on a new job in power and the person given him the job tells him that Stalin or Hitler once said that you can only blame the previous guy once?

Its driving insane trying to remember what film its from, anybody help me.

Cheers,

Riskymove · 25-11-2011 1:27pm

t00054583 wrote: »

Hi all.

Can you help me with this film Im trying to find as a christmas present. Its a film myself and my sister used to watch when we were young. Probably late 80's early 90's. It was a mining film with a mining pony. The pony stayed in stables in the mines and all I remember is at the end they were blowing up the mines and the pony having finished something returned to the the stables in the mine and as far as I remember was killed in the explosion.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Pit Pony?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0125458/

jjspine · 25-11-2011 1:44pm

Ok apologies as i only remember one scene in this movie and i know its not an old movie but has been doing my head in for a while !!!

The scene is 2 fighter jets in the air trying to outrun ( i think ) a heatseeker missile. as far as i remember it was an opening or very early scene in the movie.

ben affleck comes to mind but have looked at imdb and dont think its anything he has done.

cheers all

Sad Professor · 25-11-2011 1:51pm

Behind Enemy Lines?

jjspine · 25-11-2011 2:06pm

Sad Professor wrote: »

Behind Enemy Lines?

Epic

Cheers mate Think thats the one alright where i got ben affleck from i dunno !!!

27-11-2011 12:47pm

bullvine wrote: »

I have a particular scene from a movie and I cant remember what film its from, I'm not sure if its one of the Jack Ryan ones or Charlie Wilsons war, I think it might be set during the cold war but not 100%.

Its very very vague.

Basically it involves somebody taking on a new job in power and the person given him the job tells him that Stalin or Hitler once said that you can only blame the previous guy once?

Its driving insane trying to remember what film its from, anybody help me.

Cheers,

Sounds like the scene in Traffic where Douglas takes over from Brolin and Brolin's character tells him the story of the two envelopes. How the out going head wrote two letters to be opened when there was trouble. The first has a piece of paper with blame the last guy, the second reads write two letters.

Tindie · 27-11-2011 1:21pm

action/ thriller,
There was Trailer (It was long Trailer too) I saw a few months ago, There is Boss who tells his assistant to get his daughter (She in her 30's i think) back, who went to Paris (I think),

Another scene that the Assistant is talking to a bodyguard who is wearing Red/pink vest top, His really huge and Huge Muscles and start to punch the Assistant 3 time in his stomach but the Assistant then Kicks him in shin knocking over

The next scene in trailer some kinda of Gun battle and car chase scene.

Dose anyone know this movie good be?
Thanks in advance

Worztron · 27-11-2011 5:36pm

I saw this movie in 1997 on a rented video tape. It was proably made some time in the mid-1990s.
There was this woman (I think she had blond hair). There is a scene where she is having it off (doggy style).
Later there is a guy (I think he was getting suspicious of a murder or some other crime?) that gets raped in a swimming pool/jacuzzi by the prime suspect.
Sorry about the crude description but I cannot remember more of it.
Does anyone know the title? Thanks in advance.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 28-11-2011 4:22pm

nevermind this

posted a description of a movie, said I watched it around the same time as martyrs so I think it was made around the same time

turns out it actually was martyrs

breadbin · 28-11-2011 6:26pm

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

nevermind this

posted a description of a movie, said I watched it around the same time as martyrs so I think it was made around the same time

turns out it actually was martyrs

ha your description just reminded me of poison ivy which i just got the urge to watch now:) thanks:)

Mickeroo · 28-11-2011 7:07pm

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

turns out it actually was martyrs

LOL, i thought it sounded similar alright. I was googling trying to find wha it could be and I was like "Why the hell does martyrs keep coming up?!"

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 28-11-2011 8:19pm

Mickeroo wrote: »

LOL, i thought it sounded similar alright. I was googling trying to find wha it could be and I was like "Why the hell does martyrs keep coming up?!"

lol, exact same as me
then I actually read the plot of martyrs to refresh myself, sighed internally and rushed back here to edit my post

dinneenp · 29-11-2011 12:04pm

dinneenp wrote: »

Recent English film (past 5 years I think)
about a small gang family
the son gets engaged to a girl
they end up killing his parents (I think)
one guy thinks he's going on a hit but gets hit
another scene he pushes someone's mum (the mum of a guy he just killed) in front of a bus....

cheers in advance,
Pa

Got it! Down Terrace
Down Terrace, worth watching, 'normal' gang family film

brian_t · 29-11-2011 12:24pm

dinneenp wrote: »

Got it! Down Terrace
Down Terrace, worth watching, 'normal' gang family film

I presume you are aware that your movie was identified by gibraltar the day after your original post ?

gibraltar wrote: »

Down terrace?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1489167/

dinneenp · 29-11-2011 12:51pm

brian_t wrote: »

I presume you are aware that your movie was identified by gibraltar the day after your original post ?

No, never saw that

thanks

Worztron · 03-12-2011 11:42am

I saw this a few years ago. I'm not sure of the year, perhaps 1990s/2000s.
A guy (may have been English - I think he was on the run after robbing a bank but am not certain) is in Brazil where he meets a model.
Does anyone know the title? Ta in advance.

brian_t · 03-12-2011 8:27pm

Worztron wrote: »

I saw this a few years ago. I'm not sure of the year, perhaps 1990s/2000s.
A guy (may have been English - I think he was on the run after robbing a bank but am not certain) is in Brazil where he meets a model.
Does anyone know the title? Ta in advance.

"Girl from Rio" comes to mind starring Hugh Laurie

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chica_de_R%C3%ADo

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

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