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

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    #2102
    Das Kitty
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    Harvey Low Fat Milk wrote: »
    Ok, been racking my brain but just can't think. It's a scene in which a guy is explaining how he made someone laugh by stunning a fly by putting it into a freezer and then tying a string to it. That's all I have, I'm sorry. I don't even know if the film is new or old, it's just in my head and that scene popped in and now it's annoying me not being able to think what it is.
    Thanks.

    There was a guy with flies on strings in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119668/


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    #2103
    Harvey Low Fat Milk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 400 ✭✭Harvey Low Fat Milk


    No, unfortunately it's not that film as I haven't seen it. I think this scene took place in an office and without saying this for definite I think the character may have been Italian American.

    Thanks though.


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    #2104
    pah
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    Harvey Low Fat Milk wrote: »
    No, unfortunately it's not that film as I haven't seen it. I think this scene took place in an office and without saying this for definite I think the character may have been Italian American.

    Thanks though.


    Maybe you were browsing YouTube?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sX7bmNv10c


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    #2105
    SirLemonhead
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    This may not even be a film, but i'm reasonably certain it is..memory is *really* vague

    something from about 20 years ago (which I saw that long ago and not since) with a storyline which I thiiink involved an undercover cop going undercover at a university. I think the movie might have started off with him undercover as an ice cream salesman, complete with van. Something happens at the university.. a takeover of some sort, by criminals I guess? I think it had a scene where a female teacher gets stabbed in the ankle with a pencil (much like in The Evil Dead) and then hides under a desk. So not a kiddie film at all.

    Just something that pops into my head quite rarely but I've no idea what it was. I have likely dreamed this entire story up and it doesn't actually exist as a film :)


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    #2106
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    SirLemonhead wrote: »
    This may not even be a film, but i'm reasonably certain it is..memory is *really* vague

    something from about 20 years ago (which I saw that long ago and not since) with a storyline which I thiiink involved an undercover cop going undercover at a university. I think the movie might have started off with him undercover as an ice cream salesman, complete with van. Something happens at the university.. a takeover of some sort, by criminals I guess? I think it had a scene where a female teacher gets stabbed in the ankle with a pencil (much like in The Evil Dead) and then hides under a desk. So not a kiddie film at all.

    Just something that pops into my head quite rarely but I've no idea what it was. I have likely dreamed this entire story up and it doesn't actually exist as a film :)


    Is it "Under Cover" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094215/


    Watch from 2 mins


    Those films have dated a lot:(


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    #2107
    Dirty Dingus McGee
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    I saw this film around 1998 on video.It is a 90's film I would say.The plot goes like this .A bunch of prisoners/criminals try to get into Canada and escape from america by disguising themselves as firemen during a forest fire up in the mountains on the American Canadian border.One of these fellas is a real badass and starts to kill either his fellow criminals or the cops that are after them.

    Thats about as much as I can remember.


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    #2108
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    Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »
    I saw this film around 1998 on video.It is a 90's film I would say.The plot goes like this .A bunch of prisoners/criminals try to get into Canada and escape from america by disguising themselves as firemen during a forest fire up in the mountains on the American Canadian border.One of these fellas is a real badass and starts to kill either his fellow criminals or the cops that are after them.

    Thats about as much as I can remember.


    Any chance it is "Firestorm"
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120670/



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    #2109
    wolf99
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    I cant remember the name of the old movie where the guy is a writer and he puts his wife's body in the "chuga chuga machine", a cement lorry, .... or maybe he only writes about it...?
    Think its an old B&W movie - hard to tell as we had a B&W TV when I saw it ;) but I remember it looking like one of those Casablanca era movies
    Sorry the chuga chuga machine (or kachuga kachuga?) is all I gots


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    #2110
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    wolf99 wrote: »
    I cant remember the name of the old movie where the guy is a writer and he puts his wife's body in the "chuga chuga machine", a cement lorry, .... or maybe he only writes about it...?
    Think its an old B&W movie - hard to tell as we had a B&W TV when I saw it ;) but I remember it looking like one of those Casablanca era movies
    Sorry the chuga chuga machine (or kachuga kachuga?) is all I gots


    Could it be a "gloppitta-gloppitta machine" if so it could be: "How to Murder Your Wife"
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Murder_Your_Wife
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058212/?ref_=sr_1



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    #2111
    wolf99
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    LOL thats it!
    Fair play to get that from the description I gave!!


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    #2112
    T-K-O
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    Hi guys,

    Im looking for a movie based around the idea that Germany won the war, conquering Europe and the states. As far as I can remember two reporters discover the truth about the holocaust and are soon on the run.

    Any ideas?


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    #2113
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
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    T-K-O wrote: »
    Hi guys,

    Im looking for a movie based around the idea that Germany won the war, conquering Europe and the states. As far as I can remember two reporters discover the truth about the holocaust and are soon on the run.

    Any ideas?

    Fatherland?

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



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    #2114
    T-K-O
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    Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »
    Fatherland?

    Almost certain that's it. I'll have to watch it again, its been awhile.

    Thanks!!


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    #2115
    padma
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    I'm looking for an old South African movie from the 80's. opening scene is v funny. 2 boys one black. One white. On a farm spot the farmer having a dump. They sneak up behind him with a shovel and steal his dump. The farmer turns around to inspect his dump and can't find it so is hopping mad thinking he dumped into his trousers.

    Best opening scene I've seen. Can't remember the name of it though.


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    #2116
    Zombienosh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,911 ✭✭✭Zombienosh


    Hey all,

    trying to remember a film and all I can remember is a fight scene near the end...
    I think it's an Asian film, possibly martial arts or sword related.
    The battle at the end is in some stone court yard and an old man is playing some traditional instrument while they fight. ( think it's a koto)

    The fight intensity goes to the rhythm and tempo of his playing.

    Anyone have any idea?

    EDIT: It just came to me, It's Hero with Jet Li. :)


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    #2117
    oncex
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    okay this one has been annoying me with years I saw it when I was around 7 or 8 so that would have been around 2003...it was also on tv so it may have been a few years older than that. It was a movie about racism and there was this little black girl who was trying to fit in in schools full of white people. I remember thinking "wow why do people treat this girl differently" But anyway there was a white woman teacher who did her best to look after her and in one line the little girl told her she wished she was white and the teacher said something like "oh your white on the inside on your palms of your hand your feet etc.."and then in the end she ended up far more successful than the girls who bullied her yet she helped them... I'm pretty vague on the details but would love to see it again as it was the first time I experienced it


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    #2118
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    Any chance it is Ruby Bridges:
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138068/




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    #2119
    oncex
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Any chance it is Ruby Bridges:
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138068/





    Thats it!! Thank you so much!


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    #2120
    whatisthatfilm
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    There is a film I am trying to identify for a long time...I saw it when I was young so I guess it was released during the 80's or 90's. It was probably classified as science fiction. I really remember small bits/scenes only.

    Basically I remember a crew of some people flying in a spaceship while earth is actually empty and everyone else is gone (I remember them coming back to earth and seeing that it is empty). Another part I remember is one of the crew members recalling or constantly recalling his mother telling him when he was a little child that someday some sort of aliens or creatures will inhabit the earth. At some point some of the crew members had to stay behind/sacrifice themselves so the rest can save themselves or whatever.

    It is not the planet of the apes.

    I do not know if anyone actually infered something out of these details, but it is worth the try.


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    #2121
    firehawc
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    Hi all. There was this movie I saw as a kid on either HBO or Cinemax. It was a comedy, set in the old west, in like a saloon/bordello. All I remember about it was there was a really fat lady with dark, curly hair, and makeup was really overdone, like a drag queen (edit: it is a drag queen :p). I think she was a prostitute. Anyway, a guy goes down on her, and she gets startled or something, and accidentally snaps his neck between her thighs. She hides his body in the piano. This must have aired in the mid to late 80s.edit: found it: Lust in the Dust

    Also around the same time, I remember some kind of porn-style parody or retelling of the Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde story where he did boob jobs. One lady comes out with massive, zeppelin shaped boobs (I think after Mr. Hyde takes over) and she likes it! This was seen on a videotape, so I don't know when or where it was on the air, other than again mid to late 80s. edit: I think I found this one; Jekyll & Hyde Together Again.


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    #2122
    AllthingsCP
    Registered Users Posts: 680 ✭✭✭AllthingsCP


    whatisthatfilm wrote: »
    There is a film I am trying to identify for a long time...I saw it when I was young so I guess it was released during the 80's or 90's. It was probably classified as science fiction. I really remember small bits/scenes only.

    Basically I remember a crew of some people flying in a spaceship while earth is actually empty and everyone else is gone (I remember them coming back to earth and seeing that it is empty). Another part I remember is one of the crew members recalling or constantly recalling his mother telling him when he was a little child that someday some sort of aliens or creatures will inhabit the earth. At some point some of the crew members had to stay behind/sacrifice themselves so the rest can save themselves or whatever.

    It is not the planet of the apes.

    I do not know if anyone actually infered something out of these details, but it is worth the try.





    Is it Defcon 4


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    #2123
    AllthingsCP
    Registered Users Posts: 680 ✭✭✭AllthingsCP


    Looking for a Movie maybe late 90's early 2000's, About an Irish Blueshirt fighting in Spain in the 40's and having a female family member telling his story in present time by the letters he sent home.


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    #2124
    Irish Aris
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    AllthingsCP wrote: »
    Looking for a Movie maybe late 90's early 2000's, About an Irish Blueshirt fighting in Spain in the 40's and having a female family member telling his story in present time by the letters he sent home.

    Sounds like Ken Loach's Land and Freedom.


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    #2125
    AllthingsCP
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    Irish Aris wrote: »
    Sounds like Ken Loach's Land and Freedom.

    Spot on mate.


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    #2126
    zombiepaw
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    Looking for the name of a black and white (I think it was B&W) horror, I seen it in the 80's on tv. There is a couple staying with a close knit community, and the woman suspects they are witches/satanists or a weird cult. The man doesn't quite believe her for a while. The only specific scene I remember is when she finds a bottle of grey hair dye and realizes that these people are immortal and pretending to age. Any help would be greatly appreciated.


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    #2127
    johndoe99
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    i remember there were two brothers, raised without parents by a man whom was a spy maybe MI5 or similar.

    There was a scene where one of the brothers, is being taught by a female mossad agent, about how they make there own silencers for there guns using "metal rings", and he states there called washers in England.

    Another scene shows both brothers walking ashore from the sea, and there mentor/father figure is waiting, and he double crosses them, and MI5 agents appear from some sand dunes and open fire killing one of the brothers and the other escapes.

    May have been broadcast as 2-part TV movie, maybe 80's early 90's.

    Thanks


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    #2128
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    johndoe99 wrote: »
    i remember there were two brothers, raised without parents by a man whom was a spy maybe MI5 or similar.

    There was a scene where one of the brothers, is being taught by a female mossad agent, about how they make there own silencers for there guns using "metal rings", and he states there called washers in England.

    Another scene shows both brothers walking ashore from the sea, and there mentor/father figure is waiting, and he double crosses them, and MI5 agents appear from some sand dunes and open fire killing one of the brothers and the other escapes.

    May have been broadcast as 2-part TV movie, maybe 80's early 90's.

    Thanks

    Could it be "Brotherhood of the Rose"
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096985/


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    johndoe99
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Could it be "Brotherhood of the Rose"
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096985/

    i believe that's it, thanks.


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    SirLemonhead
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Is it "Under Cover" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094215/

    Those films have dated a lot:(

    Sorry for taking so long to get back :) I'm not really sure if that's it or not. I'll see if I can actually get hold of the full thing to check out if those bits I mentioned are in it or not. It's the best lead i've ever had though so thanks! :)


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    #2131
    Starscream25
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    Hi can't remember the name of this film for the life of me, only remember two scenes, it must of been an 80,s film, had an action comedy feel to it, in one scene some hench men show up looking to capture or kill this guy and they find him in what they think are pieces of his body scattered on the couch but it was in fact the victim hiding inside of the couch giving the appearance that he was ripped apart, as in his body was inside the couch and his arms head and legs were poking out through holes in different positions on the the couch. But when they left he got up and was relieved he wasnt caught, Sorry if I'm not explaining this very well.
    The other scene I remember only a few seconds of, these guys were having a conversation , one of the guys was sitting down the with a fake hand and cutting off one of the fingers while casually chatting to the other guy.
    Anyway any help would be appreciated.


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