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

somebody_else · 23-12-2018 9:49pm

Harrison Bergeron
with Sean Astin

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113264/

Tom

astrofool · 23-12-2018 10:43pm

Thank you

MfMan · 14-01-2019 4:24pm

A TV series from a while (25+) years back.

Set in the 1800s, as far as I remember, about a (Scottish) shepherd travelling about and working in New Zealand. He has a sheep dog with him. Is also very religious and always carries a bible. At one point, he is falsely accused of a crime and arrested as he lies in bed. He reaches under the pillow for his bible but is prevented from doing so, and it is confiscated. I think his dog is also taken from him. Later, he is cleared / released.

Any ideas?

RayCun · 14-01-2019 4:31pm

http://www.lonely.geek.nz/kiwi-tv/index.php/tv-shows-mainmenu-42/60-docu-drama/399-the-mckenzie-affair

MfMan · 15-01-2019 3:34pm

RayCun wrote: »

http://www.lonely.geek.nz/kiwi-tv/index.php/tv-shows-mainmenu-42/60-docu-drama/399-the-mckenzie-affair

Ya, must be it. James Cosmo doesn't show up on IMDB for it strangely.

22-01-2019 6:32am

trying to find the name of a film, recent enough, last few years I'd say, about time travellers, think it was an Indy film, basically time travelling isnt all it might seem, I think the protagonists built the time machine possibly in their garage, not funny, sinister and dark.

somebody_else · 22-01-2019 6:37am

1874 wrote: »

trying to find the name of a film, recent enough, last few years I'd say, about time travellers, think it was an Indy film, basically time travelling isnt all it might seem, I think the protagonists built the time machine possibly in their garage, not funny, sinister and dark.

Primer ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primer_(film)

Tom

breadbin · 22-01-2019 12:46pm

Hot tub time machine? It's not funny. I wouldn't say sinister and dark though.

MonkieSocks · 23-01-2019 12:29am

23-01-2019 4:52am

somebody_else wrote: »

Primer ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primer_(film)

Tom

That's it, I need to look that up, astonished it was made in 2004, only heard of it in the last few years

25-01-2019 2:53pm

Looking for two things, both from the seventies or early eighties and I THINK they were episodes in "Tales of the Unexpected" type shows, both British:

1. A guy gets lost and arrives in a small remote village where all is not what it seems. He befriends a local girl who tells him that all their food and clothes "comes from boxes", he eventually realizes that the "boxes" are coffins and the village is sustained by graverobbing/cannibalism.

2. A guy goes to visit a woman at a country house for the weekend and, on arrival, is greeted by her sister. I think the sister is trying to convince him that the woman he's visiting is mad. Whichever of them is the mad one manages to lure him into the basement and keep him there for a few hours? days? and stabs him repeatedly without killing him. Eventually he's rescued and I remember a doctor explaining to the policeman (?) assistant that he will never recover mentally.

Sorry that they're vague and if I'm remembering them wrong

The Mulk · 25-01-2019 3:36pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Looking for two things, both from the seventies or early eighties and I THINK they were episodes in "Tales of the Unexpected" type shows, both British:

1. A guy gets lost and arrives in a small remote village where all is not what it seems. He befriends a local girl who tells him that all their food and clothes "comes from boxes", he eventually realizes that the "boxes" are coffins and the village is sustained by graverobbing/cannibalism.

2. A guy goes to visit a woman at a country house for the weekend and, on arrival, is greeted by her sister. I think the sister is trying to convince him that the woman he's visiting is mad. Whichever of them is the mad one manages to lure him into the basement and keep him there for a few hours? days? and stabs him repeatedly without killing him. Eventually he's rescued and I remember a doctor explaining to the policeman (?) assistant that he will never recover mentally.

Sorry that they're vague and if I'm remembering them wrong

1st one is from the movie "The Monster Club"It's called "The Ghouls"

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

I remember the end of the movie explaining who "The Greatest Monster of all" is

Not sure of the second part, doesn't ring a bell with me

ONY · 26-01-2019 10:52pm

Help identifying this one please:

There is a young man and woman in a car, another guy comes along and there is a reference to the second man being the son of Sam.

- I think they are parked near water / a bridge
- There might have been two other women with the first and she decided to go with him
- Think there was a car chase of some sort afterwards (possibly in a blackout)

It is not a movie about son of Sam, just one reference to him.

somebody_else · 27-01-2019 1:07am

ONY wrote: »

Help identifying this one please:

There is a young man and woman in a car, another guy comes along and there is a reference to the second man being the son of Sam.

- I think they are parked near water / a bridge
- There might have been two other women with the first and she decided to go with him
- Think there was a car chase of some sort afterwards (possibly in a blackout)

It is not a movie about son of Sam, just one reference to him.

maybe

Summer of Sam
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162677/

Tom

ONY · 27-01-2019 1:19am

somebody_else wrote: »

maybe

Summer of Sam
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162677/

Tom

Not that one

I think it’s just one scene from a more recent film, but that’s all I can remember. There might have been a bit of rioting / a blackout too, but it definitely wasn’t the film Blackout

28-01-2019 6:01pm

The Mulk wrote: »

1st one is from the movie "The Monster Club"It's called "The Ghouls"

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

THANK you, I thought ghouls were involved (for obvious reasons) but wasn't sure enough to say so!

The Crowman · 01-02-2019 12:00pm

ONY wrote: »

Not that one I think it’s just one scene from a more recent film, but that’s all I can remember. There might have been a bit of rioting / a blackout too, but it definitely wasn’t the film Blackout

It might be this, a tv series rather than a film. There was a power blackout followed by riots in the Bronx in 1977, it would have coincided with the Son Of Sam killing spree.

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

ONY · 05-02-2019 8:52pm

The Crowman wrote: »

It might be this, a tv series rather than a film. There was a power blackout followed by riots in the Bronx in 1977, it would have coincided with the Son Of Sam killing spree.

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

Not that either I’m afraid

It’s really bugging me now. I’m wondering is it a flashback scene from Forrest Gump...

The Crowman · 16-02-2019 8:36am

darkdubh wrote: »

I diden't see this movie in full but saw a clip of it on the MTV movie review show around 1991/92.It was an American indie film and the clip was set in either a high school or college class.The male teacher seemed to be having some kind of crisis or breakdown and I think he was just standing there while the pupils were all messing and playacting.This one guy in the class who I remember had glasses and was kind of nerdy looking goes up to the teacher and shouts into his face something like "for Gods sake teach us" and I think he(the pupil) might have then punched him or kicked him in the balls or something.

It's the opening scene from Hal Hartley's Surviving Desire.

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

mikemac2 · 02-04-2019 8:08am

Saw it years ago the RTÉ last picture show

It’s black & white. A deaf & dumb girl lives with her parents in a coastal farming community. Everyone works hard and is poor

A local young guy rapes her when the parents are out. She becomes pregnant and her father goes mad because she refuses to give the name of the father. He later mellows and is a super grandparent

A few years later there is a confrontation between her father and the rapist and her father gets thrown off a cliff. I forgot how it ends

Any help appreciated

correction · 02-04-2019 8:18am

mikemac2 wrote: »

Saw it years ago the RTÉ last picture show

It’s black & white. A deaf & dumb girl lives with her parents in a coastal farming community. Everyone works hard and is poor

A local young guy rapes her when the parents are out. She becomes pregnant and her father goes mad because she refuses to give the name of the father. He later mellows and is a super grandparent

A few years later there is a confrontation between her father and the rapist and her father gets thrown off a cliff. I forgot how it ends

Any help appreciated

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040495/?ref_=tt_urv

This I'd say.

mikemac2 · 02-04-2019 8:24am

Looks like it for sure, thanks

Tony EH · 03-04-2019 11:53am

Yep, Correction is...um...correct. :pac:

It's definitely that. Only watched it recently myself.

7znbd9xmoiupye · 07-04-2019 9:42pm

It is quite recent. a woman goes to work for a man doing some betting runs. She later has her own betting business. She gets arrested at one point and loses all. goes home to mother but gets back in business. I was only reading about it this morning

OK found it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly%27s_Game

MfMan · 09-04-2019 5:24pm

An old woman from the neighbourhood, living alone with her cat, (she might be some kind of witch). She falls foul of a street thug in a leather jacket with a motorbike who starts hassling her. One day, out on his bike, he sees her cat standing in the middle of the road. He tries to run it down but the cat scampers away at the last second to reveal a hidden stone, which he crashes into, injuring himself and damaging his bike. He takes revenge, maybe by burning down her house and killing her. The cat avenges her by killing the man in his bed and eating his tongue.

American TV series, I think, quite contemporary, don't know if it's Tales from the Dark side.

The Crowman · 13-04-2019 11:25am

MfMan wrote: »

An old woman from the neighbourhood, living alone with her cat, (she might be some kind of witch). She falls foul of a street thug in a leather jacket with a motorbike who starts hassling her. One day, out on his bike, he sees her cat standing in the middle of the road. He tries to run it down but the cat scampers away at the last second to reveal a hidden stone, which he crashes into, injuring himself and damaging his bike. He takes revenge, maybe by burning down her house and killing her. The cat avenges her by killing the man in his bed and eating his tongue.

American TV series, I think, quite contemporary, don't know if it's Tales from the Dark side.

No idea what that is but it sounds mental :pac:

7znbd9xmoiupye · 14-04-2019 2:59pm

an old science fiction or psychological thriller or a bit of both. people are at the table at a meal and someone or something is coming. the man fancied the woman but she rejected him but later she says if yopu take me home now you can stay the night. she was so scared of this whatever was about to happen she was willing to slep with him to get away. i don't know what was about to happen or if it was of this world or another. this would have been in the late sixties or early seventies

s7ryf3925pivug · 25-04-2019 9:13pm

Streetwise couple take a withdrawn guy under their wing. The streetwise guy is revealed to have a terminal illness, and encounters his violent father. They play a game where they punch each others fists simultaneously and then one where they bash their heads together. The withdrawn guy is revealed to have been an obsessive stalker of the streetwise woman. Released during or before 2002, I’d guess around 2000.

JP Liz V1 · 12-05-2019 11:31pm

Sorry this may be the wrong thread, but does anyone know how I can get or download films that never got a region 2 dvd release please?

LauraPalmer · 14-05-2019 1:08am

So I watched a movie or tv series years ago and there’s only a few things I remember about it. I remember a teenage girl had asthma and she fell to the floor and tried to reach for her inhaler but a woman stepped on it breaking it.

I remember after the woman broke it she said “how clumsy of me”. There was also a ghost girl who brought the girl with Asthma back to life. At the end the ghost girl said to the woman who broke the girls inhaler “why did you push me?” And the next thing I remember was that the woman fell out of a window and died (I think)

At the beginning this woman was pretending to be a ghost in what I think was meant to be a haunted house but I’m really not sure.

Does anyone know what this might be?

Day Lewin · 14-05-2019 1:13am

It wasn't Twin Peaks, but it should have been.

El Duda · 14-05-2019 8:42am

Pretty sure this is 'The Air Up There' with Kevin Bacon

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LauraPalmer · 14-05-2019 4:46pm

El Duda wrote: »

Pretty sure this is 'The Air Up There' with Kevin Bacon

Thank you for your reply but I really don’t think this is the film. I remember being a ghost/horror movie/tv series episode.

Hercule Poirot · 16-05-2019 12:52am

I'm thinking this a superhero type genre - a child hides in a closet with his sister while their father is beating their mother and all of a sudden he teleports out of the closet to some frozen place

Pretty sure it's an origin story but can't quite place where I've seen it

Mr Crispy · 16-05-2019 2:15am

There was an abusive father in "Jumper", but I don't remember that scene in it.

Hercule Poirot · 16-05-2019 6:15am

Darch Nemesis wrote: »

There was an abusive father in "Jumper", but I don't remember that scene in it.

Thanks but I've never seen Jumper so it's not that

Dades · 16-05-2019 10:53am

Darch Nemesis wrote: »

There was an abusive father in "Jumper", but I don't remember that scene in it.

"Jumper" is such an unfortunate name for a movie in this part of the world.

Zubeneschamali · 16-05-2019 12:13pm

Dades wrote: »

"Jumper" is such an unfortunate name for a movie in this part of the world.

Jumper II: Cardigan
This Time It Has Buttons!

TheIrishGrover · 22-05-2019 10:06am

Dades wrote: »

"Jumper" is such an unfortunate name for a movie in this part of the world.

It's the only unfortunate issue I had with Avatar series. They were all "Benders". For someone of my generation that was an unfortunate term

LauraPalmer · 23-05-2019 3:41am

Does anyone know any period films or series that involved abusive husbands? I remember a long time ago now I saw a clip from a period tv series/ film and I remember a woman putting a child to bed that I assume was a son/daughter and the mother went outside the child’s door and I could hear shouting or screaming. I’m sure I heard “No!”

Can anyone help at all?

New Home · 23-05-2019 6:53am

The Village (with John Simm) has some scenes of domestic violence.

actuallylike · 23-05-2019 9:29am

LauraPalmer wrote: »

Does anyone know any period films or series that involved abusive husbands? I remember a long time ago now I saw a clip from a period tv series/ film and I remember a woman putting a child to bed that I assume was a son/daughter and the mother went outside the child’s door and I could hear shouting or screaming. I’m sure I heard “No!”

Can anyone help at all?

Are you looking for a list or a particular film? If compiling a list of old movies, I guess Gaslight might be good?

LauraPalmer · 26-05-2019 2:56am

LauraPalmer wrote: »

Does anyone know any period films or series that involved abusive husbands? I remember a long time ago now I saw a clip from a period tv series/ film and I remember a woman putting a child to bed that I assume was a son/daughter and the mother went outside the child’s door and I could hear shouting or screaming. I’m sure I heard “No!”

Can anyone help at all?

Just so that everyone knows I saw this in the late 90s

LauraPalmer · 26-05-2019 2:57am

actuallylike wrote: »

Are you looking for a list or a particular film? If compiling a list of old movies, I guess Gaslight might be good?

Hi

Yes I’m looking for a particular film. Do you know any from the 90s?

LauraPalmer · 26-05-2019 2:58am

New Home wrote: »

The Village (with John Simm) has some scenes of domestic violence.

Thank you for your reply, I’m afraid that won’t be it, I saw it in the 90s.

Hercule Poirot · 03-06-2019 12:04am

Hercule Poirot wrote: »

I'm thinking this a superhero type genre - a child hides in a closet with his sister while their father is beating their mother and all of a sudden he teleports out of the closet to some frozen place

Pretty sure it's an origin story but can't quite place where I've seen it

I finally found out what this was and I can see why no one knew it

It's from a short-lived TV show called Powers that only aired on PlayStation (I think) - it was made by Sony.

Skerries · 03-06-2019 5:14pm

I enjoyed that show
shame it only got 2 seasons

Lazairus · 04-06-2019 12:33pm

Hello

Just a quick question.

How do you go about finding a documentary if you dont know the title.

I suppose i watched a great documentary from 2006, i can remember the subject but never the title.

Id like to rewatch it again but need to find it first.

thanks again

Ciaran

mewso · 04-06-2019 12:39pm

You could try the very first stickied (stuck?) thread on this forum?

RobMc59 · 04-06-2019 12:42pm

Lazairus wrote: »

Hello

Just a quick question.

How do you go about finding a documentary if you dont know the title.

I suppose i watched a great documentary from 2006, i can remember the subject but never the title.

Id like to rewatch it again but need to find it first.

thanks again

Ciaran

What was it about-was it British or Irish?

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