Questions tagged [movie]
This tag has three different uses: for questions specifically about the movie version of a work which has been adapted for different media (use together with the work tag); for questions seeking identification of a movie (use together with the [story-identification] tag); or for wider genre questions about movies as a whole (generally together with the [history-of] tag).
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What is this film about a group of friends travelling with camcorders who encounter people whose faces were distorted?
I roughly remember a group of friends travelling with camcorders who kept seeing people who just stood there facing away from them, and when they saw their faces shaking so fast, their faces were ...
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Do you guys know this foreign language movie [closed]
So when I was young I saw this movie on a channel called World Movies so I know it's not English language or Indian. It has a female lead who either works or frequently visits a fish market. In the ...
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Movie about aliens that secretly invade earth
A movie I watched when I was younger (about 2010ish) was about a woman finding out about a secret alien invasion. They look and act like humans but they can't show emotion, so that's how survivors end ...
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Does anyone remember a short film from the Bay Area called The Tower?
When I was a kid in San Francisco - circa 1984 or so - my mother took my sister and me to a sort of underground artists collective party. There was a band playing there called The Lizards maybe, and a ...
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1980s or early 90s horror movie featuring a sasquatch/bigfoot/yeti
I've been searching for this movie for many years now. I was born in 1989 and I was under 10 years old when I watched it on TV, so I assume it's a movie from the 80s or early 90s.
I'm gonna describe ...
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Woman attacked in a toilet and forced to drink monsterising liquid through a funnel
I remember watching this on TV but it might have been a film or a TV show.
A woman is stopping at a resting spot in a forest area. She goes to the bathroom (stalls, very dirty) and she got attacked by ...
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Very old telefilm about an invisible monster
This is very very old, probably from the '80s, if not before. I happened to watch it several years ago and it is extremely probable it is a telefilm, part of some sort of series.
Unfortunately, only ...
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Circa late 70s - early 80s kids (television?) movie with hacking plot [closed]
This memory has been bugging me since I re-watched "Explorers" (1985) a few months ago: I realized that I had transferred memories from another movie onto the characters, and now I want to ...
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Horror movie involving a mirror and someone cutting themselves with scissors [duplicate]
So I don't remember much beyond these three scenes:
A bathroom and scissors, someone cutting themselves with it.
A car where someone gets their neck pierced from behind.
A piece of a mirror stuck to ...
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A movie on TV in 1987 about a deaf boy at a deaf school where the kids wear Phonic Ear [closed]
I think it may gave been made for TV, I'm not sure - I saw it on TV in England in 1987 but the film was American. From what I remember, it begins with a boy aged about 10 with curly brown hair being ...
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Looking for the title of a film / TV show with a young boy and slightly older girl vs. a circular room full of robots and a booming voice
The scene I remember was from a (maybe?) 70s TV show or a movie that showed a younger boy with a slightly older girl which I guess was a sister or a female friend, both wearing body suits, walking ...
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Animated show with a main character named Nazire or Nasir who has a companion with dragon parents
It's been a while since I last viewed the animation. The name of the main character is a bit unclear, but it's either Nazire or Nasir. He hails from a royal background and was destined to meet his ...
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Sci-fi movie in which horses were rare and going extinct and being sold on the black market
I'm trying to remember the name of this movie I wanted to watch from the last four years. I remember something about horses being important to the story. It seems like they were going extinct and ...
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Zombie outbreak movie with a doctor and military team
Not sure when this movie was made but I watched it over 5 years ago.
The plot with a military like base in a zombie apocalypse, there multiple stages of infection ranging from just being sick to being ...
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80s movie involving friendly, flying aliens that were light creatures (not Cocoon)
The aliens were friendly and flew. In the end, they were saying goodbye, like at a hospital maybe. They were light creatures; the graphics were bad, they looked hand-drawn, kind of. It’s not Cocoon (...
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Movie where the protagonist wakes up as a female character completely nude and finds armor to put on and a sword in virtual reality
The scene has a very warm orange tint lighting. The protagonist is a guy that visits a virtual reality world but wakes up in a blonde female avatar/body completely naked on a canopy bed with several ...
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Identify a movie from the 80s with a crystal bowl full of red berries
There’s an American film where a young girl has to try and save her brother by going through a maze and eating red berries from a crystal bowl.
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Movie featuring a robot/cyborg with a flying saucer-like head and a futuristic tank
Only images I have left in my head is that there was a robot/cyborg in the movie that had a flying saucer-like head. Also, another scene is like a futuristic tank that was shooting huge bullets.
That ...
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Recent movie/TV series with black alien goop that takes over people
I saw a trailer a few years ago (post 2000) of this movie.
There were these people in some sort of space station, I think. They looked at this door that had a window on it, and then this blob of ...
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Movie where black shiny rocks fall from the sky and people who touch them start transforming
This is a sci-fi movie where at the beginning some little shiny black rocks fall from the sky randomly around a town. All the people that see the rocks and touch them start getting sick, then they ...
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Can you identify the movie "Rat King" (or something like that)?
The film is very old. I am 98% it's in black and white. 95% that it's even a silent movie. It was probably from a Scandinavian country.
The Hero and his girl fight against rats that can take human ...
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A new movie or series where planes float to the ground. Later we see an alien ship hovering over a city
The other day on TikTok I saw a video of a "movie." In it a bunch of modern-day people were standing in a city (NYC?) looking up at the sky as various types of human-made aircraft (planes, ...
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Movie about a cop fighting an organisation that uses cyborg ninjas
I saw this live-action movie in 1997, could be an 80s or 90s movie.
A cop is trying to fight criminal organisation that uses ninjas. They start using cyborg tech to transform the ninjas into killing ...
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TV episode or possibly movie involving teenagers at a costume party having their brains sucked out by an evil alien force
I need help finding a TV episode or possibly science fiction movie that I remember from the 90s.
It takes place primarily at a teenage Halloween/costume party. These partygoers find this secret room ...
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Science fiction film that begins on a spaceship with Earth and alien crew that crashes
Trying to find the name of a science fiction film that featured a mixed crew of apparently Earth people and an alien race that looked like Asians. The aliens were treated as slaves or at least second-...
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70s/80s kung fu film—the protagonist undergoes a skill test involving his hearing while blindfolded and has to fight a statue-like creature
I’m looking for a kung fu or martial arts film that I watched in the 90s. It seemed to have been made in the 70s or 80s.
As I recall, the male protagonist resembled Liu Kang from Mortal Kombat in both ...
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A cartoon movie where a boy travels to a monster world by going under his bed
A cartoon movie where a boy looks under his bed after his sister said "don't look under your bed there are monsters there". So he does and gets transported to a world filled with monsters.
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What are the kung fu or wuxia films featured in the training montage in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem?
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023) shows Splinter and the Ninja Turtles learning ninjutsu by imitating scenes from classic kung fu or wuxia films. Which films are featured in their ...
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What movie is this avocado-like monster from?
Dark color body, no neck, short arms legs, weird face
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B-Movie with concept similar to the Secret Invasion [duplicate]
I think it was 20 years ago when I watched a B-movie that had a partially similar plot. I cannot remember all of the details, but the leading role was a man that found to identify aliens among people ...
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Anime movie where the main character uses telekinesis to catch and reattach a fallen leaf to a tree
I saw this anime 20 - 30 years ago. It was probably made in the 80s or early 90s. It was a movie and it was dubbed.
Telekinesis is important in it. I remember specifically a scene where one of the ...
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Post apocalyptic movie featuring scantily clad women and traveling vehicles that formed a bubble around them when traveling
I happened to catch this movie probably halfway through but had to leave. I believe it was on Pluto TV. I had the title in my head for a couple of days but lost it. Post apocalyptic, scantily clad ...
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Space movie seen on pogo tv with a man in a malfunctioning space pod
In my childhood, a space movie probably used to come on Pogo TV in which a man's pod malfunctioned and opens early and he eats alone some paste tube food for many days. And when the other persons wake ...
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Animated movie where there some people who fly with robotics suits
I don’t honestly remember much; it’s an animated movie I watched eight or so years ago.
The suits might have been a part of their body or not, I don’t remember. They allowed them to fly and were some ...
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How was it known that the monolith sent its signal to Jupiter in 2001?
(Warning: spoilers ahead /s)
When the monolith is uncovered on the moon in 2001: A Space Odyssey, it generates a massive, but brief radio signal when it is illuminated by the Sun for the first time.
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Horror movie where the hero is knowingly resurrected each day to kill and be killed
Every new day the guy (our hero is some sort of zombie or vampire) gets up from the dead to kill and be killed knowing that he is going to be resurrected the next day to kill again. A reverse Ground ...
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Russian film vaguely similar to Legion (2010)
I am trying really hard to identify this movie I watched a long time ago. I guess it was made around the mid-2000s. It's a Russian film in which an angel is sent to Earth to do battle against the ...
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People in a rural area hide in warehouse, at end it’s 2 people left, guy leaves her for dead - she lives, then she leaves him to die on road
I saw this movie on Netflix when I was pretty young and the year it came out was maybe around 2012-2017 to be safe but I think mostly 2012-2015.
The main character was a girl with short brown/black ...
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80s movie about a killer octopus like creature in a basement of a house
So there is this movie my husband was trying to tell me about but he can't remember the name of it. He said it had an octopus that was in the basement of a house and the tentacles ran through the ...
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Movie about the Earth being too hot to live on and everybody being underground
I can't remember much, just a man walking out of a subway station or an underground parking lot with a space suit on, like the ones they use now for EVA. I remember that it was because the Earth was ...
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Anime where the mc's friend sister dies and he goes to another world to collect orbs that he puts in a wand to get a wish
I saw this anime around 2015-2016 my memories are foggy and I unfortunately don't remember how the characters looked liked but I think that it was an isekai anime, where the mc and his friend were ...
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The name of the movie similar to First Men in the Moon
I recall watching a movie very similar to First Men in the Moon. But it's made after that film.
In the beginning it's the celebration of the first Moon landing at 1969. A little boy encounters an old ...
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Movie where a mad doctor creating an Frankenstein-type monster gets bitten by his creation
I saw this horror movie in the 80s when I was a kid. There was this scene where a doctor tries to revive a patient, kind of Frankenstein type, and puts his fingers inside the patient mouth only to get ...
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Movie or series about a group of people who discover a portal to live forever
Movie or series about a group of people who discover a portal to live forever. There are even famous people. The portal opens every few years.
The portal is a child. People enter his mind and live all ...
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Which horror film has this basement?
I remember a few years ago watching a horror film. I think a family of the mum and 2 sons had just moved in.
There was a trapdoor in the garage (I think) that was nailed down and they were told not to ...
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Scifi movie identification about a guy on the run from a police organisation that can predict crime before it happens
Watched it early 2000's
Set sometime on the future
In a futuristic world where the police have the ability to catch criminals before they commit the crime
Basic plot details that I can remember:
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Old movie where a scientist clones his daughter
A scientist in his cellar lab creates a clone of his deceased daughter, in a giant egg.
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Recent movie, woman is trapped in a medical pod (stasis pod?) and is trying everything to convince its AI to let her out
Pretty sure most of the movie is filmed of the woman in a pod. (Size of a coffin) It is high tech, looks like a stasis pod or medical pod with a heads up display she uses to interface with the pod. ...
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Identify movie/series involving space travel and supernatural entity
I vaguely remember a show that I once watched but I do not have enough elements to identify it and until now all my attempts have been unsuccessful.
I was probably drunk or high or both when I watched ...
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Japanese cartoon about a boy from Earth who grew up on an alien planet where the people use a ring to change their appearance
I am looking for the title of a Japanese sci-fi cartoon I saw when I was young, but now I do not remember it anymore. The story is about a boy from Earth who grew up on a alien planet where the ...
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