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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Animation movie (80's-90's) with brain-sucking insects
I'm looking for a movie I've seen as a kid, the details are foggy and sparse but I'll try my best following the guide:
What is it?: An animated movie.
Tell us what it isn't: It is not Nausicaä of the ...
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Movie involving a teenage boy who goes back in time and saves a royal from drowning
In a movie I remember watching, a teenage boy went back in time too far (he wanted to go to his sports game he missed out on) and saves like a royal from drowning (I think), but needs to be sent pills ...
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What were the "unforeseen circumstances" that accelerated V's plan?
In V for Vendetta film, V asks for Evey's help in his plan to kill Bishop Lilliman:
I was wondering if your offer to help was still standing. It appears unforeseen circumstances have accelerated ...
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Live-action movie where a boy goes fishing and the fish appear above the lake
The main problem is that I remember this children's film very poorly.
I watched it about 15 years ago.
I clearly remember the moment that the boy went fishing, but there was some kind of magic, and ...
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Alien awakened by the atmosphere in archeological excavation?
I remember having watched a movie, probably from the late 70's, 80's or early 90's, in which a crew of archeologists were digging up a location off planet earth. They found a set of certain ruins ...
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Asian film from about 15 years ago where protagonist can mimic and hide in someone's shadow perfectly
I watched a captivating Asian film roughly around 2009 (15 years ago).
The protagonist is imprisoned and repeatedly attempts to escape. He practices hiding in the guard's shadow and mimicking his ...
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People gathering in a cavern to launch a spacecraft(?)
When I was a kid, so probably in the late-80s or 90s, I caught bits of a movie on TV where it seemed like a group of people were gathering and holding hands in a circle in a cavern in order to try to ...
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Looking for the movie with the telepathic female humanoid alien chasing a xenomorph on earth [duplicate]
Sometime in the mid 90's I saw a movie about a female humanoid alien chasing a xenomorph on earth. She teams up with a man who I think is a cop. The woman is telepathic. In a flashback we see her on ...
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Boys find hollow meteorite in Scottish countryside
I'm trying to find a movie that opens with two boys that find a large hollow meteorite in what I believe is the Scottish countryside. A neighbor man comes to help them break into it... and that's the ...
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Looking for a TV/Movie about two kids being chased by a ghost in a field
When I was a kid in 2005-2008, I remember flipping through channels until I saw something scary. I don't remember if it was a TV show or movie, probably a movie.
Two kids are running through a field. ...
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Mandarin movie about alien stone that speaks with a girl and they protect the girl
I'm looking for a Mandarin movie about an alien stone that can speak with a girl and they protect the girl. I think the movie was in the 80s.
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What did the crowd think it took to win renewal in "Carousel"?
In the movie Logan’s Run (1976), once you hit the age of 30, you are forced to participate in an event called "Carousel". At the beginning of each spectacle, the announcer states:
If you ...
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Sci-Fi Movie/Show Where a Soul is Captured in a Glass Vessel
I remember very little of this, I was quite young - It was on television in the mid 90's, but seemed older. My wife was telling me about the 21 grams experiment and the memory clicked into place.
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Movie involving a crashed/landed alien craft in an icy cavern [duplicate]
I only remember one scene from this movie. A guy finds a black spacecraft in a icy cavern. I'm pretty sure there was another bad guy seeking the ship in the mountain.
This would have been a movie (or ...
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Live-action Norwegian movie about man whose job is to monitor troll migration
I do not quite remember the beginning but somehow two teenagers, brother and sister get lost in woods of Northern Norway. They run into a man who studies trolls and monitors their migration. Together ...
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An old movie where a doctor invents a drug in the form of eyedrops giving him the ability to see through objects
When I was a child some decades ago I saw on TV an old movie where a surgeon invented a drug in the form of eyedrops, giving him the ability to see through objects.
In the beginning, he uses it to ...
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Movie played on Sci-Fi about people with blue or green blood
I watched this movie on the Sci Fi Channel sometime between 1992 and 1996. It may have been produced in the late 80s. I vaguely remember watching it as a kid but it took place in the desert. It was ...
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Kinda surreal sci-fi animated movie from before 1990 on an alien planet, maybe astronauts
I watched an animated sci-fi movie during the early 90s, I have flashes in my mind but could not identify it for years and years.
Searching around by myself, I found some stuff with a bit similar ...
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Animated fantasy movie from recent years about heroine and troll
A movie from 2010 onward. I think this may be something fairly well known (one of the later Shreks for example). This may be the intro to the movie or a dream sequence as I think it's not part of the ...
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Sci-Fi movie where a hacker lives in a ruined church
This was a movie from recent years (2010 onward) about a dystopian future. The hero is some kind of unstable reject. He resides in a ruined church or cathedral and attempts to hack something or ...
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Movie from the last couple of decades that looks 80s but isn't; robot with black reflective faceplate
This was a rather figurative, almost arthouse piece if I remember correctly. Not actually an 80s sci fi movie, but looked like one in camerawork and production design.
Saw it at a friend's house five-...
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Late 80s/early 90s movie about a portal to another world/dimension
All I remember was it used to be on HBO/Cinemax all the time in the late 80s/early 90s.
Things I remember: The main character was a dork. It was revealed he had asked a cute neighbor out and was ...
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Movie or series in which people are shrunk and go inside a man's head, manipulating him
I saw this movie in excerpts on TV (it may be a series) around 1992 +/- 5 years or so?
I only remember that some people (I think it was more than one person), possibly teenagers, were shrunk and ...
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Movie with a guy in a commercial who turns people into weird creatures
So basically, this guy turns people into weird creatures for his commercial, and I think some people save them by defeating him. If anyone can help me figure out what this is, please do.
I don't know ...
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Late 2000’s / early 2010’s sci-fi movie involving an experiment where water is turned into wine
I'm not too sure the exact details sadly. My biggest memory is that, at the end of the movie, the lead female researcher has her experiment turn water into wine in front of a priest and the movie ends....
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Fantasy movie where underground creatures get angry at something people are doing and dig their way to the surface
I've been trying to find this fantasy movie but I remember almost nothing. The only thing I know for sure is that there is a scene where some creatures who lived underground were coming out of it and ...
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Which old black and white movie is the end of the "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" video based on? (Not "Death Takes a Holiday!")
Back before YouTube was well policed, someone uploaded a video for the song "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" which was a movie that goes exactly like the last verse – there's a woman dying on a ...
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British comedy about stupid aliens
I'm trying to remember a rather funny movie I saw perhaps a decade or more ago on British TV - I only recall a few details:
You follow a small group - one woman, two men - on a sort of interstellar ...
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Movie where two people meet and fall in love in a dream
Two people meet and fall in love in a dream. They return to each other each night. At the end they come together in real life.
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Japanese movie featuring a woman turning into a motorcycle
Sometime in the late 90s I saw a Japanese movie on video, then quite new, which I though was called Tetsuo. I don't remember much of the movie, except for a short fragment (1 or 2 minutes) in which a ...
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A film about unreal world with monsters who kill people who is living in a hidden place
It is not Inception.
I have seen this film but I do not know its name or if it is a known movie, I will just tell you what I remember and if you could help me to find this film.
There was a man who ...
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70s movie about a secret series of robots that helped people
I saw this on TV when I was a kid in the 70s.
It started with the next iteration of the robot learning everything about the world and history. He's surrounded by screens that rapidly display history ...
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Movie about an alien girl with amnesia running around a ship
This movie is a low budget movie and feels like a Syfy original movie. Though I'm not sure if it is. I saw it on TV, as a kid a decade or two ago. I've checked the Syfy listings, and "alien girl ...
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What movie has a scene with cowboys fighting a powerful being?
I’m trying to identify a movie I vaguely remember. I remember one scene where cowboys are fighting a powerful being. The cowboys are NOT a main party of the movie. And something tells me they are part ...
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Movie from 2005-2014 about a girl student who travels to alternate universes for a relationship
I'm looking for а film, watched in 2016, where a boy dumps his girlfriend and she -- in a university with a spinning top (spinning, twisting and falling asleep or faiting) and a dark-skinned professor ...
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90s Syfy movie about a red virus that takes over the Earth
I remember as a kid (mid-90s), a movie was playing on the Syfy channel. From what I remember, a Caucasian guy and lady were in a plane about to take off from the runway while a red goo-like virus was ...
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1980s sci-fi horror movie about a red mist that would kill people
I saw this movie in the late 80s or early 90s. It seemed to me to be a sci-fi horror genre. I remember some sort of scientific group or military group were isolated. Either on a spaceship or a boat or ...
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Animated movie about talking cars that is not in the “Cars” franchise?
The only scene from the movie that I remember is two of the cars talking in a highway. They were going pretty slowly and talking about a race. I watched it when I was a kid and it was a DVD I think ...
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Movie about a ship flying into a black hole and cannibalism
I believe it is a horror or a thriller perhaps. The movie is a bunch of entries from the crew.
The story is that a ship with a crew on board flies into a black hole, something like point of no return ...
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80s/90s movie featuring a samurai-looking alien villain with an Asian sun hat–shaped head
The villain of this movie is a samurai-looking alien. This alien had a China-faced extension that came out of the forehead area. Also, its head was shaped like an Asian sun hat from Mortal Kombat. I ...
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2000s movie about testing LSD; people were forced to endlessly watch short video loops
In English
Woman was main character I believe
Human testing with LSD
The woman had many people in cryogenic tubes full of liquid hooked up to IVs and watching the same 5/10second clip over and over. ...
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Movie About Body Snatchers In Old Western Town
I watched this movie back around 2010 I would say, but the video quality looked like it was made in the 80's.
There's a family driving through the desert at night, a mom and dad plus a brother and ...
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Story where hospital staff succumb to aliens and wear them close to their bodies
I recently took some tries on Google but I was unable to identify the movie by its plot keywords alone, so here is a challenge for you:
The movie or episode is from the 90's or around 2000 maybe ...
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80s movie where aliens suck people into the ground [duplicate]
I barely remember anything about this, other than that the aliens suck people into the ground. It's not Dune and it's not Tremors. I think it might have been a children's movie. Also I think the ...
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Movie about an astronaut in space, thinking he is communicating with his people, but is actually being tricked
Inside a space capsule, talking over a radio, thinking he is talking to his wife and his fellow astronauts, but he is really talking to foreign intelligence agents.
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One man lands on earth or some planet
Movie where one man lands and then walks away. He is among people who are living in hanging houses above watery places. The houses looked really grim and the place looked also grim. It was shown on ...
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Identify movie or TV-series about a portal to a parallel medieval world
Apologies for the very vague points.
Looking for the movie or tv-series.
The movie or series is likely at least 10 years old.
Possibly NOT in English. I am asking for a friend who watches dubbed ...
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Meet Joe Black Jamaican patois
Is there anywhere a line by line translation of the Jamaican patois conversation between Death (Brad Pitt) and the old lady in the hospital in "Meet Joe Black"?
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Fantasy movie involving crystals. It starts off with a girl making a wish on a birthday cake
I watched this movie when I was a child (5-7 years of age) so I don't remember much other than two scenes.
The intro
It starts off with a birthday cake and a girl wishing her wish on the birthday cake....
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Sky City dystopian film, similar to Alita: young female robot befriends scavengers and discovers she used to be a warrior from the sky city
The film I need help finding is set in a dystopian future where humans coexist with cyborgs/robots. The protagonist is a young female who gets dumped down the trash chute and falls to ground level ...
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