Questions tagged [identify-this-movie]
Identifying a movie. Provide as many unique details as possible: approximate year watched, ruled-out movies, estimated release year, genre, memorable scenes, plot elements, character descriptions, settings, locations, actors, or any other memorable aspects. The more information you include, the better chance you have of finding the movie you're looking for.
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1990s sci-fi/horror film or episode where device lets women look into an underwater parallel dimension
I believe this was from 1990s because I recall the images being sleek, like the re-make of Outer Limits. Not grainy. Not cheap film. Not foreign either (like Italy); they spoke English. Pretty sure ...
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Boy sent to a mental asylum for teenagers where he falls in love
I watched one movie when I was a boy, around 18 years ago maybe and I did not know the name nor the name of any actor, even worse it is not a popular movie. I am asking here because years of googling ...
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What is the name of the movie in which eating and toilet taboos are reversed
Can anyone identify a (possibly French) film where the cultural taboos about going to the toilet and eating (not at the same time!) are reversed?
I remember seeing a scene with someone knocking on a ...
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Old comedy/spy movie where the heroine is a much better fighter than the leading man
I saw at least some of this movie on television somewhere around 1980 (give or take a couple of years). My personal guess, in hindsight, is that the movie was probably made in the 1960s. English ...
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Comedy movie about 3 software programmers who tried to hack the company's account system
I saw a Hollywood movie around the year 2001, it is a comedy movie. I forget the movie name, help me to get the name.
I can recall few things from the movie:
3 men are involved in the main roles, 2 ...
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Name of this somewhat sci-fi but also fantasy movie based on people on bikes with walls coming out behind them?
There was this one movie I watched ages ago and here are the points of interest:
Necessary points of detail not related to any plot:
It was in colour
It was in English
The characters I believe were ...
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Fantasy Drama Movie about a Girl Looking for her Father
I'm looking for a movie. The scenes I can remember (not in any particular order):
Abandoned white gazebo, table and chairs. Either in the middle or edge of a lake.on a dock and hasn't been used in ...
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Sleeping Beauty and Snow White in the same movie
This may be a bit different than many identify-this-movie questions, but my five year old daughter's descriptions are about as vague as memories of movies I watched in my childhood, so I think it fits....
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Spy movie where recruits are tested by flooding their dormitory
There was a movie I watched a couple of years ago, I can not remember the name of it but I remember the following:
There was middle aged man who had a watch with the ability to shoot darts from the ...
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A movie in which aliens attack the Earth and destroy it, and then replace it with a new Earth
I have seen a movie when I was 7 or 8, probably released in the late 90s or early 2000s. Here is the plot which I remember:
There is this hero, who is friends with a guy (I don't know the exact ...
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Movie about a guy who uses a notebook to relive and fix horrible accidents that he and his friends caused
Unfortunately I don't remember much from the movie, since I saw only 30 minutes of it, but I remember few scenes. I will describe the movie as much as possible.
Film genre: Fantasy (most likely)
Year ...
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Movie with augmented reality
I forgot the name of a movie.
It was about a couple with a small daughter. The dad lived with the daughter and the mom was working somewhere else. The mother worked in a museum where she built a kind ...
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Movie about the last man on Earth who loses his glasses and can't read books
I never actually saw the film, instead I remember reading about it (I think on Wikipedia) a long time ago.
It's along the lines of a man not having time to read books in general. Something happens ...
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Bond-style film from the 60s or 70s: man 'signals' associate to honk car horn
I'm asking this question for someone else, but I promise I will be able to respond (possibly with a slight delay) to any requests for extra detail!
This was a James Bond style spy film (but not ...
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Action movie which shows the story of a terrorist attack on the US president from different characters' perspectives
Time frame (approx)
I have watched this movie around 2008-2009, not sure of actual release date though (maybe 2006-2007 rough guess), watched in DVD
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Action, Color Movie
Plot
This movie ...