Unanswered Questions
18 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Mother struggling to survive after the fall of the Soviet Union
This is a long shot and I try to provide as much information as possible, but most of it is conjectural.
Meta-information:
It was a movie (but I cannot rule out a made-for-TV movie).
It was probably ...
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Identify a European movie where father and son are cutting each other's hair with a mechanical clipper
I remember one key scene:
Supposedly, father and son are cutting each other's hair under a tree with a mechanical haircutter (like this one) in front of a small hut.
I also remember ...
The weather ...
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Pre-2007 movie about two sisters trying to locate their father
I would like to identify a movie that appeared in 2006/2007. By now, I just remember these scenes (may not be in order).
Two girls (one with dark hair like Krysten Ritter's Jessica Jones, the other ...
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Woman and her boy struggle to survive after leaving their family
I watched this movie I'm about to tell you about 2 years ago, But I only saw half of it, mostly the end. It's and independent film, no one that I could recognize, and it was maybe from Lebanon, Israel,...
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Movie about Afterlife that was on Hulu in USA in early 2000s; drama
It was a serious movie, about someone who moved on to the Afterlife and what that was like. I recall that person (I think a young man) moving across terrain, getting to a beautiful masonry wall. ...
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French TV movie about contemporary slavery in Paris
I watched a few years ago a contemporary French TV movie ("téléfilm", a movie broadcasted on TV only) set in current times (there is basic Internet so I would say 2000-2010 time-frame).
This is the ...
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A drama movie about children and a possible mother figure struggling for survival in a tent or shack in a desert/plain
Main setting:
A group of young children, possibly with their mother, living in a tent or shack in a desert or a yellow plain surrounded by wheat fields. It was a scorching, treeless, yellow plain. I ...
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Has a woman in a Hallmark movie ever chosen her boyfriend from the city over her boyfriend from the country?
I am curious to know if there ever was a Hallmark movie in which the woman ended up choosing her boyfriend from the city over her boyfriend from the country. This would mean that towards the end of ...
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Boy and girl separated, leading different lives, find a way to get back together
The movie starts as an Indian boy and girl meet in her father's restaurant. The father is being extorted by the local mob and when he doesn't pay, they bomb the place.
The boy and girl become ...
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What’s the oldest surviving telenovela?
I know Sua Vida Me Pertence (1951, Brazil) and Senda prohibida (1958, Mexico) are the first telenovelas but unfortunately they're completely lost with photos being the only existing visual evidence of ...
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Weird, possibly European movie where couple inherit house and elderly housemaid from voyeur neighbour
I've been looking for this movie for many years now, with no success.
I've seen it in Europe on public TV about 10-15 years ago.
The plot:
A young couple live in a small flat of a tenement building....
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How did the hour-long drama, half-hour animation and comedy format arise?
It makes sense for TV channels to broadcast with their schedules divided into half-hour chunks, so that (including ads where applicable) 30, 60 and 90-minute episodes are typical. The half-hour comedy ...
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TV movie: Mother regains custody of children
A late 1980’s/early 1990’s U.S. made-for-TV movie drama in the same vein as “Desperate Rescue: The Cathy Mahone Story” (1993, TV, Mariel Hemingway, Clancy Brown, Jeff Kober), and “Reckoning” (1996, TV,...
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Identify this gay courtship scene from early 20th century period drama (1970sish?)
As an out bi man I sometimes try to identify pre-awareness moments. Stuff I noted and remembered about same-sex things from that might have hinted at future identity.
One of those things is what I ...
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What's the name of this english-speaking movie where a man has to care for an elder man (maybe his father)?
Color movie, picture quality I have in my mind makes me believe it's from the 90s or 2000s, but I might be wrong, as I saw it partially on TV a bit more than 10 years ago.
The atmosphere looks a bit ...
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