Result: Dementia 13 (1963) aka THE HAUNTED AND THE HUNTED Thanx Victoria.
a film that frightned me in the 70s had this scene, a lady swims in a lake or pond and sees a small girl tied underwater. terrified she swims to surface only to find someone waiting to hit her over the head with some thing.
Result: He's Too Young To Be A Dad starring Kathy Baker. Thanx Marphisa.
I saw this drama/movie in 2004 on television in Malaysia. I is a colour movie but I think it could be an old movie, I'm not sure. It is an American movie about an innocent teenage boy who slept with his schoolmate when she pulled him to the bedroom at the spur of the moment. The girl got pregnant and the family decided that she should give up the baby for adoption. The boy however, decided that he wants to keep the baby with his parents' help. Both parents paid for the delivery of the baby, however, the boy had to pay back his parents by working part time. The movie showed his struggles and frustrations in caring for the baby and the difficulties in juggling his time with studies, work and the baby. His parents thought that their daughter, who is more wild, would be the one problematic so they did not expect the boy who would turn out to be in trouble. When asked why he did it (had sex), he said he was curious about sex and he thought is was exciting, wonderful, etc but it was nothing like that. But it was nothing like that.
Result: Antonia's Line Academy Award winning movie from the Netherlands. Thanx robnbart.
I saw a foreign film in early 2001 in a film class I was taking. I don't remember very many specifics of it and most of what I do remember is hazy so it may be hard to find but it's the sort of film that leaves an impression so if you've seen it you'll know what I'm talking about. I think it's in Swedish or Norwegian, something like that that's not widely used in movies. It's in color. It takes place on a farm in a small town, possibly in the 70s or 80s. A single woman lives on the farm with her daughter (who I want to say is around 8 years old) and her widowed or divorced mother. As the movie progresses more people move in with them. Both women find men they fall in love with who move in with them. I think a younger woman, 20-ish, moves in with them and then her lesbian lover does as well. There may have even been a pregnant woman. All the while the little girl is getting frustrated because everyone else is happy and no one pays her any attention. There's one particularly memorable scene where all the adults who live in the house are having wild sex in their rooms, even the old people, and everyone can hear each other through the walls and the little girl can't sleep because they're all too loud. I had thought the film was called Fucking Amal but when I looked it up it didn't sound like the same movie though it does seem to have similar themes and it's from the same region of the world. Like I said, it's a vague description and it's probably a wild goose chase but I'm sure anyone who's seen it would remember it, or at least that one scene.
Result: Arcade Attack (yes -- I know this is an old one!) is a movie also called and can be ordered here: http://www.pingamejournal.com/cool/ Thanx benjamin. Jul 12, 2006
I am looking for the SHORT TAKE film that came out in the early 80'S (81 or 82) when HBO would take up space between movies. It was a cartoon that had video game warriors from various arcade games of that era along with pinball warriors from pinball machines. One sceen would have SPACE INVADER shooting at a pinball character such as GORGAR or SILVERBALL MANIA. I believe it was called 'THE SILVERBALL vs. THE VIDEO WARRIORS' and might have been made in Europe. I would also know if how I could find a copy.
Result: Simply Irresistible (1999) with Sarah Michelle Gellar and Sean Patrick Flannery. It contains a song called Once in a Blue Moon by Sidney Forest. Thanx Alli, Marphisa, Mini Me, Jo, Vasht.
I saw a movie in the hotel room where a woman cooks 'magical' meals that make people fall in love. At the end I believe there was a dining room scene with people eating her food and for some reason there was a low-lying fog on the floor. Anyway, there was a theme song that I belive was called Once in A Lifetime by some woman named Sydney or Sidney.... don't recall her last name. What I'm trying to find is the movie so I can track down the song and get a copy. It was beautiful.
Result: In A Child's Name (1947) . Thanx Marzia, Marphisa.
This movie may have been made in the 90s and is more than likely a made for tv movie. The only part I remember was some police come into this family's house to investigate a murder that occurred in the house. The police are laying out some sort of blood detecting device that searches for old stains of blood that may have once been on the walls or the floor. if there was once blood there, it would show up as a neon green color. The married couple that now live in the house go to sleep in their bedroom and when they wake up in the middle of the night, they see that there is splatters of neon green almost everywhere in their bedroom.
Result: It Happened On 5th Avenue (1947) . Thanx Patricia, Marphisa.
I am looking for an old romantic comedy about a Hobo who travels north in the winter and lives in someones home that has been closed up for the winter. The home owner has a son who falls in love with the daughter of the Hobo.The Hobo takes in other homeless people and they spend the winter in this big house. The owner returns early unannounced and plays along with his son and pretends to be homeless. Great movie. Anyone know what it is called. I think it was B&W I saw it in the early 60's.
Result: The Little Ark (1972) . Thanx Marphisa.
I think I was about 4 or 5 when I saw this film (1974-5) so the memories are really just snibits of images in my brain. The film could really have been made any year prior to the above & I don't know if it was in color or b&w. It involved children, probably 2 siblings, who end up searching for their parents (or possibly grandfather) in the aftermath of a huge flood. Or perhaps it was a tidal wave. The parts that really made an impression on me were when they stumbled across drown victims - their parents may even have been among them. Could have been foreign but I'm really not sure. Saw it in a theatre (mistakenly) being shown right before "Mary Poppins". Got to thinking about it after the recent tsunami tragedy. One of my earliest terrors - would love to find it again.
Result: Town Without Pity (1961) starring Kirk Douglas. Thanx Marphisa.
I was very young when I saw this movie in the early 60's. I was too young to really understand it but I remember a girl swimming with her boyfriend and when she swam to the other side of the lake to dress, she was cornered by 4 boys who ( I know now) must have raped her. I remember the last boy putting his shirt over her before he left. Then it went on eventually to a trial, I think. That is all I remember. I would really like to find out what the name of this old movie is, it left a lasting impression on me. I am sure it was probably a second rate film, as the little town I grew up in rarely had the top notch films.
Result: The Trip can be purchased at www.wolfevideo.com. Thanx Tollan.
It is about this young man fresh from college who is a writer, i think named Andrew, and he is writing an anti-gay book. He interviews one gay man , Tommy , and soon realizes he too is gay and they get married and such. Then the antigay book is later published and their relationship is ruined.
Result: Summer Of Fear aka Stranger in Our House Thanx Marphisa.
i watched it in the late 70's or early 80's. it was a made for tv movie it was in color.it has a mountain chase scene where the bad person runs off the road. i thought it had linda blair and an actress named meg something but not sure. the one lady in it that was bad turned out to be a witch.i think that her car runs off the side of the road. i have searched just about everywhere for this but since i cant remember for sure who is in it or the name i have had no luck. i dont think that it was the summer of fear. hope that you have better luck than me.
Result: Repulsion Thanx Marphisa, Jade, thiemannuk.
i seen it in the eighties on tv,i think it was in black and white maybe made that way for effects,,all i remember is a blonde women living in an apartment alone and being tormented by things i.e hands coming out the wall grabbing at her,and a man collecting the rent and making indecent proposals to her because she cant pay,and another man bursting in to her room assaulting her on the bed,possibly an english film,maybe arthouse,just a guess
Result: Little Sweetheart Starring John Hurt Takes place on St George Floride (has Australian feel to it) Thanx Will.
i cant remember much about this film just that i saw it when i was very young,i think it was made in the late 80s early 90s,im not sure if it was set in america or australia and i remember there being two girls about aged 11 and they have a brown envelope full of photos and the one girl has blonde hair and she hide the photos under her dress,then theres a part when they are eating ice cream,i think one of the girls at some point is wearing yellow sunglasses with black lenses,and im not sure if its the end of the film but at some point the blonde girl shoots the other girl when they are on the beach and the girl falls back into the water,it was a good film
Result: Hammer House Of Mystery And Suspense: Child's Play (1985) Thanx Marphisa.
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I saw this film around 1980. It was a sort of horror/thriller where a family lived in house and everything they picked up had a symbol underneath it. The milk etc. They then sussed that their house had a symbol underneath it. Like they were puppets in a sort of dolls house. Now I maybe wrong but this symbol was on the Stereo Mcs 1st LP - 33, 45, 78. All over the inside sleeve. I have struggled to find out what this film is for many years - i dont remember any outcome of the film as when I was young I used to flake out around 10 o' clock and my Dad would carry me off up the wooden hills to bedfordshire. PLEASE HELP. I WOULD BE ETEERNALLY GRATEFUL. This film really hit a cord with me then and still does. About control/consumerism etc. and I got this when I really young- clever git aint I? Also, there is a childrens book I had years ago which has been lost- could anyone recommend a similiar site to this where I could be helped to find the title by providing base info? ! This would solve two riddles which have bugged me for a good 15 years.
Result: Miracles Still Happen Thanx Marphisa.
During the early 80's this movie was shown on TV during Christmas time. My guess 1960-1970,color, It's about a girl and her mother are going home to see her dad/husband. But there's a plane crash and the only one that survives is the girl. The plane crashes in the amazon or in the jungle. I remember that the girl gets bitten alot by bugs,which left eggs into her lesion. She has to removed the maggots from her skin. Eventually her father finds her.
Result: Obsessed (1987) aka Hitting Home Thanx Marphisa.
I saw a movie around 1995 or 1996 on a cable movie channel (most likely Showtime or The Movie Channel, possibly HBO) that really creeped me out for some reason and I'd been wanting to figure out what it was. It seemed a bit old when it aired, possibly early 80's but it could have been as late as 1990 or so. It was in color. The movie took place in a small town and near the opening of the movie there was a kid playing in the street. Some crazed driver runs the kid over and the kid is stuck under the car! But for some creepy reason the driver won't stop! I'm not sure what happened next but this always bothered me and I tried to find out what it was the next day and was unable. Was I dreaming? It still creeps me out, even as I type it. I'm sure if I found it and saw it now, it wouldn't be as bad as I'm making it out to be.
Result: Final Jeopardy starring Richard Thomas Thanx Marphisa.
Actually visiting Chicago - ken
I saw a film in the 1980's about a man and woman visiting New York. They start being chased by a gang of drug dealers.
Result: Something Wild Thanx Marphisa.
I saw this movie around the 80's. I believe it was in black and white. I don't remember color. It was about a young teenage girl who was raped on her way home, and became pregnant. This took place in a large city, like New York. She couldn't tell her mom, because they were poor. She went to commit suicide off of a bridge, and a man grabbed her. When she woke up she was in his apartment, and he ended up keeping her hostage, because he fell in love with her and wanted her to fall in love with him. At the end she escaped by hitting him in the eye with her shoe when he was drunk and knocking him out. She ran away and ended up free from him. At the very last part of the movie she returned to him because she was in love with him.
Result: Always Remember I Love You starring Patty Duke. Thanx Marphisa.
Looking for the title of a tv movie about a kidnapped boy who is raised by kidnappers; later finds his birth certificate and runs away to try to find his real family. Eventually finds his brother? around X-mas time. Thought it was a Hallmark film but was not (already checked with Hallmark)movie ran about 5 years ago (around 2000).
Result: Dragonfly starring Kevin Costner. Thanx Marphisa, Mini Me, anon.
ok i saw a film a few yrs ago now, it involved a woman who travels with others in coach, bus crashes and she survives although we dont know that till end, the man starts having vivid dreams bout his wife, he then comes to relise she isnt alive but something of her soul is still alive (she had a baby before she dies) so man finds baby in a remote village.... HELP!! what is this film? I fort it was called "butterfly" but i am wrong! it came out same time mothman profechies came out as my mum brought them at same time
Result: The Neverending Story (I believe 3 were made, Jack Black's in the 3rd one. Falcor is the name of the "Luck Dragon", a kind, white, dog-like animal w/ wings.) Thanx Janet the Film Goddess, Charity anon(s).
I believe the film was made in the late 80's or early 90's. It was in color and on tv, I think. All I really remember is that it involved a young boy who enters into a new world or dimension and befriends a large white beast type thing with wings, I think that the beast may die at the end.
Result: The Rapture starring Mimi Rogers. Thanx Marphisa, Beverley, Evelyn.
it was 1995 when i saw this movie. i was in california watching HBO one night at 11:00 p.m. there was this movie that had already started. it was about a mother who had a daughter around the age of 6. She was very religious. she had a dream from GOD that told her he was coming. so she needed to get out to the desert and wait. she took her daughter out and they waited and waited. nothing happened. she kept having visions that GOD told her that he was coming and to go on a fast. so she and her daughter starved. she had another vision where GOD told her to shoot her daughter. She killed her daughter. for some reason i don't believe she was able to kill herself. she ended up angry with GOD for forcing her to take her child away from her. Soon the end of the world did come as in Revelations in the bible. She was put to purgatory. in a black holding aread if you will. When her daughter came to her begging her to believe in GOD again so she can go to HEAVEN with the little girl and be a family again, the mother denied GOD. so she wasn't allowed to go... that is all i remember of it.
Result: The Nightmare Man excellent BBC drama Thanx Vlad the Impala. Aug 28, 2006
I think in the year 1985 or 1986 on Dutch television I saw part of a movie of which I have no title. I think it is more likely that it is a British movie than an American. To my regret I have no title nor year of production of the movie. In a small coastal town in England people were mysteriously murdered by a creature. The locals believed it was some sort of monster. In the end of the movie Brittish soldiers of the Parachute Regiment came to the town to solve the mystery. The plot of the movie was that the monster appeared to be a Sailor who survived an accident of a Soviet Submarine. The sailor was physically and mentally injured due to the accident. In the movie the "monster" was breathing through some sort of gasmask which gave it a very scary effect. I also remember that in the end phase of the movie the Brittish paras were confronted by Russian Special Forces (Spetznas) who landed to find their colleague. The secret of the submarine had to be kept secret.
Result: Don't Go To Sleep (1982) (TV) Thanx Marphisa, Will.
i would first like to say how happy i am to have found this site, I hope you will be able to help me.. I have tried for many years to remember a movie but have had no luck. I have begun to wonder if i dreamed this. Any way the movie was seen around the mid to to early 80's. it was in color and i believe it was {a made for tv movie} however i could be wrong it may have been on HBO. I would like to say i only remember bits and peices of this movie. so please bare with me. what i remember is this little girl and her family live in a house and she begins to see a ghost of another little girl. However she is the only one who sees her. The little girl becomes friends with the ghost, but the ghost wants the little girl to kill off her entire family one by one. i guess so the two of them could live together. {but im not sure} Anyway the girl and her brother are playing frisbee and she intentionaly throws the frisbee on the roof. the boy trys to retrieve the frisbee by climbing on the roof and he falls off the house. The same time he falls the camera gos to the mother in the kitchen and shows her moving a watermelon and she drops it on the floor {splat} The boys death was ruled an accident. the girl then causes her live in grandmother to have a heart attack by putting her brothers iguanna in her bed at night. grandma is ruled an accident. she then kills her father while he is taking a bath by pushing an electical devise {tv or radio?} into the tub. dad is ruled an accident as well. the mother becomes frightend of the girl and believes she might be responsible. The daughter tried going after the mother. Im not quite sure if she kills the mother or not. I do remember the mother trying to make a phone call realy scared and the daughter cuts the telephone line with a pizza cutter she gets from the kitchen. this is all i can remember of this movie. if you can help me this would be great. I have spent countless hours trying to find this movie again. i do believe you will be my last hope.
Result: The Goonies Thanx RomanyX.
I was a youngster of around 8 years old when I saw a colour film aimed at youngsters. I was born in 1980 but im not exactly sure of the year i watched this film. To be honest I dont know if it was a film or just a one off episode. I dont know any of the actors. Theres only a couple of images that stand out in my mind and that is a scene of a lonely place where the ground was very muddy and one by one little holes would appear in the mud and you could hear hissig and all of a sudden this hole would spit what looked like hot mist or steam into the air. Almost like little errupting volcanoes but no larva just brown swamp like area. I also remember a lady. She was not a nice lady I believe she was a witch of some sort. I think she had some sidekicks who were also horrible. I dont think they were human I seem to remember them being very ugly and disgusting. In a scene i slightly remember the witch or horrible lady standing by or actually using an exercise bike plotting a devious plan and shouting alot. I seem to remember she didnt like children. In this scene I can picture her in some sort of 80's exercise clothes. To me she looked strange as a witch wouldnt normally wear them. She lives in a huge cave and I also see her standing infront of a tv with her exercise clothes on copying a fitness instructor, there are children in this movie or maybe just 1 child but I just cant remember. I would definately say this was american but really dont know. We had it in vhs when I was a child and I believe my Mother taped it off the tv as I know I watched it more than once. I dont think it was a series. We watched it around christmas times and I think there were festive scenes in this movie. If I never see this film again its going to annoy me as these scenes stick in my mind as a film that i loved so much as a child. I dont think it was a block buster I think it was low budget and must have been filmed in America as I cant see England having anywhere to film the muddy swamp like area. The holes I mentioned before woul make bubbly slurpy like noises before errupting this steam! Thays all I can remember and I know Its not alot but I thought I would give iot a go.
Result: My Mother's Secret Life (1984) starring Loni Anderson. Thanx Marphisa, Janet the Film Goddess.
This was a movie my friend said she saw many times on t.v. entitled something like, My Mother's Secret Life. It was about a mom who was a stripper or prostitute after her kids went to bed. I think it may have been a true story. It may have been adapted from a book. I don't know if it was MADE for t.v. or if it had ever been at the show, but she said in the 80's it was shown many times on regular t.v.
Result: Arnold (1973) Thanx Marphisa.
I saw a film last year on television. It was in color and the time period was the 60's-70's all I saw was at the end, this woman found an inheritance from her brother, Alfie. She found the money in a crypt inside a cemetary. The crypt door slammed shut, and that was the end.
Result: Something Wild Thanx Marphisa.
I saw this in the early 80's. As I remember it was in black and white (I may be wrong). It is about a young lady (about 18yrs) who on her way home is raped. She doesn't tell her family, and later finds that she is pregnant. She can't tell her mom because they are very poor, and feels that this would be a burden. She tries to live on her own in a small apartment, and has a job at a store like Walgreens. She goes to commit suicide off a bridge, but is pulled off by a man. When she awakens, she findw that he took her to his apartment that is a basement. He believes that she is his last hope for love. He keeps her prisoner. One night when he is drunk, she knocks him with her shoe in the eye (he ends up loosing his eye, and wears a patch). She escapes and feels as if she is free, but can't stop thinking of him. She returns to him and ends up falling in love with hi!m and they get married.
Result: Spookies (1987) Thanx Stareater.
The only thing that I know from this movie is that towards the end of the movie there is a girl in a dress (something like a wedding dress) and zombies are coming up out of the ground as she is trying to escape. The zombies are ripping the dress off of her, not entirely, she doesn't get naked, but still it was cool. I think it was an 80's movie, though I don't know the exact year, the cover of the VHS box has a picture of what I explained, the girl getting her dress ripped up.
Result: Unico In The Island Of Magic (1983) Thanx Amy.
English language animated children's fantasy or science fiction color film from approximately the late 1970's to mid-1980's. I saw this film when I was about 6 or 7 on tv in the late eighties. The film has a young girl or boy who breaks the power of some sort of sorcerer or wizard who has made a castle of all of the people by turning them into blocks. She can identify one of the lego-type block people (her father, possibly) by some sort of flower or identifying mark. as soon as the child refuses to beleive in the power of the sorcerer, his power is broken and the blocks change back into people again, or something like that. I want to say that it was on the disney channel, but i am not sure about that.
Result: J. T. (1969) (TV) Thanx Marphisa.
This movie was on TV many years ago (probably 30 or so). It was set in a ghetto ( I assume NYC). The only thing that really sticks in my mind is a young black boy responding to his mother's query What do you want for Christmas - child? The boy responds, I want me this cat I found. I think the cat gets killed or injured in some way. For some reason, I think the title was the boys name (or maybe the cat...)
Result: Night Mother (1986) starring Sissy Spacek and Anne Bancroft. Thanx Marphisa, anon.
I saw this feel around 1994. The movie centered around 2 characters in an apartment, nothing was ever seen outside of the apartment, nor were other characters introduced or seen in this movie. The characters are 1 a daughter and her mother. The daughter decides to commit suicide and she informs her mother of that. The entire movie is basically the daughter planning on taking her life and what her mother should do in her absence. The movie ends sadly when the daughter finally goes into a back room and kills herself.
Result: Electra Glide In Blue Thanx Evelyn.
The movie I'm looking for was probably made in the mid to late 70s, or possibly the early 80s. I remember very little from it, but the final scene stuck with me. A couple of fairly stereotypical hippies (or something like that) drive around in a desert-like environment somewhere in the US. They drive a VW van, typical for the period. The bit I remember is that they're on the run, having commited some crime, and they get pulled over by a motorcycle (not too sure about that, could've been a car) police officer. If I recall correctly, the officer had a khaki-coloured uniform, with dark pants. It turns out that the officer hadn't pulled them over because of what they had done, but instead for some minor traffic violation or possibly just a warning about road conditions ahead or something trivial like that. The police officer walks away behind the VW van, towards his own vehicle, when he suddenly turns around. The hippies freak out and one of them pulls out a shotgun, and winds down the REAR window of the van (quite a unique feature that!) and shoots the policeman straight in the chest. The policeman slumps down into a sitting position in the middle of the road. The van drives away, the camera pointing out the back window at him, and the end titles start rolling.
Result: Victims For Victims: The Theresa Saldana Story (1984) (TV) Thanx Marphisa, Will.
This was a color movie that I saw as a young child. It was either in the 70's or 80's. Most likely it was the 80's when I saw it as I was born in 76. I remember a young woman being stabbed by someone when she was going to her car(the attack was in 1982). The movie shows her fight to recover and I believe it had a lot to do w/ her lungs & ability to breathe. I remember her doing lots of breathing machine excercises. I saw this on TV and so I've been trying to search for it ever since. I thought it was called "Why Me?", but those searches have come up void as there was another movie called that about a woman who was disfigured.
Result: Thinner Thanx me.
I don't know the character/actor's names, country etc. i think it was in color. I'd like to know the title of this movie that i saw on tv 1985-1995. don't know if it was a premium channel or not. it was about this large white/guy i think salesman. i think he is drunk and driving and hits/kills a gypsy. the gypsies and him have a falling out over their loss. the gypsies put a curse on him and he begins to lose weight and getting sick rather rapidly. he may have lost his wife and/or job because of this and almost dies. there is a line in the movie ie: "i'm just a poor white boy from town." it's a very interesting, dark, drama, mystery and would like to see it again if i can ever find out the title
Result: Carnival Of Souls Thanx me.
This is a horror film I saw in the 70's. Remember it as black & white. A car with 3 people runs off a bridge into water. A woman survives and walks out of the water. Throughout the film, she sees zombie like faces thru windows, etc. By the end of the movie there is a carousel. the riders include her friends who drowned in the car accident. She gets on the merry go round and is "reclaimed" by the dead.
Result: Hysterical Thanx Marphisa.
Looking for a movie I saw on HBO or Cinemax in the US around 1984. Don't recall the name or actors but it seems like it was a horror/comedy that was something about a ghost and based in a northeastern US coastal town that was somewhere like New England. I recall a character with make up that was white or green all over the face and maybe a lighthouse in it.
Result: The Paper Boy (1994) starring Alexandra Paul. Thanx Marphisa, anon.
I am trying to get the title of a movie I saw on I thought on USA or one of those stations. The plot I remember before I fell asleep and missed the whole movie goes like this. An elderly woman dies (possibly) the young neighbor boy killed her. The elderly womans daughter (along with her own daughter) return to town to take care of things. The neighbor boy is immediately there and becomes obsessed with the woman and her daughter. The boy gets in to the elderly womans house and puts either a movie camera or tape recorder in the heat return. The elderly woman's daughter goes on a date with an old friend getting a babysitter for her daughter. The young boy does something that the babysitter has to go up on a ladder, where the ladder is rigged by the young boy the babysitter dies.
Result: Permanent Record (1988) starring Keanu Reeves. Thanx Christopher.
I am looking for a movie that I saw in the mid-80's to early 90's. I don't remember much about the movie except that it's a teenage drama. A boy dies (I think because of drunk driving or suicide). In the end, a girl sings a song about his death before an audiance.
Result: Like Normal People starring Shaun Cassidy and Linda Purl. Thanx Marphisa, Will.
The movie I am looking for was most likely an after school special or made-for-TV movie. I saw it several times in the mid-'80s but it could have been produced as early as the mid to late '70s. It was about a retarded boy who, as he grows older, meets a retarded girl and wants to marry her. One scene that inexplicably sticks in my mind is one from the main character's childhood in which he is listening to a record that has a dopey song with the sound of hoofs clip-clopping (like the coconuts in Holy Grail) and it is annoying his older brother. It wasn't an especially good movie and I had completely forgotten about it until it was parodied in a Mr. Show with Bob and David episode. I don't even really care to see it again, but it is driving me crazy not knowing the name of it for some reason.
Result: Explorers Thanx 5x5.
A childrens space film in the 1980's. A young boy that goes into space...with robots or aliens... Trapped in a box at some point...has an older man helping him at the beginning. Also the aliens say WOULD YOU LIKE THIS DANE....NO I WOULD RATHER SIT THIS ONE OUT...
Result: Exposure (1991) Thanx pphhiilliipp.
A color film about an American tourist in South America, Argentina or Brazil. He witnesses a knife fight and helps out one of the fighters. The knife fighting is not switchblade gang style fighting, but a martial arts type skill. He finds the person he helped and tries to convince him to teach him how to fight with knives. After a while the knife fighter relents and teaches him the art of knife fighting.
Result: The Phantom Tollbooth (1970) Thanx marphisa, Janet the Film Goddess.
I saw this movie when I was around 7 or 8 so it had to be shown in the early ninties. However, the movie looks like it was made around the time of Willy Wonka and possibly by the same director or writer. It all in color, It starts off as this young boy comes home from school and finds a rocket or box or something in his living room. He opens it and it becomes a little car and he goes into a spinning portal and ends up in a cartoon world and lands in a swamp of bad feelings. He meets this dog and the dog gets him out of the swamp, and they later meet this king, and they have dinner and since the kid couldn't make up his mind about what he wanted to eat, he ate his own words, and then they go on on their journey and they meet a grasshopper who makes them do all these tasks that would take forever and a day. Then after something big happens, the kids learns his lesson or something the kid wakes up in his living room on the couch and the box or rocket flies off or shrinks or something. I saw this movie on TV and it has been driving me nuts as to what the name is.
Result: The Wanderer (1979) Thanx marphisa, me.
Colour film. Saw it in the late eighties. Film set in 50's / 60's. Musical soundtrack one of the songs Walk like a man... All the blokes wore denim jackets and jeans. When they are having one of the fight scenes there is some great music without lyrics. All about gangs in America - No it's not the outsiders, but it was a similar type of movie. The bit I vividly remember is one bloke who is surrounded by a gang in a broken down house and they start fighting.
Result: Elvira Mistress Of The Dark Thanx jmatsu, Lily.
I was looking for a 80s TV show. About a witch who would show scary movies. I think her name was Stella but im not sure.
Result: Empire Of The Sun (1987) directed by Steven Spielberg. Thanx marphisa, saundrah.
The movie is about a little boy who lost his parents in a large crowd of people while they were trying to get away I think and he trys to survive and I think in the end of the movie he finds them. Im also not sure when I saw that but I think it was the late 80s or 90s. I think that movie was about the 1900s.. Not sure if it was America or not.
Result: Willy/Milly (1986) aka Something Special Thanx marphisa.
The first one is about a little girl who wakes up and discovers shes turned into a boy. Im not sure when the movie was made but I think I saw it in the late 80s or 90s.
Result: Consenting Adults starring Kevin Kline and Kevin Spacey. Thanx marphisa, pinkfreud.
This movie was made in the early 90's or late 80's, A new neighbor & wife moves in next door, the new neighbor is an insurance investigator, when he hits the other neighbor with his car he tells him how to get all this money from the insurance company, the 1st neighbor doesn't undrstand why the new neighbor gets him all this money....later the new neighbor frames the 1st neighbor for murdering the new neighbors'wife. Come to find out the wife that moved in with the new neighbor is actually his mistress and he had killed his wife before moving in to the new neighborhood. The 1st neighbor eventually solves the case. The end of the movie shows the 1st neighbor and his wife talking and when the camera moves away the house they now live in is out in no man's land all by itself....I was thinking the title had something to do with the word 'Neighbor'in it.
Result: It Had To Be You (1947) . Thanx saundrah.
When I was a little child in the late 40ties or early 50ties, I saw a movie on TV that I THOUGHT starred Cornel Wilde, but I have searched the Internet trying to find such a movie and I can't come up with anything. This movie was a romantic comedy. I remember a scene on a train where the star (Corner?) appeared to a young woman that he wanted to win. The thing is that he was not a real person.......he supposedly was part of her imagination. I think she was supposed to marry someone else and he kept appearing dressed as an INDIAN and trying to convince her that she loved HIM. I THINK that at the end of the movie, she DID meet him, dressed of course in normal clothes. Now, it seems to me that the song "IT HAD TO BE YOU" was the theme of the movie, so I have also searched on THIS. It could be that a little child, which I was then, has mixed up images, but I REALLY remember the scene where the male star drops into the window frame of the train, dressed as an INDIAN, and tries to make the woman see that she really loves HIM. If any can help me out, I would really appreciate it. This scene has haunted me for YEARS! I LOVED that movie when I was a child. I was born in 1947, so that is why I think the movie was in the early 50ties, although I saw it on TV, so it could have been made in the 40ties.
Result: The Man In The Moon (1991) Thanx marphisa, saundrah.
i saw a film about 10 years ago on the tv and cant remember the name of it.It was about two sisters who went to live on a farm {or near a farm) one younger sister, one older sister.anyway, the younger sister had a really big crush on an older farm boy and then later found out that her older sister and tis boy had been going out together and that they were in love. the sisters fell out with each other over this. then one day the older sister had sneaked off to see this boy and they spent a few hours messing about toether and he put his hat on the branch of a tree. When the girl later left, the boy got back on to his tracktor to do some work when he spotted that he had left his hat on the tree he drove the tracktor near to it and tried to reach it but couldnt and fell in to the tracktor and died! I remember a scene in the film where the mum was brushing the daughters hair and they were saying something about the man in the moon, and i think it was an American film.
Result: The Journey Of Natty Gann (1985) starring Meredith Salenger & John Cusack. Thanx Jo.
As for my request, it's a movie that I've been looking for, for years and I thought that I had found it recently but unfortunatly it wasn't the case. I saw this film about 15 years ago, late at nigth on tv, I didn't check the tv guide so never knew the title of it or the actors, I don't remember them. It must be a film from late 80's , early 90's. The story is set back in time, around 1920-1940, the story of a young girl who just lost her mother and she decides to go on a quest to find her father. On the way she meets a boy a little older than she is and he helps her during her trip. At one time from what I remember is that she's in an orphanage and there's a fire declared and the boy thinks that she perished inside and he's relieved to learn that it's not the case and I especially remember the ending. All through the movie the girl is always dressed rather boyish and in the end she's in a nice dress, she's blond by the way and the boy comes to see her and he tells her that he can't be with her right now but that he'll come back for her soon and he jumps off the ship. I remember liking it a lot and that it was a beautiful movie but can't remember anything else but the little details I just gave you. I thought I had found it recently and that it was a Walt Disney movie but it's not the case...
Result: Repulsion directed by Roman Polanski. Thanx marphisa, Rhonda.
i seen this film in the 80s its possibly black and white but modern just been made black and white for effect who knows,maybe an arthouse film,all i can remember is a woman with blonde hair in an apartment and it was like demons were after her, hands coming out the wall grabbing her and being assaulted by a man who burst into her room while she was on the bed and another man making an indecent proposal to her because she could not pay her rent it was a very dark film and looked disturbing from the short bit i seen of it
Result: Wounded (1997) starring Madchen Amick. Thanx marphisa, saundrah.
This movie is about a woman game warden that is tracking a poacher that is killing bears for their bladders to sell to a chinese company. The movie was released in the late 90's till 2003. The woman was shot by the poacher and so was her fiance but, the womans heart was on the right side of her body so she did not die. There is a detective in the movie I belive a famous indian actor who happens to be a recovering accholic. At the end of the movie the female game warden and the poacher hunt each other in the forest untill the woman kills the man.
Result: Where The Woodbine Twineth (1963) Alfred Hitchcock show. Thanx Norma.
Okay, here goes. I am positive it was from the mid-1970's and it was about some kids and DOLLS. This movie is what made me afrad of dolls. Anyways, there was a little boy and girl that shared the same bedroom but in different beds. In front of their beds there was like a bookcase built in the wall and had dolls from the little girl and boy. Well, one of the dolls eyes started turning green like trying to hypnotize the children, which it did. Then, the kids eyes would turn green when the doll/s would do that. In return, the children would kill. I don't remember anymore of the movie until the end. One of the children is leaving in a ship w/his father to "get away" from everything. The kid is overlooking the ship to see across from him another ship that is carrying a car. Mind you that the child is still holding a doll while he/she is doing this. Then the kids eyes turn green and makes the car drive "by itself" right off the boat. Then it finished just like that. I can't remember if then the child looks in the camera showing his/her eyes, but right after the car the movie ends. Please help me find this title because I was about 3 or 4 when my cousin scared the living daylights out of me w/this movie. Now, I am scared of the stupid things...lol. Thanks!
Result: A Cry For Help starring Robert Culp. Thanx marphisa, Mini Me.
Saw on network TV about 1973. A radio jock whose forte is to insult his callers tells one young woman who calls asking about "what is the point of it all", and if life is so pointless why shouldn't people just end it all. He tells her that's a great idea, why doesn't she off herself. She agrees, and says that's what she's going to do. He laughs at her and hangs up mocking her. Then when another caller tells him he thought the girl was serious, he doesn't think so, but plays a tape of the call on air to a psychiatrist, who tells him the girl is definitely serious. So the rest of the movie is about his efforts to find and save this girl before the end of his show, by using the assistance of mambers of his audience. The title of the movie was something that indicated a time limit.
Result: All Quiet On The Western Front (1979) . Thanx Janet the Film Goddess, JQ.
Result2: Fifth of July Thanx JQ.
One more that is driving me crazy from years ago. It, if I remember right, stars the guy who played John Boy in the Waltons series. It is about him going off to war and then returning after he has died, or something, and all sorts of bad things happen.
Result: Haunted By Her Past (1987) Thanx malcam66.
Ok..this was a made for tv movie from back in the 1990's about an heiress who inherits her family's mansion and moves in. Soon afterward, she starts taking on characteristics of her long dead great grandmother, I believe it is, who is pictured in a portrait in the home. The great grandmother's name was Shalane or Chalaine (pronounced Sha-lane). I want to remember this movie because it was where I got the idea for what I named my daughter, Shalane. Seems like in the movie, the woman starts wearing her hair up in a bun like her great grandmother did in the portrait.
Result: My Little Eye (2002) Thanx Marphisa.
Ok, I have spent quite a number of hours searching for this film. I have gone through countless amounts of movie titles on popular movie sites without any luck. I watched this only a few months ago on a premier movie channel (could have been HBO or one of those) late at night. It could be a made for TV, but the production level suggests it wasn't. It was in color and set in a generic present time within the US. I wish to god there were some identifying actors I could reference, but sadly I'm drawing a blank. So a set group (guys and girls) are set to live in a house where every move is video taped and broadcast online for viewing. They are the typical ëmach reality TV' bunchÖThere is the hot slutty girl, the jock, a weird shy guy, a geeky rebel and a good girl. There may be one more. The backdrop is a Victorian type house out in the middle of the woods during the snowing winter. Basically the beginning to middle section of the movie involves character development and forming relationships. The recluse shy guy forms a crush on the good girl but is too timid to do anything but carve wood. The geeky rebel is detached from the group after being confronted for stealing and hiding candy and cigarettes. æ's into the movie a drastic turn is metÖa snowboarder comes to the house in the middle of the night claiming to be lost. He works his way in and ends us sleeping with the slutty girl, then leaving the next morning. After this event people start to die. The shy guy is found swinging from a rope, hanging on the staircase banister. Then pretty much people start dropping like flies. We then discover that the jock character is actually a killer. He asks the slutty girl if she wants a backrub, and when she agrees he then chokes her to death. Somewhere in this the geeky rebel hooks a cell phone connection to a computer and hacks into the website the camera feed relays to. He finds that the website is subscription based for millionaire psychotics who essentially enjoy watching snuff movies. Meanwhile the jock is plucking people off. They put up a fight but at the end it comes down only to the good girl. She somehow either shoots or stabs the jock and runs for safety. I remember a scene of her on top of the house waiving a flare illuminating the night from a pulled back shot to indicate how desolate the area is. In any case a cop drives up to the house. She breaks down thinking she is rescued. The cop escorts her to his car and puts her in the back telling her that its going to be ok and says he is going to go inside. As the cop approaches the house the jock crawls out bleeding. The final twist is the cop is with the website making sure that nobody escaped. They drag the screaming girl back inside and lock her in a giant room freezer. The cop then shoots the jock in the head after expressing how disappointed he is with his performance. The clincher is the girl actually dies in the freezer. It was such a bizarre little fi lm and quite a treat. It's always a plus when a movie doesn't jump right into the same tired mold of ëget away without a scratch.' In any case, for the life of me I cannot find this movie's title and would very much appreciate any help you could possibly provide.
Result: The Last Seduction stars Linda Fiorentino and Bill Pullman. Thanx malcam66, Marphisa.
I saw this movie on TV in the 1990s, between 1994 and 1999. I think the oldest it could have been was mid eighties - it looked like is was made early ninties. I would not be surprised if it was some TV movie that never hit the box office. I thought the name of this movie was the Black Widow. I just saw the Black Widow (1987) and I know that that is not it but the plot is similar. Its about a woman who takes advantage of men. The thing I am most sure about is the ending. I know that she (main character - an evil woman) has a fling with a guy who I believe she meets in a bar/billiards place. I remember she had dark hair. I remember some comment that I thought was disgusting - and I embrassingly mention it now - there is something said by either the guy or the girl about how he is as "long as a horse" (refering to his male unit) or something similar. So now the part I remember most; Somehow this evil woman frames the guy. He gets put in "jail" and in the end of the movie, he remembers some piece of evidence that would prove him innocent (I think it is a key) but after he comes to this reality (which he says out loud I believe) the movie shows this evil woman destroying this piece of evidence. That is the end - this evil woman "wins" in the end. It is the ending that I loved the most.
Result: Godspell (1973) Victor Garber, Lynn Thigpen. Thanx Alli. Jul 29, 2006
I saw this film, which I think was church sponsored film. It was in color and I saw it around 1971. I doubt it had major release as it was a short film, under 30 min. The story had no dialogue. It concerned a clown, mostly in white, who would end up in the middle of the other circus performers acts. For some reason they lifted him up on a cable, and killed him using their tools, juggling pins, tennis balls, swords. The only real sound was the clown's cry as he died. Yet the movie ended with the clown again riding a donkey at the end of the circus parade. The movie then had questions about the film, making me realize now it was a christian allegory. I would guess this movie was made in the 60's. If you can find any information on this, let me know. I don't know whether it was an American for foreign film.
Result: Child Of Glass Thanx LP, Marphisa.
I remember seeing this movie when I was young, so I'm thinking it was mid-late 80's. It was a made for TV movie where this boy keeps seeing the ghost of a little girl. There is a doll, I think the boy finds it and gives it back to the ghost girl? I know that the little girl died in a well (fell in the well? pushed in the well? killed then tossed into the well?) I think she was beat by her father or step-father or something to that effect. I used to swear the movie was called "Frere Jacques" but I can't find any movie with that title anywhere. I remember the little girl singing that song so that's probably why I always thought that was the title.
Result: The Peanut Butter Solution French title Operation beurre de peanut. Thanx Marie-J, Sarah, Jade, Marphisa.
I saw this color movie going on 15 years ago (mid 1980's). It involves a boy (maybe 10-14 years old) who doesn't have any hair (not sure the reason). He gets made fun of by other kids so basically stays in his house and doesn't go play with the other kids. However, one time he did try to glue a hairpiece on, but it was ripped off during a soccer game. The only thing I really remember is that he meets someone and they give him this receipe involving peanut butter, flies, and other things. This receipe was to grow hair, but was warned not to use too much. The only other thing I remember is that the boys friend found the concoction and put it on his legs to grow leg hair, but he put too much and it kept growing and growing.
Result: Kicking And Screaming Thanx hasan.
A movie made in the past 10 years, that is at least 2 or 3 years old. I saw it maybe in 2003 when I was 21. Saw it at a friend's house, but cannot remember if on DVD or VHS. Comedy/Drama, I guess. It is about a group of college/post-college guys who live in a house in a New England-type town. I think some of the guys have graduated from college and some are about to graduate. There are about 5 main male characters who make up the group of friends. It is set in modern-day maybe 1990s...The house they live in is on a street that resembles the professor's street in the movie Wonder Boys. It has a front room with an ugly green couch, maybe? And a rug on the wood floors. And then there's another room straight on from the front room that is a study. Lots of hand-me-down 60's furniture in the house. I think part of the plot may center around the guys, or some of the guys, or maybe only one of the guys???in the group of friends trying to get out of the town they're living in (is not Good Will Hunting). And maybe one of them is trying to live up to the prestige and success that his dad wants him to accomplish, but this kid is having a hard time dealing with the pressure. The main character may or may not be Jason Lee (I don't think so; if not him, a comparable actor). He is dating a blond girl who wants to leave and go to France. The main character, her boyfriend, cannot seem to seriously commit to her or to going to France with her or to supporting her choice to move to France (I think it's France). The movie shows a flashback of him meeting her in a coffee shop (where she may have worked, actually). It also shows scenes of her in class, studying literature maybe, but may be showing her in France. Seems like an Ivy League or New England-type college; an old, imposing edifice type of campus. I remember I had a hard time at first following the sequence of the film because some scenes were flashbacks, but just a few, and only the ones relating to the main character/bolnd girlfriend part of the plot. The group of guys (the core main characters, all friends/roommates) hang out in a bar that is very pub-esque, smokey, comfortable, a lot of wood. They all hang out in the bar and play word/thought games, or something of that nature. I remember a scene of some of the guys at a party (maybe a graduation party) and one of them may or may not be actor Adam Goldberg. This particular actor that may or may not be Adam Goldgerg is wearing a pink 70's garb tux with a ruffled shirt (I think...not really sure on the outfit, but it seems right). And they're hagning around a punch bowl. It is at night and outdoors. I remember another scene with the main character and his girl at a similar party (may or may not be the same party as the punch bowl scene). They're standing out on a elaborate stone balcony and she is wearing a spaghetti strapped long dress that is either dark blue or dark mauve. They're arguing about her going to France and his lack of ability to commit. He may be the kind of guy who jokes a lot and evades situations in order to never really face his emotions/fears/love....
Result: Runaway Virus Thanx Saundrah.
I watched this film on sky (not pay to view) in 2000 / 2001, it is about a modern day outbreak of the 1918 spanish flu in America. A girls brother in Guatemala catches the flu and dies she then leaves Guatemala for America to be with her boyfriend and is carrying the flu with her. To delay a pandemic a female scientist has to go to Russia to take samples from a frozen body burried under the permafrost that died from the 1918 strain of the virus.
Result: Alexandre Le Bienheureux Directed by Yves Robert and starring Philippe Noiret. Thanx Nick.
I'm looking for a foreign film (French I think) made before 1978 about a farmer whose overbearing wife dies leaving him to do as he pleases. He is determined to do nothing at all, stays in bed, plays music, and sends his dog to town for food. The villagers think his inactivity will undermine the social structure and mount a campaign to get him out of bed.
Result: Seven Alone Thanx NancyFay.
This movie is about a family in the wilderness on a raft going down a river, a father, mother, and about 5-6 kids. They are going to build a house and i think the mom and dad die on the way. The kids finally reach the spot and build the house and put these pieces of stain glass their mother had in one of the windows. This movie was probably in the mid 70's.
Result: In A Child's Name (1991) starred Valerie Bertinelli. Thanx Sherri.
I know it was about a husband who murdered his wife, but covers it up...and it isn't revealed until the end that he actually did it. I know the way they found out was the police went into the couple's bedroom and used one of those UV lights to find blood and the room was splattered with blood that had been cleaned up by the husband.... Thats all I remember of the movie...i saw it when I was younger...maybe about 1993 or 1994 on TV. (early 90's for sure) it was in color...
Result: The Man In The Moon starring Reese Witherspoon.
I saw it about 1998-1999 on T.V., i had basic cable, but i'm pretty sure it was on a lower channel that could be received through vhf/uhf. I bleakly remember random things, so i'll throw them out there. It was a drama they were on a farm or something and this family lived on it and their old friends (the mom and dads) moved in next door and they hadn't seen them in a long time and the youngest daughter takes a liking to the oldest son of the other family and he starts to help them out because something happened i don't know what and i think there was a storm in which the mother was injured because the girl was out with the guy kissing him eventually they kind of fall in love and then he says he can't go on with it any longer, than the guy gets with the older sister and eventually towards the end the guy dies because he gets ran over by a piece of farm machinery. I don't really remember too much of it. I feel so dumb that i can't remember the name of it. I also remember the guy having his drivers license and driving a truck.
Result: Night Gallery Episode. Thanx
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Saw this horror flick about 1980, but i cant be sure, and i dont know when it was produced. Dont know any actors, whether is was color (i THINK it was) Saw it on a Saturday afternoon, i think on local WPIX or equivalent... same channel where they would run all the Karate movies.. Anyway, all i remember about the film is the theme. There was a woman in a house (dont remember if it was hers, or she was staying with someone) and there was a picture/paining on the wall my the entry foyer of the cemetary outside, or the front yard and it kept changing. I think she may have killed someone by mistake, but every time she looked at the painting, it changed a little and eventually she saw the dead person coming out of the grave, and walking toward the building. This all was happening in real life, and she was terrified, and i think the dead dude eventually broke into the building and who knows what happened. The only significant thing is the concept of the painting being updated with real life and the dead person being shown coming from that grave. I remember as a kid being scared to death of this film but everyone i know who saw it cant remember any more than this concept.
Result: Trilogy Of Terror starring Karen Black.
I am trying to find the name of a movie seen on television in the late 1970's. It was in color, it was about a doll coming to life after a piece of jewelry (bracelet or necklace-can't remember which) it was wearing was removed or lost, and then killing after the jewelry was removed.
Result: All Mine To Give (1958) Thanx Marphisa.
A friend of mine watched a movie back around 1966 about a mother dying and asking her oldest son that was about 12 years old to promise to find homes for his 4 siblings and himself - she dies and it's near Christmas and this little boy is finding homes for all of his siblings and none for himself - she said someone eventually takes him in as well. She can't remember any main characters or anything just how touching it was and would like to see it again.
Result: La Noche Del Terror Ciego (1971) aka Tombs of the Blind Dead Thanx Marphisa.
I saw a film in a movie theater when I was younger sometime in the early 70's. The time period would have been from 1969-1975. It was in color and I believe it may have been a british movie. The film opens with a young lady who is going to meet her friends but has to take a train to get there. This train each night has to travel through a countyside graveyard where these eyeless dead horsemen rise from the ground at midnight to eat humans. The woman witnesses these horsemen mutilate everyone traveling on the train except her as she manages to escape to a castle that is located on the grounds near this graveyard. Of course these horsemen know she is there as she tries to keep extremely quite. I was very frightened of this film. I also recall that these dead horsemen had very acute hearing to make up for the loss of thier eyesight.
Result: El Espinazo Del Diablo (2001) aka The Devil's Backbone Thanx Michael.
I saw a review about a movie in a local paper that is about a boy trapped in a cellar with a corpse and he is not able to get out or is forced to stay in there ( sorry can't remember). It was recently (this year 2004 or last). I think it is a foreign film, but i can't remember. I know this isn't much but it was areally small review and i couldnt remember it.
Result: Sun Chaser
Ok a couple of years ago I watched a movie and dont remember the name and I only remember the end of it ok its about a kid that got shot and he takes this guy hostage and has the guy drive him to where there is a lake in the mountains that heals your soul from all the bad things you did then when they get there the kid walks into the lake and disappears and thats all I remember I thought it was a good movie but cant remember the name anybody know the name of the movie? I know there is not alot to go by but thats all I really rememberI think part of the name was sundance kid but its not the older movie its a newer movie about late 80's to late 90's some where around those dates
Result: The Unnamable and it has a sequel called The Unnamable II : The Statement of Randolph Carter. Thanx hmarx20.
Ok this is the hardest movie I've ever had to try and remember and find. I was a little kid when I saw it so it's at LEAST 1988 or earlier...The only thing I can remember is some teenagers (I believe) were in this house, and they looked at one of the windows and this creature (I remember it as like a goat man type creature) was looking in, however the guy said something along the lines of "The window keeps the reflection of someone who's stared at it all the time" (Not the ACTUAL quote obviously) however..so he thought it was a reflection, next thing you know this "Creature" Jumps through the window and attacks them *Shrugs* I have no other memory of this movie...and all I know is it is in english, in color, and a horror movie (Like I said I was a kid at the time...and I don't remember much else)
Result: La Noche Del Terror Ciego (1971) aka Tombs of the Blind Dead Thanx Marphisa.
I need your help in locating a what I believe may have been a British horror film made in the early 70's. It involves a young woman who must take a train to meet a company of friends. The train must travel through a countryside graveyard, that is the home to flesh eating zombies who leave their graves on horseback during the midnight hour in search of human flesh. While ridding on this train the woman is subject to horror of watching the zombies attact the trains passengers leaving her as the only survivor. She excapes the confines of the train for the safety of nearby castle. However, this happens to be a castle on the grounds of the graveyard. The woman discovers that these zombies have no eye but very acute hearing. She is rescued I believe. I saw this movie as a kid and it scared the crap out of me.
Result: The Pagemaster
kids movie, possibly tv show from the mid 80's, it had a star wars like theme song at the beginning, with a sword wielding robot, and a flying book, that's as much as i can remember...
Result: Seance On A Wet Afternoon (1964) . Thanx Marphisa.
This is a type of film noir shown at an "art" theater in Rochester, NY in late 60's or early 70's. Black and white, probably foreign or at least English. An older couple (seems like Bette Davis, but can't find it in her filmography) plot to kidnap a young girl from school. He drives a motorbike and has a "snoopy" type leather bomber hat.Everything very dreary. They drug the girl immediately and take her to an old house with a room converted into a hospital room so that the girl thinks she has been hurt and is waiting for her parents to come to the hospital for her. The woman acts as a nurse. They hold her for ransom. It must have been advertised pretty good at the time, because we rarely made the trip to the city to see a movie.
Result: Where Have All The People Gone? (1974) starring Peter
Graves. Thanx Will.I saw this movie when I was very young, about 5 years old, and now I am 37, so it was in the early 70's. I think it was a made for t.v. movie but I'm not sure about that, I saw it on t.v. though. It was about a group of people who were stranded or something to that effect in a desert town type setting where it was very hot, the sun was very hot, and one by one they were scorching in the hot sun being turned into sand. I remember a barn type setting where one person turned to sand. I think the premise of this movie is that they had to escape from this town before they all died. I really don't remember much else about this movie, but it has always been in the back of my mind because it was kind of scary. I remember it being in colour though. If you could find out the name of this movie that would be great because I would love to see it again.
Result: The Stepfather Thanx Cyndi.
The movie i would like to know the title of was on HBO around 83-85.It was PG. I thought the title was "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" but that only returns the '73 TV Movie. I think the word 'Dark' was in the title at least. There was a woman in it i thought was Claudia Christian, from "The Hidden". It is not listed in her credits at imdb.com, though. I only remember it featured a teenage girl that was suspicious of (i think) her new stepfather. I believe she saw him cheating on her mom or something through an open window. There were also scenes where she would follow him in his car on her bicycle. And every time she lost him, she would wait for him at that spot the next day and continue tailing him. I know this is a vague description, but that is all i remember.
Result: Everybody's Baby: The Rescue Of Jessica Mcclure Thanx Mini Me, Marphisa.
i saw this film a few years ago and it is about a little girl no older than 2 that falls down a pipe and gets trapped, it takes days to get her out and they are just about to give up. its a true story and now im older id like to see it again. Its very shocking and sad.
Result: Z. P. G. (1971) starring Oliver Reed and Geraldine Chaplin. Thanx Marphisa.
About three or four years ago I saw a movie on the science fiction channel. It really made an impression on me and I would love to find the name. I have searched everywhere for it, so I dont know that anyone will be able to help me. It was set in the future and seemed to be made quite a long time ago (however it was in color) There was a couple and the wife really wanted to have a baby, however it was illegal to have children (I think because there was not enough air for everyone; I seem to remember a part where they are outside and the air is a reddish color) Scince people are not allowed to have children, after they have sex the woman uses this machine to make sure she is not pregnant, but the woman doesnt do it and gets pregnant. (also there are robot babies that are supposed to take the place of real babies) Her husband goes somewhere and gets in to trouble for looking up information about childbirth. eventually she has the baby (i think in a basement or something) but they get found out and something happens to the father, but i remember the mother and the baby setting out in a boat and reaching some distant shore where there was air(?) if anyone could help me with this, i would be most appreciative!!!!
Result: Sunshine (1973) (made for tv movie) Thanx Jade, Richard, Marphisa.
THE MOVIE WAS ON TV ABOUT A YOUNG LADY WITH CANCER AND SHE HAD A BABY IN HER WOMB AND WOULD TAPE RECORD MESSAGES TO THE UNBORN BABY AND AT THE END OF THE MOVIE THEY PLAYED A SONG THAT I THINK JOHN DENVER SANG. SUNSHINE ON THE WATERS LOOK SO HAPPY, SUNSHINE IN MY EYES MAKE ME CRY. I THINK THIS MOVIE WAS TAKEN PLACE IN THE LATE 60'S EARLY 70'S BECAUSE THE YOUND COUPLE DRESSED LIKE HIPPIES. AT THE END OF THE MOVIE THE MAN HAS HIS BLONDE HAIRED DAUGHTER ON THE BACK OF A MOTORCYCLE AND SHE IS LIKE 5 OR 6 YEARS OLD (I THINK) AND THEY ARE DRIVING I THINK TO HIS MOTHERS HOUSE.
Result: The Christmas Martian Thanx Cosworth.
This is a TV show that I vaguely remember seeing back in the 1970's. I would have only been between ages 2-11 so that is why I'm having such a hard time remembering what it is called. All I can remember is that there was a space alien in it and two children who visited his spaceship. It was winter because I seem to remember the alien tobogganing with the children. The alien never talked I don't think. He had a green fishnet looking suit on and when the children were on his spaceship, they ended up in a big pile of candy which they started to eat. I think they were Smarties. I think the movie gave me the creeps. The person who played the alien was creepy looking (to someone my age) because their lips stuck out through the fishnet costume that they had on. I can't remember the name of the movie I was just too young in the early 70's. I don't think it was a series or anything like that. I think it was just a made for TV movie. Anybody else remember a movie like that? I'm pretty sure it was in color.
Result: The Littlest Angel (1969) it was in color and starred Johnny Whitaker. Thanx Marphisa.
I saw a black and white film that aired on (American) tv when I was about 8-10 years old (so 1974-76) that was about a boy who died and then came back an angel. I want to say he fell off a cliff while playing, but not sure about that. He was able to come back to the house where his family (kindly grandparents?) lived, a country setting, seems like a house on a hill, and he could see and hear everything they were saying, including that they missed him, but they could not see or hear him. It was black and white so I suspect the film was from the 1950s or 1960s. It is a very vivid memory of mine but no one I have ever mentioned it to remembers it.