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Need help remembering a comedy about group of con men

Can someone please help me out with this one movie?

I saw this movie in tv in the 1990’s or early 2000’s.

It’s a movie about group of friends who are con-men.

Here are the scenes from the movie:

  1. Guy fakes to get hit by car and cons the driver to pay him
  2. Friends pretend to be city tour guide, but the people they are scamming point out the fake names and locations they are telling
  3. Later in their apartment one conman shares hit loot, but friends start ripping the real dollars in half
  4. Later conman themselves get’s conned, by the promise to see a real mermaid by the sea, buy the mermaid turns to be a guy/or women in a costume and a wig

Maybe someone can help me with this movie. Thanks.

Movie Filmed in Quakertown, Pennsylvania

This movie is in color in English and was filmed in and around Quakertown, Pennsylvania in probably the mid to late 1980’s or early 1990’s. I probably saw it in a small “indie” theater. What’s perplexing is that I know the names of two of the cast members, Czech model/actress Paulina Porizkova and musician John Popper of Blues Traveler, yet neither of their entries in IMDb lists this movie, nor can Google or Microsoft Bing seem to find it. I guess it can be described as a “rom com.” I really only remember two scenes from it: one when Paulina goes “skinny dipping” in some water at night, and the other when John is in a room with another guy discussing what was once a Quakertown phenomenon of columns of ducks crossing streets and holding up traffic. John says something like “It’s annoying to wait for them, but what are you going to do, run ’em over? What’re you, Satan?” or words to that effect. (I think I even remember the microphone boom being visible in the shot.) Even though I don’t remember the title, I recall that it was a trite expression, like “Just One More Thing” (which is the title of another movie) or some such. A more memorable title would have been “Czech Chick Goes Skinny Dipping…..” I hope someone can reassure me that my memory is not a dream or something! For those who have been in Quakertown, I recall one exterior shot being of Lucky’s Bar, although I was never inside it, so I can’t vouch for the interior shot….

Dinner scene

I remember one specific scene: a family (adults in suits) is having a formal lunch/dinner. A boy (about 10–12) sees a Black man at the table and, out of fear or ignorance, says the man is a cannibal. The boy is scolded by a middle‑aged man (possibly an uncle or tutor). Later, the adult leaves on a train and laughs with the boy about that dinner incident at the train platform with one or two others. The movie is in color and not a horror film. Any idea what movie this is?

an early 2000’s thriller movie…

Hey guys, I’m Looking for a thriller/drama (likely 2000s-2010s, maybe a TV or direct-to-TV movie) :

A couple constantly argue they’re raising five children in a toxic relationship. The husband is doing everything he can to support the family, but through unfortunate circumstances he gets fired from his job in a heated argument with his boss after showing up late one day.

He later discovers his wife has been secretly taking the family’s savings.

One day while she’s asleep, he finds a stash of money hidden in her shirt (in her chest area). This explains why their money had been “disappearing” from excess expenditures.

Their lives had already been miserable.

In the opening scene, he’s sitting at the table with a gun nearby, waiting for her to wake up so he can confront her about it.

He then has a vivid fantasy sequence where he kills his wife and the rest of the family, but he can’t bring himself to kill their youngest daughter. He escapes with her instead.

Realizing what he’s done, he knows he’s in trouble with the law. Still, he takes the girl with him in a pickup truck, trying to start over. They lay low in another town. He takes a job at a café/diner and comes home to her every day. He even meets a new woman and starts to fall in love.

He also becomes friends with a local cop because of their shared military background.

The daughter, being a kid, sneaks out one day to play at a playground while he’s at work. The ccopher father befriended finds her alone on the swingset after curfew, and this raises questions. Over the next few weeks, the cop slowly investigates the man’s background.

Eventually, the truth unravels. The man is arrested, and in the chaos the daughter is struck by a vehicle while trying to help him as the cops close in.

Final twist: it cuts back to the beginning at the kitchen table. The entire sequence was just him imagining/daydreaming what might happen if he killed his family.

None of it actually occurred.

I found a very similar description on a subreddit before — someone recalled a film where a man kills his wife/ children, flees with his daughter, hides out, meets a woman, and it all turns out to be in his head. It sounds almost identical to what I remember, but I haven’t seen a confirmed title yet.

This movie is in english and in color and I remember seeing this movie sometime last year but i couldnt recall the name. I believe it was on a TV channel with vintage movies or something like that.

Not Fractured (2019), not Dream House (2011), not The Killing of Two Lovers (2020)

Does anyone know what this movie is?

Library in head

Film or series about 2 girl friends: one is rich with dark hair and she couldbe Jewish, one is poor. The story starts before 2WW. Rich woman marries a man, he wore military uniform, maybe was a nazi. They couldn’t have children and asked the poor girl become their surrogate mother. To do this rich woman tells her husband to make love with her poor friend, she becomes pregnant and rich woman notices that her husband has feelings to a poor woman. To save her marriage and a child she accuses a poor woman as a Jewish and sends her to getto.

This film may be Polish or in collab with other countries. I remember it as black and white, but suppose it could be also colored. I saw it on TV appr. in 1990s – 2000s

Movie or episode in a series

What i remember is a male living his life but something happens and it turns out at the end that he is in a simulation and his actually body is dead but his upper body is still connected to some machines somewhere and there are people doing experiments on his upper body and consciousness. A woman who works there feels bad for him after something happens to him in the simulation and runs to where his upper body is and disconnects it so he can finally have a peaceful death. That is everything I remember.

barrels on the boat. treehouse on an island. 2d animation watched it in early 2010s

pls help me find an old animated movie i used to watch with CD in early 2010s i dont remember much details cus i was really young there but i remember it was my favourite so i think it’s started on an island or something and there’s family?? i think tryna go to another island with boat and wine barrel inside or like just barrel idk and kids go inside there like adventure. i think there’s music idk they might be singing like musical. and what i remember is when they arrived to the island they built a tree house and theres monkeys and other animals i think.. i dont remember. pls help me find this i wanna watch it again

 

 

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[MOVIE] I’ve been looking for this movie for years and can’t find it. Please help!

I watched it online around 2016 or so (probably before that). It was in English.
It’s about a boy who lives with his mother. He has a girlfriend (a brunette girl, kind of dark-skinned).
One day, he gets angry and kills her by smashing her head.
Then, his mother takes the body to a chamber with black liquid, submerges the girl in it, washes her, and brings her back to life — but she doesn’t remember anything.
The boy does this over and over: kills her, and his mom revives her.
But eventually, the girl starts remembering little by little…
In the end, she kills the boy and escapes.

I remember the film showed how they met, and some of their relationship before the killings started.
It looked kind of low-budget or indie.

Kidnapping movie from around 2006-2018

When I was little, I remember watching a movie with my parents that I never saw again.

It’s on colours, probably around 2006-2018, I think it was in english and I was too young to identify any actors

The movie was about a girl who was kidnapped by a human trafficking ring. I’m not sure, but I think an ambulance was involved in the kidnapping. I know that a man who was a close friend of the parents or the family was looking for the girl along with his son. The kidnappers faked the girl’s death using another kidnapped girl and paid doctors to fake the autopsy. When they find the body it is laying on a bath tub full of gasoline and is also disfigured. In the end, they find the girl and other kidnapped kids and the girl also lost 2 fingers.

Do you know the movie? I really want to rewatch it😭😭

man in jail for killing his wife and daughters. Woman finds a diary in his now abandoned house and sees flashbacks

    It starts off with a man in jail, he meets up to who i think it was the lawyer; a woman that is open to listen to him and find out the truth about what happened. He has a scar in his head from something that led up to the murder that got him in jail and i think he was bald. He was in jail for allegedly killing his wife and two young daughters.

The woman goes on to search for clues (?) in his now abandoned house, and as she goes up the stairs she stumbles across what i remember being a diary in one of the steps. she starts reading it and we see the flashbacks of the house being brand new and the whole family present and we get to see everything that happens as she’s reading it.

by the end the two little girls get shot by someone (i don’t remember being the dad). They are in their rooms when it happens and dad sees it and goes up to them, i believe.

 

60s Western gunfight memory

One small memory, from an old western I saw probably in the late sixties. There is a gunfight going on between a couple groups, somebody is shot in the stomach and the other guy is tending to him and he says.. he has a bunch of white stuff oozing out of his belly, (or something like that. )That’s all I remember. It may have been black and white, it may have been a night time shooting scene. Maybe it was a good movie? I’d like to know what it is after many many years.

A movie about pandemics

I’m looking for a movie that I’ve seen at least few years ago (movie can be even 20 years old) in the TV. It was in English, I believe. It is about pandemics/virus outbreak.

I remember one scene from the end of the movie – people are locked in their houses, that are covered with some transparent plastic sheets. Inside, I think there is a little girl with a woman, outside there is a man – they cannot let him enter inside. Outside, people are dressed in special white laboratory jumpsuits. But in the end it turns out that the people who survive are the ones locked out, not locked in.

It is not “Contagion”.

Thank you!

I need this film

I’m looking for a movie I once saw, maybe on HBO Go. It’s about a boy with long blonde hair who meets a girl—she has dark hair, maybe black—possibly at the beach. They get to know each other, but both become heroin addicts. The boy ends up stealing money from his younger sibling to buy heroin.

 

I think the boy was a student at first but started attending school less and less as his addiction worsened.

 

At the end of the movie, the boy manages to quit heroin with the help of someone connected to the girl, but the girl doesn’t manage to quit.

 

The actors weren’t very famous, and the film had a raw, realistic feel.