Category Archives: I Don’t Know the Name… (unsolved movies)

Circus/carnival movie?

I saw this movie in 2004, from a  DVD, it may have been black and white but I don’t quite remember, and I think it was in English but at any rate I watched it in the US. One scene that stuck out in my memory is when this girl and her love interest are in the woods when the girl gets kidnapped by these cronies and taken to the circus/carnival where they scare her by doing things like strapping her to the spinning wheel and spinning her around, trying to drop an iron maiden on her which she runs out of the way of, and shooting her out of a cannon and she gets caught by the ringmaster? (I think the head of the whole operation) standing on top of a high platform over a shallow pool and he threatens to drop her or something? And I think her love interest comes and saves her at that point. Some details may be wrong because it was so long ago but it’s been driving me crazy for years that I don’t know! Thanks in advance.

European Movie With Magic Tent

About three or four years ago I saw a movie in English (though the characters had accents) in color. One of the characters was named Anthony. There was an old old man with a magic traveling tent thing that had the portal to another world in it. He traveled with the boy, Anthony, and a girl (if I remember right). It was very strange. There was a boat ride at one point, a theater in another, and a field with a house all in this magic world. There was a bad guy trying to take advantage of it (and I think some thugs were after him, but they went into the other world and their “mommy” took care of them or something). I also remember there is a scene with a big swing and all the people are going into the tent (there was a fat lady at one point who went in), it’s this big thing they are selling “go into another world” or whatever. I really want to see it again, it’s been bothering me for ages.

An interracial love in the fifties.

I saw this movie in the tv. It was about a white girl that falls in love with a black guy. She gets pregnant and run away with the guy, but her mother spells her while she was sleeping. The spell makes her to walk to a lake to kill the baby she was waiting, but the guy saves her. I remember that her father was the saviour of the guy when he was a child. The main actress looks like Krysten Ritter from Breaking Bad.
There is a scene where the black guy sings “stand by me” to the girl

Man talks to muppet while dying on a couch

Around 1999 or 2000 I caught the end of an intriguing indie film.  Probably ifc or sundnce channel. A man was dying on a couch in a dark room. Possibly poisoned. Possibly AIDS. Meanwhile he carried on a conversation with a muppet like puppet. I remember the puppet being such a contrast to the human. Like it had just kept from his subconscious memory of a kids show to help him understand his mortality. If no one remembers this I ll crowd source a script because the images and characters were so vividly expressive of the labored acceptance of death

Japanese Fantasy Anthology Samurai, Train Station of Cats, Airplane

I saw the movie in Star Movies Chinese in the mid 90’s (~1996).  It’s a Japanese movie (with Chinese/English subtitles).  It’s an anthology of fantasy stories.  I can remember a few details:

1.  One is a period piece about samurai and ghosts.  There was a scene wherein a person was on his way to a meeting gathering of samurai.  When he got to the venue, the chief told him that there was something that went with him of that sort, which is not good.

2.  A guy accidentally got a kitten killed in a train.  Apparently, he was on a town station where all the inhabitants were cats.  The mother cat was there pleading her case to the station master, who was also a big cat.

3.  Another story about a plane, and some pilots, soldiers, the details of which are very hazy.

Lesbian kissing scene

HI! I saw a movie scene in 2000s(before 2008) in which two girls came back to their room after a party. they kiss each other. and the next morning one says to the other something like this… “its not a big deal. girls do this all the time. and we didnt know what we were doing. we were drunk
I know its very little information but still hope that someone has seen this scene and knows the movie. Thanks in advance.

Hospital nightmare

I have no idea whether this was B&W, on TV, or even what language it was in. I’m under the impression it was an italian comedy, but that might just be my memory playing tricks. I think I watched it 20 years ago, when I was a kid and since then I’m not sure if I hallucinated this movie or not because I constantly remember it but I’ve never been able to find out.

It’s the story of a man who checks into a hospital for some reason or other and keeps getting diagnosed with worst health problems in the most absurd way and moving up floors. In the end, I believe he throws himself off the roof to escape this nightmare.

80’S film help please

Sorry this is going to be very vague

in the rely to mid 80’s I saw a film on TV which had a lorry sort of like the universal soldier one but in desert colouring also there was a single motorbike in the film a sort of future looking dirt bike that had discs in the wheels also desert colour I seem to remember the rider had a futuristic helmet  the film was set in the desert I only saw it once as a child but have never forgotten this film probably sent to bed and put the TV on and there it was so never knew what it was called the motor bike did not fly and there was only one kind of knight rider in the desert or something like that

Kids jumping into a painting

yeah so… I watched this as a kid, and I think it’s definitely before 2005.. All I can remember is that a bunch of kids/teens, they could be siblings, are in some sort of mansion or dark castle(staying with relatives maybe?) and they accidentally fall into a painting that brings them to a Medieval world with Knights and King Etc etc. I think when one of the characters first falls into the painting, he lands in a heap of hay? And I’m pretty sure everyone in the medieval world thinks they’re weird, cause they’re dressed modernly etc etc

Yep. That’s all I’ve got 😛 would appreciate any clues!!!

1980s comedy, guy dreams of two women and wakes with two dogs

 

This was a 1980s comedy.  I likely had it taped from one of the Canadian movie channel’s “free weekends” (1984-7ish?).

The only scene I recall is our hero lying in bed (possibly wanking?), when blonde & brunette bombshells walk in and remove their tops.  One kisses him and the other goes under the covers.  He wakes to realize it is a dream, with two dogs – kissing one with the other under the covers.

 

1990s-2000s Movie About Forgotten Memories? It’s NOT Wuthering Heights!

I vaguely remember seeing this movie sometime in the mid-2000s, though it may have been a 1990s-early 2000s movie from what I remember of the screen quality.

There’s this woman who returns (with her fiance/boyfriend?) to a childhood place, where there’s a lighthouse home(?) overlooking the sea. And she’s initially scared of her former childhood friend who lives there, because her mother claimed that when they were children, he tried to seal a pact with her using a knife and their own blood.

But later on in the movie, it turned out that her mother lied to her – she had forcibly separated her from her childhood friend after she saw them seal a promise… with a kiss. And then somehow, she had manipulated her daughter into repressing that memory (which at the time seemed a bit odd to me, did she hire a psychologist to do that?).

Also, her fiance/boyfriend turns out to be a complete douchebag, as he had cheated on her with one of her friends – that friend ended up pregnant, not to mention remorseful (as she has a boyfriend of her own whom she loves very much, especially after seeing how sweet he is to her), and so the woman’s friend tries to hide this secret. However, it gets revealed in the climax, and the woman’s childhood-friend-now-turned-lover beats up the douchey fiance/boyfriend and has him thrown out. In the end, the woman’s friend ends up staying with her own boyfriend, who accepts the unborn child. And the two childhood friends of course end up together.

woman is dating two characters who turn out to be one guy with 2 personalities

I saw a movie in English on television 2-3 years ago. I’m fairly certain it was a movie but i did start watching it part-way through. It was in colour.

The plot focuses on one woman (who looked kind of like Elisabeth Banks) who starts dating 2 people. 1 is a co-worker who is the bookish-accountant type and the other is someone she meets in a nightclub.

She is initially repulsed by the nightclub guy, but starts casually seeing him. There’s one scene where they’re engaged in sex on a balcony and she fakes an orgasm. A couple of scenes later they discuss why she faked it.

The nightclub guy is also under investigation by a detective who at one point breaks in to an apartment fearing that there’s something wrong, but only finds the couple again engaged in sex.

I didn’t watch the end of the move, but it felt like the plot was moving towards revealing that the bookish guy and the nightclub guy turn out to be one person with 2 personalities. I’d like to know the name of the movie so i can read the synopsis and see if i was right.

 

Friend Scalped, Light Portals, Light Energy, Some guy trying to save his mom

I watched it a few years ago on Netflix. I believe it was made around 2012. This young man has made a machine (and not in a lab like an engineer, it looks like he threw some crap together) that can either manipulate or open up these portals of energy. He lost his mom in one of these portals or she died and he’s trying to get her back.

The other scene that stands out in my head is when this individual and a few of his close friends travel to some backwoods area and find themselves enveloped in this “light” or “energy” which gives them supreme knowledge. Apparently, one of them had raped or molested a child. So his friend scalps him, and not like a Native American would do, but calmly and all while the scalped person calmly told everyone it was okay by saying, “They’re just messing with me”.

At the end, the dude somehow saves his mother and ends up traveling with her or his friend I am not sure but I want to see it again or at least know the name.

A little girl stopping a man from jumping off a ledge, or committing suicide

I remember one scene in which a little girl was following a man up to a ledge from a really high cliff, in which he jumps on, and the little girl screams “DON”T JUMP!” and pulls him down, however, the man then says “I wasn’t going to jump, I was thinking!” I know I watched this movie during my elementary school days, so  I know that it is an old movie, but not black and white type.

European, possibly French film

The scene that I remember watching from this film is that there were a bunch of people in a room walking around in a line. Each step forward would bring a new person to the front, where there would be a gun aimed at them, and then fired. However, it wasn’t known whether the gun was loaded, i.e. some kind of roulette.

The film was in black and white, I’m 70% sure it was a french film, however I don’t remember anything else from the film, and I’m not even 100% about what I have described!

All I can remember is a group a people walking out of a mountain where is snowing and they find a…

…mysterious place where is sunny and people can live hundred of years. One guy falls in love with this woman and convinced her to go with him to the outside world which she end up doing. But as the walk down the mountain in the cold she start turning old becuase she left the magical place. I can not remeber the movie, I was a kid and I watch this movie back in the 80’s. It was englsh speaking movie.

adult girls vs. boys movie, in color, most certainly 80s

I have seen this one during the very early nineties on TV.
All i remember was that there was a group of young ladies being trained (in what i totally do not remember).

There’s basically only one scene i remember: All these girls sit in a row (or circle) putting stones into the backpack of the girl sitting in front of them (as ballast for a running exercise). One girl picks up this ridiculous large rock thinking about putting it into the back pack of the girl in front of her. But the whole thing backfires as the ‘instructor’ spots her and let’s her run uphill carrying that rock herself.

And there is some other scene where a ‘fight’ ensues on roller skates in some roller dome…

sorry, that’s basically all i can remember… with that little info it’s hard to find on imdb or google 🙂