1930s or 1940s movie about two performers

I watched this movie years ago on TCM. It was one of the very first old hollywood movies i watched and I didn’t know actors back then, so i have no idea who starred in it. I believe it was made in the 30s or 40s because it was in black and white and was not as perfect as newer black and white films. I dont remember much, just that the movie is about two performers, a man and a woman, who are struggling in the industry. I’m not sure if they performed in a theater or a circus but i remember a scene in which the woman is trying to encourage the man who is feeling down because of his bad luck. I believe she was becoming successful but he was not. One thing I know for certain was that the woman would call the man “funny face”.

I remember falling in love with this movie which led to me watching more TCM and movies from the golden age of hollywood. I even named a contact on my phone “funny face” because i couldn’t stop thinking of the movie. I have tried searching for this film for  a really long time and would be very glad if anyone could help me find out what it is.

early 80s thriller

Basics:

American movie, in English, color, was on HBO in the early-mid 80s

It was a thriller / suspense type movie. There was a guy holding hostages in a large white mansion. He negotiated with police who provided him with a means of escape (helicopter or boat?); however, the snipers were ready for him. When he made his getaway, he surrounded himself with hostages and covered the whole group with a large bed sheet as he crossed a huge green lawn outwitting the cops.

I was unable to finish the movie, and I have been unable to remember the title for over 30 years. Please help!! I wish that I could remember more, but I was too young.

Thanks all !!

 

~2002, London, heroin, homeless junkies, Greenland, mole people, Surreal-ish movie

The movie is from approximately ~2002 (maybe 98-05). I think it was set in London. The part I remember the best is that the protagonist falls in with sort of a gang/community of homeless junkies (or maybe just homeless kids) who live in abandoned tunnels below London (basically ‘mole people’). The gang members sell heroin for their leader, who is some old guy. Somehow the leader is murdered (I think by some mobsters who come into the tunnels) and the protagonist gets the heroin stash and runs off with his junky girlfriend.

I believe the movie starts and ends with the protagonist narrating from a snowy hut in Greenland, where he fled to with some money at the end of the story. The movie is a fairly weird and mysterious story from what I remember, not quite Peter Lynch weird, but still pretty strange.

I thought it was starring Ewan McGregor, and maybe Pete Postlethwaite as the gang leader, but apparently not, since I already searched through their filmographies.

Art house film about a flying giant with red boots

It was a dark film (Pans Labyrinth style ) about a young girl and boy, i think they were kind of lost. Im pretty sure the bad guy was a giant, and he had these glittery red winged boots that enabled him to fly. I remember the girl sneaking into his house and the giants wife treated her kindly because the giant wanted to eat her (?)

It was in french or spanish maybe? English subtitles, and I saw it on sbs/abc over 8 yrs ago I think.

Please help 🙂

One-armed gangster; comic books; paper shredders: 70 US TV movie

From the mid-70’s; most likely a TV movie, i.e. ABC Movie of the Week or NBC Sunday Mystery Movie episode of MacMillan & Wife, Columbo, etc.

The scene I recall is in a large room in a mansion(?). The room is filled with racks of comic books as well as a large paper shredder. The protagonist(s) are fighting with a group of criminals or gangsters in order to keep one particular comic book from being shredded. One of the gangsters has an old-style artificial claw hand and gets his false hand stuck in the paper shredder during the altercation; sparks fly.

Help, please.

 

Newish weird gypsy movie? Magician guy?

I remember watching a really weird but good movie my parents got out from the movie store a couple of years ago. It was around 2010 and it was new at the time and I think it was American but not that popular. The main character was a guy (mid thirties?) who went around doing small illusion shows but also I think sort of hypnotises people so it was a bit like inception. He met a sort of gypsy girl with a strict father who made her tell people she was 12 when she was actually 16 and then the girl and the main character had sex on a row boat in his imaginary world thing. At the end of the movie somebody tries to kill the main character guy by giving him two flute things to swallow and then hanging him. One would keep his airway open so he could keep breathing and the other one was a fake and would crush in his throat killing him.

70’s Dustin Hoffman type guy goes psycho.

I recall a 70’s to possibly early 80’s drama/suspense movie and thought with Dustin Hoffman but don’t think it was him. The guy must have just looked like him. Scenes I recall may not be in order, some may be mix up with other movies. Maybe somebody can make it out. I was under 10 yrs. old and it really got me upset but I could not stop watching and felt bad for the guy, and girl. Scenes:

1. They were in a big 2 story house, maybe greenish wallpaper, think it was on a busy street or may have been on it’s own property, farm?

2. Think there were cops outside trying to save a woman being held hostage. He kept looking out the window. She was very scared of him, crying maybe. Possible brunette and wavy, I’m picturing that actress but I don’t know her name or what movies she was in. Brown eyes, early 40’s maybe? Could be very wrong, she may have had long brown hair and early 20’s. I keep picturing a white sweater/blouse maybe she had on.

3. I think at one point they let a snake in to try and get him to open the door.

4. I picture him running around the house, possibly screaming mad words. He was very strange and upset like something or someone drive him to this madness. Maybe she was going to leave him or she didn’t know him, therefore didn’t like him.

5. I think there was a preacher with the cops trying to calm him down.

6. Think he had blocked doorways with furniture and nailed windows.

Thanks for reading, sorry so long. Hoping to find soon. Please help me.

1980’s/1990’s Live Action Kid’s Show/Movie

I remember seeing a kid’s show/movie between 2000 and 2002 that was live action and what I believe was a wizard and it had a brief moment of puppetry in it. What I can remember distinctly is there was a scene about 5 round puppets on a ledge or shelf covered in vines and they were singing a rendition of the five little monkeys and whenever it would get to the part of the song where the monkey would fall off the bed one of the round puppets would slide down a ramp off of the shelf/ledge. From what I remember as far as looks is that it definitely looked to be older so around the 80’s or 90’s and it was definitely on vhs. Thank you for your time!

Not LOST

Hey there Folks apologies in advance but I do not remember if this following piece was A Movie or an episode for some fantasy show, anyways here goes:

 

The plot was rather simple, a plane has crashed into the ground yet it seems as if it is In perfect condition half the plane is in the ground and the tail section is above the ground. Then there seems to be a supernatural event whereby the stories of the people on board is replayed up until the crash. At the end right before the crash the screen goes white.

That’s about as much I can remember of the movies the plot was relatively straightforward and no it wasn’t the show LOST.

Thank you very much for trying to help. 

Guy’s spinal column ripped out – 80’s or 90’s horror

Hi all,

So, I’ve been trying to remember more scenes of this movie, but the only one I’ve got so far is the following:

There’s a guy driving fast on what seems to be a farm (or a plantation field). Suddenly, some sort of a living plant starts getting into the car and takes the guy out of it. Then, it rips out both his head and spinal column out.

I remember seeing that when I was a kid (Yes, I was horrified), so it might be either a movie from the 80’s or 90’s. It was on colour and maybe in english (not sure)

I know it’s vague but that´s what I can do for now, sorry ’bout that! Any help will be appreciated!

Cheers

Movie with Poisoning Murder at a Carnival?

I have never been able to track the movie this scene came from down but the scene itself really stuck with me. I saw this movie on the local Friday night “horror movie host” show when I was just a kid so that would have been in the late 1960’s – say 68-70.  I believe the film was black and white.  The scene showed a guy being lured into a tent at a carnival (by a female fortune teller?) and then being poisoned by her – the shot I remember was from the victim’s point of view as the vial came nearer and nearer his mouth.   Affected me enough so that to this day I have never done a shot in a bar where someone else is pouring something into my mouth, and I’m in my mid fifties.  Any possible suggestions as to titles would help!

1970-1980s TV suspense horror movie or episode about female killer in disguise

One scene is where the hero, having just left a bar, is walking at night on large city streets, and thinks he hears someone in the dark. He trails after whom he thinks might be a deranged killer that has recently been in the news. The streets are dark, and there is construction scaffolding and canvas up over the sidewalks with colored lights illuminating them.

The movie’s ending climax is where the heroine enters her apartment building, rides up to her floor and goes into her apartment. Minutes later, the killer (woman?) with a weird wig and disguise bursts in and begins to attack the heroine. The hero, having followed heroine to apartment, then enters and eventually shoots the killer dead, saving the heroine. Having been previously notified, the police finally arrive as the movie ends.

This movie is not Dressed To Kill or The Rain Killer, and it is not a Charles Bronson or Sylvester Stalone movie. I have looked at most of the better known regular serial killer movies, and I am pretty sure that it was a made for TV movie or TV episode.

Film about witchcraft but it’s not “The Craft”

I’m as certain as I can be this is not The Craft.  It’s about some (teenage) girls, learning witch craft as a way to gain power in school.  The scene I remember was all the girls having dinner together, and the course is snails.  One of the girls (I think she was the “put upon” girl) shows her total disgust at the thought of snails and slugs.  Cue meaningful looks from the other girls.  She goes back to her room, and finds one slug in her bed.  It disappears, so she relaxes.  She goes to bed and suddenly she’s covered in slugs and snails.  One goes inside her mouth and you see her biting down on it.

This’ll be an easy one for you guys, I’m sure, but Googling just brings up “The Craft” and “Slugs”.