The 'Identify A Movie For Me' Thread 2 - Identify Harder

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FitFortDanga: Nov 19, 2004; Nice try, asshole

Jake Snake posted:

1. 1994-1998 on TV or VHS. It centered around a woman living by herself in an isolated cottage. I think this was supposed to take place in Europe around WWII. A group of soldiers or one soldier stumbles across her home. Either way she starts a relationship with one, and the rest of the movie focuses on that. I seem to remember a lot of uneasiness on her part, so I think she was coerced into the relationship somehow. She could have been held hostage in the cabin. She ends up trying to kill him. Can't remember if it was successful or not, but there was a scene where she strips naked to seduce the soldier into an embrace, then a shot of her holding a knife behind her back.

Most likely not the right movie, but parts of this sound like Angry Harvest.

# ¿ Aug 29, 2014 17:49

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# ¿ May 16, 2024 23:17

FitFortDanga: Nov 19, 2004; Nice try, asshole

Mustached5thGrader posted:

I just saw a trailer the other day at IFC called The something of something, I think. It's about a lady who hires some woman to be her maid and she keeps her in a box and there's weird sex stuff. What is this called? Google only brings up porn

This only fits about half your criteria, but could it be The Milk of Sorrow?

# ¿ Dec 29, 2014 19:26

FitFortDanga: Nov 19, 2004; Nice try, asshole

B-Hard posted:

I'm looking for a documentary that I thought was on Netflix a while ago, but I can't find it. Tried googling different things, nothing.

It's about death. It focuses on like four or five people who are all suffering from their own terminal illness. The whole documentary is switching back and forth between them all as they deal with their last days. One of them was an awesome, crotchety old guy who wheeled around an oxygen tank and totally had a sense of humor until the very end. On the opposite side of the coin, there was this woman who was kind of in denial about it and compensated by shopping at thrift stores. She only one friend who she cut off completely near the end because she was so depressed.

I haven't seen it yet, but could be Frederick Wiseman's Near Death?

It almost sounds like Dying at Grace, but I don't think the details match up (and that film doesn't switch back and forth between patients, IIRC)

# ¿ Jan 15, 2015 22:09

FitFortDanga: Nov 19, 2004; Nice try, asshole

Boz0r posted:

That thing where a character is remembering something that keeps repeating in their head. Which movie has this where the character suddenly hears "Read my lips, no new taxes"? I'm thinking Airplane! but I'm not sure.

I've seen Airplane a billion times, definitely not. Also, it came out 8 years before "Read my lips, no new taxes" was a thing.

# ¿ Jan 20, 2015 19:54

FitFortDanga: Nov 19, 2004; Nice try, asshole

Pelikan posted:

Looking for a movie I believe was filmed in the 80s about a kid in high school who has either bet his future or his school's future on some sort of race in which he's driving his own car?

High School U.S.A.?

# ¿ Jul 22, 2015 18:32

FitFortDanga: Nov 19, 2004; Nice try, asshole

Toph Bei Fong posted:

What I remember: the short film is set in Taiwan (?), about two folks who are sorta/kinda romantically involved. The little bridge over the highway where they met is being torn down due to the rapid pace of construction in the city.

The title is something like "The Walking Bridge Has Disappeared" or "The Disappearing Sky Bridge", but for the life of me I cannot remember exactly what, and no amount of Googling has yielded results.

Ming-liang Tsai's The Skywalk is Gone, a short film that comes between What Time Is It There? and The Wayward Cloud.

# ¿ Jan 20, 2016 17:51

FitFortDanga: Nov 19, 2004; Nice try, asshole

Wandle Cax posted:

I'm looking for a film I studied once, a french film from the 80s or early 90s, about teenage criminals living in the inner city, notably a young couple who committed robberies of some kind together I think. They had a couple of friends too. They were all very close and had baths together. One of their robberies got out of hand and lead to some kind of rift in the group. Not much to go on I know but would like to see it again.

Could it be Spanish and not French? Sounds to me a bit like Deprisa, deprisa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTgThX-0FPU

# ¿ Feb 7, 2017 17:01

FitFortDanga: Nov 19, 2004; Nice try, asshole

Neo Rasa posted:

An 80s comedy where some people are in medical school and a guy doesn't want to bother practicing on a cadaver because he ended up not being in the same group as the girl he has a crush on so he makes up an excuse about how he can't do the exercise that day because his mom died last week and he's too freaked out to look at a dead body right now.

Gonna take a stab in the dark and say Young Doctors in Love or Bad Medicine.

# ¿ Sep 9, 2017 05:14

FitFortDanga: Nov 19, 2004; Nice try, asshole

Trevor Hale posted:

Simon Birch. You forgot �Simon is put in to his first little league game and swings and hits a foul ball that kills his best friend�s mother�

That this is all less batshit crazy than the short story its based on blows my mind every day.

Short story? A Prayer for Owen Meany is a novel, and a rather lengthy one at that.

# ¿ Jan 24, 2019 18:19

FitFortDanga: Nov 19, 2004; Nice try, asshole

Rupert Buttermilk posted:

Ok, so I knew that she is still hot (she is!), but I just looked her up in this movie and holy loving gently caress

You should watch Age of Consent.

# ¿ Apr 4, 2019 04:41

FitFortDanga: Nov 19, 2004; Nice try, asshole

Godface posted:

This is an indie movie I saw few years ago about two black teens (boy and girl) who deal drugs in New York.

It's recent enough, came out in the earlier half of this decade. It's a day-in-the-life story and two main characters are really fun and likeable.

I remember a specific part where a privileged white girl was condescending to the lead boy who fancied her. Later in the film, she went for a swim in a water tank on top of a roof (okay!).

It wasn't a particularly memorable film, but it had a few good bits and I wanted to know if the director and crew have made anything since then.

Thanks in advance!

One of my favorite movies, Gimme the Loot. The director made another film, Tramps which isn't quite as good IMHO but still has lots of similar charm.

# ¿ May 22, 2019 04:42

FitFortDanga: Nov 19, 2004; Nice try, asshole

X-Ray Pecs posted:

A scene from a film class I had 5 years ago:

An actor is at the first table read for a play, but when they start he doesn�t hear any lines, just people tapping pencils, lighting cigarettes, etc. and it�s over quickly. It�s all shot with relatively quick cuts (looked like the 70s) and extreme close-ups.

All That Jazz.

# ¿ Jun 10, 2019 16:40

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# ¿ May 16, 2024 23:17

FitFortDanga: Nov 19, 2004; Nice try, asshole

true.spoon posted:

This is a shot in the dark but here I go:
An old Japanese black and white movie but probably post-war. Two youngish (25-35?) lovers are talking in a restaurant (?) wearing western clothes and the woman says something along the lines of "Maybe we have been too naive". The mood is melancholic.
Seen years ago on German television, it's not unlikely that it's a classic movie in some way.

Reminds me a bit of One Wonderful Sunday.

# ¿ Oct 28, 2019 16:55

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