Please ID this Kung Fu movie with missiles and menstruation. [more inside]
posted by Lutoslawski on Dec 22, 2009 - 3 answers

Help me find the name of this Asian film about a love story in three different time periods. [more inside]
posted by jaywalker on Dec 20, 2009 - 2 answers

Name that Japanese movie: seen onboard Japan Airlines in 2002-2003. Salaryman becomes obsessed with building a space rocket in his back garden. [more inside]
posted by Beautiful Screaming Lady on Dec 7, 2009 - 5 answers

I read non-fiction story of a career change to a successful Hollywood movie producer. Help me find who it was and a copy of the story. [more inside]
posted by SantosLHalper on Nov 14, 2009 - 4 answers

Looking for a movie from 10-15 yrs ago (I think) about a shady car dealership. All I remember is the first few minutes of it. [more inside]
posted by Saxon Kane on Nov 1, 2009 - 5 answers

I'm looking for examples of the film and tv cliché where images from surveillance video or photos are magnified and enhanced (usually to a ridiculous degree). [more inside]
posted by dunk on Oct 30, 2009 - 36 answers

I loved the plot of Bel Canto by Ann Patchett. Any recommendations for similar books, shows, or movies? [more inside]
posted by reenum on Oct 28, 2009 - 10 answers

IdentificationFilter: I watched "Away We Go" this weekend and need help identifying this song and also finding an online retailer for this lamp (or something close). Ready . . . set . . . go! [more inside]
posted by siclik on Oct 26, 2009 - 3 answers

What are some documentaries/movies/video clips that are about the Annexation of Texas? [more inside]
posted by kylej on Oct 23, 2009 - 1 answer

I recall reading in a thread about a trick used in movies to simulate the background noise of a crowd engaged in a number of separate conversations - like a party - by having a small number of people repeat a few syllables out of sync with each other. What were the details of this?
posted by srboisvert on Oct 18, 2009 - 13 answers

What feature film production company uses the introductory logo of a painted man that starts running very quickly and suddenly turns into a bird (maybe a raven)? It's one of those companies like ICON Entertainment, Lucasfilm, et cetera.
posted by Timen on Sep 29, 2009 - 4 answers

Help ID 70s or 80s movie: Graffiti artist tricks drug dealer into committing one last crime. [more inside]
posted by Alaska Jack on Sep 22, 2009 - 2 answers

What t-shirt is Zach Galifianakis wearing in the hangover? [more inside]
posted by Twinedog on Sep 21, 2009 - 7 answers

For the past few years I've been trying to remember the name of a movie I saw as a kid. The only scene I remember involved a group of kids trapped and hanging inside a net and one of the kids using his remote control helicopter to chop down the net. [more inside]
posted by ydant on Sep 17, 2009 - 4 answers

Does anyone know the lyrics to Sir Smoke A Lot's rap song from Half-Baked? [more inside]
posted by leecohen on Sep 16, 2009 - 7 answers

Movies inspired by films of the 30's-50's? [more inside]
posted by Ndwright on Sep 16, 2009 - 28 answers

What movie did I watch with Water Polo as an allegory for Socialism/Communism? [more inside]
posted by mnop on Sep 12, 2009 - 4 answers

Movie ID help please: 18th century England, noblewoman looking for husband, writes letters with rich American who made fortune in slave trade, she befriends a slave who works in the house, they fall in love, later there is a childbirth scene. Movie made in the early 90s, low-budget look, could be made-for-TV. [more inside]
posted by jocelmeow on Sep 9, 2009 - 2 answers

What's that movie in which two male thieves synchronise the timing of their heist by whistling jazz songs? [more inside]
posted by oxit on Aug 23, 2009 - 14 answers

Weird movie memory filter: I feel like it was a Disney Channel movie. The premise was a 14ish year old girl wanting to be in a boy's band, so she ended up dressing like a boy and they let her in the band. She was also in an all girl band and it happened that they had to perform on the same day. Chaos ensues, and she is found out in the end... Any help is great.
posted by razzamatazm on Aug 21, 2009 - 12 answers

NameThatMovieFilter: a recent, stupid comedy which includes or is about two dumb cops. [more inside]
posted by splice on Aug 11, 2009 - 16 answers

Searching for two half-remembered movies (or rather their trailers). One is about killer robots, another about an assassin(?) in a noir SciFi environment... [more inside]
posted by PontifexPrimus on Jul 13, 2009 - 9 answers

Challenge: find me that movie/tv movie for children. I remember this one from my childhood, but don't remember the title. Can you help? It rains every day except once a year. All of these children are in school and looking forward to the sun coming out. One little girl is locked in a closet by some mean bullies and misses the sun coming out. She misses the grass growing, the flowers blooming, and all the frolicking. The end is her running through the flowers/rain after she got out somehow. Anyone remember this? Probably late 70s or early 80s.
posted by heather-b on Jun 30, 2009 - 16 answers

Anyone know where I can get the silver bracelet Kirsten Dunst wears near the end of 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' when she is listening to her tape...
posted by heather-b on Jun 23, 2009 - 9 answers

Help identify this recent European comedy film... [more inside]
posted by The bat in the hat on Jun 14, 2009 - 7 answers

Please suggest movies, TV shows and books that feature unrepentant, amoral characters [more inside]
posted by reenum on Jun 10, 2009 - 71 answers

Trying to watch movies on my laptop in a steam shower. How can I see my laptop through a foggy shower door, and how can I hear the sound if the same door is sealed? [more inside]
posted by zinge on Jun 9, 2009 - 16 answers

Here's a tough question! I'm looking for two examples of films/tv shows that have recipes (for cooking) in the on screen credits. [more inside]
posted by niccolo on Jun 2, 2009 - 12 answers

I'm looking for a specific edition of a film of Ubu Roi. [more inside]
posted by scubbadubba on Jun 1, 2009 - 2 answers

In the movie "Transamerica" (2005) with Felicity Huffman, why didn't Bree and her son travel on the interstate when driving from New York to LA? Wouldn't it have been a lot faster?
posted by Shoggoth on May 30, 2009 - 13 answers

Help me identify a clip I saw randomly at a bar. [more inside]
posted by Uncle on May 29, 2009 - 1 answer

[NameThatMovieFilter] I'm looking for the name of a short film about a radio station that sends out a mysterious signal. [more inside]
posted by Pastabagel on May 20, 2009 - 5 answers

[TVMoviesFilter] Trying to remember an old, cheap-looking movie from a single rememberance: in a room full of rich people, a magician/healer slides a woman's neck tumor/lump through to her finger, at which point he cuts it off with a knife. [more inside]
posted by XiBe on May 14, 2009 - 5 answers

What are the best documentaries / movies on depression? [more inside]
posted by jfricke on May 12, 2009 - 5 answers

Another, guessthatmoviefilter. I watched snatches of a movie a long time ago and I have been trying to come up with what it was ever since. It's an 80s adventure film. It came around the same time as "The Little Shop of Horrors". [more inside]
posted by Lucubrator on May 6, 2009 - 4 answers

What movie did I see at least 10 years ago? (probably more) There were cannibals who kept their victims alive and just cut off arms or legs as necessary. One guy tried to escape and went hopping off on his one remaining leg. He was missing either one or both of his arms, and had this hopeful look on his face like he was really going to make it. One of the cannibals stood up and walked after him with an annoyed look on his face. I don't think the movie was about cannibals, this was just one small scene that has been haunting me for years. I'm hoping if I can identify the movie maybe I can purge the scene from my mind and never ever watch it again.
posted by BoscosMom on Apr 24, 2009 - 9 answers

Help me find this movie! Main clues are a sheriff vs. a guy with a slingshot (more inside) ... [more inside]
posted by thermonuclear.jive.turkey on Apr 18, 2009 - 2 answers

When did credits and titles start floating in "real" space in TV and Movies? [more inside]
posted by BOfH on Mar 24, 2009 - 16 answers

A western film I saw on TV about 35 years ago featuring a crowd of horse riders wearing long white coats. Anyone know the title? [more inside]
posted by telstar on Mar 19, 2009 - 6 answers

In the movie version of The Handmaid's Tale, Richardson and Duvall play an aggressive card game against each other that involves slapping cards down in a common pile. [more inside]
posted by CarlRossi on Mar 7, 2009 - 6 answers

Identify this (probably really awful) movie! [more inside]
posted by phunniemee on Mar 2, 2009 - 8 answers

I'm ashamed to admit I've never read the graphic novel Watchmen. The movie is coming out in a few weeks and I have time to read the book BEFORE I see the movie. Should I read the novel first? [more inside]
posted by Acton on Feb 19, 2009 - 52 answers

DVD authoring for a genuine simpleton. I have three photographs, as jpgs. I want to create a DVD of these photographs playable on any standard consumer DVD player (not a computer), but not as a slideshow. [more inside]
posted by Beautiful Screaming Lady on Feb 6, 2009 - 9 answers

Yet another 80s Scifi search! But as it happens, I remember the whole movie... [more inside]
posted by lundman on Feb 3, 2009 - 6 answers

Man inherits fortune with a condition. He must work. Meets kid. Falls in love with kid's mother. Kid dies. What movie is it? [more inside]
posted by ivanv on Jan 20, 2009 - 8 answers

Movie/TV ID question: a half-remembered scene where a minor (?) character cracks nuts with his wooden hand. [more inside]
posted by Johnny Assay on Jan 16, 2009 - 3 answers

Is the movie Fear of A Black Hat normally censored? [more inside]
posted by shmegegge on Jan 12, 2009 - 4 answers

Which version of Blade Runner is the best to watch for somebody who has never seen it? [more inside]
posted by stovenator on Jan 9, 2009 - 35 answers

TV Movie ID: A sci-fi-ish TV movie from the 1980s which mostly featured children living on a planet where it never stopped raining. [more inside]
posted by DavidNYC on Jan 1, 2009 - 11 answers

What's this movie ? My father is looking for the name of 50's-60's movie where an actress wants to hide and wears colored contact lenses, then a director she worked with before looks at the negative of one of her new movies and recognizes her because her new eye color in negative is her old eye color...
posted by nalf on Dec 12, 2008 - 4 answers