Name This Movie I Vaguely Remember!

[Trini]

Similar to the TV thread, this topic is for questions and answers about movies we've seen but can't remember enough about to figure out the title.

[Trini]

So I saw this film on TV, but I'm sure it was released in theaters. It was like a low-to-mid budget, no big names, but a few recognizable actors. (I thought one of the actresses was Laura Linney, but none of her films seem to match the film I saw. - So, a middle-aged (40s?) white blonde?) I think it was released in the early 2000s, but I'm sure it was made in the last twenty years. A character study set in New York City; four main characters who are separate, but their stories interconnect.

I only remember parts of 3 of the main characters/stories:
- A shy/troubled (Hispanic) teen boy, who is a virgin;
- An older (white), upper class, former music conductor? (not sure about his profession, but it was arts-related) who is going blind;
- A middle-aged woman (white) who is having some issues with her relationship with her (ex?)husband -- I think.

The parts I remember the most: the teen is stalking the woman - they have a scene in the subway where she loses him on the train. But in the third act, she has sex with him - on the second try, because he has a fixation with her scarf. Teen only meets the older man -who needs help navigating the subway because of his failing sight- in the last scene.

[SunnyBeBe]

On 3/27/2018 at 7:58 PM, Trini said:

So I saw this film on TV, but I'm sure it was released in theaters. It was like a low-to-mid budget, no big names, but a few recognizable actors. (I thought one of the actresses was Laura Linney, but none of her films seem to match the film I saw. - So, a middle-aged (40s?) white blonde?) I think it was released in the early 2000s, but I'm sure it was made in the last twenty years. A character study set in New York City; four main characters who are separate, but their stories interconnect.

I only remember parts of 3 of the main characters/stories:
- A shy/troubled (Hispanic) teen boy, who is a virgin;
- An older (white), upper class, former music conductor? (not sure about his profession, but it was arts-related) who is going blind;
- A middle-aged woman (white) who is having some issues with her relationship with her (ex?)husband -- I think.

The parts I remember the most: the teen is stalking the woman - they have a scene in the subway where she loses him on the train. But in the third act, she has sex with him - on the second try, because he has a fixation with her scarf. Teen only meets the older man -who needs help navigating the subway because of his failing sight- in the last scene.

Trini, the movie you describe sounds pretty amusing.  Did you ever figure out the title of it?  I just found this thread, because, I am seeking the name of a movie too.  It doesn't appear to get much traffic, but, I thought that I would give it a shot. 

The movie that I am looking for aired yesterday on one of the cable channels.  Not sure which one.  It seemed to be set in a desert area, like Arizona or it could have been in Mexico. Maybe on an Indian Reservation?  It looked pretty recent, like made within the last 10 years.  I only saw one scene.  A man was driving through the desert in a truck with a young boy as a passenger.  I'm not sure of the relationship.  The man sees a van parked off the road and decides to check it out.  He tells the boy that the laws don't apply to outsiders and that they try to take advantage of things.  He tells the boy to stay in the truck and gets a gun from glove compartment to take with him to inspect the van.  When he arrives at the van, it appears that men inside are wearing hazmat suites (I suspect making meth) and they open the door and fire at him.  The boy gets out of truck.  Van takes off, he runs to his truck and tells the boy to stay in a drainage ditch until he gets back. That he has to chase the bad guys.  The boy gets into drainage ditch, but, turns around to see a snake inside!  It cut to commercial and I have no idea what the move name is.  I didn't recognize the actors.  Anyone have any idea? 

Edited July 16, 2018 by SunnyBeBe

[die Frau]

I read a news story about a lady who had such a fear of heights that she was unable to drive over a bridge and a police officer had to do it for her. That made me think of a movie I saw once, but I can't remember what it is.

I don't remember if it is English, German or German-dubbed from some other country. I also don't remember if it is live action or animated. Let's see if anybody else can figure it out from the following:

a male(?) character I do not remember liking very much had a fear of driving* over bridges. He would get to the bridge and then freeze and have to turn around.

Of course there was some conflict that eventually forced him to have to face this fear and drive over the bridge.

I think the fear came from him being in some sort of accident with one or both parents (?)in which they fell from the bridge into water. I think he had occasional flashbacks of this.

I think I at least found the character otherwise so annoying that this attempt at making him sympathetic did not work for me. That may be why I don't remember the movie.

Does anybody else?

*It's possible that he had to walk over the bridge rather than drive.

[methodwriter85]

It might have been a t.v. movie or it might have been an indie movie that got picked up on cable...

-Somewhere in the 1990's. I'm thinking mid-90's.

-Plotline about an All-American looking guy who works as a street hustler. The signal that you were doing this is that they were supposed to twist their shirts ups in their hands, showing off their abs. Then they were asked, "Are you working?"

-Guy is brought to a loft and realizes that they're trying to film a porno, complete with some blonde twink and a heart-shaped pink bed.

-He's also gay-bashed by a frat boy who pretends to be a client, and then takes him out to a spot where he and his buddies ambush him.

-It's NOT Johns, the 1996 movie also focusing on gay prostitutes.

[RedMal]

I remember a scene from a movie (it can be tv-show, too). Man and a woman are talking hysterically.

Man: No, but I chose you!

Woman: But I don't want you!

I can see this scene clearly in my head, but I can't visualize their faces. It's been stuck in my head for a month, maybe two, and it's driving me crazy that I don't recognize it.

[Sasu8]

Hi guys!

I'm trying to remember a movie, but I have only some details in mind, can you help me?

1) The main character is a girl, hated by her mother because she has "killed" accidentally her little sister (the sister fells in a cauldron of hot water for the laundry)

2) The girl and her mother live somewhere in America, I remember mountains

3) Historical period: about 19th century

4) She moves in a city and there starts working as a seamstress/embroiderer/a job concerning sewing

5) She fells in love with a man (the girl has a sort of obsession for him) 

6) The man had sex with her, with the promise of a future marriage

7) He leaves her and marries another woman

8) The girl shoots the man's new lover in a garden


Can someone help me?  THANK YOUUUUUU

[blueray]

I've asked this before places on this site and elsewhere but I haven't got it.  Anyhow, I saw some movie when I was in school (early 2000's). Unfortunately I missed the first few minutes of class so didn't catch the movie title.

Basically the movie takes place in the 1700's. A "white" guy was kidnapped as a kid by the local chief  because his son was killed by the Europeans. Anyhow, the movie jumps to him being an adult having been raise by the Native Americans. He is returned to his birth family but knows none of the costumes. And is basically a fish out of water.

[Athena]

16 hours ago, blueray said:

I've asked this before places on this site and elsewhere but I haven't got it.  Anyhow, I saw some movie when I was in school (early 2000's). Unfortunately I missed the first few minutes of class so didn't catch the movie title.

Basically the movie takes place in the 1700's. A "white" guy was kidnapped as a kid by the local chief  because his son was killed by the Europeans. Anyhow, the movie jumps to him being an adult having been raise by the Native Americans. He is returned to his birth family but knows none of the costumes. And is basically a fish out of water.

For films, Little big Man and The Emerald Forest have somewhat similar plots, but they don't fit your setting.

The plot sounds vagulely similar to something I watched in school where in Canada we watched a lot of obscure historical films about Natives/First Nations. A lot of these were produced by the National Film Board of Canada.

[Constant Viewer]

23 hours ago, blueray said:

Basically the movie takes place in the 1700's. A "white" guy was kidnapped as a kid by the local chief  because his son was killed by the Europeans. Anyhow, the movie jumps to him being an adult having been raise by the Native Americans. He is returned to his birth family but knows none of the costumes. And is basically a fish out of water.

The plot sounds like The Light in the Forest, but that movie was made back in the late 1950s.

[blueray]

15 hours ago, Constant Viewer said:

The plot sounds like The Light in the Forest, but that movie was made back in the late 1950s.

Omg, I think that it. Thank you so much! It was an old movie when I saw it.

[Gray Fox]

A coupla years ago, there was a trailer I found randomly on YouTube, but never saw the movie and have forgotten the title too. 

So, in this scene, a young girl is tied up to a chair and opposite her is a middle aged man (maybe her dad 🤷🏾‍♂️) tied up as well. There r probably 3 or 4 captors there trying to get some info from them. The tied up man gently taps his feet on the ground sending a secret message to the girl. There's probably some flash back to him teaching her how to survive or some kinda CIA sh** 😂 He gets shot. 

That's abt all I remember but the movie had a great auro ard it. Anyone who has watched it should kindly tell me the name of movie. Much appreciated. Thanks 

[Snow Apple]

On 9/9/2019 at 11:22 AM, Gray Fox said:

A coupla years ago, there was a trailer I found randomly on YouTube, but never saw the movie and have forgotten the title too. 

So, in this scene, a young girl is tied up to a chair and opposite her is a middle aged man (maybe her dad 🤷🏾‍♂️) tied up as well. There r probably 3 or 4 captors there trying to get some info from them. The tied up man gently taps his feet on the ground sending a secret message to the girl. There's probably some flash back to him teaching her how to survive or some kinda CIA sh** 😂 He gets shot. 

That's abt all I remember but the movie had a great auro ard it. Anyone who has watched it should kindly tell me the name of movie. Much appreciated. Thanks 

This is probably not it since the trailer doesn't match your description of tapping feet, but the CIA and father/daughter plot reminds me of Hanna starring Saoirse Ronan. I never saw the entire movie.

[JustHereForFood]

Hi all. I'm bumping this thread to see if anybody can help me identify this movie. I haven't seen it, only remember a TV promo for it from maybe 2010/2011, but the movie could have been older than that. The plot was about a man who (if I got it correctly) was told he had a terminal illness and didn't want to die slowly, so he hired a hitman to kill him. He spoke to him over the phone and said something like "I don't want to know when or where it happens", or something to that effect. Then it seems that he was informed that the results he got we wrong and he wasn't dying at all, but he could no longer contact the hitman to call it off. So now his problem was that this person was going to try to kill him, but he didn't know when, where and presumably didn't want to contact the police, as he hired him himself. Does anyone know what could be the name of this movie? Unfortunately I don't know any more details, but I think it didn't have any famous actors.

Thanks.

[Abra]

19 minutes ago, JustHereForFood said:

The plot was about a man who (if I got it correctly) was told he had a terminal illness and didn't want to die slowly, so he hired a hitman to kill him. He spoke to him over the phone and said something like "I don't want to know when or where it happens", or something to that effect. Then it seems that he was informed that the results he got we wrong and he wasn't dying at all, but he could no longer contact the hitman to call it off. So now his problem was that this person was going to try to kill him, but he didn't know when, where and presumably didn't want to contact the police, as he hired him himself. Does anyone know what could be the name of this movie? Unfortunately I don't know any more details, but I think it didn't have any famous actors.

Emmett's Mark?

[JustHereForFood]

15 hours ago, Abra said:

Emmett's Mark?

Thanks a lot! I checked the trailer and it seems it is correct. 

[Ms Blue Jay]

On 3/27/2018 at 7:58 PM, Trini said:

So I saw this film on TV, but I'm sure it was released in theaters. It was like a low-to-mid budget, no big names, but a few recognizable actors. (I thought one of the actresses was Laura Linney, but none of her films seem to match the film I saw. - So, a middle-aged (40s?) white blonde?) I think it was released in the early 2000s, but I'm sure it was made in the last twenty years. A character study set in New York City; four main characters who are separate, but their stories interconnect.

I only remember parts of 3 of the main characters/stories:
- A shy/troubled (Hispanic) teen boy, who is a virgin;
- An older (white), upper class, former music conductor? (not sure about his profession, but it was arts-related) who is going blind;
- A middle-aged woman (white) who is having some issues with her relationship with her (ex?)husband -- I think.

The parts I remember the most: the teen is stalking the woman - they have a scene in the subway where she loses him on the train. But in the third act, she has sex with him - on the second try, because he has a fixation with her scarf. Teen only meets the older man -who needs help navigating the subway because of his failing sight- in the last scene.

I found this movie "Heights".  Might not be the same one but sounds kind of similar.  I'll name ones that sound similar.

https://letterboxd.com/film/heights/

https://letterboxd.com/film/trust-the-man/

https://letterboxd.com/film/adrift-in-manhattan/

Someone also has a list of 1300 movies set in NYC.  I've sorted the list by year for you, so you can try scrolling through the 2000s:

https://letterboxd.com/emilybabyy/list/every-movie-ever-set-in-new-york-city/by/release-earliest/

Edited May 17, 2021 by Ms Blue Jay

[Trini]

1 hour ago, Ms Blue Jay said:

I found this movie "Heights".  Might not be the same one but sounds kind of similar.  I'll name ones that sound similar.

https://letterboxd.com/film/heights/

https://letterboxd.com/film/trust-the-man/

https://letterboxd.com/film/adrift-in-manhattan/

Someone also has a list of 1300 movies set in NYC.  I've sorted the list by year for you, so you can try scrolling through the 2000s:

https://letterboxd.com/emilybabyy/list/every-movie-ever-set-in-new-york-city/by/release-earliest/

It's Adrift in Manhattan! Thanks so much!

I wouldn't have thought of Heather Graham; and hey, Victor Rasuk was in this, so now I know him from two things.

[Ms Blue Jay]

23 hours ago, Trini said:

It's Adrift in Manhattan! Thanks so much!

I wouldn't have thought of Heather Graham; and hey, Victor Rasuk was in this, so now I know him from two things.

Ohhhhhhh my goodness!!  I can't believe that worked!   (3 years later LOL)  I'm very pleasantly shocked! 

Letterboxd is a godsend.  

Is the "other thing" you know Victor from the 50 Shades series?  LOL that's how I know him for sure!

Edited May 18, 2021 by Ms Blue Jay

[Trini]

8 hours ago, Ms Blue Jay said:

Is the "other thing" you know Victor from the 50 Shades series?  LOL that's how I know him for sure!

Heh! No, I know him from the one-season-wonder The Baker and the Beauty. Found him very charming in both roles, so I should probably look out for his other stuff. (Maybe not 50 Shades, though. LOL)

Edited May 19, 2021 by Trini

[Ms Blue Jay]

5 minutes ago, Trini said:

Heh! No, I knowhim from the one-season-wonder The Baker and the Beauty. Found him very charming in both roles, so I should probably look out for his other stuff. (Maybe not 50 Shades, though. LOL)

I actually love the 50 Shades series but don't worry, I know a lot of people who don't 😁

[Anduin]

I can't remember the name of a movie. Released sometime in the last ten years, set sometime in the caveman period, live action, somewhat serious. I think it opens with a woman giving birth at night. It uses a made-up language, or possibly a reconstruction of proto Indo European. Does this sound familiar to anyone? Not 10,000 BC.

[BetterButter]

1 hour ago, Anduin said:

set sometime in the caveman period,

Alpha ?

[Anduin]

44 minutes ago, BetterButter said:

Alpha ?

Nope. I'll know it when I I see it. But currently, very frustrating.

[JustHereForFood]

2 hours ago, Anduin said:

I can't remember the name of a movie. Released sometime in the last ten years, set sometime in the caveman period, live action, somewhat serious. I think it opens with a woman giving birth at night. It uses a made-up language, or possibly a reconstruction of proto Indo European. Does this sound familiar to anyone? Not 10,000 BC.

Maybe this one? 

Ao, le dernier Néandertal

 

[Anduin]

10 hours ago, JustHereForFood said:

Maybe this one? 

Ao, le dernier Néandertal

 

Again, it's close. Update! I think it's Iceman!

Edited November 14, 2021 by Anduin

[Anduin]

Another one. A documentary about Formula 1 first responders. I thought it was called First Responders, but IMDB doesn't have it. This sound familiar to anyone?

[luzdibbert]

Hello, i am looking for one specific movie i watched sometime in the early 2000s. Movie was probably from the mid 90s.

The only things i can remember about it is, the guy quits hauling hazmat, but someone ends up hauling fuel again, and iirc the trailer goes into a skid, possibly blows up?

Black dog with Swayze comes to mind, but its not it.

Any ideas?

[BlueSkies]

A movie where the main characters estranged son has a lucky sock his father wears and needs to win some kind of match.  He is able to succeed in getting it to him.

I thought watching Over The Top with Stallone it might have been it but not.  Was from like that same 80s genre.

I have the vaguest of memories watching this as a wee thing 

[Guest]

On 6/23/2022 at 2:56 AM, Anduin said:

Another one. A documentary about Formula 1 first responders. I thought it was called First Responders, but IMDB doesn't have it. This sound familiar to anyone?

Rapid Response?

[Anduin]

7 hours ago, Dani said:

Rapid Response?

Yes, that does look about right! Thank you!

[SunnyBeBe]

Does anyone recall a movie, probably from the 90s about a woman who has flashbacks to her childhood and abuse from her father on a farm. He slaughtered animals and the sound the animals made was a big part of the movie. I think it was contained in the title of the movie.  It seems like Nicole Kidman was in it, but none of her movies seem to fit.  I’ve also checked movies by Jodie Foster.  

[Shannon L.]

16 hours ago, SunnyBeBe said:

Does anyone recall a movie, probably from the 90s about a woman who has flashbacks to her childhood and abuse from her father on a farm. He slaughtered animals and the sound the animals made was a big part of the movie. I think it was contained in the title of the movie.  It seems like Nicole Kidman was in it, but none of her movies seem to fit.  I’ve also checked movies by Jodie Foster.  

There was a tv movie called Voices Within:  The Lives of Truddi Chase, starring Shelly Long, that came out in 1990.  I didn't watch it because the book, which I couldn't finish, was too disturbing, so I don't if there are flashbacks in it. But, Truddi did live on a farm, suffered horrific abuse, and her father did slaughter animals.  Part of her story is remembering bits and pieces of her childhood and the abuse she endured, so maybe it's possible that was part of the movie and that's what you're remembering?

[SunnyBeBe]

3 hours ago, Shannon L. said:

There was a tv movie called Voices Within:  The Lives of Truddi Chase, starring Shelly Long, that came out in 1990.  I didn't watch it because the book, which I couldn't finish, was too disturbing, so I don't if there are flashbacks in it. But, Truddi did live on a farm, suffered horrific abuse, and her father did slaughter animals.  Part of her story is remembering bits and pieces of her childhood and the abuse she endured, so maybe it's possible that was part of the movie and that's what you're remembering?

I did take a look at that.  Maybe it’s it.  Thanks!  

[Bastet]

On 6/30/2023 at 7:38 PM, SunnyBeBe said:

Does anyone recall a movie, probably from the 90s about a woman who has flashbacks to her childhood and abuse from her father on a farm. He slaughtered animals and the sound the animals made was a big part of the movie. I think it was contained in the title of the movie.  It seems like Nicole Kidman was in it, but none of her movies seem to fit.  I’ve also checked movies by Jodie Foster.  

Her father wasn't abusive, it wasn't a flashback but a story she told, and you've already checked Jodie Foster's filmography, so this shouldn't be it, but just in case -- are you thinking of this scene in The Silence of the Lambs:

 

[jah1986]

Does anyone know an Indian movie where a woman’s husband is killed while on a trip and his family basically treats her like a slave. Then she becomes friends with a woman who is actually the wife of the man who killed the first woman’s husband. At the end the first woman has to try to escape her family, running for a train.

It’s an older movie.

[GHScorpiosRule]

2 hours ago, jah1986 said:

Does anyone know an Indian movie where a woman’s husband is killed while on a trip and his family basically treats her like a slave. Then she becomes friends with a woman who is actually the wife of the man who killed the first woman’s husband. At the end the first woman has to try to escape her family, running for a train.

It’s an older movie.

Year? Who was in the movie?

[jah1986]

I don’t know who was in it, maybe early 2000’s

[GHScorpiosRule]

16 hours ago, jah1986 said:

I don’t know who was in it, maybe early 2000’s

I stopped watching most movies by the mid-90s, and only watch a select of Amitabh Bachchan movies.

So I’m at a loss.

[jah1986]

I understand, it was a long shot. Can't go wrong with AB's films.

Edited to add: Thanks to Google I found it, it's Dor from 2006!

 

Edited August 27, 2023 by jah1986