r/whatisthatmovie May 27 '26

Announcement Announcing a New Points System!

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Hey everybody!

We’re excited to share that we now have a new points system in place. While we know you all do it for your love of movies and helping your fellow Redditor out, but who doesn’t like getting a little extra reward for your movie knowledge? Or being able to thank the user who helped solve your movie name you've been searching for, for months or even years.

To make this possible, we've installed Reputatorbot. We thought it would be a nice and fun way for the OP (original poster) to thank and reward the kind person who gave them their movie name (first correct answer preferably).

How To Reward Points:

  • Add Solved! (don’t forget the !) in a reply to the first person that gives you the correct answer.
  • The solver will then get a comment from Reputatorbot telling them they earned a point and it will then be added to their user flair.

*Only the OP can reward points. Mods can also reward points if necessary.

If the OP ends up solving their post by themselves. They just need to make a "Solved!" comment under their post so the post flair will change to solved, but no points will be awarded.

UPDATE: if you notice a points issue (e.g. OP didn't use the keyword or awarded the wrong user) please use the report option (Breaks r/whatisthatmovie rules > Points Issue) and we will fix it. You may also send us a message through modmail.

Official Leaderboard:

The official leaderboard can be found here. <--

We’d love to hear what you think or if you have any questions.

r/whatisthatmovie Mod Team


r/whatisthatmovie Jun 25 '26

Reminder OP: Reply "Solved!" (with the !) to the first user who gives you the correct name

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This is to mark your post solved and award the solver a point. The comments are sorted from oldest to newest to make it easier to tell who commented first.

More details about the points system can be found here.


r/whatisthatmovie 34m ago

Unsolved Forgotten Horror Movie?

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Ok, so when I was a young kid, not a toddler, but maybe 7ish, I remember watching a horror movie or show on DVD. I remember the play menu had a closet with a skeleton in it, or black smoke coming out. The only things I remember about the movie are that there is a scene where someone is doing something with a latter-- the one's you would find on the side of an apartment building-- and some evil force makes the latter fall down, and he breaks his spine, and the latter leg goes through his eye.

The other thing I remember is a kid in a field by the house, like, a large field, and the house was big and white, in the country almost. Anyway, there was a swing set he swung on, and there may have been a bike.

This has been bugging me for years, and I just remembered there are other people on the internet.


r/whatisthatmovie 4h ago

Solved! Afterlife movie

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I was told about this movie YEARS ago, the only things i remember being that it was about this company or government who was obsessed with learning about the afterlife and (i think) got people between life and death or tried to bring them back from the dead to find out what the afterlife was like or even if there was one (i remember being told that the scenes are somewhat gorey too) , i remember being told that in the end of it the head of that government or company finds out what the afterlife is like and kills herself and (as i was told) you are left to wonder if she killed herself because what shes seen is so terrifying and terrible that she can't live anymore, or that its so amazing that she wants to get there immediately, or if her whole life's mission was a waste and theres nothing there

I can't lie this movie sounds terrible to me but im so curious haha


r/whatisthatmovie 1h ago

Unsolved Drama about Girl in Psych ward, 2010s/2020s

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Back in I'm guessing 2021 or 2022, I watched a movie about a girl who was a teenager or young adult who went to a psych ward.

Here are a list of things I remember about the movie:

-more recent, I'm guessing late 2010s or early 2020s

-the language is English and I'm guessing it's American

-it's not a horror movie, it's a drama and pretty sympathetic to the patient characters

-not the entire movie is spent with her there, there are scenes of her getting in and getting out

-I'm pretty sure the main character became friends with another girl there and I think they get out together too


r/whatisthatmovie 51m ago

Unsolved Movie about a miraculous Doctor

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This is, i think British or Irish (im not a native english speaker so maybe im confused about the precise accent) 90s movie is about a Medicine Doctor who realizes that touching people makes them start curing their disease's. He fails to save a woman that is neither HIV possitive or cancer. At the same time there are a couple of journalists, a female who is an skeptic and wants to show that this doctor is a fraud. I think the journalist's brother has a palsy or some kind of paralisis and yells Dr. Miracle or something like it and its touched by him and it looks as if the guy is stepping away from the wheelchair.

Can someone help me to find this, I remember I watched it when I was around 8 or 9 years old. Thank you!


r/whatisthatmovie 9h ago

Solved! Body horror movie

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I remember when I was a kid at blockbuster in the 90s I would see this VHS cover that looks very Noir. The cover has a woman holding a mask in front of her face and a guy In a trench coat and hat looking back at her. The back of the VHS had like women's faces being stretched out sucking the life force off of people.

I remember as a kid wanting to rent it but knowing my parents would never let me.


r/whatisthatmovie 6h ago

Unsolved Not sure if movie or episode of TV show

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I recall there being a scene I've seen where it always gave me the creeps. I think the movie was a horror film. But anyways the scene is where there are adult students perhaps In a college looking classroom and the professor or teacher was explaining about the theory or some term about what comes after humans. Basically he said something about humanity will create something that will take humanity's place? Something like that and sometimes I think about this scene and always wondered what movie it was or tv show. Anyways hope I can find out thank you community


r/whatisthatmovie 17h ago

Unsolved [ Movie] Help me find a 90s/2000s supernatural thriller movie about a teenage girl with powers and rings Spoiler

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I’m looking for a movie from the 1990s or early 2000s (not sure but seems like bepkngs to that 3ra with the video quality that I remember). It's about a teenage girl living in a small, rural town or forested area. She and her family live in a small wooden house near or in the woods ig.

At the very beginning of the movie, she wakes up with a mysterious mark on her hand or arm. She inherits a ring from her grandmother (ig) / or possibly multiple rings she must collect in order to save her town? She uses an old book to learn about her powers and how to save her town.

The town is surrounded by a shrinking invisible barrier that destroys anything trying to escape, there's a scene in the move where a car gets destroyed. Theres also a scene where all the town people are gather in a hall. The town is not able to contact the outside world.

The local authority figures likely the mayor and his companions become suspicious and hostile toward her thinking she might be responsible for wtv is harming their town. They decide to capture or kill her.

The climax involves the girl being attacked in a tunnel or hiding there.

The movie’s aesthetic and video quality remind me of The 13th Child (2002).

The girl is the only one with powers and is responsible for saving her town from some supernatural curse or threat. (her grandmother or father probably had something similar or atleast an idea about it. There's also a possibility that the girl has had the mark since foever but it starts feeling weird the the begining scene where she wakes up one day and it's tingling or something.

While I am not sure about a lot of the details that I mentioned about since I watched it a s a kid/ in my pree teens years ago. I am 100% sure of the barrier and the car scene, and also the town people gathering scene, I am also sure about the mark and her having to collect the rings or something or sorts.

If anyone knows the title of this movie or something very similar or a movie with even a single of the above details please lmk, I’d be really grateful! I have been looking for this for months, searched everywhere but can't find it.


r/whatisthatmovie 1d ago

Unsolved What is this image from?

Post image
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I have tried yandex, tineye, and google and nothing comes up for this. I even checked if its AI and its supposedly not. A friend told me they found this picture from tiktok.


r/whatisthatmovie 16h ago

Solved! Help with Title: 2 Friends + 1 Dead Friend with Muppets/Puppets

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In the movie a woman who makes a kids show dies and leaves two estranged friends something in her will which requires them to stay overnight in her house—or something like that, but they definitely stay overnight.

She has large muppet/puppet like things. Maybe like Sesame St. maybe like The Muppets? They start to attack the two friends.

I remember one being attacked in the bathroom. I remember one pulling a VHS tape from the shelves and putting it in and watching it and creepy things happen.

I can't seem to find the title.


r/whatisthatmovie 1d ago

Unsolved [MOVIE][1970s–1990s?] Trying to identify a very obscure childhood drama — boy with a seashell/conch

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I'm trying to identify a movie I saw on late-night TV in Colombia when I was around 6–8 years old.

I believe it was from the 1970s or 1980s, possibly European (French, Italian, British, etc.), although the US is also possible. It may have been dubbed or subtitled.

What I remember:

* The protagonist was a boy, around 9–10 years old.

* He lived with his mother in a small rural village and rode a bicycle around the area.

* He was fascinated by a seashell/conch and listened to the sound of the sea through it, especially at night. 🐚

* He had an unusual nighttime routine involving glass bottles in his bedroom.

* I remember a scene involving the boy watching his mother getting changed from near a staircase/window. She notices him and becomes upset.

* The overall atmosphere was strange, melancholic and nostalgic. It felt more like a coming-of-age/childhood drama than a horror film.

* I don't remember the ending.

I've already ruled out:

- Le Grand Chemin (1987)

- La teta y la luna (1994)

- The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (1976)

- Summer in a Seashell (1986)

Some details may be distorted by childhood memory, but the seashell/conch is one of the clearest memories.

I've been trying to identify this film for many years, so any suggestion is greatly appreciated!


r/whatisthatmovie 1d ago

Unsolved Scary (to a kid) black dragon chasing a woman or girl through a castle or similar

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My husband (born mid 1985) remembers seeing this movie as a kid, He's not sure how old he was but it scared him enough to remember the feeling vividly and It's eluded him for years.

He thinks it was live action but can't be 100% sure.


r/whatisthatmovie 1d ago

Solved! Help me find this movie

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It's a 3D animated movie from my childhood that I watched in the early 2000s.

​What I can remember is that I think there were two main characters: a man and a woman. One of the supporting characters is a large, stout giant with orange hair and orange clothes, and I think he had a goatee; his outfit looked somewhat beachy or hippie-style.

​As for the plot, I think it was about dreamlike or magical elements, and the female protagonist's father was either sick or imprisoned in crystal.

​I also vaguely recall a scene where they are crossing floating rocks.


r/whatisthatmovie 1d ago

Unsolved Old comedy movie about a family defending a bunker

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I remember watching a movie as a kid, it was around 2013 I've watched it, but it definitely came out earlier. It was definitely pretty light hearted, the kind of movie they would have airing on cable TV on a random evening.

I don't remember much if anything, other than the main idea of a family defending a old ww2 era fort in a legal battle over ownership, It was a ground fort, like a bunker, and I remember it having anti air guns.

I remember one specific scene where the camera turns to the son of the family and he says something corny like "Erm.. Guys? You're gonna wanna see this" and he's just standing there with a unexploded BOMB in his hands, like, it was a HUGE bomb, like almost bigger than the kid, and it then cuts to credits, the scene was after they arleady won the legal battle and were celebrating, also, the climax of the movie was centered around a actual battle for the fort, like, the family was using the fort's guns to shot at the lawyer's trucks or something like that, I'm not sure...

Any and all help identifying this is appreciated.

Altough it's also probable this is likely a dream I had once, my memory is not the best...


r/whatisthatmovie 1d ago

Unsolved Pre-1988 Body Horror

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When I was a kid in the 90's, my dad was casually watching a horror movie I had no business seeing while I played on the computer in my parents' bedroom.

There are three central people in the scene:

  1. The experimenter: Male or male-presenting and distinctly creature-like/monstrous, a mad scientist, actively participating in human experimentation.
  2. The assistant: A woman dressed or styled like a nurse/medical assistant. She seemed to not have much characterization besides being a bimbo and enthusiastic about she and the scientist were doing.
  3. The victim/test subject: An adult man, restrained so that he cannot escape. He had a ball gag in his mouth or something resembling one.

The creature scientist injects the restrained man with something.

The man immediately begins having some kind of severe physical reaction. As this happens, the creature watches him and says something like "You like it? Good."

Meanwhile, the nurse is delighted by the experiment's success, clapping enthusiastically and possibly jumping/bouncing up and down with excitement.

Then the restrained man's body begins to physically transform/mutate.

I don't recall what he becomes. I basically got up and left my computer game around that point.

It's such a clear formative image in my memory, but I cannot find any trace of this movie to figure out how we got to that scene or how the movie ends.

Hoping for help!


r/whatisthatmovie 1d ago

Solved! Old people sent out to sea on icebergs?

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So my sister and I have this movie scene that we joke about but can't for the life of us recall where it comes from.

In the scene we meet Eskimos? And one is an old man talking about his retirement or something and we see a family say goodbye to their old person and the old person floats away on this iceberg with this nice igloo while the old man we've met get on an iceberg with just a stool and a fishing pole.

Like I said we both have vivid memories of this secen from childhood (90s) but have no idea what from... It could be from a show as well but ¯_(ツ)_/¯


r/whatisthatmovie 1d ago

Solved! Zombie movie? Help appreciated

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Tried every search engine


r/whatisthatmovie 1d ago

Solved! Recentish prohibition movie possibly set in Montana/Western US

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I saw this movie on Amazon but I'm completely failing at finding it. If I try to search for prohibition movies it never comes up.

The movie starts with the main characters farm being foreclosed and he gets thrown out. After that he gets into a fight and meets a native American in jail. They become friends and start running whiskey over the border. There's a love triangle where the women's husband shows up and fights the main character. I also remember specifically a scene where they use a crate of soda to smuggle the whiskey and the cops break it with a hammer. It ended with a shootout with the police

No major stars in the movie but a good production quality so maybe an Amazon movie.

I'm losing my mind trying to find it!


r/whatisthatmovie 1d ago

Solved! Looking for an old Saturday night TV movie

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My mom and I have been trying to find a TV movie we saw on a Saturday night that would have been 1998-2000 ish. It was when Xena the Warrior Princess was still on air.

It was a Saturday night when Xena had been cancelled because of a football game.

The movie was about an dumb actor on a bad science fiction television show who depended on cue cards to remember his lines. He ends up being taken to a planet where there's a prophecy. The temple (?) starts falling apart around him and the female lead, and he has flashbacks to the cue cards which turned out to be the words he needed to say to save the day.

I just remember it being pretty funny and having terrible special effects, and it's not Buckaroo Banzai which Google keeps insisting it is.

Hope someone can help remember this fever dream!


r/whatisthatmovie 1d ago

Unsolved Looking for the name of a movie I saw some years ago on TV

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I saw this one movie on TV a couple years back can someone help me remember the name? These are the things I remember:

-the main character was a boy around age 10-15

-he had a crush on a girl I think was slightly older than him

-they lived in the same neighborhood with another dude

-our guy like the girl but she only saw him as a friend or brother I think, anyway, he saw this other dude and the gurl kissing on a bench and than left crying

-I'm not sure who but later, the boy killed someone accidently, someone's little brother I'm correct, either his own or the other guys

This was like only the first half of the movie, the other half is when they grow up. Someone found the dead kids body and the neighborhood was trying to find the killer. I don't remember If they did catch him or not. He may have ran off at the end of it

Please help me find it I have been looking for YEARS


r/whatisthatmovie 1d ago

Solved! Trying to find movie with bus scene where the bus falls off a bridge and the children in the bus die

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So I randomly remembered this scene and have been desperately trying to figure out what movie it's from. It's live action, in english, I believe it might be an american movie? The scene in question is I think from the very start of the movie where there is some catastrophe where a large bridge has been destroyed and a bus full of children and I believe their schoolteacher is falling over the edge, the schoolteacher gets out of the back of the bus and I think gets 1 or 2 of the kids out and tries to reach out for more but the entire bus falls and the rest of the children die in the fall.

I think it's from some kind of sci-fi movie but it could also be one of those disaster films, I can't quite remember. Any help at all would be appreciated


r/whatisthatmovie 1d ago

Unsolved Tea Drinker Quote

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Okay- whoever can answer this will immensely help me and my husband who have been searching for years (literally) with no luck. At some point between 2017 and 2021 there was a movie where a line akin to “look at that two handed tea drinker” or “you look like a two handed tea drinker” was said. It was said by a man, in a live action film. Whoever said it is a typically sarcastic actor- think Jason Bateman-esque. We have scoured the internet. AI hallucinated over it, all to no avail. Top actor options we’ve thought of are- the aforementioned Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, or even Seth McFarland. It was definitely around that time frame because it made us think of a specific friend who drinks a lot of tea.

Please help… whoever does… you get all the good vibes possible.


r/whatisthatmovie 1d ago

Unsolved Looking for a Horror Movie. In the protagonists house there's one room that's opened to the outside

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It's very vague in my mind but the protagonists house was in the midst of nature and it could or could not have had a japanese look.

one room was open to the outside, like when you open the paper doors in an old japanese house. or maybe it was a big window or terrace.

surreal things happened in that house. i feel like at one point there opened a portal or something maybe(?) and the portal couldve been at the point where that one room opens to the outside.

i dont know if it was horror or mystery. the movie isn't new but it also isn't very old. i watched it probably 5 to 10 years ago but it probably wasn't even new then.


r/whatisthatmovie 1d ago

Unsolved Movie about a dry relationship

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I remember watching this movie about a white woman who meets a black man online. The woman was depressed. They don’t have a ton in common but they stay together for a while, at least a year but I don’t remember how long. Their connection is intentionally dry. I think the point of the movie is to take you through the whole relationship start to finish. Also their two best friends meet and initially hate each other but end up together. At the end of the movie, the main guy tells the woman they need to break up, somewhat abruptly, while they’re hiking on vacation.