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90s British police drama episode with supernatural plot
In the 90s when I was around 10 to early teens (92 to 95?), I saw a terrifying episode of a police drama. I was convinced it was Dangerfield but I cannot find any matching episodes.
Key plot points:
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What's the significance of Nanny from Count Duckula having a male voice-actor?
In the British animated series Count Duckula one of the characters is a hen called Nanny.
While a hen is a female chicken she has a male voice-actor there: Brian Trueman.
Nanny's voice was masculine. ...
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What is a "mezzamook"?
I've been watching the TV series Wiseguy and there's quite a lot of italo-american 80's NY slang thrown around, which I find amusing.
In New Blood (season 1 episode 2), the mob boss Sonny Steelgrave ...
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Why doesn’t Ava warn Caleb about the battery-powered camera in Ex Machina?
In Ex Machina (2014), it's clear that Ava's primary goal is to escape from Nathan's facility (her creator). For that purpose she carefully manipulates Caleb (the programmer selected from Nathan's ...
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How did the final scene of Tell No One end up that way?
In the final scene of Tell No One (2006), we see Alex returning to the lake, where he reunites with his wife Margot after learning the full truth from her father. However, it's unclear to me how they ...
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Action movie where an over the top blond villain at the end enters the internet as a virus
I am a Latin American looking for these for a live-action movie I watched as a kid, probably in the late '90s or early 2000s, on Cinecanal or TNT through cable TV in Ecuador, dubbed in Spanish. The ...
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Why did László give a poetic reply?
In The Brutalist (2024), Harrison, a wealthy individual, questions Hungarian-Jewish architect and Holocaust survivor László about his architecture, prompting a philosophical discussion and László's ...
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Sci-fi action film from the 20th century. War theme. Time travel through doors
I saw this film at a cinema in the mid-to-late '90s. I was very small at the time, but this is what I remember;
I think it was a European film, or possibly American or Australian. It was black-and-...
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European fairy tale movie set in (somewhat) modern times
I'm trying to identify a movie I saw on TV sometime in the late '90s or early '00s. It's not a cartoon.
It is some sort of fairy tale for young people. I think the main character was a girl. Perhaps ...
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What's the first movie with a non-happy ending where the good guys lose or die?
What's the first movie with a non-happy ending where either the bad guys win or they lose, but the good guys die regardless?
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What's the first movie or TV show with a bad guy protagonist?
We have lots of examples of movies or TV shows with the protagonist being a bad guy or a villain, like Breaking Bad and Joker. In these films, the antagonists are the good guys.
But what's the first ...
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How old are the main characters in West Side Story?
Wikipedia describes the West Side Story main characters as
In New York City in 1957, two teenage gangs compete for control on the Upper West Side.
for the 1961 film and
In 1957, the Jets, a gang of ...
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What's the first movie with peanut allergy as a subplot?
There are several movies with peanut allergy as a subplot in them like Firewall, The Smurfs 2, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, etc. But what was the first movie featuring it?
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Looking for a movie quote: "Look what we've done in the last ten years. Imagine what we'll do in the next ten."
I am looking for a movie which I remember seeing part of on television. I would have seen the movie in the early 1980s, but I think it was made in the late 1960s when the Apollo program was in full ...
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What is the significance of Colin Ritman ranting about a "basilisk" in Black Mirror S07E04?
In Black Mirror S07E04 "Plaything," Colin Ritman (a game developer at Tuckersoft who previously appeared in Black Mirror: Bandersnatch) apparently had some kind of breakdown that resulted in ...
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