There's not a thread for these is there?

I'm really struggling to google/find a film I've seen a number of times (years back, late TV, film4 most likely) and was wondering if you lot might be abe to help.

It's a period film, foreign (?) and quite short (IIRC) where a girl cuts & sells her hair to buy her boyfriend a bow for his violin, but he (in true Romeo & Juliet-style tragedy) sells his violin the same day to buy her a beautiful hair comb/pin.

No combination of the keywords is getting me anywhere close and I really fancy watching it again for some reason.

Any ideas?

the Gift of the Magi?



Close as I can find to your suggestion. No bow/violin though.

Edit - Well the article does mention these as well.

Thank you Matt, I will be sure to check them all out - I almost certainly remember a musical instrument - but as it's been so long it's safe to say I might have the symbols of the symbolism mixed up.

While we're on the subject...

A LONG time ago, I saw a French war movie, subtitled with English, and the plot was this...

A French doctor lives in a chateau. He is afraid for his wife and daughter, and to protect them from the invading Germans, he takes them off to a quiet remote village. One day, when he visits the village, he finds the occupants massacred by the SS.

He returns to his chateau to find that the SS unit has decided to get comfy at his home. But, this is no show-piece castle. It is full of the classic traps and secret passages beloved of fantasy writers (I'm not sure about the historical accuracy)

He sets about knocking off the SS troops one by one (and sometimes two by two) making full use of the castle's attributes, until they are all dead.

I have NO idea what it is called, and have tried to look for it before without success, but not recently, I will admit. So, can anyone help? It would have been made before about 1982, BTW.

is it the old gun Le vieux fusil

clicky

looks like a french war film ive missed, sounds awesome, id like to know the name of that also

OK, I've got one also.

It's one that was on TV years ago (when I was about 10). The only part I remember (mainly because it gave me nightmares for weeks after) is a bit where the main character is hitch hiking at night and gets picked up by a woman in a big lorry.

They are driving along in the rain and she is telling him a story of someone who committed suicide by jumping off a building. She was describing what the guy looked like when he hit the floor and said something like...

"When they turned him over his face was like this..."

and then she turned to face the camera and her face went all alien/ghost type thing with big googly eyes and she was screaming with her tongue hanging out.

At that point I covered my face and ran out of the room.

I've tried to find the name of the film ever since then but have failed. Maybe one of you will know which film it is?

I saw a movie in my childhood and I remember it as I'd been it several times. I guess that means it was on TV a lot or we had it on video. Some young kid befriends a girl and I think (?) the basis of the story is that she's rumoured to be a witch so everyone stays away from her. And I think she lives with an older person. Maybe her mum. They live out in the sticks though. A bit random I know and vague details but it's bugging me.

I saw a film when I was a kid. It was about this guy who lived with his aunt and uncle on a farm in what looked like a desert. They bought a couple of androids then the uncle and aunt got killed and the guy met some old man and they went to a strange bar, then went up in a spaceship...

Can't remember much more though.

That does sound very much like it. Thanks a million for that, I'll look into it.

This sounds very similar to Twighlight Zone : The Movie - four short horror/scary stories. The one I'm thinking about has Dan Aykroyd as a hitchhiker, but he was picked up by a man driving a car. The driver is telling scary stories and turning off the lights whilst driving (at night), the Aykroyd's character says "do you want to see something really scary?" gets him to pull over, turns away from him, then turns around and has transformed into a Banshee and attacks him.

Probably nothing at all to do with the film you mentioned Oli, but it struck me as familiar.

That's what I thought of first too. That specific scene is on YouTube here.

So I've reposted my opener on avforums, after Matt's suggestions drew blanks... and now, seeing as you're all chipping in with yours, here's another that's plagued me.

So it was an anime/cartoon (I recall a sketchy, painted, watercolour-esque style) in which a young child (boy?) features predominantly - alongside Oriental-style/serpent-like dragons that (IIRC) represented the four elements - with a final/closing scene in the rain with the boy mourning the death of one (or more) of the dragons.

Vague. I know.

Please tell me you're taking the wee-wee

Oh you B*$!*£d

That's going to bug me for days now.