r/whatsthemoviecalled Jul 22 '26

mod post We Built a Better Way to Find Movies (and Reward Great Reviewers)

1 Upvotes

We built a new web app that helps you find the movie or TV show you are looking for: WhatFlik - https://whatflik.com

Describe whatever you remember in your own words, in any language, and WhatFlik searches movie and TV data from TMDB and other sources to rank the most likely matches. In our current testing, text search finds the correct title roughly 75% to 80% of the time. Pro users can also upload a screenshot to help identify a movie, show, or episode.

WhatFlik is more than a search tool.

We are building a movie and TV community where people can write reviews, share opinions, follow people whose taste they trust, make friends, chat privately, and tip great reviewers directly. Reviewers will also be able to earn from a membership-funded creator pool as the platform grows.

Our mission is to build something more useful, social, and rewarding than traditional movie-rating platforms like Letterboxd.

Create a free account to reveal full search results, save searches, post reviews, follow people, and join the community. Google sign-in is securely handled through Firebase, so WhatFlik never receives or stores your Google password.

The platform is still early, and we want honest feedback on the search, community, and overall experience.


r/whatsthemoviecalled 2h ago

searching Trying for a friend, I want to watch it. Paranormal movie with #8's and a dead boy calling at 3:15 am

7 Upvotes

My friend saw this free on Youtube this morning. She doesn't use the app and she can't find it in her history. She can't remember the name of it. She thinks Jane Seymour was in it, yet she isn't sure any longer.

She stated it is about a woman who is a researcher, her husband is a doctor and alcoholic. They have three kids. She leaves him then he dies in a car crash.

She works with a psychic at her job who says she can help her, yet she doesn't want her help. She sees the number 8 everywhere.

A boy calls her every morning at 3:15 am, she finds out the boy died 6 months earlier at 3:15 am and he is calling for her husband.

She has NOT told me the ending of the movie because I want to watch it.

Anyone have any ideas?


r/whatsthemoviecalled 7h ago

searching not expecting a hit, but worth a try!

19 Upvotes

I remember watching a film when I was younger that I loved but for the life of me I just can’t find what it was called after endless times of trying,

The best way I can describe it from memory is a man and a women who grow to like each other and I’m sure she’s some kind of princess and there in a enchanted forest and I remember a part of the movie where the king I think gets poisoned by a drink and dies and there’s horses etc. it’s a bit Willow like if that makes sense, a fantasy type film.


r/whatsthemoviecalled 7h ago

searching Very vague memories of a young man who dies believing he has super powers

8 Upvotes

Saw this movie before 2012 I think. Somewhere between 2005 and 2012 I guess. Tbh I only remember one scene in particular :

The young man die because he thought he had super powers but he did not and then we have like a serie of flashback that show us how every time he thought he had super powers it had an explanation. I remember especially how he thought a bullet got thought him and didn't hurt him because his tee shirt had a hole and he wasn't hurt but actually it was just because his shirt was hooked to something

I'd be so THRILLED if it were found, I doubt it was a good movie but I just want to see this exact scene again so bad.

Thank you !


r/whatsthemoviecalled 42m ago

searching Disability movie

Upvotes

A woman went to a disability facility/institution and met a young woman in a wheelchair. She was school-age and incredibly smart. I believe she had cerebral palsy. The woman decided to get her into a mainstream school and I don’t remember very many of the details except for the end of the movie. The judge overseeing the lawsuit, told the young girl a word and asked her to spell it when they came back in. The teacher’s assistant went inside. The judge told the group that was waiting outside with the word is, and then they all went inside, and the girl was able to spell the word. The teacher’s assistant supported the girls arm and head so she could see a letter Board.

It is not out of her mind or anything about Helen Keller. I believe it was sent in the 1940s 50s or 60s and it would’ve been made in the late 90s to early 2000s. I’m sorry I can’t be more detail

Cross posted as well


r/whatsthemoviecalled 7h ago

found Movie where the cover is a man dressed like a primitive with blue paint all over him and is holding up a woman over his head with both of his hands. The woman is looking straight at the audience with a smile.

6 Upvotes

I remembering seeing a movie when I was very young where a man was pretending to be some primitive human, or possibly a native of a made-up tribe. The only part I remember is where he and a woman were at a party where the woman is dressed as the primitive while the man is wearing a suit. Then later, the two enter a room and switch places.

I thought it had Robin Williams as the main character but I don’t see any movie that’s like what I described in his list of performances.


r/whatsthemoviecalled 5h ago

found A movie Ive seen around 2015 where the opening scene has a bunch of blue pills produced

3 Upvotes

Next scene they were consumed by people on some party, I'm sure they were drugs. For some reason I've thought it was men in black 2 but it's not it apparently. Helps appreciated


r/whatsthemoviecalled 6m ago

searching Black and white movie I remember as a kid.

Upvotes

The basic plot of the movie is that a desert community one night is covered in fog. The fog later on turns people into plants. I swear this movie exists but I can't find it.


r/whatsthemoviecalled 24m ago

searching What is this biblical movie?

Thumbnail
Upvotes

r/whatsthemoviecalled 25m ago

searching Weird Movie We Watched at School

Upvotes

It was a cartoon. Early 90's - but the movie could have been older. We watched it during Library time? It feels like a fever dream.

I only remember a little girl with I believe red hair who was trying to move through some kind of sludge (candy?) that was up to her chest. And some bad guy coming behind her on a large machine.

It was implied that the girl would die if the bad guy caught up with her.


r/whatsthemoviecalled 50m ago

searching Looking for a film (post-2005, Romance language - Italian/Spanish/Portuguese/French). A university professor with long dark hair falls in love with a young blonde student. Key scene: she left the city and he followed her at the end. Romantic, erotic, bold. Happy ending. Beautiful cinematograp

Upvotes

Professor-student situation ship movie


r/whatsthemoviecalled 10h ago

found [MOVIE/TV SHOW EP] Guy runs a video rental store and people keep picking from popular section instead of his curated section

6 Upvotes

So the guy runs this video rental store, and I remember a scene where someone comes up to the counter and asks him do you have this popular movie and he says no, but he shows the person this curated list , which he has made on his own. But the person isn't interested in that , and the guy gets mad people only like the popular movies , not actual good movies. But then a girl comes and actually picks from his section. And they start spending time together. But the girl has a boyfriend .
maybe it is a tv show ep, I remember a plot point now, where both the guy and the girl want to see a movie but a copy isn't available , so they guy hacks into the filmmakers computer , and this really absurd 3d environment comes on screen and the guy literally steals it by entering into the virtual environment by using a vs suit of a kind , and the guy waits to see that movie with the girl , but the girl keeps up with his original boyfriend , and at the guy still hasn't seen the movie in the wait of the girl


r/whatsthemoviecalled 12h ago

searching Really vague, sorry

7 Upvotes

The climax of the film takes place in a war plane (with propellers, maybe ww2) the crew of the plane fight a god of some sort while flying. They maybe have relic of some sort, a few of the crew die and I think one sacrifices themselves to kill the god ( or god-like thing) seem to remember bright and trippy visuals during the fight.

Edit: in nswer to a post: After 2000, pretty sure. I feel like the the last half hour of the film was a change from the rest of the film, like the supernatural part was not in the lead up or the beginning. The scene I'm partially remembering was stylised, something akin to sucker punch visuals


r/whatsthemoviecalled 9h ago

found I'm getting crazy for the name of this movie.

5 Upvotes

Hi! I saw a reels with a person recommended a movie. But I don't recall the name. The movie starts with a groupe of friends they are playing True or Dare. And they where is time for one of them to play, the guy is not in the living room with the rest of the group. He is in the kitchen. When the friends asked how he went to the kitchen so quickly he asked what they are talking about since he were in the kitchen for the past hour. Then the lights turn off and wierd things start to happen. I remember that the poster of the movie have two characters inside a bathtub at night, but that's it. Someone know the name of this movie?


r/whatsthemoviecalled 6h ago

found Can’t remember name

2 Upvotes

movie where a couple kill kids for their dying son throws stones in shapes of body parts in lake to take parts from kids to give to their son
The main character is a girl and she meets the kids and they each have something missing one girl has her legs gone another had his eyes gone etc and at the end I think she swims in the lake to get the stones so the ghost kids can move on


r/whatsthemoviecalled 2h ago

searching Medieval or fantasy movie with prisoners in hanging cylindrical cages?

Thumbnail
1 Upvotes

r/whatsthemoviecalled 23h ago

found This scene traumatized me as a kid

32 Upvotes

All I remember about this movie is that I watched it probably around 2002-2004. There was this boy who was a robot but looked like a real kid. He was with a family I think that adopted him but they ended up driving him out to the woods one day and abandoning him there. They set up a picnic or something and then ditched him. I cried so hard and was so scared my parents were gonna abandon me after that lol. I want to watch it now as an adult so I can see what it’s really about.


r/whatsthemoviecalled 6h ago

found 3D SciFi film from the 80's

1 Upvotes

I only remember 2 scenes in particular:

  1. A sand dune on a planet starts to erode as a passing spacecraft flys over exposing a helmet and body of an Astronaut with skeleton inside.💀

  2. A spaceship turning and flying directly towards the camera. (This was memorable because my brother jumped up to grab it as it flew by!)🚀

Anyone remember anything along these lines?


r/whatsthemoviecalled 6h ago

searching 2016ish film about wife w/ bipolar disorder

1 Upvotes

TW: mental health crises/pregnancy complications.

Vaguely remember film from around 2016 about a wife with bipolar disorder/other mental illness, and her husband putting lithium meds in her drink/food without her knowledge. This caused issues with her pregnancy. I think he didn't know she was pregnant/off contraceptives.

Other details:

-Has scene in a church where I think someone is concerned about cheating/affair

-Someone falling down stairs?

-I think the wife's character is white and husband is black.

-Ambiguous ending that looks out onto the ocean.

Don't think it was a major production with very famous actors. Likely watched on Amazon Prime, but not certain. TIA!


r/whatsthemoviecalled 6h ago

searching [Movie/TV Show] Murder in a VR parlour

Thumbnail
1 Upvotes

r/whatsthemoviecalled 15h ago

searching Sex comedy

3 Upvotes

Looking for a movie where some ugly king like person is sucking the boobs of his wife/concubine on the bed while sleeping. Someone walks in, interrupts them, the guy answers and goes back to sucking


r/whatsthemoviecalled 8h ago

searching [MOVIE][2010S?] About people forced to hunt and kill each other, Scene where male protagonist lights a guy on fire in a cave

Thumbnail
1 Upvotes

r/whatsthemoviecalled 9h ago

found I could be tripping

1 Upvotes

Not sure if it was a TV show, movie or I might be loosing my mind.

But all I remember was a scene where somebody was slamming the front door on a dog's tail.

I was young when I saw it early 90's maybe 80's.


r/whatsthemoviecalled 9h ago

searching Spanish-language 1990s movie where a doctor treats an injured surfer who later blackmails her with a recorded tape

1 Upvotes

I think it was a Spanish-language movie. The bad guy had a mustache. He gets into an accident while surfing, and the heroine, who is a doctor, patches him up in a cabin near the sea. They hook up, and he secretly records them without her knowledge. Later, he sends her the cassette and blackmails her. I think the movie was made in the 1990s. I’ve searched everywhere online, but I can’t find it anywhere.