StoneKeeper's Movie Guessing Game: I Recommend THIS Movie #1774 [Silent Waters (2003) Winner: StoneKeeper]
I have a movie in mind and you have to guess which one it is. For each movie you guess, I will give a hint that connects your guess with the movie I have in mind.
For each guess, a connection is posted. Example of connections: Actor, length, genre, aspect ratio, language, country, year, director, actor, writer in common, rating, number of votes, nominations. It can even be something like: both movies involve Cabbage Patch Kids. Also, you can use Metascore color or rating, Rotten Tomatoes score, any award wins or nominations in common, same number of words in the title, plot keywords. Note: "Plot" in the IMDB advanced search links to "Plot Summary" on the film's page. "Keyword" in the advanced search links to "Plot Keyword" on the film's page.
Helpful search engine: https://www.imdb.com/search/title/ Click on Feature Film and TV Movie. Then modify for the hints as they are posted.
- The winner can either start a new game or say "pass". In case of a pass, the OP gets to start another one.
- After 12 hints and 15 incorrect guesses the point goes to the OP and he/she gets to start another one.
- Movie must have at least 3500 IMDB votes. Otherwise, add a bonus hint. No documentaries.
- Maximum 2 guesses per player per hint.
- Can't edit a guess once posted. Delete ONLY
- Post one Hint at a time.
Under 3500 votes
Hint 1: Tai-Pan (1986) - Setting is in Asia.
Hint 2: Full Alert (1997) - Runtime shorter than 100 minutes.
Hint 3: Matango (1963) - Not rated by the MPAA.
Hint 4: Shabondama Elegy (1999) - Two words in title.
Hint 5: My Neighbor Totoro (1988) - Director also has writing credit.
Hint 6: Ainu Mosir (2020) - Release date in the 21st century.
Hint 7: Hanalei Bay (2018) - Drama is the ONLY genre.
Hint 8: Pleasure Factory (2007) - Release date earlier than 2010.
Hint 9: Ocean Heaven (2010) - IMDb rating in the 7s.
Hint 10: Aogeba Tôtoshi (2006) - Director was nominated for an award at the Sundance Film Festival.
Hint 11: Wind Man (2007) - The movie was not filmed in China, Korea or Japan.
StoneKeeper wins with Silent Waters (2003), a very good movie from Pakistan which is set in the late 1970s during the rise of Islamic fundamentalism under the reactionary Zia ul-Haq regime. The story takes place in a village in Punjab where life gets uprooted and suffocated as fundamentalists gradually take over the town. The main character is a woman who is forced to watch her son become a totally different person under the influence of extremists, and current events bring back her childhood experiences in the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947. Very good movie and highly recommended.
Can be seen here for free with English subtitles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q7FTY33X1g
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