Can you identify this film?

xpost, yes thanks for that.

I'm wracking my brains here. I'm sure this is a well-known film but I remember so little of it. Bits keep coming back to me but very little about plot and characters.
Probably about 50s or 60s, black and white maybe, the first part of the film involves a family home. I think someone is ill in bed. There's quite likely a case of mistaken identity. I think the oldest daughter goes on a date. At one point something important happens around the shed area. There's an older lady, a matriarch. At one point towards the end someone has to hurry out to obtain information from the library or some other public building. I believe the last scene takes place on a train or at a railway station, possibly with someone in disguise.
All very vague but I'm sure this is a super well known film

Comedy? Sounds like elements of Cold Comfort Farm, there was a bbc adaptation around that time, maybe it got reshown.

The Ladykillers?

It's been many years since I saw it, but it's in black and white, features an elderly lady, has people in disguise, and the finale involves trains.

but it's in black and white

It isn't.

I showed Ladykillers to a group of students many years ago, having not watched it since childhood, and I was taken aback by its being in colour. I'd been sure it was B&W. Tbf it's a very murky, desaturated colour.

Yeah it's muddy

At one point something important happens around the shed area.

Oh that could be a hundred films.

That sounds like the importance of being earnest tbh

1952 adaptation

xps to dl
That sounds like a very rong + muddled recollection of Shadow of a Doubt imo, even though it was 40's.

xpost that's absolutely Shadow of a Doubt

And having seen it again just recently, there's really not much wrong or muddled in there, besides the date of the film.

I haven't seen it for a few years so it isn't as fresh in my mind, but I knew I'd nailed it!

For some reason I don't think it's any of these (Ladykiller/Shadow) as neither ring familiar to me. But this is frustrating as I'm sure I made a conscious effort to watch it, like it must have been on a list of films possibly on ILX

Was it British or American?

Where was it set? Etc.

Hey wait I'm reading the plot of Shadow of a Doubt on Wikipedia and I'm certain it's the film. How strange, I don't ever recall thinking to myself 'i will watch this film' but evidently I did. Thanks guys

Anyone help this guy out?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Film#Film_about_a_dating_female_killer

'm looking for a movie title. In this film (crime) a woman killed few men. The killer appears on the dating advertisement. A detective posts and dating advertisement. He tries to find the female killer, who shoots the men in the head in the bed. This detective gets together with a blond woman. Doncsecztalk 15:53, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

there's a film that i sometimes think of despite being completely incapable of recalling what it was. i think i saw it on the sundance channel or something like that, probably about 15 years ago. it wasn't in english. the characters all lived on the water (a lake, maybe?). at one point someone knocks or throws (on purpose?) a bird cage into the water. the door to the cage is shut and the bird is inside the cage, so the bird briefly tries flying to the un-submerged section before ultimately sinking with the cage. unfortunately this is all i remember.

I think I can help the guy from six months ago...That's Sea of Love, isn't it?

A clip used in Christian Marclay's "The Clock" is bugging me...

A kid is holding a wristwatch in a bathroom. He rubs it on the wall to scratch the glass. He bashes it on the rim of the toilet. He places it on the rim and stomps on it. It falls into the toilet and he flushes it. All filmed over his shoulder. I think he's wearing red and the wall is light blue.

Clip is in colour, probably 90s or 00s. Possibly European. Got a Dardenne bros. feeling from it but I could be way off.

Pialat's L'enfance nue.

Not sure if the above is right, but these might help you if not:

https://theclockmarclay.fandom.com/wiki/Crowdsourcing-The-Clock

https://letterboxd.com/thisisdrew/list/the-clock/

Nice spot, Citroen.

Oh yes. I've seen that movie at least three times - my memory is terrible. If the clip had shown the kid's face I would've known right away. Thanks!

Another one from The Clock.

French, B&W, probably mid-late 60s.

Tight shot of a middle aged man and a young woman facing each other. Foregrounded, a metronome. The man starts the metronome ticking and starts asking the woman a rapid-fire series of questions about which of two prominent personages she would rather go to bed with. Some of the choices were Cassius Clay, Werner von Braun, and Georges Brassens.

Don't know, but this list might help:

https://letterboxd.com/thisisdrew/list/the-clock/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Are_You,_Polly_Maggoo%3F

Any silent film scholars recognise this?

hey @tcm and fellow film fans, what is this row boat scene from that I played one of my songs behind while it was on and forgot to write down the title like a year and a half ago? my google search is sad. pic.twitter.com/W0Khb431Yv

— Caitlin Rose (@TheCaitlinRose) May 15, 2020

I saw a scene when I was a kid (coming in late from a kid's cricket match, I reckon) and, for whatever reason, I can't stop thinking about it. It could be TV series/film but...

It's set in a drawing room, probably Victorian but could be Edwardian, and a woman, in dress of the period, is having a pin cushion pushed into her cheek. In my mind's eye, the colours suggest a Hammer production but that might just be nostalgia. Anyone have any idea?

b&w, ~60s, english. man kidnaps another man and chains him up in a disused building. later he fills a bathtub full of acid and leaves it there, obviousy meant for killing and dissolving of the kidnapped man. only the kidnappee pulls the chain and drains the acid.

features someone like dirk bogarde or terence stamp. makes me think of The Collector or one of those.

Obsession (1949)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsession_(1949_film)

Shades of The Abominable Dr. Phibes, but that's in color ...

Alba's pick sure looks good. Wiki link is missing the closing parenthesis, here it is again.

before getting that tab sorted, i searched for "movie man kidnapped bathtub" and got

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6f/Where_the_heart_is_poster.jpg

hmmm, close!

"movie man kidnapped bathtub acid" gets us closer to the right genre/vibe but no obvious hits. it seems like there was a real life 1940s serial killer, John Haigh, the "Acid Bath Murderer," who inspired a fair number of fictionalized accounts. ex. an episode of the radio program The Black Museum called "The Jar of Acid." apparently Hitchcock kicked around a version called Kaleidoscope.

oh, thanks alba, i may yet start thinking of you again as 'king of research' 8)

and i'm glad it turned out to be quite obscure!

yeah, there's an 'acid-bath' keyword in imdb but doesn't turn this up. in fact, imdb doesn't mention acid bath part of this at all.

there's an "a is for acid film" from 2002 that's about Haigh that i remember watching at the time. that one does turn up in the imdb keyword search (but is far too new)

Dante's Peak, while not exactly bathtub-based, is my go-to for such "acid cinema"

i may yet start thinking of you again as 'king of research' 8)

I've still got it! FWIW, this took just one Google search; was probably a bit of a fluke though. The clever thing is that all Wikipedia pages about films contain the word imdb. Can't remember if I was thinking that carefully when I constructed the search. It was the 10th result for me, so only just on the first page.

doesn't make the front page for me

duckduckgo (which i've been using recently because image search is easier) has it 3rd though.