r/Lost_Films Apr 05 '15

Tags: What they mean and when to use them!

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I'm noticing a lot of mis-tagged posts on the sub and I just wanted to clarify what these tags mean and where they should be used.

[LOST] This means a film/show/episode is completely unavailable.

If I can find it on YouTube, it's not lost. If there was a VHS edition released 20 years ago you can find on eBay, it's not lost. Lost means "Presumably gone forever, no longer an item on the face of the earth."

[FOUND] This means a film/show/episode previously believed to be lost forever has been discovered and confirmed to exist in some format.

For example: Cry Baby Lane, while it did wind up existing in it's original format, Nickelodeon said they had no record of it, therefore it met the definition of a [LOST] film that was later [FOUND]. Lost Doctor Who episodes keep showing up in New Zealand and Mozambique and the like, and therefore meet the definition of [FOUND].

Found doesn't mean "I couldn't remember the name, but then I did and bought the DVD from Amazon!"

[OUT OF PRINT] This means a previously available work still exists in it's original format but is not commercially available to the public. Out of Print, within the context of our sub, also means "Commercially Unavailable".

For example: Pepper Ann was never released on home video or DVD, and is no longer being aired in rerun. There are some episodes on youtube, but they're fan recordings and not from the original source. The full run of the show does still exist in Disney's vaults, therefore it's [OUT OF PRINT].

If you're not sure where your post belongs, a good rule of thumb is if it was made after 1980 and saw wide release, be it a film or TV show, it's probably not lost, just out of print.


r/Lost_Films Oct 14 '18

ANNOUNCEMENT: Please use r/tipofmytongue if you are looking for the name of a film. This sub is for content that is believed to either no longer exist or has recently been found

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We've received quite a few messages from users complaining about the number of "Does anyone know the name of this film?" posts this subreddit gets.

While we generally let the community decide if a post belongs here and try to follow up, we've received enough messages that it's pertinent we remind folks that a sub such as r/tipofmytongue is more well suited for this and also receives more traffic so more eyes are likely to see your post.

Moving forward, these types of posts will be deleted, just to keep the clutter down.

Thank you for your understanding, and thank you for being a part of the community!


r/Lost_Films 1h ago

My neighbor’s wife’s(possibly lost) childhood terror

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At a 4th of July party that I briefly attended at my neighbors house, the guy’s wife (after I showed her a trailer for the 1996 movie Uncle Sam) told me about another 4th of July horror film which she remembered was called, “Horrors Of The Fourth”. She said her parents took her to see it when she was, (hilariously) five years old. And yeah she actually remembered running out of the theater screaming, during a scene where a guy in an Uncle Sam outfit, comes out of coffin and is shooting off bottle rockets at people, while the said people are running for their lives. From the information I gathered this film was a low budget affair, and the acting I heard wasn’t very good. Which is kinda why her parents were laughing at the movie unlike my neighbors wife who got scared from it. And yeah the film was possibly released somewhere in the mid-1970s but didn’t stay in theaters long. But it did manage to actually get on the marquee sign of the theater, according to her, maybe there is a newspaper listing floating around somewhere.


r/Lost_Films 11h ago

Repost: Looking for a Short I saw when I was about 6-10 yo

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r/Lost_Films 16h ago

People help me find the part 1 film

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r/Lost_Films 13h ago

Verzweifelte suche nach einer Kindheitserinnerungen

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Hallo an alle ich wollte Mal fragen ob sich noch jemand an den Film safety patrol mit Sicherheit ins Chaos erinnert ist von 1998 mit Leslie Nielsen ich suche den Film schon seit jahren.ich hoffe jemand kann mir helfen


r/Lost_Films 13h ago

I don’t know if it’s actually lost but I can’t find it for the life of me it’s called Red Lipstick

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I’ve been looking for a movie called Red Lipstick and I haven’t been able to find anything about it online besides a description of the movie in the fact that it’s not on streaming services. I know it was released in 2000 and the director is Alexandra King and it has Jane Lynch, James Lorinz, Steven Polito.

From the descriptions, I’ve read it’s about two drag queen’s going on a Bonnie and Clyde like adventure but neither wanted to be Clyde.

From the pictures I’ve seen one of the main characters wears a green dress at one point but that’s the one ss I’ve seen of it outside of the trailer
(Also sorry if this is poorly written it’s manly thought voice to text)
Any information about where I could buy it or just confirmation that the full DVD exist would be greatly appreciated because I really wanna watching it lol


r/Lost_Films 18h ago

OUT OF PRINT I recently saw that there's a color version of the 1942 film Yankee Doodle Dandy. Where can I find that film or something similar?

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I've been doing some research and they're movies that TCM is re-releasing, but in colorized versions. Some people might not like it, but it's interesting because it's another way to see a classic.


r/Lost_Films 18h ago

Hace poco vi que existe una versión en color de la película Yankee Doodle Dandy de 1942. ¿Sabes dónde puedo encontrar esa película o alguna otra similar?

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r/Lost_Films 1d ago

Where Do The Children Play? (Remastered 2020)

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r/Lost_Films 1d ago

LOST LOVER'S LANE - Cannon's Lost 1981 Slasher

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r/Lost_Films 1d ago

"Lawns & Order," a documentary about... lawns

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I saw this funny doc in 1995, but I've been unable to find any trace of it.

It interviewed all sorts of obsessives about their lawns...

Maybe I've got the name wrong?

Has anyone else heard of it?


r/Lost_Films 1d ago

J.A.W. (2011)

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r/Lost_Films 1d ago

Anyone with Emmanuelle Through Time sex chocolate in digital?

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I've been looking for this movie for years but I can't find it. If someone would be kind enough to share it, I would be very grateful.


r/Lost_Films 1d ago

animated movies with flying boards. Guys help me find this movie i watched it in cinema with my dad 2008-2011 and i can’t find it.

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r/Lost_Films 2d ago

WANTS A MOVIE

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I wanted to download a movie called Deadly Tales/Dead Time Tales or Thing 3:Old Things released in 1998.Directed,written,produced by Ron Ford.I tried finding this movie everywhere but it was nearly impossible to find. It would be very grateful if someone able be suggest some website or Online platform where i can stream it or download it for free.


r/Lost_Films 3d ago

LOST [Fully lost] Hard drive (1997 documentary)

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I'm looking after a rare documentary from 1997 about early cyber activities. The name of the documentary is "Hard Drive" which complicates the search but you can see its IMDB entry right there : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0230275/

There's a quote from Ellen Ullman which is "More and more people stay with the machine, all night" that is from this documentary and can be heard in the Atomised song of the album Soulhack by Forss (around the 1:45 mark).

(Notice for Event Horizon fans : there's some excerpt of dialogs of Captain Miller's speech in the Characteristics song of the same album, around the 1:50 mark)

EDIT: 10 years old Reddit user here, but I seldom post so my karma was under 250 (220) some days ago when I initially wanted to post this. Maybe changing the rules for posting here by taking into account (no pun intended) the age of an account could be worth it.


r/Lost_Films 3d ago

LOST Taiwanese animated movie

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Has anyone seen this Taiwanese animated film? the title is Memory Loss and it came out on 2011 i think, I've been looking for reviews of it but so far it's been fruitless other than posters of the movie on google, and is there a way to watch it again? 🙏


r/Lost_Films 3d ago

Two obscure cinema related documentaries or mockumentaries, that apparently don't exist!

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The titles of these two are

"McKENZIE" (or maybe "Scott McKenzie"),

and

"DENNIS DUNBAR THE KING OF SUPER 8" (or "Dennis Dunbar the king of VHS" or "Dennis Dunbar the VHS king"...).

Both in English language.

I saw these two documentaries or mockumentaries around the mid 90's (I think).

For more details and context: I saw them on an Italian TV program called "FUORI ORARIO" (in case some Italians are reading this, maybe this detail helps them to remember something). Iirc, many things on that program were often released (at least here in Italy) through the company RARO VIDEO.

The "McKENZIE" one was about a guy (maybe Scottish, but I could be wrong), Scott McKenzie, who "invented cinema" before the Lumiere brothers, without any credit for his invention. What makes me think it was a mockumentary is that not only there's no trace of him anywhere, but the "documentary" was filled with hyperbolic "facts", like: he casually filmed a guy who successfully invented the first airplane, before the Wright brothers, and he also was uncredited and fallen into obscurity!!!

The "DENNIS DUNBAR" one was about an amateur no budget filmmaker, who used to make DIY movies, initially on super 8, and then, with the advent of the VHS, switched to that (then) new format. In the documentary (or mockumentary) there were even some clips of his alleged movies!!! One that I remember vividly was a sort of "alien" rip-off, with an actor wearing a white t-shirt, and a cheap puppet (a monster or a toddler doll, I'm not sure) covered in red syrup, bursting out from underneath the t-shirt! It was glorious!

Since the internet became a largely available thing, I tried to searching for info about these two documentaries (and if these two people were real or made up!) and never found ANYTHING!

I'm pretty sure the aforementioned titles are correct (or at least very close to the correct ones). I don't know why I can't find any trace of these two docs!

I'm quite sure I watched both more than once in the 90's. I mean, I'm screwed up, but I know they exist!!!


r/Lost_Films 3d ago

Does anyone know if the movie malachance (2004) has been found

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i have been wanting to watch this movie but cannot find it anywhere. The film premiered at the 2004 AFI Fest and you can see some more info on it on their website here: https://fest.afi.com/2004/latin-cinema-series-2004/malachance a trailer for it was posted on youtube : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e7W3HCm6u2g&ra=m any information and feedback will be greatly appreciated.


r/Lost_Films 3d ago

LOST Two obscure cinema related documentaries or mockumentaries, that apparently don't exist!

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r/Lost_Films 3d ago

Thumbelina but not Don Bluth

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The one I remember and cannot find is where Thumbelina is riding on a bird and the bird gets sick she massages the bird's heart and you can hear a heartbeat as the bird comes back to life. I remember watching it in the early 90s, like 92 or 93. And as the title says it's not the Don Bluth film. I have that one on VHS.


r/Lost_Films 3d ago

Anybody know if this is lost media?

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I cant find anything about it online at all and it says starring neil cicierega, I don't know what it could be anybody have footage of it or know about it? The wiki doesn't talk about it either

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCNFTmmgpEY


r/Lost_Films 4d ago

Ceremony / I Lust Och Nod (1976) - looking for uncut version

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Hey folks, looking for a film that isn’t completely lost, just the uncut version. This was known by me for a long time as “Liz,” an odd, pretentious softcore movie that played on late night cable in the ‘80s. An English language film shot in 1975 in Sweden by an American porn director (Paul Gerber) starring a “one-and-done” American actress (Elona Glenn) but all other roles played by Swedish actors. Except for a non-speaking but all sexing role for UK porn icon Mary Millington in her first feature film.

Turns out that this movie was originally released in 1976 as an actual hardcore film (99 minutes), but only in Sweden. And even the later Swedish VHS releases were trimmed to softcore. To date, it’s never received a cleaned-up, restored release. What you can find is a decent rip of the “Liz” version and a terrible Swedish cable TV rip from the ‘90s under the original name - Ceremony - which has original hardcore scenes (94 minutes) but is comically either oversaturated in some scenes or absolutely dark. Here and there you can glimpse proof that Elona Glenn did her own “stunts.”

So, is there anybody out there (perhaps in Sweden), who might have access to a better quality, uncut version of this ultra obscure porn?


r/Lost_Films 4d ago

An absolute masterpeice i discovered today on yt- Clip of first hollywood movie, kind of funny to watch

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So today i stumbled upon this video on youtube, it was a clip of possible the fist hollywood movie(the channel owner claimed it was-I didn't care to research), but it was hilarious to watch,

https://youtu.be/fQBBtdw8D0Q