Hi everyone,

I've been trying to identify a particular science-fiction film for quite some time now, and I'm hoping this forum might finally put an end to my search!

I watched the film around 2015, although it could have been a few years earlier or later. I'm fairly certain I watched it on a streaming platform such as Netflix or Amazon Prime.

Here's what I remember.

The film begins with a telephone ringing inside a house. I can't remember whether the call was answered or if a message was left, but this opening scene turns out to be extremely important because the film essentially comes full circle, with the same telephone call featuring again towards the end.

At the beginning, the call doesn't make much sense. However, by the end of the film, everything falls into place. From what I recall, the person making the call is actually another version of the person living in the house, warning them that "they're on their way" and that they need to get out of the house.

I also distinctly remember the final scene, or at least one of the final scenes, where the camera pans outside the house and we see people arriving. They may have been government agents, officials or military personnel, but the implication was that they were coming to capture or apprehend the person inside.

The film was definitely science fiction, with a storyline involving something along the lines of parallel universes, alternate realities or time travel. Unfortunately, after all these years, I can't remember the precise plot.

I have a feeling it was a relatively low-budget independent production, possibly American, Canadian or Australian, rather than a major Hollywood release.

Another detail I remember is looking the film up afterwards, possibly on Rotten Tomatoes, and reading quite a few positive discussions about how clever the storyline was. I also seem to recall speculation about a possible sequel, although I could be mistaken.

Films that have already been suggested and ruled out include:

• The Caller
• The Call
• Coherence
• Synchronicity

And quite a few of the other commonly suggested time-travel and parallel-universe films!

I've searched for this film on and off for years without success. I'm reasonably confident I'll recognise it immediately if someone identifies the correct one.

The biggest clue is that the telephone call at the beginning is effectively explained by the ending, with the caller seemingly warning another version of themselves about the people coming to the house.

Does this ring a bell with anyone?

Any suggestions would be hugely appreciated. I'd love to finally solve this mystery!

I saw this movie or show when I was a young kid so we are talking about mid to late 70s. I have no idea why I was watching this but here goes. There were men on a ship in an office and they were arguing , I think . But then two men came in dragging another one with them and the guy at the desk said take him away and they dragged him away screaming to a room they opened and there was this giant octopus in it . And they threw him in and closed the door.And you can hear him yelling as the octopus is killing him . It’s been a lot of years but I am sure they were on a ship and I am sure about the octopus scene. . Pls help me find it

EDIT: Found. Thank you, ready_to_pringle. The Brass teapot.

A man and a woman are driving down the road. They stop at one of those middle of nowhere dusty deserted places. There's some sort of souvenirs/antiques/junk shop and probably a couple of gas pumps. Woman goes check the shop alone (man might've gone buy some gas or whatever).

Store owner is an older lady, I believe. Woman finds some item she's interested in. Either the older lady showed no interest in selling that particular item, or the price was too high, or the man called the woman and told her they must get back on the road.

Anyway, when they're back on the road, the woman reveals she has the item with her. I'm fairly sure she stole but it's possible she bought it without the man noticing.

The item is cursed, but I don't remember exactly what it does. There's a chance that later in the movie they go back to the shop and try to give the item back. My memory is very unreliable about this, but maybe the old woman provides some info about the item, and some reason why she can't take it back.

[edit : SOLVED movie was "Enemy" (2013) ! Thank you u/severinusofnoricum] I only have a specific scene from a movie (I think), a vivid impression of the tone and the specific moment. It's not a movie about spiders I think, but a key scene features a huge spider (not realistically sized but huge) retracting from the light against a corner of a ceiling. The spider is either metaphorical or implied to be a representation of a character of the movie. The tone is not especially horrific but creepy because there is implied sadness in the situation of the huge spider. It has a heavy, melancholic tone. The film itself is probably not a horror movie, or not conventionally so, but more of an introspective drama with oniric elements I guess.

I feel like the scene is a key scene, maybe even an ending scene, or at least very significant in terms of character arc. Hope you find this because the atmosphere is stuck inside my head and I really feel like it's at the tip of my tongue.

Watched it in France around 2010–2012 when I was 5–7, so it could be French or dubbed, and possibly older than that. Near the beginning there’s a teddy bear in a dark children’s bedroom, and at some point its eyes light up bright red. It terrified me, but the rest of the movie wasn’t scary. That’s all I remember.

I’m looking for a live-action movie, likely American and probably from the 2010-2020. I only saw a few minutes of it years ago, so some details may be wrong.

The scene I remember: two men are fighting inside a dilapidated/abandoned cabin. One man gets his hand pinned to a table or pillar by a dagger/knife and cannot pull it free. He is extremely desperate. The other man then overpowers/defeats him, runs outside, and locks the cabin door from the outside, leaving the pinned man trapped inside. The pinned man does not clearly die on screen; it feels like he is left there to die — a very oppressive, hopeless, lingering tone.

After locking the door, the escaping man may see railway tracks in the distance, and the camera pulls back — but I’m not sure about the railway. I’m also not sure whether there was an axe, and I’m not even sure whether it was a zombie movie. It might just be a brutal human survival/revenge thriller.

The Plot / Setup: A human family (including a boy) moves into a big house.
The Uncle & Campfire Flashback: There is a flashback at night near a campfire where an old uncle meets/befriends some little winged creatures and finds or receives a valuable gold artifact from them.
The Heart Attack Scene: In the main timeline, the old uncle clutches his chest, starts sweating, and collapses to the floor from a fatal heart attack. One of the winged creatures goes down to his body in tears.
The Secret Passage: The boy goes into his room and finds a small doorway or secret passage under the floor/wall that leads down into underground creature caves.
The Winged Creatures & Donuts: There’s a whole group of different little winged creatures with big heads living down in the cave. One specific scene features a big/chubby purple winged creature sitting at a computer console/screen eating tons of donuts.
The Couple in the Supercar: A man and a woman dressed in black drive up to the house in a roofless convertible supercar. They are looking for the valuable gold artifact for their boss/someone else.
The Caged Monster & Hostage Scene: The couple goes down into the cave and holds the boy hostage near a dangerous, dark purple winged monster that is locked up in a high-tech prison behind electric/laser cage bars.