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    The main character believes something, or witnesses a murder, and they try to tell people the truth, or who the murderer is, but no one believes them.

    Also, the "bad guy" is constantly manipulating the situation and trying to hurt the main character.

    Basically, I'm looking for those movies where the entire story line is about the main character screaming, "You've got to believe me!" but no one will.

    The Skulls
    Disturbia (sort of, even though we're not SURE he's a killer)
    Flight Plan


    Any help is greatly appreciated as always. Thanks.
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  • #2
    Re: Help me think of a movie where...

    Paths of Glory
    Originally posted by Great White Mark
    Film is art? Just a tip, it's called show business, not show art.

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    • #3
      Re: Help me think of a movie where...

      No bad guy manipulating the protag per se, but:

      The Blob
      Dante's Peak
      "There's one way to guarantee something won't be in the movie: put it in the screenplay."
      -Dan O'Bannon

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      • #4
        Re: Help me think of a movie where...

        friggin ARLINGTON ROAD!!!!!

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        • #5
          Re: Help me think of a movie where...

          the fugitive
          cellular
          pacific heights

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          • #6
            Re: Help me think of a movie where...

            There are about a million of them.

            LADY VANISHES is where FLIGHT PLAN stole that.

            Most Hitchcock films feature a man wrongly accused of something who no one will believe, in NORTH BY NORTHWEST everyone believes this guy is a spy, and he's not. No matter what he says, they keep shooting at him.

            MIRAGE is a Hitch knock off about a guy whose whole life doesn't seem to exist - he goes to the office one day and his whole floor is missing.

            PARALLAX VIEW has a screw up newspaper reporter stumble on a conspiracy - a Presidential Candidate (like JFK) is assassinated and now all of the witnesses are dying in accidents... and no one will believe him.

            REAR WINDOW has a guy who thinks he sees a murder across the courtyard and no one will believe him... they won't believe the chick in SISTERS either when she sees the same thing.

            There's an old Elizabeth Taylor movie called NIGHT WATCH where she also sees a murder across the courtyard - and keeps seeing it happen again and again, but when the police come there is never a body. Eventually there *is* a body... and it's hers.

            From the writer of REAR WINDOW, the novel NIGHT HAS 1000 EYES was made into a film - it's about a fake psychic who starts having real visions and no one will believe him. He predicts a millionaire will be killed by a lion in NYC, which sounds silly... until the lion escapes from the zoo!

            SORRY WRONG NUMBER is about a woman who overhears some men plotting to kill a woman, and can't get the police to do anything about it... which is a bad thing, because she ends up being the woman.

            There are a half dozen movies about couples who stop at gas stations in the middle of nowhere and one vanishes... and the other searches, but the autorities think the spouse just left them.

            This is a pretty common thriller plot.

            - Bill
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            http://www.scriptsecrets.net

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            • #7
              Re: Help me think of a movie where...

              some more...

              12 Angry Men
              The Ox-Bow Incident
              Rosemary's Baby
              Braveheart
              The Green Mile?
              A Nightmare on Elm Street
              Child's Play
              John Q
              Rocky Balboa
              The Cable Guy
              The Bourne Trilogy
              Originally posted by Great White Mark
              Film is art? Just a tip, it's called show business, not show art.

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              • #8
                Re: Help me think of a movie where...

                because it was on one of the oldie channels a few days ago...Elliott Gould's newspaper reporter character in Capricorn One (1978).

                Lots of other goodies already mentioned above, including my namesake Roger Thornhill in NxNW.


                R.O.T.

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                • #9
                  Re: Help me think of a movie where...

                  Does Frailty count in a way?

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                  • #10
                    Re: Help me think of a movie where...

                    Wow, as always thanks guys! Lots of great stuff to check out!
                    http://twitter.com/JohnSwetnam

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                    • #11
                      Re: Help me think of a movie where...

                      Try Mute Witness or even Miracle Mile. Don't read the synopsis'... just go in blind. Trust me.
                      "Forget it, Jake. It's Hollywood."

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                      • #12
                        Re: Help me think of a movie where...

                        In Planet of the Apes, Taylor tried to tell the monkeys the truth, but they didn't believe him. They didn't even believe he could talk.

                        Corona
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                        • #13
                          Re: Help me think of a movie where...

                          Cool story by Garcia Marquez: Solo vine a usar el telefono.
                          It's about this woman whose car breaks down or something so she goes in this building to use a phone but it's a mental institution and they won't let her out...

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