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A reddit dedicated to Lost films and media. Discussion of lost films and restoration of lost and incomplete media.

A reddit dedicated to Lost films and media. Discussion of lost films and restoration of lost and incomplete media. Post questions, information and most of all films that have been found that were once thought lost.

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It's Great to Be Alive (1933)

This previously lost film was found and was being restored by the Museum of Modern Art in NY and has been shown there.

(https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/8887)

Does anyone know whether the film has ever been put on DVD on online since it was found?

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2024/11/17
20:50 UTC

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Christmas/Snowman movie

I've been looking for this movie for years. I'm 26 now, when I was about 5 through 8 I watched a VHS Christmas movie every year and I can not seem to remember the name, the plot, but I can still see parts in my head that I do remember bc at that young age, it kinda scared me.

It was a cartoon, I believe there was no talking just music, and it was clearly a old old cartoon but not black and white. It shows a house at night, the wind and snowflakes start to rush outside. Come morning, the ground is covered in snow. I believe there's a little girl who builds a snowman. She plays with him (kinda like frosty the snowman I know, but once again there's no talking and the vibe to the movie is sort of depressing and I know it isn't that.) The snowman eventually melts in a haunting way. To add, I'm almost positive this was NOT a full length movie and it may have been on a vhs with different Christmas shorts. I do know it wasn't Disney just from what I remember!

I want to find this SO bad to see how I would view it now as an adult. It was so unsettling to me as a child. If anyone has any ideas or knows this movie please let me know!!

7 Comments
2024/11/16
03:13 UTC

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Weird Netflix movie, lost media I believe

Please help me find this movie

Weird Netflix Movie

Okay, so I have been trying very hard to find this. When I was younger, I watched this strange animated move on Netflix. It was sketchy and looked like it came out of a collage. It was very hard to follow, it had no speaking I believe or very little. This is a bit of a read, but please help. This is what I remember: There was a family, a mum, dad, and son. The dad was a businessman and left on a train. The son had a jar or something and put something like a smell or sound from hi s father and buried it under a nearby tree. Then, another train came I and the boy had got on the train because his father had been gone for a long time. The there was a whole very strange and slightly creepy adventure thru a very crowded polluted large city. Some things I remember it there was a large tv screen with news video on a building. At the time this was the most creepy part because the news broadcasters were still in the collage animation style, but with real eyes and lips. There was also a few people he met in the city like a homeless man and a dog I think. I am not sure I was very young at the time of watching this. I also recall a scene where the boy found a train, and his dad came out of it, but his joy was short lived when hundreds of exact copies of his father, all in matching suits with suitcases also all businessmen. I don’t remember much else, but at the end of the movie, the boy was now grown, and he went back to the tree, in earthed the jar and listened to it. I am not sure, I mentioned it to my friend at the time, about a week or two after watching it, but it must have been removed for lack of popularity, because when we looked for it, it was gone. Mind you this was in about 2019-2020 so I am not sure. At the time I was disturbed by this off-putting media but as a person who now loves artists like boisvert and doctornowhere, I want to watch this and interpret it today, now that I am older and can understand the nonverbal message. I have been searching for it, all over TikTok, YouTube, and even the Netflix Channel on YouTube itself. If someone else remembers this or knows who the artist behind it is, or maybe even where I could watch it today, please message me or reply to this post. Thank you for reading.

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2024/11/15
23:27 UTC

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1993 A&E Breakfast With The Arts With Commercials

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2024/11/15
21:27 UTC

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Film from my childhood

Its a movie about a dinosaur/dragon on a tropisk island with a group of animals i dont remeber the name of it

3 Comments
2024/11/13
22:34 UTC

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Around the Bay (2008)

Around the Bay is an indie directed by Alejandro Adams about a wealthy father in the Bay Area who loses his job in the financial crisis. He hires his estranged college-aged daughter to babysit his young son (who's like 5 or 6) while he looks for work and eventually realizes he's wasted so much time working he doesn't know his son and tries to reconcile with the daughter.

I remember watching it on Amazon Prime in 2018, but it no longer seems to be available in any form. The youtube link also says it's not available. Truly appreciative of anyone who can find this very obscure film for me. I don't mind paying.

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2024/11/13
15:38 UTC

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Looking for the German Film "Butterbrot" (1990)

Hi everyone,

I'm on the hunt for a German film called Butterbrot, released in 1990 and directed by Gabriel Barylli. According to IMDb, the movie stars Gabriel Barylli himself along with Claudia Messner and Joachim Król. It seems to be a romantic comedy-drama revolving around complex relationships, but I haven’t been able to find much more about it or locate a copy.

I’d love any info on where it might be available to watch, or if anyone here has seen it and can share details on the plot or general vibe of the movie. Even clips or insight into its release and distribution would be really appreciated!

Thanks so much for any help!

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2024/11/13
04:41 UTC

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[partially lost] German SesameStreet from the 90s

okay, this might be the hardest pill since I had internet.

It appears the german sesame-street is really, really incomplete.

The Episodes from 1980 - 2008 are extremely out of order and maybe lost forever (or just dissolved in the basements of their producers).

My research so far has been contacting the studios (it were 3 different Studios that aired the german Sesame-Street. N3 / WDR, KIKA, ZDF)

Their Archive-team promised to contact me, but it has been multiple months now without any further reply

Youtube and the "ARD Mediathek" have some episodes, but they are the same you can get on the DVD (Classics "Collection") and can be found on YT. All incomplete of course.

Not sure where I could look now.

I'm out of ideas (especially after crawling through the internet-archives with zero luck).

Speaking of "Internet Archives":

They have SOME Episodes, but most of them are incomplete and many, many episodes are just missing.

And you know whats worse?

My family kept VHS-Casettes where they recorded every, single Episode when we were young but they threw it away when they had to move! "- - :-(

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2024/11/12
04:53 UTC

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The duplo movie

Hiya, the I can't find the duplo movie anywhere. I know it's real, because i watched it on netflix. It starts off with people being transformed into the duplo characters and standing in a field with a castle. That's all I really remember. Someone help me find it please.

2 Comments
2024/11/11
06:30 UTC

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where is existance 2006??

i was looking for that movie for so long but i just cant find it anywhere, I don't know if it's even finished, I just hope it's somewhere!!! I only found an available trailer and that's it, if somebody knows about this movie plss help!! I will be very grateful.

6 Comments
2024/11/10
22:08 UTC

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Documentary on Broadway Brawler (1997) a lost Bruce Willis film

2 Comments
2024/11/10
18:27 UTC

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The WEIRD World Of Lost Media...

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2024/11/09
14:36 UTC

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Lost 1980's Film?

Hello! This is my first time posting on this subreddit, I love this topic so I figured I would contribute when I saw this YouTube comment on this sci fi movie recap channel, This is what it said.

"The end of the universe stories are fascinating. Some are serious science fiction films, while others can be fanciful. In the early '80s I watched a short film called, "Voyage To The End Of The Universe", on public television. I've been searching for it for quite some time without any luck. A rocket flys to the end of the universe. As they are approaching the end, they come upon a vast white surface. The astronauts do a space walk and can touch this white surface. One of them takes out a knife and cuts a hole in the white material. He then sticks his head out of the hole he has just made and sees a bright blue sky above. A minute later he sees a giant girl walking toward where he is. As he screams, a hand comes down over him and picks up an egg and places it in a basket along with other eggs. The picture fades as she walks toward a farmhouse, with the basket of eggs."

-GG1man

I have tried looking this up on chatgpt to see if it could give me anything. Nothing. He says in the replies that it was in black and white and that they still haven't found it in all this time. Im guessing it must have been a short film of some sort? I would also like to add that it definitely wasn't the 1963 film "Voyage To The End Of The Universe" since the ending nor the story lines up with what they said.

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2024/11/07
04:42 UTC

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What’s the deal with “DOGMA?”

I wanted to watch DOGMA the other day and was surprised I couldn’t find it anywhere. I did read a couple of articles about copyright battles involving Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Smith but I got lost in all the legal minutia . Because Weinstein’s in prison I don’t know what that means for the future of the movie’s availability. I love that dang movie.

17 Comments
2024/11/05
22:51 UTC

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HELP ME FIND A VIDEOCLIP

i live in Spain, and when i was a little kid (between 2010-2012), me and my mom were watching a TV show/program like MTV which played videoclips during a night on early summer. I remember one song that i think sounded like poison-alice cooper in the begging but a lil bit darker. I remember videoclip started showing something like a catacomb or a room full of stone coffins and people wearing hoodies comming from the coffins and i think it was in black and white, but im not quite sure.

if somebody knows what im talking about pls tell me my mom loved it and i been looking for this song for years.

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2024/11/02
00:37 UTC

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Oliver & Company (Original 1988 Version)

Original opening and closing of Oliver and company by Walt Disney Pictures was presumably lost for 36 years until now. It was rediscovered on a France VHS.

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2024/11/01
12:20 UTC

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I can't find this movie

I was arguing with someone the other day bc I sounded crazy thinking about this movie and I have now invested an entire part time job looking for this thing.

It was a revenge, young boy looses family is trained by ninja types in a south American rain forest comes back to his city and gets justice for everyone type deals. Main character looks like the guy who played eddie brock in the sam raimi spiderman movies I wanna say it was a panther based hero. But I don't remember maybe jaguar. I don't know

Now I'm aware this might be a movie from before the dimension shift and that it never existed in this universe but if someone can help me find it that'd be really cool

3 Comments
2024/10/30
20:20 UTC

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I can’t find this vampire move

I need your help to find this vampire movie that I have searched the whole internet for and cannot find it, I assume it's a movie that got cheaply made then thrown away. To explain, I once thrifted said vampire movie at some random thrift store simply because I like collecting random dvds that have cool covers and this one was cheesy and bad, but campy so I liked it and got it. I've since lost it. It was a mostly red cover and I don't remember a specific name I just remember it having the word vampire on the front somewhere I think. It looked extremely cheesy and low budget maybe 2000s ish but not sure. I know this is almost nothing to go off of but yeah, red cover, maybe a girls face on the front? Vampires. This doesn't truly matter but it bugs me that I can't find it anywhere!! I've searched everywhere and cannot find it. Any possibilities?

4 Comments
2024/10/30
07:03 UTC

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Joey Smack films

I've been digging to find some of the films he's helped with and so far I've only been able to find 6 (Infamous Bondage Murders 1+2, The Silver Mummy, The Masked Strangler, Duck! The Carbine High Massacre, and Where the Dead Go to Die), which he's got quite a few more than that. Anyone know where there's any other films of his?

5 Comments
2024/10/30
05:25 UTC

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help mee to find it

Hello, I'm looking for a film that literally traumatized me when I was a child.
I don't remember many details but I know there is a scene where a man with a white, scary face holds his arm out towards the camera. He has a long, sharp black nail that appears to be poisoned or something. I think he was screaming in that scene. I don't know if it's a horror film, I don't remember anything except this detail, I would like to find it, thank you for your help!

3 Comments
2024/10/28
04:12 UTC

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Jesus - Der Film (1986)

Came across this anthology film while looking through Jorg Buttgereit’s body of work, and it seems right up my alley. It’s a collection of 35 different experimental short films depicting the life of Christ made by different German filmmakers. However, I cannot find it on Youtube or Internet Archives.

3 Comments
2024/10/27
21:24 UTC

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Help finding lost movie

Today I was watching Bunks the zombie movie from disney and I started to remember a movie or show (im pretty sure it was a movie) where I think a teenager and his parents work catching “ghosts” using some type of ball/spheres where they are vacuumed and then stored. I remember there was a scene where the teenager and some more people where in the woods going to like save a party or something, and suddenly the branches gained faces (pretty sure it was green smiles) and started chasing after them. I dont rememeber practically anything else and ive been searching for it for the past 2 days and I just cant!! If someone can help me identify this film it would be greatly appreciated!! (It was a kids movie, to my criteria for kids from 8-15)

6 Comments
2024/10/27
20:48 UTC

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Horror movie

I found this subreddit and i thought that someone here could help me find a movie i saw in a short video some years ago. Excuse my bad english im spannish and still learning. This movie goes about some friends or a girl entering some tunnels full of challenges representing the purgatory, the place that determines if you go to heaven or hell, theres a girl as a main protagonist who keeps dying and retrying the challenges until she manages to escape and go to "heaven". Does anyone here know wich movie im talking about??? thanksss

2 Comments
2024/10/26
22:17 UTC

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