In the short story "The Gift of the Magi", written by O. Henry, a young married couple deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money. What do you consider to the most thoughtful or unusual gift given in a film?
Della sells her hair to buy a platinum fob chain for Jim's watch. Jim sells his watch to buy Della an assortment of expensive hair accessories known as combs.
Kevin gives a Christmas tree ornament in the shape of a turtledove to the homeless/pigeon lady, and keeps one for himself. As long as they both have their turtledove, they will always have a bond.
Glinda, the good witch of the North, gives Dorothy Ruby slippers. Later, the Wizard of Oz gives The Scarecrow a brain, The Cowardly Lion courage, and The Tin Man a heart.
Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) calls the airline to transfer five hundred thousand miles each to the newlyweds, enough for them to fly around the world for their honeymoon.
At the beginning Frank Costello tells the shop assistant to fill a shopping bag with groceries for the young Colin Sullivan, a couple of loaves of bread, a couple of quarts of milk, and an X-man Wolve…
The gruff heart of gold owner of the diner and the waitress sell bread and peppermint sticks to Pa Joad for only ten cents. Everybody in the scene gets a gift; Winfield and Ruthie get candy, Pa gets t…
A group of Spanish filmmakers get stuck in some protests in Bolivia regarding water privatization. The producer of the film gets involved on it at at the end of the film a Bolivian actor gives him a l…
Scott Calvin (Santa Claus) gives a whole room of high school teachers their childhood favorite toys. They starts playing with them as if they were kids again.
Which of these select movies banned during a past or present authoritarian regime or dictatorship* is your favorite forbidden film? Sources: Wikipedia, The Economist *Democracy Index Scale 0-4 After v…
An American remake of a great foreign language film into an English version makes a lot of sense. Sharing a great story with as wide an audience as possible is always a good idea. These remakes are o…
Which film do you think is most worthy of this title? Choose from the following Discuss the list here See also: Most Quotable Action Movie of All Time?
An old proverb says that the remakes are rarely as good as the originals. Rarely. But, the following titles are all remakes with better ratings than the original movies. In your opinion, which one is …
There are two kinds of police dramas, the whodunit and the howcatchem, the latter emphasized by the police procedural, a subgenre of the crime drama highlighting the investigative procedure of the pol…
Which Movie poster with less picture & more text looks most interesting? Discuss Here http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000088/thread/229212930
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Which of these movies where the hero (or the anti-hero) is killed by the villain is the most heartbreaking? ?? This poll contains major SPOILERS regarding the death of the hero of the films. Discuss h…
The following films have reached the Top 250 in the same release year and considered as movie of the year according to IMDb, which of these movies do you think is the best? P.S: N/R: Not Ranked. Discu…
What crime movie makes you forget about love best? Or movies to watch when your significant other just became not so significant! When you recover from that broken heart, please vote and commiserate h…
What was the "best of the best" Best Picture of this decade? Discuss this poll at http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000088/flat/218608624?d=218608624#218608624
Here are the top-ranked trivia items by user votes from the IMDb pages of each of the Best Picture Oscar winners from the 2000s and 2010s. Which piece of trivia is your favorite? Discuss here after vo…