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Stonekeeper's Summer Game: I recommend this Mystery Movie #485 [Zemlya (1930), guessed by StoneKeeper]


The rules: I have a movie in mind and you have to guess which one it is. For each movie you guys are going to guess, I will give a hint that CONNECTS your guess with the movie I have in mind.

Example of connections: Actor, length, genre, aspect ratio, language, country, year, director, writer in common, rating, number of votes, nominations. It can even be something like: both movies involve a love triangle.

- The winner can either start a new game or say "pass". In case of a pass, the OP gets to start another one.
- After 12 hints, the point goes to the OP and he/she gets to start another one.
- Movie must have at least 3500 votes. Otherwise, add a Bonus Hint.


Hint 1: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965) - Setting is in Europe.
Hint 2: The Day of the Jackal (1973) - Fewer than 40,000 votes on IMDb.
Hint 3: Steamboy (2004) - IMDb rating between 6.0 and 8.0.
Hint 4: Knife in the Water (1962) - Black and white.
Hint 5: Tais-toi! (2003) - Runtime shorter than 90 minutes.
Hint 6: Black Sunday (1960) - Shared plot keyword: "horse".
Hint 7: The Desert Rats (1953) - The story involves actual historical events.
Hint 8: Pickpocket (1959) - Drama genre.
Hint 9: Cold War (2018) - Director also has writing credit.
Hint 10: Forbidden Games (1952) - Shared plot keyword: "farmer".
Hint 11: The Mortal Storm (1940) - Set in the 1930s.

StoneKeeper wins with Zemlya (1930), an excellent Soviet film about the struggle between peasants and landowners in the USSR during the development of collective farming.

Scoreboard:
FredBurroughs: 112
LauraGrace: 73
StoneKeeper: 60
Allaby: 55
Kawada_Kira: 47
dmac8 (retired): 44
Hownos: 40
SkyCoyote5150: 25
KvlhokVjequs: 11
twinA: 7
SomeCodhopper: 4
Stratego: 3
KasparHauser:2
MinaVladimir: 1
godewey: 1
ShogunofYonkers: 1

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The War of the Worlds (1953)

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Yeeeeeah that's set in the US rather than Europe, so I'm gonna call that one an invalid guess.

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Whoopsies - please disregard that one, then!.

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Cold War (2018)

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Hint added.

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Forbidden Games (1952)

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Hint added.

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Forbidden Games (1952)

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I goofed on a couple of the hints lol. I mean, all my hints are correct, no errors as such, but I missed a couple chances to significantly narrow it down. I'm wondering now if you guys are gonna get this one. It's getting down to the wire! :P

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The Mortal Storm 1940 ( does not qualify but it has famer and I want my hint dammit!)

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Hint added. :) Next is the final guess!

Edit: Oh wait never mind, I guess the next is second-to-final guess lol. We rarely get that far so I got confused for a sec.

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Nope, next is the final Hint. We are allowed one last guess then

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You're right, I got confused lol, sorry about that.

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No prob

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Zemlya (1930)?

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You got it!!! Winner!

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Shhhissh!! I’m exhausted!

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It was a tough one! Lol.

As for the hints I could have done better on, with "Knife in the Water" and "Cold War" I could have said that the film was set in a socialist country. But ultimately it all worked out.

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