Aretha Franklin's recording career is examined through archival footage and interviews with family and prominent figures within the music industry.
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Aretha Franklin's recording career is examined through archival footage and interviews with family and prominent figures within the music industry.
The Spiral Cage is a TV film about a girl finding her way to deal with her childhood trauma and obsession with heels associated with Tourette syndrome.
A Grieving mother suspects that her son's ex-girlfriend may have been involved in his death.
An illegal immigrant on the run from a Russian mafia boss, falls for an artist. When he discovers her family home is worth millions, he hatches a plot to get hold of the deeds.
A pair of single parents, who have each brought their children to a remote Scottish resort for an annual family-and-games event, are accidentally booked into the same cabin. Naturally, they can't stand each other...at first.
Two teenage girls must come to terms with their stepfather when their mother is struck by illness.
Nelly McDermott, the granddaughter of a prominent politician, loses her husband, architect Adam Cauliff, in a fiery boat explosion. When she's informed that he was murdered, Nell is compelled to find the killer by searching for the truth, with the help of a psychic, which could solve the mystery — or end her life.
A chance to hear admirers including Elton John, Gloria Estefan, Smokey Robinson, PM Dawn, Bonnie Raitt and Rod Stewart sharing a stage with the Queen of Soul herself. The concert took place at New York City's Neederlander Theatre in 1993, as an Aids benefit. Elton, Smokey and Rod provide backing vocals on the first number Chain of Fools.
Forest of the Chartreuse massif. A group of lumberjacks working on a job come across the body of a man suspended in the air by a rope system, as if it were a sort of disarticulated puppet. In charge of the investigation, Justine Verard is forced to collaborate with Mehdi Djaoud, whom she holds responsible for the death of her husband, himself a detective, during a mission that went wrong five years earlier. Despite this tragic past, the two agents will have to join forces to solve this first murder together in the face of a mystery that will get thicker as the investigation proceeds. Between a complicated personal life and her investigation, Justine will be caught in a vice-like grip until the final countdown under high tension.
Inspired by a true story, rookie detective Linda Murphy (Sarah Drew) is fresh out of the police academy when she hears her boss, detective David Goodman (Eric Keenleyside) talking about a serial killer in the area who seems to be targeting sex workers. Teaming up with FBI agent Neil Carter (Jamall Johnson), Linda fights to go undercover to help solve the murders and, if all goes accordingly, capture a serial killer.
A pilot for an unproduced British science fiction space adventure series.
In the midst of a spat, film critic Terry Thorpe accidentally kills his lover. Though Thorpe covers his tracks, he raises the suspicions of a private investigator, who then tries to blackmail him. Thorpe also falls under the watchful eye of Detective Fred Stapelli, a cop who is intent on becoming a screenwriter. Before long, Thorpe's girlfriend, Kit, and Stapelli's wife, Patricia, are roped into the case.
A shocking exposé of the deplorable conditions and abuses from the Willowbrook State School for children with intellectual disabilities.
A Bangla romantic drama starring Farhan Ahmed Jovan and Tasnia Farin in the leads.
Jessica moves back home after college and finds her single mother, Tracy, has a new boyfriend, Paul, moving in as well. While working at a restaurant owned by her mother's best friend, Sandra, Jessica sees Paul fighting with another woman and immediately enlists the help Sandra and Hal who suspect something very strange. When Jessica discovers Paul is not who he seems, she sets out to prove Paul is the wrong Mr. Right.
A journey through several countries to find those who really know Kim Jong-un, North Korea's leader, in an attempt to profile a contradictory dictator who seems to rule his nation with both disturbing benevolence and cold cruelty while being worshipped as a living god by his subjects in exalted displays of ridiculous fanaticism.
Dramatizes some of the more tawdry events in the relationship between O.J. Simpson and his wife, Nicole Brown, up to and including his arrest for Brown's murder.
David Attenborough sets out on an intrepid quest across seven continents to create a unique television event to celebrate the wealth of natural features that makes Planet Earth so varied, so distinctive and so spectacularly beautiful.
When publicist, Elizabeth, finds herself unexpectedly caring for her niece for a few weeks, she struggles to balance it all and finds unforeseen support from her niece's kindergarten teacher, Jamie.
Successful Mary Ann Brubeck adopts a daughter right before Christmas. When bad weather lands her and her new baby stranded in Bethlehem, PA, their only option is to stay with the innkeeper’s brother Joe, a quintessential bachelor.
After a violent car accident robs Grace of her memory, a handsome stranger enters her life, insisting that they are lovers. As her memory returns bit by bit, the stranger's story begins to unravel. Grace is forced to fill in the gaps and uncover the truth, suddenly fearing for her life.
The action takes place in a typical French town in the early sixties, at the end of the Algerian war. In a fit of criminal madness, a married, affluent and respected town-citizen named Gregoire Duval kills a young woman who spurns his advances. As no one witnesses him committing this crime, he chooses to remain silent while the girl's boyfriend, a young Algerian farm worker, is wrongly convicted. In a strange twist of fate, the killer becomes one of the jurors of the trial and suddenly does everything in his power to defend the wrongly accused young man.
An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist whose genius and inner demons changed the Western genre forever.
A new job takes young caregiver Madison Carter to New York's picturesque Hudson Valley - or more precisely, to the stately Grant family estate. From now on, she is to look after the lady of the house, Olivia.
Faced with the challenging behaviour of their kids, more and more parents in America are turning to psychoactive medication to help them cope, even though the drugs, and sometimes the diagnoses, remain controversial. Louis travels to one of America's leading children's psychiatric treatment centres, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to get to know the diagnosed children and hoping to understand what drives parents to put their kids on drugs.
Paul Hood is the newly appointed director of the OP Center, a special agency gathering a wide variety of experts monitoring international crisis. On his first day on the job, nuclear missiles are stolen from the former Soviet Union by terrorists. The team must find out who did it, why, and most importantly, where they are heading so they can retrieve them
Japanese horror movie from 1998. (Kiyoshi Kurosawa's segment for School Ghost Story G).
Françoise Dorléac et Catherine Deneuve were nearly twins. Only 18 months separated these sisters who liked to say “Both of us could make the ideal woman”. Françoise Dorléac created her own style, unique even in France : a rare mix of elegance, humor, glamour. This is a touching portrait of an actress whose glory was cut short, seen through the eyes of her sister Catherine.
A heart attack moves a Pulitzer winning journalist to leave NY for the peace of a small New England town, but he soon finds himself pulled into a case of a man accused of killing his gay lover with the blade of a shovel. Wanting to keep the case quiet, the town turns against the journalist and his family when he begins digging into its secrets, until finally the accused man is found hanging in his cell and the truth comes out about more than just the killing.
Vusi Madlazi returns to the South African village he left as a young boy (he was organizing against apartheid, and left in fear of his life) to bury his father. He meets up with his brother Ernest, who tells him their other brother Stephen couldn't be contacted. Vusi goes to Johannesburg to find him, but at first can only find his neighbor/girlfriend, Karin, a stripper. Vusi proceeds to learn how conditions have changed since the end of apartheid, not always for the better for black men.
Darcy, a talented event planner returns to her home town to plan her mother’s wedding. She’s having trouble accepting her stepfather-to-be and quickly Darcy’s obsession with perfection begins to clash with her mother’s wishes for a low-key celebration —especially when it comes to handsome and charming Kyle, the chef Darcy deems inadequate for catering the event. But as complications arise—both personal and professional—it’s Kyle who is able to help her pull off the big day and help her find the love she’s been looking for…
Tony Curtis is the ruthless head of a cosmetics firm, Kiss of Gold, locked in fierce competition with his arch-rival, Glamour, Inc., that happens to be run by his former lover (Lee Grant), and finds his company in the grip of a power struggle among his executives (one of whom, unbeknownst to him, is the son he'd never met) when he is severely injured in a helicopter accident. This pilot to a prospective primetime soap opera failed to generate network interest.
Ex-cop Les Kearney is hired to find the kidnapped daughter of a wealthy businessman.
In this hilarious crime caper, a rich woman and her maid happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time -- and now, they're hotfooting it away from vicious mobsters who want to fit them for a couple pairs of cement overshoes. Can they stay free -- and alive -- long enough to gather evidence against the mobsters?
Melodrama about the mass shooting of Ukrainian Jewry at Babi Yar in Kyiv during the Second World War.
When Lindsey travels to Ireland to acquire land that is perfect for a resort, she decides to enter the town's matchmaking festival to prove her investment—and win over a handsome local.
Nostalgic comic drama in which Cyril and Amos, two veterans of the Normandy landings, return to France to visit the grave of their wartime buddy. They encounter Waldo, an American on a similar mission, and the meeting sparks memories of an old girlfriend from the past. With the mysterious American lady Lisa in their wake, Cyril and Waldo decide to try and track her down.
A young single mother has to work late one night. Her daughter begs her to allow her to stay alone instead of going to a babysitter. The mother finally agrees. When the girl falls and is injured, police are called and she is taken to a hospital, the courts decide that the mother is unfit and take her daughter away. She must fight to all ends to get her back.
Harried suburban man Warren Kooey fakes a hostage situation in order to get the money he needs to escape his humdrum life.
Cornelius Wettering and Stephen Guerin are expatriates living in Curaçao. They're bound together by an understanding that each is hiding from a dangerous past.
A documentary on the making of "Pumping Iron" to celebrate its 25th anniversary. Aired on Cinemax.
Brad Sterling arrives by yacht as a handsome dream prince, and the discrete favorite nephew and brilliant investor of his tycoon uncle Wade. Charles Colton's ingrate heiress Laura eagerly dates him and puts him in the guest-house, partially as spiteful as alliterative to workaholic tycoon pa's preferred son-in-law Jonathan Lawson, son of tycoon Richard. People who warn fickle Laura get irate reactions, best friend Ava even dies in a suspicious hit and run, yet Laura also turns on either suitor in turn, oblivious to serious indications of manipulation.
A detailed and compelling portrait of one of the most formidable characters in British politics as she faces her final days in power. The year is 1990 and Margaret Thatcher's support within the government is wavering - her hold on the premiership hangs in the balance. Then, long-serving politician Sir Geoffrey Howe resigns over Thatcher's attitude to Europe. His resignation speech sparks a chain of events that leads to the overthrow of Britain's first woman prime minister. This modern dramatic tragedy illustrates the strengths and fatal flaws of this iconic woman more clearly than ever before and reveals how the very aspects of her character that helped her secure power are the ones that ensured her downfall. Drama starring Lindsay Duncan.
Kogoro Akechi solves the mystery of the invisible culprit and the invisible weapon.
The film tells the funny stories that happen to the villager Bayram.
The families of twin sisters are "infiltrated" by a mysterious triplet, who was separated from them at birth by their adopted mother. Her deadly plan is to frame one of the twins for murdering the other’s husband, and then assume the identity of his widow by killing her too... but not if the framed sister has anything to say about it.
A single forty-something, with a well-regulated life, sees a heavy secret poisoning her budding relationship with a man she fell in love with.
A new television film from a series that always focuses on the complex fate of a prominent female personality. Under the title Holky šikovný (Clever Girls), stories will be created in which women - screenwriters, dramaturges, directors, and actresses - will play a significant role. Zuzana Stivínová, in the lead role of this television film, struggles with a dangerous illness. She moves to the countryside with her entire family to raise goats and change her lifestyle. Her great role model is an elderly woman, a prominent rural authority figure, who convinces her that goat's milk will help her the most.
When Israeli officials learn that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann may be living in Argentina, they send a team of secret agents to apprehend him.
When Mollie's boyfriend Jack dies on the reservation, she is asked to leave the reservation by her boyfriend's sister for not being one of their own, aside from Mollie's son. Mollie is forced to pack up her belongings and her children and move to northern California, right into a gang infested neighborhood.
A year after the death of their father, life can begin again for Macha, Olga, Irina and their brother, Andrei. But the unpredictability of life destroys their hopes and certainties. The sisters of failed dreams now live in an idle city where everything has to start again. Chekhov's drama about loss and regaining meaning.
Biography follows the life of famed woman pilot Amelia Earhart, including her marriage to a famous publisher and her disappearance during a flight in 1937.
Drama based on a real-life story of a love affair between a married army captain and a young female soldier. Susan Christie and Duncan McAllister have an affair, but Duncan ends the relationship when he's posted to Germany. Three days later, Susan and Duncan's wife, Penny, go for a walk in the woods in Northern Ireland. Fifteen minutes later, Penny is dead and Susan claims they were attacked by an unknown man.
Making of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
In the year 2008, a married couple is distraught over losing their 8 year old son in a boating accident. However, when the mother suddenly sees another child who looks identical to her dead child, the Mother investigates the fertility clinic who aided her with her pregnancy and discovers that they cloned her child in an experiment dubbed "Baby 2000". She also discovers that they still have the genes to develop another child for them and faces the question of whether the couple wants another identical child.
Having escaped from the psychiatric prison, Dr. Albert Beck hides out in an empty house until its new owners unexpectedly arrive to move in! Forced into the attic to evade the recently widowed mother, Beck watches from above... undeniably attracted to her 18-year-old daughter.
The day begins like a nightmare: Sybille Thalheim wakes up in a strange hotel room with a bloodstained knife in her hand.
The vengeful spirit of a dead motorcyclist is reluctant to leave his wrecked machine and manifests itself to a woman journalist as motorbike noise.
Two adoptive brothers -- one a mob hit man, the other a Department of Justice investigator -- who are unaware of each other's existence until they become involved with the same woman, end up in a deadly triangle in this thriller.
Animals communicate with a boy while he's staying at his grandparents' farm and warn him about an impending foreclosure.