Two filmmakers, eager to make a feature film that will improve the tarnished reputation of the longshoreman's union, meet with union officials. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
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Two filmmakers, eager to make a feature film that will improve the tarnished reputation of the longshoreman's union, meet with union officials. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
In this shocking account based on a true story, newlywed Laurie Wade finds her marriage, and eventually the rest of her life, shattered by her deep-rooted psychotic behavior. The young woman soon begins a terrifying descent into insanity and brings danger to all those around her as she goes from brief "short-circuits" to overtly murderous behavior.
A rockumentary about the Canadian rock band Barenaked Ladies's life, in a nutshell. It follows the band on its Stunt Tour.
A band of notorious outlaws from the 19th century cross not only the Texas border, but the border of time. Landing in the late 20th century, they leave a path of destruction as they head to Nashville to become country/ western stars. However, their dreams may be cut short by a persistent Texas lawman who has slipped through the time trail after them.
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Pump, the album that carried Boston band Aerosmith into the nineties. While this video doesn't include album versions of any of the songs from Pump (Columbia did not have control of the rights), it does include extensive footage of the band members perfecting their craft in the studios, as well as interviews with all those involved.
UFC 7: The Brawl in Buffalo was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on September 8, 1995, at the Memorial Auditorium in Buffalo, New York, United States. The event was seen live in the US, and later released on home video.
A rugged P.I. and a gorgeous insurance investigator search for diamonds stolen in a brutal robbery
MTV Unplugged is a 2000 Grammy Award-winning live MTV Unplugged acoustic performance by Colombian born musician Shakira broadcasted in 1999, released in 2000 as an album and in 2002 as a DVD. It is rated as one of her best-ever live performances and paved the way for her successful English cross-over recording Laundry Service (2001).
The annual roast of the Friars Club, a fraternal organization for comedians, is a big honor - and yet can be a major embarrassment. The roastee being honored is Jerry Stiller, who played Arthur Spooner on the CBS sitcom King of Queens. Attendees included two at one point named New York City mayors, Police Commissioner Howard Safir, The Golden Girls' Bea Arthur, Dr. Ruth, The Brady Bunch's Florence Henderson, and comedian Janeane Garofalo.
The brink of 2000. The misfits refuse to get krunk.
In the future, corporations have taken over the world and banned sex. A group of rebellious high school students devise a way to go back in time to the present day and try change history to prevent that from happening.
A pretty loner hires a firecracker salesman to shoot fireworks for her great-grandfather's 100th birthday; disaster and romance ensue.
Larry Jones (aka The Boy in the Golden Kimono) engages in a war with some skinheads.
A bisexual female pornographer searches for sexual and economic independence in a male-dominated industry. But most of all, the girl just wants to have fun.
On the French island of Mont Saint-Michel, Jack, a failed presidential candidate, Tom, a poet and Sonia, a physicist, engage in an intellectual conversation about politics, philosophy and life over the course of a single day.
Patrick Macnee of television's "The Avengers" narrates this retrospective of Hollywood's most famous and infamous undercover agents, spies and femme fatales, chronicling their adventures and the gee-whiz gadgets that help them foil the bad guys. From Casino Royale and 13 Rue Madeleine to Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, this program examines why audiences never tire of watching the dangerous exploits of "Bond ... James Bond" and his kind.
The movie follows the perspective of several characters (such as Japanese victims, soldiers, American prisoners of war and others) and how they lived or tried to survive the effects felt during the aftermath of the Atomic Bomb dropping by the Enola Gay at Hiroshima, during World War II.
Breaking the Surface is about the tough times Greg Louganis had on his way to becoming one of the world's top Olympic divers.
A young girl, who struggles with her pilot father's death in a plane crash years before, visits her grandmother in Newfoundland. While there, she encounters the ghosts of two pilots, who are condemned to Earth to constantly re-live their own crash that occurred in 1927. The girl decides to help the pair by helping them re-build their airplane and complete their flight so they may be released and, in turn, deal with her own emotional bondage.
A Documentary on Horror and Sci-Fi movies from the past to today.
Danny is a smart little girl. She lives at the track where her uncle is a horse trainer. She knows her uncle needs just one great horse to make his name.
After Saddam Hussein had the Kuwait Oil wells lit up, teams from all over the world fought those fires for months. They had to save the oil resources, as well as reduce air pollution. The different teams developed different techniques of extinguishing the fires. Man's emergency creativity can be seen at it's best.
High profile fashion photographer Scott Bruin has been suffering from a series of increasingly disturbing and violent dreams in which he savagely attacks and murders a young woman. Fearing for his sanity, Scott begins to investigate these strange visions but slowly starts to believe that these all-too-real seeming nightmares might not be dreams after all and that the woman in them is in imminent danger.
Private Dick Max Warner investigates the disappearance of a young heiress Sandra Applewhite. He is convinced that she was murdered by her fiancé - but without her body, he can not prove anything. So he sees a poster with a model who is an identical copy of Sandra. One by one the pieces are falling into place and Max realizes that much more than a legacy is at stake.
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Hank marries the divorced Joan, who's the mother of teens Sebastian and Jessica. After living with his new family for years, Hank announces that he's getting a sex change operation. The family deserts Hank, with Jessica going her own way and Sebastian staying with his mom. But Joan becomes an alcoholic, so Sebastian moves back in with Hank — now Henrietta — who turns out to be far more supportive than anyone else.
Some friends spend a weekend on a sailboat, the first night one mysteriously disappears. A strange helplessness prevents the rest from looking for him.
A young woman from Las Vegas wants Perry Mason to defend her father.
For 11 years, Beth's life is limited to working nights in a convenience store while her daytime hours are spent caring for her bed-ridden, bitter and abusive mother. All that keeps her going is a voice on the radio of a psychologist, Dr Roland. Her obsession grows to the point where nothing, not even murder, will stop her from getting to the woman she desires!
Based on the life of a classic french cineast Jean Vigo, the story follows his daily struggle with sanity, normal life and uncompromising filmmaking. Story also focuses on his relationship with his supporting wife whom he met in sanatorium.
OJ Simpson speaks out in this explosive unrehearsed uncut no-holds-barred interview.
Pumpkinman returns from the dead to find more victims.
World-renowned director Martin Scorsese narrates this journey through his favorites in Italian cinema.
In this hilarious homage to 1970s Italian sexploitation films, Pucci and JJ sunbathe by a creek, bored, until they spot Gretchen and her delectable son, Kip. They all become quick friends and rub sun protection lotion on each other when suddenly something entirely unexpected interrupts them.
Condominium residents are terrified when they learn that two of their neighbors have been brutally raped and that the culprit may be living in their midst. A police manhunt ensues. One officer, who actually lives in the complex, is particularly troubled, for not only do the incidents cause his wife to admit that she was a victim of date rape, he is also the one who had a chance to kill the rapist and didn't.
Documentary about the making of the John Wayne film The Alamo (1960). Included are behind-the-scenes photos and footage of the actual production of the film, clips from it and interviews with members of the cast, crew and local residents in Brackettville, TX, where it was filmed.
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The genetic engineering experiments of a female scientist have converted Xavi into a kind of Frankenstein's monster without physical defects: an apparently normal young man poised to take the 21st century by storm.
A raucous, angry exorcism of relationships and assorted fears, shadowed by the Big One: the plague of AIDS.
The Hayworth family lives in a Quaker territory in up-state New York. The matriarch, Emily runs the local bank. Years before, she and her family took in troubled, young Jimmy Flood to protect him from his abusive father. Though one of Emily's grown daughters, Janet feels she did not belong in the quiet, devoutly religious community and left the Quakers, Emily believed that her family ties stayed strong. Real trouble comes to the family when Jimmy Flood returns to the house after busting out of prison with the help of Digby and Lester, and he takes Emily's family hostage in exchange for $4 million. If Emily fails to secure the money in time, her entire family will lose their lives. Determined to resolve the potentially deadly conflict in a peaceful manner, Emily calls an emergency meeting of the town friends to work out a solution and save her family.
A large black mole above an Asian woman's breast serves as a metaphor for cultural and racial difference in this engaging experimental film. Off-screen women's voices and scenes from THE WORLD OF SUZIE WONG parallel and counterpoint Sally's own interracial relationships and emerging self-awareness. A provocative and stylish meditation on Asian femininity.
After his brother is killed, Chung Yung returns home from America. While looking for his brother's killer, he meets a hostess named May. As crime and violence take a toll on both of their lives, they unite in love and vengeance.
After a bad day with her boss, friend, husband, babysitter etc., Anne goes to a bar. A man offers to solve her problems. As a joke, she signs a napkin. Hours later, the boss is dead.
For five decades, American agencies have stockpiled information on UFOs. So did their counterparts behind the iron curtain. Soldiers, scientists and spies all paint a disturbing picture of the KGB's secret campaign. The UFO encounter that almost sparked a nuclear war. The pair of MiG fighters that tried to shoot down a UFO - both jets blown out of the sky! Stunning proof that the Soviets recovered something not from this earth! Amazing film footage smuggled out of Russia. This exclusive investigation into one of the most compelling events of our time is hosted by Roger Moore.
A CIA analyst takes over a case from his brother, a field agent who was killed in the line of duty, in this thriller based on a Robert Ludlum novel.
Dateline's coverage of the lawsuit by Patty Burgus and family against Bennett Braun, director of the Dissociative Disorder's Unit at Rush Presbyterian St. Lukes in Chicago. Oct 1998. This is the story of the foundational works which constitute the current theory of Dissociative Identity Disorder/ Multiple Personality Disorder. This was the first Dissociative Disorder's Unit in the United States. All subsequent units specializing in Multiple Personality Disorder/ Dissociative Identity Disorders have been modeled after it. After having his license suspended in Illinois, Dr. Braun has resumed practice in Butte, Montana. Despite the malpractice payments paid by insurance on his behalf as well, Dr. Kluft remains in practice and continues to give training lectures on the treatment of MPD/DID to large audiences of mental health practitioners.
The young and ambitious district attorney Peter Hudson is convinced that the defendant Andrew Barnes in his current case is guilty, and that winning the case could help him much on his way to become vice-governour of Philadelphia. So he doesn't think twice about influencing witnesses. Only five years later - now head of the Department of Public Prosecution - when he receives a pledge for retrial, he gets doubts and starts investigating again... even risking his career.
BBC documentary about the making of Steven Spielberg's Jaws.
WEST AFRICA 1869 - Slave trade is illegal. There is a revolt on a slave ship - twenty four men fight for their lives. Out-gunned, the revolt fails but a second uprising is planned.
A California congressman's wife and daughter are abducted and held hostage in a historic hotel. Logan McQueen is rushed to the scene to assist his former partner, Charlie Duffy, who has been taken captive trying to broker the ransom deal. McQueen must risk his life to face the cunning killer and save the hostages and his long-time friend.
A father and son rescue the sole survivor of a train crash.
"Mad Max" clone set in the not-too-distant future about a group of people trying to escape to a safe haven called Neon City after a solar disaster that has decimated the Earth.
It was a brutal murder that sent deranged psychopath Martin Kagan to prison. It was a naive deputy warden that granted him a stay of execution. Now, the police department's tactical defence instructor, John Lomax, wants revenge for his beloved sister's death.
The peace and quiet following Max's decision to put his instruments away drives the neighbors just as crazy as his constant practicing did
Dead Bolt Dead takes a twisted look at the dark underworld of organised crime, with its assassins, its bosses, its drivers and its sharply suited thugs. Set in two locations in and outside London, it charts the night after a bold attempt to take out a rival gang fails.
Three male soldiers are ordered to change their sex (via a pill) and are sent on an undercover mission as showgirls to the female-dominated planet of Clitoris, where they must maneuver complex politics and decadent parties to uncover a plot to disrupt the most important pleasure planet in the Universe.
A divorced TV anchorwoman on vacation in her remote country home is stalked by a psycho who kills strippers.
When her storyteller mother (Mary Alice) dies, attorney Clara Collier (Alfre Woodard) returns to her Georgia hometown and is soon captivated by a local legend of the "Magic Man" (Blair Underwood). While looking for the source of the tale, Clara uncovers suprising family secrets. Czech filmmaker Ivan Passer directs this family drama that delves into the storytelling tradition of the Deep South. Blair Underwood and Helen Shaver co-star.