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A dramatization of the life of Juan Seguin, a heroic Mexican-Texan who became entangled in the struggle between two contrasting cultures in the...

Genre: History

Cast: Henry Darrow

All Dolph Beeler wanted was a can of paint remover when he went to Bud Bullard's hardware store in Millville. But a simple misunderstandling between...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Scott Allegrucci

A brash 22-year-old FBI agent trumps up charges of Communist spying against a Chinese laundryman. Ten years later, he wants to make amends to the man...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Matt Dillon

An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Jessica Lange

In 1902, an African-American family living on a sea island off the coast of South Carolina prepares to move to the North.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cora Lee Day

A divorced mother pursues her career as a radio personality in rural Minnesota.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pamela Reed

Forced to run from Texas Rangers after a heated misunderstanding leads to the death of a lawman, Mexican American farmer Gregorio Cortez sets off in...

Genre: Western

Cast: Edward James Olmos

Written by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Terrence McNally, Andre's Mother is the story of Katherine Gerard (Sada Thompson) who has lost her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sada Thompson

An American-Chinese man brings over his wife from China to America, but the challenges of making a living and adjusting to a new life, plus the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cora Miao

On the day in 1965 that the Pope visits New York and masses of people line the streets in adulation, Artie, a zookeeper living in Sunnyside, Queens,...

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Cast: Swoosie Kurtz

Giorgio, a young soldier, is in love with the married Clara and becomes her lover. But they are separated when Giorgio is posted far away, where he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Donna Murphy

A slightly ironical description of the colony of German artists in Los Angeles, who had to leave their country during the Nazi-regime. A young...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Jeremy Irons

This musical is based on four short stories by Damon Runyon. In one tale, gambler Feet Samuels sells his body to science just as he realizes that...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Matt Dillon

Mako is a neglectful husband. Not the most loving man. His wife gradually encounters a widower who is a kind, gentle figure. She eventually makes the...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Mako

After his mother dies and father goes to fight in World War II, a young boy moves in with his aunt and uncle who live in the countryside. Lonely and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lukas Haas

An out of high school teen from the midwest moves to San Diego, California in the 1950s to live with his estranged father and new family. Escaping...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kevin Bacon

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte by Georges Seurat is one of the great paintings of the world, and in "Sunday in the Park with...

Genre: Music

Cast: Mandy Patinkin

Young man, who can't get along with the rest of the world, especially his mother, decides to try to take his life in his own hands. A TV movie...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Sarah Jessica Parker

A closeted gay movie director/actor in 1939 finds himself the target of the vicious and unscrupulous attacks by a gossip columnist reporter who goes...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Julie Boyd

The solo actor in Shimmer tells the story by becoming each character in turn. The play takes place in 1956, in a harsh Midwestern juvenile detention...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marcus Klemp