Franco and Ciccio (the Martin and Lewis of Italy) are actually pretty funny. They have a certain shtick that works. The boys are sent into space to imitate a pair of lost Soviet spacemen. They fly near the moon and at one point jump into space (hanging from wires) in a vein suicide attempt. One of the high points is when they discover the remains of the first doggie cosmonaut, its little doggie skull still inside its doggie space helmet. Franco's hat winking is a scream!
Mike Anderson is a senior at the quintessential New-England liberal arts school, Frost College. And Mike is eight weeks away from graduation. On this particular day he has his African-American Literature class with his favorite professor. But today, Mike is feeling sadness. He's feeling isolated. He's feeling Angry.
Detective Bill Daniels has spent the last 40 years in the interrogation unit. Some are criminals, some are victims.
Shuhao (Bryan Chang) is a twenty-four-year-old Taiwanese university graduate, whose older brother Shuwei, dies unexpectedly on a bicycle trek to Lhasa. Now, Shuhao decides to fulfil his brother's final wish and sets out to complete the journey himself, which will take him to the highest points in Tibet. Despite his inexperience, he encounters many life-threatening challenges along the way, in a thrilling and compelling true story of adventure, endurance and redemption.
Thirty-something Elizabeth (Anna Camp) must decide whether to salvage her relationship with Drew (Justin Chatwin) after much personal disappointment. Meanwhile, Bea (Isabelle Fuhrman), a worrisome teenager, reconnects with her introverted childhood friend, Andy (Kyle Allen) to overcome their differences in high school social status following their prom. Past and present collide as two couples explore love over the course of one night at a hotel.
Six lives change when two strangers wake up in bed together not knowing who the other person is, where they are or how they got there.
A college professor lectures on the recently published Kinsey Report, as Americans are stunned by the shocking sexual truths revealed by the statistics. Five audience members reflect on their own sex lives, which flesh out the research with real life experience. A young couple ponder the repercussions of pre-marital sex. Returning home from overseas, a man learns that his neglected wife has been unfaithful. Anguish follows a divorcee's romantic fling. Having had sex with no one but his wife in...
The style of 1.5 Stay Alive is part music video and part factual. In it, popular Caribbean musicians express their experiences with rising seas by composing and performing songs about climate change, and their visions of how to confront it.
Take a grand tour of the Old World with public radio's original Savvy Traveler, Rudy Maxa, host of the award-winning American Public Television series, Smart Travels, and contributing editor to National Geographic Traveler magazine. Destinations include - Madrid, Barcelona, Costa Brava, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels, Copenhagen, Berlin, Munich, and Rome.
In Santa Cruz, California, a group of friends are working at a submarine sandwich shop. This heartwarming romantic comedy follows the lives of a rocker, a geek and a bombshell when a single dad gets his life turned upside down by a sub shop worker with a secret. The sign out front says it all: "Help Wanted -- normal people need not apply."
In Season 3, Leslie Pool (John Lehr) faces his biggest challenge yet in Mercy Jones, a tough SuperValueMart manager who has come from New York City under orders to drive Greens and Grains out of business forever. Determined to confront the threats posed by Mercy, Leslie enlists his staff in everything from a knock-off Star Trek convention and a new laser eye surgery center to going "green" in honor of his newly discovered Native American heritage and producing his own CD to save his...
Based on Ludovic Kennedy's investigative book, this is the true and horrifying story of serial killer John Christie, chillingly played by Richard Attenborough. When Timothy Evans (John Hurt) and his wife (Judy Geeson) move into Christie's tiny flat, they do not know that they are now part of the latest plan Christie has hatched to lure yet another woman to her death and pin the blame on Evans, who is soon afterwards hanged. It is only when fate exposes the crimes of the death-house at 10...
Beaten and hardened by life in a Nigerian ghetto, Charity leaves for Europe to work as an illegal prostitute. She is saddled with her younger sister Happy, whom she ruthlessly initiates into the world of prostitution. Happy resists her fate, jeopardizing Charity's dream of becoming rich. Together with other unregistered women they endure hardship, exploitation and humiliation with resilience and song, until one day it all becomes too much and they revolt, singing their fury from the rooftops.
A self-sufficient single mom meets a magnetic perennial bachelor and they create the ultimate un-bucket list: ten things to do together before they break up. As fate intervenes, these cynics embark on the most challenging journey of all.
10 TO MIDNIGHT -- Charles Bronson plays a tough L.A. cop whose daughter is stalked by a cunning sex-killer in this riveting police thriller that offers a first-rate cast including Wilford Brimley. KINJITE: FORBIDDEN SUBJECTS -- A brutal Los Angeles police Lt. is determined to bust up an organization that forces underage girls into prostitution.
No theatrical genre dominated Hollywood or the nation as much as the western. The Outlaw (1943), Santa Fe Trail (1940), Texas Wildcats (1939), Riders of Destiny (1933), Boots and Saddles (1937), Under California Stars (1948), The Frontiersman (1938), The Painted Desert (1931), Dawn on the Great Divide (1942), Arizona Days (1937).
Driven to fury by their slimy, abusive boss, a group of foxy female gold miners ditch their picks and go for the gold the easy way - by stealing it! They snatch a million dollars in gems from a jewelry store, then pay a quick visit to Leo the Fence (played with macho brio by flamboyant director, Ted V. Mikels). When Leo tries to give them bags of heroin instead of cash for their booty, they drive a spiked heel into his heart and ride off with the jewels AND the drugs. Desperate to unload their...
When the Great Depression struck America in the 1920s finding work was hard, but if you were poor and black it was virtually impossible. Working as a porter for the Pullman Rail Company was an option, but it meant taking home a third as much as white employees and working some days for free. You could forget about being called by your real name - all black porters were simply called "George" after George Pullman, the first person to employ emancipated slaves. As Philip Randolph, a black...
A bounty hunter is hired by a wealthy man to rescue his kidnapped daughter. But the bounty hunter becomes more interested in the kidnappers offer.
When a serial killer abducts a young woman's fiance, she must race against the clock to discover the identity of the killer, and more importantly - his motive.
Deanna Durbin shines in 100 Men and a Girl, a delightful story of an inventive and determined young woman who will stop at nothing to get what she wants. The daughter of an unemployed musician, Patricia Cardwell (Durbin), decides she will persuade conductor Leopold Stokowski to help her launch an orchestra that will employ her widowed father and 99 other out-of-work musicians. Though faced with this seemingly impossible task, Patricia leads her unemployed orchestra to the home of the...
Steve and Virgil, a couple of straight shooting, blue collar boys down on their luck. Lousy income and the everyday grind take their toll and push the duo over the edge when they wind up going in on a substantial drug deal with Steve's friend Darren, a man of many words but little character. The plan seems simple, buy the drugs and sell them for a healthy profit. Thinking their financial woes behind them, Steve and Virgil are soon corrected when the routine drug deal turns ugly and the boys...