As a child, he was playful and loved music, but he began to change after he saw his cousin commit murder right in front of him. This portrait of Richard Ramirez follows his descent from peeping tom and expert burglar to one-man crime wave. At age 25, Ramirez was arrested for five robberies, 14 burglaries, four counts of sodomy, three acts of forced oral copulation, two kidnappings, three lewd acts on children, six rapes, and 13 murders.
On the night of July 13, 1966, eight nurses were savagely murdered in their Chicago townhouse. The killer, Richard Speck, eventually became America's symbol of evil. For all his brutality, Speck was careless, and after hearing the chilling testimony of a survivor, the jury took only 45 minutes to convict him. He was sentenced to death, but the execution was never carried out. Speck settled in to a seedy prison life filled with drugs, sex and money. See shocking footage of his life behind bars...
A feisty, Bangladeshi teen-aged painter (a riveting Novera Rahman) sets out on a quest to save her ailing father. Her artistic gift has blossomed with his encouragement but hasn't yet proven financially rewarding. Naima's mother dashes such childish dreams, which sends the frustrated teen off to the big city, determined to earn money for the family's survival. And she does, by disguising herself as a boy to get a job as a rickshaw driver. Still Naima's creative drive has her sneaking every...
A daring teen-aged girl disguises herself as a boy and pedals a rickshaw on the gritty streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh to earn extra cash for her struggling family, all while pursuing her dream of becoming an artist.
Taped live before a sold-out audience at the WaMu Theater at New York Citys Madison Square Garden, Ricky Gervais: Out of England The Stand-Up Special is a high-spirited hour of offbeat observations and understated humor from the actor/comedian/writer/director. The show includes Gervais unique takes on such disparate (and often politically incorrect)issues as fund-raising, autism, fame, nursery rhymes, Nazis, moronic friends, obesity and his penis size.
Famed street photographer Ricky Powell made a name for himself taking wild portraits of New York City's who's who in the 80s and 90s. From the Beastie Boys to Basquiat, Powell's lens captured the grit and glamour of the city's downtown scene like never before. Powell and some of his notable subjects reflect on his fascinating life and work as well as the demons that shaped him.
Rancher Jim Riddle refuses to allow his niece Helen to marry Bob Horton, believing she's too good for an ordinary cowboy. When Bob is falsely accused of murdering a saloon gambler, Riddle withholds knowledge of the victim's dying declaration, which would exonerate the innocent cowpuncher. While hiding in the desert, Horton discovers a clue that would prove his innocence. But with both the sheriff and the real killer - Mexican bandit Don Carlos - hot on his trail, it appears unlikely that Bob...
Emily Burns (Marisa Stober) is being held captive in a room with no idea as to why or how she got there. Determined to escape and return to her daughter and husband, Emily discovers clues within the room that help explain what she's doing there. They even provide clues about who she is but will they help her escape? Blu-ray features surround sound and English subtitles for the deaf and hearing-impaired.
When her son (Brenton Thwaites) drops out of school to become a surfer, a mother (Helen Hunt) leaves her life in New York to follow him to California. There, with help from an expert surfer (Luke Wilson), she finds a new start of her very own in this hilarious and touching film about a mother, her son and life. Written and directed by Academy Award winner Helen Hunt.
Honest rancher Helen Rickson is framed for a $5,000 theft, and must go into hiding with the law hot on her heels. It seems that crooked political boss, Sandy Doyle needs the Rickson Ranch to further his illegal gold smuggling operation, and means to take it using whatever means necessary. Dan Haggerty, who had been laying telegraph lines on the Rickson property when the theft was committed, realizes that Helen is innocent. Helen and Dan team up to clear her name and expose Doyle and his...
Ride is a multigenerational family ensemble following the lives of the McMurrays, part of a rodeo dynasty going back a generation, as they struggle to keep their beloved ranch afloat. After a tragic loss, each character embarks on an empowering journey of transformation and self-discovery while also uncovering a twisted web of secrets, threatening to tear the family and their small Colorado town apart at the seams.
In a refreshing change of pace role, Audie Murphy plays Joe Maybe, an outlaw who is mistaken for U.S. Marshall Jim Noonan, when he assumes the man's identity after his death. Pretending to be Noonan, Maybe is appointed sheriff of Webb City, a rough river town, after local lawmaker Judge Kyle (Walter Matthau), takes a shine to him. The only reason Maybe goes along with the ruse is to gain easy access to the town bank and plan a robbery. This scheme goes dangerously awry when Tessa (Gia Scala),...
A poor-but-proud man, Jonas Trapp (Chuck Connors, Soylent Green) insists his rich, new bride Jessie (Kathryn Hays, TV's "As the World Turns") leave her pampered life in Cold Iron and join him in Kansas, where he'll work as a buffalo hunter. Rebuffed, Jonas goes alone. And now, eleven years later, he's back to reclaim his wife with the $17,000 he's earned. When Jonas is savagely attacked on the outskirts of town, he stops at nothing to avenge himself upon the men who beat, branded and robbed...
Clay O'Mara (Audie Murphy) vows to bring justice when his father and brother are murdered by cattle rustlers. What he does not know is that three of the most prominent citizens of Santiago are behind the crime including the town sherrif, Fred Kenyon (Paul Birch). As part of his duplicitous plan to eliminate the remaining O'Mara heir, Kenyon deputizes Clay and sends him off to capture Whitey Kincade (Dan Duryea), a notorious, trigger-happy outlaw who is suspected of the murders. Instead of...
The film was written by Nicholson himself and directed by the famous Monte Hellman. A group of cowboys, Vern (Mitchell), Wes (Nicholson) and Otis (Filer), unwittingly hole up for the night at the remote hide out of a gang of outlaws led by Blind Dick (Stanton). When the wake in the morning, they find themselves surrounded by a vigilante hanging party. Accused of crimes they did not commit, they end up fugitives on the run due to a case of mistaken identity.
RIDE LONESOME is a star-studded western filled with drama and action. Ben Brigade (Randolph Scott, The Tall T) is a stern-talking bounty hunter with a big gun. He is assigned to bring in the impetuous Billy (James Best, TV's "The Dukes of Hazzard"), but knows that wild Comanche tribesmen and Billy's brother, Frank (Lee Van Cleef, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly), are on his tail. He enlists the help of Sam (Pernell Roberts, TV's "Bonanza") and Whit (Academy Award winner James Coburn, 1998, Best...
In this brilliant, moving film directed by Sam Peckinpah (The Wild Bunch), cowboy icons Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea find roles to match their leathery Western personas, playing aging lawmen hired to guard a gold shipment. They don't have much: a horse each, a couple of dollars. And they have everything: their independence. But the frontier is disappearing -- and so is space wide open enough for independent men. With luck, the two will find space enough for this ride and one last payday....
Ride with Norman Reedus follows The Walking Dead star and motorcycle enthusiast Norman Reedus as he hits the open road to explore local biker culture and celebrate the best and brightest collectors, mechanics and craftsmen around the country. Each episode will feature Reedus and a riding companion -- a fellow actor, musician, friend or local chopper fanatic -- as they journey to custom bike shops, tattoo parlors, collector's warehouses, or a roadside smokehouse with plenty of time for...
It's Christmas Eve in the suburbs of Chicago and a bored and disengaged taxi driver reluctantly accepts one more pickup. He soon begins to suspect that his passenger is planning to commit suicide. The cabbie prolongs the ride in an uncharacteristic attempt to connect and help. See how grace invades the hearts of both men in this powerful short film by Dallas Jenkins, director of What If
Vicious outlaw Jose Esqueda (Anthony Quinn) lives by what he calls the law of the bullet, terrorizing ranchers in post-Civil War Texas. At his side is his longtime enforcer and gunman, his adopted brother Rio (Robert Taylor). But Rio's allegiance, already wavering, may change for good after he meets recently arrived rancher King Cameron (Howard Keel) and after he finds that King's stunning bride (Ava Gardner) is drawn to him. In the same year as this brooding, brawling tale of the West,...
The search for gold brings three men together -- but greed drives one of them to murder! John Vivyan, star of Blake Edwards' TV series Mr. Lucky, trades urbane cool for sweaty grit to play Hayden, one of three tough prospectors who strike it big, then bury their fortune in the blistering Arizona desert to protect it from hostile Apaches. But Hayden needs protection himself when one of his partners decides all the loot is better than a third. A gold hunter bites the dust, and a wounded Hayden...
Reckless gambler Tim Donovan pursues the gang that has just held up the Black Mountain stage. He retrieves the strongbox, but the robbers escape. Bumbling Sheriff Clay Matthews finds Donovan with the loot and arrests him. He is set free by Judge Harper, who knows that Donovan is actually a U.S. Marshal sent undercover to investigate the gang who has been terrorizing the stage line. Donovan discovers a conspiracy involving a bank president and an officer of the stagecoach company. Tim will need...