What to Watch Right Now

In the Atlantic during WW II, a merchant ship and a German U-boat are involved in battle, and both are sunk. The survivors - from a variety of backgrounds - gather in one of the lifeboats. Trouble begins when they pull a man out of the water who turns out to be from the U-boat.

A comedy about a screenwriter (Robert Wuhl), whose old movie script is read by a producer (Martin Landau) and the search for financial backers begins. But it seems that each money source (Danny Aiello, Robert De Niro, and Eli Wallach) has his own mistress that he wants put into the film. Gradually, the screenwriter is forced to make changes to his script to accommodate these backers, until he finally sees no semblance of his original ideas in the writing.

A woman writes a best-selling book for women warning them about the "dangers" of men. A handsome photographer for a national magazine arrives in her town to do a feature story on her. Complications ensue.

An eager scientist tests his new formula for invisibility on an escaped fugitive. When the formula works the criminal runs off to terrorize a family he believes cheated him out of a fortune years earlier.

An original screenplay by Jean Anouilh about 'l'amour' - both sweet and bitter, from the French and Anglo-Saxon points of view. Four love affairs all take place in an artist's studio in Montmartre, which links four couples who lived in it until the Second World War.

A father suspected of murder must fight to save his family from a ruthless killer in this action-packed suspense thriller, starring Michael Madsen, Michele Scarabelli, Jeff Wincott, Steve Adams and Victoria Snow.

A man hitches a ride with a truck driver not knowing that this murderous maniac's destination is not the nearest city... but hell.

After pulling a daring, if rather strange, bank heist while dressed as nuns, half of a four-member gang gets arrested and thrown in jail. While they're working on the chain gang, their partners in crime drive up with guns blazing and spring them. With everyone free, the leader of the gang announces that he's got a plan for another score that will be guaranteed to give them the notoriety they crave.

Teenaged Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister Judge Margaret Turner. Threatened with jail, Nugent agrees to date Susan until the crush abates. He counters Susan's comic false sophistication by even more comic put-on teenage mannerisms, with a slapstick climax.

Unscrupulous Paul Kroll, starting as a Chicago janitor, uses graft to finance a trip to Sweden where by trickery he gains control of his uncle's small match factory. By expert manipulation of everyone and employment of femmes-fatale, he parlays this into a match monopoly, expanding over many countries. Finally he meets a woman so gorgeous she turns his head away from a business that needs constant financial manipulation to survive. Based on the real career of Ivar Kreuger.

The Tibetans refer to the Dalai Lama as 'Kundun', which means 'The Presence'. He was forced to escape from his native home, Tibet, when communist China invaded and enforced an oppressive regime upon the peaceful nation of Tibet. The Dalai Lama escaped to India in 1959 and has been living in exile in Dharamsala ever since.

Zee (Karen Black) is walking up and down Manhattan streets, talking to herself and to the husband who just left her. At a sidewalk café she runs into Eli (Michael Emil). A very unlikely, funny, and touching relationship develops between two lost souls in the big city, which is the third major character in this film.

An uninterrupted rehearsal of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" played out by a company of actors. The setting is their run-down theater with an unusable stage and crumbling ceiling. The play is shown act by act with the briefest of breaks to move props or for refreshments. The lack of costumes, real props and scenery is soon forgotten.

In the small English village of Midwich everybody and everything falls into a deep, mysterious sleep for several hours in the middle of the day. Some months later every woman capable of child-bearing is pregnant and the children that are born out of these pregnancies seem to grow very fast and they all have the same blond hair and strange, penetrating eyes that make people do things they don't want to do.

Psycho-thriller about a teenage dream girl who seems to be taking her mother's place after losing her to a brutal, unsolved murder. Julia Stiles, in an award-winning performance, stars in this deeply disturbing, wickedly hilarious, Suburban-Gothic, Sundance film festival smash.

Two teen-aged kids discover a miniature bottled city buried beneath a construction site. They must protect the tiny civilization within from reptilian alien hunters after its everlasting power supply.

This film is about two orphans named Jory and Tess. Their cousins, Bart and Bertha, try to take them away from their grandparents because they have trust funds from their dead parents. When Bart and Bertha kidnap their newborn puppies, Rusty the dog decides to save them.

Christopher Lee returns as Sax Rohmer's insidious Asian villain Fu Manchu for the second of his five vehicles. This time Fu Manchu and his army of henchmen are kidnaping the daughters of prominent scientists and taking them to his remote island headquarters. Instead of asking for ransom, Fu demands that the fathers help him to build a death ray...

A wealthy socialite bored with her life meets and falls in love with a struggling songwriter on the verge of leaving New York and quitting the music business.

Music and dance punctuate the hilariously goofy tale of a Broadway agent who books his only client as two different performers - a sultry French chanteuse and a wild Brazilian bombshell - in alternating revues at the same club.

In the Australian Outback, the Carmody family, Paddy (Robert Mitchum), Ida (Deborah Kerr), and their teenage son Sean (Michael Anderson, Jr.), are sheep drovers, always on the move. Ida and Sean want to settle down and buy a farm. Paddy wants to keep moving. A sheep-shearing contest, the birth of a child, drinking, gambling, and a race horse will all have a part in the final decision.

In 1946, ex-Navy engineer Steve Martin comes to a Louisiana town with a dream: to build a safe platform for offshore oil drilling. Having finessed financing from a big oil company, formerly penniless Steve and his partner Johnny are in business...and getting interested in shrimp-boat captain Rigaud's two lovely daughters. But opposition from the fishing community grows fast, led by Stella Rigaud. Other hazards include sabotage, a hurricane...and a treacherous board of directors.

A modern day version of the old Western story of a big rancher "buying" up all the smaller ranches, doing whatever necessary to achieve this and a group of men willing to fight back.