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On Christmas Eve, Ann and Dick's mother tucks them into their beds. Ann has written a letter to Santa asking him to let her and Dick visit the North Pole before Christmas. Santa sends one of his elves to bring the sleeping children to his living room. He takes them on a tour of "Santa's Happy Land." He shows them toys and intersperses that with visions of Christmas celebrations. Lucky Dick and Ann.

In a small police station, Lieutenant Emilie Carange finds herself sexually attracted to Jamil Messaouden, a young rookie officer. When an old Algerian woman reports that she's seen drug dealers operating in the neighborhood, they find themselves in over their heads in an investigation. Night after night, Emilie's desire grows. The drug investigation gets out of hand and so does Emilie...

Sister Glen Moore's dying wishes include a eulogy by Jesse Jackson; a spiritual delivered by "the big opera star," Benita Cross; and a final face-to-face with her estranged mother, the redoubtable Mrs. Gerturde Hudson. Reverend Dexter, of Brooklyn's New Canaan Church, must rely on his full reserves of wisdom, patience and heavenly guidance to negotiate the late sister's exquisitely orchestrated funeral and the little secret that she carries with her to the grave...

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Richard Lewis plays coach Steven Adler, a one time high profile division one college basketball coach haunted by the demon of having lost five championship titles. Now he finds himself wasting away in a slack-jawed, low profile town coaching a second rate college program. Once again, he has miraculously brought this unlikely team to the finals. As his behavior on the day of the championship game indicates, he is far more successful at the game of basketball than the game of life. The question remains: if he finally wins the big game, will Coach Adler get his life back on track or is he already too far gone... ?

A story about a man recently released from prison who is trying to re-connect with his estranged son and girlfriend.

When a robbery goes awry, the bandits all end up in a puddle of blood and only one lives and goes to jail for five years. Upon his release, his girlfriend wants her new boyfriend to kill him. Unfortunately, the boyfriend knows that the ex-con was not at fault and cannot bring himself to do the evil deed. Meanwhile, the ex-con tries to turn his life around by becoming a boxer and training under a former heavyweight contender.

At the outskirts of New Orleans a sewage tunnel caves in; city officials are less concerned about the worker who was killed then about possible repercussions on the impending Mardi Gras in the French Quarter, which is the tourist hight point of the year in Louisiana, so the priority is to prevent a panic. Still Allison Beauchamp, under whose responsibility public works fall in city hall, calls on her intimate friend, geologist Matt Andrews, who is extremely cautious since an accident only he blames himself for, to investigate. Shortly after another cave in, he finds and reports -even arranging radar material was opposed by the Mardi Gras lobby- that such sink holes are caused by the lingering on of a fire in underground tunnels trough peat layers, so there's no way of telling where and when more sink-holes will collapse, but it may happen all over the city, and two million tourists joining in the reveling increase the risk, so everyone is in danger. However city press secretary George Regan, who knows mayor John Lafitte would probably follow her advice to evacuate, falsifies the report so Allison allows the Mardi Gras committee to go ahead with the annual festivities...

A tell-all story of what happened behind the scenes of the hit TV series, The Brady Bunch (1969). It is based on the book written by Barry Williams, the actor who played Greg Brady.

Based on the Japanese Manga about Ryo Narushima, a talented, college-bound student who murders both of his parents in cold blood. He is sent to a reformatory where he trains in karate under Kenji Kurokawa, a man imprisoned after trying to assassinate the Japanese Prime Minister. Two years after his conviction, Ryo is released and begins a new life as an ultra-violent professional fighter.

Helping to save, protect and nurture the monarch butterflies migration to North America, the program explores Toyota's 17 pollinator gardens throughout its North American operations.

Ordinary Jan has no easy life. He is by far the most unpopular employee at work. At home it's even worse. His marriage with the not-so-ordinary Bente is on the verge of breakdown. Jan's boss finally sends him to group therapy, where an unlikely friendship emerges between Jan and two mechanics, Rudy and Alf. Had Jan only known that Alf loved opera, and had Bente known what Rudy and Alf were up to, they would never have let them into their home. On the corner of chance and destiny, their lives take unexpected turns.

Melissa has a bad case of sibling rivalry, only her competition is a fictional character in her father's best-selling novel about a teenage super spy. When her father is "dadnapped" by a group of overzealous fans, it's up to Melissa to help him by tapping her inner superhero.

In the early years of the Cuban revolution, a young Havana student volunteers to go to a poor rural region to teach peasants how to read and write; he's sent to the Ciénega de Zapata zone, where squads of anti-Castro guerrilla operate; he happens to teach the wife of a squad leader; trouble and confrontation ensues when government militia makes the little town its operations base.

A young man is accused of rape and murder and placed on trial. His father doesn't believe that he is guilty, so in act of desperation he grabs the bailiff's guns and takes the whole jury hostage and insists that the prosecuting attorney re-investigates the crime that his son's accused of.

The neighborhood La Estrella, in Bogotá, is inhabited by families displaced by the violence. Before the event which is the arrival of the electric light, that night there is a celebration. Cristancho and Brochero families, neighbors, friends and leaders of La Estrella, will be involved in a series of incidents and jokes.

A timid, insecure popular author with an overly-attentive professor husband decide to write an erotic novel. With encouragement from her sister and a bi-sexual friend, she goes to France with the intent of doing research at an inn where a diary she had been using documented erotic encounters. Instead she finds the inn is now a cloister for singing nuns. However, a young, divorced sound engineer is also there taping the nuns. While attracted, she mostly succumbs only to new fantasies until he follows her home to New York.

In this silent film, a rebellious Israelite prince out for vengeance crosses paths with the Messiah.

Pirate captain Eksteroog ('foot corn') and his loyal giant camp on a deserted island to search for the legendary treasure of captain Zilvertand ('silver tooth'). Actually they delegated the digging and jungle-searching to shipwrecked, presumably orphaned sibling kids, whose beloved dog Smikkel is kept hostage. By accident, Piet Piraat and his mates arrive on the island. The scary pants stumble upon Silver Tooth's corps and the children, who explain and are promised help. That proves perilous, as Eksetroog tricks and captures them.

Nina, the mother of five-year old Morrison Glas is about to give birth. She is a vet. The father, Steven, has a small garage, next to their house. Nina and Steven love Morrison very much, but they are too busy to spend time with Morrison, because of their busy lives. When Morrison discovers that the new baby will get his room, he is afraid that he will have to move to tante Zuster, an aunt of his father. Now Morrison is determined, he will not move to tante Zuster! When the baby unexpectedly is about to be born a week early, Morrison has to be taken to tante Zuser in the middle of the night. Morrison thinks up a plan and gets away. He goes into hiding and a giant search is organised by the police and the villagers. When he also 'kidnaps' his newly born sister 'Simone', Nina and Steven have no clue what to do. How will this adventure end for Morrison and his little sister?

In December 2005 Tono Zuniga was picked up off the street in Mexico City, Mexico, and sentenced to 20 years for murder based on the testimony of a single, shaky eyewitness. PRESUMED GUILTY tells the heart-wrenching story of a man who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.