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A Christmas story. Charlie Gigot is a mute super at a dingy New York apartment building; he always wears a wool cap. One winter, a woman leaves her daughter Lou with Gigot, promising to be back the next day. Mom flakes out, and Gigot - who's down and out, probably with post-traumatic stress syndrome, has a drinking problem, and lives in a basement junk heap with a pet monkey - tries to find someone who will take Lou in. Winter gives way to spring; Gigot reluctantly becomes, in fits and starts, a parent. What if Lou's mom doesn't return; what are Charlie's options? His past may hold an answer.

Shortly after the death of the father who regularly abused her, steely investigator Sharon Myers (Sarah Parish) moves from the city back to the sleepy burg where she grew up. The morning after a class reunion, the body of a local teacher Lesley Tenant (Nicole Lewis) turns up, and all the evidence points to one Phillip Andrews (Paul McGann), who'd had a brief affair with the victim. The only problem is, Phillip is married to Sharon's childhood best friend, Helen (Poppy Miller) --- and he's only just broken off yet another tempestuous affair, this one with Sharon herself. Carefully balancing her loyalty to Helen, her obsession with Phillip and the need to keep fellow detective Harry Fielding (Mark Benton) in the dark, Sharon covertly manipulates the investigation. Eventually, though, Harry and Phillip both begin to suspect that Sharon herself is the killer.

Two American college students are on a walking tour of Britain and are attacked by a werewolf. One is killed, the other is mauled. The werewolf is killed but reverts to its human form, and the local townspeople are unwilling to acknowledge its existence. The surviving student begins to have nightmares of hunting on four feet at first but then finds that his friend and other recent victims appear to him, demanding that he commit suicide to release them from their curse, being trapped between worlds because of their unnatural deaths.

Novelist George Schneider, 42, is trying to recover from his wife Barbara's death. They were happily married for 12 years. Meanwhile, 34-year-old actress Jennie MacLaine has just divorced her husband Gus. Wanting each to get on with their lives, George's brother Leo and Jennie's best friend Faye Medwick (who once dated) send George and Jennie respectively on a series of disastrous blind dates. Finally, Leo and Faye run into each other and suggest that George and Jennie go on a date. Both George and Jennie are reluctant, thinking that it'll be just another disaster. But they're pleasantly surprised with each other. After a fortnight's whirlwind courtship, they decide to get married. Jennie in particular realizes that she is the one who has the potential of being hurt if George is not ready to move on without Barbara, especially as they honeymoon in the same resort where George and Barbara once vacationed, and as Jennie will move into the house that was George and Barbara's home.

The Speed Merchants is the story of the 1972 manufacturer's Championship Series as told by drivers Mario Andretti (Ferrari 312P) and Vic Elford (Alfa Romeo T33TT/3). The film takes you behind the scenes at Daytona, Sebring, the Targa Florio, the Nurburgring, Le Mans and Watkins Glen, focusing on Mario and Vic, as well as Jacky Ickx, Helmut Marko, and Brian Redman. You visit with the drivers at their homes in France, Belgium, Austria and England where they relax with their families between races. Woven into the film is rare footage of both the Ferrari and Alfa Romeo factories where the cars are prepared before each race.

Jason has been prophesied to take the throne of Thessaly. When he saves Pelias from drowning, but does not recognize him as the man who had earlier killed his father, Pelias tells Jason to travel to Colchis to find the Golden Fleece. Jason follows his advice and assembles a sailing crew of the finest men in Greece, including Hercules. They are under the protection of Hera, queen of the gods. Their voyage is replete with battles against harpies, a giant bronze Talos, a hydra, and an animated skeleton army, all brought to life by the special effects wizardry of Ray Harryhausen.

In pre-WWI Paris, two friends, Jules (Austrian) and Jim (French), fall in love with the same woman, Catherine. But Catherine loves and marries Jules. When they meet again in Germany after the war, Catherine starts to love Jim. This is the story of three people in love, a love that doesn't affect their friendship, and about how their relationship evolves with the years.

Austin, 1971. After graduating from the University of Texas, The Groovers, five close-knit roommates, realise that parting ways is more complicated than expected. So, determined to make the most of their remaining time together, they embark on an epic road trip across the Lone Star State in a teal 1959 Cadillac. As they confront the looming challenges of an impending wedding, the Vietnam draft, and the pressure of finding a job, the young travellers must look life in the eye and embrace the uncertainties of adulthood.

An uncompromising story of life in a British juvenile offender institution in the '70s.

Charles Bronson is Jay Killian, a secret service agent assigned the job of protecting the beautiful wife of the president. A seemingly simple job soon becomes a dangerous nightmare as Killian finds himself in the middle of a twisted and brutal plot to assassinate the First Lady.

A reworking of the movie "Three Blind Mice" (1938) based on the play of the same name, which in turn led to the remake, "Moon Over Miami" (1941). This version is set during the turn of the century. Three sisters from Red Bank set out for Atlantic City disguised as an heiress, her secretary and a maid, in the hope that one of them will land a rich husband.

Sergeant Major Zack Carey is serving what is his final tour of duty at an Army base in Clemens, Georgia. Zack doesn't like the way the Army keeps the base and the bar is not what he's accustomed to. So he goes off base to get a beer. When he goes to the bar one of the local prostitutes tries to come on to Zack but Zack turns her down. That's when the deputy who appears to be her pimp beating her up. That's when Zack strikes him. Later he learns that the Sheriff is corrupt and takes what happened to the Deputy as an attack on him and tries to get Zack but the Army backs him and Zack is not intimidated. That's when they arrest his son on trumped up drug charges. Before Zack can fix it, his wife tries to get a lawyer for their son but this only pushes the Sheriff to send their son to a prison farm. With no other recourse Zack gets into his own vintage Sherman Tank and busts his son out and they try to make it to the state line so that they can expose the Sheriff.

Art, Ben and Joe are back! So are their wives and good friend Bernie in their first adventure since their last! Five years since the senior citizens blasted off into space with the Antareans return to earth because their alien friends have to collect the rest of the cocoons in the ocean, believed to be in danger from an earthquake. Ben and Mary visit their family, while Art and Joe visit Bernie, who's still hangin' on. Art, Ben and Joe had forgotten what it was like on earth and immediately begin to feel their weaknesses, except for Art's wife who's pregnant! Meanwhile in the ocean, a biologist company snatched a cocoon out of the ocean and are doing research on it...

After a murderous heist Curtis Hook (Jim Brown) is caught by the police. The police, prisoners and guards want to know where he stashed the $1.5 million. When the place where he stashed the money is scheduled to be demolished Hook makes plans to get out of jail promptly.

A group of new police recruits takes to patrolling the streets of Los Angeles. Roy Fehler is a law student with a family and has joined the LAPD until he can complete his degree. He's partnered with veteran patrolman Kilvinski and they soon develop a good rapport. On the street the policemen are exposed to the seedier side of life but Kilvinski is a fair cop and a good teacher. Over time however, Fehler comes to love the work and both his family and his studies fall by the wayside. Kilvinsky retires and Fehler loses his way, drinking heavily. Fehler's wife leaves him and he soon hits bottom. Just as he begins to get his life in order, fate intervenes.

In an apartment on Manhattan a couple of friends from the New York upper-class meet almost every night to talk about social mobility, play bridge, and discuss Fourier's socialism; the cynical Nick, the philosophical Charlie, party girl Sally, and Austenite Audrey. They are joined by Tom. His background is much simpler, and he is critical of their way of life. But he finds a soul mate in Audrey, whom, without his knowledge, begins to fall in love with him.

This true story follows FBI agent Joe Pistone as he infiltrates the New York Mafia. Befriending Lefty Ruggiero, Pistone (under the name Donnie Brasco) is able to embed himself in a Mafia faction led by Sonny Black. Ruggiero and Pistone become tight as the group goes about collecting money for "the bosses." Eventually, the group become big-time when Black himself becomes a boss; all the while, Pistone collects evidence. However, the trials and tribulations of the undercover work become more than Pistone can bear. His marriage falls apart, and to top it off, the Mafia suspect a mole in the organization. The real dilemma is afforded to Pistone, who knows that if he walks away from the Mafia, Ruggiero will be the one punished.

Margie and her daughter reminisce about Margie's girlhood in the Roaring Twenties: in flashback, Margie, a smarter, less-popular girl at Central High, meets handsome new French teacher Ralph Fontayne; circumstances keep throwing them together and Margie, like every other girl in school, develops a crush on him. Then Margie's prom date gets sick, and what happens next surprises everyone.

In the eighteenth century, in a small village in Ireland, Redmond Barry (Ryan O'Neal) is a young farm boy in love with his cousin Nora Brady (Gay Hamilton). When Nora gets engaged to British Captain John Quin (Leonard Rossiter), Barry challenges him to a duel of pistols. He wins and escapes to Dublin, but is robbed on the road. Without an alternative, Barry joins the British Army to fight in the Seven Years War. He deserts and is forced to join the Prussian Army, where he saves the life of his Captain and becomes his protégé and spy of Irish gambler Chevalier de Balibari (Patrick Magee). He helps Chevalier and becomes his associate until he decides to marry the wealthy Lady Lyndon (Marisa Berenson). They move to England and Barry, in his obsession of nobility, dissipates her fortune and makes a dangerous and revengeful enemy.

Inspired by a Norman Rockwell painting, this 1950s coming of age drama centers on a young man leaving home to attend college, where he will learn the lessons in becoming a man. While his family must deal with a life threatening illness.

Laci Peterson is a pregnant mother to-be. On the eve of Christmas, she disappears. Her husband, Scott Peterson, and her whole family search for Laci. There are no signs of Laci anywhere. Months go on and on, and the media and public start to think that Scott murdered his wife. The Rocha family support Scott and defend him, until Scott's mistress, Amber Frey, holds a press conference admitting that she was having an affair with Scott, while he was married. Scott had told Amber that he was not married. This makes the Rocha family start to doubt Scott's innocence. Laci's mother, Sharon Rocha, always believed Scott to be a PERFECT HUSBAND, but now she doubts that. Finally the Rocha family publicly announces that they are against Scott. In 2003, Laci's body and baby wash up on shore, and she is officially declared to be murdered. The police arrest Scott and the movie ends here.

Tragedy strikes when Mary McDhui finds her beloved Thomasina seriously injured. Not even her stern father, a widowed veterinarian, can save the pet. Their only hope lies in a mysterious "witch" and the healing power of love.

A Gunfighter helps a ranch owner in his attempt to prevent a renegade crew from taking over the territory. When the owner is murdered, he wills his ranch jointly to the gunfighter and daughter of an old friend. The range terror is stopped in a blaze of gunfire.

An original musical set in London during the pivotal summer of 1958... chronicling a time when teenagers first came into their own and racism was on the rise in England. Adapted from Colin MacInnes' 1959 cult novel.