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A dictatorial film director (Finch) hires an unknown actress (Novak) to play the lead role in a planned movie biography of a late, great Hollywood star.

The ruthless, moneyed Hubbard clan lives in, and poisons, their part of the Deep South at the turn of the 20th century. Regina Giddens née Hubbard has her daughter under her thumb. Mrs. Giddens is estranged from her husband, who suffers from a terminal illness and is convalescing in Baltimore. But she needs him home, and will manipulate her daughter to help bring him back. She has a sneaky business deal that she's cooking up with her two older brothers, Oscar and Ben. Oscar has a flighty, unhappy wife and a dishonest worm of a son. Will the daughter need to marry this contemptible cousin? Who will she grow up to be--her mother or her aunt? Or can she escape the fate of both?

I AM DAVID is adapted from Anne Holm's internationally acclaimed novel NORTH TO FREEDOM. David is thrust into the free world for the first time in his young life as he travels across Europe. It is a spiritual voyage of discovery, where David slowly loses his instinctual mistrust of humanity and begins to smile, share, trust and ultimately, love.

Intolerance and its terrible effects are examined in four historical eras: In ancient Babylon, a mountain girl is caught up in the religious rivalry that leads to the city's downfall. In Judea, the hypocritical Pharisees condemn Jesus Christ. In 1572 Paris, unaware of the impending St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, two young Huguenots prepare for marriage. Finally, in modern America, social reformers destroy the lives of a young woman and her beloved.

Story charts the course of a relationship between a young woman (Taylor Schilling, Orange is the New Black) and a disgraced middle-aged professor (Aidan Quinn). The couple's relationship is upended by an unexpected pregnancy, which forces both characters to confront

A law student, Martin, gets a part-time job doing the night shift at the morgue. The isolation and macabre nature of the facility initially spook him and he thinks maybe this isn't for him. Meanwhile, a serial killer is murdering women, an event that will become relevant to Martin when the victims end up in his morgue.

David is a teenager whose parents are in a deteriorating marriage after their infant daughter's death. Clara is a chambermaid at a Jamaican resort who is hired to be a housekeeper. Clara and David develop a close bond that opens David's eyes and heart to new experiences--and eventually leads to a disturbing secret in Clara's past.

Millionaire industrialist Steven Taylor is a man who has everything but what he craves most: the love and fidelity of his wife. A hugely successful player in the New York financial world, he considers her to be his most treasured acquisition. But she needs more than simply the role of dazzling accessory. Brilliant in her own right, she works at the U.N. and is involved with a struggling artist who fulfills her emotional needs. When her husband discovers her indiscretion, he sets out to commit the perfect murder and inherit her considerable trust fund in the bargain.

She is the editor of a womens’ magazine and has decided to run a contest to find the most attractive man living within the magazine’s reading area. He is a circus lion-tamer, temporarily at leisure because of the death of his lion. He has been urged to enter the contest by the circus’ manager.

Charlie B. Barkin (Burt Reynolds), a rascally German Shepherd with a shady past, breaks out of a New Orleans dog pound with the help of his faithful friend Itchy (Dom De Luise), a nervously hyperactive dachshund. He then makes tracks to reunite with his gambling casino partner Carface Malone (Vic Tayback), a shifty pitbull who has planned a dastardly, and potentially deadly, double cross. Suddenly, Charlie finds himself at the Pearly Gates, face to face with the Heavenly Whippet (Melba Moore). Charlie weasels his way back to earth and reunites with Itchy. He plots his revenge against Carface and, along the way, acquires help from a little girl named Anne-Marie (who can talk to animals). After a series of fiendish schemes, close scrapes and unexpected adventures, both Charlie and Anne Marie find their lives at stake. Only one can be saved and the outcome is in Charlie's paws...

The Newton family live in their comfortable home, but there seems to something missing. This "hole" is filled by a small puppy, who walks into their home and their lives. Beethoven, as he is named, grows into a giant of a dog...a St Bernard. Dr. Herman Varnick, the local vet, has a secret and horrible sideline which requires lots of dogs for experiments. Beethoven is on his list.

Tired of being a Preacher's daughter and longing to experience more of life, 20-something ANGIE KING strikes out on her own for the very first time and joins a traveling gospel show.

In the Old West, impressionable teenage farm boys Will, Les, and Tod find an injured bank robber who asks for their help. At first, the boys are scared and reluctant to help, afraid of getting into trouble with the law and their parents. Moved by the wounded man's pleas, they finally agree to hide him in Will's barn and clean his wounds. Over the next few days, they bring food, drink, and clean clothes to the outlaw whose name is Harry Spikes. When the sheriff and his posse come by and ask questions, Will hides the fact the robber is concealed in his family's barn. After he sufficiently recovers, Harry Spikes thanks the boys for their help and vows to return the favor if they ever need his assistance. He takes Will's horse and leaves the county, heading for the Mexican border. Later, Will's parents discover their son's secret mischievous deed and administer a severe beating to teach him to never lie again. Fed up with his father's frequent physical abuse, Will runs away from home. He goes by Les and Tod's homes to bid them farewell. Yearning for adventure in their own lives, Les and Tod also decide to leave home. The three teenagers ride away and vow to have fun free of parental restrictions and interference. However, after a few days without food or money, the boys decide to rob a bank. The bank robbery goes wrong and the boys are on the run toward the Mexican border. In Mexico, they do menial labor to sustain themselves, but trouble is never far away and they end up in a Mexican jail for breaking into a pawnshop. Languishing in jail, the forlorn boys lose hope, but Harry Spikes happens to be passing through town and he finds them and bails them out of jail. In the end, he offers them the opportunity to work with him. The boys agree to form a bank-robbing gang with Spikes as their leader.

Baby Bink couldn't ask for more: he has adoring (if somewhat sickly-sweet) parents, he lives in a huge mansion, and he's just about to appear in the social pages of the newspaper. Unfortunately, not everyone in the world is as nice as his parents, especially the three enterprising kidnappers who pretend to be photographers from the newspaper. They successfully kidnap him then have a harder time holding onto him as he not only keeps one step ahead of them but also seems to be more than a little bit smarter than they are.

After his lover rejects him, a young man trapped by the oppressiveness of Edwardian society tries to come to terms with and accept his sexuality.

Things aren't going so well for Tommy Basilio. He lost his job because he "borrowed" money from the register, his girlfriend left him for his boss and is now pregnant, and he can't find work because of the incident. His life revolves around the Trees Lounge, a neighborhood bar over which he lives, full of the colorful eccentrics one finds in such places, like the estranged husband, or the old boozer drinking himself to death. He drunkenly wanders through his life, still in love with his ex, desperate for some sort of meaning beyond the bar, some sort of meaning to his life.

A mousy drugstore manager contemplates murder after his conniving wife leaves him for another man. He devises a complex plan, which involves assuming a new identity, to make it look like someone else murdered her new boyfriend. Things take an unexpected turn after someone else commits the murder, and he becomes the prime suspect.

When a crusading chairperson of the military budget committee pressures the would be Navy secretary to begin full gender integration of the service, he offers the chance for a test case for a female trainee in the US Navy's elite SEAL/C.R.T. selection program. LT. Jordan O'Neill is given the assignment, but no one expects her to succeed in an inhumanly punishing regime that has a standard 60% dropout rate for men. However, O'Neill is determined to prove everyone wrong.

Boston women are being terrorized by a serial killer who appears to be striking at random. Based on the true story, the docu-melodrama follows the detectives path through multiple leads. Only after that are we introduced to the Strangler (Tony Curtis). The story closely follows the perspective of the investigators who have very few leads, but doggedly follow them up.

Ben Kalman is aging: he has heart problems, his marriage is over, he's lost a fortune after being caught cutting corners in his East Coast car business, and he's sleeping with as many women as possible - the younger the better. He's chosen his current girlfriend, Jordan, because her father can help him get a new auto dealership; she's asked him to escort her daughter, Allyson, 18, on a visit to a Boston college campus. He behaves badly, and there are consequences to his love life, his finances, and his relationship with his daughter and grandson. Is there anywhere he can turn?

Frightened 19-year-old Marie Allen gets sent to an Illinois penitentiary for being an accomplice in an armed robbery. A sympathetic prison head tries to help, but her efforts are subverted by cruel matron Evelyn Harper. Marie's harsh prison experiences turn her from doe-eyed innocent to hard-nosed con.

Chloé a fragile young woman, falls in love with her psychoanalyst, Paul. A few months later she moves in with him, but soon discovers that her lover is concealing a part of his identity.

Gangsters and the FBI pursue three retired war veterans (Burt Reynolds, Robert Loggia, and Charles Durning) after they find a stash of hidden cash. Also stars Raquel Welch.

Henry is a Los Angeles veterinarian whose fiancée Kate dies in an accident on their wedding day. Worried that Henry has closed off his social life, his sister suggests that he use a psychic to contact Kate, lay to rest unresolved feelings, and live more fully. He tries it, though he doesn't believe in it. Nothing happens, so his sister gives Ashley, the psychic, Kate's diary. Now she's able to convince Henry she's in contact with Kate and start the therapy. Two things happen: they become attracted to each other; and Kate's ghost, who also has unresolved issues, returns to stop this budding romance.