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- DirectorJohn KortyStarsMeredith BaxterDavid MorseJenny O'HaraWinnie is an intellectually-disabled little girl who is committed to an institution at a very young age by her mother. Throughout the film, Winnie struggles for independence and to feel as if she is "normal". It is a true story based on the autobiography, "Winnie: My Life in the Institution."
- DirectorJohn PattersonStarsMeredith BaxterStephen LangGwynyth WalshA nurse at a methadone clinic, with her own secret, falls in love and marries an addict that doses there. Together, they fall down a hole of addiction while trying to keep a marriage and family.
- DirectorDick LowryStarsMeredith BaxterStephen CollinsMichelle JohnsonBetty torments her husband with childish vandalism and verbal threats after he leaves her for another woman, but nobody anticipates what ends up happening as the games escalate.
- DirectorKaren ArthurStarsRichard CrennaMeredith BaxterPat HingleSeattle veteran cop Richard Beck becomes a sexual assault victim and must deal with the painful aftermath.
- DirectorArthur Allan SeidelmanStarsMeredith BaxterBen MastersGeorgann JohnsonA beautiful woman married to a successful lawyer and the perfect suburban mother turns out to be a closeted bulimic.
- DirectorDick LowryStarsMeredith BaxterJudith IveyRay BakerBetty Broderick stands trial for shooting her ex husband and his new bride.
- DirectorDick LowryStarsJean StapletonArthur HillJohn PutchJean Stapleton appears with her son John Putch in this story of an affluent working wife and mother whose well-behaved son suddenly falls into the trap of drug abuse.
- DirectorMichael TuchnerStarsGeorge SegalStockard ChanningAndrew RobinsonA young drug-addicted teenager's family are in denial about it. She's sent to an intervention program where the addicts are confronted--by one another and by their families--in supervised groups. The girl's biggest obstacle to sobriety: her mother, who wants to remove her from the program because she won't believe that anything is wrong.
- DirectorLarry ElikannStarsMare WinninghamGrace JohnstonL. Scott CaldwellSingle mother Theresa Johnnson becomes homeless, loses her job, and tries to survive with her young daughter Hillary through charities and public shelters.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsDennis WeaverKaren GrasslePamela BellwoodA real-estate salesman with career and marriage problems gets hooked on cocaine and finds that not only does it not help him cope, but it makes those problems much, much worse.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsDennis WeaverJacqueline ScottEddie FirestoneA business commuter is pursued and terrorized by the malevolent driver of a massive tractor-trailer.
- DirectorRichard MichaelsStarsSally StruthersJames WoodsRandee HellerA couple whose son had been institutionalized after being diagnosed as intellectually disabled are shocked to discover that the diagnosis was wrong: their son is deaf.
- DirectorRobert GreenwaldStarsMartin SheenJane AlexanderEmilio EstevezA teenage delinquent who goes on a drunken joyride is left in jail overnight by his parents in the hope that he might learn a lesson from it.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsRobert ConradSian Barbara AllenBuddy EbsenFlashbacks profile California motorists involved in a disastrous 39-car smash-up over a holiday weekend.
- DirectorHenry WinklerStarsDolly PartonLee MajorsBo HopkinsA country-western singer on a trip through the Tennessee mountains runs into a reclusive backwoodsman and a witch.
- DirectorRoger YoungStarsRon HowardArt CarneyTarah NutterA farmer's herd sickens and dies, then his family and neighbors fall ill, so he bucks the state agricultural establishment as he pursues the politically explosive investigation of how his farm, family, and friends came to be poisoned.
- DirectorRobert MarkowitzStarsKathleen QuinlanNicholas CampbellMario Van PeeblesFact-based drama about a sociology graduate (Kathleen Quinlan) who starts working with teen prostitutes in Hollywood. The film does not draw back on its depiction of the brutality that the teens face nor of the exploitation that occurs from the pimps and johns who use them. Pat Benatar's song "Hell Is For Children" is used to set the film's theme.
- DirectorCurtis HansonStarsHoward E. Rollins Jr.Joanna CassidyDavid AckroydAn alienated teenage boy runs away from home and ventures to New York City where he falls in with a gang of juvenile delinquents working as drug dealers and pickpockets for a shady crime boss.
- DirectorRandal KleiserStarsJohn TravoltaGlynnis O'ConnorRobert ReedThe girl next door makes a teen born with immune deficiencies want to leave his germ-free bubble.
- DirectorLou AntonioStarsCloris LeachmanJames OlsonGlynnis O'ConnorA woman learns that her husband has been unfaithful and that he has acquired a venereal disease. Then she learns that, after years of trying, she is finally pregnant.
- StarsGeorge DiCenzoSteve RailsbackNancy WolfeThe investigation and trial of the horrific Tate-LaBianca mass murders orchestrated by the psychotic pseudo-hippie cult leader, Charles Manson.
- DirectorJohn ErmanStarsBernadette PetersJohn GloverDan LauriaThe true story of David Rothenberg whose disturbed father set him on fire.
- DirectorBuzz KulikStarsScott JacobyPippa ScottJohn LarchA perverted teenage boy who lives in the walls of a house finds the house sold to a family after his mother dies, then he falls for one of the new residents.
- DirectorJorge MontesiDominique Othenin-GirardStarsFaye GrantMichael WoodsMichael LernerTwo attorneys adopt a mysterious orphan girl as their daughter, unaware she is the new Antichrist, next in line to Damien Thorn.
- DirectorFrank De FelittaStarsCharles DurningRobert F. LyonsClaude Earl JonesIn a small Southern town, four vigilantes wrongfully execute a mentally-challenged man, but after the court sets them free mysterious "accidents" begin to kill them off one by one.
- StarsDavid SoulJames MasonLance KerwinA novelist and a young horror fan attempt to save a small New England town which has been invaded by vampires.
- DirectorDan CurtisStarsRobert BurtonJohn KarlenGeorge GaynesThree bizarre horror stories, all of which star Karen Black in four different roles playing four tormented women.
- StarsRichard ThomasTim ReidAnnette O'TooleIn 1960, seven pre-teen outcasts fight an evil demon who poses as a child-killing clown. Thirty years later, they reunite to stop the demon once and for all when it returns to their hometown.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsBarbara StanwyckRichard EganMichael Anderson Jr.A woman and her niece move into an ancestral house in the Amish countryside haunted by two ghosts from the Revolutionary War.
- StarsJane BadlerMichael DurrellFaye GrantA seemingly peaceful alien race, arrives at earth and asks for help to ensure their own planets survival. However, the visitors agenda turns out be much darker.
- CreatorKenneth JohnsonStarsJane BadlerMichael DurrellRobert EnglundA small group of human resistance fighters fight a desperate guerilla war against the genocidal extra-terrestrials who dominate Earth.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsPeter GravesGeorge O'Hanlon Jr.Kathleen QuinlanAfter a catastrophic solar flare decimates almost all life, reducing people to powdery substance, a group of survivors treks across the devastated Earth.
- DirectorRichard LangStarsDennis WeaverValerie HarperRobin IgnicoA young girl begins seeing the ghost of her sister who died in an accident a year earlier.
- DirectorJerry JamesonStarsKurt RussellRichard YniguezNed BeattyThe infamous story of Charles Whitman, "America's favourite sniper" (in Stephen King's words), is told here once again.
- DirectorRobert Michael LewisStarsDiana ScarwidDoug McKeonHelen HuntA brother and sister get caught up in the drug scene in their local high school, with tragic results.
- DirectorBurt BrinckerhoffStarsLynda CarterHarold GouldPhilip SterlingA social worker tries to break up a ring of crooks who buy newborn babies from teenage mothers and sell them to couples who can't obtain them through legal adoption channels.
- DirectorRobert MarkowitzStarsNancy McKeonDale MidkiffGraham JarvisA victim of domestic violence winds up in an ongoing struggle to get the police to take her seriously, until the abuse escalates to the worst extreme.
- DirectorArthur Allan SeidelmanStarsNancy McKeonValerie HarperStephen MachtA family begins to fall apart when they find out their eldest daughter, Nicole, is a victim of schizophrenia.
- DirectorSteven Hilliard SternStarsTom HanksWendy CrewsonDavid WysockiBound together by a desire to play "Mazes and Monsters," Robbie and his three college classmates decide to move the board game into the local legendary cavern.
- DirectorJoseph SargentStarsSally FieldEleanor ParkerLane BradburyAfter finding out that the hippie lifestyle isn't as glamorous as the media makes it look, Dennie comes home to find disapproval and judgment at every turn, and her sister Susie wanting to follow in her footsteps.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsRobert StackVera MilesL.Q. JonesA family moves into a new home in an isolated area, and soon realizes that someone--or something--doesn't want them there.
- DirectorJohn KortyStarsWilliam ShatnerRuth RomanWendell BurtonA 15-year-old girl in late-1960s America is sucked into an odyssey of sex and drugs and eventually seeks help.
- DirectorSteve GethersStarsRichard CrennaDennis FarinaBilly ZaneThe true chilling story of the "two of a kind", killin' cousins Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi, better known as the Hillside Stranglers, is told in this TV drama. The movie concentrates on the killers story, as well as on the life of Officer Bob Grogan, who investigated their case. Look for the real Bob Grogan as the Washington cop who arrests Kenneth Bianchi!
- DirectorSam O'SteenStarsStephen McHattiePatty DukeBroderick CrawfordHaving been adopted by the madam of a southwestern brothel, a now adult Adrian must cope with the fact that he's Satan's kid, and not living up to his expectations.
- DirectorCharles BravermanStarsKeanu ReevesKiefer SutherlandLori LoughlinKeanu Reeves, Kiefer Sutherland, and Billy Zane star as high-school students who start a vigilante group to combat crime in their neighborhood.
- DirectorWes CravenStarsRobert UrichJoanna CassidySusan LucciA family moves to a suburban town only to be coerced into joining a suspicious club.
- DirectorCurtis HarringtonStarsRichard CrennaYvette MimieuxKim RichardsA dog that is a minion of Satan terrorizes a suburban family.
- DirectorJoel OlianskyStarsJudith LightMichael OntkeanJerry OrbachA lawyer's husband is having an affair. When the woman he is having the affair with is found dead. He is the prime suspect. Though he adamantly proclaims his innocence. His wife takes charge of his defense, but can she place his betrayal behind or aside to be able provide him with the best possible defense?
- DirectorMel DamskiStarsJudith LightDavid Ogden StiersKellie OverbeyThe life of Audrey Marie Hilley, who, in order to start a new life, took drastic action.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsDennis WeaverSally StruthersTyne DalyThe pressures of problems at home and at work are taking a tremendous toll on a middle-aged husband, and he begins to take it out on his wife.
- DirectorLarry PeerceStarsMeredith BaxterBeau BridgesWalter BrookeA young woman who is looking for the birth parents who gave her up hooks up with a young man who has also been adopted and is looking for his birth parents.
- DirectorNoel NosseckStarsMeredith BaxterG.W. BaileyCarrie HamiltonAfter Debbie is blindfolded and raped at a bus stop one night, her mother, Lila, is horrified and determined to catch the perpetrator in action and comes up with a plot to have him arrested.
- DirectorBetty ThomasStarsMeredith BaxterJamey SheridanJames SutoriusJoyce Wadler, a journalist who lives in New York, has an unsatisfying relationship with her boyfriend. When she discovers that she is suffering from breast-cancer, she radically changes her way of life.
- DirectorRichard T. HeffronStarsRobert CulpMarlyn MasonBeah RichardsOne man decides to wage war against a gang of teenage punks besieging an affluent California community. Based on a true incident.
- DirectorGwen ArnerStarsPatty DukeNancy McKeonLance GuestA babysitter realizes that one of the children she looks after is being physically abused by his mother.
- DirectorGene ReynoldsStarsTony DanzaJon DeVriesAlvin EpsteinTony Danza stars in this riveting drama based on the true story of Jerry Rosenberg - the world's first convict turned attorney. When two cops are dead, and he's the chief suspect, Jerry finds himself in a maximum security prison awaiting the death penalty. One night, as a fellow inmate is executed, Jerry resolves to save himself by studying law.
- DirectorRanda HainesStarsTed DansonGlenn CloseOlivia ColeCounseling helps a family deal with the discovery that their daughter was sexually abused by a close relative.
- DirectorPaul SchneiderStarsTracey GoldJill ClayburghCameron BancroftThe parents of an anorexic woman fight to save her life.
- DirectorArmand MastroianniStarsTracey GoldKyle ChandlerMissy CriderSylvie Pearson thinks her dreams have come true when she meets Peter Walker. He is kind and loving and Sylvia quickly moves in with him. Then she becomes pregnant. But Sylvie was born with a rare mental disorder and her mother tries to persuade her not to have the baby. Rejecting medical advise, Sylvie gives birth to a daughter, Cally. With Peter away on business much of the time, Sylvie and Cally spend all their time together alone. Sylvie is inseparable from the baby she adores. Then one night, her dream life becomes a nightmare. She leaves her baby alone for a few moments and returns to find the cot empty. Within days, Peter disappears as well but, because of her mental condition, Sylvie has become the prime suspect in the investigation of Cally's disapearance. Alone and afraid, with the police watching her, she starts to look for her family. Eventually, she finds Cally. But what she discovers along with her baby is a web of deception and lies that will tear her life apart.
- DirectorColin BuckseyStarsMarcy WalkerCotter SmithOlivia d'AboKate and her artist husband are busy working parents. Everything seems to be going fine, going about their daily lives. Then, Anna, the Swedish nanny that Kate hired to care for their daughter, comes into their lives. She tells Christina odd stories, and dazzles her with gifts and her strange picture book. Kate is having awful visions, her husband is acting weird, and her daughter is slowly drawing away from her. Her investigation of Anna only leads to a bizzare Satanic plot. Is there anyone she can trust?
- DirectorLarry ElikannStarsKelly McGillisTreat WilliamsSteve RailsbackA divorced woman falls in love with a mentally-disabled man, but his family objects to their relationship.
- DirectorDavid Lowell RichStarsPamela FranklinKate JacksonLloyd BochnerA young woman investigating her sister's suicide at a private girls' school finds herself battling a Satanic cult.
- DirectorRobert MandelStarsNick BagnallKarl GearyAdam MacDonaldA dramatization of the early years of the hard rock band, Def Leppard, the group faces both success and personal tragedies such as drummer, Rick Allen losing his arm in a car accident and guitarist Steve Clark's alcohol addiction.
- DirectorJoseph SargentRichard CarpenterStarsCynthia GibbMitchell AndersonPeter Michael GoetzStory of the meteoric rise and sudden fall of Karen Carpenter, who became a famous singer before battling anorexia and bulimia.
- StarsFrederick WellerMatt LetscherNick StabileTV miniseries about the rise of The Beach Boys.
- StarsLawrence Hilton-JacobsAngela BassettHolly Robinson PeeteThe story of the Jackson family and their rise to success.
- StarsRebecca De MornaySteven WeberWil HorneffA recovering alcoholic must wrestle with demons within and without when he and his family move into a haunted hotel as caretakers.
- StarsGary SiniseMolly RingwaldJamey SheridanAfter a deadly plague kills most of the world's population, the remaining survivors split into two groups - one led by a benevolent elder and the other by a malevolent being - to face each other in a final battle between good and evil.
- DirectorTom McLoughlinStarsTim MathesonBrooke AdamsRobert RuslerA man and his family return to his hometown, where he is then harassed by teenagers who died when he was a kid.
- DirectorAdam GrossmanStarsMichael GrossAlexis ArquetteHilary SwankA man and his daughter return to his hometown only to be terrorized by demons who had sacrificed the man's sister in the past.
- DirectorAlexander GrasshoffStarsBruce DavisonLori LethinJohn PutchAn experiment in an American High School where students learn how easy it is to be seduced by the same social forces which led to the horrors of Nazi Germany. Based on a true story.
- DirectorJames Steven SadwithStarsBrian DennehyCloris LeachmanMarcia Gay HardenThe fanatically-uncompromising Len Rowan and his family insult and terrorize the citizens of a small town for years. One day the comment of a saleswoman about Len's son not paying for candy triggers his persecution complex. As revenge for the believed insult, the whole family starts stalking the shop owner and her husband... until this escalates and the old man gets badly injured. Len is arrested, but is freed on bail. His clever attorney delays the court session for more than a year--while Rowan keeps threatening the witnesses. The people feel they've had enough of this and decide to take the law into their own hands.
- DirectorLarry ElikannStarsKen OlinJill EikenberryMaureen MuellerReligious beliefs clash with the law when an Amish infant is killed in a rural community.
- DirectorRobert MarkowitzStarsMichael TuckerJuliette LewisBrad PittAn abused 15-year-old is charged with a murder that carries the death penalty.
- DirectorRichard T. HeffronStarsRobert MitchumJames SpaderLance KerwinA father serving time for murder convinces his three teenage sons that his life is being threatened by fellow inmates and that they should break him out of jail. However, when his sons succeed in the jailbreak attempt, the father brings along his cell-mate, a former two time killer, and soon the sons find themselves involved in the pair's murderous crime spree.
- DirectorKaren ArthurStarsTom ArnoldCandace Cameron BureChristopher WiehlA young woman who left the year-round holiday party of "Santaville" - where her dad reigns as the resident St. Nick - returns to find her father's business in dire straits.
- DirectorCharles CorrellStarsDavid MorseMegan FollowsDion AndersonThe true story of a young woman's abduction by a deranged loner that led to the largest manhunt in the history of Pennsylvania, USA. A mountain man kidnaps the 17-year-old, his chilling plan to get himself a woman--and keep her forever. Thus begins the ordeal.
- DirectorRichard DonnerStarsLinda BlairLarry HagmanVerna BloomThis movie is a teaching tool about a teenage girl struggling with alcoholism to cope with her feelings of insecurity and the usual problems of adolescence.
- DirectorJackie CooperStarsBette DavisErnest Harden Jr.Eileen HeckartA poor, elderly white woman living in a tenement in a black ghetto is befriended by a neighborhood boy, and the two of them form a mutually beneficial relationship: he provides her companionship and protection, and she becomes the mother he never had.
- StarsAnn-MargretPeter CoyoteLeslie HopeTrue-crime story of a Wisconsin teacher's aide who hired teenage students to murder her estranged husband.
- DirectorLee GrantStarsChristine LahtiJeff DanielsScott MarloweThe powerful story of a family's painful descent into the economic tragedy of homelessness.
- DirectorRandal KleiserStarsEve PlumbLeigh McCloskeyLynn CarlinA 15-year-old girl runs away from home and arrives in Hollywood, but winds up becoming a prostitute to support herself and gets involved with a tough-talking pimp.
- DirectorJohn ErmanStarsLeigh McCloskeyEve PlumbJuliet MillsA teenaged boy arrives in Hollywood to become a movie star, but winds up becoming a male prostitute and gets involved with a gay football star.
- DirectorLarry ElikannStarsEdward James OlmosBeverly D'AngeloDamian ChapaInvestigation based upon the true story of the Mendendez Brothers and the murder of their parents.
- DirectorWilliam A. GrahamStarsKellie MartinTori SpellingJames AveryWho could have stabbed popular, beautiful cheerleader Stacy to death? It could have been antisocial Goth girl Monica, it could've been angst-ridden Jill--or maybe it was the plain girl nobody suspected.
- DirectorCharles Robert CarnerStarsPatty DukeTiffani ThiessenMargaret WelshA grieving mother sets out to find the murderer of her daughter.
- DirectorGilbert CatesStarsHenry WinklerRichard KileyKarl MaldenA husband tries to keep his comatose wife alive by allowing doctors to terminate her pregnancy. Hearing about this, anti-abortion protesters start a legal campaign to gain legal custody of the fetus.
- DirectorMichael KatlemanStarsPatty DukeTracy NelsonG.W. BaileyA woman accustomed to always having the last word in every situation finds herself trying to "rescue" her grandson Jesse, from being signed away to grow up in an institution for Down Syndrome children.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsPatty DukeNed BeattyJames SloyanSarah McDavid, an idealistic young teacher, takes a job in a rough high school where she is eventually attacked and raped in her classroom after school hours and decides to buck the school system in an attempt to make schools safer for students and teachers alike, against the advice of the school's principal, Dr. Keys, who tries to gloss over the hazardous conditions and the incident itself to avoid bad publicity and decreased enrollment.
- DirectorSandor SternStarsPatty DukeJane WyattFredric LehneThe demonic forces in the Amityville house transfer to an ancient lamp, which finds its way to a remote California mansion where the evil manipulates a little girl by manifesting itself in the form of her dead father.
- DirectorJohn KortyStarsJohn LithgowMary Beth HurtLinda KelseyThe story of the Scotts, a young couple whose first child is born dangerously early, weighing less than a pound and a half. As they endure the anguish and struggle to help keep their baby alive, they discover what real love, courage, and triumph are in the face of tragedy.
- DirectorGilbert CatesStarsPam DawberJohn SheaStephen DorffA police officer and his wife are shocked to find that molestation has been going on at the neighborhood day care. They're devastated when they find that their own son might be a victim too. Should they have known, should they have seen?
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsDavid SoulPam DawberFionnula FlanaganA musician living in an apartment building likes to check out the residents of the building opposite him--until he finds out one day that an attractive woman in that building is checking him out. He strikes up a relationship with her. Soon afterwards a string of serial killings occurs in the neighborhood, and suspicion begins to fall on the musician.
- DirectorDonald WryeStarsTeri GarrNeil Patrick HarrisRandle Mell16-year-old Steve Thompson seemed to have everything going for him: friends, good looks, and a great personality. But a car accident tragically brings his once-bright future to a crashing halt.
- DirectorJohn PattersonStarsElizabeth MontgomeryDale MidkiffHeather FairfieldA charismatic Real Estate agent, Kevin Coe, is publicly proud of his mother, a prominent socialite, but privately he must put up with her constant belittlement's and taunts. And while his latest girlfriend starts discovering the depths of his anguish, no-one connects him with a long series of violent rapes that have been troubling the area.
- DirectorWilliam A. GrahamStarsPowers BootheNed BeattyIrene CaraThe real-life story of the Peoples Temple cult led by Reverend Jim Jones and the events involving its move to Guyana and its eventual mass suicide.
- DirectorPeter BaldwinStarsFlorence HendersonRobert ReedAnn B. DavisThe entire Brady family manages to overcome personal obstacles to spend a happy holiday together.
- StarsMark HarmonFrederic ForrestGeorge GrizzardThe story of serial killer, Ted Bundy.
- DirectorAlexander SingerStarsFreddie PrinzeAllen GarfieldChristine BelfordAn electronics genius (Freddie Prinze) masterminds a transit heist with his gang of four women.
- DirectorRobert Michael LewisStarsBarry BostwickKim DarbyMartha ScottWhen seductive young Cinni comes to babysit for a troubled couple, she's after more than extra spending money. Starting with the kids and working around to the husband, evil Cinni plots to take over a young mother's life-ruthlessly dealing with anyone who gets in her way.