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Jerry London directs this made-for-TV Canadian festive drama. Tim Matheson stars as a hard-nosed business executive sent to a small town factory to decide which jobs to axe. Falling for his disguise as a potential client of the firm rather than an employee, the town, which relies on the factory for employment, takes Jacob (Matheson) to its heart. Single mother Emma (Melissa Gilbert) and her daughter Noelle (Michelle Trachtenberg) are pa..
When barely into his twenties, Jimmy Boyle was Scotland’s most feared gangster – a Gorbals ‘hard man’ notorious for his extreme violence. Then he got a taste of his own medicine when he was sentenced to life in a Scottish prison where the regime, with its punishment beatings and solitary confinement, was every bit as brutal as that on the street. Yet out of this bleak and seemingly dead-end system of crime and punishment came an extraor..
Based on a wartime true story. Linda Hamilton stars as Elizabeth, a German woman spending Christmas with her young son in the Ardennes. However, her plans are interrupted by 3 escaped American POWs seeking sanctuary. When the Germans chasing them also turn up, all parties are forced to spend the night together and discover that they have more in common than they thought...
Festive drama following the love entanglement between a school administrator and a music teacher. Though it may seem appropriate to be moving to a town called Bethlehem at Christmas, Cal (Gerald McRaney) and his niece, Fern (Alison Pill), aren't particularly enthused by their impending relocation to the small Kentucky town. Fern complains that they are always on the move, denying her the opportunity to build stable friendships, while Ca..
Collection of five films based on real events. In 'Rivals' (2000), Michelle (Marnette Patterson) is young, beautiful and the most popular girl in high school. She decides to help out when the shy and awkward Laurie (Jennifer Finnigan) arrives in the area, taking the new girl under her wing and transforming her from a bookworm into a beautiful siren. But this is when the trouble starts. Michelle's boyfriend falls for Laurie, and Michelle..
Dr Bob Shushan has devoted his life to helping others – and now he’s facing his greatest and most personal challenge. Based on the true story of a doctor’s quest to help a disturbed young man, the powerful and inspirational drama Behind The Mask stars Emmy and Golden Globe-winning Hollywood veteran Donald Sutherland (M.A.S.H, The Italian Job, Pride & Prejudice), double Oscar nominee Mary McDonnell (Dances with Wolves), Matthew Fox of Lo..
Country & Western legends Billy Ray Cyrus and Kenny Rogers lend their talents to this wonderfully warm-hearted Christmas tale, in which two boys from different sides of the racial divide learn the importance of hope - and the true meaning of family. Cyrus plays struggling widowed farmer Daniel Burton, whose young son DJ hates Rodney, a black classmate. But Daniel and Rodney's grandmother forge a clever plan - and a miracle occurs. As th..
Made-for-TV drama about an adopted woman's search for her roots. After being placed for adoption as a child, Barbara Ann Williams (Gloria Reuben) decides to trace her biological mother when she is diagnosed with a life-threatening condition. As she struggles to unravel the trail of her life, she discovers that her birth mother Gerry Cummins (Anne Bancroft), a white woman, was raped by a black man in the early 1960s...
This rousing romantic adventure, Robert Redford plays ex-world champion cowboy, reduced to huckstering breakfast food in a suit studded with flash lights. Jane Fonda is a chic, sharp member of the electronic media, a TV newswoman who'll do anything to get a good story. When Redford rides out of Las Vegas casino into the desert astride his sponsor's living symbol, a multi-million dollar racehorse, Jane is determined to discover why. She ..
FIRST DO NO HARM A Mother fighting for her epileptic son's right to a possible miracle cure.FATAL LOVE One moment of passion changed her life forever, but her courage inspired others.GONE IN THE NIGHT After their daughter was abducted the Dowalibys fell victim to a nightmarish miscarriages of justice.PEOPLE NEXT DOOR An explosive drama about two lethal con-artists who kidnap the children of a struggling single mother.TO LIVE FOR..
Meryl Streep (The Devil Wears Prada, Mamma Mia, The Iron Lady), two-time Oscar winner and regarded by many as the most brilliant actress of her generation, gives a magnificent performance (for which she was Emmy Award and Golden Globe nominated) as a mother fighting for her epileptic son's right to a possible miracle cure in this heart-rending and inspiring drama. Streep plays Lori Reimuller, whose poor but happy family life with her hu..
In 1958 Edna Buxton (Ileana Douglas) wins a songwriting competition, and although her prize of a New York recording contract proves to be a con, she changes her name to Denise Waverly and turns professional. In the 1960s she works for publisher Joel Millner (John Turturro), and marries songwriting partner Howard Caszatt (Eric Stoltz). When he is unfaithful, Edna turns to rock producer Jay Phillips (Matt Dillon), but all the while Edna s..
James Bond star Pierce Brosnan is Grey Owl in Richard Attenborough's true story of a 1930s Ojibwa Indian from the Canadian wilderness. Owl became infamous for his adventures where he used to exploit the wilderness for his own profit, including raping the forests using high-explosives. However, when he meets and falls in love with a native Mowhawk-Indian, Pony (Annie Galipeau) his whole perspective on life changes and begins to understan..
Seasonal feature. Part-time mayor Sarah (Ann Jillian) heads a town council desperate to find a doctor to keep open the small town's clinic. Fearing the town's decline, her hopes are raised when widower Michael (Robert Hays), a surgeon, returns to visit during the holidays. Unfortunately, the mayor's attempt to recruit Michael is complicated by their previous high school romance...
Cinzia Th. Torrini directs this German kidnapping thriller starring Luca Zingaretti and Heinz Hoenig. When Tommy (Matteo Urzia), the son of German businessman Max Klausner (Hoenig), is kidnapped while holidaying in Sardinia, his father chooses to negotiate with the kidnappers himself to leave the authorities out of it and protect his shady business interests. Returning to Berlin, Max begins his investigation by consulting Werner Schröde..
Two-part Italian drama starring Claudio Amendola and Carolina Crescentini. After moving to the small Italian island of Lampedusa, coast guard Serra (Amendola) finds himself pushed to the limit as the island is overwhelmed with migrants desperately trying to make it to Europe from northern Africa. With hundreds of people arriving each day, Serra and local reception centre officer Viola (Crescentini) do their best to help as many people a..
A chronicle of Al Pacino's attempts to film Shakespeare's 'Richard III', narrated by the director and star, as he travels to the Globe Theatre in England and visits the Bard's birthplace of Stratford-Upon-Avon. Actors such as Kenneth Branagh and Sir John Gielgud are interviewed to provide insights into the text, while scenes from the play are performed by Pacino and fellow American actors in various locations...
Fantastic five disc box set featuring the superb acting talent of LUCA ZINGARETTI, star of the hit TV detective show Inspector MontalbanoTitles included are Cefalonia, Perlasca ,Calling Inspector Marotta, By The Light Of Day and Borsellino: The 57 Days..
Collection of works starring Italian actor Luca Zingaretti. In 'The Octopus 8: The Scandal' (1997) Zingaretti plays mafia boss Pietro Favignana in this television drama based on the history of the Italian mafia from the 1950s to 1960s. In 'Kryptonite!' (2011), seven-year-old Peppino (Luigi Catani) is taken to live with his dysfunctional external family, after his mother becomes overwhelmed with depression in discovering that Peppino's f..
Alberto Negrin directs this Italian drama starring Luca Zingaretti. The film traces the 57 days after the assassination of his friend and fellow anti-Mafia judge Giovanni Falcone when Paolo Borsellino (Zingaretti) must come to terms with his own inescapable destiny...
Fantastical Norwegian Christmas feature. After his father is killed, Valemon (Tobias Hoesl) ascends the throne to take his rightful place as king. But after he rejects the arranged marriage of a witch seeking to be queen, she uses her powers to turn him into a polar bear. The king is forced to embark on a journey to Winterland so he can find a bride and bring her back to Summerland to break the spell cast upon him. Despite finding a pri..
To married couples, desperate to have children but unable to concieve, Dr Cecil Jacobson had the reputation as 'The Baby Maker'. However under the surface of the families' joy is revealed the terrible truth about his unethical practices - creating false preganancies and even fathering some of the children himself...
A gift for her new-born baby makes Veronica Ritchie start to remember events from her own traumatic childhood. Her marriage collapses under the weight of these memories, as she begins to believe that her father, whom she loves and respects, could be guilty of having abused her as a child...
Made-for-TV drama based on a true story. Ed Reece (Kirk Douglas) is an old man with only a short time left to live, but while his family think he should stay in bed and go peacefully, Ed has very different ideas about how to spend his last days. He is determined to head out on the road and revisit some of the places from his past, and while he's at it, make up with his long-lost son as well. So begins a journey which will take Ed all th..
Made-for-TV festive drama in which the sudden death of an orphanage's chief benefactor puts the institution at risk. Run by the charming and dedicated Jimmy Adams (George Newbern), the Sons of Mistletoe Orphanage provides a stable and loving home for boys with nowhere else to go. However, when its chief funder dies and his estate passes to Helen Radke (Roma Downey), the future of the orphanage is placed in danger. Will Jimmy and the boy..
Double-bill of made-for-TV family dramas. In 'To Live For' (1999) after discovering she has cancer, Susan Allen (Nancy Travis) decides to spend what time she has left living life to the fullest with her ten-year-old daughter Carson (Jamie Renee Smith). She also has to make the agonising decision where to 'place' Carson after her death. Into this situation comes the irresistible stranger Michael Blake (Scott Bairstow), and, despite her i..
