Oliver Stone's breakthrough as a director, Platoon is a brutally realistic look at a young soldier's tour of duty in Vietnam. Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) is a college student who quits school to volunteer for the Army in the late '60s. He's shipped off to Vietnam, where he serves with a culturally diverse group of fellow soldiers under two men ...
A girl poised on the brink of adolescence finds herself shouldering a whole new set of responsibilities in this made-for-TV drama based on the autobiographical book by Esmeralda Santiago. In 1961, Mami Santiago (Wanda De Jesus) decides to leave her life in a Puerto Rican farming community behind and move herself and her six children to New York ...
While at the Cannes Film Festival, producer Sy Learner (Seymour Cassel) makes a bet that he can turn any nobody into a star. A cabbie from New York named Frank (Francesco Quinn) becomes his test case as Sy tries to get Frank noticed amidst the stars and glitter of Cannes. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
A one-time mobster and an attractive FBI agent join forces to shut down organized crime in this thriller. Dean (Peter Dobson) is an important witness in a case that the FBI is desperate to crack. Dean is also a wanted man in the underworld, so the FBI assigns its top agent to watch over him. He's surprised to discover that he is being protected by ...
A serial killer is out there disemboweling women at an appalling rate and now the only way that world-weary, heroin-addicted and unkempt Detective John Reed can learn who is behind the grisly murders is to talk to recently re-jailed killer John Barnes, who went to prison the first time after he was convicted of literally stealing the heart of his ...
The International Bible Society and Pathway Media team to bring viewers the very best of the Bible in the most historically accurate manner possible with this film shot on location in Morocco, Tunisia, and South Africa and designed to be enjoyed by audiences of all ages. A film that offers both entertainment value and spiritual nourishment, Acts ...
Directed by former CIA officer Michael Sellers, Vlad chronicles the far-reaching consequences of a professor's (Child's Play veteran Brad Dourif) request that his students visit the tomb of the infamous Vlad Drakul (aka Vlad the Impaler). Known as one of the cruelest figures in world history, Drakul's reputation for dismembering his victims ...
In this action thriller, Aleksander Ivanov (Luciano Saber) is an ordinary cab driver in Bosnia who is thrown into extraordinary circumstances when he is unwittingly drawn into a plot to murder the Vice President of the United States. By being in the wrong place at the wrong time, Ivanov is on hand when the assassin fails to show up and by picking ...
In this action-packed drama, Max Lightener (Loren Avedon) is a Navy SEAL and intelligence operative who is pushed too far when his fiancée Jackie Martin (Lisa Crosato) and her father are abducted by Bobby Rico (Brion James), an underworld financier involved in drug running and Wall Street swindling. Max teams up with FBI agent Luis (Francesco ...
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