Description: This playlist contains mostly older lifetime and made-for-TV movies.
Wonderful to put on while doing chores or just fun to watch or re-watch ^^
Hope you enjoy <3
Creator: Eliade
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Movie:
Secrets of a Mother and Daughter
( 1983 )
A widow and her daughter, who is experiencing marital problems, both fall deeply in love with a charming restaurateur.
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Burning Bridges
( 1990 )
Fact-based story of a woman who suffered a nervous breakdown after having an extra-marital affair.
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A Child's Cry for Help
( 1994 )
A recently-widowed doctor moves with her daughter to start at a new hospital. A loving mother brings her son in for treatment. The doctor suspects that something is wrong and theorizes that the mother is deliberately making her son sick so she can rush him to the hospital and get attention for herself. When the doctor decides to restrict the mother's access to her son...Read all
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Murder Between Friends
( 1994 )
A woman is murdered one evening, and her husband's best friend, having apparently gone crazy after the birth of his brain-damaged son, is suspected as the killer - but is he? What actually happened that night?
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A Private Matter
( 1992 )
The story of Sherri Finkbine, a woman who sought a medically recommended abortion and endured a firestorm of public controversy about her decision.
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Murder Ordained
( 1987 )
Based on the true story of a bedroom-eyed Kansas preacher who decided that getting rid of his wife, and his secretary's husband, was the will of the Lord.
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Men Don't Tell
( 1993 )
This movie shows another side to spousal abuse that not too many people thought is possible--the husband being abused and the wife the abuser.
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Her Deadly Rival
( 1995 )
A man's marriage is threatened by an unknown admirer.
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Fatal Vision
( 1984 )
Fatal Vision is a 1984 American television miniseries based on the account, in the book of the same name, of the murders in 1970 at Fort Bragg of the wife and daughters of U.S. Army officer Jeffrey R. MacDonald.
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Anybody's Nightmare
( 2001 )
Based on the true story of Sheila Bowler, accused of murdering her elderly aunt.
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In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy
( 1995 )
**SPOILERS** This is a story of two lovers, Luke and Laurette. Luke is the grandson of a rich Texas family who raised him after the death of his parents. Laurette is daughter of a blue-collar worker. They have different worlds, different lifestyles... What if they meet? After a car accident with his fiancée, Luke can no longer walk without the assistance of orthopedic...Read all
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Right to Die
( 1987 )
A successful woman's life is irrevocably changed when she is diagnosed with A.L.S. and ultimately finds her living situation impossible to endure.
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Ultimate Betrayal
( 1994 )
This is based on a true story about two sisters who sue their father for incest and child abuse. As the story unfolds, it is revealed that the father severely abused all six children, and committed incest with all four of his daughters. The two sons received the worst of the physical abuse. The mother stood haplessly by and allowed her husband to control the family th...Read all
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Dangerous Intentions
( 1995 )
A man stalks his wife and child when they leave for an abused women's shelter.
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Moment of Truth: Cult Rescue
( 1994 )
Nora McGill has great pain. Desperately searching for help, she finds Dr. Allen. He reduces her pain, but she has to pay a high price for it .
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The Burning Bed
( 1984 )
A battered wife sets the bed on fire with her husband in it.
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Separated by Murder
( 1994 )
The husband of a rich Memphis belle is murdered, and she and her sophisticated twin sister are indicted in the murder.
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The Danger of Love: The Carolyn Warmus Story
( 1992 )
Michael Carlin, a teacher, has been having an affair with a much younger fellow teacher Carolyn Warmus. When his wife is murdered, the police suspect him due to inconsistencies in his alibi, and no evidence points to anyone else.
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Something About Amelia
( 1984 )
Counseling helps a family deal with the discovery that their daughter was sexually abused by a close relative.
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We the Jury
( 1996 )
Jury has to decide on a murder case but some of the jurors have their own agendas or are biased. Sounds like '12 Angry Men' but this is not a remake. It's a totally fresh take on the theme. Totally different case, for example. There is no question about the identity of the culprit, the jury has to decide between manslaughter and murder.
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Daddy's Girl
( 1996 )
A girl's bright smile masks a psychopathic soul that will eliminate anyone who comes between her and her doting father.
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Family Life
( 1972 )
A family is shattered over the daughter's forced abortion. As she rebels against her family and their traditional, authoritarian, typical-of-the-time norms, she is hospitalized and otherwise mistreated.
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Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway
( 1976 )
A 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.
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My Very Best Friend
( 1996 )
Dana Griffin is what some call a gold digger and has a habit of getting what she wants anyway possible. She is to wed wealthy Ted but her deceit is exposed. To build her life back she targets her friend Barbara and begins to take over her life.
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Murder in Texas
( 1981 )
Story of Texas heiress Joan Robinson, who married plastic surgeon John Hill. Her father, Ash, is suspicious of Hill, thinking that he married Joan for money, which he used to buy a house and indulges in some odd hobbies. He eventually has an affair with a woman named Ann Kurth. Eventually Ash threatens John with him losing custody of his son unless he makes full resti...Read all
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The Haunted
( 1991 )
When the Smurl family moves into a duplex, they find out its haunted. When the Catholic Church is no help, they reach out to famous demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren.
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The Missing Are Deadly
( 1975 )
A mentally-disabled boy takes a lab rat from his scientist father. Unknown to him, the rat is carrying a dangerous virus.
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Bed of Lies
( 1992 )
Southern waitress Vickie Daniel, a low born woman married to rich man, is accused of his murder. However, the subsequent trial reveals their marriage was nothing more than a bed of lies, abuse, and infidelity.
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Crimes of Passion
( 2005 )
While in competition for a job promotion, the female competitor sues her male counterpart for sexual harassment. Blackmail and murder follow closely behind.
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In My Daughter's Name
( 1992 )
Laura Elias' daughter is raped and murdered by Peter Lipton, who pleads "guilty due to insanity" with his affluential parents' support, and the jury acquits him. Unable to bear the injustice done to her daughter, Laura tries every possible option to obtain justice, but is unsuccessful every time, so she finally decides to take things into her own hands.
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Blood & Orchids
( 1986 )
Hester Murdoch is found naked and nearly beaten to death by four young Hawaiian men on the beach and taken to the hospital. Some of the men didn't want to get involved, fearing they might be blamed, because she was white, but do so anyway. Almost immediately everyone suspects they are to blame. When Hester's politically influential mother Doris finds out what really h...Read all
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Born Too Soon
( 1993 )
The story about the daughter of journalist Fox Butterfield who was born prematurely in the fifth month of his wife's pregnancy. Doctors save her, but she becomes dependent on constant medical attention. The parents debate what to do.
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Deadly Care
( 1987 )
True story about a nurse's descent into the nightmarish world of substance abuse which endangers her life and the lives of her patients.
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Chasing the Dragon
( 1996 )
Working class mother becomes addicted to heroin, and soon her life falls apart.
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A Time to Live
( 1985 )
The problems of a mother who helps her son in his struggles against muscular dystrophy. From the true story of Peter and Mary-Lou Weisman.
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Adam
( 1983 )
After their child is abducted, John and Reve Walsh are trying to find him. But, shortly after that, Adam is found dead.
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Cries from the Heart
( 1994 )
Michael, a young autistic boy who has trouble with verbalization but a real talent for technology, uses a computer to plead for help after being molested at his school.
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Terror in the Family
( 1996 )
A portrait of a dysfunctional 1990s suburban family, where behind closed doors, alcohol and rebellion are hidden inside the lie of perfection. 15-year-old Deena's sleazy, twisted boyfriend is believed--at first--to be the cause.
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Love's Deadly Triangle: The Texas Cadet Murder
( 1997 )
Diane and David love each other, but when they go to separate army academies, David has an affair. Diane snaps and ultimately something very sinister happens that the couple get involved in.
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Cocaine: One Man's Seduction
( 1983 )
A 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.
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Desperate Lives
( 1982 )
A brother and sister get caught up in the drug scene in their local high school, with tragic results.
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A Case for Life
( 1996 )
To save her unborn child, she had to fight for the right to die. A True Story
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Baby Girl Scott
( 1987 )
The 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.
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Casey's Gift: For Love of a Child
( 1990 )
Terry and Peter Stillwell enjoy a close friendship with their next-door neighbors Donna and Hank Bolen. Their children have grown up running through each other's houses and both families have shared their joys and sorrows. However, when the Stillwells' six-year-old son Casey drowns in the Bolens' unsupervised swimming pool, the tragedy threatens to tear their friendsh...Read all
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Where Are My Children?
( 1994 )
Marg Helgenberger stars as a single mother mysteriously arrested by the FBI and separated from her children, thus beginning a 25-year struggle to be reunited with them. Based upon a true story.
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Just Ask My Children
( 2001 )
In 1982, parents Scott and Brenda Kniffen are arrested on false accusations of ritualistic child abuse; their children are taken into custody and manipulated into believing the lies being told about them. Based on a true story.
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Murder in New Hampshire: The Pamela Smart Story
( 1991 )
Pamela Smart knows exactly what she wants and is willing to do anything to get it. She is fed up with teaching, and her marriage offers little excitement. Looking for a way out she applies for a job at a local TV station. When her dreams of fame are dashed by rejection, she seduces 15-year-old Billy, one of her students. Pam challenges Billy to prove his love for her ...Read all
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Dead by Sunset
( 1995 )
A doctor meets a handsome, successful man and soon marries him--unaware that he cheated on his first wife, raped her, abused and tortured his children, and when his wife was about to leave him, murdered her.
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On Thin Ice
( 2003 )
Patsy McCartle is a widow with two sons trying to gather all the money she needs to pay for her car, bills, and her son's medication, all of which she can barely afford. She turns to dealing drugs and becomes addicted to crystal meth. Her children hold her only way to recovery.
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Guilty Hearts
( 2002 )
Quiet and unassuming church organist Jenny Moran is depressed with her marriage to working-class Matt and leaves him. Jenny begins an affair with the manipulative and charming Dr. Stephen Carrow, who is also deacon of her church and a married man. Someone kills Carrow's wife after she learns of the affair between Jenny and her husband. The murderer is caught and confe...Read all
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A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story
( 1989 )
Domestic violence victim Tracey Thurman winds up in an ongoing struggle to convince the police to take her seriously as her husband Buck's physical and emotional abuse escalates.
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Bastard Out of Carolina
( 1997 )
A mother and daughter find their lives adversely affected when a new man enters the picture. Will their family ever be what they expect?
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Lethal Vows
( 1999 )
A woman believes that her seemingly all-American ex-husband murdered his second wife, and is desperate to prove it.
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Lies of the Heart: The Story of Laurie Kellogg
( 1994 )
16-year-old Laurie meets Bruce a charming guy 15 years older. He buys her from her stepfather for $500. At first, the relationship goes well, but Bruce soon shows his real self, and the naive young bride's life spins out of control.
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Prime Suspect
( 1982 )
A respectable businessman becomes the prime suspect in the abduction and murder of several young girls; he is hounded by the media and disowned by his friends and neighbors.
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Descending Angel
( 1990 )
A recently engaged man getting to know his future father-in-law better unearths clues that the man may have been a Nazi collaborator and a mass murderer.
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Perfect Strangers
( 1984 )
A hit-man tries to seduce the mother of a child who witnessed his most recent kill.
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The Lookalike
( 1990 )
A mentally disturbed woman is further tormented after discovering a girl who closely resembles her recently deceased daughter.
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The Girl Who Came Between Them
( 1990 )
A home is divided when a 13-year-old Vietnamese girl moves in with a family of an ex-GI who believes that she may be his illegitimate daughter.
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Down Will Come Baby
( 1999 )
Traumatized after a tragic accident at summer camp, a 12-year-old girl finds solace in a mysterious, kind lady in the city park who seems to have a bizarre fixation on rules and order, and whose friendship grows increasingly obsessive.
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Gone in the Night
( 1996 )
A husband and wife are accused of the murder of their own daughter.
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Fallen Angel
( 1981 )
Twelve-year-old Jennifer is unhappy with her widowed mom's relationship with a family friend. Feeling lonely, she readily accepts the friendship of an adult man named Howie and joins the softball team he coaches. Howie is soon convincing Jennifer to pose for photographs which become more and more revealing. He turns out to be a pedophile who works in child pornography...Read all
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Perfect Body
( 1997 )
A teenage gymnast is accepted to an elite training center in Seattle to train for the Olympics. After being criticized for her weight, she begins a regimen of purging and starving herself.
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Two Small Voices
( 1997 )
Sybil Goldrich had breast cancer and reconstructive surgery, Kathleen Anneken chose to have breast implants. They both suffer from symptoms they were not warned about. Who would have guessed drug companies and the doctors' community is hiding something from the public with government endorsment? The two join forces to fight the system, at the same time dealing with th...Read all
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Deadly Matrimony
( 1992 )
Alan Masters is a despicable businessman with his hands in organized crime. He marries Diane, a kind and gentle woman, and abuses and batters her viciously. Sergeant John Reed has had enough of his city's organized crime and, against the wishes of his dirty-cop superiors, tries to get evidence against Alan Masters. After Alan finds out that Diane has been helping Reed...Read all
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Holocaust
( 1978 )
This groundbreaking miniseries explores a decade in the lives of the members of an extended Jewish family and a German lawyer who becomes a Nazi officer. As the horrific events of the holocaust unfold, all will face unthinkable decisions and fates. Featuring a superb cast that includes Meryl Streep, James Woods, Ian Holm, Michael Moriarty, Joseph Bottoms, Tovah Feldshuh and Sam Wanamaker, the 1978 production won eight Emmys and two Golden Globes.
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My Body, My Child
( 1982 )
A woman must choose between having an abortion or giving birth to a deformed child.
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Intimate Agony
( 1983 )
Doctor Kyle Richards takes a job managing an office in the Hamptons where herpes runs rampant. He is frustrated by the community's denial and decides to go public with the epidemic to raise public awareness about the problem.
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A Killer in the Family
( 1983 )
A 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.
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A Family Upside Down
( 1978 )
An elderly married couple find that as their physical and mental health deteriorates, they find themselves dependent more and more upon their grown children.
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Silence of the Heart
( 1984 )
Skip Lewis is a 16 year old, who's been through some stuff. Like he has been having academic problems, and a girl whom he has been pursuing has told him that she has no interest in him. He tries to talk to his parents about this but can't, or thinks that they won't understand. So, he goes out and drives off a cliff. Now, his family's in denial saying that the whole th...Read all
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Into His Arms
( 1999 )
A family is shattered when seven-year-old Jennifer disappears while she and her mother are shopping.
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Friends 'Til the End
( 1997 )
An emotionally disturbed and hyper-competitive young woman schemes to land a spot as the lead singer in a local rock band while her childhood girlfriend also wants the spot.
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The Babysitter
( 1980 )
Spoiled 12-year-old Tara's new best friend from next door gets hired as a live-in babysitter, but things soon go horribly wrong when Tara's mom starts hitting the bottle and fighting with her dad.
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Silent Victim
( 1993 )
An abusive husband is angered that his wife is having trouble conceiving a child. One night, after leaving his house following a fight, she overdoses on pills. After bringing her to the ER to save her, the husband discovers that she was, in fact, pregnant and had lost her child in the process of attempting suicide. Distraught, he decides to sue her for "property damag...Read all
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Echoes in the Darkness
( 1987 )
Based on the true life story that took place in the 1970s, this movie follows the murder of Susan Reinert and her two children in Upper Merion Township in Pennsylvania, a case that lasted seven years.
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Do You Know the Muffin Man?
( 1989 )
A 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?
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A Place for Annie
( 1994 )
A nurse fights for custody of her H.I.V. positive foster daughter with her inept, junkie mother. Finally they come to an agreement that they should all live together.
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When She Was Bad...
( 1979 )
Stressed by a recent move and being a stay-at-home mom, Teeny takes out her bottled-up rage on her daughter Robbie. Only the help of her friends, family, and counselors can stop her from harming Robbie and herself.
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Cries Unheard: The Donna Yaklich Story
( 1994 )
Hooked on steroids and unable to control his bursts of sudden rage, a police officer keeps his wife under his thumb and routinely abuses her behind the closed doors of their house.
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Betrayed: A Story of Three Women
( 1995 )
Joan Bixler and Amanda Nelson have known each other for several years and lead successful and seemingly functional families. However, their friendship is ripped to shreds and their families shattered when the husband of one of the women has an affair with the other woman's daughter.
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When No One Would Listen
( 1992 )
Jessica has been married to her controlling husband Gary for years. The abuse only gets worse when she gets a job at a bakery and makes two really caring friends: her co-worker and neighbor Lee, and her boss Walter.
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Her Wicked Ways
( 1991 )
An ambitious young reporter worms her way into a veteran newswoman's life.
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Perfect Crime
( 1997 )
Mitzi Kapture portrays a military investigator trying to convict an officer of killing his wife. Convinced the officer committed the crime but hindered by lack of physical evidence (including a body), she must interview military personnel who have differing views of the events and circumstances surrounding the murder.
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Battered
( 1978 )
Gritty drama of three interweaving stories of three women of various backgrounds and ages whose marriages are complicated by spouse-abuse by their husbands.
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And Never Let Her Go
( 2001 )
The true story of a woman's suspicious disappearance after ending an affair with a powerful, married attorney.
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False Arrest
( 1991 )
A luxury home, a handsome husband and terrific children. But it all comes crashing down when she is accused of being a mastermind behind a brutal triple-homicide and is arrested and handcuffed in front of her own children. A gripping story of passion and betrayal as a woman fights to clear her name and avoid the death penalty for a crime she didn't commit.
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Please Don't Hit Me, Mom
( 1981 )
A babysitter realizes that one of the children she looks after is being physically abused by his mother.
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The Disappearance of Vonnie
( 1994 )
Corrine Kaczmarek desperately seeks the truth in the case of the mysterious disappearance of her sister Vonnie.
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David
( 1988 )
The true story of David Rothenberg, whose disturbed father set him on fire.
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The Babymaker: The Dr. Cecil Jacobson Story
( 1994 )
Married couples unable to conceive are thrilled to find they are going to become parents, thanks to a larger-than-life "miracle doctor" and his unusual treatments. However, joy soon turns to outrage with the discovery that the physician has taken bizarre and inconceivably unethical means to deceive his patients. In some case, the doctor deliberately misled couples int...Read all
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I Know My First Name is Steven
( 1989 )
This is the true story of a little boy lost - and found. And of the horrors that happened in between. Seven-year-old Steven Stayner was taken on his way home from school by a degenerate who convinced the boy his parents had abandoned him. Subjected to years of lies and sexual abuse, Steven was numbed into submission. Then, when Steven was 14, his abductor brought home five-year-old Timmy - and Steven found the courage to escape with the child, whose tragic future he could foresee only too well. Could he find his real family? And, if he did, could they ever be a family again? I Know My First Name is Steven will break your heart, then heal it.
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All She Ever Wanted
( 1996 )
The Stockmans are the perfect couple...young, successful, and deeply in love...but they have one problem: They want children. Since Rachel suffers from severe bi-polar disorder that has to be controlled by lithium, she can't risk getting pregnant. But because of her mental health history, they are bad candidates for adoption. Finally Rachel gives up on the system, and...Read all
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The Darkling
( 2000 )
When mechanic Jeff Obold meets the wealthy and mysterious Bruno Rubin, he is exposed for the first time to the finer things in life. But Jeff soon discovers the source of Rubin's power: a caged creature called a "Darkling," which possesses the power to create incredible wealth for the person who will pledge unending "companionship." Now, as Jeff sinks further and furt...Read all
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Snap Decision
( 2001 )
Inspired by a true story, Mare Winningham stars as a young widowed mother who finds herself on trial for child pornography and abuse after she allows her daughters and friends to be photographed by her friend (Felicity Huffman).
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