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
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Movie:
A Question of Guilt
( 1978 )
Inspired by the Alice Crimmins case in New York, Doris Winters (Tuesday Weld) is an attractive woman whose personal lifestyle is viewed by many as distasteful when she is accused of murdering her young daughter.
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Aftermath: A Test of Love
( 1991 )
Based on a true story, an adoring wife and mother is taken hostage during a robbery and brutally murdered.
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In the Custody of Strangers
( 1982 )
A 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.
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Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story
( 1987 )
This is the story of Lenell Geter, an engineer who was accused and convicted of armed robbery. Because he had such faith in the system, he thought that he would eventually be released. But he was in jail for 18 months until a lawyer from the NAACP was brought to assist in his case.
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Without Consent
( 1994 )
Michelle and Robert Mills are in continuous conflict with their young daughter Laura. One night, she has a car crash while driving drunk. Her parents ask a psychologist to refer them to a center specializing in the recovery of troubled youths...
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Child's Cry
( 1986 )
A social worker (Lindsay Wagner) starts to work with a shy, withdrawn 6-year-old (Taliesin Jaffe) whom she suspects is a sexual-abuse victim.
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Evil in Clear River
( 1988 )
Pete Suvak is a loved and respected high school teacher and mayor of a small Canadian community. After concerned mother Kate McKinnon finds out that Suvak is teaching Nazism and "Jew-bashing" to her son and others, she takes action to have him removed from the school. That doesn't help anything as he still has the community behind him. So the next step is to take Suva...Read all
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Amy & Isabelle
( 2001 )
In 1971, in the small town of Shirley Falls, in Maine, the odd and lonely secretary Isabelle Goodrow raises her teenager daughter Amy alone. She has only two friends in her job among her gossiper colleagues. When her overprotected daughter is seduced by her mathematic teacher Peter Robertson, the world of Isabelle falls apart. She becomes lost and loses her confidence...Read all
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The Blood of Others
( 1984 )
WWII. In German occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann, who will do anything to gain her affection.
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Personals
( 1990 )
With his wife's consent, a magazine writer goes on dates with single women through personal ads so as to research and write about loneliness. At the same time, there's a woman responding to personal ads and killing her dates.
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A Cry in the Dark
( 1988 )
A mother whose child was killed in a dingo attack in the Australian Outback fights to prove her innocence when she is accused of murder.
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Indictment: The McMartin Trial
( 1995 )
Lawyers and the media argue the alleged child abuse at the McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach, California.
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What Kind of Mother Are You?
( 1996 )
Kelly keeps getting into trouble with the police. Her mother agrees to her going into a juvenile detention centre overnight. She is kept there for much longer. During her incarceration she is assaulted by inmates and abused by the system.
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Love Lives On
( 1985 )
A 15-year-old girl must choose between continuing her pregnancy and undergoing treatment for her fast-growing cancer.
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Fire and Rain
( 1989 )
On August 2, 1985, Delta Airlines Flight 191 is en route to Los Angeles via Dallas-Fort Worth, taking off from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. When the plane is landing in Fort Worth, wind-shear from a strong thunderstorm causes the plane to crash, resulting in 137 fatalities.
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Prison for Children
( 1987 )
An orphaned teenager is sentenced to a juvenile detention center until he turns 18. Two counselors fight for change to the circumstances that put him there.
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The Rape of Richard Beck
( 1985 )
Seattle veteran cop Richard Beck becomes a sexual assault victim and must deal with the painful aftermath.
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Sins of the Mind
( 1997 )
A young woman returning from a renaissance fair survives a car accident, but much to her family's horror, the accident damages her brain and she develops blatantly promiscuous and childlike behavior.
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Lies & Lullabies
( 1993 )
Even before she discovers she is pregnant, Christine Kinsey's life is spiraling downward at a fast pace. She uses cocaine with her boyfriend, Gabriel; she has a destructive relationship with her mother and she coasts day-to-day at her job. Tragedy strikes when Christina's daughter, Lynn, is born prematurely, addicted to cocaine, and is taken away from her.
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Desperate for Love
( 1989 )
The story of murder among a trio of teenagers after a boy breaks up with a girl and she runs into the arms of his vulnerable best friend.
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Choices of the Heart
( 1983 )
The film tells the story of a young missionary girl from the United States who was killed in 1980 in El Salvador together with two other missionaries.
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Reform School Girl
( 1994 )
Donna is sent to a reform school to take the fall for bad boy Vince. Inside, she makes friends and learns about herself.
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One Woman's Courage
( 1994 )
Grace starts drinking when she discovers that her husband Craig is having an affair. One night she witnesses a man attacking a girl; she helps the girl get to the hospital but does not want to be a witness in court because she thinks Craig would lose his reputation. Only when the girl's mother appeals to her does Grace contact Lieutenant Lawson from the police departm...Read all
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Sin of Innocence
( 1986 )
When widower David marries divorcee Vicki, David's teenage son, Tim, and Vicki's teenage daughter, Jenny, become romantically involved. This makes David and Vicki VERY uncomfortable and Vicki's ex-husband, Andy, furious.
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No Place Like Home
( 1989 )
The powerful story of a family's painful descent into the economic tragedy of homelessness.
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Leave of Absence
( 1994 )
When a married man's mistress falls seriously ill, he must make the toughest choice of his life.
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She Led Two Lives
( 1994 )
A married woman is reunited with her childhood sweetheart and marries him too, forcing her to live two lives at once.
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Alex: The Life of a Child
( 1986 )
Alexandra Deford, a precious and precocious girl, was just eight years old when she died in 1980 following a battle against the debilitating effects of cystic fibrosis, the number-one genetic killer of children. Her poignant and uplifting story touched the hearts of millions when it was first published and then made into a memorable television movie. A new introductio...Read all
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Family Secrets
( 1984 )
Three generations of women spend an emotional weekend that will change them forever.
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A Doctor's Story
( 1984 )
A physician (Howard E. Rollins, Jr.) frustrates his family in his fight to prove that an elderly man is not senile.
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Loverboy
( 2005 )
A neglected daughter becomes a possessive mother in an emotional journey into the heart and mind of a woman who loved too much.
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Baby Snatcher
( 1992 )
A woman is delighted to have given birth to a baby girl. Her life is turned into a nightmare, however, when her daughter goes missing. The police mount a frantic search, but, to the woman's horror, she finds out that the police suspect her of the crime.
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No Child of Mine
( 1993 )
A 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.
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Dark Holiday
( 1989 )
American tourist Gene LePere (Lee Remick), on vacation in Turkey, is hounded by a street vendor into buying a carved head she doesn't want. Then she is cast into prison for smuggling an antique.
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Blind Spot
( 1993 )
Drama about a couple (Woodward, Weaver) and their problematic daughter (Linney) who is a cocaine addict.
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I Want to Keep My Baby!
( 1976 )
A 15-year-old girl becomes pregnant by her boyfriend and decides to keep the baby and raise her on her own, instead of initially choosing abortion at the insistence of her boyfriend, or raising the baby at home with her meddling mother.
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Getting Out
( 1994 )
A woman has to put her life back together after getting out of prison.
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Consenting Adult
( 1985 )
A young gay man tries to find acceptance from his shocked mother and disgusted father. Through this journey, he also learns to accept himself for who he is.
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Sin & Redemption
( 1994 )
A rape victim learns the truth about her husband when their daughter has a life-threatening illness.
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In the Best Interest of the Child
( 1990 )
Jennifer's daughter is having nightmares and acting violently. It dawns on Jennifer that Mandy might be sexually abused by her father. What will she do when the court isn't favourable in Mandy's hour of need?
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A Friend's Betrayal
( 1996 )
Two childhood friends grow up. One has a family and the other has a career. One relationship may make or break a family. Paul, the teenage son, must decide what he wants for his future. While family would like to make that decision for him. Watch as all the truth unravels in this drama/ romance
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Family of Strangers
( 1993 )
Julie must disclose her family's medical history before undergoing major surgery, but when she questions her family, she discovers that she was adopted; later she learns that she was conceived from rape.
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The Day After
( 1983 )
The effects of a devastating nuclear holocaust on small-town residents of eastern Kansas.
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Threads
( 1984 )
The effects of a nuclear holocaust on the working class city of Sheffield, England and the eventual long-term effects of nuclear war on civilization.
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Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case
( 1980 )
Based on the real-life Oregon criminal case which dramatizes the unique dispute in which Greta Rideout instigated the prosecution of her husband John, charging him with raping her.
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Fire: Trapped on the 37th Floor
( 1991 )
Susan and Paul are working late on the thirty-seventh floor of a Los Angeles skyscraper. Also in the building are the cleaning staff, security, and some engineers installing sprinklers. As the water pumps are switched off so that work on the sprinklers can continue, a fire starts on the twelfth floor.
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Mother's Day
( 1989 )
A young black man is arrested for a crime. Now the police and the D.A. are convinced that he is guilty, but his mother doesn't believe this and sets out to prove his innocence.
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Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo
( 1986 )
A story of the lives of a family from South Carolina torn apart after the murder of Bill and Myrtle Moon. Although the killer is caught, the judicial system takes too long for the Moon's devoted stepson, so he takes matters into his own hands.
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When She Says No
( 1984 )
After divorced college professor Rose Michaels invites three of her male colleagues to her room during a teacher's convention, she later accuses them of rape, but the men say otherwise.
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Incident in a Small Town
( 1994 )
Walter Matthau and Harry Morgan star in this made-for-television drama, in which a judge in a small town discovers that the skeletons in his family closet are aired for all to see after he's named as a prime suspect in a murder.
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Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore
( 1992 )
In the second dramatic case for widowed near-defunct small-town lawyer Harmon Cobb, he defends an incarcerated woman named Billie who is refused release from a mental institution in 1947.
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Vinegar Hill
( 2005 )
A family story about how a daughter-in-law withstands the pressure from her husband's parents.
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Against Her Will: The Carrie Buck Story
( 1994 )
Carrie Buck is an intellectually-disabled young woman who is persuaded to fight against the courts for custody of her newborn daughter after being declared mentally incompetent, therefore unable to raise her own child by herself. She is also threatened with sterilization so she won't have any more children who might also be disabled.
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A House Divided
( 2000 )
In the aftermath of the terrible Civil War which has devastated the South, Amanda America Dixon returns home to find she has become the sole heir to a vast cotton plantation. But the dreadful secret which has blighted her life threatens to deprive her of the birthright which her beloved father David had struggled for so long to create. Amanda was raised by her father ...Read all
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Angel City
( 1980 )
Being forced to sell his land, Jared Teeter share with his family in search of a better life in Florida. They discover, like many other immigrants in Appalachia that work is scarce. Jared is reduced to working the fields in a forced labor camp called "Angel City". Creedy, the supervisor of Angel City is a sadistic man who maintains discipline through violence and inti...Read all
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The Conviction of Kitty Dodds
( 1993 )
An abused woman escapes from prison, is recaptured, and sent back then tries to get her sentence reduced. Based on a true story.
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Heatwave!
( 1974 )
The residents of an isolated mountain town must band together to survive during a devastating heat wave.
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Meteorites!
( 1998 )
A meteor shower threatens a small American town.
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Death Penalty
( 1980 )
A psychologist takes an interest in a boy accused of murder.
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Her Desperate Choice
( 1996 )
Jody is convinced, but unable to prove, that her ex-husband has been molesting their daughter Samantha. When the courts order joint custody for Samantha, Jody takes her and heads underground. The underground is a well protected system that moves her from town to town to keep her out of the hands of the courts. Her husband is relentless in having detectives try to find...Read all
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Sleep, Baby, Sleep
( 1995 )
Sylvie Pierson thinks her dreams have come true when she meets Peter Walker. He is kind and loving and she quickly moves in with him and 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 advice, Sylvie gives birth to a daughter, Cally. With Peter away on business much of the t...Read all
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Judgment
( 1990 )
Fact-based story of a Louisiana priest accused of molesting young parishioners, and of the family of one of his victims, caught between their loyalty to their son and to their Church.
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Stop at Nothing
( 1991 )
A woman believes that her husband is molesting their daughter. Unfortunately she can't prove it, so when the courts grant him custody, she is approached by a woman who went through the same thing and unfortunately was not able to help her child. She offers to help her get her daughter and help them disappear. However, her husband has hired a private investigator to fi...Read all
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Mockingbird Don't Sing
( 2001 )
Based on the actual events of one of the most horrific cases of child abuse ever to be documented, this haunting drama tells the tale of a young girl who was locked in a room for over 12 years.
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The Storyteller
( 1977 )
A television writer is troubled by accusations that a young boy's death resulted from actions the boy copied from the writer's teleplay.
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Before and After
( 1979 )
An overweight homemaker must confront her weight problem when her husband leaves her because of it. She has a happily-married overweight friend and an unhappy engaged friend who is starving herself to fit into her grandmother's wedding gown. The woman diets and exercises down to her goal weight in time for the wedding, but the thin bride collapses at the reception bec...Read all
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The Violation of Sarah McDavid
( 1981 )
Sarah 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 ...Read all
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Fire
( 1977 )
A convict starts a fire in a forest to cover his escape, but the fire goes out of control and threatens to destroy a small mountain community.
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The Family Man
( 1979 )
A happily married family man, owner of a parking garage in Manhattan, drifts into a romance with one of his customers.
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Lovey: A Circle of Children, Part II
( 1978 )
A sequel to "A Circle of Children" (1977). A teacher of "emotionally disturbed" children takes on a new student who is considered to be "untrainable" by public school authorities, psychiatrists, and medical doctors. Even the child's own mother, who is very loving, does not have the tools to reach her "hopeless" child. This is the further story of a teacher who underst...Read all
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To Face Her Past
( 1996 )
Lori has leukemia, and needs a bone marrow transplant donor, but in order to find one, her mother will have to try to make peace with a member of the family who has all but been forgotten.
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A Question of Love
( 1978 )
A woman fights her ex-husband for custody of her children when he sues for custody after learning that she is living in a relationship with another woman.
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On the Edge of Innocence
( 1997 )
Two mentally-ill but determined lovers run away from the psychiatric hospital that wants to separate them; they take a number of other escaped patients with them.
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The Absolute Truth
( 1997 )
A television newswoman (Seymour) must betray a friend in order to expose a presidential candidate (Devane) guilty of sexual harassment.
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Choices
( 1986 )
A 19-year-old girl suddenly finds herself pregnant. She contemplates an abortion without the knowledge of her boyfriend. Her father discovers her situation and is opposed to abortion in principle. In the end, all three must make choices.
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Death Dreams
( 1991 )
Despite her husband's doubts, a woman reaches out to her dead daughter with a psychiatrist's help.
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The Night Caller
( 1998 )
A woman goes to desperate measures to meet a successful radio psychologist, even if it means killing in order to do so.
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Love Lessons
( 2000 )
An older couple discovers they are going to have a baby.
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God Bless the Child
( 1988 )
Single mother Theresa Johnnson becomes homeless, loses her job, and tries to survive with her young daughter Hillary through charities and public shelters.
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Whose Daughter Is She?
( 1995 )
Two mothers, one biological, one stepmother, fight for the custody and love of 13-year-old Andrea.
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Always Remember I Love You
( 1990 )
Just after he turns 16, Robert finds out that he is adopted, and his parents find to their horror that he was kidnapped from his real parents. They decide to tell him about this, although they fear that they might lose him. Robert runs away to find his real parents. He finds and gets close to them without revealing his true identity. Eventually, he must decide where h...Read all
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Avalanche
( 1978 )
The vacationers at a winter wonderland struggle to survive after an avalanche of snow crashes into their ski resort. Their holiday then turns into a game of survival.
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The Face on the Milk Carton
( 1995 )
A teenage girl sees a photograph of her much-younger self one day in the school cafeteria--on the side of a milk carton. But her beloved parents would never kidnap anyone and there's a deeper mystery ahead.
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The Switch
( 1993 )
Larry McAfee is paralyzed from the neck down following a motorcycle accident. He gradually loses the will to live, in the meantime befriending a talk radio DJ (portrayed by Craig T Nelson) over the phone. The two meet each other and become friends, though Larry still wishes to end his life. The DJ reluctantly has a switch installed on Larry's life support that Larry c...Read all
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If Things Were Different
( 1980 )
A wife and mother tries to cope with her husband's emotional problems while trying to balance her new job as an assistant director on a local children's TV show and caring for her family.
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Kate's Secret
( 1986 )
A beautiful woman married to a successful lawyer and the perfect suburban mother turns out to be a closeted bulimic.
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If These Walls Could Talk
( 1996 )
The movie examines the abortion issue through three stories set in different eras: 1952, 1974 and 1996.
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Sweet Temptation
( 1996 )
Jade is a sixteen year old girl with all the problems a teenager faces, and her parents are divorced and she lives with her mother Jesse. Jesse falls in love with Billy, a much younger man who is also divorced and has two little kids. When Billy comes to live with her mother, Jade feels really uncomfortable, and maybe she is attracted to him.
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Mother Knows Best
( 1997 )
A woman urges her daughter to get married. And when her daughter does, she doesn't think that she made a good choice. So she goes out and hires a killer to kill her son-in-law.
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To Catch a Killer
( 1992 )
"To Catch a Killer" tells the true gruesome story of John Wayne Gacy - a good friend and helpful neighbour, a great child entertainer, a respectful businessman, and a violent serial killer who raped and murdered over 30 young boys.
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Obsessed
( 1992 )
A young woman (Doherty) who grew up feeling neglected by her father, has a fascination for older men. When she meets a man (Devane) that her company is doing business with, she is taken with. And before you know they are having an affair. But when he tries to break it, she doesn't take it very well.
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Blood on Her Hands
( 1998 )
A beautiful and deadly seductress destroys any man whose passion threatens her independence.
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Perfect Alibi
( 1995 )
Melanie's husband Keith has an affair with their French au pair Janine. Melanie's sister Paula discovers their relationship. Tragically, Paula dies in an accident after uncovering the truth about Keith and Janine's illicit affair.
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Mother, May I Sleep with Danger?
( 1996 )
Laurel has the boyfriend of her dreams: Kevin. He can and will do anything for her. He is totally devoted to her but the down-side is that he never leaves her alone. When she tries to get some distance he responds with aggression. It finally dawns on Laurel that he is not good for her. Laurel's mother Jessica has already started to suspect that something is wrong with...Read all
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