Movies: American Playhouse

  • 1995
    Safe

    Safe (1995)

    Safe

    71995HD

    Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with no clear diagnosis....

    Safe
  • 1993
    Much Ado About Nothing

    Much Ado About Nothing (1993)

    Much Ado About Nothing

    6.91993HD

    In this Shakespearean farce, Hero and her groom-to-be, Claudio, team up with Claudio's commanding officer, Don Pedro, the week before their wedding to hatch a matchmaking scheme. Their targets are sharp-witted duo Benedick and Beatrice -- a tough tas...

    Much Ado About Nothing
  • 1983
    El Norte

    El Norte (1983)

    El Norte

    7.21983HD

    Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the dream of starting a new life....

    El Norte
  • 1985
    Smooth Talk

    Smooth Talk (1985)

    Smooth Talk

    6.31985HD

    Connie, the fifteen-year-old black sheep of her family, finds her summertime idyll of beach trips, mall hangouts, and innocent flirtations shattered by an encounter with a mysterious stranger....

    Smooth Talk
  • 1988
    Stand and Deliver

    Stand and Deliver (1988)

    Stand and Deliver

    7.61988HD

    Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional teaching methods to try and turn gang members and no-hopers into some of the country's top algebra ...

    Stand and Deliver
  • 1991
    Cabeza de Vaca

    Cabeza de Vaca (1991)

    Cabeza de Vaca

    6.81991HD

    An international award winning saga of old Mexico. In 1528, a Spanish expedition flounders off the coast of Florida with 600 lives lost. One survivor, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, roams across the American continent searching for his Spanish comrades....

    Cabeza de Vaca
  • 1988
    The Thin Blue Line

    The Thin Blue Line (1988)

    The Thin Blue Line

    7.71988HD

    Errol Morris's unique documentary dramatically re-enacts the crime scene and investigation of a police officer's murder in Dallas....

    The Thin Blue Line
  • 1983
    Testament

    Testament (1983)

    Testament

    6.41983HD

    It is just another day in the small town of Hamlin until something disastrous happens. Suddenly, news breaks that a series of nuclear warheads has been dropped along the Eastern Seaboard and, more locally, in California. As people begin coping with t...

    Testament
  • 1994
    Amateur

    Amateur (1994)

    Amateur

    6.31994HD

    A man wakes up in an alley, bleeding and with no memory of who he is. He stumbles into a coffee shop and is befriended by a charitable ex-nun who is failing in her attempts to write marketable pornography....

    Amateur
  • 1995
    My Family

    My Family (1995)

    My Family

    7.61995HD

    Traces over three generations an immigrant family's trials, tribulations, tragedies, and triumphs. Maria and Jose, the first generation, come to Los Angeles, meet, marry, face deportation all in the 1930s. They establish their family in East L.A., an...

    My Family
  • 1993
    Ethan Frome

    Ethan Frome (1993)

    Ethan Frome

    5.61993HD

    Married couple, Ethan and Zeena, are in need an extra hand around the house due to Zeena's debilitated body and constant illness. The young woman who joins them is a beautiful, spirited person. She and Ethan fall in love much to the dismay of Zeena....

    Ethan Frome
  • 1989
    Longtime Companion

    Longtime Companion (1989)

    Longtime Companion

    6.81989HD

    During the summer of 1981, a group of friends in New York are completely unprepared for the onslaught of AIDS. What starts as a rumor about a mysterious "gay cancer" soon turns into a major crisis as, one by one, some of the friends begin to fall ill...

    Longtime Companion
  • 1984
    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1984)

    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

    5.51984HD

    An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her desperation to make him desire her...

    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  • 1989
    Bloodhounds of Broadway

    Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989)

    Bloodhounds of Broadway

    5.71989HD

    This musical is based on four short stories by Damon Runyon. In one tale, gambler Feet Samuels sells his body to science just as he realizes that Hortense loves him and that he would rather live than die. In another story, Harriet's parrot is killed,...

    Bloodhounds of Broadway
  • 1991
    Daughters of the Dust

    Daughters of the Dust (1991)

    Daughters of the Dust

    6.41991HD

    In 1902, an African-American family living on a sea island off the coast of South Carolina prepares to move to the North....

    Daughters of the Dust
  • 1996
    Passion

    Passion (1996)

    Passion

    7.21996HD

    Giorgio, a young soldier, is in love with the married Clara and becomes her lover. But they are separated when Giorgio is posted far away, where he meets the unhappy, unhealthy, and unattractive Fosca, who develops a passionate love for Giorgio and ...

    Passion
  • 1992
    Simple Men

    Simple Men (1992)

    Simple Men

    6.71992HD

    Dennis is a handsome and bookish college student. His brother, Bill, is a roughhewn ladies' man and thief. Together they search for their dad, confront their expectations of each other, themselves, and their attitudes towards women....

    Simple Men
  • 1985
    Go Tell It on the Mountain

    Go Tell It on the Mountain (1985)

    Go Tell It on the Mountain

    51985HD

    This film adaptation of James Baldwin's celebrated novel tells the journey of a family from the rural South to "big city" Harlem seeking both salvation and understanding and of a young boy struggling to earn the approval of a self-righteous and often...

    Go Tell It on the Mountain
  • 1994
    Golden Gate

    Golden Gate (1994)

    Golden Gate

    41994HD

    A brash 22-year-old FBI agent trumps up charges of Communist spying against a Chinese laundryman. Ten years later, he wants to make amends to the man and his teenage daughter....

    Golden Gate
  • 1992
    Fool's Fire

    Fool's Fire (1992)

    Fool's Fire

    4.71992HD

    A crippled dwarf is forced to become jester to a tyrannical king, but when the king abuses a beautiful dwarf with whom the jester is in love the jester plots a terrible revenge....

    Fool's Fire