Movies: American Playhouse

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1991
    Cabeza de Vaca

    Cabeza de Vaca (1991)

    Cabeza de Vaca

    6.91991HD

    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. Instead, he discovers the Iguase, an ancient India...

    Cabeza de Vaca
  • 1983
    Testament

    Testament (1983)

    Testament

    6.31983HD

    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
  • 1995
    My Family

    My Family (1995)

    My Family

    7.51995HD

    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
  • 1994
    Amateur

    Amateur (1994)

    Amateur

    6.21994HD

    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
  • 1983
    El Norte

    El Norte (1983)

    El Norte

    7.11983HD

    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
  • 1988
    The Thin Blue Line

    The Thin Blue Line (1988)

    The Thin Blue Line

    7.61988HD

    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
  • 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
  • 1985
    Smooth Talk

    Smooth Talk (1985)

    Smooth Talk

    6.21985HD

    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
  • 1992
    Simple Men

    Simple Men (1992)

    Simple Men

    6.71992HD

    Two diametrically opposite brothers set off on a journey to reunite with their estranged father but when their motorcycle breaks down while passing through a small town, they become entangled in local life....

    Simple Men
  • 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
  • 1986
    Sunday in the Park with George

    Sunday in the Park with George (1986)

    Sunday in the Park with George

    7.21986HD

    A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte by Georges Seurat is one of the great paintings of the world, and in "Sunday in the Park with George," book writer James Lapine and composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim bring a story based on the work ...

    Sunday in the Park with George
  • 1989
    Bloodhounds of Broadway

    Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989)

    Bloodhounds of Broadway

    5.61989HD

    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
    Into the Woods

    Into the Woods (1991)

    Into the Woods

    8.01991HD

    In a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curse put on them by their neighbor, a spiteful witch....

    Into the Woods
  • 1989
    Longtime Companion

    Longtime Companion (1989)

    Longtime Companion

    6.71989HD

    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
  • 1993
    Roosters

    Roosters (1993)

    Roosters

    31993HD

    Gallo Morales is the proud patriach returning home after a seven-year stint for manslaughter. Seeking to re-establish his legendary status as a champion breeder, he comes back for the rooster bred by his father. But it is Hector, his son who inherits...

    Roosters
  • 1994
    Golden Gate

    Golden Gate (1994)

    Golden Gate

    4.11994HD

    A brash 22-year-old FBI agent trumps up charges of Communist-spying against a Chinese laundryman. 10 years later, he wants to make amends to the man and his teenage daughter....

    Golden Gate
  • 1982
    Seguin

    Seguin (1982)

    Seguin

    01982HD

    A dramatization of the life of Juan Seguin, a heroic Mexican-Texan who became entangled in the struggle between two contrasting cultures in the turbulent decade between the Texas Revolution (1836) and the Mexican-American War (1846-1847)....

    Seguin