Valerie Perrine

A documentary of the incredible life of actress Valerie Perrine and her battle with Parkinson's.

Armed with a limitless Rolodex and a Benedict Canyon enclave with its own disco, Allan Carr threw the Hollywood parties that defined the 1970s. A producer, manager, and marketing genius, Carr built his bombastic reputation amid a series of successes including the mega-hit musical film "Grease," until it all came crashing down after he produced the 1989 Academy Awards, a notorious debacle.

A group of eccentric retirees' lives are turned upside down when their beloved apartment complex is suddenly sold out from under them.

The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the industry in forming this professional honorary organization. Two years later the Academy began bestowing awards, which were nicknamed "Oscar," and quickly came to represent the pinnacle of cinematic achievement.

Making an indie film is murder under the best of circumstances, but first-time director Eddie Vassick's scenario is chaotic. Halfway through filming his main investor croaks. He has to tangle with the investor's widow who not only demands a plum role in the film when she's never acted a day in her life, but sells the film's rights to none other than Eddie's domineering older brother Warren. Warren is a B-movie mogul, king of commercial flicks, who has cast a shadow over Eddie his entire life. Eddie is forced to bend to Warren's will, and Warren immediately issues an impossible ultimatum, true to form. Eddie must re-shoot the entire film in costly 35mm format in four weeks time, or control of the entire project will revert to Warren. Meanwhile, Warren, who has always been secretly jealous of his little brother's inherent talents, has gotten his hands on a copy of Eddie's script and views this project as his one shot to catapult himself from the "B" leagues into the majors.

Originalmente, os dois primeiros filmes da série Superman seriam filmados simultaneamente por Richard Donner. Porém, após o lançamento e grande sucesso do primeiro filme, os produtores demitiram Donner e colocaram em seu lugar Richard Lester, que refilmou grande parte das cenas filmadas por Donner. Em 2006, foi lançado direto para vídeo "Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut", que traz a visão original de Donner para o filme, com cenas inéditas e inumeras diferenças comparando com a versão de 1980.

Sex sells in America and these guys know it. The Amateurs follows a small town band of loveable losers who hit upon an idea that can make their dreams and fantasies come true. Thinking they've found the road to riches and fame they decide to make the world's most innocent adult film. Everyman's fantasy turns into a hilarious misadventure when they find they're in way over their heads.

When real estate mogul Gavin Ransom announces his plan to cover California's northern coast with scores of mini-mansions, his environmentalist sister, Olive, launches a protest to stop him. But there's trouble ahead when Gavin begins falling for the pretty folk singer who's helping Olive's cause.

Nos anos 70, Dickie Roberts tinha a chave da fama de um seriado de sucesso na TV, como astro infantil. Agora as únicas chaves que ele tem são as dos carros que estaciona, como manobrista num restaurante em Hollywood. Desesperado para reviver sua carreira, Dickie tenta fazer um teste para o novo filme de Rob Reiner, mas o diretor não acredita que ele seja normal o bastante para o personagem. Decidido a conseguir o papel, Dickie contrata uma família "típica" para aprender a vida real que nunca teve. Mas assim que ele se muda, a vida da família se torna tudo, menos normal, à medida que Dickie libera seu pestinha interior... e vai aprendendo lições inesquecíveis sobre fama, fortuna e os verdadeiros valores familiares.

Nick Marshall é um elegante e sedutor solteirão que pensa que tem o mundo nas mãos. Até que uma noite, um autêntico 'choque' abre-lhe os olhos - e sobretudo os ouvidos: agora, ele pode ouvir os mais íntimos pensamentos das mulheres que estão à sua volta... e o que ouve não abona à fama de galã que julga ter. Mas Nick vai saber tirar o melhor partido do seu novo dom, sobretudo com a sua nova chefe, Darcy...

A woman, carrying out a project about the sexuality of males and females, is forced to confront a secret from her childhood.

Jake can only think of one thing after being dragged to the wedding of his girlfriend's best friend. How can he get out of it? On the advice of Wes, the out-and-proud best man, he pretends to be gay and gets caught kissing Wes. Little does Jake realize he's about to get caught up in a circle of jealousy and lies. Cliff, the groom, is getting married to help solidify his hunky, soap opera star image... and to stay closeted. Yep, he s gay. And his longtime boyfriend is none other than his best man. When Cliff and Wes get pictures taken of them in a compromising position (several, in fact) it looks as though his cover might be blown. Thrown into the mix is the bride's sex crazy mother and the nosy reporter-turned-wedding photographer with a sock puppet (pop icon Deborah Gibson). What ensues is a fun, quirky and modern comedy of errors that is sure to tickle your funny bone.

A bachelor afraid of marriage angers his long-time girlfriend by buying a splendid townhouse just for himself, only to find it haunted by the ghosts of a famous theatrical couple, who teach him about love and commitment.

Fritz Brown is an ex-LAPD, recovering alcoholic who now splits his time repossessing cars for a used car lot and staffing his one-man private detective agency. When a filthy caddie named Freddy "Fat Dog" Baker wanders into Fritz's office one day, flashing a wad of cash, Fritz is hired to follow Fat Dog's kid sister Jane, who is holed up with a Beverly Hills sugar daddy named Sol Kupferman. Kupferman is a 70 year-old bag man for the mob, and Fat Dog claims that "Solly K" is up to something evil that may harm Jane. The trail leads Fritz to an encounter with his dark past in the person of Haywood Cathcart, current head of LAPD internal affairs and the person who kicked Fritz off the police force.

Nos anos 70, o Studio 54 foi a discoteca que agitava a vida noturna de Nova York com todo o frenesi que lhe deu uma reputação internacional. Steve Rubell, o dono e idealizador, tentava transformar seu sonho em realidade ao dar as melhores festas que o mundo tinha visto.

Love, pride and jealousy are aroused when a ranch owner's daughter, called Lizzie, has an affair with a cowboy. Meanwhile a mysterious woman seduces the various lovers of Lizzie, who has fled to New Orleans to escape her arranged marriage.

A runaway teenage girl and a drifter rob a bank, hit the road to elude the Texas Rangers and find love on the run.

A depressed and destitute Nick Irons, a tennis pro banned from the tour for slugging a player during a TV match, agrees to coach a bookie's "head case" son, Joel, who wants to turn pro. The bookie wants his son to get out of tennis and contracts Nick to discourage him. Nick begins to do that but after an episode with his old flame, Jennifer, and after seeing the kid's determination he decides to teach him all the tricks, both physical and psychological, of the trade. The two battle the kids of a famous coach, unfair refs., injuries, travel all over the southern US, while Nick tries to woo his love back, finally to reach the big championship tennis match where all is resolved in dramatic fashion.

O policial Jimmy Mercer (Wesley Snipes) tem como missão prender Red Diamond (Dennis Hooper), um astuto criminoso que acabou de sair da prisão com o tolo Ronnie (Viggo Mortensen). O plano deles é vender dinheiro falso e depois matar o comprador. O problema é que Ronnie mata um agente disfarçado, o qual era parceiro de Jimmy. Agora o policial sairá em busca de vingança a qualquer custo.

In a sordid account of mutual charity, an alcoholic doctor tries to make a captive heroin addict kick her self-destructive behavior — and vice-versa.

France, 1915. Young and radiantly beautiful Centaine de Thiry is the happiest woman in the world: in a few more hours she will be married to pilot Michael Courteney, the love of her life. But fate has it otherwise: Michael is shot down in a reconnaissance plane shortly before his wedding. Life has lost its meaning for Centaine. When the young woman realizes soon afterwards that she is expecting a baby, her zest for live is revived. She decides to give birth to the child in South Africa, the home country of her deceased fiancé.

In Montana, naive teenager George longs to escape from his broken home before his dysfunctional parents push him over the edge. When George meets pretty drifter Lucy, she easily convinces him and his friend Claude to join her on a road trip to Montana in hopes of breaking her brother out of jail.

Ex-barman retorna à cidade natal com a amante, atriz decadente e alcoólatra, reavivando antigos conflitos.

Spoiled Jessie Montgomery, whose wild behavior and spending excesses cause her well-meaning but exasperated millionaire father Charles to wish he never had her, is visited by fairy godmother Stella. In an effort to save Jessie, Stella casts a spell which causes Charles to no longer have a daughter. Jessie, now penniless and without a friend, must take a maid's job to earn a living, and hopefully to learn her lesson.

In a Canadian village are women being killed by a psychopath. Chief Rich and Inspector McLane have no clue until McLane shoots a suspicious man. Now the killing seems to have ended, but the killer picks yet another victim...

A British diplomat to a West Indian island nation finds his idyllic existence thrown into chaos when a large American drilling company finds a huge source of natural mineral water there.

Comedy about a woman dumped by her married boyfriend who gets involved in a short-lived relationship with a neighbor. When that also doesn't work out, she decides she must first do something to please herself.

A young couple from Milwaukee moves into the fabled, high-society Malibu beach community and becomes involved with the lives of the various people living in the community.

Rodney Dangerfield's first ABC special, featuring stand-up and sketches.

Charlie Smith (Jack Nicholson) é um policial que vai morar na fronteira dos EUA com o México, porque sua mulher tem uma amiga por lá. Querendo satisfazer todos os gostos da esposa, Charlie acaba se endividando, o que faz com que ele entre em um perigoso esquema, para faturar um dinheiro a mais e, assim, poder continuar a fazer suas vontades.

Marian Rose White is placed in a State Home for the feeble-minded by her uncaring mother when her father dies. She is a young teenager and there is nothing wrong with her except for some clumsiness, mostly caused by poor vision. State law (in 1934) requires sterilization of all inmates. Sympathetic nurse, Bonnie McNeil, befriends Marian and protests her treatment.

"Cannonball Run" é uma corrida ilegal onde os participantes devem cruzar os Estados Unidos de Connecticut à Califórnia no menor tempo possível, utilizando qualquer transporte terrestre disponível e as maneiras mais criativas para fugir da polícia. A competição reúne os competidores mais excêntricos e dementes do país, provocando inúmeras confusões.

Três perigosos prisioneiros do extinto planeta Krypton que estavam confinados na Zona Fantasma, se libertam graças à uma explosão. O trio parte então para a Terra, onde passam a ter os mesmos poderes do Superman, mas o objetivo deles é dominar o planeta.

A loose biography of seminal disco hit-makers The Village People and their composer Jacques Morali.

A mysterious millionaire buys an ad agency and begins to replace its employees with his own people, who don't appear to be advertising types at all...

Ernie Anderson narrates this look at the making of Richard Donner's blockbuster 1978 film. Behind-the-scenes footage, as well as scenes from the film, reveal just how audiences were able to "believe a man can fly." This program features interviews with key cast and crew.

Nesta instigante aventura romântica Robert Redford desempenha o papel de um vaqueiro ex-campeão mundial, reduzido a um sujeito que barganha na rua a comida para o café da manhã trajando um terno cravejado de luzes cintilantes. Jane Fonda é uma jornalista chique e astuciosa da mídia eletrônica, uma repórter de TV que fará de tudo para obter uma boa história. Quando Redford sai de um cassino em Las Vegas rumo ao deserto montado no símbolo vivo de seu patrocinador, um valiosíssimo cavalo de corridas, Jane está determinada a descobrir o motivo. E ela consegue descobrir pouco antes de um grupo de busca da polícia. Mas até que cheguem a um ponto de encontro remoto, no topo das montanhas do Utah, ela estará apaixonada pelo vaqueiro e por seus ideais.

Yasha is a Jewish stage magician who tours through eastern Europe while destroying his career through personal problems. He has one more chance at theatrical success, but he needs to do a brand new trick in a Warsaw theater.

Kermit the Frog throws a glamorous party at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub to celebrate the premiere of the Muppets' first feature film, The Muppet Movie. Hosts Dick van Dyke and Rita Moreno interview the wide array of celebrities and Muppets who attend the event. Gary Owens serves as off-camera announcer, and appears on-screen to introduce Miss Piggy.

Jor-El, um renomado cientista, prevê a destruição do seu planeta e alerta o governo, que não lhe dá credito. Assim, decide salvar seu filho, mandando-o ao planeta Terra, onde terá superpoderes. Na Terra, ele usa o nome de Clark Kent e, já adulto, trabalha como repórter em um jornal, não demonstra ter superpoderes. Mas quando uma situação inesperada põe em risco a vida de Lois Lane, uma colega de trabalho, ele é obrigado a se revelar para o público, ficando conhecido popularmente como Superman. Descontente com o surgimento de um super-herói na cidade, Lex Luthor, um gênio do mal, o obriga a se desdobrar para evitar a morte de milhões de pessoas.

Four women intimate with the showman tell his life story.

Anthony Falcone é um milionário que, antes de morrer, deixa toda sua fortuna para seu sobrinho italiano Guido Falcone, um mecânico que sonha em ser cowboy. Só que para conseguir receber a herança ele terá que viajar até a Califórnia em um determinado tempo ou todo a fortuna irá para o executor John Cutler, que fará de tudo para impedir que Guido chegue a tempo

In 1920s New York City, W. C. Fields is a successful headlining entertainer, but when his girlfriend leaves him and his broker loses his money, Fields begins anew in California. Working at a wax museum, Fields eventually lands a film role that ascends him to stardom. Back in the limelight and palling around with John Barrymore and the like, Fields meets an aspiring actress Carlotta Monti at a party, with whom he forms a rocky relationship.

The story of acerbic 1960s comic Lenny Bruce, whose groundbreaking, no-holds-barred style and social commentary was often deemed by the establishment as too obscene for the public.

Junior Jackson tem a reputação de dirigir um pouco rápido demais. Quando seu pai é preso, ele decide se tornar piloto profissional para ajudá-lo a conseguir privilégios na prisão. Com a ajuda do irmão, acaba se tornando famoso na Nascar.

Tandy, Merideth and assorted others unexpectedly wake up in a steambath with no easy exit. After spending some time there, it becomes clear that the steambath is a sort of Afterlife, where indifferent souls come to tell their stories to God who happens to be the attendant picking up the towels.

Complications ensue when an overworked couple decides to hire a "wife" — someone who can run the household for them with complete autonomy — but she's a little too attractive for comfort.

Billy Pilgrim, um veterano da Segunda Guerra Mundial, encontra-se misteriosamente distanciado do tempo, para poder viajar, sem poder ajudá-lo, desde os dias de sua infância até aqueles de sua vida peculiar em um planeta distante chamado Tralfamadore, passando por sua amarga experiência como prisioneiro de guerra na cidade alemã de Dresden, sobre a qual paira a sombra inevitável de uma tragédia indescritível.