Piper Laurie

A história de Richard Wershe Jr. (Richie Merritt) que, em meados da década de 1980, quando tinha apenas 14 anos, se tornou um informante disfarçado para a polícia. Depois acabou virando um grande traficante de drogas e, quando tinha 17 anos, sua vida dupla foi desmascarada ao ser pego com 17 quilos de cocaína. Richard foi condenado a prisão perpétua.

Quando o passado secreto de uma avó colide com o futuro secreto de sua neta e com o presente raivoso de sua filha, o amor de três gerações pode ser suficiente para aceitar décadas de engano. Com um simples rolo de filme, começa.

Several college students embark on a summer of sun and fun, but find that their adventure turns eerily macabre when dark and ancient forces propel them into a sinister enclave peopled by human, night-stalking, ravenous flesh-eaters whose wit and seemingly benign exteriors hide dreadful and deadly secrets that border on the supernatural.

Tony Curtis é uma estrela singular. O famoso ator de Hollywood teve uma infância complicada, manteve um breve caso de amor com a diva Marilyn Monroe e viu o fracasso de perto em dois casamentos. Desafios e grandes acontecimentos não faltaram na vida de um dos maiores astros do cinema.

Another Harvest Moon is a tender drama about four elderly Americans coping with life in a nursing home. FRANK, ELLA, ALICE and JUNE gather each morning for a game of cards. They have become a family to one another, offering unyielding support, constant bickering and strong opinions about life, death and everything in between.

O longa conta a história de um garoto que depois de perder a mãe, se muda para a casa da avó junto com seu pai. O pai está destruído, em depressão e sem nenhuma perspectiva de vida. Resta ao garoto encontrar novas pessoas na nova cidade. E ele acaba se encontrando com Hesher, um rapaz que odeia o mundo e tudo que há nele. O encontro acaba mudando a vida do garoto e de sua família, mas principalmente a vida de Hesher.

A select group of key creative forces involved in the making of Twin Peaks reveals their take on the fascinating creation and journey of the wildly popular show.

Estados Unidos, Alabama, década de 1950. Lewellen (Dakota Fanning) é uma garota órfã de nove anos, que vive com o pai (David Morse) e Grammie (Piper Laurie) em uma fazenda. Suas únicas diversões são ouvir as canções de Elvis Presley e brincar com Buddy (Cody Hanford), seu vizinho. A vida tranquila da família é alterada quando a nova namorada do pai (Robin Wright) chega à casa, trazendo um segredo consigo.

O assassinato de uma jovem fugitiva conecta um grupo de mulheres desconhecidas. A solitária Arden descobre o corpo. Leah, uma estudante de ciência forense, pensa que a vítima pode ser sua irmã desaparecida. Melora chega a Los Angeles para analisar os últimos dias na vida da sua filha, enquanto Ruth faz uma descoberta perturbadora no depósito que ela e seu marido administram.

Três gerações de uma família deliciosamente atrapalhada juntam-se para enterrar o seu patriarca. A amada neta do falecido recebe a missão de enaltecer sua vida. Nos dias que se passam antes do enterro, ela tenta manter junto o clã de lunáticos, que é a sua família. Enquanto os segredos do falecido são revelados, velhos conflitos ressurgem com vigor renovado. Uma comédia irreverentemente maldosa, um Funeral Muito Louco é o retrato de um lar de desajustados, comemorando o que há de mais esquisito e resistindo a uma ligação entre eles: a família.

A brief overview of The Hustler's making and the players involved.

A man must cope with the loss of his wife and the obsolescence of his job before finding redemption by becoming a role model to an equally lost 13-year-old.

In this documentary, director Brian De Palma and the stars from his film "Carrie" (such as Sissy Spacek, Amy Irving, Piper Laurie, William Katt, Nancy Allen and others) share stories about the making of the classic horror film 25 years after its release.

It's a cold and stormy night, and in a house in rural Vermont, midwife Sibyl Danforth is, together with the father and an assistant, in the middle of a homebirth. As time passes, the woman in labor meets with difficulties and Sibyl concludes that it would be preferable for the woman to deliver her baby in the hospital. Though a dead telephone line and bad weather prevents Sibyl from going anywhere. Black ice and a persisten snowstorm makes transportation an impossibility. Early in the morning, the woman dies from what they believe to be a stroke and in all the chaos, Sibyl promptly decides to do a C-section to save the baby. The baby survives, but the mother is dead and tragedy is obvious. Yet, it's only going to get worse for Sibyl as her assistant is certain that the woman was still alive when Sibyl performed the C-section. Sibyl is charged with manslaughter, brought before the court and her life is and will forever be changed.

An 11 year old boy starts throwing temper tantrums, vomiting on and attacking people, and swearing uncontrollably. Furniture begins to move on its own when he is around, and he doesn't remember any of it. After giving up on the protestants, the boy's parents turn to the catholic church for help. Father Bowden is a WWII veteran who is experiencing nightmares, flashbacks and other personal problems, including alcoholism. He is recruited by the archbishop to perform a series of exorcisms. This is the apparent true account of the last exorcism known to have been done by the catholic church.

Documentary that explores Argento's film career.

Growing up neurotic in a Hollywood family

Dois grandes advogados disputam o caso de um professor de ciências acusado do crime de ensinar a teoria da Evolução das Espécies de Darwin. Baseado em um caso real ocorrido em 1925.

Há vinte e três anos a telecinética Carrie White foi humilhada em um baile no seu colégio. Carrie foi tomada de um ódio tão intenso que imaginou que todos debochavam dela, quando na verdade apenas alguns a estavam humilhando. Usando seus poderes paranormais, ela fechou as portas e incendeou o ginásio, matando todos, com exceção de Sue Snell (Amy Irving). Em 1999, a situação começa a se repetir, quando Rachel Lang (Emily Bergl), a meia-irmã de Carrie que também telecinética e menosprezada por seus colegas, está prestes a ir em um baile sem que ninguém tenha idéia de seus poderes. Entretanto, Sue Snell, que agora conselheira da escola, desconfia que Rachel tem o mesmo dom de Carrie e teme que uma tragédia similar possa acontecer, tentando inutilmente advertir Rachel sobre isto. Paralelamente, alguns alunos do colégio planejam para a noite do baile algo que Rachel nunca vai esquecer, sem imaginar que eles vão morrer antes que esta mesma noite termine.

Two dimwit owners of a struggling hauling company are approached about hauling a huge, mysterious box across country at the end of the century. The cargo has religious significance and may be an attempt to release Satan in the Devil's Triangle to start the next century. En route, many step out to try to stop their delivery...

Repentinamente, em uma escola de uma pequena cidade no Ohio, os professores começam a agir estranhamente. Dois estudantes escondidos em um armário testemunham dois professores matando a enfermeira do colégio, mas logo a vítima aparece viva e eles logo concluem que algum alienígena está se apossando do corpos. Assim, o medo toma conta deles e de seus amigos, pois qualquer um pode ser dominado por este ser que ninguém sabe de onde veio, mas parece ter um objetivo definido: possuir todos os terrestres que surjam na sua frente.

John Webb is recently widowed and living alone on the farm he and his brother used to share. He rarely sees his daughters, Jacqueline and Grace Ann, and his only company is Grey, the farm's longtime overseer. John's solitude is interrupted by his nephews, Carl and Gus Jr., who have been approached about drilling for oil on the farm. Tensions rise as John clashes with his opportunistic family.

A new version of Truman Capote's 1956 tale based on his own bittersweet upbringing in Alabama. The story deals with a seven-year-old who forms a special friendship with his simple, older cousin whose two sisters and bachelor brother feel he needs better influences and role models and decide to send him to military school after the Christmas holidays.

Chyna Shepherd is a twenty-six-year-old psychology student who survived an extremely troubled past. While visiting Laura Templeton's house, a farm in the Napa Valley. A serial killer named Edgler Foreman Vess breaks into the house, killing Laura and her parents. Chyna survives, but she learns of Vess's captive: a girl, just as innocent as Chyna, trapped in Vess's home far from the Napa Valley.

Jordan Roosevelt, at 65, found herself alone, destitute, and depressed. Up against the wall, she took heart from the suggestion of a friend, a blind woman who was a nurse: enter a foster care program in which one takes care of patients in their own home. The patients she cares for are Alzheimers sufferers, and she shares her home with three other women in advanced stages of the disease, one (Gayle) wheelchair bound. And with these women, Jordan realizes a lifelong dream - to feel the ocean breeze. An accidental find of a coffee can stash of cash, buried by her late husband, makes the trip possible. Based on the true story of Peggy Lee of Camilla, Texas (the Alzheimers, the patients, and the foster care program are actual, the trip to the Galveston beaches is fictional).

An Irish family has a reunion near St Patrick's Day, and all of the expected drama ensues.

After his daughter died in a hit and run, Freddy Gale has waited six years for John Booth, the man responsible, to be released from prison. On the day of release, Gale visits Booth and announces that he will kill him in one week. Booth uses his time to try and make peace with himself and his entourage, and even finds romance. Gale, whose life is spiraling down because of his obsession towards Booth, will bring himself on the very edge of sanity. At he end of the week, both men will find themselves on a collision course with each other.

Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growing up with an unusual family in the Deep South in the 1940s. Becoming an orphan in 1935, Collin moves to his dad's cousins Verena and Dolly. Verena is a rich, bossy businesswoman. Dolly, Collin and the maid revolt, moving to a tree house.

Unable to get the police to help, a woman launches her own investigation to save her daughter from a dangerous prostitution ring.

A woman is torn between her love for a gentle man, and her secret passion for his dangerous brother.

Frank, a retired Irish seaman, and Walter, a retired Cuban barber, are two lonely old men trapped in the emptiness of their own lives. When they meet in a park Frank is able to start a conversation after several attempts. They begin to spend time together and become friends. But because of their different characters they often quarrel with each other and finally seperate after Frank misbehaves to Walter's friend Elaine.

After filling her life with addictions, Christina (Susan Dey) is left with a dead-end job, a deadbeat boyfriend and a bad rapport with her mother (Piper Laurie). The last thing she needs is a baby, a sentiment the authorities agree with when the infant is born with a drug dependency. Now, Christina's future is in the hands of a dedicated social worker (Lorraine Toussaint), whose own instincts as a mother have her fighting for the child's rights.

An anorexic young woman escapes from a psychiatric clinic and meets a young man who wants to help. She is caught and returned to her parents, who are soon beheaded by a garrotting stranger making the rounds about town, apparently striking only when it rains. The orphaned young woman and her new lover launch their own investigation and are endangered when a link is discovered with the victims and a particular operation performed years before.

Warren Odom, a rich Southern gentleman, is left in a state of shock when his wife, Helen, leaves him unexpectedly. With Helen gone, Warren's kindhearted teenage daughter, Lucille, cares for him and tries to cheer him up. Warren slowly starts to recover, and begins a relationship with another woman, Vera Delmage. However, his life is complicated when his older daughter, Rae, arrives in town pregnant.

While investigating his own blackmailing, a young politician uncovers his family's deep secrets.

Investidor usa de truques nada honestos para pôr as mãos no controle acionário de uma empresa. Baseado numa peça de teatro escrita por Jerry Sterner, o mesmo texto foi adaptado nos palcos brasileiros com o nome de "Ações Ordinárias".

A factory foreman with 36 years experience becomes despondent after being laid off by his company which has just been taken over by a Japanese conglomerate and is unable to find any other work. Meanwhile, his son uses his father's unemployment as an excuse to drop out of the pre-med program his father pressured him to enter.

O agente do FBI Chet Desmond (Chris Isaak) e seu parceiro Sam Stanley (Kiefer Sutherland) investigam o assassinato da garçonete Teresa, em uma pequena cidade do estado de Washington. Após descobrir uma pista do misterioso crime, Chet desaparece a alguns quilômetros da cidade de Twin Peaks. Um ano depois, outra morte parece estar conectada a este acontecimento: o assassinato de Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee), uma adolescente problemática e viciada em drogas. Os últimos dias de vida da garota podem ajudar a solucionar os mistérios deste crime.

Casal de idosos faz experiência transcendental para prolongar suas vidas e acabam trocando de identidades com dois adolescentes, Bob (Corey Feldman) e Lainie (Meredith Salenger). Para complicar ainda mais a situação, Bob é apaixonado por Lainie, só que ela já tem um namorado, e os dois devem manter-se juntos até que o encanto se reverta. No elenco estão também Corey Haim e Jason Robards.

A Blue Ribbon winner at the American Film Festival, this hard-hitting, dramatic production is about the relationship between a young man with AIDS and his estranged mother. Unable to understand or accept each other's lives, mother and son are at a stalemate of their own making.

Um jovem casal enfrenta a realidade da vida com seu filho que é diagnosticado com AIDS.

Chuck brought sorrow to his family when he shot his father who is now a semi-invalid. After 15 years of self destruction, he returns home to seek forgiveness.

Emily Boynton é uma mulher cheia de inimigos. Madrasta das três crianças e mãe de Ginevra, ela chantageia o advogado da família para destruir o segundo testamento do marido que deixaria seus filhos livres de sua influência. Numa viagem com a família, um acontecimento muda o destino de todos: Emily é encontrada morta depois de ter sido envenenada. Agora, o que não faltam são suspeitos para o crime. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)

A man goes to speak with a gigolo and is promptly beaten for his trouble. Soon afterward, his wife is told that he burned to death in a car wreck and is shown the body...and that's when she starts seeing strange men at the corner of her vision, while her friend does all she can to convince her she's going insane!

Bob returns home for his mother’s funeral knowing that he must fulfill a promise made 30 years earlier—to care for his younger brother DJ, who is schizophrenic. When Bob eventually takes over responsibility for his younger brother’s well-being, he embarks upon the most difficult challenge of his life.

História comovente e sensível sobre a relação entre professor e sua aluna surda, que cada vez mais se retrai em seu mundo particular, o que ele tenta impedir ajudando-a a se aproximar daqueles que a cercam. O professor de língua de sinais apaixona-se por sua aluna surda, que tem dificuldades de relacionamento com as pessoas, Sarah (a personagem surda), que é violada pelos amigos da irmã, que leva os rapazes até ela, pois esta era uma boa utilidade a ser dada a quem não ouve. Sarah tem sonhos de se tornar independente, mesmo sendo surda ela acredita no seu potencial e quer buscar o seu espaço.

The Charters family falls into despair over their drug-addicted son Gary. They discuss his problems through the "Toughlove" program in searching for answers.

A teen, who is always in trouble in school and has been sent to reform school, turns her life around when a counselor discovers she is dyslexic.

Dorothy, salva de um experimento psiquiátrico por uma misteriosa garota, por algum motivo estranho é chamada de volta ao mundo de Oz. É quando Dorothy, se depara com uma bruxa que destrói tudo aquilo que faz de Oz, uma Terra mágica.

A non-stop roller coaster ride through the scariest moments of the greatest terror films of all time.

Biography of the curvaceous and sharp-witted actress who scandalized Broadway and Hollywood in the 1920s-30s with her frank approach to sex.

O filme, feito para a TV, dramatiza os três últimos meses de Adolph Hitler, passados no seu bunker em Berlim. Anthony Hopkins está repulsivo como Hitler, enquanto Piper Laurie é ainda mais assustadora como a fanática esposa de Goebbels. Joseph Goebbels (Cliff Gorman) alimenta o ego do Führer, enquanto Albert Speer (Richard Jordan) pretende desafiá-lo. Um dia antes de seu suicídio, Hitler legaliza sua relação com a amante Eva Braun (Susan Blakely). O enredo do filme se estende além do suicídio, com as forças aliadas discutindo sobre quem tem direito à propriedade de Hitler.

An adaptation of Shakespeare's play.

Pete "Skag" Skagska is a 56-year-old union foreman of a Pittsburgh steel mill until a crippling stroke forces him to stay home and try to put his life back together and deal with family problems.

Handsome but backward gardener Tim Melville has a new woman in his life. She is Mary, his widowed employer, a woman who had given up on love until she had found Tim. At first they are friends. But soon they become lovers, as Mary, drawn to Tim's innocence and magnetism, begins to teach him all about life - and love.

The early life and struggles of Judy Garland (portrayed by Andrea McArdle), and of the film star's trials as a youngster in dealing with the Movie Studio system that held her back while her mother was forever pushing her to excel.

Bobby Rose has just returned home after graduating business school. He agrees to start working for his father, a successful carpet manufacturer. Bobby's dreams of a cushy junior exec position are quashed when he's told to report to the shipping department, where he's trained as a delivery driver. Learning the business from the ground up embitters Bobby, as well as his coworkers, some of whom, he discovers, are stealing from the company.

Based on a true case, this tells the story of two parents in New Jersey whose daughter has lapsed into a coma from which doctors say she will never recover. The parents must decide whether to keep her alive on life support systems, or to disconnect them and let her die with some dignity left.

Strange killings occur at Ruby's drive-in theatre, sixteen years after the murder of her gangster boyfriend.

A quieta e sensível adolescente Carrie White enfrenta insultos dos colegas na escola e abuso em casa de sua mãe, uma fanática religiosa. Quando estranhos acontecimentos começam a acontecer em torno de Carrie, ela começa a suspeitar que tem poderes sobrenaturais.

Um jogador de bilhar joga contra um campeão em um único jogo de alto risco.

An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.

Four sisters in New Zealand fall for four U.S. soldiers en route to the Pacific theater in WWII.

Failing vaudeville performer, Len, is taken under the wing of the German Shepherd wonder dog, Kelly, and a new act is born. Len hopes all his dreams are coming true when he finds himself in Hollywood ... but Kelly is the one in demand on the big screen.

TV goes Hollywood when Steve Allen visits Universal-International to prepare for his upcoming title role in "The Benny Goodman Story."

Rowdy young girl crashes high society when wealthy older man falls for her.

No Território do Novo México, em 1852, um pequeno destacamento de tropas da cavalaria caminha até seu novo posto acima do Rio Colorado e o encontra sendo atacado por índios de Ute. Apenas nove deles conseguem sobreviver, incluindo a filha do oficial comandante morto, Laura Evans (Piper Laurie), o novo comandante, o arrogante Tenente Wayne Ford (Rex Reason), e o prisioneiro Brett Halliday (Dana Andrews), um soldado renegado que abandonou o seu comando a dois anos para se juntar a tribo Ute, que ele achava que estavam sendo maltratados. O Capitão Harper (William Talman), sabendo que a Ute vai voltar a atacar, quer escapar por terra, mas Halliday sabe dos costumes índios, e aconselha-os a tomar balsas pelo rio.

Brett Wade, gambler, gunslinger, and classical pianist, is wounded in a gunfight with the Ferris clan; the doctor finds signs of tuberculosis. En route to Colorado for his health, Brett stops in Socorro, New Mexico along with Ferris gunfighter Jimmy Rapp. Sheriff Couthen fears another shootout, but what Brett has in mind is saving waif-with-a-past Rannah Hayes from a life as one of Dick Braden's saloon girls.

A young auto racer competes in a Canada-to-Mexico race in a car he designed himself. Director George Sherman's 1954 film stars Tony Curtis, Piper Laurie, Don Taylor, Sidney Blackmer, Paul Kelly, Ilka Chase and Joseph Sawyer.

A policeman tries to protect a young woman against a hit man, when she flees New York after witnessing a mob killing.

Tendo o seu pai sido morto às mãos de uma horda de soldados que transportam o símbolo de uma serpente enroscada, Harun decide ir até Bagdade para descobrir quem mandou executar o assassinato. Assim que chega à cidade arma-se com uma espada que parece estar dotada de uma incrível força e cuja magia só funciona nas suas mãos. Entretanto, no palácio, o malvado vizir Jafar conspira com o seu filho para derrubar o califa. Mas a filha deste, a princessa Khairuzan, apaixona-se por Harun e juntos viverão uma aventura para salvar o califado dos perfídios planos do vizir.

Mark Fallon, with partner Kansas John Polly, tries to introduce honest gambling on the riverboats. His first success makes enemies of the crooked gamblers and of fair Angelique Dureau, whose necklace he won. Later in New Orleans, Mark befriends Angelique's father, but she still affects to despise him as his gambling career brings him wealth. Duelling, tragedy, and romantic complications follow.

In ancient Persia the son of Ali Baba (of forty thieves fame), Kashma Baba is a military cadet by day and a party goer by night. He falls for a girl who he later finds is an escaped slave girl belonging to the wicked Caliph. They flee to his father's palace. But alas, there's more to her than meets the eye. Will the evil schemers succeed? The sons of the Forty Thieves to the rescue!

When a 1920s millionaire tests the fiber of his Vermont family, a young lady and her boyfriend feel the repercussions.

Alvah, um jovem soldado que vira dono de uma vinha, foge para Las Vegas com Lee, a filha de sua empregada. Mas uma catapora em Alvah acaba adiando a noite de núpcias. O resto do filme gira em torno de mais atrasos para a consumação do casamento, causada pela manipulação da Mama de Lee e do bando de parentes, em sua maioria desagradáveis, ​​com quem Lee encheu a casa.

Século XIII. Um político mal e ambicioso que busca proclamar-se rei de Tânger, encontra uma dificuldade, o Príncipe Hussein, uma criança que é o legítimo herdeiro do trono. Para elimina-lo contrata um assassino, mas este fica com pena da criança e ao invés de mata-lo o carrega com ele. Assim, o príncipe cresce no meio de um bando de ladrões que irão ajudá-lo quando adulto a recuperar o trono.

In this funny sequel to the popular Francis the Talking Mule, the talkative Mule and his pal Peter get a job working on a horse-breeder's ranch. They end up saving it from financial ruin when Francis, who has the inside track with the racehorses, provides Peter with names of the winners before the races are run. Sure enough Peter finds himself with a fistful of cash and uses it to buy a racehorse for the farm. Unfortunately, the horse he chooses is suffering from a debilitating lack of confidence. When not dealing with the mare, Peter finds time to court the horse breeder's niece and trying to avoid the gangsters who want in on the winnings.

A dairy owner's son takes a job as milkman with a rival company.

Architect Hal Norton and wife Meg invite his widowed mother Louisa to move in with them, only to discover the sweet elderly lady is romantically involved with what seems to be every old coot in town.