Barton Heyman

Part one of the making of William Friedkin’s 1980 thriller "Cruising" and the controversies it created.

Part two of the making of William Friedkin's 1980 thriller "Cruising" and the controversies it created.

A Irmã Helen Prejean, uma caridosa freira de New Orleans, é a conselheira espiritual de Matthew Poncelet, um assassino cruel, revoltado e complexo, que aguarda sua execução. A missão da irmã é ajudar a quem, como Matthew, precisa encontrar a salvação. Mas quando ela tenta navegar na sombria alma de Matthew, encontra uma densidade de maldade que a faz questionar até onde a redenção realmente pode ir. Ela conseguirá adiar a data fatal da execução o suficiente para ter tempo de salvar Matthew? Ou acabará descobrindo uma verdade que abalará os próprios preceitos pelos quais norteia sua vida?

Jeffrey, a gay man living in New York City with an overwhelming fear of contracting AIDS, concludes that being celibate is the only option to protect himself. As fate would have it, shortly after his declaration of a sex-free existence, he meets the handsome Steve Howard, his dream man -- except for his HIV-positive status. Facing this dilemma, Jeffrey turns to his best friend and an outrageous priest for guidance.

Jim Carrol sonha em ser um astro do basquete, mas as pressões e angústias típicas da adolescência o levam a experimentar heroína. Viciado, é expulso do colégio e se une a um grupo de drogados descobrindo o inferno do submundo.

A failed pilot about a rich Virginia plantation owner and his family caught up in the American Civil War. He has a slave for a mistress, his older son is to marry a working class Irish girl and his younger son promotes the Confederacy.

Carter Nix (John Lithgow) é um famoso psicólogo de crianças que ama muito sua filha de dois anos. Na verdade ele a estuda constantemente, tanto que a garota vive cercada por câmeras. Além disto, Carter está roubando bebês para uma experiência psicológica. No entanto, Jenny (Lolita Davidovich), sua esposa, nada sabe disto e vai levando a sua vida secreta onde tem um caso extraconjugal, que a faz negligenciar seus deveres como mãe. Entretanto, um aumento de seqüestros de crianças na região a faz suspeitar que Carter esteja recriando um experimento de controle de mentes para o pai dele, um psicologista desacreditado, mas também está acontecendo algo que Jenny nem imagina.

In the second dramatic case for lawyer Harmon Cobb, he defends an incarcerated woman who is wrongly imprisoned and refused release from a mental institution.

A trial lawyer risks losing his family and career when he defends a client who he knows to be guilty as charged.

Sherman McCoy (Tom Hanks) é um grande corretor de Wall Street que ganha comissões milionárias e tem a sua vida modificada bruscamente quando ao ir com Maria Ruskin (Melanie Griffith), sua amante, para Manhattan, erra o caminho e vai parar no Bronx. Lá ele atropela um negro, fazendo com que este fato seja o ponto de partida da sua ruína e também o início da meteórica ascensão de Peter Fallow (Bruce Willis), um jornalista desconhecido.

Bronx, 1969. Malcolm Sayer é um neurologista que conseguiu emprego em um hospital psiquiátrico. Lá ele encontra vários pacientes que aparentemente estão catatônicos, mas Sayer sente que eles estão só “adormecidos” e que se forem medicados da maneira certa poderão ser despertados. Assim pesquisa bem o assunto e chega à conclusão de que a L-DOPA, uma nova droga que já estava sendo usada para pacientes com o Mal de Parkinson, deve ser o medicamento ideal para este casos. No entanto, ao levar o assunto para o diretor, ele autoriza que apenas um paciente seja submetido ao tratamento.

While Al Capone works his way up from top-dog street gang thug captain in Chicago to U.S. crime king, his brother Jimmy Capone chooses the righteous way, actually with father's blessing, leaving Illinois for small town Harmony in Nebraska, where he adopts the alias Richard Hart, marries teacher Kathleen, has offspring and becomes its incorruptible town marshal, with a loyal Indian deputy. When his efficient fight against Al's illegal alcohol trade starts to bite financially, the gang's top lawyer is sent to buy 'Hart' or order his death, but recognizes Jimmy and arranges a fraternal reunion in Chicago. Yet money nor threats can turn Jimmy bad...

A fictionalized autobiographical play written by Czechoslovakian playwright-turned-president Vaclav Havel in 1984 upon his release from a four-and-one-half-year prison term for political subversion. The play focuses on two days in the life of a dissident writer who is awaiting the knock at the door that may send him to prison.

Paul Colson is a New York cabdriver and struggling actor. When he learns that he has about three days left to live due to a rare blood disorder, he goes through all five stages of loss and grief in a darkly comedic way.

Após a morte da mãe, a herdeira de uma grande fortuna se envolve com um jovem capitão de iates que parece amá-la intensamente. Ao descobrir que o amante está completamente falido, ela passa a desconfiar das suas intenções.

A San Quentin inmate, sentenced to life without parole, writes a play that catches the interest of a reporter.

Recém-formado na faculdade, Brantley Foster viaja do Kansas a Nova York para começar em um novo emprego. No entanto, quando Brantley chega, ele descobre que sua posição foi eliminada e é forçado a aceitar um emprego com seu tio Howard, que se tornou presidente da empresa após casar-se. Brantley começa a trabalhar entregando correspondências, mas sobe de posições rapidamente quando começa a fingir que é um executivo.

A veteran New York City Police Lieutenant's investigation of a woman's murder uncovers corruption in high places.

Conflict arises between a steelworker and his son. The father wants the boy to have a chance to make more of himself than he did, but the son wants to follow in his father's footsteps and become a steel-worker himself.

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

Two former bank employees, executive Dick Van Dyke, forced into early retirement by a computer, and guard Sid Caesar, unceremoniously dismissed before his pension comes due, concoct a computerized scheme to steal from the rich (i.e. the bank) and give to the poor with anonymous checks (money accessed from inactive accounts) to average do-gooders.

This made-for-TV sequel to the 1977 theatrical film "Looking For Mr. Goodbar" follows a New York City detective's quest to find the murderer of a schoolteacher.

Six years in the making, "COASTER" is the true story of a wooden coastal schooner the John F. Leavitt. It is the story of the sea, seen through the eyes of a Melville...a rich human drama set against the backdrop of the harsh North Atlantic and the rugged coast of Maine. Prepare yourself to set sail on an adventure that will leave you deeply enriched - a story that will move every member of your family.

TV movie based on the singer's life, under his mother's thumb, competing with the ghost of one of the most famous singers in C&W music history, and aspiring to rise above it all.

A teacher falls in love with a student, and deals with the reactions of the people around her.

Based on Bleier's 1975 autobiography of the same name, it tells the story of how, after becoming a running back for the Steelers in 1968, he was then drafted by the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War.

An ex New York cop is desperate to find his kidnapped daughter.

Michael Learned plays Mary Benjamin, a recently widowed woman who, confronted with her son's departure for college, decides to resume her career as a head nurse in a Manhattan hospital in this pilot movie for the short-lived TV series.

Al Pacino é o policial que se infiltra na comunidade gay de Nova York para tentar desvendar a identidade de um assassino que está aterrorizando o grupo. A experiência se revela muito mais brutal do que ele poderia imaginar. Para encontrar o maníaco, precisa mergulhar na atmosfera dos clubes de sadomasoquismo e outros redutos gays da cidade. A investigação acaba comprometendo o relacionamento com sua namorada, Nancy (Karen Allen), e o coloca frente a frente com seus dilemas pessoais. Drama policial baseado no livro de Gerald Walker.

Young T.T. comes from Chicago to spend the summer in California. He slowly becomes "California-ized," while learning about love and life in the Golden State.

During the 1960s' civil rights movement, a black civil rights worker returns to his small Southern town and runs for sheriff against the incumbent, a popular segregationist.

Based on the true story of the attempted defection in 1970 by a Lithuanian seaman seeking political asylum in the United States. Kudirka was denied asylum and returned to the Soviets, charged with treason, and sentenced to ten years of hard labor. It was later discovered and verified that his mother had been born in Brooklyn and gone to Lithuania at a young age, which meant she was a U. S. citizen. As a result, Kudirka was declared a U. S. citizen and in 1974 released by the Soviets.

A would-be Marine fails basic training, and is sent home wearing the "baby blue" fatigues of a washout. En route, he is mugged by a battle-fatigued Marine Raider, who leaves him to hitch-hike home in an undeserved hero's uniform. A small Colorado town takes him in, treating him like the hero he appears to be.

Having emigrated to New York and immediately got the kiss-off from her mother-besotted fiance, a Dutch lass takes a well-paid office job and starts liberally sampling the local male talent. After a while she decides to make her pleasure her business too, and as her reputation grows she graduates to a high-class bordello. Soon she realises she has the right talents to make a real success of a place of her own.

A troubled young woman agrees to spend two weeks at a friend's Manhattan penthouse while the friend is away on a modeling assignment, but a series of mysterious disturbances begin occurring during the night.

The true story of two New York City cops. Greenberg & Hantz fought the system, became detectives and were known on the streets as "Batman & Robin".

Gil and Hank are two independent truckers who run into problems when they are forced to pay off traffic managers to get loads. They also have to pay off highway cops when their rigs are overweight and bank loans but consider themselves lucky just to be able to keep up the interest payments. Add to that a small, frizzy-wigged highway hooker named Janice, who tempts them with her lurid charms.

Assured that it's a joke, a berated wife makes a deal with a local Satan occultist for the death of her irritating husband and finds that the Devil doesn't play games.

Em Georgetown, Washington, uma atriz vai gradativamente tomando consciência que a sua filha de doze anos está tendo um comportamento completamente assustador. Deste modo, ela pede ajuda a um padre, que também um psiquiatra, e este chega a conclusão de que a garota está possuída pelo demônio. Ele solicita então a ajuda de um segundo sacerdote, especialista em exorcismo, para tentar livrar a menina desta terrível possessão.

The story of a New York pro baseball team and two of its players. Henry Wiggen is the star pitcher and Bruce Pearson is the normal, everyday catcher who is far from the star player on the team and friend to all of his teammates. During the off-season, Bruce learns that he is terminally ill, and Henry, his only true friend, is determined to be the one person there for him during his last season with the club. Throughout the course of the season, Henry and his teammates attempt to deal with Bruce's impending illness, all the while attempting to make his last year a memorable one.

On May 17, 1968, at the height of the Vietnam War, nine men and women entered a Selective Service office outside Baltimore. They removed military draft records, took them outside, and set them afire with napalm.

Driving through New York City in his Sexmobile, Dr. Harrison Rogers of the Bureau of Sexological Investigation, searches out luminary figures in the world of sex.

Recém libertada de uma ala mental, Jessica espera voltar à vida como era antes de seu colapso nervoso. Mas quando Jessica se muda para uma casa de campo com o marido e um amigo próximo, ela encontra uma garota misteriosa morando lá, que pode ou não ser um vampiro. O terror e a paranóia de Jessica ressurgem quando as forças do mal a cercam, fazendo-a pensar: as visões são reais ou ela está voltando à loucura?

O velho xerife mexicano-americano Bob Valdez sempre foi um refúgio de sanidade em uma terra de loucura quando se tratava de defender a lei e a ordem. Mas o contrabandista de armas Frank Tanner é ganancioso e impulsivo. Quando Tanner provoca um tiroteio que causa a morte de um homem inocente e Valdez lhe pede para compensar financeiramente a viúva, Tanner se recusa a fazê-lo e humilha severamente Valdez, que fará justiça e vingará sua honra, não importa o que seja preciso.

A BBC-produced docudrama based on trial transcripts and aired in the United Kingdom in October 1970

A Doukhobor sect in Northern Alberta tries to prevent the wedding of a Russian girl to a Canadian.