American Playhouse Popular Movie

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emma Thompson

Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edward James Olmos

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Julianne Moore

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jane Alexander

Traces over three generations an immigrant family's trials, tribulations, tragedies, and triumphs. Maria and Jose, the first generation, come to Los...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edward James Olmos

In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Victor Love

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...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bruce Davison

Connie, the fifteen-year-old black sheep of her family, finds her summertime idyll of beach trips, mall hangouts, and innocent flirtations shattered...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Laura Dern

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...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Isabelle Huppert

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Randall Adams

Dennis is a handsome and bookish college student. His brother, Bill, is a roughhewn ladies' man and thief. Together they search for their dad,...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Robert John Burke

An out of high school teen from the midwest moves to San Diego, California in the 1950s to live with his estranged father and new family. Escaping...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kevin Bacon

Jude, a college professor, is obsessed with Sophie, his student. She, in turn, is intrigued by his scholarly charm. Flirtation turns to lust and the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Martin Donovan

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...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Matt Dillon

A divorced mother pursues her career as a radio personality in rural Minnesota.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pamela Reed

On Christmas Eve, a relentlessly cheerful woman escapes from the killers hired by her husband, and embarks on a series of strange encounters.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Mia Farrow

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Liam Neeson

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cora Lee Day

In this Tony Award-winning musical by Stephen Sondheim, several fairy tale characters learn the hard way that the 'Happily Ever After' they sought...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bernadette Peters