American Playhouse Movies
- 1993
Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About Nothing6.9591993HD
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...
- 1988
Stand and Deliver
Stand and Deliver7.6211988HD
Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts...
- 1995
Safe
Safe6.9951995HD
Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with no clear diagnosis.
- 1995
My Family
My Family7.51995HD
Traces over three generations an immigrant family's trials, tribulations, tragedies, and triumphs. Maria and Jose, the first generation, come to Los...
- 1983
Testament
Testament6.4021983HD
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...
- 1988
The Thin Blue Line
The Thin Blue Line7.6851988HD
Errol Morris's unique documentary dramatically re-enacts the crime scene and investigation of a police officer's murder in Dallas.
- 1994
Amateur
Amateur6.2981994HD
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...
- 1989
Longtime Companion
Longtime Companion6.7911989HD
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...
- 1983
El Norte
El Norte7.1641983HD
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...
- 1985
Smooth Talk
Smooth Talk6.3371985HD
Connie, the fifteen-year-old black sheep of her family, finds her summertime idyll of beach trips, mall hangouts, and innocent flirtations shattered...
- 1986
Native Son
Native Son5.61986HD
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...
- 1991
Into the Woods
Into the Woods81991HD
In this Tony Award-winning musical by Stephen Sondheim, several fairy tale characters learn the hard way that the 'Happily Ever After' they sought...
- 1989
Bloodhounds of Broadway
Bloodhounds of Broadway5.71989HD
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...
- 1991
Daughters of the Dust
Daughters of the Dust6.4671991HD
In 1902, an African-American family living on a sea island off the coast of South Carolina prepares to move to the North.
- 1991
Cabeza de Vaca
Cabeza de Vaca6.81991HD
An international award winning saga of old Mexico. In 1528, a Spanish expedition flounders off the coast of Florida with 600 lives lost. One...
- 1992
Simple Men
Simple Men6.7021992HD
Dennis is a handsome and bookish college student. His brother, Bill, is a roughhewn ladies' man and thief. Together they search for their dad,...
- 1986
Sunday in the Park with George
Sunday in the Park with George7.31986HD
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...
- 1988
The Wizard of Loneliness
The Wizard of Loneliness5.81988HD
After his mother dies and father goes to fight in World War II, a young boy moves in with his aunt and uncle who live in the countryside. Lonely and...
- 1994
Golden Gate
Golden Gate41994HD
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...
- 1985
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
Three Sovereigns for Sarah01985HD
Nineteen people were hanged and one man pressed to death, while hundreds went to jail during the "witch hysteria" of 1692. THREE SOVEREIGNS FOR SARAH...