Danielle Steel's Mixed Blessings

1995

In this made for-TV drama based on Danielle Steel's novel, the prospect of becoming parents proves daunting for three newly married couples, including Diana (Gabrielle Carteris) and Andy (Bruce Greenwood), who are having trouble conceiving. Meanwhile, Brad (James Naughton) and Pilar (Bess Armstrong) are in a race against a ticking biological clock, and Charlie (Scott Baio) is eager to be a father, but his wife (Alexandra Paul) is on the fence.

3.3 Average Rating

Musical Chairs

2011

Armando and Mia couldn't be less alike, but they're united by their shared love of ballroom dancing ... That is, until an accident changes Mia's life. Now, Armando pours everything into helping Mia become a champion wheelchair dancer.

3.3 Average Rating

to.get.her

2011

Writer-director Erica Dunton delves into the mind of the modern teenage girl in this mysterious Sundance thriller about five friends (Jazzy De Lisser, Chelsea Logan, Adwoa Aboah, Jami Eaton and Audrey Speicher) who come together for an unsupervised evening of revelry gone awry. The night was conceived as a way to leave their cares behind. But in the wake of a fateful incident, they've got more to worry about than ever before.

3.3 Average Rating

A Little Piece of Heaven

1991

Living on a farm is too lonely for the orphaned Will Loomis (Kirk Cameron) and his mentally disabled sister, Violet (Jenny Robertson), so he develops a plan for the two of them to "make" their own family just in time for Christmas. After kidnapping two abused children, Will tells them that they've died and gone to heaven, a paradise of Will and Violet's own creation. Cloris Leachman co-stars in this touching holiday drama.

3.3 Average Rating

The Runaways

2010

Dakota Fanning stars in The Runaways, about a group of extraordinary young women as they rise from rebellious So. California kids to rock stars of the now legendary band that paved the way for future generations of girl musicians.

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Hester Street

1975

Joan Micklin Silver's film stars Carol Kane as Gitl, a traditional Jewish woman who travels to America in the late 1800s to reunite with her husband (Stephen Keats), but instead is met with heartache when she discovers he's a changed man. Nominated for an Academy Award for her portrayal of a woman abandoned, Kane infuses Gitl with depth and humanity, making her struggles at once palpable and enlightening. Co-stars Doris Roberts and Mel Howard.

3.3 Average Rating

True Heart

1999

Alone after a plane crash strands them in a remote region of Canada, two siblings are rescued by Khonanesta, a Native American who teaches them how to live in the wilderness. But the trio soon finds themselves wrangling with a band of poachers.

3.3 Average Rating

Stranger Inside

2001

Treasure Lee (Yolonda Ross) is a bad girl on the move ... out of "juvenile" and into the state penitentiary. There, she befriends Brownie (Davenia McFadden), a lifer who deals drugs, using an extended family of loyal girls who swear their undying allegiance to the cell-block mama. But Brownie's charisma shields a malevolence that just might put Treasure in harm's way.

3.3 Average Rating

Night and Fog

2009

In the wake of a brutal murder-suicide of a family in the projects of outer Hong Kong, police interviews gradually reveal the story of battered wife Wong Hiu-ling (Jingchu Zhang) and her explosive but charismatic husband, Lee Sam (Simon Yam). The accounts of a shy neighbor, a women's shelter resident and others paint a gripping portrait of the abusive relationship in director Ann Hui's low-budget social drama.

3.3 Average Rating

The Escape

2009

When terrorists in war-ravaged Afghanistan kidnap and threaten to slay outspoken Danish journalist Rikke Lynvig (Iben Hjejle), young, English-speaking Taliban operative Nazir Osmani (Faegh Zamani) helps her plan a daring getaway. But when Nazir himself also escapes Afghanistan and seeks Rikke's help in Denmark, she is torn between personal loyalty and the political fallout of aiding a terrorist. Kathrine Windfeld directs this tense thriller.

3.3 Average Rating

According to Greta

2009

Dumped on her grandparents (Ellen Burstyn and Michael Murphy) for the summer by her indifferent mother (Melissa Leo), acerbic and self-destructive teenager Greta (Hilary Duff) disrupts the elderly couple's staid life on the Jersey Shore in this coming-of-age melodrama. But eventually, a romance with a charming short-order cook (Evan Ross) and the unconditional love of her grandparents help Zoe face down her demons.

3.3 Average Rating

Leaving

2009

Bored with her life of leisure, Suzanne (Kristin Scott Thomas) decides to reestablish her career as a physiotherapist. But first, she'll need an office ... and that's where her troubles begin in this drama from Catherine Corsini. As soon as Suzanne meets the man her husband hired to construct her backyard office, she falls hard -- and the attraction is mutual ... and dangerous. Sergi López and Yvan Attal co-star.

3.3 Average Rating

Stella

2008

When 11-year-old Stella (Léora Barbara) enters a prestigious Parisian school, she struggles to reconcile her new academic world with life at her family's working-class bar, hanging out with the regulars while her parents' (Karole Rocher and Benjamin Biolay) marriage disintegrates. Guillaume Depardieu and Jeannick Gravelines co-star in this moving autobiographical drama from French filmmaker Sylvie Verheyde.

3.3 Average Rating

Sudie and Simpson

1990

Sarah Flanigan Carter's autobiographical novel about growing up in World War II-era Georgia is memorably adapted under the direction of Joan Tewkesbury (Old Boyfriends) in this made-for-television classic. Sara Gilbert is Sudie Harrington, a feisty 12-year-old who befriends Simpson (Louis Gossett Jr.), a gentle black man accused of impropriety with a child. Francis Fisher co-stars as a concerned teacher.

3.3 Average Rating

Dance with Me

1998

Dance instructor Ruby thinks she might have found a competitive dance partner in sexy Rafael, who's working as a custodian. Sparks start to fly when the two begin rehearsing, and it's clear there's more between the pair than rhythm.

3.3 Average Rating

Shadrach

1998

An elderly black man (and ex-slave) returns to the Virginia plantation where he was born -- to die. There, he encounters the plantation's new occupants, a family of struggling white farmers. Harvey Keitel and Andie MacDowell star as the hardscrabble Dabney family; the Dabneys help their visitor while confronting a past they didn't create. Shadrach was a labor of love for director Susanna Styron.

3.3 Average Rating