Lena's Dreams

1997

Lena (Marlene Forte) is a 32-year-old actress fed up with humiliating auditions, her dismissive agent and trying to balance life and career. She finally decides to give up on her life-long dream, resolving to quit the fickle biz and settle down. But just as she makes her resolution, opportunity finally knocks. Now, Lena has to make the toughest decision of her life in this comic drama co-starring Jeremiah Birkett.

1.9 Average Rating

Seattle Women in Film

2008

Twenty-one shorts from 21 directors comprise this eclectic collection saluting the diversely talented female filmmakers working in Seattle's bustling film scene. The roster includes Emmy winner Virginia Bogert's "Tootie Pie," Sue Corcoran's festival favorite "Circus of Infinity," Heather Ayres's "Lipstick Men," Lynn Shelton's "Moral Centralia," Dayna Hanson's "Diesel Engine" and Wilson Diehl's "How to Go on a Man Date."

1.9 Average Rating

Fast Track: Season 1

1997

Race car driver Richard Beckett (Keith Carradine) was happy to leave the track behind for a career in medicine, but when his old nemesis, Christian Chandler (Duncan Regehr), tempts him back into the game with a gig as chief medic of Eagle Ridge Speedway, Beckett can't say no. Also heating up the pit in this high-octane series are Chandler's sister (Brandy Ledford) and his wife, Nicole (Guylaine St-Onge), who happens to be Beckett's old flame.

1.9 Average Rating

The Young Unknowns

2003

This gripping drama follows a day in the life of 23-year-old Charlie Fox (Devon Gummersall), a brash, soon-to-be-successful commercials director from a troubled showbiz family. Accompanied by three friends -- his unhappy girlfriend, Paloma, his party-animal buddy, Joe, and Cassandra, a vulnerable newcomer -- Charlie rides an emotional roller coaster all the way from California dream to contemporary tragedy as the day unravels into disaster.

1.9 Average Rating

The Islander

1988

A Wisconsin girl's plans to become a commercial angler collide with sexism and reality in this made-for-TV drama. After growing up in a male-dominated industrial fishing village on Lake Michigan, young Inga (Kit Wholihan) wants to earn her living on the lake's icy waters -- but will the town's chauvinistic fishermen take the wind out of her sails? The supporting cast includes Jeff Weborg, Celia Klehr and Jacob Mills.

1.9 Average Rating

Last Call

1999

Three compelling stories come together in an apartment building in Santiago, Chile. A woman comes home drunk and sleeps with her lover's brother; a couple of Americans get involved in a shady deal; and a model (Elizabeth Berkley) is taken hostage. Simultaneously caught up in a set of extraordinary circumstances, these strangers are about to be strangers no more as their lives are destined to collide with colossal impact.

1.9 Average Rating

Down the Barrel

2003

With dreams of becoming the next big thing, small-town Sara Caldwell (Tara Price) heads to Hollywood where she soon falls prey to the slick tongue and empty promises of J. C. (Matthew Grant) and his street hustler friend David (Luke Perry). They introduce Sara to a shady movie producer (Marty Ingels), but what she thinks is her big break turns out to be a dangerous nightmare. Diana Valentine directs this made-for-TV drama.

1.9 Average Rating

Brand New World

1998

After a civil war, Great Britain starts building a new colony on a small, battle-weary island in this drama set in the near future -- and the government sends a group of adventurous women to cheer up the weary soldiers during the reconstruction. But the newcomers aren't prepared for the harsh realities they will face. The stellar cast includes Guy Pearce, Julie Cox, Ray Winstone, Twiggy, Emily Lloyd and Johnathon Schaech.

1.9 Average Rating

Lady of the Night

1993

Down-on-his-luck writer Bruno (Rafael Sánchez Navarro) is drawn back into the life of his two-timing ex-girlfriend (Cecilia Toussaint) when her elderly paramour dies as the couple is making love. Called in to clean up the mess, Bruno devises an embalming scheme that's crazy enough to work. But a string of progressively outrageous incidents may unravel the plan in this south-of-the-border import directed by Eva López Sánchez.

1.9 Average Rating

Naked Jane

1995

Jane (Renee Stahl) is a withdrawn young woman who wants to be a novelist. To support herself in this endeavor, she types term papers for college students. When her model boyfriend leaves town on assignment, Jane begins an affair with an artist named Matthew (Christian Svensson). Will this relationship force Jane to put her life in perspective once and for all, or will it simply lead to more confusion?

1.9 Average Rating

Mercury

1996

Bill Wyatt (Geoffrey Rush) is the editor of Sunday Mercury, a publication where the egotistical journalists have as many secrets as the subjects on which they try to get the scoop! Hell-bent on getting the exclusive stories, the team stops at nothing to get what they want. As jaded as they come, Wyatt watches as his reporters vie for the most intrepid byline, desperately searching for the most salacious or heartwarming stories they can find.

1.9 Average Rating

Only for You

2007

Young divorcee and aspiring actress Dana (Shea Curry) strikes up a friendship with Jack (Mike Buie), her thespian classmate who's stuck in a loveless relationship and paying the bills as a newspaper journalist. Told in early 1990s flashbacks, this romantic drama chronicles Dana and Jack's lives as they balance their mounting flirtation with their careers and goals. Kate Albrecht and Ellis E. Williams co-star as the couple's confidantes.

1.8 Average Rating

Variety

1983

When Christine (Sandy McLeod) gets a job as a Times Square porn theater ticket-taker, she soon finds herself intrigued by the underground world she's entered, and her eagerness to explore it leads her on an erotic journey of self-discovery. Her new passion also has a profound effect on her relationship with boyfriend Mark (Will Patton). Controversial novelist Kathy Acker wrote the screenplay for this provocative feminist drama.

1.8 Average Rating

Seamless

1999

Shannon Elizabeth stars as Nicole in a story which takes you on a wild ride through Los Angeles' urban undergrowth and into the secret lives of a lost generation of teenagers. Disenchanted with the damaged reality of life at home, these teenagers are bound together by J.B., a self-made guru. But when Nicole seduces J.B., he soon finds his life speeding out of control, from late night raves to designer drugs.

1.8 Average Rating

Scarred

1984

In this gritty drama, teenage mother Ruby Star (Jennifer Mayo) -- faced with the overwhelming responsibility of caring for her baby on her own -- strikes out as a two-bit prostitute, selling her body to keep herself and her child alive. As Ruby learns the ways of the streets, she finds a support system -- and a makeshift surrogate family -- in a veteran hooker (Jackie Berryman) and a pimp with a heart of gold (David Dean).

1.8 Average Rating

Apart From That

2006

Rural Washington serves as the setting for an intimate snapshot of five disparate, eccentric characters living in the small community. The elderly Peggy (Alice Ellingson) is given to making false fire reports and then greeting the arriving firemen unclothed. Other local characters include an American Indian road striper beset by an emotional burden he won't talk about and a local banker whose job brings him into major conflict with his son.

1.8 Average Rating