African Protagonist
Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington
HDA friend of Miss Marple's sees a woman being strangled in a passing train. When police cannot find a body and doubt the story, Miss Marple enlists professional housekeeper, Lucy Eyelesbarrow, to go undercover.
Working Girls
HDA day in the life of several prostitutes in an upscale Manhattan whore house. The film is a stark portrayal of the women prostitutes, the male customers and the motivations of both. Watch as the madam manipulates her "girls". Watc...
Hilda
S02E13HDA fearless blue-haired girl named Hilda leaves the forest to go to town and find new friends, great adventures, magic and mysterious creatures who might be dangerous.
The Wire
S05E10HDTold from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between good and evil are routinely obliterated.
Resident Alien
S02E16HDA crash-landed alien takes on the identity of a small-town Colorado doctor and slowly begins to wrestle with the moral dilemma of his secret mission on Earth.
Spiral
HDA recluse telemarkets at an office, where his boss is his only friend. As he befriends a new, social colleague and sketches/paints her, his dark mind surfaces.
Freedom Writers
HDA young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves and pursue education beyond high school.
The Last Mimzy
HDTwo siblings begin to develop special talents after they find a mysterious box of toys. Soon the kids, their parents, and even their teacher are drawn into a strange new world and find a task ahead of them that is far more importa...
Goodbye Bafana
HDGoodbye Bafana is the true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner's name was Nelson Mandela.
Daddy's Little Girls
HDA mechanic falls in love with his attorney.
Persuasion
HDAnne was in love with Frederick, who was rejected by her snobby parents 8 years ago. They've now hit hard times and rent out their mansion to his brother-in-law. He returns a Royal Navy captain. Will he remember Anne?
The Orphanage
HDA woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage for handicapped children. Before long, her son starts to communicate with an invisible new friend.
American Loser
HDA hilarious comedy about a young man from the Upper East Side of Manhattan and the gold-digging girl who inspires him to try to get it together.
Persepolis
HDA precocious and outspoken Iranian girl grows up during the Islamic Revolution.
Bratz
HDDuring their first year of high school, four best girlfriends face off against the domineering student body President, who wants to split them up into different social cliques.
Ben 10: Secret of the Omnitrix
HDWhen the Omnitrix begins a countdown to self-destruction, Ben and Gwen team up with Tetrax to find the watch's creator before it's too late.
The Nanny Diaries
HDA college graduate goes to work as a nanny for a rich New York family. Ensconced in their home, she has to juggle their dysfunction, a new romance, and the spoiled brat in her charge.
Sydney White
HDA modern retelling of Snow White set against students in their freshman year of college in the greek system.
Pimp
HDAn urban love story set on the hard streets of the Bronx. A struggling female Pimp, named Wednesday, grows up learning the game from her dad. Once he's gone she's left to look out for her prostitute mother and girlfriend Nikki.
Mr. Untouchable
HDThe true-life story of a Harlem's notorious Nicky Barnes, a junkie turned multimillionaire drug-lord, MR. UNTOUCHABLE takes its audience deep inside the heroin industry of the 1970s. The most powerful black drug kingpin in New Yor...
Breakfast with Scot
HDEric, a sports announcer and former hockey player, doesn't know how to deal with the flamboyant young boy to whom he and his partner suddenly become guardians.
Shrek the Halls
HDThis half-hour animated TV special features the Shrek characters putting their own spin on holiday traditions.
My Blueberry Nights
HDA young lonely woman takes a soul-searching journey across America to resolve her questions about love while encountering a series of off-beat characters along the way.
CarGo
HDA young car learns the importance of family when he embarks on a mission to rescue his father who's been sent to Clunker Island to be re-purposed as junk metal.
Spy School
HDDoubting Thomas is the story of a twelve year old boy known for telling tall tales who overhears a plot to kidnap the President's daughter. When he goes public with his story, no one believes him, and he is forced to save her on h...
Fashion Victim
HDThe story of Andrew Cunanan, the aging gay hustler who killed fashion icon Gianni Versace, comes to the screen in this fact-based drama from director Ben Waller. An emotionally unstable party boy who was growing too old for the ni...
27 Dresses
HDAfter serving as a bridesmaid 27 times, a young woman wrestles with the idea of standing by her sister's side as her sibling marries the man she's secretly in love with.
Female Agents
HDLondon, 1944: SOE's section for French ops parachute 4 women into France, plus a woman there, to free an English geologist and kill SS colonel Heindrich.
A Raisin in the Sun
HDAn African-American family struggles with poverty, racism, and inner conflict as they strive for a better way of life. Based on the play by Lorraine Hansberry.
Semi-Pro
HDJackie Moon, the owner-coach-player of the American Basketball Association's Flint Michigan Tropics, rallies his teammates to make their NBA dreams come true.
Nim's Island
HDA young girl inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates with a reclusive author of the novel she's reading.
True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet
HDA young Hollywood starlet must adjust to a new small town life when she is sent to live with her aunt after a stint in rehab.