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2) Videodrome
Description
Cable TV programmer Max Renn seeks out the ultimate in bizarre shows for his channel. He meets a mysterious supplier named Harlan who gives him access to an underground sex and violence network called "Videodrome."
3) The boost
Series
Description
A real estate developer living the good life is crushed when the economy bottoms out. He decides he needs a "boost" to keep his edge. What he gets instead is an all-consuming need that drags him and his wife into a cycle of shame, denial, and anguish
4) Hercules
Description
Takes a musical, animated look at the myths surrounding the labors and life of Hercules (Heracles).
5) Salvador
Description
In 1980, Richard Boyle, a veteran war photographer whose career needs a boost, heads for El Salvador to cover the civil war there. He forms an uneasy alliance with both guerrillas in the countryside who want him to get pictures out to the US press, and the right-wing military, who want him to bring them photographs of the rebels. After the murder of Archbishop Romero, the rape and murder of an American nurse and three nuns, and the death of a fellow...
6) Bling
Description
Lowly theme park mechanic Sam dreams about his childhood sweetheart Sue. With the mistaken belief that only a bling ring can win the girl of his dreams, Sam plans the most perfect night to propose to his one true love. But when super villain Oscar shows up with his own evil ring that could destroy the city, Sam's plans are thrown into utter disarray.
8) Officer down
Description
Officer Down follows a rogue police officer who tries to right the wrongs of his past by seeking revenge against the men responsible for a string of attacks on the young women working at a local strip club.
10) Coma
Description
A young medical student discovers that something sinister is going on in her hospital after routine procedures send more than a few seemingly healthy patients into comas on the operating table.
11) Promise
Series
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Description
Bob, a feckless bachelor, promised his mother that at her death he would care for his schizophrenic younger brother D.J. but he becomes apprehensive when the time comes. Facing up to his responsibility, Bob tries his best, but his set ways and D.J.'s erratic behavior mix like oil and water. Giving his promise one last shot, Bob takes D.J. on a fishing trip to the secluded lake where they vacationed as children. Here, the rush of memories transforms...
12) Contact
Description
Astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway receives an encrypted message, apparently from a solar system many light-years away.
13) The hard way
Description
Popular movie star Nick Lang wants to learn how to play the role of a tough cop by spending a few weeks on the street with detective John Moss who wants nothing to do with Lang.
14) Northfork
Series
Description
Set in 1955, the residents of a small Montana community are forced to move their homes to make way for a new dam. Most of them have left, but a few remain: a religious zealot with two wives, a conscience-bound minister, and an orphan boy whose fevered visions have convinced him that he's an angel. Mysterious, black-clad Evacuation Teams are sent to move these holdouts, and the characters' lives converge in a tale of longing, loss, faith and reawakening....
15) The specialist
Description
Helping a woman avenge her parents' death leaves an ex-CIA explosives ace open to an old foe in Miami.
18) Surf's up
Description
Cody, a Rockhopper penguin, journeys from his home in Shiverpool, Antarctica, to take part in the Big Z Memorial Surf-Off on beautiful Pen Gu Island. During his adventure he meets many new friends, including surf nut Chicken Joe and high-spirited lifeguard Lani. Cody believes that winning is everything until he meets Geek, an old, washed-up pro surfer, who may just show Cody that a true winner isn't always the one who comes in first.
19) The onion field
Series
Description
A true story about a case that changed LAPD policies forever. Two plainclothes LAPD officers were abducted and one was brutally executed, the other escaped. The criminals managed to drag the justice process on for years.
20) The gift of love
Description
Played against the tapestry of early 1900s New York City, this touching tale of selflessness brings O. Henry's Christmas valentine lovingly to the screen. A beautiful and wealthy orphan (Marie Osmond) is dutifully resigned to an arranged-for marriage to a man of "socially acceptable class" (James Woods), when her heart is captured by a young Swiss immigrant (Timothy Bottoms). Within her heart she wages the struggle to fulfill her relative's expectations,...