The true story of Mac: the first chimpanzee in space. Wilhelm Von Huber is a NASA scientist who moves to Florida with his son Billy after the recent death of Billy's mother. But there's a widening gap developing between father and son because Billy thinks his father is boring and yearns to be with the young astronauts. Then Billy gets his wish when Dr. Donni McGuinness enlists his help to train the chimps NASA needs for an experimental space flight. Billy's favourite Mac is chosen to be the first in space but the boy then realises the real risks involved. Can Wilhelm and Billy pull together to ensure a happy outcome for Mac's mission? Based on a true story.
A boating trip turns into a nightmare for five teenagers when they happen upon an abandoned yacht. Curious the teens hop aboard and two Bob and Julie decide that the yacht is a perfect place for some illicit lovemaking despite the presence of a bizarre biology laboratory. Unfortunately the amorous couple become infected with radioactive plankton turning Bob into a flesh hungry monster who greedily devours his lover. Soon other monsters have come up from the deep to hunt down the three remaining teens.
Meyerbeer - L'Africaine (Arena Orch/Chorus/Ballet SFO)
Part-time mayor Sarah (Ann Jillian) heads a town council desperate to find a doctor to keep open the small town's clinic. Fearing the town's decline, her hopes are raised when widower Michael (Robert Hays), a surgeon, returns to visit during the holidays. Unfortunately, the mayor's attempt to recruit Michael is complicated by their previous high school romance.
Set in Houston Texas during the 1940's Carrie Watts lives with her hen-pecked son and his controlling wife. Entering the last years of her life she wishes that she could revisit the town of Bountiful the place where she grew up as a child. However her son and his wife are very reluctant to let her go for her health and financial reasons. Carrie decides that an escape attempt is due... Catching a bus to Bountiful she meets and strikes up a conversation with a young woman (Rebecca De Mornay) to whom she recounts the story of her life...
Penny Serenade is the story of Julie and Roger Adams. It is an honest look at a happy if not exactly peaceful period in the domestic life of a newspaperman and a former salesgirl in a music shop. Irene Dunne and Cary Grant one of Hollywood's best comedy teams are perfectly cast. Neither has any difficulty in sliding from fast comedy to a heartbreaking scene or ending a poignant moment with a laugh.
""Michael this is Devon Miles. Your assignment this week is to tackle a crime organization based in an oddly familiar Californian town. In the course of the mission you will have to jump over some canyons or unfinished bridges in your talking sports car while your hair ruffles extravagantly."" The ultimate in 1980s action-adventure Knight Rider combines high-tech gadgetry with superb stunt sequences. Knight Of The Rising Sun: Michael and K.I.T.T. come to the aid of Nick O'Brien
After being accused of poisoning her blind older husband the lovely Mrs. Paradine hires lawyer Anthony Keane (Gregory Peck) to represent her. Though Keane himself is married to a striking and devoted woman he finds himself strangely drawn to his glamorous defendant. However his deepening feelings convince him that she is innocent even though the evidence and his usual sense of logic and reason suggest otherwise...
High-speed sc-fi action movie set in the year 2033 where a rogue Automatic J76 part man part machine butler handyman and defender runs riot on the eve of a press conference to announce its invention. It must be stopped at all costs...
One man... seven women... in a strange house! Set in the Deep South during the Civil War The Beguiled stars Eastwood as John McBurney a severely wounded soldier who is near death when discovered by a teenage girl. She takes him to the mansion that serves as her boarding school where he slowly begins to regain his health under the care of headmistress Martha Farnsworth (Geraldine Page) and the dozen or so girls who live there. As McBurney gets better he begins to charm the girls all of whom are starved for affection because of the war's claim on their men. At length powerful undercurrents of jealousy saturate the atmosphere as the girls and even the headmistress begin to vie for McBurney's attention. He first becomes involved with one of the oldest of the girls Edwina Dabney (Elizabeth Hartman) but ultimately finds it difficult to resist the charms of some of her schoolmates. His promiscuity becomes his undoing.
Mexican rebel Pancho Villa needs guns. First he'll need the money to buy them. After persuading a group of money lenders to loan him $30 000 using their lives as collateral he sends his right hand man Scotty across the border into America to buy them. Scotty is doublecrossed and Villa gathers his rag tag army to take revenge. His army ends up victorious in the American town of Columbus. However he now must face the wrath of the United States Army...
Mere Baap Pehle Aap
Director Neil Jordan's gothic outing is a unique excursion into horror.
Sex And The Other Woman / This That And The Other
Evan Holloway is one of the richest men on Earth; he is a multimillionaire publisher of the best selling men's magazines, Passion.Due to his success he can live a life of which other men can only dream. Any woman he wants, he can have. Any fantasy he cares to live, he does. Anything he wishes to own, he can buy. But now, Evan Holloway has a problem: he has just become the target of a sinister assassination threat.Detective Nick Janson is recruited to stop the assassin, but when he becomes involved with the beautiful Kirsty (Shauna O'Brien) Evan's former wife, things become complicated, especially as Kirsty is the prime suspect...
ITV's famous boardroom drama from the 1960's starring Patrick Wymark Barbara Murray Clifford Evans Rosemary Leach Peter Barkworth Ian Holm and George Sewell. A spin-off from the earlier 'The Plane Makers' 'The Power Game' made a star of Patrick Wymark as the now knighted Sir John Wilder the ruthless and power hungry executive who everybody loved to hate. The series captivated the viewing public in 1965 when first aired (one of the five most watched programme of 1966 when this f
From the director of Scarface comes the critically acclaimed crime thriller Carlito's Way. The year is 1975 and former gangster Carlito Brigante has just been released from jail after serving the first five years of a long sentence. Carlito's lawyer David Kleinfeld has discovered a loop hole in the law and this time, Carlito is determined to go straight. He wants to retire to the Bahamas and set up a small business with his girlfriend Gail. All he needs is a stake. Suddenly Kleinfeld comes forward with the perfect proposition. Just a small debt of friendship. Consider it a favour. But if Carlito's learned anything from the streets, it's that a favour will kill you faster than a bullet...
Big-city surgeon Michael (Hays) is still mourning his wife who passed away four years ago. At Christmas he returns with his daughter Jilly (Gorrell) to his home town where his father Bob (Palance) and the townsfolk want him to stay and run the local hospital. There's a problem however. It's Sarah (Jillian) the local vet town mayor - and Michael's ex-girlfriend. She thinks that Michael's far too high-powered to adjust to small-town life. But the wily old Bob has other ideas...
Winner of the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1961 and the Best Italian Film of the Year this a true classic of Italian cinema. A morality tale. Can people shake off their past? Will others alllow them to? Four prostitutes abandon their 'working girl' lifestyle after a change in the law closes their bordello. They open a restaraunt. Flourishing successful and happy they find that their past comes back to haunt them as they are reported to the police and forced to co
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