American Playhouse Movies
- 1988
Stand and Deliver
Stand and Deliver7.6321988HD
Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts...
- 1993
Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About Nothing6.9521993HD
In this Shakespearean farce, Hero and her groom-to-be, Claudio, team up with Claudio's commanding officer, Don Pedro, the week before their wedding...
- 1989
Longtime Companion
Longtime Companion6.81989HD
During the summer of 1981, a group of friends in New York are completely unprepared for the onslaught of AIDS. What starts as a rumor about a...
- 1995
Safe
Safe6.9911995HD
Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with no clear diagnosis.
- 1995
My Family
My Family7.5291995HD
Traces over three generations an immigrant family's trials, tribulations, tragedies, and triumphs. Maria and Jose, the first generation, come to Los...
- 1991
Daughters of the Dust
Daughters of the Dust6.4671991HD
In 1902, an African-American family living on a sea island off the coast of South Carolina prepares to move to the North.
- 1994
Golden Gate
Golden Gate41994HD
A brash 22-year-old FBI agent trumps up charges of Communist spying against a Chinese laundryman. Ten years later, he wants to make amends to the man...
- 1983
El Norte
El Norte7.21983HD
Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the...
- 1983
Testament
Testament6.4021983HD
It is just another day in the small town of Hamlin until something disastrous happens. Suddenly, news breaks that a series of nuclear warheads has...
- 1992
Simple Men
Simple Men6.7021992HD
Dennis is a handsome and bookish college student. His brother, Bill, is a roughhewn ladies' man and thief. Together they search for their dad,...
- 1986
Native Son
Native Son5.61986HD
In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills the...
- 1983
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez6.81983HD
Forced to run from Texas Rangers after a heated misunderstanding leads to the death of a lawman, Mexican American farmer Gregorio Cortez sets off in...
- 1994
Amateur
Amateur6.2981994HD
A man wakes up in an alley, bleeding and with no memory of who he is. He stumbles into a coffee shop and is befriended by a charitable ex-nun who is...
- 1985
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Go Tell It on the Mountain51985HD
This film adaptation of James Baldwin's celebrated novel tells the journey of a family from the rural South to "big city" Harlem seeking both...
- 1988
The Thin Blue Line
The Thin Blue Line7.71988HD
Errol Morris's unique documentary dramatically re-enacts the crime scene and investigation of a police officer's murder in Dallas.
- 1984
A Flash of Green
A Flash of Green5.31984HD
A reporter at a local Florida newspaper is torn between his friendship with a corrupt real estate developer and his love for an activist opposing the...
- 1987
Waiting for the Moon
Waiting for the Moon51987HD
Fictionalized portrait of one of history's great literary couples: Stein & Toklas. Summer 1930s France, Alice tends to ailing Gertrude; they visit...
- 1985
Smooth Talk
Smooth Talk6.31985HD
Connie, the fifteen-year-old black sheep of her family, finds her summertime idyll of beach trips, mall hangouts, and innocent flirtations shattered...
- 1991
Into the Woods
Into the Woods8.0131991HD
In a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curse put on them by their neighbor, a spiteful witch.
- 1992
Surviving Desire
Surviving Desire6.9741992HD
Jude, a college professor, is obsessed with Sophie, his student. She, in turn, is intrigued by his scholarly charm. Flirtation turns to lust and the...