Richard A. Colla

Richard A. Colla
Total Credits at Criticker: 25 (Director), 1 (Writer)
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Battlestar Galactica
After the destruction of the human colonies, the last major fighter carrier leads a makeshift refugee fleet in a search for Earth. (imdb)
Fuzz
Detectives Steve Carella, Meyer Meyer, and Bert Kling are part of the 87th Precinct's team investigating a murder-extortion racket run by a mysterious deaf man. While attempting to investigate and prevent the murders of several high-ranking city officials, they also must keep track of the perpetrators of a string of robberies. Further complicating matters is a rash of arson attacks on homeless men. (imdb)
Zigzag
A dying man frames himself for the kidnapping and murder of an industrialist so his wife and daughter can benefit from the reward money. However, his plan goes awry when he is cured! (imdb)
Something Is Out There
Two police officers investigate a series of brutal murders in which the victims have had bodily organs removed. When one of them questions a young woman who has been seen at the crime scenes, it turns out she is an alien from an interstellar prison ship and that the murders have been committed by a powerful xenomorphic alien which had escaped (imdb)
The UFO Incident
In the early 1960s, an interracial couple undergo hypnosis, which unlocks memories of a forgotten event on a lonely road. Soon they believe they were abducted by extraterrestrials. (imdb)
The Questor Tapes
Project Questor is brainchild of the genius Dr. Vaslovik: he developed plans to build an android super-human. Although he's disappeared and half of his programming tape was erased in the attempt to decode it, his former colleagues continue the project and finally succeed. But Vaslovik seems to have installed a secret program in Questor's brain: He flees and starts to search for Vaslovik... (imdb)
The Tribe
The Tribe (1974) - TV Movie
In the last Ice Age, a family of Cro-Magnons battle a tribe of primitive Neanderthals for survival. (imdb)
Naked Lie
Naked Lie (1989) - TV Movie
They are the perfect, and politically correct, couple. He is a judge, she is a high profile attorney. When she takes on a sensational murder case, the trail leads right to her own front door. (imdb)
Blind Witness
Woman is trapped in her home with her husband's killers.
Swearing Allegiance
Based on a true story, this film recounts the story of Diane Zamora and David Graham, two high school sweethearts who swear to always be together, even as they enter separate military academies. But when David confesses he had an affair with a classmate, Diane has an ultimatum, leading the two into a murderous pact with severe repercussions. (imdb)
Don\
Story of Leroy 'Satchel' Paige, star pitcher in the Negro Leagues and later in the major leagues. Traces his life from his troubled youth, including his life in a detention school for Negroes, to his highs and lows in baseball and in his personal life.
Hidden in Silence
Poland 1939, shortly before invasion of the German troops. To save their belongings from the Nazis, the Jewish family Diamant transfers them to their 17-year-old catholic maid Fusia. In return Fusia provides them with food until the ghetto is dissolved, and then hides 13 people in her loft for over two years. However, as the front approaches and two German nurses take quarter in Fusias apartment everything seems to be in vain. (imdb)
Olly, Olly, Oxen Free
Elderly, eccentric Miss Pudd (Hepburn) is the owner of a store she considers an antique shop but most would call a junkyard. She frequently refuses to part with her merchandise because of its sentimental value, but she does agree to sell some items to two small boys, Alby and Chris , who are repairing a hot air balloon that belonged to the older boy's grandfather, a stunt man named The Great Sandusky. They plan to take the balloon aloft to celebrate the man's birthday. (wikipedia)
Live Again, Die Again
After being cryogenically frozen for more than 30 years, a woman wakes to find her husband an old man and her children older than she is. She also wakes to find that her daughter is crazy and wants her dead. (imdb)
Web of Deception
Dr. Phillip Pearloff is a prominent forensic psychiatrist caught in a tangled web of infidelity and fatal attraction that threatens to break up his home, ruin his career and, ultimately, convict him of murder. Vowing to his wife Ellen to save their faltering marriage, the doctor nevertheless finds his new found devotion tested by the advances of an attractive court stenographer. (amazon.com)
Roxanne: the Prize Pulitzer
Fact-based legal drama about the messy divorce proceedings between publishing heir Herbert Pulitzer and his wife. Starring . Based on the best-selling book by .
Zoya
Zoya (1995) - TV Movie
A young Russian countess escapes the 1917 revolution and, despite hardship, makes a new life for herself in America.
When Husbands Cheat
After a woman helps prove her brother-in-law is cheating, she begins to work as a private investigator, but when she starts to suspect her husband is having an affair, she has to decide if she should follow her instincts or chalk it up to paranoia.
Storm and Sorrow
Fact-based story about the US team who attempted a climb on Lenin Peak in 1974 with a focus on climber Molly Higgins.
Blue Valley Songbird
A popular Nashville performer wants national recognition, but is hampered by her controlling boy friend - manager and events from her past. Finally, by turning to her guitarist, she finds the resolve to face her troubles - including her long estranged mother and the death of her estranged father, who had tried to control her career in her early days.
Battlestar Galactica - Season 1
Stingray
Stingray (1985) - TV Movie
A district attorney is kidnapped by a criminal who then has a deranged doctor do something to him that leaves him with the mind of a child. His assistant seeks out a man who is only known by the car he drives, a Stingray. (imdb)
Murder, She Wrote - Season 1
Wizards and Warriors
The legendary Kingdom of Camarand is ruled by good King Baaldorf and Queen Lattinia. Their daughter, Ariel, is engaged to Prince Erik, who becomes Camarand's Champion against a neighboring kingdom ruled by evil Prince Dirk Blackpool. (imdb)