Susan Blakely

L.A. Twister is the satirical journey of an unlikely duo who, failing miserably at playing by Hollywood's rules, decides to take filmmaking into their own hands. (Snowdog Films)

At the opening party of a collosal, but poorly constructed, office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it. (imdb)

A group of kids in Brooklyn form a gang. From this moment on they do everything together. This makes... (imdb)

Lincoln Hawk (Stallone) is a struggling trucker who's trying to rebuild his life. At the request of his gravely ill ex-wife, he tries to make amends with his son who he left behind years earlier. Upon their first meeting, his son doesn't think too highly of him until he enters the nation-wide arm wrestling competition in Las Vegas. (imdb)

An ex-convict's mother's worst suspicions about her son are confirmed when he is implicated in a murder (imdb)

The story of the rise and fall of the infamous Chicago gangster Al Capone and the control he exhibited over the city during the prohibition years. Unusually, briefly covering the years after Capone was imprisoned. (imdb)

All over the world, people report they've been visited by aliens, taken aboard spaceships and medically examined. The authorities appear to know all about these visits but won't acknowledge it publicly. This film focuses on two 'victims' who struggle to live normal lives, but the aliens keep coming back. All is explained (perhaps ?) at the end. (imdb)

Thanks to a roommate's practical joke, bookish college student Joanna Halbert finds herself signed up with a Malibu-based escort service. Her initial annoyance turns to curiosity when she visits the boss's beach house - and she is soon captivated by the seemingly glamorous lifestyle of working as a high-class escort. Before long, however, she realises that glitz and money go hand in hand with exploitation and sleaze . . . and it may be too late to get out. (imdb)

Brother and sister find mentally challenged girl being forced by her parents to live in a shed. A controversial friendship sparks from attempts to educate her.

This film is the last of the 'Airport' genre which stars George Kennedy again in his aviation-disaster struck role as Joe Patroni who has to contend with nuclear missiles, the French Air Force and the threat of the plane splitting in two over the Alps!... (imdb)

During WWII, lawyer Matthau is forced to defend a German POW accused of murdering a small-town doctor.

Humanoid killer robots stalk a newspaperman, who has knowledge of their existence. One of the robots is made to look like his girl friend. (imdb)

A disturbed new neighbor fixates on another woman's husband. (imdb)

Two drifters attempt to blackmail a gangster's wife. (imdb)

An examination of the trials and tribulations of the Jordache family, from the period following World War II to the late 1960s. (imdb)

When a young track star is raped by her coach, no one but her mother will believe her story. (imdb)

The frustrated housewife Leslie visits an animal shop to purchase a flea-collar. Unknowing that the owner is a werewolf, she accepts his invitation to lunch and later in his apartment. Through a bite in her toe he starts her slow transformation in a werewolf. Home again, she desperately tries to hide the often disgusting process from her family, but her daughter Jennifer and her - from horror magazines well educated - friend recognize what's going on, and help to kill the non-human. (imdb)

A young NYPD detective learns (the hard way) about the politics that govern a big-city police department. He kills a lady-detective/colleague whose undercover garb concealed her profession and he gets caught up in a department cover-up. (imdb)

Following the first film, Papi and Chloe have had puppies, but can they help save the home of their human owners parents when the bank wants to foreclose ?

Partially filmed in Hawaii and Tahiti, And the Sea Will Tell was a two-part TV movie based on a real murder case. A wealthy couple (James Brolin and Deidre Hall) are killed on their yacht off the coast of a secluded South American island called Palmyra. The suspects are a hippyish pair (Hart Bochner and Rachel Ward) whom the rich folks had befriended. (allmovie.com)

The "April Morning" here is the famous April 19, 1775 upon which the "Shot heard 'round the world" was fired, signaling the start of the American Revolution. Faithful to author Howard Fast's somewhat revisionist view that the skirmishes between the Colonial militia and the British troops in Lexington and Concord (Massachusetts) were precipitated as much by fervent American patriots led by Solomon Chandler as by any "Redcoat" belligerence. (imdb)

In a sequel to the superior movie entitled The Incident, a small-town lawyer goes against the State of Maryland, suing on behalf of an institutionalized mental patient for release. (allrovi.com)

A man (William Shatner) combs Los Angeles for his missing daughter, and discovers she belongs to a gang dealing in crack. (imdb)

Hester Murdoch is found naked and nearly beaten to death by four young Hawaiian men on the beach and taken to the hospital. Some of the men didn't want to get involved, fearing they might be blamed, because she was white, but do so anyway. Almost immediately everyone suspects they are to blame. When Hester's politically influential mother Doris finds out what really happened, she fearing a scandal, forces her daughter to blame the men who rescued her, of raping and beating her. (imdb)

A doctor, his wife and her lover make a voyage on the yacht of the doctor. But when the weather turns very bad they have to stop the seacruise and seek refuge on a lonley island. There begins a deadly game in which the lover and the wife try to kill the husband. (imdb)

Tim Matheson is Dreamer in this Rocky-like inspirational drama. Instead of boxing, the sport in question is bowling. "Dreamer" is a ten-pin whiz in his small town, but can he make it in the Big Time? In his favor, he has the help of irascible manager Jack Warden and faithful girlfriend Susan Blakeley. As if to boldly underline the resemblances between Dreamer and its cinematic role model, the musical score is by Rocky's Bill Conti. (allrovi.com)

A brutal live stage murder is committed on one of the hot male dancers at whats considered to be the hottest club in L.A., a place where the guys strip and the woman cheer. (imdb)

An intellectually disabled woman who works in a store under the watchful guidance of her nephew guardian undergoes an experimental treatment that transforms her--temporarily--into a genius.

Film cutter Katie Griffin is hopelessly in love with writer Richard Mannhart, and starts an affair with him. When Mannhart's wife is killed in a road accident, Katie tells the police she thinks he's tampered with his wife's car. Being questioned Mannhart declares he's innocent. Not only that, he also denies any amorous involvement with Griffin. As it is her word against his, both parties are pressed to back up their stories with hard evidence. Finally Katie comes up with some. End of story?

After she is released from a mental hospital, a woman obsessed with romance novels takes a job as a nanny to a handsome widower -- and will kill anyone who stands in the way of her becoming his wife. (imdb)

GREEN BRIEFS is a collection of five gay-themed short films filled with family drama, including PRIDE (directed by Marc Saltarelli); THE COMMITMENT (directed by Albert M. Chan); SHABBAT DINNER (directed by Michael Morgenstern); KIMCHI FRIED DUMPLINGS (directed by Jason Karman); and THE SYMPHONY OF SILENCE (directed by Cedric Thomas Smith). (Amazon Video)

Two estranged brothers, one gay and one conservative Christian, are forced to reunite when their mother (Susan Blakely) takes to her bed and is unable to speak. (imdb)

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)