Stage Play
Bad Parents
HDA suburban mom relives her season with the soccer obsessed sports parents whose outrageous "win at all costs" behavior spirals out of control.
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
HDTwo minor characters from the play 'Hamlet' stumble around unaware of their scripted lives and unable to deviate from them.
Liz & Dick
HDThe torrid relationship between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
Sweet Talk
HDA blocked writer and a troubled young woman who meet over a phone-sex line go on a journey together.
If I Were You
HDWhen a woman tries to outwit her husband's sexy young mistress, the unexpected consequences include starring as King Lear in a very amateur production--with the mistress, an aspiring actress, playing The Fool.
Six Degrees of Separation
HDAn affluent New York City couple finds their lives touched, intruded upon, and compelled by a mysterious young black man who is never quite who he says he is.
Gypsy
HDBased on the autobiography of Gypsy Rose Lee, this made-for-TV movie-previously a Broadway smash and a 1962 film-depicts the life and times of a stripper and her domineering mother.
The Hudsucker Proxy
HDA naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.
Bullets Over Broadway
HDIn New York in 1928, a struggling playwright is forced to cast a mobster's talentless girlfriend in his latest drama in order to get it produced.
Oleanna
HDWhen a student visits her professor to discuss how she failed his course, the discussion takes an awkward turn.
Redwood Curtain
HDGeri Riordan is adopted, half-Vietnamese, eighteen, and a piano prodigy. She also feels as if she doesn't know who she really is, and when her adopted father dies, she begins to search for her biological father. The trail leads in...
Crackerjack
HDA lovable loser must choose to either repeat his family history, change it, or just go play softball.
So This Is Christmas
HDAshley lives in the fast lane until a handyman invades her life and she's directing a Christmas play for underprivileged kids. She finds her soulmate and they might live happily-ever-after--unless her stepbrother gets her killed.
Othello
HDThe Moorish General Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his Lieutenant Michael Cassio, when in reality, it is all part of the scheme of a bitter Ensign named Iago.
Love Is All There Is
HDRomeo & Juliet gets transplanted to the Bronx.
Sling Blade
HDKarl Childers, a simple man hospitalized since his childhood murder of his mother and her lover, is released to start a new life in a small town.
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
HDDavid Lewis is affected by the death of his wife Gillian, who fell from the mast pole of their boat on a sailing trip two years ago. David deals with his grief by continuing his romance with Gillian during walks with her ghost on the beach at night. While David lives in the past, other family problems crop up in the present in the real world. He neglects his teenage daughter Rachel and his in-laws come for a weekend visit to help her. Rachel has lost her mother and needs her father to snap back into the real world and help her.
Shakespeare in Love
HDWilliam Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) is a known but struggling poet, playwright, and actor, who not only has sold his next play to both Philip Henslowe (Geoffrey Rush) and Richard Burbage (Martin Clunes), but now faces a far more difficult problem: he is bereft of ideas and has yet to begin writing. He is in search of his muse, the woman who will inspire him but all attempts fail him until he meets the beautiful Viola De Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow). She loves the theatre and would like nothing more than to take to the stage, but is forbidden from doing so as only men can be actors. She is also a great admirer of Shakespeare's works. Dressing as a man, and going by the name of "Thomas Kent", she auditions and is ideal for a part in his next play. Shakespeare soon sees through her disguise and they begin a love affair, one they know cannot end happily for them as he is already married and she has been promised to the dour Lord Wessex (Colin Firth). As the company rehearses his new play, William and Viola's love is transferred to the written page leading to the masterpiece that is Romeo and Juliet.
In Dreams
HDA suburban housewife learns that she has a dreamworld connection to a serial murderer, and must stop him from killing again.
Stage Fright
HDA snobby musical theater camp is terrorized by a blood-thirsty killer who hates musical theater.
Run the Wild Fields
HDThe Story of a North Carolina woman and her daughter who take in a mysterious drifter to work their farm while the woman's husband is missing in action during WWII.based on playPlot summaryAdd synopsis
Hamlet
HDNew York, 2000. A specter in the guise of the newly-dead CEO of Denmark Corporation appears to Hamlet, tells of murder most foul, demands revenge, and identifies the killer as Claudius, the new head of Denmark, Hamlet's uncle and now step-father. Hamlet must determine if the ghost is truly his father, and if Claudius did the deed. To buy time, Hamlet feigns madness; to catch his uncle's conscience, he invites him to watch a film he's made that shows a tale of murder. Finally convinced of Claudius's guilt, Hamlet must avenge his father. Claudius now knows Hamlet is a threat and even uses Ophelia, Hamlet's love, in his own plots against the young man. Murder will out?
Get Over It
HDWhen Berke Landers, a popular high school basketball star, gets dumped by his life-long girlfriend, Allison, he soon begins to lose it. But with the help of his best friend Felix's sister Kelly, he follows his ex into the school's spring musical. Thus endues a love triangle loosely based upon Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", where Berke is only to find himself getting over Allison and beginning to fall for Kelly.
Tosca
HDBenoit Jacquot reinvents the way we view opera in this magnificent production of Puccini's story of Tosca's love for the painter Cavaradossi and the intervention of Scarpia.puccinioperabased on bookbased on playcharacter name in titlePlot summaryAdd synopsis
Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical
HDMusical version of the Robert Louis Stevenson story about a doctor who conducts an experiment on himself that results in his bringing out the dark, murderous side of his inner self, "Mr. Hyde".stage musicaljekyll and hydebased on bookcharacter name in titlePlot summaryAdd synopsis
One Night in Istanbul
HDA screen adaptation of the hit play about the exploits of a group of Liverpool Football Club fans at the UEFA Champions League 2005 final in Istanbul.football fanbased on playPlot summaryAdd synopsis
Kissing Jessica Stein
HDJessica Stein is a single, straight, successful, journalist, part of a bonded Jewish family living in New York City, who finds herself not as straight as she thought when Jessica meets and begins an intense friendship with career woman Helen Cooper which ultimately leads to romance.
Billy Elliot: The Musical Live
HDA talented young dancer has to learn to fight for his dream despite social and parental disapproval.fightfilmed performancestage musicalPlot summaryAdd synopsis
Femme Fatale
HDThe thief Laurie Ash steals the expensive diamond jewel called 'Eye of the Serpent' in an audacious heist during an exhibition in Cannes 2001 Festival. She double-crosses her partners and is mistakenly taken as Lily, a woman who lost her husband and son in an accident and is missing since then, by an ordinary family. One day, while having bath in Lily's bathtub, Lily comes back home and commits suicide. Laurie assumes definitely Lily's identity, goes to America where she marries a rich man, who becomes the Ambassador of USA in France. When Laurie returns to France, her past haunts her.
Chicago
HDMurderesses Velma Kelly (Catherine Zeta-Jones) (a chanteuse and tease who killed her husband and sister after finding them in bed together) and Roxie Hart (Renée Zellweger) (who killed her boyfriend when she discovered he wasn't going to make her a star) find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.
The Actors
HDTwo failed actors decide to pull a con on a local gangster by pretending to be the people to whom he owes money.actorstage playdisguisedebtcastle246 morePlot summaryAdd synopsis
The Pentaverate
S01E06HDAn unlikely Canadian journalist finds himself embroiled in a mission to uncover the truth and just possibly save the world himself.