Most Viewed From American Playhouse

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emma Thompson

Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edward James Olmos

Errol Morris's unique documentary dramatically re-enacts the crime scene and investigation of a police officer's murder in Dallas.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Randall Adams

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.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bernadette Peters

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Winfield

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jane Alexander

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ed Harris

This musical is based on four short stories by Damon Runyon. In one tale, gambler Feet Samuels sells his body to science just as he realizes that...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Matt Dillon

Twelve-year-old Mexican-American Marcos (Jose Alcala) recalls the hardships of the previous year, reflecting on the arduous trek his migrant-worker...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jose Alcala

An international award winning saga of old Mexico. In 1528, a Spanish expedition flounders off the coast of Florida with 600 lives lost. One...

Genre: Action

Cast: Juan Diego

On the day in 1965 that the Pope visits New York and masses of people line the streets in adulation, Artie, a zookeeper living in Sunnyside, Queens,...

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Cast: Swoosie Kurtz

Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with no clear diagnosis.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Julianne Moore

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...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Isabelle Huppert

A slightly ironical description of the colony of German artists in Los Angeles, who had to leave their country during the Nazi-regime. A young...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Jeremy Irons

Young man, who can't get along with the rest of the world, especially his mother, decides to try to take his life in his own hands. A TV movie...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Sarah Jessica Parker

In 1902, an African-American family living on a sea island off the coast of South Carolina prepares to move to the North.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cora Lee Day

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte by Georges Seurat is one of the great paintings of the world, and in "Sunday in the Park with...

Genre: Music

Cast: Mandy Patinkin

An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Jessica Lange

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...

Genre: Western

Cast: Edward James Olmos

An American-Chinese man brings over his wife from China to America, but the challenges of making a living and adjusting to a new life, plus the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cora Miao