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The Princess & the Marine

2001

The Princess & the Marine

2001
6.6
Based on a true story, American Marine Jason Johnson (Goselaar) is sent on assignment to the Emirate of Bahrain. While there, he meets and falls in love with a spirited, lovely young woman, Meriam (Nichols), without realizing she is really a member of the Bahraini Royal Family. Meriam, who does not wish to consent to an arranged marriage, knows her love affair with Jason is dangerous, as he is a Mormon Christian and she a Muslim. Her parents would never consent to their match, and so Meriam and Jason race against time to escape Bahrain and make it to the United States, where they can marry. If Meriam is sent back, however, her life may be in jeopardy.
Jewel

2001

Jewel

2001
5
In the 1940s a 40-year-old woman with five healthy children gives birth to a girl with Down's syndrome.
The Flamingo Rising

2001

The Flamingo Rising

2001
5.2
When Hubert Lee decides to open the world's largest drive-in movie theater across the street from a funeral parlor, a feud erupts between Lee and Turner Knight, the owner of the funeral home. As Lee's many promotional ideas become more and more outrageous, he continues to enrage Knight until one of the promotions backfires with grave consequences.
The Seventh Stream

2001

The Seventh Stream

2001
6.7
She's a beautiful stranger lost in his world. Can they find a place in each other's hearts?
Bojangles

2001

Bojangles

2001
8
The life of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, African-American tap-dancing star of stage and screen. In 1916, Robinson was a successful vaudeville performer and considered the finest tap dancer of his generation. At the peak of his career, he was the highest paid Black entertainer, but for all the joy he gave others, his life was anything but happy, there was a great deal of tragedy in himself. He died broke and penniless.
Thank Heaven

2001

Thank Heaven

2001
3
The life of Jack Lander (Matt Keeslar) a television news producer, was a disaster ... until the day when a misdirected golf ball changed everything. During a round of golf with friends, Jack ball accidentally hits an old man and leaves him unconscious. Arnie (Gene Bicknell) and will call then wakes up with amnesia. Jack has to take responsibility for it. As the day progresses, Arnie performs small miracles wherever he go. But what is it about Arnie? How do you perform those miracles?
Missing Pieces

2001

Missing Pieces

2001
5.6
Atticus (James Coburn) goes to the small Mexican town where his estranged son (Paul Kersey) was a resident to discover how he died.
Rough Air: Danger on Flight 534

2001

Rough Air: Danger on Flight 534

2001
4.8
Having taken the blame for an accident beyond his control, pilot Mike Hogan has been on administrative leave indefinitely; however when the airline is desperately short of staff, he is offered to be first officer and accepts, without enthusiasm, received with disdain by the well-connected commander. Surprisingly his come-back proves less then routine, as the captain gets knocked out and a collision as well as a murderer being transported by police require courageous action from Mike, his crew and several passengers, including soccer star Ty Conner.
The Stalking of Laurie Show

2000

The Stalking of Laurie Show

2000
6
A teenage girl becomes entangled in a volatile relationship with a pair of high-school lovers.
The Runaway

2000

The Runaway

2000
6.8
At the birth of two boys, one white and one black, a mysterious and powerful Conjure Woman (Maya Angelou) prophesies that they will start the change. Growing up as best friends in rural Georgia in the 1940s, the boys make a discovery that leads the town's new sheriff, Frank Richards (Dean Cain), to reopen the investigation of the unsolved murders of three black men. While the town would prefer that the truth remain hidden, the sheriff pursues the case, determined to see justice prevail. The Runaway is a stirring story of how friendship, determination and conviction can generate racial change in one heart or an entire town.
Holiday Heart

2000

Holiday Heart

2000
6.9
After losing his police officer lover, Christian drag queen Holiday Heart meets 12-year-old Niki and her drug-addicted mother, Wanda. Heart finds relief from heartache and a renewed sense of purpose when he steps in as a father figure to Niki and welcomes the two women into his life. But when Wanda becomes romantically involved with her drug dealer, Silas, it may endanger Niki and threaten to destroy the makeshift family.
Saint Paul

2000

Saint Paul

2000
6.8
A biblical epic from the Book of Acts and Paul's epistles covering his conversion from Saul of Tarsus to his ministry to the Gentiles.
Love Lessons

2000

Love Lessons

2000
An older couple are about to retire, when they find out that they're about to be parents all over again.
Seventeen Again

2000

Seventeen Again

2000
6.8
Cat and Gene have been divorced for several years. They are both visiting their son and their grandchildren, Sydney and Willie. Willie's a genius who develops a formula that makes who uses it young again, it inadvertently spills into some soap that Willie places in his grandparents room. When each of them uses it they finds themselves 17 again. Willie had to find a way to reverse the process but will his grandparents want to be old again?
Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula

2000

Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula

2000
6.3
Meet the man behind the legend in this true story of Vlad the Impaler, whose vicious and cruel reputation as a bloodthirsty warlord became the basis for the myth of Dracula.
The Last Dance

2000

The Last Dance

2000
7.6
A retired school teacher is reminded of her past after she befriends with one of her former students, Todd Cope.
The Hound of the Baskervilles

2000

The Hound of the Baskervilles

2000
5.9
The mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville is blamed on a longstanding curse that has followed the Baskerville family for two hundred years. Enigmatic sleuth Sherlock Holmes is on the case to uncover the truth about a monstrous, supernatural hound who roams the moors, waiting to attack the latest heir to the Baskerville estate. Written by Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Blessed Stranger: After Flight 111

2000

Blessed Stranger: After Flight 111

2000
3.7
A sensitive and realistic portrayal of the families' grief after the devastating crash of Swissair flight 111, in which all 229 passengers and crew were killed. A woman whose daughter was among the victims meets a fisherman in Nova Scotia who took part in the recovery mission.
Yesterday's Children

2000

Yesterday's Children

2000
7.3
After having strange dreams, Jenny Cole discovers that in her last incarnation she was Mary Sutton, an Irishwoman who died in the 1930s. Suspicious, Jenny goes to Ireland to investigate her past life.
Personally Yours

2000

Personally Yours

2000
5.9
Susannah and Jesse Stanton divorced two years prior with three children. When Susannah starts dating a lawyer, the children decide to find someone for their father, sending a letter to a popular magazine called Alaskan Love. He receives a large number of responses, but the children later feel that his perfect match is Susannah, and they try to arrange a plan to bring them together.