A former detective becomes a drunken street bum after his wife leaves him. He drinks heavily and his self esteem spirals lower every day. Then he meets a nice woman on the commuter train who seems to instill him with faith in himself. Every time they meet she offers him a dollar or some change. Suddenly she stops showing up on the train. He starts dreaming she is urgently calling for him to help her, so he decides to employ some of his old skills to find out where she is and what has happened to her.
The story of the rise of Catherine the Great from French minor royalty to the throne of Russia.
Charles Dickens employs his creative skills in detective work when he volunteers to assist Scotland Yard with a case involving an unfaithful husband.
The biographical drama of Sir Roger Casement, beginning as he waits to be hanged for treason against the British Crown.
A dramatization of the strange case of Mary Reynolds, an 18th century woman who awakens after a lengthy slumber with absolutely no memory whatsoever of her past or who she is. Much to the amazement of her family, she is the polar opposite of what she'd been before.
A pair of elderly sisters living in an old mansion are about to lose their family home to forclosure. Fortuntely, money comes their way when a Hollywood director rents the mansion to use as a set for his new haunted house film, Dreamhouse. But when the ghost of an old relative starts scaring off the film crew, they try to save the deal by finding out why.
When Millicent Sanford broke off her engagement to corporate kingpin Roger Skipworth, she called him a pig. Not long afterwards, Roger is rushed to the hospital where an ailing heart valve is replaced with a porcine substitute. Roger begins to think there may have been something after all to Millicent's remark when he starts taking on the characteristics of a pig.
After her little brother drowns, a young girl becomes obsessed with building sand castles. She builds sand castles daily into adulthood. Her mother and a friend decide to finally break the cycle.
The mechanic of a racing team is in debt to gamblers for more than $50,000 and starts sabotaging the car in order to fix races. When the driver crashes and realizes he wants to retire, the mechanic decides he has to kill the driver's girlfriend. Can he go through with it?
When an elderly secretary is fired because she is too old, she returns to the company and challenges her boss to a duel with antique 44 revolvers — and wins. When the police investigate, her actions are guided by the spirit of her dead grandfather.