Movies: TVM to See
Movies originally made for television that I'd like to see.
List activity
1.6K views
• 6 this weekCreate a new list
List your movie, TV & celebrity picks.
- 220 titles
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsDiana RiggPamela BrownGwen WatfordA well-to-do London businesswoman gives up her comfortable life, including the man who loves her, to become a cloistered Benedictine nun.
- DirectorGlenn JordanStarsJames GarnerJonathan PrycePeter RiegertPresident F. Ross Johnson of a major tobacco company decides to purchase the company himself, but a bidding war ensues as representatives from other companies make their own offers.
- DirectorBoris SagalStarsDavid McCallumSusan StrasbergHelmut KäutnerA scientist is persuaded by the government to inject himself with the brain fluid of a dying colleague in order to preserve missile-defense secrets. However, he finds that he is now torn between his own wife and that of his dead colleague, who was a Nazi sympathizer.
- DirectorLee BernhardiStanley KramerStarsPhilip AhnPhilip BrunsWilliam DevaneDramatization of the trial of General Yamashita when he was tried for his actions in the Philippines during World War 2 that resulted in the death of thousands of civilians. And of how the lawyers assigned to defend him tried to.
- DirectorLee BernhardiStanley KramerStarsAllan ArbusHerschel BernardiBarbara ColbyJulius and Ethel Rosenberg go from feeding the poor during the Depression to embracing the ideals of Communism. However, after WWII, the USSR is no longer a U.S. ally and the Rosenbergs' political activities become dangerously subversive.
- DirectorStanley KramerStarsTony MusanteRichard BasehartBo HopkinsThe trial and conviction of William "Rusty" Calley, an unknown 27-year-old lieutenant charged with the murder of 102 men, women, and children in the tiny Vietnamese village of My Lai, shocked the nation and split public opinion of our presence and involvement in Vietnam.
- DirectorSam MillerStarsRupert Penry-JonesOlivia WilliamsKevin McMonagleA documentary on the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa in the Sunda Strait of Indonesia, bringing tsunamis, rains of pumice and ash, and a deadly flow of hot steam, sulfuric acid, and ash. More than 36,000 died; survivors had bad burns.
- DirectorJim GoddardStarsChris SarandonPeter CushingKenneth MoreAn ex-aristocrat from France and an alcoholic English lawyer find themselves crossing paths and in love with the same woman during the French Revolution.
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsJohn LeguizamoJohn Leguizamo's semi-falsified, one-man stand-up performance as...himself. This is his autobiographical story, about his life growing up, and his journey to try to be accepted by his father. We see this story through a bizarre myriad of characters and situations, which include the eccentric Uncle Sandy, the Fat Boy Called Bitch (John's little brother, Poochie), his mom, his evil grandmothers, and Lee Stratsberg, not to mention a brief appearance by Cantinflas as God.
- DirectorThomas SchlammeStarsJohn LeguizamoTheresa TetleyJohn Leguizamo's award winning one man stage performance as several different characters.
- DirectorPeter AskinStarsJohn LeguizamoBased on his comedic one man play, John Leguizamo portrays six members of a dysfunctional family who talk in turn about the upcoming family wedding and one another.
- DirectorDon SiegelStarsEdmond O'BrienVera MilesRobert CulpA gunman who believes his friend has been murdered sets out to get the people who killed him and finds himself enmeshed in corrupt labor union politics.
- DirectorMarty CallnerStarsJohn LeguizamoJohn Leguizamo returns to HBO in this one-man stage show to examine the world's most intimate act! SEXAHOLIX is an affectionate tale of the comic's path to maturation and the women who helped get him there. Leguizamo digs into his past love life to mine a rich vein of material. Nothing is held back in this hilarious comedy.
- DirectorWalter GraumanStarsDean StockwellStefanie PowersJames StacyA prank that starts with a group of college students creating a fictitious person so they can get a credit card develops into a plot that takes a murderous turn.
- DirectorDavid Lowell RichStarsDon MurrayInger StevensBarry NelsonA suburban couple discovers that they are pawns for a powerful crime syndicate. They try to break away from the cartel and go legitimate, but the syndicate doesn't want to give them up so easily.
- DirectorFrank PiersonStarsGig YoungLee GrantDenise NickersonA housewife and her teenage daughter, fleeing their boring lives, stops in a diner in the California desert. She runs up against the diner's owner, a gruff, beer-drinking artist whose life's work are the neon sculptures he creates and attaches to the ceiling.
- DirectorClyde WareStarsJack PalanceSteve ForrestRichard HatchA retelling of the famous feud between two mountain families, the Hatfields and the McCoys, in rural Kentucky in the late 1800s.
- DirectorDan CurtisStarsDale RobertsonBo HopkinsScott BradyGangsters free one of their colleagues being escorted to prison and kill several FBI agents and local police officers in the attempt. FBI agent Melvin Purvis puts together a special squad to track down and capture the men responsible.
- DirectorDaryl DukeStarsBuddy EbsenPeter GravesArthur KennedyIncompetent Vice President Kermit Madigan takes control of the government after the President's plane mysteriously disappears with him on board.
- DirectorMike NewellStarsRichard ChamberlainPatrick McGoohanLouis JourdanD'Artagnan and his fellow Musketeers plot to replace the ineffectual Louis XIV of France with his secretly imprisoned twin brother Phillipe, who is the firstborn and rightful King.
- DirectorLamont JohnsonStarsMartin SheenMariclare CostelloNed BeattyThe story of Eddie Slovik, who was executed by the Army in 1945, the only American soldier to be executed for desertion since the Civil War.
- StarsRichard WidmarkSkye AubreyTom BosleyGovernment agencies investigate the mysterious disappearance of a powerful Presidential adviser.
- DirectorFielder CookStarsErnest BorgnineStephen R. HudisJudy GeesonAn alcoholic drifter decides to run for sheriff in a small town. However, in order to get elected, he must find out who killed a visiting preacher.
- DirectorDavid GreeneStarsMike FarrellMargot KidderFred GwynneA man honeymooning with his new wife in the Rockies reports his wife's disappearance to the police. Hours later, a strange woman escorted by the local priest claims to be his missing wife, despite the man's inability to recognize her.
- DirectorGary NelsonStarsDon MurrayBert ConvyYvonne De CarloA television producer decides to find out the whereabouts of a former movie actress whose career has long since faded. He discovers that his inquiries have set off a string of murders.