Encounter with Danger

The Boy Who Talked to Badgers

September 1975 •English

A young boy gets along better with the animals he befriends around his family's Canadian farm than with the people he lives with.

The Late Shift

February 1996 •English

David Letterman vies with Jay Leno and his manager to succeed Johnny Carson, retiring from "The Tonight Show."

To Brave Alaska

November 1996 •English

True story of a yuppie couple's Alaskan trip turning into a wilderness survival struggle.

Todos os santos

November 2013 •Spanish

Caesar and Claretta

May 1975 •English

'Caesar and Claretta' dramatises the last few hours in the lives of Benito Mussolini (El Duce, played by Robert Hardy) and his mistress Claretta (played by Helen Mirren).

Hailey Dean Mysteries: 2 + 2 = Murder

June 2018 •English

Hailey attends her niece's school recital only to learn that the beloved music teacher has vanished. Hailey soon discovers several startling secrets amongst the staff, as well as a link between the missing young teacher and the school’s reconstruction funds.

Death Stalk

January 1975 •English

The whitewater raft trip of two couples is interrupted by a visit from four prison escapees who take the women hostage to aid in their escape. The husbands break free from their bonds and raft down the river in hopes of rescuing their wives.

Secret Liaison

October 2013 •French

When her sister is accused of a brutal murder, a former D.A. tries to clear her name and finds herself thrust into a dangerous mystery of infidelity and betrayal that may lead all the way to one of the city's most powerful men.

Golden Eels

February 2007 •Czech

A little boy, named Prdelka, traveled with his father from Prague to the country during the Second World War. There, the boy became friends with a local fisherman and learned to catch the golden eels. Eventually, his father and mother were arrested by the Nazis and the boy stayed with the fisherman.

Coming Out Alive

September 1980 •English

A woman hires a contract-killer when her ex-husband kidnaps her son.

A Great American Tragedy

October 1972 •English

A middle-aged aerospace engineer has his whole life changed when he is suddenly laid off from his job. Unable to find work because of his age and a bad economy, he watches his bills pile up, his wife forced to go back to work and his marriage start to break up.

A Cry for Help

February 1975 •English

A talk-radio host, who specializes in abusing and insulting his audience, gets a call from a disturbed teenage girl who says she is going to commit suicide. After first encouraging her, he has a change of heart and frantically tries to get his listeners to help find the girl before she makes good on her threat.

The Old Man Who Cried Wolf

October 1970 •English

Emile Pulska is visiting his old friend Abe Stillman. During the visit they are attacked and Emile is struck senseless. When he wakes up he is told that Abe is dead, dead by natural causes, the doctors tell him. When Emile insists that they were attacked, his relatives try to give him psychiatric help. Emile decides to try to find the killers himself, but someone is watching his every step...

The Longest Night

September 1972 •English

The daughter of a wealthy family is kidnapped and imprisoned underground in a custom-built, ventilated coffin while her family and the police search for her. But the battery that powers the ventilation is running out of juice and the ransom drop has been botched. This movie was originally shown as an ABC Movie of the Week on September 12, 1972. The story is based on the 1968 kidnapping of Barbara Mackle by Gary Krist.

Glitz

September 1988 •English

Vincent Marra is a Miami cop on medical leave in Puerto Rico, where he's being stalked by a sex offender he testified against.

The Veteran

January 2006 •English

Thirty years on from Vietnam, a government official is trying to track down soldiers who went missing in action, in the hope that it may lead her to her father. Meanwhile, a war veteran is forced to relive painful memories of how he was left for dead by his own platoon, and the heinous crimes he once committed while in the line of duty.

Snatched

January 1973 •English

The wives of three wealthy men are kidnapped and held for a $3 million ransom, but one of the men doesn't want to pay his share.

Poodle Springs

July 1998 •English

Private eye Philip Marlowe and his bride move to a desert town, where he uncovers a land scheme.

Christmas Comes Home to Canaan

December 2011 •English

When Bobber undergoes experimental surgery to help him walk again, Daniel Burton falls in love with his beautiful rehabilitation doctor and invites her to spend Christmas at the farm.

Desperation

May 2006 •English

When a sheriff arrests a writer, a family, a couple, and a hitchiker and throws them in a jail cell in the deserted town of Desperation, they must fight for their lives.