Peter Werner

A retired fighter pilot becomes the head of his alma matter military high school for two weeks with hilarious consequences. He shapes up the school and raises morale so that they are able to win the "brass-axe" competition versus another local military academy. (imdb)

A popular high school girl finds out that a boy she slept with is HIV positive. (imdb)

A reporter (Bridget Fonda) gets the scoop on the first ever human cloning, but the furor surrounding the event jeopardizes the baby's birth and the career of the doctor (Mary Beth Hurt) responsible for creating the clone. (imdb)

Ethical dilemma for a superstar newscaster who gets a story wrong resulting in the death of an innocent man.

A rookie cop goes undercover and infiltrates a car thief ring. (imdb)

A teenage girl tries to raise her three half-brothers and 1 half-sister on her own after their drug-addicted mother is sent to jail. (imdb)

Detective Coyle is trying to solve several bizarre murders and is having no luck finding a suspect. But when his girlfriend turns into a werewolf and gets kidnapped by a vampire, things start to fall into place. (imdb)

Pregnant sixteen year old Jacey's well-meaning mother forces her to keep the birth a secret and decides to raise the baby as her own. (imdb)

Abe Snopes (Tommy Lee Jones) is a tenant farmer whose violent nature proves to be his undoing in this movie adaptation of one of author William Faulkner's Gothic tales. Snopes sets fire to his employer's barn when he thinks he's been treated unfairly. Snopes's family is told to move on -- which leads to a troubling dilemma for the old man's son, Sarty, who yearns to liberate himself from all the strife.

A young female driver tries to get to a professional racing league while dealing with her estranged father and a rival driver.

Flora became involved with Lincoln. She began to feel used by him, after experiencing him shun and shame her in front of his rich contemporaries. She finally refused to sleep with him anymore, which prompted her sudden eviction from the house. When it was found that she was pregnant with Lincoln's child, his rich family paid her to leave Mississippi to avoid scandal, and never come back. Flora took this offer, and planned to go to Memphis, Tennessee. (Wikipedia)

The story centers around Brian Anderson, a soldier who is only out for his own neck, who ends up drawn into taking care of orphans in a nearby orphanage, keeping a promise to a friend who was killed in action. At first, he views the task with a degree of annoyance, then slowly begins to warm up to the orphans, risking his life and his career to protect them. Robert Englund played the role of Tripper. Susan Saint James played a doctor and the love interest to Brian Anderson. (wikipedia)

A young woman tries to keep a positive attitude while battling breast cancer.

Katy McIntosh's husband Bob goes to break up the neighbor's sons' wild New Year's Eve party and ends up dead. What at first looks like a heart attack turns out to be much more sinister... her husband was beaten to death, and six kids are the suspects. When the case detective can't get the teens to break their Bond of Silence, Katy goes after the truth herself and is shocked when the community turns against her. (Amazon.com)

The made-for-television Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes recounts the August, 1945 nuclear bombing of Hiroshima through the eyes of a number of survivors, including Japanese soldiers, citizens, and American prisoners of war. The film is partly based on Michihiko Hachiya's Hiroshima Diary. (imdb)

A developmentally challenged young man with a penchant for caring for animals in need sets out to convince his family - and their whole rural community - to participate in a local shelter's inaugural "Adopt a Dog for Christmas Program." (imdb)

"Front of the Class" is based on the true story of Brad Cohen -- played in the movie by Jimmy Wolk -- who, "after being challenged by Tourette's syndrome from a very young age, defies all odds to become a gifted teacher (imdb)

A young wife and mother is convinced by her abusive husband to confess to a murder that he committed. When both are convicted and sent to prison, the woman's older sister tries to win custody of her niece and free her sister from jail. In the process, she must reveal a family secret that has been hidden for 20 years. Inspired by a true story. (TCM.com)

When Lucy Cullins, a successful but cranky producer at a home shopping network, hires an actor named Nick to play Santa Claus on the network she gets more than she bargained for. Nick really is Santa Claus, and he faces mandatory retirement after 200 years on the job. Nick must find his replacement by Christmas Eve or the world will face dire consequences and he has his sights set on Lucy. (imdb)

Rob Lowe stars as Florida prosecutor Jeff Ashton in this riveting, true-life drama based onthe infamous Casey Anthony murder trial that shocked and enraged the American public. (imdb)

Based on the novel by the same name, We Were the Mulvaneys is a sensitive portrayal of one family's journey as they face conflict, fear, tragedy and ultimately, themselves.

Based on the true custody battle in Richmond, Virginia, a grandmother sues her lesbian daughter for custody of her grandson on the grounds her daughter is immoral for living with another woman in a gay relationship.

17-year-old Emily Gold is dead from a gunshot wound to the head. All the evidence points to childhood sweetheart (and neighbour) Chris Hartes. The two families search for answers to the questions slowly destroying their lives. Once the murder trial begins, key evidence (Emily's diary) is withheld and as malice builds, the families grow further apart. Chris is the only one to know the truth, but can he bring himself to reveal the secret?

Four friends graduate in the year 1970, the start of a new decade. (imdb)

Old-school U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens is reassigned from Miami to his childhood home in the poor, rural coal-mining towns in Eastern Kentucky. (imdb)

A tenacious young engineer falls in love with a centerfold model he sees on TV and embarks on a romantic adventure to win a bet with his friends to find, romance and marry her. (imdb)

Cat, a fugitive from a parallel Earth ruled by aliens, lands on "our" Earth on a freeway, causing an accident. Slightly injured, she wakes up in a hospital, where Dr. Thomas takes care of her. The following day, Dr. Thomas finds Cat's hospital room vacant and all records wiped out. He discovers that the FBI is investigating Cat's origin, because she has brought several strange artefacts. Wanting to help, Thomas follows her, all the while trying to understand her motives. (imdb)

Carrie Wells, a former police detective, has a rare ability to remember virtually everything she experiences including detailed visual recall. She returns to police work and uses her ability to solve crimes. (imdb)

A Louisiana juke joint owner loses her star entertainer and hires a white singer to fill in.

A suspiciously magical Christmas Eve snowstorm blows some small miracles into the lives of people around the country. The five distinct stories are unconnected, but each unique story shows the profound way in which people's lives are affected by the strange weather anomaly, or as some may call it, the divine miracle.

Young Christopher fantasizes about being a squire of the Round Table but he gets cancer. He writes a fictional story with characters from the people around him: Squire Millard goes on a quest against an evil sorceress to gain the four diamonds of Courage, Wisdom, Honesty, and Strength: qualities that Chris himself attains as his health fails. (imdb)

Gritty drama of three interweaving stories of three women of various backgrounds and ages whose marriages are complicated by spouse abuse by their husbands.