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Dr. Strange(1978)

3.1/5 (with 40 votes)

A psychiatrist becomes the new Sorcerer Supreme of the Earth in order to battle an evil Sorceress from the past.

X-Men: Pryde of the X-Men(1989)

3.3/5 (with 19 votes)

Pryde of the X-Men was a short-lived series about the X-Men, with the main character being Kitty Pryde (whose alias is Shadow Cat, though she never becomes Shadow Cat in the series), which is why the series is titled Pryde of the X-Men. The show was produced by Marvel Productions and Sunbow Productions, who made a pilot for NBC. The pilot aired, but for unknown reasons, it was never turned into a full-blown series. Despite it not becoming a full series, the pilot has aired in syndication, and was later released on video.

Delirium(2014)

3.1/5 (with 46 votes)

Set in a world where love is deemed illegal and can be eradicated with a special procedure. With 95 days to go until her scheduled treatment, Lena Holoway does the unthinkable, she falls in love.

Bates Motel(1987)

1h 35min | Horror, Comedy, Drama, TV Movie
2.2/5 (with 21 votes)

Alex West is a man who roomed with Norman Bates at the state lunatic asylum for nearly 20 years. After Bates' death, Alex finds that he is in Norman's will as the inheritor of the Bates Motel, which has been vacant since Norman's arrest. Alex travels to Bates' California hometown and with a little help from a teenage runaway, Willie, Alex struggles to re-open the motel for business, only to have strange things happen. Is someone trying to drive him away, or is the motel really haunted by the ghost of Norman's mother?

The Amazing Screw-On Head(2006)

3.5/5 (with 18 votes)

Based on the award-winning comic book by Mike Mignola (creator of Hellboy), The Amazing Screw-On Head chronicles the adventures of a Civil War-era secret agent with an extraordinary special power who serves under president Abraham Lincoln.

Awesometown(2005)

20min | Comedy
3.7/5 (with 6 votes)

In May, 2005, The Dudes were hired to create a pilot for Fox.

The Norliss Tapes(1973)

1h 12min | Horror, TV Movie, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 8 votes)

A newspaper publisher listens to the personal tapes of investigative reporter David Norliss, who has disappeared during an investigation. The tapes tell the story of that investigation, involving a recent widow whose late husband has been seen working in his private studio. As Norliss and the widow investigate, they unravel a plot involving Voodoo and the walking dead.

The Stranger(1973)

1.9/5 (with 7 votes)

In this unsold TV pilot, an astronaut enters a vortex and crash-lands on a parallel planet where he's not welcome.

Condor(1986)

2.6/5 (with 3 votes)

In futuristic Los Angeles, a crime-fighting organization known as Condor goes up against the Black Widow, a female master criminal. The Black Widow steals the national security code and threatens to blow up Hollywood unless her old enemy, Proctor, a Condor operative, is turned over to her.

Everstar(2015)

22min | Animation

When Ainslie Wickett accidentally receives an intergalactic SOS from a lighthouse in Maine, she and her best friend are brought aboard a rogue spaceship called the Everstar. After defending the ship from pirates, Ainslie unwittingly embarks on a journey across the universe where she and her crew encounter alien civilizations, uncover the mysteries of the Everstar, and search for a way back to Earth.

The Modifyers(2007)

12min | Action, Animation
3.4/5 (with 3 votes)

The Modifyers is an animated short created by Chris Reccardi and Lynne Naylor intended as a pilot for Nickelodeon. The short is about Agent Xero who is sent out to recover the All Seeing Eye which has been stolen from the Museum of Odd Stuff by Rat, the cohort of the evil Baron Vain. Along his way back to Baron Vain, Rat is met by Lacey Shadows who attempts to recover the eye instead of Rat for the Baron. The two fight over who is able to return the artifact and ultimately it is revealed that Lacey is actually Agent Xero in disguise. After she is revealed, she foils the Baron's plans and Xero and her sidekick Katz return the eye.

Confessions of an American Bride(2007)

3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

Young career woman Samantha 'Sam' Hoyt gets swept off her feet by Benjamin 'Ben' Rosen, who romances her better then anyone before, so she jumps at the offer of becoming his fiancée. If Ben thought a girls typical obsession with the perfect wedding was testing, she soon proves a particularly bad case, and before he gets used to that meeting each-others parents complicates things gravely, as Jewish and church wedding traditions don't exactly mix easily. They take their time preparing while living together. Then fate strikes again: the key man from the client of her firms advertising campaign is Luke Stinson, the perfect gay at college whom she could never date because of a rather serious fall just when they could have kissed. Luke proves still as irresistible, gorgeous, charming, easy-going and simply too sexy for any female not to lust for at first sight, and...

Directed by Douglas Barr
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Savage(1973)

1h 13min | Drama, Thriller, TV Movie
3.3/5 (with 2 votes)

A TV reporter investigates compromising photographs of a nominee to the Supreme Court.

Nick Knight(1989)

1h 32min | Crime, Drama, Horror, TV Movie
3.3/5 (with 5 votes)

Detective Nick Knight is investigating a series of murders in which the bodies are found drained of blood - but the most recent one doesn't fit the pattern. Instead it involves the cure that Nick has been searching for for decades, so that he himself can face the light of day. Later remade as the first two episodes of Forever Knight.

Directed by Farhad Mann - With Rick Springfield

A Kitty Bobo Show(2001)

5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Kitty Bobo tries to prove his coolness to his friends Paul Dog, Monkey Carl and Maggie by showing off his new cell phone. He fails to do this.

Velvet(1984)

1h 40min | Action, Drama, TV Movie
0.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A female team of government agents, under the guise of owners of a popular worldwide franchise of aerobic centers, matches wits with a group of criminals who have kidnapped a top defense specialist and his ailing son, intending to sell him to the highest bidder.

The Robinsons: Lost in Space(2004)

2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

In the year 2082, the Earth was invaded by aliens after it was long determine that existence of extra terrestrials was long thought to be science fiction. Major cities crumbled from the destruction of the beings from beyond the stars. The invasion came to a halt when Earth's own armed forces led by Col. John Robinson fought off the invaders and thus Earth won the battle which came to be known as "Robinson's Raid". 15 years have passed by and John Robinson attends a ceremony for his retirement from his services in defending the Earth from alien threat. This disfunctional family is one of the fewest families chosen to be part of the space program that is heading for a planet called Nova which will become occupied with a new farming colony.

Doctors' Private Lives(1978)

1h 40min | TV Movie, Drama

Two heart surgeons clash over personal issues and medical ethics in a big-city hospital.

Baffled!(1972)

2.4/5 (with 7 votes)

Tom Kovack is a hard-nosed race car driver until a sudden supernatural vision causes a near-fatal crash while he's hurtling down the backstretch at 140 miles per hour. Michele Brent is the woman who convinces Kovack that his visions are significant. She leads him to the manor house that appeared in his vision, which in turn leads him into a world of revenge and murder from beyond the grave. Kovack must tap into his newfound power to conquer the evil forces at work.

Our Time(2023)

After failing to make it in New York and carrying a heavy secret with her, Stella Cooper returns to her distressed automotive hometown to substitute teach. She finds inspiration, hope, and ultimately salvation when she agrees to help three students who are pursuing their filmmaking dreams by putting on an impossibly ambitious shot-for-shot remake of one of the student’s favorite movie – The Goonies.

Korgoth of Barbaria(2006)

4.2/5 (with 12 votes)

In a dark future wasteland, the great cities have risen and fallen, primordial beasts have reclaimed the wilderness and thieves and savages populate sparse, dirty towns. From the frozen north emerges a warrior known as Korgoth, and his merciless savagery may be his only key to survival.

Directed by Genndy Tartakovsky

Venice Medical(1983)

30min | TV Movie, Comedy

TV pilot for series centered around a beachfront clinic in the community of Venice, California.

Directed by Hy Averback

Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You(1971)

1h 35min | Mystery, Crime, TV Movie

Detective Ellery Queen has to solve a series of murders where the victims were killed in numerically descending ages, the male victims were strangled with blue cords and the female victims with pink ones.

Directed by Barry Shear - With Peter Lawford

Poor Devil(1973)

1h 13min | Comedy, Fantasy, TV Movie
2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

A young, down-on-his-luck resident of hell is given a chance to redeem himself by signing up a down-on-his-luck retail accountant to sell his soul to Lucifer.

Directed by Robert Scheerer - With Sammy Davis Jr.

Exo-Man(1977)

2.1/5 (with 2 votes)

A professor, who has been paralyzed in an attack by mob hitmen, builds a suit that enables him to walk and fight crime.

Directed by Richard Irving - With David Ackroyd

Shadow on the Land(1968)

5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Patriotic freedom fighters struggle against a fascist dictatorship in a near-future USA.

Amanda Fallon(1973)

A dedicated family doctor tries to help a pregnant teen-ager.

Directed by Jack Laird - With Jane Wyman

American Adventure(2000)

8min | Comedy
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Aka National Lampoon's American Adventure.

Directed by Troy Miller

Dark Minions(2013)

2.9/5 (with 4 votes)

Two slackers try to make a paycheck working an intergalactic warship.

Fear No Evil(1969)

3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

A psychiatrist specializing in the occult becomes involved in the case of a man who is possessed by a spirit in an antique mirror. The man's fiance discovers that the mirror is able to bring back her former boyfriend, who had been killed in a car accident, from the dead.

Directed by Paul Wendkos - With Louis Jourdan
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