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Spider-Man(1978)

3.0/5 (with 54 votes)

When an extortionist threatens to force a multi-suicide unless a huge ransom is paid, only Peter Parker can stop him with his new powers as Spider-Man.

V.H.S.(2023)

13min | Documentary

An unpicked pilot for a web-series, Pavel Grinyov explains the VHS culture of late USSR and post-Soviet nineties and the phenomenon of voiceover translation. Main example provided is a voiceover translation of Back to the Future (1985) by Vasiliy Gorchakov.

Get Christie Love!(1974)

2.8/5 (with 5 votes)

Get Christie Love! is a 1974 made-for-television film starring Teresa Graves as an undercover female police detective who is determined to overthrow a drug ring. This film is based on Dorothy Uhnak's crime-thriller novel, The Ledger.

Hunter × Hunter Pilot(1998)

4.6/5 (with 15 votes)

The stand-alone pilot OVA which was shown as part of the "Jump Super Anime Tour" of 1998. Shortly before the TV series, a summary is presented of the story of Gon who wants to become a hunter and the friends he makes in the process.

House on Greenapple Road(1970)

1h 53min | Crime, Mystery, TV Movie
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

A promiscuous housewife has been murdered and hardboiled detective Dan August has to find the motive...and the body.

Directed by Robert Day

Come and Learn with Pibby!(2021)

2.6/5 (with 9 votes)

Pibby is ripped out of her safe, preschool world and thrown into unknøwn lands. She has to grow up, ????LEARN????, and become a b∆dass to stop the cartoon A₱⊙C⋀L¥⍴$∑//////////////////////.

Powderkeg(1971)

1h 33min | Action, Adventure, Western
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A Mexican bandit is about to be executed in the United States, so his brother takes over a train and holds the passengers as hostages unless his brother is released. Now both the Americans and Mexicans are baffled as to what to do. One of the passengers — who wrote the letter for their captor — has a suggestion: call mercenaries Hank Brackett and Johnny Reech. They do, and as expected they do come up with a plan, but the president of the railroad is not sure if it will work.

Zombies and Cheerleaders(2019)

1h 18min | Music

Zed moves to a new school where a cheerleader falls in love with him - but the thing is, Zed is a zombie and needs to learn how to control himself to keep this relationship going.

Starsky and Hutch(1975)

1h 10min | Action, Crime, Drama
3.5/5 (with 3 votes)

A young couple in a car exactly like Starsky's is killed by hitmen and word is out on the street that there's a contract out on Starsky and Hutch. This is a TV-pilot that was an ABC Movie of the Week and later turned into the TV-series.

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

The Quest(1976)

1h 33min | TV Movie, Western
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Eight years ago, Cheyenne Indians attacked the Baudine Family wagon and captured Morgan (Kurt Russell), whom they renamed Two Persons. Now Two Persons, raised in the ways of the Indians, has been reunited with his brother Quentin (Tim Matheson), a doctor and a stranger to frontier ways. Together the brothers set out in search of their sister Patricia, who was also captured and who Two Persons believes is still alive.

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.

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The After(2014)

3.4/5 (with 15 votes)

Eight strangers are thrown together by mysterious forces and must help each other survive in a violent world that defies explanation.

Directed by Chris Carter

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.

My Friend Pancake(2018)

5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Hazel and her cowardly ten-foot-tall cat, Pancake, try to befriend a giant chicken causing chaos in their magical forest.

The Rookies(1972)

1h 13min | Crime, Drama, TV Movie
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Three new officers in a large metropolitan police department adjust to their new jobs and way of life. This is another TV-pilot that was first aired as an ABC Movie of the Week before becoming a TV-series.

The Lazarus Syndrome(1978)

1h 13min | TV Movie, Drama, Thriller
2.8/5 (with 2 votes)

An adulterous newspaper reporter, who has just experienced a heart attack, pesters a doctor into investigating the questionable medical practices taking place at the hospital where both are residing.

Directed by Jerry Thorpe

Nurse(1980)

1h 45min | Drama, TV Movie

Michael Learned plays Mary Benjamin, a recently widowed woman who, confronted with her son's departure for college, decides to resume her career as a head nurse in a Manhattan hospital in this pilot movie for the short-lived TV series.

American Dad!: The New CIA(2005)

PG-13
| 3min | Animation, Comedy
3.8/5 (with 8 votes)

The American Dad! short film; which precedes before the theatrical run of the 2005 feature Fever Pitch; is about Stan Smith touring his work days in the CIA and his "normal" every day life.

The Young Lawyers(1969)

1h 14min | Drama, TV Movie

Attorney Michael Cannon leaves his Boston law firm to become director of the Neighborhood Law Office, where he guides three law students on a case involving two visiting musicians accused of robbing and beating up a cab driver. TV-pilot that was an ABC Movie of the Week in October of 1969 and then became a TV-series as part of the 1970-71 season.

Marcus Welby, M.D.(1969)

The pilot film for the long-run series introduced the kindly small-town general practitioner who, following a mild coronary, grudgingly brings in an independent, motorcycling young associate to help share his workload. Welby's lady friend and his family, part of the plot of this movie, were written out of the subsequent series, with only his medical sidekick, Steven Kiley, and their secretary/nurse, Consuelo, remaining as regulars.

Psyko Ferret(2000)

Jackie and Jill swill have an unusual pet called a "psyko ferret"; a unidentified species of weasel,. Together they try to keep it secret.

Paper Dolls(1982)

1h 40min | Drama, TV Movie

Pilot for the TV series introduces the mothers of teenage fashion models who market their daughters for a powerful agent.

Incident on a Dark Street(1973)

1h 36min | Crime, Drama, TV Movie
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A small-time hood is murdered just as he is about to blow the whistle on an organized crime ring.

Bad Sugar(2012)

40min | Comedy

A dysfunctional, wealthy mining dynasty, with an ailing patriarch and some greedy siblings. A peculiarly British take on telenovela style melodramas, played for laughs.

Infinity Train(2016)

4.3/5 (with 12 votes)

In this non-canon pilot to the animated series 'Infinity Train', Tulip must learn to set her personal interests aside to make her way through a mysterious train and help the king of all corgis save his people.

Bellefond(2022)

1h 30min | Crime, TV Movie
3.7/5 (with 2 votes)

Nicknamed "Condamnator", Antoine Bellefond is a great prosecutor who does not spare the criminals who cross his path. Until one of them, innocent, commits suicide in court. Shocked, Bellefond decides to put his career on hold - But his niece, whom he has not seen for years, calls him for help: her father, Antoine's brother-in-law, has been arrested for murder and refuses to defend himself even though she is convinced of his innocence. Bellefond returns to his native village, accompanied by three of his best students, to unravel the mystery, reconnect with his past and reconcile with his family.

Fame Is the Name of the Game(1966)

1h 40min | Drama, Crime, TV Movie
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A brash, big-time investigative reporter, looking into the death of a call girl, uncovers her diary and tries to find her killer among the names contained in it.

Very Important House(2016)

11-year-old Frolie moves into the Very Important House and suddenly finds herself in the role of caretaker of the universe.

Sailor Moon(1994)

When Queen Beryl interrupts the marriage between Sailor Moon and Prince Darien, the Princess Warriors move to Earth to protect the Jewels of Power.

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