CBS Sunday Movie (1985-1986)
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- DirectorVolker SchlöndorffStarsDustin HoffmanKate ReidJohn MalkovichAn aging traveling salesman recognizes the emptiness of his life and tries to fix it.
- DirectorMichael TuchnerStarsKirk DouglasElizabeth MontgomeryDorothy McGuireAfter losing his wife and home in an accident, Amos Lasher ends up in the care of the state, specifically the Sunset Nursing Home. The head nurse of Sunset, Daisy Daws, rules the cowed residents with an iron hand, but as his determination to get out of Sunset grows, the more sinister his situation becomes.
- DirectorBuzz KulikStarsPeter StraussSam NeillRon Silver
- DirectorRichard MichaelsStarsValerie BertinelliRachel TicotinJason AlexanderA distraught mother (Valerie Bertinelli) and a tabloid reporter (Rachel Ticotin) search for the woman's son, who was kidnapped by a black-market baby ring.
- DirectorJoseph SargentStarsBruce BoxleitnerBarbara HersheyNicol WilliamsonThe movers and shakers in Singapore get involved in behind-the-scenes political and business activities, romantic entanglements, and murder. Nicol Williamson plays the wealthiest man in Southeast Asia. Barbara Hershey is his married antagonistic daughter who starts an affair with an ambitious American banker (Bruce Boxleitner) and who also seems to have the attention of her father. John Waters plays Hershey's totally despicable husband.
- DirectorDouglas HickoxStarsJoan CollinsJean-Pierre AumontMarisa BerensonHélène Junot, a successful woman of action, leaves Paris for New York to face the failure of "Femmes modernes", the new magazine she had launched with her brother Edmond. Arriving in her empire, the "Junot Tower", erected in the middle of Manhattan, she confronts from the very first minutes the banker Gore, accompanied by his wife Jacqueline, Marcello Ditri, her former collaborator in Italy, whom she fired. Not to mention David Westerfield, whom she has loved for 20 years but who could not marry her because of his reputation, or the beautiful Z.Z., whose husband was her lover.
- DirectorGilbert CatesStarsLindsay WagnerPeter CoyoteTaliesin JaffeA social worker (Lindsay Wagner) starts to work with a shy, withdrawn 6-year-old (Taliesin Jaffe) whom she suspects is a sexual-abuse victim.
- DirectorJerrold FreedmanStarsRobert MitchumWilford BrimleyKathleen YorkA hardened con (Robert Mitchum) being transferred from a federal penitentiary to a Texas institution to finish a life sentence as a habitual criminal is freed at gunpoint by his niece (Kathleen York). The cop (Wilford Brimley), who was transferring him and has been the con's adversary for over 30 years, vows to catch the twosome.
- DirectorJerry ThorpeStarsKris KristoffersonJane AlexanderSean YoungHester Murdoch is found naked and nearly beaten to death by four young Hawaiian men on the beach and taken to the hospital. Some of the men didn't want to get involved, fearing they might be blamed, because she was white, but do so anyway. Almost immediately everyone suspects they are to blame. When Hester's politically influential mother Doris finds out what really happened, she fearing a scandal, forces her daughter to blame the men who rescued her, of raping and beating her. It's up to detective Curt Maddox, to find out what really happened, and their Hawaiian lawyer to do the impossible. Convince a white court of law, that they are innocent.
- DirectorWalter GraumanStarsRobert PrestonBeau BridgesBurgess MeredithAfter a technicality results in the release of a man being tried for the rape and murder of a young woman, her father murders the man. Admitting his guilt and refusing to use temporary insanity, the father places his attorney in a virtual no-win situation. In an extreme effort, the attorney decides to call the judge who released the murderer originally and to challenge the entire legal system that would permit such a travesty.
- DirectorRod HolcombStarsTim MathesonMimi KuzykPhilip Charles MacKenzieAn innocent man is identified as a rapist, and the accusation ruins his life.
- DirectorLarry ElikannStarsDavid Marshall GrantDale MidkiffMolly HaganDigger Barnes is furious when his friend Jock Ewing starts dating the love of his life Ellie Southworth. He is also convinced that Jock has cheated him out of his share in their oil fields. And so begins the decades long Barnes-Ewing feud.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsKatharine HepburnHarold GouldBibi BeschKatharine Hepburn as Mrs. Delafield, a widow who falls in love with her Jewish doctor - to her and his children's objection.
- DirectorLee GrantStarsMarlo ThomasRay BakerCaroline KavaMarie Balter falls in love, goes to college, and joins society after 20 years in a mental institution.
- DirectorJohn KortyStarsJohn LithgowRichard BradfordMorgan FreemanThe mysterious death of an army officer comes under investigation by Major Kendall Laird as the young soldier's parents seek an honorable burial place, out of respect for their son. The parents are assisted by their neighbor, Mrs. McAlister, in their patriotic and racially divided community.
- 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.
- DirectorMichael TuchnerStarsMarsha MasonKiefer SutherlandJohn MahoneyA pschologist tries hard to get through to kid who can talk - but won't.
- DirectorTed PostStarsWillie NelsonKris KristoffersonJohnny CashIn 1880, a motley group of passengers takes the stagecoach from Tonto, Arizona to Lordsburg, New Mexico via dangerous Apache territory.