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1. Different (1999 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama
Different is the story of a woman with a traumatic brain injury, (Annabeth Gish), and her mentally challenged husband, who have a child of normal intelligence, and how the larger family ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Cecilley Carroll, Ben Siegler, Nigel Bennett, Annabeth Gish
Votes: 142
2. A Wing and a Prayer (1998 TV Movie)
93 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
An air-traffic controller (Claudia Christian) faces the challenge of her career when she is forced to guide a disabled airplane to safety, unaware that her husband is aboard.
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Claudia Christian, Jeff Yagher, Jessica Tuck, Christopher Cousins
Votes: 146
3. Nobody Lives Forever (1998 TV Movie)
100 min | Crime, Drama
A homicide detective finds himself in an uneasy triangle with his fiancée and a female partner.
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Greg Evigan, Brenda Bakke, Alexandra Powers, Kevin Dobson
Votes: 79
4. A Match Made in Heaven (1997 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 120 min | Drama, Romance
Helen is a widow who had cancer. Jane is a dedicated nurse that Helen meets. Helen decides that Jane is the one to marry her son.
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Olympia Dukakis, John Stamos, Della Reese, Kelly Rowan
Votes: 304
5. Message from Nam (1993 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 175 min | Drama, Romance
Journalism Major Paxton Andrews loses the man she loves in the Vietnam War. Always having followed the beat of a different drum, she decides to work out her grief by going to Vietnam and ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Jenny Robertson, Nick Mancuso, Ed Flanders, Ted Marcoux
Votes: 370
6. Bloodlines: Murder in the Family (1993 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 192 min | Drama
The aftermath of the notorious "Ninja Murders," aka "The Yom Kippur Murders" is dramatized by following Melody Woodman (Mimi Rogers). Her husband Stewart Woodman (Elliot Gould) is convicted... See full synopsis »
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Mimi Rogers, Elliott Gould, Clancy Brown, Kim Hunter
Votes: 153
7. Trial: The Price of Passion (1992 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 182 min | Drama, Thriller
Down-on-his-luck lawyer Warren Blackburn defends wealthy Texan Johnnie Faye Boudreau, who is accused of murdering her husband.
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Peter Strauss, Beverly D'Angelo, Ned Beatty, Laila Robins
Votes: 65
8. Guilty Until Proven Innocent (1991 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 93 min | Drama
Bobby McLoughlin is the adopted child of Harold and Mary Hohne. He's a problem child, so when he is accused of a murder he didn't commit, he is soon recognized guilty. After a moment of ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Martin Sheen, Caroline Kava, James Handy, Rebecca Schull
Votes: 418
9. White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd (1991 TV Movie)
PG | 94 min | Drama
Based on the book "Hot Toddy" by Andy Edmunds, this made-for-TV movie revolves around the mysterious death of 1930s movie star Thelma Todd (Loni Anderson).
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Loni Anderson, Maryedith Burrell, Robert Davi, Paul Dooley
Votes: 187
10. The Chase (1991 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 93 min | Crime, Drama
In Denver, a fleeing bank robber kills a cop and kidnaps an old man to hold as a hostage. He is chased by the police and a news helicopter, which films the entire incident. Based on a true story.
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Casey Siemaszko, Ben Johnson, Gerry Bamman, Robert Beltran
Votes: 190
11. Blind Faith (1990)
190 min | Thriller
A wealthy businessman is accused of murdering his wife to collect insurance money to pay gambling debts. Although his three sons initially believe his innocence, his actions and court evidence soon begin to prove otherwise.
Stars: Robert Urich, Joanna Kerns, David Barry Gray, Jay Underwood
Votes: 398
12. Good Cops, Bad Cops (1990 TV Movie)
95 min | Crime, Drama
Fact-based story about a rogue Boston police officer who plotted a bank heist.
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Ray Sharkey, Steve Railsback, James Keach, Franc Luz
Votes: 142
13.
Blind Faith (1990)
Episode:
Episode #1.1
(1990)
120 min | Thriller
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Robert Urich, Joanna Kerns, David Barry Gray, Jay Underwood
14.
Blind Faith (1990)
Episode:
Episode #1.2
(1990)
TV-14 | 120 min | Thriller
The FFT crew recaps the Thursday Night Football matchup between the Eagles and Packers. They also break down the latest news surrounding a few top fantasy options and unpack their top games to target in DFS for Week 4.
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Robert Urich, Joanna Kerns, David Barry Gray, Jay Underwood
15. Cross Fire (1989 TV Movie)
R | 200 min | Biography, Drama
Story of the rise and fall of 1920s' Ku Klux Klan leader D.C. Stephenson.
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: John Heard, Mel Harris, David Morse, George Dzundza
Votes: 333
16. From the Dead of Night (1989 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 192 min | Thriller
After having a near death experience Joanna finds her life in constant danger. She begins to believe that certain forces are trying to bring her back into the world of the dead. Her ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Lindsay Wagner, Bruce Boxleitner, Robin Thomas, Robert Prosky
Votes: 293
17. The Great Escape II: The Untold Story (1988 TV Movie)
R | 178 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Allied prisoners tunnel out of a stalag, then return to avenge fellow escapees executed by the Nazis.
Directors: Jud Taylor, Paul Wendkos | Stars: Christopher Reeve, Judd Hirsch, Tony Denison, Charles Haid
Votes: 601
18. The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story (1988 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
This made-for-television film documents the takeover of the TWA airliner in flight from Athens to Rome in 1985. The focus is on the flight attendant, Uli Derickson, whose courage and hope ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Lindsay Wagner, Eli Danker, Sandy McPeak, Ray Wise
Votes: 383
19. Blood Vows: The Story of a Mafia Wife (1987 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 93 min | Crime, Drama
Fashion designer Marian falls in love and marries attorney Edward. Her idyllic romance and marriage are shattered when she learns that Edward is the son of a powerful and feared mafia family.
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Melissa Gilbert, Joe Penny, Eileen Brennan, Anthony Franciosa
Votes: 411
20. Six Against the Rock (1987 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 96 min | Action, Crime, Drama
In May of 1946, Alcatraz inmate Bernie Coy initiates a carefully thought out plan to escape the island prison. His plan, carried out with five accomplices, falls apart when they can't obtain a key to unlock a door leading to the yard.
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: David Carradine, Richard Dysart, Dennis Farina, Charles Haid
Votes: 258
21. Right to Die (1987 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
A successful woman's life is irrevocably changed when she is diagnosed with A.L.S. and ultimately finds her living situation impossible to endure.
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Raquel Welch, Michael Gross, Bonnie Bartlett, Peter Michael Goetz
Votes: 106
22. Sister Margaret and the Saturday Night Ladies (1987 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama, Family, Musical
A catholic nun tries hard to protect and integrate in society a number of young women with a past in reform schools or even prisons. Lack of funds, troublemakers in the group, outside ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Bonnie Franklin, Jeannetta Arnette, Trazana Beverley, Jon Chardiet
Votes: 18
23. Rage of Angels: The Story Continues (1986 TV Movie)
190 min | Drama
When mobster James Moretti (Michael Nouri) is about to be indicted, one of his people thinks he can get to Adam J. Warner (Ken Howard), the Vice President to stop it. So he arranges for ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Jaclyn Smith, Ken Howard, Michael Nouri, Susan Sullivan
Votes: 143
24. The Bad Seed (1985 TV Movie)
Unrated | 100 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A freak fatal accident forces a widow to realize that her 9-year-old daughter was born to kill.
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Blair Brown, Lynn Redgrave, David Carradine, Carrie Wells
Votes: 533
25. The Execution (1985 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
The members of a San Diego Wednesday night womens' mah jongg club are five survivors of a Nazi concentration camp. They recognize the owner of a local restaurant, Walter Grossman, as a ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Loretta Swit, Rip Torn, Jessica Walter, Barbara Barrie
Votes: 191
26. Picking Up the Pieces (1985 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
A sheltered wife (Margot Kidder) of a surgeon (David Ackroyd) suddenly finds herself thrust into the middle of a messy divorce.
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Margot Kidder, David Ackroyd, Ari Meyers, Barbara Rhoades
Votes: 47
27. Celebrity (1984)
313 min | Drama
Follows life of three friends, TJ, Mack and Kleber. When they were young, something happened would haunt them for rest of their lives and they would each achieve notoriety in their own way.
Stars: Ned Beatty, Claude Akins, Dinah Manoff, Debbie Allen
Votes: 269
28. Scorned and Swindled (1984 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama
A man seduces women to get their money. He has plenty of success, but this time he has met his match.
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Tuesday Weld, Keith Carradine, Peter Coyote, Sheree North
Votes: 73
29.
Celebrity (1984)
Episode:
Part 1
(1984)
Drama
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Michael Beck, Joseph Bottoms, Ben Masters, James Whitmore
Votes: 54
30.
Celebrity (1984)
Episode:
Part 3
(1984)
Drama
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Michael Beck, Joseph Bottoms, Ben Masters, James Whitmore
Votes: 58
31.
Celebrity (1984)
Episode:
Part 2
(1984)
Drama
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Claude Akins, Debbie Allen, Benjamin Leighton Armstrong, Mary Armstrong
Votes: 7
32. Cocaine: One Man's Seduction (1983 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama
A real-estate salesman with career and marriage problems gets hooked on cocaine and finds that not only does it not help him cope, but it makes those problems much, much worse.
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Dennis Weaver, Karen Grassle, Pamela Bellwood, James Spader
Votes: 539
33. Boone (1983–1984)
60 min | Drama
In 1953, Boone Sawyer dreams of becoming a country music star, but his father has other ideas for his future.
Stars: Thomas Byrd, Greg Webb, Elizabeth Huddle Nyberg, Katherine Moffat
Votes: 54
34. Intimate Agony (1983 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama
Doctor Kyle Richards takes a job managing an office in the Hamptons where herpes runs rampant. He is frustrated by the community's denial and decides to go public with the epidemic to raise public awareness about the problem.
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Anthony Geary, Judith Light, Mark Harmon, Arthur Hill
Votes: 184
35. The Awakening of Candra (1983 TV Movie)
Unrated | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Based on the true-life story of teenage bride Candra Torres who was abducted in 1975 while on a honeymoon camping trip in the High Sierras.
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Blanche Baker, Cliff De Young, Richard Jaeckel, Jeffrey Tambor
Votes: 73
36.
Boone (1983–1984)
Episode:
The Decision
(1983)
Drama
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Thomas Byrd, Greg Webb, Elizabeth Huddle Nyberg, Katherine Moffat
37. Farrell for the People (1982 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
Liz Farrell is dedicated and honorable and compassionate assistant district attorney. Presently, she has two cases, one a rape of a young girl, and she is up against an attorney, who is ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Valerie Harper, Ed O'Neill, Gregory Sierra, Judith Chapman
Votes: 53
38. Golden Gate (1981 TV Movie)
98 min | Drama
A venerable San Francisco publishing family becomes embroiled in a bitter power struggle between the iron-fisted but ailing patriarch's son and a ruthless businessman who attempts a takeover.
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Perry King, Jean Simmons, Richard Kiley, Robyn Douglass
Votes: 36
39. The Five of Me (1981 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama
A man was abused by his father and developed distinct multiple personalities to deal with the abuse. He didn't know he had different people taking over his body. He found out and had to deal with it.
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: David Birney, Dee Wallace, Mitchell Ryan, John McLiam
Votes: 65
40. The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd (1980 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 145 min | Biography, Drama, History
Country doctor Samuel Mudd is unfairly punished by the U.S. Government after he unwisely shelters a wounded John Wilkes Booth during the night after Abraham Lincoln's assassination.
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Dennis Weaver, Susan Sullivan, Richard Dysart, Michael McGuire
Votes: 181
41. Hagen (1980–1981)
60 min | Drama, Crime
An outdoorsman and a city-bred lawyer team up to fight crime in San Francisco.
Stars: Chad Everett, Arthur Hill, Anne Baxter, Pamela Bellwood
Votes: 35
42. A Cry for Love (1980 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
Divorcee Susan Blakely, with no alimony and two kids to support, begins turning to amphetamines. While at her lowest ebb, she meets an alcoholic and three-time loser in marriage--who, incredibly, turns out to be the ideal man!
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Susan Blakely, Powers Boothe, Charles Siebert, Herb Edelman
Votes: 80
43.
Hagen (1980–1981)
Episode:
Hagen (Pilot)
(1980)
60 min | Drama, Crime
After Paul Hagen learns a good friend is killed in San Francisco, he leaves Idaho to investigate. But California authorities aee suspicious and begin to suspect Hagen of committing the murder forcing Hagen to clear himself.
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Chad Everett, Arthur Hill, Phillip R. Allen, Eric Braeden
44. The Ordeal of Patty Hearst (1979 TV Movie)
139 min | Drama
The story of the kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst by members of a radical guerilla organization, as seen by the F.B.I. Agent in charge of her case.
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Dennis Weaver, Lisa Eilbacher, David Haskell, Stephen Elliott
Votes: 111
45. Act of Violence (1979 TV Movie)
100 min | Crime, Drama
Divorced career woman's life changes when she is beaten and robbed by a street gang.
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Elizabeth Montgomery, James Sloyan, Sean Frye, Roy Poole
Votes: 123
46. A Woman Called Moses (1978)
240 min | Biography, Drama
A film about the life and career of the African American abolitionist and slave escape leader, Harriet Tubman.
Stars: Cicely Tyson, Jason Bernard, Clifford David, Judyann Elder
Votes: 415
47. Betrayal (1978 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama
A woman accuses her psychiatrist for having forced her to maintain a sexual relationship with him as a therapy. The following examination of the case is very difficult for the police.
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Lesley Ann Warren, Rip Torn, Richard Masur, Ron Silver
Votes: 60
48.
A Woman Called Moses (1978)
Episode:
Episode #1.1
(1978)
120 min | Biography, Drama
Harriet's difficult days as a slave, putting it mildly,
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Cicely Tyson, Jason Bernard, Clifford David, Judyann Elder
Votes: 15
49.
A Woman Called Moses (1978)
Episode:
Episode #1.2
(1978)
120 min | Biography, Drama
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Cicely Tyson, Jason Bernard, Clifford David, Judyann Elder
Votes: 11
50. Harold Robbins' 79 Park Avenue (1977)
360 min | Drama
A poor New York teenager of the mid-1930 is forced into prostitution despite sincere efforts to make a living and ultimately becomes the city's most famous madam.
Stars: Lesley Ann Warren, David Dukes, Polly Bergen, Michael Constantine
Votes: 230