TrueTvMovies - Pending For Wants List
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1. The Man Who Might Have Been: An Inquiry Into the Life and Death of Herbert Norman (1999)
98 min
On April 4, 1957, Herbert Norman, the Canadian ambassador to Egypt, leapt to his death from a Cairo rooftop. During his remarkable life, Norman helped set the course of post-war Japan and ... See full summary »
Director: John Kramer | Stars: Greg Ellwand, Kenneth Welsh, Frank Blanch, Derek Curwin
Votes: 16
2. Jack Reed: A Killer Among Us (1996 TV Movie)
96 min | Crime, Drama
Jack Reed is sent to investigate a strange drive-by shooting which doesn't resemble a gang m.o.. The attacks continue, seemingly randomly, but Jack is determined to find out how deep the rabbit hole of violence and corruption really is.
Director: Brian Dennehy | Stars: Brian Dennehy, Kevin Dunn, Charles S. Dutton, Suki Kaiser
Votes: 73
3. Judgment: The Court Martial of the Tiger of Malaya - General Yamashita (1974 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama, History, War
Dramatization of the trial of General Yamashita when he was tried for his actions in the Philippines during World War 2 that resulted in the death of thousands of civilians. And of how the lawyers assigned to defend him tried to.
Directors: Lee Bernhardi, Stanley Kramer | Stars: Philip Ahn, Philip Bruns, William Devane, John Fujioka
Votes: 25
4. Judgment: The Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (1974 TV Movie)
90 min | Biography, Drama, History
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg go from feeding the poor during the Depression to embracing the ideals of Communism. However, after WWII, the USSR is no longer a U.S. ally and the Rosenbergs' political activities become dangerously subversive.
Directors: Lee Bernhardi, Stanley Kramer | Stars: Allan Arbus, Herschel Bernardi, Barbara Colby, George Cooper
Votes: 37
5. West New York (1996)
R | 86 min | Crime, Drama
Tom, an ex-cop who supervises the destruction of old bank bonds at a Jersey City bank, creates a seemingly fool proof scheme to skim some of the bonds prior to their destruction.
Director: Phil Gallo | Stars: Frank Vincent, Gian DiDonna, Gloria Darpino, Brian McCormack
Votes: 87
6. A Line in the Sand (2008)
90 min | Drama
A human story unfolds when detectives aggravated by a major bust gone wrong are forced to deal with a tormented man thrown into the cage after urinating on the Mayor's limo. The explosive ... See full summary »
Director: Jeffrey Chernov | Stars: Jon Bernthal, Bruce McGill, Mark Nassar, Charles Malik Whitfield
Votes: 83
7. 8 (2012 TV Movie)
91 min | Drama, History
Live chronicle of the landmark federal trial of California's Prop. 8 using the actual court transcripts and first-hand interviews.
Director: Rob Reiner | Stars: Kevin Bacon, Dustin Lance Black, David Boies, Matt Bomer
Votes: 609
8. Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (2000 TV Movie)
240 min | Biography, Drama
Director: David Burton Morris | Stars: Joanne Whalley, Tim Matheson, Tom Skerritt, Frances Fisher
Votes: 214
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9. Mandela's Gun (2016)
Biography
Set in 1962 MANDELAS GUN is a political thriller, based on Mandelas African Odyssey. As Commander-in-Chief of the Liberation Army Umkhonto we Sizwe (the MK) he undergoes military training ... See full synopsis »
Director: John Irvin | Stars: Tumisho Masha, Khaled Benaïssa, Henok Berihune, Nick Boraine
Votes: 43
10. Billy Lone Bear (1996 Video)
Action
An honest cop named Billy Bear hides from the IRA in an Indian reservation. The problem is, the IRA's assassin is a bad cop. On the reservation, Billy turns the table on the assassin.
Director: Sonny Landham | Stars: Charles Napier, Sonny Landham, Frank Stallone, Brion James
Votes: 38
11. Mafiosa (2016)
89 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Revenge proves a catalyst for Sam, a young woman out to avenge the murder of her parents. Things turn dicey when Sam learns her true identity and her unlikely link to the man she's targeted for death...
Director: Yusaku Mizoguchi | Stars: Katrina Law, Fiona Dourif, Carmen Argenziano, Blake Berris
Votes: 33
12. Ring of Fire (1961)
Approved | 91 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
In the 1960s Oregon, two sheriff deputies arrest three teenagers for robbery but are overpowered and taken hostage while forest fires rage all around them.
Director: Andrew L. Stone | Stars: David Janssen, Joyce Taylor, Frank Gorshin, Joel Marston
Votes: 676
13. The Salton Sea (2016)
87 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A Driver hits someone on a remote desert road -- animal or human, but more importantly did she kill it? In a panic, she drives off instead of checking. A Hitchhiker, a witness, blackmails ... See full summary »
Director: Veena Sud | Stars: Jamie Anne Allman, Diarra Kilpatrick, John Davis Walker
Votes: 31
14. Emperor (2020)
PG-13 | 99 min | Biography, Drama, History
An escaped slave travels north and has chance encounters with Frederick Douglass and John Brown. Based on the life story of Shields Green.
Director: Mark Amin | Stars: Mykelti Williamson, James Cromwell, Bruce Dern, Kat Graham
Votes: 1,539
15. Menendez: Blood Brothers (2017 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 87 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
This film explores the inner lives and motivation behind the murders of entertainment executive Jose Menendez and his wife Kitty at the hands of their sons Lyle and Erik in 1989.
Directors: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato | Stars: Nico Tortorella, Courtney Love, Benito Martinez, Meredith Scott Lynn
Votes: 474
16. Waco (2018)
TV-14 | 49 min | Crime, Drama, History
The FBI and ATF seize religious leader David Koresh's Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas in the spring of 1993.
Stars: Michael Shannon, Taylor Kitsch, Andrea Riseborough, Paul Sparks
Votes: 25,646
17. Serpico (1976–1977)
60 min | Crime, Drama
Frank Serpico was a maverick New York City detective who, after turning in a large number of "bad" cops and later being shot in the face, often went undercover to expose corruption in the ... See full summary »
Stars: David Birney, Tom Atkins, Nick Corello, Richard Foronjy
Votes: 187
18. The Confession Killer (2019)
TV-14 | 48 min | Documentary, Crime
Henry Lee Lucas was known as America's most prolific serial killer, admitting to hundreds of murders, but, as DNA results contradict his confessions, will they expose the biggest criminal justice hoax in U.S. history?
Stars: Bob Prince, Nan Cuba, Hugh Aynesworth, Phil Ryan
Votes: 10,313
19. The Year London Blew Up: 1974 (2005 TV Movie)
102 min | Documentary, Drama
1974-1975 - a year of terrorism across London. Adapted for the screen from the book 'Timebomb.'
Director: Edmund Coulthard | Stars: David Morrissey, Michael Colgan, Chris O'Dowd, Jonjo O'Neill
Votes: 36
20. Cowboys and Indians: The J.J. Harper Story (2003 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
J.J. Harper, a First Nations chief, is gunned down by police constable Robert Cross on his way home one snowy night in downtown Winnipeg.
Director: Norma Bailey | Stars: Adam Beach, Eric Schweig, Currie Graham, Garry Chalk
Votes: 134
21. Blue Bayou (1990 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama
A Los Angeles lawyer (Woodard) has to go to New Orleans for a steamy case involving a troubled teen (Williams).
Director: Karen Arthur | Stars: Michele Adams, Stephen R. Alfred, Elizabeth Ashley, Michael Audley
Votes: 60
22. Hoover vs. the Kennedys: The Second Civil War (1987)
200 min | Drama
This is the story of feud between FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and the Kennedys. It shows how much Hoover hated them and how they tried to stand up to him. From the day John Kennedy was ... See full summary »
Stars: Heather Thomas, Robert Pine, Jack Warden, Richard Anderson
Votes: 40
23. Together for Days (1972)
PG | 84 min | Drama
A Black radical activist and a young White woman find themselves drawn to one another during the politically and racially-charged atmosphere of early 1970s America.
Director: Michael Schultz | Stars: Clifton Davis, Lois Chiles, Northern Calloway, Leonard Jackson
Votes: 113
24. Jodi Arias: An American Murder Mystery (2018)
126 min | Documentary, Crime
Investigators are puzzled by the brutality of Travis Alexander's murder. Explicit audio and video recordings reveal the scandalous details that sparked public outrage and turned Jodi Arias into the most hated woman in America.
Stars: Yesse Rodriguez, Caleb J. Spivak, Beth Karas, Jane Velez-Mitchell
Votes: 705
25. If This Be Treason (1998 TV Movie)
102 min | Drama
The true story of Helen Joseph, the first woman to be put under house arrest in South Africa. This drama is about a country in conflict,a woman of courage and her struggle for freedom.
Director: Cedric Sundstrom | Stars: Gillian Garlick, Sandra Prinsloo, Carl Beukes, Louise Saint-Claire
26. A Case of Libel (1968 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama
This movie was based on Quintin Reynolds' lawsuit against Westbrook Pegler. Pegler was a character assassin of the first order. Pegler claimed that Reynolds was a Communist and a coward. ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Jarrott | Stars: John Beal, Lloyd Bridges, Marc Connelly, Angie Dickinson
Votes: 30
27. Alcatraz Prison Escape: Deathbed Confession (2015)
93 min | Action, Crime
The true story, based on a Deathbed Confession, about what really happened to Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers who escaped from Alcatraz Prison in 1962. They made it- but what happened next is shocking. Investigated by the US Marshals.
Director: John Edward Lee | Stars: Danny Trejo, Ed O'Ross, Shelby Deekins, Mike Earp
Votes: 252
28. Allegiance (2005)
90 min | History
The story of the meeting between the Irish Republican Michael Collins and Winston Churchill at Churchill's private residence where over a tempestuous first meeting they form an unlikely ... See full summary »
Director: Brian Gilbert | Stars: Brendan Coyle, Richard Evans, Brian Gilbert, Mel Smith
Votes: 30
29. Shades of Truth (2015)
92 min | Drama
The Pope's reputation is now being rehabilitated in a film based on 100,000 pages of documents and testimonies concerning the underground work done by Pius XII to help Jews.
Director: Liana Marabini | Stars: Christopher Lambert, Giancarlo Giannini, Remo Girone, Gedeon Burkhard
Votes: 45
30. Cover Me: Based on the True Life of an FBI Family (2000–2001)
60 min | Crime, Drama, Family
An FBI Agent solves cases and goes undercover with his wife and kids as his partners and backup.
Stars: Peter Dobson, Melora Hardin, Cameron Richardson, Antoinette Picatto
Votes: 198
31. Night of the Wolf (2002 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A woman finds herself trapped in the woods with the one animal she fears most--the wolf. As an alliance with the wolf grows, so does her will to survive.
Director: David S. Cass Sr. | Stars: Anne Archer, Robert Urich, Michael Shamus Wiles, Peter Dobson
Votes: 205
32. Bogwoman (1997 TV Movie)
84 min | Drama
In 1958 Ireland, family problems force a Donegal woman to the city of Derry; a city in turmoil as the Irish nation suffers and revolts from the brutal British invading forces.
Director: Tom Collins | Stars: Rachael Dowling, Peter Mullan, Sean McGinley, Noelle Brown
Votes: 151
33. The Cult (2010 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama
"The Cult"centers a family in which the daughter has vanished. She should be enrolled in first year English, but vanished a month after classes began. As parents go, Nathan and Evelyn have ... See full summary »
Director: Kari Skogland | Stars: Henry Czerny, Torri Higginson, Alexia Fast, Laura Bertram
Votes: 37
34. The Boy King (1986 TV Movie)
31 min | Drama
This drama focuses on young Martin Luther King Jr.'s early encounters with prejudice and how the love and courage of his family moved him to speak out against segregation and become a leader in the civil rights movement.
Director: Billy J. Parrott | Stars: Howard E. Rollins Jr., Fred Perron, Walter Franks, Denise Burse
Votes: 52
35. Godfather of Harlem (2019– )
TV-MA | 55 min | Crime, Drama
A gangster named Bumpy Johnson makes his way in Harlem during the 1960s. A TV prequel to the 2007 film, 'American Gangster', which centered on the criminal enterprise of Frank Lucas.
Stars: Forest Whitaker, Ilfenesh Hadera, Lucy Fry, Antoinette Crowe-Legacy
Votes: 20,886
36. Trial by Fire (2000 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
They say blood is thicker than water, unfortunately when RCMP officer Michelle Kenidi discovers her brother as the main suspect in a fatal case of arson she's put to the test. Above all ... See full summary »
Director: Francis Damberger | Stars: Tina Keeper, Tom Jackson, Peter Kelly Gaudreault, Tracey Cook
Votes: 50
37. Who Killed JonBenét? (2016 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 86 min | Crime, Drama
This Lifetime Original Movie revisits the infamous murder of pint-sized beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey and the lurid details that captivated the nation.
Director: Jason Lapeyre | Stars: Eion Bailey, Julia Campbell, Michel Gill, David Keeley
Votes: 391
38. Criminal Passion (1994)
R | 96 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A homicide detective begins a torrid affair with a senator's son who is a suspect in a series of grisly murders.
Director: Donna Deitch | Stars: Joan Severance, Tony Denison, John Allen Nelson, David Labiosa
Votes: 502
39. Lethal Vows (1999 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 120 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A woman believes that her seemingly all-American ex-husband murdered an earlier wife of his, and she is desperate to prove it.
Director: Paul Schneider | Stars: John Ritter, Marg Helgenberger, Megan Gallagher, Lawrence Dane
Votes: 1,135
40. April Showers (2009)
R | 94 min | Crime, Drama
After a school shooting leaves 14 people dead, survivor Sean Ryan is forced to come to terms with loss.
Director: Andrew Robinson | Stars: Kelly Blatz, Daryl Sabara, Janel Parrish, Ellen Woglom
Votes: 1,033
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