Disney Channel Premiere Films
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1. Hansel and Gretel (1983 TV Movie)
45 min | Fantasy
This is Tim Burton's Disney Channel Halloween film short that only aired twice. It combines live action and stop-motion, making for a creepy adventure into the woods.
Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Michael Yama, Andy Lee, Alison Hong, Jim Ishida
Votes: 914
2. Love Leads the Way: A True Story (1984 TV Movie)
99 min | Drama, Family, History
A recently blinded man becomes one of the first American users of a seeing eye dog and must fight to remove the legal barriers impeding its use.
Director: Delbert Mann | Stars: Timothy Bottoms, Eva Marie Saint, Arthur Hill, Glynnis O'Connor
Votes: 243
3. Tiger Town (1983 TV Movie)
95 min | Drama, Family, Sport
Alex and his father are Detroit Tigers Fans. The team is not doing well and Alex's favorite player "Billy Young" isn't either. The team's and Billy's luck turn around after Alex experiences a tragedy that hits close to home.
Director: Alan Shapiro | Stars: Lindsay Barr, Dave Bokas, Chris Bremer, Bethany Carpenter
Votes: 320
4. Gone Are the Dayes (1984 TV Movie)
90 min | Comedy, Crime, Family
After the Daye family witnesses a gang shooting in a Japanese restaurant, the police persuade them to testify against mobster Delgado. Detective Mitchell gets the job to hide the four until... See full summary »
Director: Gabrielle Beaumont | Stars: Harvey Korman, Susan Anspach, Robert Hogan, Nate Esformes
Votes: 50
5. The Undergrads (1985 TV Movie)
103 min | Drama, Comedy
An elderly man discovers that his son wants to put him in an old-age home. However, the old man's grandson refuses to allow it, and the man and his grandson wind up becoming roommates.
Director: Steven Hilliard Stern | Stars: Art Carney, Chris Makepeace, Len Birman, Dawn Greenhalgh
Votes: 68
6. Lots of Luck (1985 TV Movie)
88 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
An ordinary family wins the lottery and they soon learn that winning is not all it's cracked up to be.
Director: Peter Baldwin | Stars: Martin Mull, Annette Funicello, Fred Willard, Polly Holliday
Votes: 122
7. The Blue Yonder (1985 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 92 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi, Sport
Have you ever thought of traveling through time, going forward or backward to any date? That's the intriguing question aviator and inventor Max Knickerbocker asks Jonathan Knicks. Max is ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Rosman | Stars: Peter Coyote, Huckleberry Fox, Art Carney, Dennis Lipscomb
Votes: 355
8. The Parent Trap II (1986 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 81 min | Comedy, Family
Two best friends plot to get their single parents together to stop one of them from moving to New York City.
Director: Ron Maxwell | Stars: Hayley Mills, Tom Skerritt, Carrie Kei Heim, Bridgette Andersen
Votes: 2,309
9. Spot Marks the X (1986 TV Movie)
90 min | Comedy, Crime, Family
The story about a boy who discovered that his dog knows where the blood money were buried.
Director: Mark Rosman | Stars: Mike the Dog, Barret Oliver, Natalie Gregory, Richard B. Shull
Votes: 97
10. Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills (1986 TV Movie)
85 min | Western
Two young survivors of a wagon-train massacre battle horse thieves as they take a prize stallion through Utah.
Director: Burt Kennedy | Stars: Bruce Boxleitner, Bo Hopkins, Michael Wren, Don Shanks
Votes: 143
11. Strange Companions (1983 TV Movie)
92 min | Family
This is about a runaway orphan boy and a man at the end of his rope financially who is a pilot that studies migrating animals. The boy stole away on the plane and while the man was looking ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Zuniga | Stars: Doug McClure, Michael Sharrett, Marj Dusay, Ted Stidder
Votes: 33
12. Anne of Avonlea (1987)
TV-G | 58 min | Drama, Family, Romance
Anne Shirley accepts a teaching position at a girls boarding school in a town dominated by a rich and belligerant family determined to make her life miserable.
Stars: Megan Follows, Colleen Dewhurst, Marilyn Lightstone, Schuyler Grant
Votes: 10,190
13. Not Quite Human (1987 TV Movie)
TV-G | 97 min | Family, Sci-Fi, Comedy
Dr. Jonas Carson, a scientist, invents Chip, an android teenager. Dr. Carson sends Chip to school with his daughter Becky to see whether an android could interact with others. But his ... See full summary »
Director: Steven Hilliard Stern | Stars: Jay Underwood, Alan Thicke, Robyn Lively, Joseph Bologna
Votes: 1,329
14. Save the Dog! (1988 TV Movie)
87 min | Family, Comedy
Becky wants to become an actress. After an audition for a dog food ad she has best chances to get the part - but the day after her dog Petey becomes very ill. She has to come up with $700 ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Aaron | Stars: Cindy Williams, Katherine Helmond, Tom Poston, Charlotte Rae
Votes: 74
15. The Night Train to Kathmandu (1988 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 102 min | Adventure, Romance, Fantasy
A young girl leaves for Nepal with her parents and brother. She is unhappy to leave her home at first, but soon isn't when she meets a handome young man. The story unfolds into a romantic and daring quest in search of the "Invisible City."
Director: Robert Wiemer | Stars: Pernell Roberts, Eddie Castrodad, Milla Jovovich, Kavi Raz
Votes: 490
16. Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss (1988 TV Movie)
TV-G | 89 min | Comedy, Family
14-year-old Ralph and his All-American family head off on their annual trek to summer resort Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss.
Director: Dick Bartlett | Stars: Jean Shepherd, James Sikking, Dorothy Lyman, Jerry O'Connell
Votes: 565
17. A Friendship in Vienna (1988 TV Movie)
Unrated | 100 min | Drama, History
In 1930s Vienna, two best friends, a Jewish girl and a fascist's daughter, both witness the unification of Germany and Austria, and question the impact it has on their lives.
Director: Arthur Allan Seidelman | Stars: Edward Asner, Stephen Macht, Jenny Lewis, Kamie Harper
Votes: 164
18. Goodbye, Miss 4th of July (1988 TV Movie)
89 min | Drama, Family
This movie is the inspiring true-life drama of seventeen-year-old Niki Janus. After fleeing persecution in Greece, Niki and her family immigrate to West Virginia and begin living the ... See full summary »
Director: George Miller | Stars: Louis Gossett Jr., Chris Sarandon, Chantal Contouri, Chynna Phillips
Votes: 165
19. Not Quite Human II (1989 TV Movie)
91 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Chip, the android boy is back. This time, he is off to college, suffering from a computer virus and in love with Roberta, another android. Will there be a happy ending?
Director: Eric Luke | Stars: Jay Underwood, Alan Thicke, Robyn Lively, Greg Mullavey
Votes: 653
20. Lantern Hill (1989 TV Movie)
111 min | Drama, Family
Jane, a young Toronto girl, tries to reunite her estranged parents during the 1930's, sick of her strict private school and abusive, nasty grandmother.
Director: Kevin Sullivan | Stars: Mairon Bennett, Sam Waterston, Patricia Phillips, Zoe Caldwell
Votes: 323
21. Chips, the War Dog (1990 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 92 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Misfits Danny Stauffer and Chips (a chicken-chasing German shepherd) are teamed up in the Army's "Dogs for Defense" program during WWII.
Director: Ed Kaplan | Stars: Brandon Douglas, Ned Vaughn, Paxton Whitehead, Robert Miranda
Votes: 271
22. Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme (1990 TV Movie)
G | 96 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
There's a crisis in Rhymeland. All the Rhymies (the characters from nursery rhymes) are disappearing. Mother Goose's son, Gordon, and Little Bo Peep set off to find them.
Director: Jeff Stein | Stars: Harry Anderson, Brian Bonsall, Elayne Boosler, Bobby Brown
Votes: 974
23. Back Home (1989 TV Movie)
103 min | Drama, Family
During World War II, young Virginia "Rusty" Dickinson was sent to America for safety. It's now five years later and she returns to her native country, England. From the family she hardly ... See full summary »
Director: Piers Haggard | Stars: Hayley Mills, Hayley Carr, Adam Stevenson, Brenda Bruce
Votes: 151
24. The Little Kidnappers (1990 TV Movie)
G | 92 min | Crime, Drama
Two young orphans have to relocate to Nova Scotia and endure their bitter and jerky grandfather, but when they find a baby washed up on the beach, everything changes.
Director: Donald Shebib | Stars: Charlton Heston, Bruce Greenwood, Patricia Gage, Dan MacDonald
Votes: 414
25. Bejewelled (1991 TV Movie)
95 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
An American's family jewels are stolen during her trip to London and she reluctantly teams up with a private investigator-in-training to try and recover them.
Director: Terry Marcel | Stars: Emma Samms, Paris Jefferson, Dirk Benedict, Bob Lee Dysinger
Votes: 207
26. Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1990 TV Movie)
92 min | Adventure, Family
This is yet another telling of the adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as the two try to clear their friend Jim of murder charges.
Director: Paul Krasny | Stars: Raphael Sbarge, Mitchell Anderson, Megan Follows, William Windom
Votes: 154
27. Perfect Harmony (1991 TV Movie)
93 min | Drama, Family, Music
In a private school in the U.S. South, Mr. Sanders, a new choirmaster tries to reduce some of the prejudice and hostility of some of the students in his choir. Paul, a bully who feels he ... See full summary »
Director: Will Mackenzie | Stars: Peter Scolari, Darren McGavin, Catherine Mary Stewart, Moses Gunn
Votes: 515
28. Mark Twain and Me (1991 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 93 min | Biography, Drama
Dorothy Quick, a young girl, befriends the famous writer, Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens, during the final years of his life.
Director: Daniel Petrie | Stars: Jason Robards, Talia Shire, R.H. Thomson, Fiona Reid
Votes: 193
29. Still Not Quite Human (1992 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 84 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Chip and his "father" attend a robotics convention. Here, Dr. Carson is kidnapped and replaced with an android. Can Chip and his newfound friends save Dr. Carson from a dangerous competitor?
Director: Eric Luke | Stars: Alan Thicke, Christopher Neame, Betsy Palmer, Adam Philipson
Votes: 543
30. The Ernest Green Story (1993 TV Movie)
101 min | Biography, Drama
Follows the story of Ernest Green, one of the Little Rock Nine who were the first blacks to integrate into an all white school.
Director: Eric Laneuville | Stars: Morris Chestnut, Robert Alexander, Steven Allen, Katherine Bernhardt
Votes: 326
31. Spies (1993 TV Movie)
85 min | Adventure, Family
Long Island, 1942. 12-year-old Harry detects spies everywhere. But suddenly things get serious, as he and two evacuated London kids, Ned and Flo, stumble onto a real adventure. The children end up with America's destiny in their hands.
Director: Kevin Connor | Stars: David Dukes, Shiloh Strong, Gail Strickland, Jensen Daggett
Votes: 50
32. Heidi (1993)
G | 193 min | Drama, Family
After charming her reclusive grandfather and falling in love with the beautiful mountain he calls home, Heidi is uprooted and sent to Frankfurt where she befriends Klara, a young girl confined to a wheelchair.
Stars: Jason Robards, Jane Seymour, Patricia Neal, Siân Phillips
Votes: 1,962
33. The Old Curiosity Shop (1995 TV Movie)
PG | 120 min | Drama
When young Nell Trent's grandfather loses the investment money of wharf owner Daniel Quilp with cards, Quilp develops an everlasting urge to get him put in the madhouse. Nell and her grandfather flee the city.
Director: Kevin Connor | Stars: Alan Barry, Adam Blackwood, Tom Courtenay, Brian de Salvo
Votes: 307
34. On Promised Land (1994 TV Movie)
Drama
Set in the late 1950s, Floyd (Carl Lumbly), Martha Ree (Juanita Jennings), and Jimmy "Jim-Jam" Ween (Norman D. Golden II) live on land that was promised to Floyd's father and then to Floyd ... See full summary »
Director: Joan Tewkesbury | Stars: Robert Benedetti, Wayne Brady, Bill Coates, Norman D. Golden II
Votes: 93
35. The Whipping Boy (1994 TV Movie)
G | 96 min | Family, Fantasy
Prince Horace is the spoiled and arrogant heir to the throne whose continual pranks are designed to get his distant father's attention. Young Jemmy is a desperate streetwise orphan trying to survive with his sister.
Director: Syd Macartney | Stars: Truan Munro, Nic Knight, Karen Salt, Andrew Bicknell
Votes: 424
36. Escape to Witch Mountain (1995 TV Movie)
87 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
A brother-sister duo possessing psychic powers are pursued by a millionaire who intends to use them for his gain.
Director: Peter Rader | Stars: Robert Vaughn, Elisabeth Moss, Erik von Detten, Sam Horrigan
Votes: 1,711
37. The Four Diamonds (1995 TV Movie)
96 min | Drama, Family
Young Christopher Millard fantasizes about being a squire of the Round Table and studies the stars. But when his difficulty breathing turns out to be caused by a tumor, his fantasies turn ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Werner | Stars: Tom Guiry, Christine Lahti, Kevin Dunn, Jayne Brook
Votes: 213
38. The Little Riders (1996 TV Movie)
96 min | Drama
Young American Joanne Hunter is stranded in the German-occupied Holland with her Dutch grandparents. The German CO, Captain Kessel begins to wage war on the village's morale, and Joanne's ... See full summary »
Director: Kevin Connor | Stars: Paul Scofield, Noley Thornton, Rosemary Harris, Malcolm McDowell
Votes: 159
39. Nightjohn (1996 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 92 min | Drama
Facing a life of servitude in the Antebellum South, a young slave named Sarny meets Nightjohn. He teaches her to read and write, and together they set to free other slaves - until one planned escape is discovered.
Director: Charles Burnett | Stars: Beau Bridges, Carl Lumbly, Bill Cobbs, Kathleen York
Votes: 438
40. Wish Upon a Star (1996 TV Movie)
PG | 90 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
A younger sister wishes to switch places with her popular older sister and the two bickering siblings awaken to find the wish has come true.
Director: Blair Treu | Stars: Katherine Heigl, Danielle Harris, Donnie Jeffcoat, Scott Wilkinson
Votes: 8,417
41. Susie Q (1996 TV Movie)
PG | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A boy, grieving the recent death of his father, comes to befriend the ghost of a young girl haunting his house, learning that the ghost, nicknamed "Susie Q," is still coming to terms with the car crash that took her life in the 1950s.
Director: John Blizek | Stars: Amy Jo Johnson, Ernie Prentice, Bentley Mitchum, Tasha Simms
Votes: 3,311
42. The Paper Brigade (1996 TV Movie)
105 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Gunther Wheeler, fourteen, a tough guy from New York City, moves to a small town called Pleasant Valley. Gunther isn't making very many friends in his new town. Until he meets Allison ... See full summary »
Director: Blair Treu | Stars: Kyle Howard, Robert Englund, Travis Wester, Chauncey Leopardi
Votes: 2,240
43. Northern Lights (1997 TV Movie)
111 min | Drama
A stranger's call informs Roberta (Diane Keaton) that her estranged brother Frank has died in a small town under bizarre circumstances. Ben, his best friend from college, also gets the call.
Director: Linda Yellen | Stars: Diane Keaton, Maury Chaykin, Joseph Cross, Kathleen York
Votes: 270
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