From: Netflix on Mon, Aug 10 2009 2:09 PM

When frightened, frantic Samantha (Megan Palinkas) hides in his suburban home, amateur photographer Richard (James Helm) tries to help her. As he's drawn into her desperate fight against ambiguous forces, Richard attempts to discover if Samantha's pursuers are real or imagined. Meanwhil...

From: Netflix on Wed, Aug 05 2009 11:27 PM

Officer Gideon C. Dengle has wowed the local citizenry with his bravery and service. But a suspicious Friday and Gannon learn that there's no such cop -- just a do-gooding private citizen who's treading on their ability to do their jobs.

From: Netflix on Wed, Aug 05 2009 11:09 PM

Dick Van Dyke returns as Dr. Mark Sloan, a professional physician and amateur sleuth, in the second season of the popular 1990s television series. He deals with cases that include a plastic surgeon killed by laughing gas, a famous actress accused of murder, an apparent vampire killer and more. B...

From: Netflix on Wed, Aug 05 2009 10:47 PM

Dick Van Dyke returns as Dr. Mark Sloan, a professional physician and amateur sleuth, in the second season of the popular 1990s television series. He deals with cases that include a plastic surgeon killed by laughing gas, a famous actress accused of murder, an apparent vampire killer and more. B...

From: Netflix on Wed, Aug 05 2009 10:41 PM

All types of criminals continue to test Los Angeles police officers Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) and Jim Reed (Kent McCord). In this exciting fourth season, the partners compete with an amateur crime solver, bust a ring of truck driving thieves and stop several armed robberies. Entertainment icon...

From: Netflix on Wed, Aug 05 2009 10:36 PM

San Francisco police commissioner Stewart "Mac" McMillan (Rock Hudson) and his amateur detective wife, Sally (Susan Saint James), keep their marriage unpredictable in the fourth season of this 1970s crime series. The McMillans' maid, Mildred (Nancy Walker), unwittingly puts her life in dang...

From: Netflix on Wed, Aug 05 2009 10:31 PM

Dick Van Dyke returns as Dr. Mark Sloan, a professional physician and amateur sleuth, in the second season of the popular 1990s television series. He deals with cases that include a plastic surgeon killed by laughing gas, a famous actress accused of murder, an apparent vampire killer and more. B...

From: Netflix on Wed, Aug 05 2009 10:20 PM

Dick Van Dyke returns as Dr. Mark Sloan, a professional physician and amateur sleuth, in the second season of the popular 1990s television series. He deals with cases that include a plastic surgeon killed by laughing gas, a famous actress accused of murder, an apparent vampire killer and more. B...

From: Netflix on Wed, Aug 05 2009 9:38 PM

Angela Lansbury’s portrayal of mystery writer Jessica Fletcher earned her four Golden Globes and annual Emmy nominations for the entire 12-year run of this smash hit television series. In the fourth season, amateur sleuth Fletcher continues to solve puzzling crimes in her hometown of Cabot Cove ...

From: Netflix on Wed, Aug 05 2009 8:31 PM

Mystery novelist turned amateur detective Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) continues to chase down leads in this Emmy-winning drama series' sixth year, which features plots involving a dead author, a murdered hypnotist, a fallen opera singer and a voodoo curse. Guest stars this season inc...

From: Netflix on Wed, Jul 22 2009 10:18 AM

In this sobering documentary, Bay Area filmmakers Allie Light and Irving Saraf check into the Empress Hotel — a facility for the homeless run by the San Francisco Department of Public Health -- to share the residents' remarkable life stories. Among the tenants: a well-educated woman w...

From: Netflix on Tue, Jul 21 2009 4:16 AM

Out of work and ready to drink his life away, aging ex-clown Seymour Smiles (Sid Haig) returns home to the town of Peru, Ind. With urging from his friend, Bob (Richard Riehle), Seymour starts training local amateur clowns, which helps him get his life back on track. Surreal settings and colorful...

From: Netflix on Mon, Jul 20 2009 5:15 PM

This step-by-step video tutorial will show you how to construct an authentic tree fort alongside a crew of motivated amateur builders led by 16-year-old Joey Valenti, who learned the ropes from his general contractor father. As the boys work together to get their project off the ground, they lea...

From: Netflix on Sun, Jul 19 2009 11:19 PM

After a 10-year stretch in the slammer, cat burglar Karen McCoy (Kim Basinger) is ready to go straight. But the gorgeous ex-con slides back into a felonious life when an Atlanta crime lord takes her son hostage and demands that she pull off a bank heist. With help from eager amateur thief J.T. B...

From: Netflix on Sun, Jul 19 2009 10:19 PM

Avant-garde 1970s band Destroy All Monsters never released an official album, but the cult favorite’s legacy is preserved in this collection of home movies and amateur videos by and about the Ann Arbor, Mich., group. The four members, Niagara, Jim Shaw, Cary Loren and Mike Kelley, were influence...

From: Netflix on Sun, Jul 19 2009 7:16 PM

Before camcorders arrived on the scene, 8 mm cameras were a staple of suburban life. This compilation of 22 amateur films from the Center for Home Movies documents nearly a century of life in places as diverse as Boston, London and Japan. Commentary by surviving filmmakers and family members add...

From: Netflix on Thu, Jul 16 2009 2:17 PM

Hugo Rodriguez directs Mexican heartthrob Diego Luna (Y Tú Mamá También, The Terminal), Rafael Inclán, Jesus Ochoa, Daniel Gimenez Caco and Rosa Maria Bianchi in this frenzied action-drama that follows a group of amateur thieves who are planning the heist of their lives. With the help of a compu...

From: Netflix on Tue, Jul 14 2009 8:25 PM

Stan (Remy Girard) runs the blue-collar tavern Chez Stan; he also coaches a hopeless amateur hockey team of his beer-drinking buddies called Les Boys. When Stan finds himself up to his kneecaps in debt to mobster Meo (Pierre Lebeau), he makes a deal: If Les Boys can win a match against Meo’s tea...

From: Netflix on Mon, Jul 06 2009 6:05 PM

Aging distance runner Wes Holman (Bruce Dern) can no longer participate in American events thanks to a violation of his amateur status 20 years earlier. Convinced he’s still fit enough capture the honor he lost years ago, Holman heads to his childhood home in Northern California to train for the...