David Shire Movies

  • 1978
    Straight Time

    Straight Time

    Straight Time

    7.1441978HD

    After being released on parole, a burglar attempts to go straight, get a regular job, and just go by the rules. He soon finds himself back in jail at...

    Straight Time
  • 1986
    Promise

    Promise

    Promise

    6.81986HD

    Bob returns home for his mother’s funeral knowing that he must fulfill a promise made 30 years earlier—to care for his younger brother...

    Promise
  • 1992
    Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story

    Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story

    Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story

    5.41992HD

    An AIDS-stricken woman becomes a leader in the struggle to educate people about the disease and its prevention.

    Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story
  • 1989
    The Women of Brewster Place

    The Women of Brewster Place

    The Women of Brewster Place

    6.91989HD

    A multigenerational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenement home.

    The Women of Brewster Place
  • 2001
    These Old Broads

    These Old Broads

    These Old Broads

    6.12001HD

    Network television executive Gavin hopes to reunite celebrated Hollywood stars Piper Grayson, Kate Westbourne, and Addie Holden in a TV special after...

    These Old Broads
  • 1973
    Showdown

    Showdown

    Showdown

    6.11973HD

    Two men who have been friends since childhood find themselves on opposite ends of the law.

    Showdown
  • 1988
    Backfire

    Backfire

    Backfire

    5.3641988HD

    Mara McAndrew's marriage is falling apart. Her husband, Donnie, a Vietnam veteran, suffers troubling flashbacks about the war, leaving him...

    Backfire
  • 1971
    Skin Game

    Skin Game

    Skin Game

    6.61971HD

    Quincy Drew and Jason O’Rourke, a pair of friends and con men—the former white, the latter a Northern-born free Black man— travel...

    Skin Game
  • 1981
    Only When I Laugh

    Only When I Laugh

    Only When I Laugh

    5.71981HD

    A boozy Broadway actress comes out of a 12-week cure to face the problems of her best friends as well as her needy daughter. She tries to balance the...

    Only When I Laugh
  • 1979
    The Promise

    The Promise

    The Promise

    61979HD

    A rich student's fiancee has her face destroyed by a car accident, and refuses to return to him fearing the loss of his love.

    The Promise
  • 2018
    Love After Love

    Love After Love

    Love After Love

    5.6742018HD

    A sixty-something mother and her two adult sons cope and move onward following the death of their larger-than-life father/husband.

    Love After Love
  • 1986
    'night, Mother

    'night, Mother

    'night, Mother

    7.41986HD

    A mother and daughter spend a night together after the daughter reveals that she will kill herself by the end of it.

    'night, Mother
  • 1974
    The Healers

    The Healers

    The Healers

    01974HD

    The director of an urban medical center faces various major problems during the course of running the hospital.

    The Healers
  • 1993
    Bloodlines: Murder in the Family

    Bloodlines: Murder in the Family

    Bloodlines: Murder in the Family

    21993HD

    Stewart and Neil Woodman plot to have their parents murdered.

    Bloodlines: Murder in the Family
  • 1981
    Paternity

    Paternity

    Paternity

    4.81981HD

    Buddy Evans manages events at Madison Square Garden in New York City. He is a confirmed bachelor who lives with his housekeeper Celia. After coming...

    Paternity
  • 1971
    One More Train to Rob

    One More Train to Rob

    One More Train to Rob

    5.41971HD

    Harker Flet and compatriots Timothy X. Nolan and Katy, along with three other men, steal $40,000 in money and jewelry from a California train in the...

    One More Train to Rob
  • 1994
    The Companion

    The Companion

    The Companion

    5.21994HD

    In the near-distant future, a female romance writer is planning to write her next book in a remote mountain cabin. A friend convinces her to bring...

    The Companion
  • 1984
    Oh, God! You Devil

    Oh, God! You Devil

    Oh, God! You Devil

    5.6071984HD

    George Burns is back as God, but oops, here he is as Satan, too. A young rock star is ready to sell his soul to Satan, and Satan is all too happy to...

    Oh, God! You Devil
  • 1991
    Sarah, Plain and Tall

    Sarah, Plain and Tall

    Sarah, Plain and Tall

    7.1071991HD

    Kansas, 1910. Widowed farmer Jacob Witting finds that taking care of both his farm and two children, Anna and Caleb, is too difficult to handle...

    Sarah, Plain and Tall
  • 1976
    Harry and Walter Go to New York

    Harry and Walter Go to New York

    Harry and Walter Go to New York

    5.6091976HD

    Two hoplessly out of their class con-men attempt to pull off the largest bank heist of the l9th century—by gaining the enmity of the most...

    Harry and Walter Go to New York