54 Great Made for TV Movies/Mini-Series of the 1980's from 1980-1989
Here is a list of great TV movies from the 80's many of which I haven't been able to get a copy of since but I have seen most of them again and again. Again in no particular order.
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- DirectorRobert GreenwaldStarsFarrah FawcettPaul Le MatRichard MasurAn abused battered wife has had enough of her husband beating up on her. Everywhere she turns for help, there's not much anyone will do. After he rapes her one night, she sets the bed on fire with him in it asleep.
- StarsFarrah FawcettRyan O'NealGordon ClappA peculiar and disturbing case catches the attention of the police when a young mother and her children, all severely injured, show up in a hospital's emergency room.
- DirectorJon AvnetStarsFarrah FawcettColleen DewhurstMichael NouriWhen shy schoolteacher Val marries Harry, the son of an aged opera star, she quickly discovers that Harry's mother Barbara is not very happy with their union. In fact, Barbara tries to separate the couple. But when Barbara suffers a debilitating stroke, Val's compassion and empathy mend the rift between the two women, giving Barbara the will to survive. But will Barbara learn to love her daughter-in-law?
- DirectorMichael Lindsay-HoggStarsFarrah FawcettTom ContiGeraldine PageFarrah Fawcett plays real-life Beate Klarsfeld, a German Protestant housewife who, with the help of her Jewish law-student husband, Serge, began an unrelenting campaign after World War II to bring Nazi war criminals to justice, most of which is centered on Klaus Barbie. The story follows her pursuit while she survives jail, torture, numerous assassination attempts, and arrests in South America and in Germany.
- DirectorWilliam HaleStarsKatharine RossSam ElliottFarrah FawcettStory of Texas heiress Joan Robinson, who married plastic surgeon John Hill. Her father, Ash, is suspicious of Hill, thinking that he married Joan for money, which he used to buy a house and indulges in some odd hobbies. He eventually has an affair with a woman named Ann Kurth. Eventually Ash threatens John with him losing custody of his son unless he makes full restitution to Joan. One day, Joan gets sick and dies. John somehow doesn't allow an autopsy to be done. Ash thinks it's strange, and thinks John killed Joan and sets out to prove it. John eventually marries Ann and she can't help but find his behavior strange.
- DirectorLawrence SchillerStarsFarrah FawcettFrederic ForrestDavid HuddlestonBiographical account of pioneering photographer's career.
- DirectorRod HolcombStarsFarrah FawcettBeau BridgesHarold GouldGovernment agent Frank Powell (Beau Bridges) is determined to bring down racketeering crime lord Oliver Sully (Harold Gould) but cannot find any evidence. Powell concocts a plan to have the Justice Department buy a brothel, set up a professional call girl named Kathy Dunn (Farrah Fawcett) as a hostess, and get the crime boss on extortion.
- DirectorCharles JarrottStarsFarrah FawcettDavid AckroydStéphane AudranThe true story of one of the richest women in America - heiress to the Woolworth fortune. She had vast wealth and seven husbands, but never found lasting love.
- DirectorRobert DayStarsGeorge C. ScottMichael BiehnAli MacGrawA man arrives in China to search for his son, whom he hasn't seen in many years. A female American Embassy employee, who knows the country and speaks the language, is assigned to assist him, but soon they run into more trouble than they expected.
- DirectorNoel BlackStarsMichael BiehnMadolyn Smith OsborneCloris LeachmanYoung, naive Katherine falls for, marries, and has a child with Dr. Charles Raynor. Then she realizes that he is a tormenting sadist. She divorces him and tries to take their child away, so he decides to kill her.
- DirectorStephen GyllenhaalStarsRosanna ArquetteJudge ReinholdTom BowerLoving parents throw away their young son's insulin in the belief that God will then heal him of diabetes.
- DirectorPeter H. HuntStarsMichael LearnedFrederic ForrestRosanna ArquetteBefore the annual 4th of July parade, Rachels life is thrown into turmoil when her estranged husband returns after years in prison asking to be a part of her life again, also affecting their teenage daughter and Rachel's mother Sarah.
- DirectorRichard MichaelsStarsSuzanne PleshetteJoseph BolognaEvan RichardsJoseph Bologna is real estate agent who has a problem: his ex-wife (Suzanne Pleshette) and son are moving in with him-and his jealous bride.
- DirectorAnthony PageStarsRichard ThomasRosanna ArquetteDennis QuaidA young deaf mute is befriended by a Vista worker.
- DirectorLawrence SchillerStarsTommy Lee JonesChristine LahtiRosanna ArquetteThe story of Gary Gilmore, a convicted murderer who lobbied for his own execution.
- DirectorRobert MarkowitzStarsTom ContiLisa EichhornGerald HikenA dramatic re-enactment of the Warsaw Ghetto Jewish uprising in April 1943 were 650 armed members of the Jewish Fighting Organization of Poland held off a 3,000 strong Nazi force in which only a handful of Jews survived. Tom Conti plays Dolek Berson, a Jewish smuggler who joins the resistance movement and is aided on the Aryan side of the wall by a former teacher named Regina Kowalski played by Rachel Roberts in her final role.
- DirectorRobert MarkowitzStarsTimothy HuttonBrenda VaccaroRosanna ArquetteThree children were separated at a young age. The oldest, Donald, searches for his younger brother and sister.
- DirectorPeter LevinStarsMickey RourkeLinda HamiltonRip TornBased on the real-life Oregon criminal case which dramatizes the unique dispute in which Greta Rideout instigated the prosecution of her husband John, charging him with raping her.
- DirectorMike RobeStarsLinda HamiltonPiper LaurieJoshua HarrisA young couple faces the realities of life with their child who is diagnosed with AIDS.
- DirectorBob GiraldiStarsJack ScaliaLinda HamiltonPatrick MacneeEscape to paradise with Linda Hamilton, Jack Scalia, Patrick Macnee, Bill Maher, Sinbad and Miami Sound Machine in this romantic getaway adventure shot at Club Med's Ixtapa resort.
- DirectorDon TaylorStarsSally KellermanLinda HamiltonHunt BlockA group of cute, young women in USSR are trained to be spies in USA, using their bodies to seduce. Elena passes and is sent to Moscow, where she meets a single, American man.
- DirectorGabrielle BeaumontStarsKatharine RossLinda HamiltonMichael NouriA widow and her daughter, who is experiencing marital problems, both fall deeply in love with a charming restaurateur.
- DirectorIan SharpStarsTrevor EveGeraldine ChaplinOlivia HusseyIn the 18th century were born two siamese brothers on Corsica who paradoxically carry different feelings of hate and reconciliation in their blood.
- DirectorRuss MayberryStarsLinda LavinLane SmithLori LoughlinSam Gavin decides to relocate his family from Houston, Texas to a sheep station in Australia to protect his eleven children from the "destructive influences" of modern American society. Because of business obligations, he fails to join them and, more or less, abandons his wife, Liz, to the hardships of her new surroundings. Mother and children are determined to make a go of it.
- DirectorCharles BravermanStarsKeanu ReevesKiefer SutherlandLori LoughlinKeanu Reeves, Kiefer Sutherland, and Billy Zane star as high-school students who start a vigilante group to combat crime in their neighborhood.