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- After twenty years in prison, Foley is finished with the grifter's life. When he meets an elusive young woman named Iris, the possibility of a new start looks real. But his past is proving to be a stubborn companion.
- Mild-mannered Brian Guest isn't having the best of times. Nothing seems to be going right for him, and worst of all, his high-maintenance wife Lucy wants a divorce. Surely, things couldn't get any worse for him?
- This is a story about survivors, about extraordinary American humanists thanks to whom remnants of the Armenian, Greek and Assyrian peoples were saved from total destruction. Their mission was to save human lives.
- After a long night at the office, an accountant stops to help an injured motorist and ends up becoming the target of two dangerous assassins.
- The Unlikely Good Samaritan follows the paths of two men: Sam, an ex-convict and mysterious drifter looking to escape his past and find new meaning in life, and Chris, a proud, small-town pastor and new husband, attempting to impress his congregation and deal with an issue that could shatter his wholesome image. The men s paths collide in a dramatic and intriguing way, challenging the characters to reexamine what a good person really looks like.
- A homeowner gets more than she bargains for when she lets an injured child into her home to wait for his family.
- When a group of four co-workers meet face to face for the first time to work on a new app, a mysterious entity pits them against each other in a game of truth or dare forcing them to reveal their darkest secrets about each other.
- When a Good Samaritan attempt to help some people, things are not all they appear to be.
- Fact-based story about Mitch Snyder (Martin Sheen), a Washington crusader for the homeless, who took their case to Congress. Working for the Community for Creative Non-violence, Snyder became outraged at the number of homeless people who had been dumped on the Washington streets without shelter from mental institutions and other care facilities. His advocacy drew national attention to the "missing persons" that live among us. Cicely Tyson also appears as a bag-lady who teaches Snyder and his cohorts how to survive on the streets.
- After a quarrel with his mother, Torajiro sets off to find a bride.
- Max Matthews is a 26 year old factory worker living in Southern Indiana. One summer morning, driving home from his graveyard shift, he spots a hitchhiker and decides to give him a lift. What he doesn't know is that this man is wanted.
- Gabriel and Diana Carver, who, hoping to mend their troubled marriage, embark on a dream cruise in remote parts of the globe. But when they pluck a floating man from the sea who was left for dead, their good deed is immediately punished.
- A young man, framed and sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit, is released after serving his stretch and vows to find those responsible for framing him. Meanwhile he sets up a mission in the slums he came from, and falls in love with a girl he meets there.
- A house band in an empty bar on Christmas Eve offers to play a Christmas song for a young man who has missed a flight home for the holidays.
- The moronic and strange journey of Neil Gulbert; a campaign volunteer who compulsively attempts save peoples' lives while quickly making his way across town to get secure the potential campaign job of his dreams.
- Desperate to escape a torturous communist country, a man defects and leaves everything behind him to seek freedom.
- 14 year-old The Orphan only wants to meet the notorious vigilante The Bad Samaritan, but when she comes face-to-face with her idol she finds he's a little further away from being the fatherly-figure she was hoping for as he threatens her serious GBH. Although he might have something to do with the fact The Orphan has just punched and mugged a woman of her handbag. Pistol in hand she is able to fend him off but she can't shake of the obsession she has as she sees from her TV he is becoming more than just a lone psycho in a mask. In a world where words such as 'peace' and 'justice' have different meanings The Orphan decides to go to one of his 'secret meetings' and face 'the hero of the people' one last time.
- A clever girl and her curious run in with a hapless con man.
- The little house so dear to Billy and His mother is lost to them through foreclosure. He cheers her by telling her to come with him to the city, where he will provide for her. Their straitened circumstances force them to take quarters in a tenement section inhabited by gangsters. During one of Billy's trips from home in search of employment, the mother hears sounds of someone falling and rushing into the dingy hallway arrives just in time to see two gangsters beating up another, Red Maguire. With the assistance of a young girl of the tenements, the mother helps the injured man to her own apartments, where she bandages his wounds. The heart of the gangster is touched by the mother's kindness to him and he vows never to forget her. Returning home one evening Billy falls ill with the gangsters and goes to the docks, where drinking and gambling are indulged in. Billy is led to drink and before long is helpless. Anxiety of the mother over Billy's absence causes Red Maguire to go in search of him and he arrives just as Billy is being led away by a policeman to jail where he is later sentenced to thirty days imprisonment. Not forgetting her kindness to him and wanting to spare the mother knowledge of Billy's arrest, Red Maguire sends her a message in Billy's name. "Got a job fer 4 weeks. Had to go darn quick." When Billy is released Red puts money in his hand saying, "Bill, your mother is a good kid. She thinks you've been working. Here's your wages for the time you've been away. Cut out the booze and get to work." Two years find Billy and little mother back on the farm for Billy went to work and earned the old home back again.
- The Samaritans is a snarky, scripted series centered around the absurdities of Aid for Aid(TM), a dysfunctional, fictitious non governmental organization (NGO).
- Following the murder of her parents sixteen year old Katie Van Ryan finds herself under the care of her uncle Devlin, a man she barely knows. Cold and distant, Devlin pursues a mysterious agenda of his own, while his niece tries to make a connection with the only family she has left.
- Under the pretends of a kind samaritan, a homeless youth is dragged into an underground fight club and pitted against the champ.
- Isaac Abrams, a lonely ghetto pawnbroker, is disliked by most of his neighbors. The only exceptions are Nora Banks, the landlady's charming daughter, and Mrs. Shannon, a poor scrubwoman saving to bring her son Tommy over from Ireland. On the day the child arrives at Ellis Island, his mother is taken fatally ill, and Abrams is becomes his guardian. Tommy, who comes to love Abrams, is taught to care for the shop, barter with the customers, and study. When he beats Snipe Banks, the neighborhood toughie, Mrs. Banks vengefully reports Tommy to the authorities, who remove him to an orphanage and later to an Iowa family. Tommy escapes and returns to the pawnshop. When faced with another parting, Abrams plans to take him away. he is denounced by Mrs. Banks, precipitating a riot, but Dr. Mueller, Nora's suitor, arrives to straighten out matters and Abrams is permitted to adopt the boy.
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- A man is witness to a possible kidnapping situation at a grocery store, but doesn't prevent it and must then live with the guilt.
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- The biblical Samaritan community is fighting for its life and to save its language and faith from extinction.
- An incredible story about Mark, a blind boy with a remarkable visual talent - painting from the heart. In his efforts to sell his paintings on the street he meets two extraordinarily generous advertising executives, Tim and Greg, who eventually take him on a quest that would change the course of his day. Even though Mark is grateful to the duo for helping him out, he makes Tim and Greg realize their own shortsightedness in trying to help people in his situation and opens their eyes to a greater truth about happiness and fulfillment. Run-time approx 20 minutes.
- The Samaritans have been around for over 3,000 years. But they may be about to finally die out. To keep the tribe going they've resorted to bringing in women from afar, including a number from the Ukraine. But is it too little, too late?
- Fite, a workingman, who has saved money to send for his wife and daughter, falls in with a couple of crooks. They decide to rob him, but upon learning his story they decide not to. Jeff Brandsford, cowboy and adventurer, has lost all his money and falls in with Ballinger, nephew of a rich man who will not advance him money. Jeff saves Fite from hanging himself and then he meets Ballinger and they decide to help Fite out, he having lost all of his money. Fite gets back his money and some time later, after working hard, Ballinger returns to his uncle's house where he claims Nona, his uncle's ward, as his wife.
- A college student is stalked around the campus late at night by a mysterious man.
- Violently assaulted, robbed and left for dead, a husband is unable to convince anyone to stop and help him.
- A normal man is trapped into an unfair deal with the stranger who saved his life.
- Unable to apprehend a certain daring outlaw, who had for the second time successfully held up an express train, the general manager of the road employs the services of a well-known detective to hunt down the bad man. Clarington, the detective, visits the scene of the hold-up, and decides that the outlaw must still be in the vicinity and resolves to make a thorough search of the country close by. Stumbling along on top of a high cliff, leading his horse by the bridle, the detective slips and rolling to the bottom finds that he has dislocated his ankle and that he is unable to walk. Not one-quarter of a mile away, young Jack Mason, the outlaw, is filling a bucket at the spring, when he hears the distant cry for help. Hurrying to the scene of the accident, Mason carries the wounded detective to his shack, and binding up the wounded leg, tells him that he may stay with him until able to go on his way again. Mason is suspicious of the stranger, and when he finds the detective asleep, searches his pocket and finds a warrant for the arrest of himself. Not trusting the detective, Mason obtains the latter's revolver and taking the cartridges out, pulls out the lead and substitutes a light coating of wax. Later, when Clarington is able to be up again he endeavors to arrest Mason, who refuses to hold up his hands and Clarington fires. Of course he is not hurt, and quickly drawing his own gun, Mason covers the detective, and securely binding his hands, leads him out of the house, ties him to a tree and threatens to shoot him. Six shots fired at the detective's heels, thoroughly unnerves Clarington, who, when released, drops on the ground in agony of fear. Mason, laughing, throws the detective his empty gun, turns and walks away. Clarington summoning his strength, rises to his feet and runs fearfully away.
- A contemporary noir that explores the irrational power of guilt through the eyes of two amateur criminals.