David Downing Movies

In a fantastical 1940s where magic is used by everyone, a hard-boiled detective investigates the theft of a mystical tome.

Swope—the only black man on the executive board of an advertising firm—is accidentally put in charge after the death of the chairman.

Townsfolk discover a warped secret while clearing out the house of a recently deceased, aristocratic spinster.

Bored with day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband, a young wife and mother slips into increasingly outrageous fantasies: her...

Free-thinking student tries to put up with life at a straight-laced college in 1958.

Mickey Spillane's hard-hitting '50s private eye, Mike Hammer, returns to television in the guise of Kevin Dobson to track down the killer of his...

Innovative drama mixing film and video, with a teenager obsessed with watching his late mother, killed in an auto accident, on tapes he recorded of...

Broad satire and buffoonery presented as a series of movie trailers. Among the titles and subjects are: "The Howard Huge Story", "Skate-boarders from...

A black soldier comes home to Harlem after a tour in Vietnam and discovers that his wife had become a heroin addict and died of an overdose....

An elderly widow must find meaning and activity in her life when her son suggests she is no longer capable of handling her own affairs.

Meet the Raisins! spoofs musical documentaries with its use of anthropomorphic food characters. Through its historical perspective, the special also...

The life and times of the flamboyant showman who built his legendary Follies around beautiful women -- as told by the women in his life.