Movies and TvShows featuring "helping-hand" theme.
Shades of L.A. is an American crime drama television series that aired from October 10, 1990 until April 6, 1991. Det. Michael Burton of the Los Angeles Police Department is a casual cop until he finds himself in limbo after a bullet grazes his head. He finds himself surrounded by "shades" - spirits trapped between heaven and hell until they can complete any unfinished business on earth. Once resuscitated, he can still see the "shades" so goes about helping them.
The harrowing true story of the Broberg family, whose daughter Jan was kidnapped multiple times over a period of years in the 1970s by a charismatic, obsessed family friend. The Brobergs, devoted to their faith, family, and community, were utterly unprepared for the sophisticated tactics their neighbor used to exploit their vulnerabilities, drive them apart, and turn their daughter against them. This is the story of how their lives were permanently altered, and how they survived.
Candidates who are criminals of the kitchen on the Norbert show, are of all kinds, mothers of families, single fathers, grandmothers or young who have been cooking for years. But their families and friends no longer support their dishes that are too fat, too heavy and often missed. Relatives dare not confess to "criminals" how bad their cooking is. This is the reason why they "complain" to Norbert Tarayre . Norbert is therefore assigned (like a lawyer), to put these "criminals" in the right way.
Bill and Ted, now middle-aged, are tasked with creating a song to save all of time and space. They travel through time, meet historical figures, and encounter their future selves as they try to fulfill their destiny.
After being fired from his job as a college basketball coach, a hot-tempered man reluctantly takes a job as a coach for a junior high school team. Through perseverance and believing in his players, he helps them overcome their struggles and become winners on and off the court. Along the way, he learns valuable lessons about admitting mistakes, building relationships, and the importance of teamwork.
Born Innocent is a controversial drama that follows the story of a teenage girl who is sent to a brutal juvenile detention center. She must navigate the sadistic environment while dealing with abusive peers, corrupt prison workers, and a female prison gang. The film depicts the brutality and violence faced by the protagonist, including rape and torture. Through the story, it highlights issues of abuse, violation, and the struggle for survival in a corrupt system.
Documentary series about credit unions and responsible lenders across the country, telling the stories of people whose lives have been transformed by an ethical loan.
Ogden Confer is a community college student living with his parents and dealing with the recent loss of his best pal, Rose, when he foils the suicide effort of a mysterious young lady, Beth, who proceeds to make him pay for not minding his own business.
Eastern Plays follows a recovering drug addict who rebels against his father and becomes involved in violence and anti-foreigner sentiment in Sofia, Bulgaria. As he navigates the turbulent dynamics of his dysfunctional relationship with his father, he also encounters various themes of addiction, racism, xenophobia, and the search for truth and meaning in life.
High school kid, Thorvald, embarks on an effort to change the name of his school's sports and academic teams from the "Vikings", to something less offensive to Norwegians. It's a love story.
Pudgy the pup takes Betty Boop's advice ('Go Out and Make Friends With the World') to heart and befriends various wild animals.
Cowards Bend the Knee tells the story of a man in Winnipeg who becomes involved in a web of intrigue and violence after he meets a mysterious woman. As his obsession grows, he descends further into darkness and finds himself caught in a series of dangerous and erotic situations. The movie explores themes of love, jealousy, and the lengths people will go to fulfill their desires.
Just as church services are letting out, a shabbily-dressed stranger is run over by an automobile in front of the church. The stranger is helped mentally and physically by the minister and congregation members, who help him regain his self-confidence and also to accept the death of his wife as she was about to embark from Europe, as a displaced person, to join him in America.
General Mills' popular Hamburger Helper mascot also known as Helping Hand or Lefty, a four-fingered, left-hand white glove, which appears on the product's packaging, comes to life in a woman's kitchen and tries to grope her and kill her.
The focus of this wartime propaganda film from 1940 is the foreman Keith, who works at a Polish sawmill, not far from the German border. It is 1939 and the War is fast approaching. The Polish workers at the sawmill revolt and kill the mill's German owner, as well as threaten their German colleagues. Keith flees with the children of his dead boss and joins other German refugees on their way to safety across the borders of the Reich.
The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.
In a park, a homeless woman claiming to be a psychoanalyst helps out Annie, a troubled young woman in need of some guidance, by explaining to her in a fun and approachable way the philosophy of Freud and Kierkegaard. Comedy short from "Four Tales from Two Cities."
The old men meet a young girl, broke, hungry and discouraged, in the park. Colonel Henry Randolph Ransome (Henry B. Walthall) bluffs his way into obtaining enough money to support the welfare of the girl,Rose Wentworth (Sally Blane), and his two cronies. He sends for the girl's former sweetheart, who turns out to be a crook.