Alex McArthurFilmography

Suspended Animation

Actors: Sage Allen, Laura Esterman, Alex McArthur

Synopsis: After an unnerving brush with death, a filmmaker finds that his ordeal isn't quite over in this modestly budgeted horror movie. Tom Kempton (Alex McArthur) is a successful animator who wants to get away from the hustle and bustle of Hollywood for a while. He joins several friends for a vacation in Read More

Dischord

Actors: Thomas Jay Ryan, Annunziata Gianzero, Richard Bakalyan, Andrew Borba, Rick Wessler

Synopsis: A woman in love with music finds herself trapped between a husband jealous of her success and a brother-in-law with a deadly secret in this independent thriller. Lucian (Andrew Borba) is a talented but arrogantly self-important musician and composer who has recently released an album in Read More

Stealing Candy

Actors: Alex McArthur, Coolio, Daniel Baldwin, Jenya Lano

Synopsis: Mark L. Lester's Stealing Candy concerns three unsavory types who concoct a unique get-rich-quick scheme. The threesome attempts to put together a one-time-only online sex session featuring a famous actress. Their biggest problem to overcome is that fact that their star has no idea she will be Read More

Route 666

Actors: Lou Diamond Phillips, Lori Petty, Alex McArthur

Synopsis: The brutal murder of a prison chain gang reverberates through time, leaving an unsuspecting pair of special agents doing battle against the forces of the undead in this tale of highway horror from director William Wesley. When a pair of mafia hitmen force special agents Jack (Lou Diamond Phillips) Read More

Devil in the Flesh 2

Actors: Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, Katherine Kendall

Synopsis: One of the more difficult high school students in cinematic history moves on to college in this sexy thriller. Debbie Strand (Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, in the role Rose McGowan played in the first film) was sentenced to a mental institution for the criminally insane after her previous murder spree, but Read More

The Spiral Staircase

Actors: Nicollette Sheridan, Judd Nelson, Alex McArthur, Debbe Dunning, Holland Taylor

Synopsis: Ethel Lina White's suspense novel Some Must Watch was first filmed under the title The Spiral Staircase in 1946. This same title was applied to a subsequent 1962 TV special adaptation, and a 1975 British TV-movie remake. The Spiral Staircase resurfaced again in 2000 as a made-for-cable feature Read More

Charmed: Which Prue is It, Anyway?

Synopsis: In her latest premonition, Phoebe (Alyssa Milano) sees her own sister Prue (Shannen Doherty) being fatally stabbed...for the "crime" of being the first born. It soon appears that this horrifying image will come true: just as the Halliwell sisters' great-great-great-aunt was killed by a demon Read More

Kiss The Girls

Actors: Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, Cary Elwes, Tony Goldwyn, Jay O. Sanders

Synopsis: This thriller is adapted from the 1995 novel by James Patterson about a serial killer prowling a Southern university. Washington, D.C., forensic psychologist Dr. Alex Cross (Morgan Freeman) is also a best-selling author. After his niece Naomi (Gina Ravera) is reported missing, he heads his Porsche Read More

Devil in the Flesh

Actors: Rose McGowan, Alex McArthur, Phil Morris, Robert Silver

Synopsis: Teenage lust turns deadly in this slightly campy exploitation drama. Debbie Strand (Rose McGowan) is a sexy but troubled teenager with a checkered past who is sent to live with her grandmother after the death of her parents. Grandma attempts to keep Debbie on a short leash, but she's soon sneaking Read More

Touched By an Angel: Full Moon

Synopsis: Monica (Roma Downey) is assigned to help married couple Ed and Sarah Bingham (Alex McArthur, Jessica Steen) find "closure" six years after Sarah was raped by Carl Atwater (Chris Noth). Claiming to be a born-again Christian, Carl has been paroled, and now is stalking Sarah, all the while insisting Read More

Ladykiller

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Alex McArthur, Terri Treas

Perfect Alibi

Actors: Teri Garr, Hector Elizondo, Lydie Denier, Kathleen Quinlan, Charles Martin Smith

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a detective and a widow pair up to solve a double homicide in Beverly Hills. A conniving French nanny seems to hold the key to cracking the case. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Ed McBain's 87th Precinct

Synopsis: This made-for-TV drama, based on a series of popular novels by Ed McBain, stars Randy Quaid as Steve Carella, a police detective investigating a series of grisly murders. A serial killer is targeting women who compete in track and field events, and Carella and his team have to find the perpetrator Read More

Sharon's Secret

Actors: Candace Cameron, Mel Harris, Alex McArthur, Paul Regina, Gregg Henry

Synopsis: In this thriller, only a determined psychiatrist can save a traumatized, catatonic girl from going to prison for the murder of her parents. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Woman on the Run: The Lawrencia Bembenek Story

Actors: Tatum O'Neal, Bruce Greenwood, Peggy McCay, Alex McArthur, Victor Garber

Synopsis: Tatum O'Neal headlines this dramatic fact-based account of a former model and police officer accused of killing her husband's first wife. The sensationalistic press coverage of her trial turns the ex-cop into a celebrity. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Rampage

Actors: Michael Biehn, Alex McArthur, Nicholas Campbell, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, John Harkins

Synopsis: Rampage delves into the subject of legal insanity, so often the default defense in modern-time gruesome crime trials. Alex McArthur plays an outwardly normal guy who goes on incredible killing and mutilating sprees until (and even after, when he escapes for a short time) he's captured. When he Read More

Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel, Part 1

Actors: Julie Carmen, Dennis Farina, John Glover

Synopsis: Meticulously researched and elaborately produced, the two-part TV movie Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel is based on a true story. In addition, to quote the original print ads, "This is the one we won!" Incorruptible agents of the DEA declare war against Colombia's Medelin drug lords. To undermine Read More

Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel, Part 2

Synopsis: The expensively assembled two-part TV movie Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel is the true story of a successful "bust" engineered by the Drug Enforcement Administration. Part One detailed an undercover attack on the Colombian drug lords' refineries (see separate entry for further details). In part Read More

Shoot First: A Cop's Vengeance

Synopsis: This police story chronicles the true story of two partners who started out as best friends and later became the bitterest of enemies when one of them becomes corrupted. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Race for Glory

Actors: Alex McArthur, Peter Berg, Pamela Ludwig, Ray Wise, Oliver Stritzel

Synopsis: In Race for Glory, a young motorcyclist takes his wrench-toting friend and his home-made bike to the big-time European Grand Prix races. Surely the underdog of underdogs, this fellow's up against all odds as he takes on big-name race teams from all over the world in his effort to grab the cup of Read More

Desperado: Badlands Justice

Actors: Alex McArthur

Synopsis: Badlands Justice is another in a series of Desperado feature films made exclusively for television. Alex McArthur returns as cowboy Duell McCall, who wanders the wide frontier in search of the one man who will clear him of a murder charge (What price Fugitive?) Once more, McCall finds himself in a Read More

Desperado: The Outlaw Wars

Synopsis: In exchange for clearing Duell McCall's name, the cowboy's assistance is needed in locating the murderer of the sheriff's wife. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

L.A. Takedown

Actors: Alex McArthur

Synopsis: Producer/director Michael Mann, kappelmeister of the trendy TV series Miami Vice, tried to impose his MTV mentality on Tinseltown with L.A. Takedown. Los Angeles cop Scott Plank is on the trail of master thief Alex McArthur. After McArthur pulls off "the score of a lifetime," the crook and the cop Read More

The Return of Desperado

Actors: Alex McArthur, Billy Dee Williams

Synopsis: As a result of the surprise ratings success of the first Desperado TV movie in April of 1987, plans were hastily drawn up to release additional Desperado adventures over the next three years. Return of Desperado was the first such follow-up to be telecast, though in fact it was filmed after the Read More

Desperado: Avalanche at Devil's Ridge

Actors: Lise Cutter, Alex McArthur, Rod Steiger, Alice Adair

Synopsis: Desperado: Avalanche at Devil's Ridge was the third in a sporadic series of TV westerns centered around fugitive do-gooder Duell McCall (Alex McArthur). Falsely accused of a whole litany of crimes, McCall is forced to drift from town to town, spreading a little goodwill wherever he happens to Read More

Desperado

Actors: Alex McArthur, Robert Vaughn

Synopsis: Desperado was the first of several made-for-TV movies revolving around the exploits of itinerant cowboy Duell McCall (Alex McArthur). This time around, McCall finds himself in the middle of a deadly feud in a small mining town. As the only honest man in the territory (comparatively speaking), our Read More

Desert Hearts

Actors: Helen Shaver, Patricia Charbonneau, Audra Lindley, Andra Akers, Gwen Welles, Dean Butler

Synopsis: Director Donna Deitch makes a strong impression in her first feature film, a simple story of a lesbian love affair, based on Jane Rule's 1964 novel Desert of the Heart. Helen Shaver stars as Vivian Bell, an uptight 35-year-old Columbia University professor who travels to Reno to get a divorce. She Read More

Command 5

Synopsis: This action movie chronicles the exciting exploits of a crack crime fighting force. They are notorious for their unusual tactics when dealing with criminals. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Crime of Innocence

Synopsis: In this prison drama, two adolescent girls are incarcerated with adults by an obsessive judge. There they are terribly exploited and abused. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Silent Witness

Synopsis: A young wife and her husband witness the brutal barroom rape of a young woman and now must decide whether or not to testify against the culprits or remain quiet in this made-for-TV drama that exploits an actual Massachusetts case. Compounding her difficulties is the fact that one of the rapists is Read More

Urge to Kill

Synopsis: Filmed in Dallas, the made-for-TV With Intent to Kill gets under way as high school football hero Bo Reinecker (Alex McArthur) tries to piece together the events leading up to murder of his girl friend Lisa Nolen (Catherine Mary Stewart). Claiming to have experienced a total blackout, Bo is Read More