Movies directed by Paul Shapiro

Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story (1995)

92 mins     Biography, Drama, TV Movie      

To all those who say movies are a waste of time I say you've been watching the wrong movies as you find the right ones and you learn a lot. One such movie is "Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story" as before watchin...

The Price of a Broken Heart (1999)

89 mins     Drama, TV Movie      

If you didn't know it should come as little surprise when I say "The Price of a Broken Heart" is based on a true story. It's worthiness for being made into a movie is because of the old law which Dot uses to sue Joe's mistres...

Black and Blue (1999)

96 mins     Drama, TV Movie      

Movie Review - Black and Blue (1999) Mary Stuart Masterson stars as Frances, an abused wife who enters the witness protection program to escape the violence from her husband, Bobby (Anthony LaPaglia), a detective...

Jewel (2001)

98 mins     Drama, TV Movie      

Movie Review - Jewel (2001) true story movie starring Farrah Fawcett as Jewel, a 1940's mother to a child born with Down's syndrome who she refuses to give up on, going against the advice of doctors when she refuses to send h...

Ann Rule Presents: The Stranger Beside Me (2003)

86 mins     Crime, Drama, TV Movie      

Ann Rule Presents: The Stranger Beside Me (2003) Billy Campbell stars as Ted Bundy in this story about the friendship between writer Ann Rule and the killer....

Plain Truth (2004)

90 mins     Crime, Drama, Mystery, TV Movie      

I will be honest with you, whilst I had heard that "Plain Truth" was based on a Jodi Picoult novel it wasn't what interested me. What did was the simple one line synopsis on imdb "An unmarried 18 year-old Amish girl is charge...

Deadly Honeymoon (2010)

89 mins     Crime, Drama, Mystery, TV Movie      

Movie Review - Deadly Honeymoon (2010) Summer Glau stars as Lindsey in this true story TV movie about a murder mystery aboard a honeymoon cruise when her new husband mysteriously goes missing...

A Mother's Suspicion (2016)

86 mins     Thriller, TV Movie      

Movie Review - A Mother's Suspicion (2016) (aka: Dying to Be Loved) Lindsay Hartley stars as Jill who when her daughter supposed committed suicide with her boyfriend by jumping off a bridge together is suspicious and starts h...

Secrets in the Attic (2016)

90 mins     Thriller, TV Movie      

Movie Review - Secrets in the Attic (2016) (aka: Boy in the Attic) Gina Holden stars as Rita who with her daughter, Callie (Abbie Cobb), have moved in to her late grandmother's house. But Callie discovers Michael (Max Lloyd-J...

A Heavenly Christmas (2016)

90 mins     Drama, TV Movie      

Movie Review - A Heavenly Christmas (2016) Kristin Davis stars as Eve who after suddenly dying finds herself sent back to Earth as a Christmas angel to help Max (Eric McCormack) who is caring for his niece. But Eve finds hers...