Donald Martin

Writing

Donald Martin

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Condition Critical poster
4.3

Medical-center doctors discover the shocking source of a deadly virus spreading through Los Angeles.

Condition Critical

1992

Queen Bees poster
6.0

Helen is an independent widow who moves into the Pine Grove Senior Community and discovers it’s just like high school – full of cliques and flirtatious suitors. What she initially avoids leads her to exactly what she has been missing: new friendships and a chance at love again with newcomer Dan.

Queen Bees

2021

Brazen poster
4.8

Mystery writer Grace Miller has killer instincts when it comes to motive - and she'll need every bit of expertise to help solve her sister's murder.

Brazen

2022

The Craigslist Killer poster
5.2

Based on a true story, seemingly flawless Philip Markoff, a charismatic and popular medical student at Boston University, leads a double life and starts to descend into a twisted world of gambling, crime, battery, and eventually murder, all while meeting his victims via Craigslist. 

The Craigslist Killer

2011

Family Sins poster
5.8

Based on the true story of the Burt family who seemed normal, upstanding members of the community but were actually deeply embedded in crime. The matriarch took in foster children who were subsequently molested and abused by her husband and children and she kept a woman enslaved and imprisoned in the basement for over twenty years until the woman's daughter managed to get to Rhode Island Attorney General David Morwitz and expose the horrors taking place in the Burt household.

Family Sins

2005

Ricochet poster
4.6

Two homicide detectives find their careers - and lives - on the line when they get caught up in a case of murder and betrayal in high-society Savannah.

Ricochet

2011

Christmas Town poster
7.2

Lauren Gabriel leaves everything behind in Boston to embark on a new chapter in her life and career. But an unforeseen detour to the charming town of Grandon Falls has her discover unexpected new chapters - of the heart and of family - helping her to embrace, once again, the magic of Christmas.

Christmas Town

2019

Shackles poster
5.5

An aspiring teacher (Hughley) takes the one job he's offered, a position at a school inside a prison.

Shackles

2005

Murder, She Baked: A Chocolate Chip Cookie Mystery poster
7.0

Based on the New York Times bestselling book, Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke, the film will take viewers on a mouthwatering mystery that centers on Hannah Swensen, shop owner of the Cookie Jar where much of the town's gossip percolates along with the strong coffee. But when a mysterious murder occurs, Hannah turns into a culinary detective and finds herself trying to solve the crime while getting caught in an unexpected romantic mystery of her own.

Murder, She Baked: A Chocolate Chip Cookie Mystery

2015

Carnal Innocence poster
4.6

A famous violinist Caroline Waverly returns to her home town. A killer is on the streets, and Caroline may be a target for murder.

Carnal Innocence

2011

Pocahontas: The Legend poster
5.9

Englishmen come to explore and settle the new world. There they find natives who are curious about their "firesticks" and strange customs.

Pocahontas: The Legend

1995

Pocahontas: The Legend poster
5.9

Englishmen come to explore and settle the new world. There they find natives who are curious about their "firesticks" and strange customs.

Pocahontas: The Legend

1995

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NR

An adolescent boy lives in Detroit after World War II with his Polish immigrant mother Olona and his late father's brother Izzy, a former soldier. Izzy likes to tell Chester stories of his father's military days, especially about he served alongside Wojtek, a legendary soldier bear. Chester is the only one who believes the tales and his unwavering faith sets him off on a road trip to uncover the truth and confirm Wojtek's existence.

Bear Season

Milton's Secret poster
5.2

11 year-old Milton Adams is growing up in an uncertain world. With his parents constantly stressing about their careers and finances, and the neighborhood bully tormenting him, Milton feels his whole world is in crisis. But when his Grandpa Howard comes to visit, he discovers anxiety about the past and worrying about the future only make things worse and prevent him from finding true happiness moment to moment.

Milton's Secret

2016

Never Too Late poster
5.5

Four old friends reunite to investigate the death of a good friend.

Never Too Late

1996

Wild Hearts poster
6.3

When Bob Hart, a widowed police detective trying to raise a rebellious teenage daughter, inherits a Montana horse ranch, he jumps at the opportunity to leave Los Angeles for the open range. Soon after arriving, Bob accepts the position as county sheriff and discovers that the seemingly bucolic countryside is far from tranquil. His problems include wolves who attack his stock, ruthless developers trying to take over the town and a female veterinarian with a chip on her shoulder, while trying to build a new home.

Wild Hearts

2006

Christmas Homecoming poster
6.7

A military widow, whose faith in Christmas has lapsed, rents an apartment to a handsome Army Captain, recovering from an injury in battle, and whose faith in Christmas is inspirational. As they team up to save the town’s military museum with a Christmas fundraising event, these two ‘wounded birds’ find themselves falling in love — and being healed by the magic of Christmas.

Christmas Homecoming

2017

Max Havoc: Ring of Fire poster
4.1

Sports reporter Max Havoc, a former kickboxer, travels to Seattle. There he encounters orphans who are threatened by an unscrupulous broker because he wants to build a hotel on the grounds of their home. Max takes up the fight with him.

Max Havoc: Ring of Fire

2006

Shadow Lake poster
4.3

A writer's mysterious disappearance on an ice-covered lake holds the clues to a missing gemstone and a grisly murder.

Shadow Lake

1999

Dim Sum Funeral poster
4.4

An Irish funeral has a wake. A Jewish funeral has sitting shiva. A traditional Chinese funeral is something else entirely. That's what the estranged siblings of the Chinese-American Xiao family must undergo upon news of their mother's death. The one brother and three sisters don't get along, however, they share one thing: hatred for their domineering and manipulative mother, "The Dragon Lady."

Dim Sum Funeral

2008

Mending Fences poster
5.1

When big-city TV journalist Kelly Faraday (Laura Leighton) gets fired, she moves back to her Nevada hometown, where a severe drought may force her aging mother, Ruth (Angie Dickinson), to sell the family farm to a casino developer. As Kelly and Ruth sort out old differences, the erstwhile reporter and her ex-beau Walt (David Lee Smith) begin to suspect the casino of manipulating the town's water supply. Stephen Bridgewater directs this drama.

Mending Fences

2009

The Christmas Choir poster
5.1

A chance encounter with a homeless man named Bob inspires a workaholic accountant to start a choir at a homeless shelter, allowing him to find a purpose to his life and discover the power of music, while providing the choir members with a chance at a new, better life.

The Christmas Choir

2008

The Disappearance of Mrs. Wu poster
NR

Aware that her time is running short, irascible Wu family matriarch Lily is eager to repair the strained relationship with her adult daughter Mary and help her shy 18-year-old granddaughter Emma find her voice. As her final wish, she persuades longtime friend Charlotte, Emma and Emma’s best friend Karen to spring her from her L.A. nursing home and take a wild road trip up the California coast to a special place from her past. Along the way, long-held secrets are revealed and Mary and Emma each come to understand the painful choices their mothers made in this funny and touching multi-generational story about family, forgiveness and being true to oneself.

The Disappearance of Mrs. Wu

2023

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5.6

A crime novelist searches for a missing baby at his sister's behest and makes painful discoveries about himself along the way.

Loss of Faith

1998