John G. Avildsen Movies

Young high school couple Darcy Elliot and Stan Bobrucz are one year from graduation, with promising futures ahead of them. But their paths take a...

While investigating the death of a friend and fellow cop, Los Angeles police officer Barney Caine stumbles across evidence that Nazis created a...

Drawing on archival footage from four separate film productions that documented the protests of early May, 1970, this short film creates a...

A short film by John G. Avildsen.

A businessman's professional struggles begin to conflict with his personal life over the course of two days.

After murdering his daughter's drug-dealing boyfriend, a wealthy ad executive stumbles into a bar and strikes up an uneasy alliance with Joe Curran,...

The life of Fumio Demura, the greatest karate master of a generation.

An aging out of shape reporter falls for a pretty but seriously ill ballerina.

Small time crooksters Nick and Charlie have an elaborate plan to rob an exclusive jewelers store. Using a variety of disguises and posing as rich old...

An examination of the Oscar-winning director who brought to life some of cinema's most beloved motion pictures.

A former comic is on the run from the mob.

W.W. Bright is a robber with a heart of gold who travels the South knocking off banks and gas stations owned by a corrupt businessman. When he...

HBO (in association with the American Film Institute) presents this 1997 anthology, narrated by Liev Schreiber, which looks at sports in cinema from...

John G. Avildsen pays tribute to cinematographer James Crabe.

A businessman's professional struggles begin to conflict with his personal life over the course of two days.

John Travolta, Barry Gibb and the Saturday Night Fever cast and crew tell the story behind the mega-hit film. Bruno Tonioli goes through the disco...

The 35th anniversary of the 1976 Oscar-winning film “Rocky” is marked with a TV retrospective in which Sylvester Stallone and others...

Parents in a small, conservative community don't think that the sex drive is a normal thing for children to experience. So much so, that they label...

Private detective Jack Masters takes on a case and gets mixed up in murder, sex and blackmail.

A bored housewife starts hanging out in Greenwich Village and gets involved with pot-smoking hippies and an Italian filmmaker.