John G. Avildsen Movies

In 1972, officer Frank Serpico exposes the corruption which poisons the roots of the NYPD and becomes famous in 1973 when director Sidney Lumet tells...

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

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...

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

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

A short film by John G. Avildsen.

A documentary about Roger Baldwin, the founder of the ACLU.

The film tells the story of Bill, a young, successful stockbroker who zips off to Greenwich Village on his motorcycle when no one's looking to...

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

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...

A three-part omnibus centered around sex and its discontents.

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...

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

A former comic is on the run from the mob.

Retrospective documentary on the making of The Karate Kid (1984).

South Park's Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Night of the Living Dead's George A. Romero and Spider-Man's Stan Lee share their filmmaking secrets with...

Documentary on Jack Lemmon featuring interviews with those who knew him and worked with him.

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

An introverted nerd and a violent jock vie for the attentions of a cheerleader.

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...