John G. Avildsen Movies

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...

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

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

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

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...

A ruthless Southern opportunist tries to buy his cousin's land, and when thwarted, brings several tragedies to the lives of his loved ones.

A former comic is on the run from the mob.

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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