Direction: John G. Avildsen

Direction John G. Avildsen

Cast Sylvester Stallone · Talia Shire · Burt Young · Carl Weathers

Plot Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) is a down-on-his-luck Philadelphia southpaw who works at a meat-packing factory while fighting at a local club. Hes given the chance of a lifetime when the...

Direction John G. Avildsen

Cast Stephen Dorff · Armin Mueller-Stahl · Morgan Freeman · John Gielgud

Plot PK, an English orphan terrorized for his family’s political beliefs in Africa, turns to his only friend, a kindly world-wise prisoner, Geel Piet. Geel teaches him how to box with...

Direction John G. Avildsen

Cast Peter Boyle · Dennis Patrick · Susan Sarandon · Audrey Caire

Plot Bill, a wealthy businessman, confronts his junkie daughter's drug-dealing boyfriend; in the ensuing argument, Bill kills him. Panic-stricken, he wanders the streets and eventually stops at a bar. There he...

Direction John G. Avildsen

Cast Jack Lemmon · Jack Gilford · Laurie Heineman · Norman Burton

Plot The film depicts a day and a half in Harry Stoner's life. Harry is down on his luck, and trapped in his own indulgences. He daydreams about his youth, trying...

Direction John G. Avildsen

Cast Morgan Freeman · Beverly Todd · Robert Guillaume · Alan North

Plot Lean On Me is based on a true story of a principal in a New Jersey high school, Eastside High. The Principal, Joe Clark, is hired in 1983 to run...

Direction John G. Avildsen

Cast Ralph Macchio · Pat Morita · Elisabeth Shue · William Zabka

Plot Daniel Larusso and his mother move from New Jersy to California. She has a wonderful new job but Daniel discovers that a dark haired Italian boy with a Jersey accent...

Direction John G. Avildsen

Cast George C. Scott · Marthe Keller · Marlon Brando · John Gielgud

Plot A formula for synthetic fuel had been developed by the Nazis during WW II. In the intervening 35 years since the war's end, the formula has disappeared and several people...

Direction John G. Avildsen

Cast Molly Ringwald · Randall Batinkoff · Kenneth Mars · Miriam Flynn

Plot Darcy, editor at her highschool paper, and her long-term boyfriend Stan are in their last months of school and already have found places in good colleges. Recently they started to...

Direction John G. Avildsen

Cast Peter Falk · Charles Durning · Claude Lelouch · Gary Maas

Plot 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 men and women they...

Direction John G. Avildsen

Cast Luke Perry · Cynthia Geary · Stephen Baldwin · James Rebhorn

Plot This film chronicles the life of Lane Frost, 1987 PRCA Bull Riding World Champion, his marriage and his friendships with Tuff Hedeman (three-time World Champion) and Cody Lambert.

Direction John G. Avildsen

Cast John Belushi · Dan Aykroyd · Cathy Moriarty · Kathryn Walker

Plot The Keeses (Belushi and Walker) live in a quiet, middle-class suburban neighborhood where life is calm and sweet. But their new neighbors, Ramona and Vic (Aykroyd and Moriarty), prove to...

Direction John G. Avildsen

Cast Ralph Macchio · Pat Morita · Yuji Okumoto · Nobu McCarthy

Plot It's summer, Daniel just broke up with his girlfriend and was told by his mother that her job needs her to move to Fresno for the summer which Daniel doesn't...

Direction John G. Avildsen

Cast Sylvester Stallone · Talia Shire · Burgess Meredith · Burt Young

Plot Rocky Balboa is forced to retire after having permanent damage inflicted on him in the ring by the Russian boxer Ivan Drago. Returning home after the Drago bout, Balboa discovers...

Direction John G. Avildsen

Cast Christopher Atkins · Lesley Ann Warren · Robert Logan · Deborah Rush

Plot Faye Hanlon is a community-college professor with an emotionally depressed husband and an abundance of sexual frustration. Her sister drags her to a male strip-club for a girls-night out, where...

Direction John G. Avildsen

Cast Ralph Macchio · Pat Morita · Robyn Lively · Thomas Ian Griffith

Plot After Daniel and Miyagi defeats the Cobra Kais, and after Miyagi humiliates their master, Kreese. All of his students desert him and he hasn't had any new ones. Kreese decides...

Direction John G. Avildsen

Cast Jean-Claude Van Damme · Pat Morita · Danny Trejo · Gabrielle Fitzpatrick

Plot Eddie Lomax (Van Damme) is a vetern soldier sick of life, wandering the desert looking for a reason to die. An incident with a few thugs from the nearby town...

Direction John G. Avildsen

Cast Jackson Beck · Pamela Gruen · Allen Garfield · Devin Goldenberg

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

Direction John G. Avildsen

Cast Dick Carballo · Devin Goldenberg · Jane McLeod · Yvonne McCall

Plot 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 education in that regard...

Direction John G. Avildsen

Cast Sharon Kent · Richard Michaels · Luigi Mastroianni · Jackie Riley

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

Direction John G. Avildsen

Cast Burt Reynolds · Conny Van Dyke · Jerry Reed · Ned Beatty

Plot W.W. Bright (Burt Reynolds) is an easygoing crook who robs gas stations through the drive-up windows. The Dixie Dancekings are a country music band trying to get discovered. W.W. steals...