John G. Avildsen Movies

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

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

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...

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...

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

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.

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

A struggling writer dumps a pregnant dancer for a well-off socialite. Later, he realizes his true feelings and opts to make amends.

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

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...

John G. Avildsen has only recently cemented his reputation as the "king of the underdogs," owing to his having directed both Rocky (1976) and The...