John G. Avildsen

All Movies of John G. Avildsen

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 Year

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  5.8
  American Satan
  A young rock band, half from England and half from the US, drop out of college and move to the Sunset Strip to chase their dreams.
  Character: Talk Show Host (as John Avildsen)

   2017

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  8.2
  Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
  Director Mark Hartley (Not Quite Hollywood, Machete Maidens Unleashed!) continues his delightful documentary disinterment of down-market movie detritus with this chronicle of the rise and fall of 1980s action-exploitation juggerna...
   2014

• 
  7.2
  A Decade Under the Influence
  The 1970s was an extraordinary time of rebellion, of questioning every accepted idea: political activism, hedonism, protests, the sexual revolution, the women's movement, the civil rights movement, the music revolution, rage and l...
  Character: Self

   2003

• 
  5.2
  Desert Heat
  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 who steal Eddies motorbike and beat him almost to death, starts in Eddie...
  Director of the film

   1999

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  8 Seconds
  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.
  Director of the film

   1994

• 
  6.3
  The Power of One
  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 the motto “fight with your fists and lead with ...
  Director of the film

   1992

• 
  4.9
  Rocky V
  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 that the fortune that he had acquired as heavyweigh...
  Director of the film

   1990

• 
  6.6
  Lean on Me
  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 one of the worst schools in this state. His mission is to turn this crime, drug, and ...
  Director of the film

   1989

• 
  5.1
  The Karate Kid: Part III
  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 to close the dojo, he then goes to to his friend, Terr...
  Director of the film

   1989

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  For Keeps?
  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 sleep with each other and, surprise, surprise, Dar...
  Director of the film

   1988

• 
  6.0
  Happy New Year
  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 begin the set-up, but then Nick falls for the owner of a neig...
  Director of the film

   1987

• 
  6.2
  The Karate Kid: Part II
  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 like. Mr. Miyagi was going to let Daniel stay with him until he receives...
  Director of the film

   1986

• 
  7.3
  The Karate Kid
  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 doesn't fit into the blond surfer crowd, especially when he trie...
  Director of the film

   1984

• 
  6.0
  A Night in Heaven
  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 she discovers that one of the dancer...
  Director of the film

   1983

• 
  5.6
  Neighbours
  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 be loud, obnoxious, crazy, and freeloading....
  Director of the film

   1981

• 
  6.0
  The Formula
  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 connected with it have died under mysterious circumstances....
  Director of the film

   1980

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  Slow Dancing in the Big City
  Director of the film

   1978

• 
  7.9
  Rocky
  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 world heavyweight champion, Apollo Creed...
  Director of the film

   1976

• 
  4.4
  Foreplay
  Director of the film

   1975

• 
  6.6
  Save the Tiger
  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 to escape from the fact that business is rotten and his company owes bun...
  Director of the film

   1973

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  The Stoolie
  Director of the film

   1972

• 
  6.9
  Joe
  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 runs into a drunken facto...
  Director of the film

   1970