Val Avery — Actor (36)
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Courage (1986) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Courage
director: Jeremy Kagan actor: Sophia Loren / Billy Dee Williams …
other title: Madre coraggio
A mother in Queens, New York, outraged when she discovers that her son is a drug addict, becomes an undercover agent for the DEA to clean up the drug trade in her neighborhood. Based on a true story.
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Heroes (1977) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Heroes
director: Jeremy Kagan actor: Henry Winkler / Sally Field …
other title: Helden von heute / Héros …
A Vietnam veteran suffering from post traumatic stress disorder breaks out of a VA hospital and goes on a road trip with a sympathetic traveler to find out what became of the other men in his unit.
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The Pink Jungle (1968) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Pink Jungle
director: Delbert Mann actor: James Garner / Eva Renzi …
other title: Le stelle si vedono di giorno / Diamantjunglen …
A famous fashion photographer is trapped in a remote South American country with a beautiful model and together with some unscrupulous characters, become involved in the search for a lost diamond mine.
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Lucky Lady (1975) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Lucky Lady
director: Stanley Donen actor: Gene Hackman / Liza Minnelli …
other title: In 3 sul Lucky Lady / Abenteurer auf der Lucky Lady …
When an American booze smuggler gets murdered in Prohibition-era Mexico, his widow, a nightclub singer, joins forces with her lover and a desperate loner to become rum-runners to the U.S.
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Edge of the City (1957) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Edge of the City
director: Martin Ritt actor: John Cassavetes / Sidney Poitier …
other title: Nel fango della periferia / Ein Mann besiegt die Angst …
A male army deserter and a black male dock worker join forces against a corrupt manager, in a corrupt environment, and as their connection blossoms they must face the oppressive and morally decaying city they live in.
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Harry and Walter Go to New York (1976) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Harry and Walter Go to New York
director: Mark Rydell actor: Elliott Gould / James Caan …
other title: Balordi & Co - Società per losche azioni capitale interamente rubato $ 1.000.000 / Forbrydelse betaler sig …
Two hopelessly out of their class con-men attempt to pull off the largest bank heist of the 19th century — by gaining the enmity of the most famous bank robber in the world and the affection of a crusading newspaperwoman.
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Minnie and Moskowitz (1971) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Minnie and Moskowitz
director: John Cassavetes actor: Gena Rowlands / Seymour Cassel …
other title: Minnie e Moskowitz / Minnie und Moskowitz …
Depressed and jaded after being dumped by her married boyfriend, aging beauty Minnie Moore wonders if she'll ever find love. After shaggy-haired parking lot attendant Seymour Moskowitz comes to her defense from an angry and rebuffed blind date, he falls hopelessly in love with her despite their myriad differences. Minnie reluctantly agrees to a date with Moskowitz, and, slowly but surely, an unlikely romance blossoms between the two.
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Sylvia (1965) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Sylvia
director: Gordon Douglas actor: Carroll Baker / George Maharis …
other title: L'Enquête / Das Vorleben der Sylvia West …
Sylvia West (Carroll Baker) may not be who she says she is. Her fiancé, the very well-to-do Frederick Summers (Peter Lawford), hires an investigator named Alan Maklin (George Maharis) to do some digging, and what he finds out about her life prior to becoming a writer is quite shocking. Will the newfound knowledge ruin the marriage? Gordon Douglas (Young at Heart) directs this drama, which is based on E.V. Cunningham's book.
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The Legend of Hillbilly John (1974) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Legend of Hillbilly John
director: John Newland actor: Hedges Capers / Severn Darden …
A roaming hillbilly, on a quest to defy the Devil, encounters several supernatural characters and does battle with his silver-stringed guitar.
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Satan's Bed (1965) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Satan's Bed
director: Michael Findlay / Marshall Smith … actor: Yoko Ono / Val Avery …
A young Japanese girl arriving in New York City gets mixed up with mobsters and dope dealers.
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Hombre (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData NeoDB Douban
Hombre
director: Martin Ritt actor: Paul Newman / Fredric March …
other title: De Kaldte Ham Hombre / Um Homem …
John Russell, disdained by his "respectable" fellow stagecoach passengers because he was raised by Indians, becomes their only hope for survival when they are set upon by outlaws.
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Hud (1963) [Movie]
Hud
director: Martin Ritt actor: Paul Newman / Melvyn Douglas …
other title: Hud il selvaggio / Den Utæmmelige …
Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth, out for kicks with no regard for the consequences. There is bitter conflict between the callous Hud and his stern and highly principled father, Homer. Hud's nephew Lon admires Hud's cheating ways, though he soon becomes too aware of Hud's reckless amorality to bear him anymore. In the world of the takers and the taken, Hud is a winner. He's a cheat, but, he explains, "I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner."
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Love and Bullets (1979) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Love and Bullets
director: Stuart Rosenberg / John Huston actor: Charles Bronson / Jill Ireland …
other title: Tiro incrociato / Ein Mann räumt auf …
Jackie Pruit is the girlfriend of notorious gangster Joe Bomposa. When it looks as if Bomposa's goons are threatening Jackie's life, the FBI moves in to protect her, hoping that she'll have incriminating evidence. Veteran agent Charlie Congers is assigned to watch over Jackie, and while it soon becomes apparent that she knows almost nothing about Bomposa that would be of any use to the FBI, he falls in love with her. Bomposa decides it would be more convenient to have Jackie out of the way, ordering her to be executed. Bomposa's henchmen slip through FBI security and murder her, but now they have to answer the angry and vengeful Congers.
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Machine Gun McCain (1969) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Gli intoccabili
director: Giuliano Montaldo actor: John Cassavetes / Britt Ekland …
other title: Gli intoccabili / De urørlige …
After serving 12 years behind bars for armed robbery, tough guy Hank McCain finds himself the pawn of a ruthless mob runt's rebellion against a high level don. When McCain discovers that he's been betrayed and abandoned by his new employer, he retaliates with a high stakes Las Vegas casino heist that erupts into all-out war on the streets of Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. Neither blood, nor lust, nor wedding vows can come between McCain and his money ... or his machine gun.