Movies: Val Avery

  • 1962
    Requiem for a Heavyweight

    Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962)

    Requiem for a Heavyweight

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    Mountain Rivera is a veteran heavyweight and near-champion who suddenly finds himself washed up in the only trade he knows—prizefighting. Yet, threatened by gangsters for welshing on a gambling debt, Mountain’s opportunistic manager, Maish Rennick, s...

    Requiem for a Heavyweight
  • 1965
    Sylvia

    Sylvia (1965)

    Sylvia

    6.21965HD

    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 ...

    Sylvia
  • 1982
    Jinxed!

    Jinxed! (1982)

    Jinxed!

    4.41982HD

    Harold, a professional gambler, and his girlfriend Bonita, a lounge singer, follow Willie, a young blackjack dealer, around the western U.S. Harold has a jinx on Willie and can't lose with him. Bonita and Willie meet and fall for each other and plot ...

    Jinxed!
  • 1975
    Russian Roulette

    Russian Roulette (1975)

    Russian Roulette

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    An RCMP officer is ordered to discreetly take a Russian immigrant into custody in advance of a state visit by the Soviet premier. When the prisoner is kidnapped, the officer is drawn into a complicated assassination scheme....

    Russian Roulette
  • 1967
    Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

    Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night (1967)

    Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

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    Peter Schermann is angry at the world after his children move him into a nursing home. Still physically and mentally strong, he searches for a meaning to his life in a new and uncompromising world....

    Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
  • 1970
    The Traveling Executioner

    The Traveling Executioner (1970)

    The Traveling Executioner

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    Jonas Candide performs his job as state executioner in early 20th century Mississippi like a combination preacher and carnival barker, persuading condemned men to accept their deaths before electrocuting them on his electric chair. After he's assigne...

    The Traveling Executioner
  • 1973
    Firehouse

    Firehouse (1973)

    Firehouse

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    Conflict erupts within a close-knit engine company of a big-city fire department when a black recruit and a bigoted white veteran clash during a wave of suspected arson in the ghetto. Pilot to the short-lived series that began a run in January 1974....

    Firehouse
  • 1961
    Too Late Blues

    Too Late Blues (1961)

    Too Late Blues

    6.51961HD

    Ghost is an ideological musician and leader of a jazz band who would rather play his blues in the park to the birds than compromise himself. His peripatetic performances lead him to cross paths with a singer, while his masculinity is thrown into ques...

    Too Late Blues
  • 1984
    Too Scared to Scream

    Too Scared to Scream (1984)

    Too Scared to Scream

    5.11984HD

    A killer is brutally attacking several tenants that live in a high rise apartment building in New York City....

    Too Scared to Scream
  • 1971
    A Tattered Web

    A Tattered Web (1971)

    A Tattered Web

    5.61971HD

    A detective discovers his son-in-law is cheating on his wife. He confronts the other woman and accidentally kills her, then tries to pin the crime on a local derelict....

    A Tattered Web
  • 2000
    A Constant Forge

    A Constant Forge (2000)

    A Constant Forge

    6.62000HD

    One of the great mavericks of cinema, John Cassavetes has earned a reputation as the godfather of American independent movies. The actor-turned-filmmaker invented a realist style of unadorned narrative films heavily influenced by documentaries. This ...

    A Constant Forge
  • 1986
    Courage

    Courage (1986)

    Courage

    5.61986HD

    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....

    Courage
  • 1976
    Harry and Walter Go to New York

    Harry and Walter Go to New York (1976)

    Harry and Walter Go to New York

    5.61976HD

    Two hoplessly out of their class con-men attempt to pull off the largest bank heist of the l9th century—by gaining the enmity of the most famous bank robber in the world and the affection of a crusading newspaperwoman....

    Harry and Walter Go to New York
  • 1958
    The Great Gatsby

    The Great Gatsby (1958)

    The Great Gatsby

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    Adaptation of the 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald for "Playhouse 90." A Midwesterner becomes fascinated with his wealthy neighbor, who obsesses over his lost love....

    The Great Gatsby
  • 1969
    A Dream of Kings

    A Dream of Kings (1969)

    A Dream of Kings

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    A Greek American father of a dying boy decides to take his son to Greece to breathe the clean air of his ancestors, in an attempt to save the boy's life. However, money is a problem....

    A Dream of Kings
  • 1987
    Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8

    Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8 (1987)

    Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8

    6.51987HD

    A made-for-cable-TV docudrama about the trial of the men accused of conspiring to cause protesters to riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Combines in an innovative manner dramatic recreations (largely faithful to the actual tr...

    Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8
  • 1963
    The Power and the Glory

    The Power and the Glory (1963)

    The Power and the Glory

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    Based on Graham Greene's novel about a flawed but devoted priest in 1930s Mexico who attempts to perform his duties while eluding a police lieutenant determined to capture him....

    The Power and the Glory
  • 1986
    The Messenger

    The Messenger (1986)

    The Messenger

    5.21986HD

    When his girlfriend dies of a drug overdose, a former Green Beret decides to take vengeance on the drug gangs responsible for her death....

    The Messenger
  • 1955
    One Touch of Venus

    One Touch of Venus (1955)

    One Touch of Venus

    7.31955HD

    While touring a museum, Rodney Hatch, an unremarkable barber, places an engagement ring intended for his girlfriend on the hand of a statue of Venus, the goddess of love and beauty. From Mount Olympus, Venus witnesses the event and decides to visit ...

    One Touch of Venus
  • 1973
    Blood Sport

    Blood Sport (1973)

    Blood Sport

    8.31973HD

    A searing commentary on the "win at all costs" mentality of American high school sports. David Lee Birdsong is the smalltown quarterback hoping to escape with a college scholarship and a pro career. David's father is the overbearing taskmaster vicari...

    Blood Sport