The Jazz Singer (1980)
Drama | Music | Romance
The son of a Jewish Cantor must defy the traditions of his religious father in order to pursue his dream of being a popular singer.
Starring: Neil Diamond, Laurence Olivier
Director: Richard Fleischer, Sidney J. Furie
The Veteran (2006)
Drama | War
Thirty years on from Vietnam, a government official is trying to track down soldiers who went missing in action, in the hope that it may lead her to her father. Meanwhile, a war veteran is forced to relive painful memories of how he was left for dead by his own platoon, and the heinous crimes he once committed while in the line of duty. Gritty and unflinching, THE VETERAN contains some breathtaking action sequences that vividly depict the horrors of war. Director Sidney J Furie elicits strong performances from a cast that includes Michael Ironside, Ally Sheedy, and Bobby Hosea.
Starring: Ally Sheedy, Bobby Hosea, Michael Ironside, Colin Glazer, Sean Baek, Jim Codrington, Donald Burda
Director: Sidney J. Furie
Direct Action (2004)
Action | Crime | Thriller
Frank Gannon, a veteran cop, is being hunted by his fellow police officers after they learned he has betrayed the brotherhood and exposed to the feds wide scale corruption of the LAPD. He has one day left to prove his case and survive.
Starring: Dolph Lundgren, Polly Shannon, Donald Burda, Rothaford Gray, Conrad Dunn, Walter Alza
Director: Sidney J. Furie
The Entity (1982)
Biography | Drama | Horror
Supposedly based partially on a true story, a woman is tormented and sexually molested by an invisible demon.
Starring: Barbara Hershey, Ron Silver, David Labiosa, George Coe, Margaret Blye, Jacqueline Brookes
Director: Sidney J. Furie
Iron Eagle IV / Iron Eagle on the Attack (1995)
Action | Drama
In an emergency landing on a deserted air force base, several teens in flight school accidentally uncover a deranged plot to wage chemical warfare against Cuba. Can they stop the conspiracy before it's too late?
Starring: Louis Gossett Jr., Jason Cadieux, Joanne Vannicola, Rachel Blanchard, Dominic Zamprogna
Director: Sidney J. Furie
Iron Eagle (1986)
Action | Thriller | War
When Doug's father, an Air Force Pilot, is shot down by MiGs belonging to a radical Middle Eastern state, no one seems able to get him out. Doug finds Chappy, an Air Force Colonel who is intrigued by the idea of sending in two fighters piloted by himself and Doug to rescue Doug's father after bombing the MiG base. Their only problems: Borrowing two fighters, getting them from California to the Mediteranean without anyone noticing, and Doug's inability to hit anything unless he has music playing. Then come the minor problems of the state's air defenses.
Starring: Louis Gossett Jr., Jason Gedrick, David Suchet, Shawnee Smith, Melora Hardin, Larry B. Scott
Director: Sidney J. Furie
The Dependables / Pride of Lions (2014)
Adventure | Comedy | Drama
Five retired ex-military men attempt the unthinkable and dust off their old uniforms for one last explosive mission. The team quickly discovers, that they are up against an enemy from their past. This time The Dependables mission is personal. With guns blazing, the group puts their lives on the line to defeat their arch nemesis and save their grandchildren.
Starring: Bo Svenson, Margot Kidder, Louis Gossett Jr., Seymour Cassel, Cedric Smith, Tom Jackson
Director: Sidney J. Furie
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The Boys in Company C (1978)
Drama | War
This war drama follows the lives of five young Marine inductees from their training in boot camp in 1967 through a tour in Vietnam in 1968 that quickly devolves into a hellish nightmare. Disheartened by futile combat, appalled by the corruption of their South Vietnamese ally, and constantly endangered by the incompetence of their own company commander, the young men find a possible way out of the war. They are told that if they can defeat a rival soccer team, they can spend the rest of their tour playing exhibition games behind the lines. But as they might have predicted, nothing in Vietnam is as simple as it seems.
Starring: Stan Shaw, Andrew Stevens, R. Lee Ermey, James Canning, Michael Lembeck, Craig Wasson, Scott Hylands
Director: Sidney J. Furie
Superman IV: The Quest For Peace (1987)
Action | Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Superman has recognized the greatest threat to humanity, and he is out to rid the world of nuclear weapons. But Lex Luthor, now a nuclear arms entrepreneur, creates Nuclear Man–a solar-powered Kryptonia Android and genetic clone whose powers equal (and potentially surpass) those of Superman–to rid the world of the Man of Steel.
Starring: Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder, Jackie Cooper, Marc McClure, Jon Cryer, Mariel Hemingway
Director: Sidney J. Furie
