George Memmoli

Rocky -- Rocky Balboa is a struggling Philadelphia boxer who is scorned by his gym's owner, patronized by a loan shark and rebuffed by a shy 'plain-Jane', whose butcher brother keeps engineering a romantic match. Rocky would have remained in this rut had not heavyweight champion Apollo Creed come up with the Bicentennial gimmick to give a chance for a 'nobody' to become a 'somebody'. The 'Italian Stallion' trains earnestly and goes the distance...against all odds!

The Hustle -- Falling upon a large sum of mob money, Freddie Manning and his cynical, naysaying best friend, Junior, lose in a crazy chase through the city. Freddie and Junior are left owing Asian crime boss Toshiba Ohara and his spicy daughter, Han, $10,000 in seven days! The Hustle will warm your soul and have you rolling on the floor, mobbed by laughter.

Everybody "hustles"-especially in Los Angeles where suicides, strip joints, shootouts, porno movies, the mob and murder combine into a collage. Caught in this web of modern reality is an old fashioned detective (Burt Reynolds). A moralist who still sees the difference between right and wrong, he can hardly reconcile himself to the ugliness of his job. By day he investigates a young girl's suicide; at night he relaxes with Catherine Deneuve, a high-priced Paris call girl. Director Robert Aldrich elicits fine performances from Reynolds and Deneuve while his perceptive direction explains why they're never quite able to escape the hustle they're so uncomfortable with.

What do you do when your biggest dream is just a microphone away? Tre-Dog and C-Note will do almost anything to become the biggest rap stars in L.A. but don't have the cash or the connections to do it. When a bogus record label offers to sign them only if they can scrape up enough of their own promotion money, the hustle is on! Tre-dog and C-Note jack $20,000 from one of the most dangerous drug dealers around and he wants his cash back! Is their dream worth dying for? Or can they hustle their way out of this one?

Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto star in the powerful, critically acclaimed drama, Blue Collar. Three auto assembly line workers, fed up with union brass and tired of scraping by, hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters. Disappointed with their measly bounty, they realize they've made off with something much more valuable than cash. Their unexpected swipe suddenly envelopes the three autoworkers in a desperate fight against corruption and organized crime.

Three down-on-their-luck auto workers team up to rob their union's safe - but get in too deep when they discover evidence of corruption in this underrated drama, featuring a stellar performance by Richard Pryor.

Three down-on-their-luck auto workers team up to rob their union's safe - but get in too deep when they discover evidence of corruption in this underrated drama, featuring a stellar performance by Richard Pryor.

Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto star in this powerful, critically acclaimed drama about three auto assembly line workers who hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters.

Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto star in this powerful, critically acclaimed drama about three auto assembly line workers who hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters.

Surviving from paycheck to paycheck, Zeke, Jerry, and Smokey scrape by and take pleasure in the simple things. But when their money troubles pile up, they make a desperate plan to steal cash from their local union office.

After winning a national talent search launched by a studio mogul (Dom DeLuise) to find the next Rudolph Valentino, Wisconsin baker Rudy Valentine (Gene Wilder) and his wife, Annie (Carol Kane), find themselves in the Hollywood spotlight. But when the out-of-towners cross paths with the real Latin Lover, who promptly falls for Annie's charms, Rudy aims to win back his better half by donning a disguise and seducing her.

Action star Charles Bronson ("Death Wish") is an ex-crime reporter-turned-author, who takes a job as a go-between to help recover some stolen ledgers and instead becomes involved in a scheme to steal a bribe that some American businessmen are paying to Arabs. Featuring an all-star supporting cast, including John Houseman ("The Paper Chase"), Jacqueline Bisset ("Murder on the Orient Express"), Oscar-winner Maximillian Schell ("Judgment at Nuremburg"), Harry Guardino ("Dirty Harry"), Michael Lerner ("Barton Fink") and Daniel J. Travanti ("Hill St. Blues").