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John Herzfeld is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Producer American born on 15 april 1947 at Newark (USA)
John Herzfeld is an American motion picture and television director, screenwriter, actor and producer. His feature film directing credits include Two of a Kind (1983), 2 Days in the Valley (1996), 15 Minutes (2001) and The Death and Life of Bobby Z (2007). He has also directed numerous made-for-television movies, including The Ryan White Story (1989), The Preppie Murder (1989), Casualties of Love: The Long Island Lolita Story (1993) and Don King: Only in America (1997) for which he was nominated for an Emmy and won the DGA award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Specials. He won a Daytime Emmy Award for directing the 1980 ABC Afterschool Special titled Stoned.
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John Herzfeld
John Herzfeld is an American motion picture and television director, screenwriter, actor and producer. His feature film directing credits include Two of a Kind (1983), 2 Days in the Valley (1996), 15 Minutes (2001) and The Death and Life of Bobby Z (2007). He has also directed numerous made-for-television movies, including The Ryan White Story (1989), The Preppie Murder (1989), Casualties of Love: The Long Island Lolita Story (1993) and Don King: Only in America (1997) for which he was nominated for an Emmy and won the DGA award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Specials. He won a Daytime Emmy Award for directing the 1980 ABC Afterschool Special titled Stoned.
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Cobra (1986)
, 1h26Directed by Tony Scott, George Cosmatos
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure, Horror, Crime
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Serial killer films, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Sylvester Stallone, Brigitte Nielsen, Reni Santoni, Andrew Robinson, Brian Thompson, Art LaFleur
Roles Cho
Rating58%
An armed gunman causes a hostage situation at a Los Angeles grocery store. When negotiations between him and the law fail, Marion Cobretti (codenamed "Cobra"), a member of an elite division of the Los Angeles Police Department known as the "Zombie Squad", is summoned to the scene. Cobretti infiltrates the store, locates, and negotiates with him. During the negotiation, the criminal speaks of the unknown "New Order", a group of social darwinist radicals that despise modern society and believe in killing the weak, leaving only the strongest and smartest to rule the world. Cobretti then kills the gunman by throwing a knife at his abdomen and firing shots at him.
Victims (1982)
, 2hDirected by Jerrold Freedman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors Kate Nelligan, Ken Howard, Madge Sinclair, Amy Madigan, Jonelle Allen, Sherry Hursey
Rating63%
A serial rapist who gets released on a technicality cause of a mishandling of the investigation is pursued by his victims who stalk the man and want revenge for him raping them.
Cannonball (1976)
, 1h33Directed by Paul Bartel
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Sports films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Auto racing films, Road movies
Actors David Carradine, Bill McKinney, Veronica Hamel, Gerrit Graham, Robert Carradine, Sylvester Stallone
Roles Sharpe
Rating55%
The Trans-America Grand Prix is an illegal race held every year between Los Angeles (Santa Monica Pier) and New York City. Recently released from jail, where he was serving a sentence for killing a girl while driving drunk, racing driver Coy "Cannonball" Buckman (David Carradine) hopes to win the race and get his career back on track. Racing team Modern Motors have promised a contract to either him or his arch-rival Cade Redman (Bill McKinney) who is also in the race - the contract will go to whichever of them wins. Coy is still on probation and when his parole officer, Linda Maxwell (Veronica Hamel), with whom he is having an elaborate affair, discovers he will be crossing state lines in violation of his parole, she attempts to stop him, only to have him force her to accompany him on the race.
Death Wish (1974)
, 1h33Directed by Michael Winner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Erotic films, Rape and revenge films, Auto-justice
Actors Charles Bronson, Hope Lange, Vincent Gardenia, William Redfield, Steven Keats, Jeff Goldblum
Roles Train Mugger #2 (uncredited)
Rating68%
Paul Kersey is an architect living in Manhattan with his wife Joanna and daughter Carol Toby. One day, Joanna and Carol are followed home from the store by a group of thugs who break into the apartment, fatally injure Joanna and sexually assault Carol.
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Escape Plan: The Extractors (2019)
, 1h36Directed by John Herzfeld
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Prison films, Évasion
Actors Sylvester Stallone, David Bautista, Jaime King, 50 Cent, Malese Jow, Devon Sawa
Rating44%
Alors qu'il doit libérer la fille d'un homme d'affaires richissime incarcérée dans une prison lettonne de haute sécurité, Ray Breslin apprend que sa petite amie, Abigail, a été kidnappée par le fils d'un ancien allié devenu son ennemi juré. Désormais, Breslin doit sauver les deux femmes enfermées dans ce pénitencier surnommé The Devil's Station car personne n'en est jamais sorti vivant. Secondé par Trent DeRosa et Hush, Breslin doit faire vite pour organiser leur évasion...
Reach Me (2014)
, 1h35Directed by John Herzfeld
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Actors Lauren Cohan, Sylvester Stallone, Scarlett Johansson, Cary Elwes, Terry Crews, Tom Hanks
Rating49%
With an ensemble cast, this film tells interwoven stories from a diverse group of people who are united by one thing: a powerful book published by an unknown mysterious author. When the book's positive message goes viral, a journalist and his editor, a former inmate, a hip-hop mogul, an actor and an undercover cop are inspired to change their lives by facing their own fears.
, 1h37Directed by John Herzfeld
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Laurence Fishburne, Olivia Wilde, Jason Lewis, Joaquim de Almeida, Jason Flemyng, Keith Carradine
Rating58%
Don Huertero (Joaquim de Almeida) is a Mexican drug lord. His daughter committed suicide because a drug dealer known as Bobby Z broke her heart. Consequently Don Huertero is out for vengeance.
15 Minutes (2001)
, 2hDirected by John Herzfeld
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about television, Films about the labor movement, Serial killer films, Disaster films
Actors Robert De Niro, Edward Burns, Kelsey Grammer, Avery Brooks, Karel Roden, Melina Kanakaredes
Rating60%
The film begins with Emil Slovak (Karel Roden) and Oleg Razgul (Oleg Taktarov) arriving in America. They were former criminals and after getting out of prison have come to the U.S. to claim their part of a bank heist in Russia (or somewhere in Czech Republic). Within minutes of arriving, Oleg steals a video camera. They go to the run down apartment of their old partner and demand their share. He doesn't have it so Emil stabs him and his wife to death, as Oleg tapes it with the camera. The couple's friend, Czech immigrant Daphne Handlova (Vera Farmiga), covertly witnesses the murders from the bathroom, but she escapes before they can get her too. To hide the crime, Emil burns down the apartment.
Don King: Only in America (1997)
Directed by John Herzfeld
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films
Actors Ving Rhames, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Jeremy Piven, Lou Rawls, Darius McCrary, Keith David
Rating69%
Un portrait cinématographique du célèbre promoteur de combat et manager de boxe.
2 Days in the Valley (1996)
, 1h45Directed by John Herzfeld
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Crime
Actors Danny Aiello, Jeff Daniels, Teri Hatcher, Glenne Headly, Peter Horton, Marsha Mason
Rating64%
Two hitmen, Lee Woods (James Spader) and Dosmo Pizzo (Danny Aiello), walk into a bedroom where a sleeping couple, aspiring Olympic athlete Becky Foxx and her loser ex-husband Roy Foxx, are in bed. Lee injects Becky (Teri Hatcher) with a tranquilizer then shoots Roy in the head. Lee and Dosmo then drive to an abandoned area of Mulholland Drive, where Lee shoots Dosmo and blows up the car in order to set Dosmo up as the fall guy for the murder. Lee flees the scene with his glamorous Norwegian girlfriend Helga (Charlize Theron).
, 1h36Directed by John Herzfeld
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Actors Alyssa Milano, Jack Scalia, Leo Rossi, Phyllis Lyons, J. E. Freeman, Lawrence Tierney
Rating50%
Set on Long Island, the film opens with Joey Buttafuoco (Jack Scalia) driving under influence of cocaine, fleeing from the cops and visiting his mother's grave. At home, his wife Mary Jo (Phyllis Lyons) awaits his return, disappointed in his drug back lapse. After she threatens to leave him if he does not quit using drugs, Joey decides to enter rehab. Six weeks later, he is a renewed man, promising his wife he is now the person again she fell in love with. Three years later, in the summer of 1991, he works in an auto repair shop, and meets 17-year-old Amy Fisher (Alyssa Milano), who begs Joey to repair her car without telling her parents. Joey agrees, even though he is a close acquaintance of her father Elliot (Jack Kehler). Amy frequently crashes her car, prompting her to make multiple visits to Joey. It does not take long before she starts coming on to him, making hints of her promiscuous past despite her young age. Even though he does not respond to her affection, Joey does not especially push her away and constantly pays her special attention.
The Preppie Murder (1989)
, 1h40Directed by John Herzfeld
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Politic
Actors Danny Aiello, William Baldwin, Lara Flynn Boyle, William Devane, Joanna Kerns, Sandra Bullock
Rating54%
The film reenacts Robert Chambers' murder of Jennifer Levin. Robert Chambers, a man from a privileged background, kills Jennifer Levin after they leave a trendy bar together. When Detective Mike Sheehan arrests him, Chambers claims that he killed her in self-defense after rough sex got out of hand. In the ensuing trial, Chambers' attorney, Jack Litman, attacks Levin's personal history. Chambers eventually pleads guilty to a lesser charge of manslaughter.
The Ryan White Story (1989)
Directed by John Herzfeld
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Medical-themed films, HIV/AIDS in film
Actors Lukas Haas, Michael Bowen, Judith Light, Nikki Cox, George Dzundza, Sarah Jessica Parker
Rating70%
Ryan White is a teenage hemophiliac who discovers he has contracted AIDS through contaminated blood products, and is then barred from attending school by Western School Corporation in Russiaville, Indiana just outside of Kokomo. Unfairly judged and emotionally abused by the community, Ryan and his mother engage the services of a high-powered attorney to win back his basic rights to attend school.
Two of a Kind (1983)
, 1h28Directed by John Herzfeld
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Actors John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Charles Durning, Oliver Reed, Beatrice Straight, Scatman Crothers
Rating47%
Four angels — Charlie (Charles Durning), Earl (Scatman Crothers), Gonzales (Castulo Guerra), and Ruth (Beatrice Straight) — have been in charge of Heaven for the last 25 years. They are playing a golf match in Heaven when their game is interrupted by God, who has returned to the office and does not like what he sees down on Earth. God wants to order up another flood and start all over again (despite his promise in the rainbow that he never would again), but the four angels persuade him to reconsider, reasoning that, if a typical Earth man can reform, it would prove that all mankind is capable of it.
Scriptwriter
Escape Plan: The Extractors (2019)
, 1h36Directed by John Herzfeld
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Prison films, Évasion
Actors Sylvester Stallone, David Bautista, Jaime King, 50 Cent, Malese Jow, Devon Sawa
Rating44%
Alors qu'il doit libérer la fille d'un homme d'affaires richissime incarcérée dans une prison lettonne de haute sécurité, Ray Breslin apprend que sa petite amie, Abigail, a été kidnappée par le fils d'un ancien allié devenu son ennemi juré. Désormais, Breslin doit sauver les deux femmes enfermées dans ce pénitencier surnommé The Devil's Station car personne n'en est jamais sorti vivant. Secondé par Trent DeRosa et Hush, Breslin doit faire vite pour organiser leur évasion...