William Russ Movies

Part one of the making of William Friedkin’s 1980 thriller "Cruising" and the controversies it created.

An escaped convict and a woman ponder what to do with a not-quite-dead body.

Two single mothers, polar opposites in personality, join forces to track down their children that have been kidnapped by their ex-husbands.

When a photojournalist photographs a mysterious stranger performing an act of bravery, the act quickly becomes headline news and the town dubs the...

When her cheating husband has a debilitating stroke, a woman invites her lover to move in with them.

A small-town, high-school principal still living at home with her mother shakes up her life in a way that even she never expected when she agrees to...

Dottie West fought a difficult childhood to rise as one of country music's icons winning the first ever Grammy for Best Female Country Vocal...

A fateful chain of events begin to unravel after two brash insurance salesmen go knocking on the wrong door and find themselves trapped in a...

A year after his fiancée's death, a playwright schedules a rehearsal for his new play, which proves to be a trap for her killer.

Fact-based story about tennis pro Renee Richards, whose player status was challenged in 1976 when it was revealed that she was a trans woman....

The historic federal-state controversy over the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, as seen through the eyes of Elizabeth...

Middle class parents, who already have three kids, take in their four orphaned nephews.

A reticent young photographer strives to find a normal life working a dead-end job in a mall portrait studio and volunteering as a clean water...

A team of special military forces has to save a small town which has been taken hostage by an organization called the Brotherhood.

Lachlan MacAldonich is a self-described “lazy Scotsman” and former guitar player for a once-popular 1990s rock band. No longer famous, he...

A single mom and psychiatric intern encounters a troubled but brilliant young man who turns up dead in her house after she befriended him. When she...

An advertising firm, desperate to keep an account from a financially-ailing brewery, concocts a macho ad campaign centering on three losers who...

A veteran minor league pitcher in 1957 tutors a young phenomenon.

A woman fears for her son's health when her ex-husband kidnaps him.

After the Second World War, budding film composer Jerry Herst moves to Hollywood to study with infamous master teacher Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.