Movies by John Herzfeld
As a director:
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Inferno: The Making of the Expendables (2010)
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li …
Directed by: John Herzfeld
Oscar-winning actor, writer, director and producer Sylvester Stallone furnishes an unvarnished look at his career, producing and directing methods, and unprecedented access to the filmmaking…
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S.I.S. (2008)
Cast: Keith David, Jamai Fisher, GQ …
Directed by: John Herzfeld
The Special Investigative Section, or SIS -- a top secret branch of the LAPD that specializes in scouting out Los Angeles's most crime-infested areas and catching crooks in the act -- is…
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Bobby Z (2007)
Cast: Paul Walker, Laurence Fishburne, Olivia Wilde …
Directed by: John Herzfeld
When jailed ex-Marine Tim Kearney is offered a way out of prison by posing as legendary drug dealer Bobby Z in a hostage exchange, Kearney takes the bait. But the plan goes awry, and he soon…
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Fifteen Minutes (2001)
Cast: Robert De Niro, Edward Burns, Kelsey Grammer …
Directed by: John Herzfeld
Everyone wants his or her 15 minutes of fame -- even criminals on a rampage. In this stinging indictment of the media age, Robert De Niro plays Eddie Fleming, a legendary Manhattan detective…
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Don King: Only in America (1997)
Cast: Ving Rhames, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Jeremy Piven …
Directed by: John Herzfeld
Finally, the HBO spotlight captures the colorful kingpin of professional boxing, Don King (the promoter with a hairdo that's a "don't"!). The many-sided King is portrayed as a…
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2 Days in the Valley (1996)
Cast: Danny Aiello, Greg Cruttwell, Jeff Daniels …
Directed by: John Herzfeld
The lives of several strange characters intersect in John Herzfeld's quirky crime comedy. A depressed has-been director (Paul Mazursky), an arrogant art dealer and his long-suffering…
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The Ryan White Story (1989)
Cast: Judith Light, Lukas Haas, Michael Bowen …
Directed by: John Herzfeld
After contracting HIV from a tainted blood treatment, young hemophiliac Ryan White is ostracized by his Kokomo, Ind., community, forcing the ailing teen and his determined mother to hire a…
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A Father's Revenge (1988)
Cast: Ron Silver, Brian Dennehy, Joanna Cassidy …
Directed by: John Herzfeld
Brian Dennehy stars as Paul Hobart, a basketball coach who's forced to step up to the line when a band of terrorists kidnaps his daughter (Joanna Cassidy) and the rest of her flight crew…
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Daddy (1987)
Cast: Dermot Mulroney, John Karlen, Tess Harper …
Directed by: John Herzfeld
A teenage couple is in over their heads when the girlfriend becomes pregnant in this made-for-TV drama. High school sweethearts Bobby (Dermot Mulroney) and Stacy (Patricia Arquette) learn to…
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Two of a Kind (1983)
Cast: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Beatrice Straight …
Directed by: John Herzfeld
An all-forgiving, beneficent God ain't nowhere in sight in this movie that has the deity planning to unleash Armageddon very soon. Why? Because He's fed up with mankind's…