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Sidney J. Furie
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Sidney J. Furie

Canadian film director
February 25, 1933 (91 years old)
Can. 2014. War drama by Sidney J. Furie with Bo Svenson, Margot Kidder, Louis Gossett Jr.. Five retired Americans go to Afghanistan to rescue their respective grandsons, captured by the Taliban.
U.S. 2011. Drama by Sidney J. Furie with Corey Sevier, Michael Ironside, Bridget Wareham. The court-martial of a U.S. Marine accused of brutally killing several civilians in Afghanistan.
U.S. 2006. Drama by Sidney J. Furie with Ally Sheedy, Bobby Hosea, Michael Ironside. Back in Vietnam, a veteran turned priest is confronted with his past by a former member of his platoon who had been missing for thirty years.
Runtime: 90 min.
Can. 2005. War drama by Sidney J. Furie with Curtis Morgan, Zan Calabretta, Jordan Brown. In 2004, during the war in Iraq, American soldiers caught in an ambush must face tough insurgents.
Can. 2004. Crime drama by Sidney J. Furie with Dolph Lundgren, Polly Shannon, Donald Burda. A police officer receives death threats after agreeing to testify in court against corrupt colleagues.
Runtime: 97 min.
U.S. 2003. Thriller by Sidney J. Furie with Dolph Lundgren, Alex Karzis, Kata Dobo. A teacher and a group of students in detention confront criminals who have broken in after hours.

Global Heresy

V.O.: Rock My World
G.-B. 2002. Mores comedy by Sidney J. Furie with Peter O'Toole, Joan Plowright, Alicia Silverstone. A broke couple rents out their English manor to rock musicians and pose as their servants.
Runtime: 106 min.
Can. 2002. Crime drama by Sidney J. Furie with Armand Assante, Douglas Smith, Larry Day. An ex-police officer wrongly suspected of murder must rely on the help of a young teenager to prove his innocence.
Runtime: 92 min.
U.S. 2001. War drama by Sidney J. Furie with Casper Van Dien, Scott Taylor, Audrey Brady. American veterans of the Vietnam War make a painful pilgrimage to the places where they fought 33 years earlier.
Runtime: 113 min.
U.S. 2001. Thriller by Sidney J. Furie with Treat Williams, Robin Dunne, Gordon Currie. At a private college, students in an underground fraternity get tangled up in a plagiarism scandal.
Runtime: 99 min.

Road Rage

V.O.: A Friday Night Date
U.S. 2000. Thriller by Sidney J. Furie with Casper Van Dien, Danielle Brett, Joseph Griffin. An enraged trucker chases a young couple's car.
Can. 2000. Thriller by Sidney J. Furie with Casper Van Dien, Rick Fox, Catherine Oxenberg. Two killers working for a gangster decide to go out on their own.
Runtime: 90 min.
U.S. 2000. Comedy by Sidney J. Furie with Rodney Dangerfield, John Byner, Andrew Dice Clay. The misadventures of a millionaire who finds himself with five wives.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 2000. Drama by Sidney J. Furie with Jennifer Tilly, Daryl Hannah, Vincent Gallo. A couple of lunatics kidnap a pregnant woman in order to steal her baby.
Runtime: 109 min.
Can. 1998. Court drama by Sidney J. Furie with Michael Dudikoff, Marlee Matlin, Daniel Pilon. After killing his mistress' husband, a lawyer defends his mistress when she is accused of the murder.
Runtime: 97 min.
U.S. 1997. Drama by Sidney J. Furie with Jaclyn Smith, Robert Clohessy, Kim Coates. After a blow to the head that leaves her with amnesia, a married mother believes she is sixteen years old.
Runtime: 120 min.
U.S. 1997. Crime drama by Sidney J. Furie with Peter Weller, Dennis Hopper, Tia Carrere.
Runtime: 100 min.
Can. 1996. Crime drama by Sidney J. Furie with Lorenzo Lamas, Gary Busey, Kristen Cloke.
Runtime: 93 min.
Runtime: 102 min.
Can. 1995. War drama by Sidney J. Furie with Louis Gossett Jr., Jason Cadieux, Al Waxman.
Runtime: 96 min.
U.S. 1992. Comedy by Sidney J. Furie with Rodney Dangerfield, Jackée, Ilene Graff. In an effort get a win for his women's soccer team, a coach introduces a boy dressed as a girl.
Runtime: 89 min.
U.S. 1991. Crime drama by Sidney J. Furie with Ken Wahl, Matt Frewer, Harley Jane Kozak. Criminals stage a fake environmental disaster to force the evacuation of Beverly Hills, which they want to rob.
Runtime: 96 min.
Can. 1988. War drama by Sidney J. Furie with Louis Gossett Jr., Alan Scarfe, Mark Humphrey. A U.S. Air Force officer is assigned to train a commando team of American and Russian soldiers for a covert operation in the Middle East.
Runtime: 100 min.
G.-B. 1987. Science-fiction by Sidney J. Furie with Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder. As he sets out to rid the Earth of its nuclear weapons, Superman must confront a criminal genius.
Runtime: 90 min.
U.S. 1986. Adventures by Sidney J. Furie with Jason Gedrick, Louis Gossett Jr., David Suchet. A teenager manages to take over a military plane in order to save his father, an officer who is about to be executed in a North African country.
Runtime: 117 min.
U.S. 1984. War drama by Sidney J. Furie with Ken Wahl, Cheryl Ladd, Stephen Lee. During the Vietnam War, a doctor and a nurse look for opportunities to see each other through the military operations in which they are engaged.
Runtime: 116 min.
Runtime: 116 min.
H.-K. 1977. War drama by Sidney J. Furie with Stan Shaw, Andrew Stevens, Scott Hylands. The experiences of five young men supposedly enlisted in the Marines during the Vietnam War.
Runtime: 125 min.
U.S. 1976. Sentimental comedy by Sidney J. Furie with James Brolin, Jill Clayburgh, Allen Garfield. The romance between two movie stars in the 1930s.
Runtime: 131 min.
U.S. 1974. Psychological drama by Sidney J. Furie with Jeannie Berlin, Roy Scheider, Rebecca Dianna Smith. The romantic troubles of a young provincial girl who has come to try her luck in New York City.
Runtime: 113 min.
U.S. 1973. Crime drama by Sidney J. Furie with Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor, Paul Hampton. In the wake of his daughter's drug-related death, a federal agent goes directly after the heads of the drug trade.
Runtime: 134 min.
U.S. 1972. Biography by Sidney J. Furie with Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor. The dramatic life of the famous Black singer Billie Holiday.
Runtime: 144 min.
U.S. 1970. Drama by Sidney J. Furie with Robert Redford, Michael J. Pollard, Lauren Hutton. A selfish and whimsical motorcycle racer drags his reserved and generous companion into a partnership where he gets all the benefits.
Runtime: 98 min.
U.S. 1969. Crime drama by Sidney J. Furie with Barry Newman, Harold Gould, Diana Muldaur. A provincial lawyer is brought in to defend a doctor who is accused of murdering his wife.
Runtime: 117 min.
G.-B. 1967. Spy drama by Sidney J. Furie with Frank Sinatra, Peter Vaughan, Derren Nesbitt. A British secret service officer uses an industrialist to execute a traitor.
Runtime: 102 min.
U.S. 1966. Western by Sidney J. Furie with Marlon Brando, John Saxon, Anjanette Comer. A rancher pursues a Mexican bandit who stole a beautiful stallion.
Runtime: 99 min.
G.-B. 1964. Musical by Sidney J. Furie with Cliff Richard, Susan Hampshire, Walter Slezak. Young people add an ingenious musical version to an ordinary scenario.
Runtime: 113 min.
G.-B. 1964. Spy drama by Sidney J. Furie with Michael Caine, Nigel Green, Sue Lloyd. A secret agent unmasks a traitor among his superiors.
Runtime: 106 min.
G.-B. 1963. Psychological drama by Sidney J. Furie with Rita Tushingham, Colin Campbell, Dudley Sutton. A young black jacket motorcyclist leaves his new wife, whom he considers too immature, to go live with one of his friends.
Runtime: 105 min.
G.-B. 1962. Crime drama by Sidney J. Furie with Richard Todd, Robert Morley, Dudley Sutton. Four teenagers are on trial for a murder committed during a robbery.
Runtime: 123 min.
G.-B. 1962. Musical by Sidney J. Furie with Cliff Richard, Robert Morley, Carole Gray. Threatened with the loss of their recreation hall, a group of young people set out to put on a show in order to raise the money demanded by the owner.
Runtime: 92 min.
G.-B. 1962. Musical by Sidney J. Furie with Cliff Richard, Robert Morley, Carole Gray. Teenagers put on a show to save their recreation hall, whose land is coveted by a millionaire.
G.-B. 1961. Comedy by Sidney J. Furie with Jack Watling, Carole Lesley, John Slater. A small office worker's life and marriage plans are turned upside down when he inherits eight million pounds.
Runtime: 83 min.
G.-B. 1960. Horror by Sidney J. Furie with Kieron Moore, Hazel Court, Ian Hunter. A young, deranged doctor experiments with heart transplantation.
Runtime: 92 min.
G.-B. 1960. Horror by Sidney J. Furie with John McCarthy, Susan Travers, Arnold Marie. A deranged scientist injects snake venom into his wife, who gives birth to a little girl with strange eyes and acute reflexes.
Runtime: 68 min.
Can. 1957. Psychological drama by Sidney J. Furie with Ben Piazza, Anne Pearson, Lloyd Jones. Two teenagers, too young to get married, finally come to their senses.

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