William Russ Movies

George Burns stars as a former vaudevillian who befriends a young runaway, played by 14-year old Brooke Shields, who is being chased by drug dealers.

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

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

In a one-room stone building near a dilapidated mansion, a demon has condemned an artist to living behind a painting in a state of limbo, forcing him...

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

Linda and George live in a small town. He is the school principal. They are about to celebrate their 16th anniversary. She catches him with her...

An out of work, fantasy-prone film preservationist finds the only print of a sought-after animated film that a corporate assassin has been sent to...

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....

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...

When a best-selling author has a midlife crisis, he returns to his coastal hometown and embarks on a wild adventure in a desperate attempt to reclaim...

Teenage boy, who has been raised by a lesbian couple, must contend with the conservative views of his new school.

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...

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

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

A man seeks absolution for his failures as a father by walking his son's ashes along the LA river to the sea. Based on the play by Murray Mednick.

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

One former cop goes against the whole Mafia. The feature-length pilot for the cult 80s show.

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.

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 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...