William Russ Movies

A thriller that dramatizes the last 24 hours in the lives of Jim Jones and The Peoples Temple Church through the eyes of a reporter.

T.J. and his friend Dexter quit their jobs in Detroit to become ski-instructors in Aspen. While T.J. advances to the most popular instructor of the...

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

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

Sam Elliot stars as Sam Houston, the visionary who nearly single-handedly forged the state of Texas into a powerful entity in its own right. Refusing...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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 father attempts to reconnect with his daughter on her wedding day.

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

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

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...

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

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.