The best Val Avery’s movies

Val Avery

Val Avery

14/07/1924- 12/12/2009
We present our ranking of the best Val Avery’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Val Avery.
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The Magnificent Seven

The Magnificent Seven
7.7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 14/04/1960
  • Character: Henry
An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.

Cobra

Cobra
5.8/10
A tough-on-crime street cop must protect the only surviving witness to a strange murderous cult with far reaching plans.

The Amityville Horror

The Amityville Horror
6.2/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 26/07/1979
  • Character: Sgt. Gionfriddo
George Lutz and his wife Kathleen, move into their Long Island dream house with their children only for their lives to be turned into a hellish nightmare. The legacy of a murder committed in the house gradually affects the family and a priest is brought in to try and exorcise the demonic presence from their home.

Donnie Brasco

Donnie Brasco
7.7/10
An FBI undercover agent infilitrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.

Papillon

Papillon
8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 13/12/1973
  • Character: Pascal
A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.

Hombre

Hombre
7.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 21/03/1967
  • Character: Delgado
John Russell, disdained by his "respectable" fellow stagecoach passengers because he was raised by Indians, becomes their only hope for survival when they are set upon by outlaws.

Brubaker

Brubaker
7.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 20/06/1980
  • Character: Wendel
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.

Hud

Hud
7.8/10
Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth, out for kicks with no regard for the consequences. There is bitter conflict between the callous Hud and his stern and highly principled father, Homer. Hud's nephew Lon admires Hud's cheating ways, though he soon becomes too aware of Hud's reckless amorality to bear him anymore. In the world of the takers and the taken, Hud is a winner. He's a cheat, but, he explains, "I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner."

Nevada Smith

Nevada Smith
6.9/10
Nevada Smith is the young son of an Indian mother and white father. When his father is killed by three men over gold, Nevada sets out to find them and kill them. The boy is taken in by a gun merchant. The gun merchant shows him how to shoot and to shoot on time and correct.

Last Train from Gun Hill

Last Train from Gun Hill
7.3/10
  • Genre: ThrillerWestern
  • Release: 29/07/1959
  • Character: Steve, Horseshoe Bartender'
A marshal tries to bring the son of an old friend, an autocratic cattle baron, to justice for the rape and murder of his wife.

The Wanderers

The Wanderers
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 13/07/1979
  • Character: Mr. Sharp
The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by Richard Price about the history of the Italian-American gang ‘The Wanderers.’

The Long, Hot Summer

The Long, Hot Summer
7.3/10
Ben Quick arrives in Frenchman's Bend, MS after being kicked out of another town for allegedly burning a barn for revenge. Will Varner owns just about everything in Frenchman's Bend and he hires Ben to work in his store. Will thinks his own son, Jody, who manages the store, lacks ambition and despairs him getting his wife, Eula, pregnant. Will thinks his daughter, Clara, a schoolteacher, will never get married. He decides that Ben Quick might make a good husband for Clara to bring some new blood into the family.

Sharky's Machine

Sharky's Machine
6.3/10
Police officer Tom Sharky gets busted back to working vice, where he happens upon a scandalous conspiracy involving a local politician. Sharky's new 'machine' gathers evidence while Sharky falls in love with a woman he has never met.

The Hallelujah Trail

The Hallelujah Trail
6.5/10
A wagon train heads for Denver with a cargo of whisky for the miners. Chaos ensues as the Temperance League, the US cavalry, the miners and the local Indians all try to take control of the valuable cargo.

Black Caesar

Black Caesar
6.4/10
Tommy Gibbs is a tough kid, raised in the ghetto, who aspires to be a kingpin criminal. As a young boy, his leg is broken by a bad cop on the take, during a payoff gone bad. Nursing his vengeance, he rises to power in Harlem, New York. Angry at the racist society around him, both criminal and straight, he sees the acquisition of power as the solution to his rage.

Minnie and Moskowitz

Minnie and Moskowitz
7.2/10
Depressed and jaded after being dumped by her married boyfriend, aging beauty Minnie Moore wonders if she'll ever find love. After shaggy-haired parking lot attendant Seymour Moskowitz comes to her defense from an angry and rebuffed blind date, he falls hopelessly in love with her despite their myriad differences. Minnie reluctantly agrees to a date with Moskowitz, and, slowly but surely, an unlikely romance blossoms between the two.

Up in Smoke

Up in Smoke
6.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1978
  • Character: The Hoods: Factory Boss
An unemployed pot-smoking slacker and amateur drummer, Anthony Stoner ditches his strict parents and hits the road, eventually meeting kindred spirit Pedro de Pacas. While the drug-ingesting duo is soon arrested for possession of marijuana, Anthony and Pedro get released on a technicality, allowing them to continue their many misadventures and ultimately compete in a rock band contest, where they perform the raucous tune "Earache My Eye."

The Pope of Greenwich Village

The Pope of Greenwich Village
6.6/10
Charlie and his troublesome cousin Paulie decide to steal $150000 in order to back a "sure thing" race horse that Paulie has inside information on. The aftermath of the robbery gets them into serious trouble with the local Mafia boss and the corrupt New York City police department.

Gloria

Gloria
7.1/10
When a young boy's family is killed by the mob, their tough neighbor Gloria becomes his reluctant guardian. In possession of a book that the gangsters want, the pair go on the run in New York.

Continental Divide

Continental Divide
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 18/09/1981
  • Character: Yablonowitz
A hard-nosed Chicago journalist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle researcher.

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