Joe Roth Movies

A black police detective must solve a strange case of a kidnapped boy and deal with a big racial protest.

Joe Gavilan and his new partner K. C. Calden, are detectives on the beat in Tinseltown. Neither one of them really wants to be a cop, Gavilan...

The members of the Lambda Lambda Lambda fraternity travel to Fort Lauderdale for a fraternity conference. They'll have to beat off the attacks of...

In the midst of a nasty public breakup of married movie stars, a studio publicist scrambles to put a cap on the escalating situation as the couple's...

Two parents deal with the effects when their son is accused of murdering his girlfriend.

Billie Holiday spent much of her career being adored by fans. In the 1940s, the government targeted Holiday in a growing effort to racialize the war...

Angie lives in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, and dreams of a better life. When she finds out she's pregnant by her boyfriend, Vinnie, she decides she'll...

Hard-drinking novelist Zach Hutton spirals out of control after his wife and mistress both leave him. Alone and crippled by a bad case of writer's...

While investigating police corruption in his department, undercover cop Buster McHenry is forced to participate in a heist, leading to innocent...

A group of careless and unlucky drivers are sentenced to attend traffic school to keep their records clean.

A black detective becomes embroiled in a web of danger while searching for a fortune in missing drug money. During the course of his investigation,...

A young boy draws on the inspiration of legendary western characters to find the strength to fight an evil land baron in the old west who wants to...

In a story told in narrative flashbacks, a young TV consultant is hired by the President of a bankrupt USA to organize a telethon in order to prevent...

In hot water with the mob over an unpaid debt, a con man poses as a family friend in an affluent Pennsylvania suburb.

Joe Gower's job is skating through library shelves, fetching books. A police officer/friend of his is chosen to participate in a charity dance...

A committee investigating TV's first uncensored network examines a typical day's programming, which includes shows, commercials, news programs, you...

Corrine Burns retreats far into plans for her band, The Fabulous Stains, after her mother's death.

A group of friends head out for what is expected to be a vacation of hiking, camping and a good time, but when a backwoods mama finds them on her...

Jake Kejeune is one of the last masters of a vanishing craft — the pool hustler. Having lived and lost by the roll of a ball in smoky backroom...

In this ’80s-set revenge story, the defiant Fox breaks out of an abusive commune in search of her family, but when the queenpin kidnaps her...