1970s sports drama films

Rocky is a 1976 American independent sports drama film directed by John G. Avildsen, written by and starring Sylvester Stallone. It is the first installment in the Rocky franchise and also stars Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, and Burgess Meredith. In the film, Rocky Balboa (Stallone), a poor small-time club fighter and loanshark debt collector from Philadelphia, gets an unlikely once in a lifetime shot at the world heavyweight championship held by Apollo Creed (Weathers).

1979 film directed by Sylvester Stallone

1979 film directed by Franco Zeffirelli

1970 film by Martin Ritt

1973 film by John D. Hancock

1972 film by John Huston

1973 film by Lamont Johnson

1973 film by Sergey Mikaelyan

1971 film by John Frankenheimer

1972 film by Igor Maslennikov

1972 film by Jerrold Freedman

1971 television film directed by Buzz Kulik

1987 Soviet film (filmed in 1977)

1971 film directed by Rezo Esadze

film directed by Viktor Titov

1979 drama/sports film by Steven Hilliard Stern

1970 film by Richard Harris and Uri Zohar

Goldengirl is a 1979 American drama sci-fi sports film directed by Joseph Sargent, based on the 1977 science fiction novel of the same title by Peter Lear, a pseudonym of Peter Lovesey. The screenplay was by John Kohn, with music by Bill Conti. The film is the screen debut of Susan Anton, who starred in the title role of Goldine Serafin opposite James Coburn.

1979 film directed by Michael Mann