Luca Bercovici Filmography

Luck of the Draw

Crew: Director

Actors: James Marshall, Dennis Hopper, Michael Madsen

Synopsis: This stylish crime thriller concerns a former criminal trying to set himself on the straight and narrow, until he happens upon a set of bootleg printing plates for $100 bills and soon finds himself a wanted man by both sides of the law. Luck of the Draw (also known as Quicksand), stars William Read More

Bittersweet

Crew: Director

Actors: Angie Everhart, James Russo, Eric Roberts

Synopsis: A young co-ed who previously spent time in prison for a crime she didn't commit plots revenge against her former boyfriend, who is the real culprit, with the help of a policeman. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Convict 762

Crew: Director

Actors: Frank Zagarino, Shannon Sturges

Synopsis: Frank Zagarino and Shannon Sturges star in this science fiction thriller. A spacecraft with an all-female crew is forced to jettison fuel due to engine problems, and makes an emergency landing on a planet being used as a penal colony. It seems everyone on the prison world has been killed except Read More

Angry Dogs

Actors: Luca Bercovici, Michael Cade

The Big Squeeze

Actors: Lara Flynn Boyle, Peter Dobson, Danny Nucci, Luca Bercovici, Teresa Dispina

Synopsis: In this crime drama with comic overtones, Tanya (Lara Flynn Boyle) is a barmaid who works at a sleazy tavern, while her husband Henry (Luca Bercovici), a one-time baseball player sidelined by a knee injury, divides his time between praying at home and praying at a Catholic mission. Henry is Read More

Chain

Crew: Director

Actors: Gary Busey, Victor Rivers, Rez Cortez, Joonee Gamboa, Craig Walter Judd

Synopsis: In this fast-paced action thriller, an American cop is forced to rely on the man he has sworn to destroy when both are chained together and lost in the Central American jungle. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Granny

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this "supernatural" comedy, a plain-jane spinster cares for her elderly grandmother, who happens to be a fanatic wrestling fan -- and also extremely rich. When her obnoxious relatives show up for Thanksgiving dinner, the grandmother, who has been given a magic potion by an exorcist, turns into Read More

Scanner Cop

Actors: Daniel Quinn, Darlanne Fluegel, Richard Lynch

Synopsis: In this horror thriller, a psychically super-charged cop uses his unusual gifts to put a permanent end to a cop killer. Highlights include a few hallucination sequences, bad dreams and the trademark of Scanners-related films, an exploding head. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Drop Zone

Actors: Wesley Snipes, Gary Busey, Yancy Butler, Michael Jeter, Corin Nemec

Synopsis: Wesley Snipes is battling bad guys in the air again, this time with parachutes, in this action-packed suspense thriller. Pete Nessip (Snipes) is a Federal Marshall who, teamed with his brother Terry (Malcolm-Jamal Warner), is escorting criminal computer genius Earl Leedy (Michael Jeter) to a new Read More

Inside Monkey Zetterland

Actors: Steve Antin, Patricia Arquette, Sandra Bernhard, Sofia Coppola, Bo Hopkins, Tate Donovan, Katherine Helmond

Synopsis: Actor Steven Antin wrote the screenplay, and U.S.C. film professor Jefery Levy directed this self-absorbed trifle about a self-absorbed screenwriter and his nutty family and friends. Antin plays Monkey Zetterland, an innocuous young man who is trying to work on his screenplay -- something having Read More

Dark Tide

Crew: Director

Actors: Chris Sarandon, Brigitte Bako, Richard Tyson

Synopsis: While on a deep-sea diving expedition, a couple is threatened by the advances of the ship's captain, who fancies the woman. Dark Tide also comes in an unrated version with several edited scenes remaining. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

A Twist of the Knife

Actors: Dick Van Dyke, Suzanne Pleshette, Stephen Caffrey, Cynthia Gibb, Christina Pickles

Synopsis: Dick Van Dyke stars as a doctor-turned-detective in this made-for-television medical thriller. Van Dyke stars as Dr. Mark Sloan, the ring leader of a small group of doctors who investigate the death of a U.S. Senator (David Richards) during surgery. Sloan has his own interest in finding out the Read More

K2

Actors: Michael Biehn, Matt Craven, Raymond J. Barry, Hiroshi Fujioka, Luca Bercovici

Synopsis: A pair of climbers attempts to scale the world's second-largest and most dangerous mountain in this visually impressive but dramatically weak adventure. Skirt-chasing lawyer Taylor Brooks (Michael Biehn) and sedate family man Harold Jamison (Matt Craven) share a love of risky mountain climbing and Read More

Mission of Justice

Actors: Tony Burton, Brigitte Nielsen, Jeff Wincott

Synopsis: Mayoral candidate Dr. Rachel Olsen (Brigitte Nielsen) has a dangerous plan for swift justice in the form of a band of ex-convicts, called the Peacemakers, who roam the streets to do her bidding. When a boxer friend (Tony Burton) is killed by Olsen's thugs, an outlaw cop (Jeff Wincott) goes Read More

Sunset Heat

Synopsis: In this exciting and violent crime drama, a drug dealer turned photojournalist returns to his old stomping grounds in L.A. and ends up entangled in a new drug scheme by his former pal. After stealing a fortune in drugs from a ruthless crime lord, the photographer must flee for his life. ~ Sandra Read More

Pacific Heights

Actors: Michael Keaton, Melanie Griffith, Matthew Modine, Mako, Nobu McCarthy, Dorian Harewood

Synopsis: John Schlesinger directed this upscale horror film about a landlord with the ultimate problem tenant. Patty Palmer (Melanie Griffith) and Drake Goodman (Matthew Modine) are a middle class couple who lie on their financial statement in order to buy an old Victorian house in San Francisco, planning Read More

Rockula

Crew: Director

Actors: Dean Cameron, Toni Basil, Tawny Fere, Thomas Dolby, Susan Tyrrell

Synopsis: This teen-age vampire suffers from an ancient curse preventing him from losing his virginity. The film features music from Bo Diddley who adds the rock to Rockula. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Mortal Passions

Actors: Zach Galligan, Michael Bowen, Krista Erickson, Luca Bercovici, Sheila Kelley, David Warner

Synopsis: The wife of a wealthy man hatches a plan to gain his inheritance by murdering her unsuspecting husband. She is helped by the sniveling man with whom she's having an affair. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Andy Colby's Incredibly Awesome Adventure

Actors: John Bluto, Randy Josselyn, Diane Kay, Chuck Kovacic, Jessica Puscas

Synopsis: This crazy-quilt melange was originally released as Andy Colby's Incredibly Awesome Adventure; apparently it was retitled to avoid confusion with the very similar Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. Randy Josselyn plays Andy Colby, a 12-year-old videotape addict. Making a visit to the local rental Read More

Clean and Sober

Actors: Michael Keaton, Kathy Baker, Morgan Freeman, M. Emmet Walsh, Brian Benben, Tate Donovan

Synopsis: The directorial debut of Glenn Gordon Caron, the creator of the television series Moonlighting (1985-89), this intense, gritty drama was received as one of the best-ever cinematic treatments of substance abuse. Michael Keaton stars as Daryl Poynter, a hustling, successful Philadelphia real estate Read More

American Flyers

Actors: Kevin Costner, David Marshall Grant, Rae Dawn Chong, Alexandra Paul, Janice Rule

Synopsis: It takes a fierce three-day bicycle race up in the mountains to reunite two formerly feuding brothers in this film written by Steve Tesich, the creator of another cycle movie, 1979's Breaking Away. This film will please the cycling lovers out there, as it includes actual footage taken from the Read More

Ghoulies

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Peter Liapis, Lisa Pelikan, Michael Des Barres, Jack Nance, Peter Risch

Synopsis: Joe Dante's box-office fantasy Gremlins had barely left American cinemas before Charles Band's B-movie factory, Empire Pictures, rushed out this cheap knockoff. While Dante's film benefited from the director's wry sense of humor and the high-concept clout of executive producer Steven Spielberg, Band Read More

Emergency Room

Actors: Julie Sommars, Paul Stewart

Synopsis: Lensed on videotape, Emergency Room was the first presentation of the syndicated Commworld Prime Time Showcase. Sarah Purcell and LeVar Burton star in this hospital melodrama. Purcell plays the doctor in charge of the E.R., dealing not only with an onrush of patients but also with hospital red Read More

Frightmare

Actors: Ferdy [Ferdinand] Mayne

Synopsis: This uneven attempt at horror parody, direced by Norman Thaddeus Vane, gets off to a fairly promising start with a fun performance from Ferdinand Mayne (the imposing lead vampire in Roman Polanski's Fearless Vampire Killers) as the impossibly flamboyant horror superstar Conrad Radzoff -- whose Read More

Space Raiders

Actors: Vince Edwards, David Mendenhall, Patsy Pease, Thom Christopher, Luca Bercovici

Synopsis: Low-budget and cheap, the sci-fi adventure Space Raiders liberally raided Star Wars and the previous Roger Corman film Battle Beyond the Stars for scenes of special effects once, twice, three times, and more. The story, also cribbed from Star Wars is about a Col. Hawkins or "Hawk" (Vince Edwards) Read More

The Renegades

Synopsis: In this drama, undercover investigators are recruited from the streets to prevent arms smugglers from getting their weapons to street gangs. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Chicago Story

Synopsis: The Chicago Story was the two-hour pilot film for the subsequent TV series. The wounding of a 10-year-old girl by a sniper is seen through the eyes of three sets of Chicago professionals. Vincent Baggetta and Craig T. Nelson are the defense and prosecuting attorneys respectively (they'd been Read More

Parasite

Actors: Robert Glaudini, Demi Moore, Luca Bercovici, James Davidson, Al Fann

Synopsis: In this gory sci-fi outing, shot and originally released in 3-D, Dr. Paul Dean (Robert Glaudini) is a scientist living in the near future, after America has fallen under the control of a repressive paramilitary regime. Dean's research causes him to absorb an especially voracious parasitic worm Read More

The Ordeal of Bill Carney

Actors: Ana Alicia, David Faustino, Jeremy Licht, Ray Sharkey, Richard Crenna

Synopsis: The Ordeal of Bill Carney is a TV movie inspired by a landmark court decision. Ray Sharkey plays Carney, an Army reservist whose spine is damaged in a jeep accident. Left a quadriplegic, Carney loses custody of his two children to ex-wife Betty Buckley. Despite the concerted efforts of the Read More

Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Bruce Weitz

Synopsis: Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story is a surfacy TV-movie rehash of the same real-life events which inspired the 1980 theatrical feature Star 80. Jamie Lee Curtis stars as Dorothy Stratten, here depicted as an ingenuous, highly vulnerable Canadian girl who aspires to show business Read More

Flesh and Blood

Synopsis: Adapted from the novel by Pete Hamill, Flesh and Blood stars Tom Berenger as Bobby Fallon, a street punk who develops into a topnotch boxer while in prison. Upon his release, Bobby is taken under the wing of manager John Cassavetes. Outwardly tough and unmovable, Bobby is tortured with memories of Read More