Known for Camera
Born
September 24, 1943 (age 82)
Birthplace
Palestine [now Israel]
Filmography
57 films


Ovation
2016 · 1h 42m
country: United States
Maggie Chase, now a passionate theater actress, must follow her mind or heart when she falls for a slick television star.


Just 45 Minutes from Broadway
2012 · 1h 52m
country: United States
Stinging from the latest of several romantic break-ups, Pandora Isaacs (Tanna Frederick) retreats to the safety of her parents’ ramshackle upstate country house — just 45 minutes from Broadway— where her non-theatrical sister (Julie Davis) and her sister's fiance, a real- estate executive, (Judd Nelson) are also arriving for the weekend and the family's yearly Passover Seder. Family secrets, sibling rivalries, theatrical hysterics and the possibility of true love as rare as a blue bullfrog all emerge.


A Christmas Carol
2004 · 1h 27m
country: United States
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.


Vegas, City of Dreams
2001 · 1h 33m
country: United States
When the body of Gabrielle Garrett is found on Lake Mead on a Christmas day, the coroner rules it as suicide. However, her three sisters begin their own investigation, which leads them to Byron Lord and the dark Las Vegas underworld.


Avocado Seed
1998 · 1h 43m
country: Brazil
A Jewish teenager goes to a Catholic school and falls in love with a black Catholic girl.


Deep Family Secrets
1997 · 1h 36m
country: United States
A tale of hidden family scandals. A young woman journeys back to her birthplace and discovers that much of what she had always taken for granted concerning her family life was a lie.


Inner Sanctum II
1994 · 1h 22m
country: United States
After a traumatized woman kills her rich husband in self defense, his family and friends show up to secure a piece of the inheritance for themselves even if it means driving the poor woman insane - or worse.


Babyfever
1994 · 1h 49m
country: United States
Gena is an average woman who is torn between her current boyfriend's desire to marry her and start a family, and the unexpected arrival of an old boyfriend wanting to pick up where they left off. To further complicate matters, she might be pregnant herself. In the mist of this unsettled personal life, Gena leaves her two men to attend a baby shower party for a girl friend and talks with the various female attendees all of whom are facing their own ticking biological clocks.


Dark Tide
1994 · 1h 34m
country: United States
Andi joins her husband Tim on a tropical island to help him with the capturing of poisonous sea snakes for their venom. Her flagrant sensuality attracts the attention of hired hand Dak, and when Tim becomes bitterly obsessed with his faltering job, Andi shares an intimate afternoon with the obsessed crewman, but then refuses to continue the affair, which leads the jilted lover to begin a series of escalating violent events.


Storybook
1994 · 1h 28m
country: Canada
A young boy and his dog discover a magical story book and enter the enchanted Storyland, ruled by wicked Queen Evilia. They'll need a little help from his literary friends to get back to the real world.


Body Language
1992 · 1h 33m
country: United States
The ambitious Betsy is happy: she gets promoted to a leading management position. Her happiness is spoiled only a little by problems with a boyfriend who feels neglected and an harassing boss. She realizes much too late that her secretary Norma is after her job and step by step tries to ruin her career and private life.


Venice/Venice
1992 · 1h 48m
country: United States
Dean is a maverick American film director surprised that his most recent film has been chosen as the Official U.S. Entry at the Venice Film Festival. A beautiful French journalist arrives at the festival with the apparent intention of interviewing the unique and eccentric filmmaker. In the midst of all the festival madness, she is forced to confront the wide divergence between things as they really are and things as they seem to be - both on screen and off. And so, finally, are we. Shot half in Venice, Italy and half in Venice, California, "Venice/Venice" looks at the profound effect movies have had - and continue to have - on our lives, our loves and on our dreams of romance.


Ernest Scared Stupid
1991 · 1h 31m
country: United States
Well-intentioned, eternally bumbling Ernest P. Worrell accidentally releases an evil demon from its sacred tomb. As the demon flexes its power and goes on a ruinous rampage, good-guy Ernest tries to step in to save the town from mass destruction. Trouble is, a 200-year-old curse has scared Ernest stupid, and that means hilarity all around! So, kick back and let the laugh-ridden adventures begin.


The Kid Who Loved Christmas
1990 · 1h 29m
country: United States
In this sentimental holiday tale, a young boy is taken away from his loving, adoptive household when his new mom is killed in an auto accident and his traveling musician dad is deemed unfit to care for him, being on the road too much. Now, the only thing that can help is if a cold, bureaucratic adoption agency caseworker sees the error of her ways and allows them to be together.


Murder in Paradise
1990 · 1h 34m
country: United States
A stressed-out, big-city cop seeks refuge in Hawaii, only to become embroiled in a serial murder case that appears to be identical to his last case in New York City.


Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
1988 · 1h 36m
country: United States
Arriving in the small town of Fallwell, Massachusetts to claim her inheritance, horror hostess Elvira receives a less than enthusiastic reception from the conservative locals, including her sinister uncle Vincent.


Seven Hours to Judgment
1988 · 1h 30m
country: United States
A distraught husband kidnaps the judge who freed his wife's killers on insufficient evidence. He gives him seven hours to find evidence that will put them away, or he'll kill his wife.


A Friendship in Vienna
1988 · 1h 38m
country: United States
Inge Dournenvald and Lise Mueller are best friends in pre-WW2 Austria, despite the fact that Inge is Jewish and Lise is the daughter of a Nazi sympathizer. When they are forbidden to see each other, they meet secretly. After the Germans invade Austria in 1938, Inge and her family escape to America with the help of Lise
The King of Love
The King of Love
1987 · 1h 34m
country: United States
A publishing empire founder discovers that his rise to power was costly.


Strange Voices
1987 · 1h 40m
country: United States
A family begins to fall apart when their eldest daughter is diagnosed with schizophrenia.


Someone to Love
1987 · 1h 51m
country: United States
A Hollywood film director assembles a group of friends and strangers for a social gathering on Valentines Day in a deserted movie theater where he interviews each one on their opinions on love and loneliness.


Masters of the Universe
1987 · 1h 46m
country: United States
When He-Man is driven from Eternia after Skeletor seizes Castle Grayskull, a stolen portal device strands the fight on Earth, where a pair of teenagers become entangled in a war that spans worlds.


Assassination
1987 · 1h 28m
country: United States
Jay Killon is the bodyguard of the recently elected US president, but he is assigned to the first lady (Lara Royce). Lara hates Killon so she does all she can to escape. The story complicates when someone tries to kill Lara.


Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story
1986 · 1h 30m
country: United States
Outraged by the treatment of New York City’s unhoused residents, an activist brings national attention to the issue by taking their case to Congress.


The Brotherhood of Justice
1986 · 1h 33m
country: United States
High-school students start a vigilante group in their neighbourhood but, as their power increases, they become more abusive and dangerous.


Prince of Bel Air
1986 · 1h 35m
country: United States
A free-spirited, womanizing L.A. pool cleaner finds his lifestyle challenged by a new love interest.


American Ninja
1985 · 1h 35m
country: United States
Joe Armstrong, an orphaned drifter with little respect for much other than martial arts, finds himself on an American Army base in the Philippines after a judge gives him a choice of enlistment or prison. On one of his first missions driving a convoy, his platoon is attacked by a group of rebels who try to steal the weapons the platoon is transporting and kidnap the base colonel's daughter.


Obsessed with a Married Woman
1985 · 1h 44m
country: United States
A man falls in love with a married co-worker and wants her to divorce her husband, but she refuses because she has a ten-year-old son.


Roman Behemshechim
1985
country: Unknown
A highly successful lawyer realises, after a cardiac warning, that he may have squandered his life when he left his first wife and all the ideals of youth she stood for, to marry a neurotic poet and join the rat race for money & success.


Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo
1984 · 1h 34m
country: United States
The dance crew from "Breakin'" bands together to save a community center from a greedy developer bent on building a shopping center in its place.


The Cartier Affair
1984 · 1h 34m
country: United States
Curt Taylor is a convict and owes Phil Drexler the number 1 convict in the prison. Now to settle his debt Drexler sends Curt to be the secretary for Cartier Rand so that he can steal her jewels. But he falls in love with her, which complicates things.


Ninja III: The Domination
1984 · 1h 34m
country: United States
An aerobics instructor becomes a ruthless assassin after being possessed by a slain ninja's spirit, leading to a showdown with a martial arts expert.


Breakin'
1984 · 1h 30m
country: United States
A struggling young dancer joins forces with two breakdancers and together they become a street sensation.


Treasure: In Search of the Golden Horse
1984 · 1h 9m
country: United States
A young woman follows clues across America, searching for a missing statuette of a golden horse. Viewers were invited to solve the film's mystery to find a real buried treasure hidden somewhere in the United States. No one solved the puzzle by the contest's deadline, and in 1989 the money was donated to charity.


A Killer in the Family
1983 · 1h 30m
country: United States
Three teenage boys break their father out of prison only to discover that he is a murderous sociopath. Based on a true story.


The Wave
1981 · 44m
country: United States
A teacher conducts an experiment in an American high school where students learn how easy it is to be seduced by the same social forces which led to the horrors of Nazi Germany.


Choices
1981 · 1h 30m
country: Unknown
A popular high school student seems to have it all; a spot on the football team, the love of playing music in the school orchestra and a girlfriend. His world seems to come apart when the school doctor discovers he is partially deaf, causing him to be cut from the football team on the advice of the doctor. The student's friends fight to keep him on the team; while he struggles with his problem by withdrawing from everything he loves and starts falling in with the wrong crowd.


She Drinks a Little
1981 · 48m
country: United States
16-year-old girl is in denial about her mother's drinking problem and refuses to join Ala-Teen.


What Are Friends For?
1980 · 1h
country: United States
Two 12-year-old girls going through a divorce make a pact never to divorce their friendship.


UFO's Are Real
1979 · 1h 33m
country: Canada
One of several 1970s documentaries on the subject of unidentified flying objects (UFO), supporting the view that Earth is visited regularly by extra-terrestrial engines and aliens.


Fyre
1979 · 1h 30m
country: United States
After an innocent country girl is violently raped, her family is killed in a car accident before she can come to terms with what happened. As her feelings of shame grow into self-degradation, she turns to prostitution


Up Yours
1979 · 1h 27m
country: United States
Tenants share wild times in a Hollywood apartment building.


Paratroopers
1977 · 1h 25m
country: Israel
Not everyone is born to be a soldier. Not even in Israel, where universal conscription is the tradition. This movie is about a Sad Sack in the Israeli army, incompetent to complete training and yet incompetent to extricate himself.