In order to ruin a western town and steal their land, a corrupt politician appoints a black sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.
Movie | Animation, Comedy | Australia | English, Yiddish
Director
Adam Elliot
Writer
Adam Elliot
Cast
Toni Collette, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Eric Bana
Plot
In 1976 Melbourne, a lonely 8-year-old girl strikes up a correspondence with an unlikely pen pal: a severely obese 44-year-old New Yorker with Asperger's syndrome.
Movie | Biography, Drama | Australia | English, Yiddish
Director
Scott Hicks
Writer
Jan Sardi, Scott Hicks
Cast
Geoffrey Rush, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Justin Braine
Plot
David Helfgott, a gifted pianist, struggles through childhood as his dysfunctional father abuses him and his siblings. Years later, he suffers a mental breakdown but manages to return as a legend.
Movie | Comedy, Drama | UK, France | English, Yiddish
Director
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Writer
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Cast
Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Sari Lennick
Plot
Larry Gopnik, a Midwestern physics teacher, watches his life unravel over multiple sudden incidents. Despite seeking meaning and answers amidst his turmoils, he seems to keep sinking.
Józef visits his dying father at a remote mental institution, where time itself doesn't seem to exist, and the line between dreams and memories becomes indistinguishable.
The story of Ray Kroc, a salesman who turned two brothers' innovative fast food eatery, McDonald's, into the biggest restaurant business in the world, with a combination of ambition, persistence, and ruthlessness.
Fran Drescher, Prudence Fraser, Peter Marc Jacobson
Cast
Fran Drescher, Charles Shaughnessy, Daniel Davis
Plot
After being fired from her job and dumped by her boyfriend, a cosmetics saleswoman becomes the nanny to the three children of a rich English widower. As time passes, the two fall for each other.
The mystical love story between Chonen, a poor Talmud student, and Lea, a girl from a wealthy family, depicts the traditional folk culture of Polish Jews before WW2.
Movie | Drama, Romance | Israel, Germany | Hebrew, Yiddish
Director
Haim Tabakman
Writer
Merav Doster
Cast
Zohar Strauss, Ran Khalil Danker, Tinkerbell
Plot
A married, Orthodox, Jerusalem butcher and Jewish father of four falls in love with his handsome, 22-year-old male apprentice, triggering the suspicions of his wife and the disapproval of his Orthodox community.
Mockumentary captures the reunion of 1960s folk trio the Folksmen as they prepare for a show at The Town Hall to memorialize a recently deceased concert promoter.
Movie | Animation, Comedy | USA | English, Yiddish
Director
Ralph Bakshi
Writer
Robert Crumb, Ralph Bakshi
Cast
Skip Hinnant, Rosetta LeNoire, John McCurry
Plot
In the late 1960s, a pretentious, womanizing young cat drops out of college, starts a riot in Harlem, hits the road with an ex-girlfriend and gets mixed up with domestic terrorists.
Movie | Adventure, Comedy | USA | English, Yiddish
Director
Robert Aldrich
Writer
Michael Elias, Frank Shaw
Cast
Gene Wilder, Harrison Ford, Ramon Bieri
Plot
A Polish rabbi wanders through the Old West on his way to lead a synagogue in San Francisco. On the way, he is nearly burned at the stake by Native Americans and almost killed by outlaws.
Independent cabbie Matt Nolan is primed to let his fists and handgun deliver payback after a big taxi firm uses intimidation and violence to squeeze out small-timers.
