Lou Jacobi

A Russian Jewish family comes to the USA at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a better future in the so-called promised land. (imdb)

A dissolute matinee idol is slated to appear on a live TV variety show. (imdb)

Seven segments related to one another only in that they all purport to be based on sections of the book by David Reuben... (imdb)

Albert Einstein helps a young man who's in love with Einstein's niece to catch her attention by pretending temporarily to be a great physicist. (imdb)

A spoof 1950's sci-fi movie, interspersed with various comedy sketches.

Naive, by the book French police officer Nester Patou, is transferred to the Red Light district. Upon witnessing what must be a brothel, he calls the station and organizes a raid, transporting all the 'ladies' to the jail. This unfortunately disrupts the well organized system of the police and the Pimps union.

Harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends is forced into hiding in an attic in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. (imdb)

An aspiring actor leaves his home in Brooklyn for adulthood in Manhattan in Paul Mazursky's loosely autobiographical comedy-drama. In 1953, would-be thesp Larry Lapinsky (Lenny Baker) flees his hysterically clinging mother (Shelley Winters) for a $25-a-month (!!) apartment in bohemian Greenwich Village... (All Movie Guide)

A girl brings home her latest boyfriend to meet her parents. This is done against the background of random shootings that had just begun in NYC. How the family's failings are magnified by the social confusion of the times is the crux of the plot.

Two Harlem cops investigate a robbery, believing that a reverend has staged it in order to steal the money he's collected for a local fundraiser.

In the busy wholesale-retail world of London's garment district. everyone, it seems, has unattainable dreams. Then a small boy - Joe - finds a unicorn, in fact a sickly little goat, with just one twisted horn in the middle of its forehead. This, he has been led to believe by a local tailor, Kandinsky, will bring everyone good fortune. (wikipedia)

Comedy about a flighty, bored, kleptomaniac wife of a banker who robs her husband's bank of $60,000. (imdb)

At New York City's famed Roseland Ballroom, the romantic and brokenhearted come together in a trilogy of stories. The first vignette stars Teresa Wright as May, a widow, and Lou Jacobi as her suitor. "The Hustle" features Christopher Walken as a gigolo who's abandoned his dream of dance fame in exchange for making a quick buck. In "The Peabody," a woman named Rosa (Lilia Skala) hopes to compete in the titular dance, despite her precarious health.

A young Jewish boy (Marx) who escapes from the traumas of war-torn Holland by living in a fantasy world of American westerns - where good triumphs over evil and the outcast becomes a hero. (Wikipedia)

A full-bodied comedy about boardroom and bedroom politics. (imdb)

Harry Landers is a feisty senior citizen who refuses to abide by the rules in a stodgy retirement home run by a dour Ms. Davis, in which Harry leads a revolt by the other goated senior citizen residents against the establishment.

Marty and Steve, American tourists in France, are given a multipurpose umbrella and pitted against an international band of art thieves. Among the stolen treasures is the Statue Of Liberty. (imdb)

This expensive production attempts to bring Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer's subtle philosophical novel The Magician of Lublin to the screen. In the story, Yasha Mazur (Alan Arkin) is a perfectionistic turn-of-the-century Jewish stage magician, con-man and mystic, who is touring through eastern Europe, at the same time managing to progressively sabotage his own career. (allmovie.com)