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I.Q. (1994)
Character: Professor Loewenstein
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.
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Lady Ice (1973)
Character: Jeweler
An insurance investigator romances a wealthy young beauty when he suspects she may be involved in fencing stolen jewels.
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Kicked in the Head (1997)
Character: Elderly Man
When Redmond finds himself out of home and job, his life becomes a series of unpredictable escapades - from dodging gunfire after his uncle makes him deliver a highly suspicious package to pursuing a moody stewardess he thinks has come to save him. Soon Redmond begins to suspect his road of mishap might actually be the path to the truth he has been seeking all along.
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Hester Street (1975)
Character: Scribe
A Russian emigre prides himself on the way he's molded himself into a real Yankee in the USA, though the world he lives in, New York's Lower East Side in the late 19th century, is almost exclusively populated by other Jewish immigrants. When his wife finally arrives in the New World, however, she has a lot of assimilating to do.
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Simon (1980)
Character: Rabbi Chaim Glassberg
A group of scientists take Simon, a psychology professor, as a test person for a brainwashing experiment and try to convince him that he is a living being from another planet.
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Niagara, Niagara (1998)
Character: Pawnbroker
An outsider and a young woman plagued by Tourette's syndrome meet and together journey to Canada.
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Music Box (1989)
Character: Istvan Boday
A lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects.
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Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976)
Character: Mr. Elkins
An aspiring Jewish actor moves out of his parents' Brooklyn apartment to seek his fortune in the bohemian life of Greenwich Village in 1953.
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The Pickle (1993)
Character: Grandfather
Harry Stone always dreamed of making "The Great American Movie." Instead, he made "The Pickle" - a teenage sci-fi flick about a flying cucumber. Harry just wanted to get out of debt; now everyone he's ever known, loved and neglected is standing in line for tickets.
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Fading Gigolo (2013)
Character: N/A
Fioravante decides to become a professional Don Juan as a way of making money to help his cash-strapped friend, Murray. With Murray acting as his "manager", the duo quickly finds themselves caught up in the crosscurrents of love and money.
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Willie & Phil (1980)
Character: Pshchiatrist #2
Life imitates art when two Manhattanites — pompous teacher Willie and quiet photographer Phil — become friends after a thought-provoking screening of "Jules et Jim," Truffaut's classic film about a decades-long ménage à trois. Soon, the men meet Jeanette, a sexually liberated southern transplant who promptly falls for both of them. Frustrated passions curdle into jealousy as Jeanette entertains love affairs with each in the ensuing years.
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A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982)
Character: Carstairs
A nutty inventor, his frustrated wife, a philosopher cousin, his much younger fiancée, a randy doctor, and a free-thinking nurse spend a summer weekend in and around a stunning - and possibly magical - country house.
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Subway Stories (1997)
Character: Old News Man (segment "Sax Cantor Riff")
An anthology of 10 stories depicting real-life incidents of subway riders in New York City, which range from compassion and love to violence and loss.
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Love and Death (1975)
Character: Voskovec
In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.
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Lovesick (1983)
Character: Analyst
Sigmund Freud's ghost advises a married New York psychiatrist in love with a patient.
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Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
Character: Seder Guest
A renowned ophthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship…which ends up in murder; and a frustrated documentary filmmaker woos an attractive television producer while making a film about her insufferably self-centered boss.
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