Leib Lensky
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: December 15, 1903
Deathday: May 02, 1991
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Known For
The Silence of the Lambs
1991-02-14
The Silence of the Lambs
Overview: Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-02-14
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Jennifer on My Mind
1971-11-10
Jennifer on My Mind
Overview: Two rich American young adults who meet and fall in love in Venice, Italy. With plenty of money and no real responsibilities or direction in life, the couple begin experimenting with illicit drugs. The movie travels through a series of flashbacks showing their progression from marijuana to harder drugs as a result of their complex romantic entanglement with each other.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-10
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Hester Street
1975-10-19
Hester Street
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-19
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Rivals
1972-08-16
Rivals
Overview: A boy with an unhealthy and pathological attachment to his mother becomes increasingly jealous of the new man in her life. After his mother remarries, his rage and misery overwhelm him and he plots to kill his stepfather.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-08-16
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Over the Brooklyn Bridge
1984-03-02
Over the Brooklyn Bridge
Overview: A put-upon Jewish deli owner in Brooklyn dreams of getting out from underneath the thumb of his domineering father and his haughty fashion-model girlfriend by buying his own restaurant in midtown Manhattan.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-02
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Echoes
1982-01-01
Echoes
Overview: An artist is plagued by nightmares of a love triangle and murder. A psychic says the dream figure is his brother, a "troubled soul" from an ancient past life. Nearly born as his twin but miscarried, this past life rival now breaks through in nightmares in attempt to repeat history.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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The Verdict
1982-12-08
The Verdict
Overview: Frank Galvin is a down-on-his-luck lawyer and reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing, when a former associate reminds him of his obligations in a medical malpractice suit by serving it to Galvin on a silver platter—all parties are willing to settle out of court. Blundering his way through the preliminaries, Galvin suddenly realizes that the case should actually go to court—to punish the guilty, to get a decent settlement for his clients... and to restore his standing as a lawyer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-08
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Agent on Ice
1986-05-03
Agent on Ice
Overview: Now an insurance adjuster, former C.I.A. agent John Pope becomes the target of both Mafia and C.I.A. hitmen. Pope is the last of the secret agents who can ruin a money laundering collaboration between a corrupt agency leader (Kirkpatrick) and a Mafia boss (Matera).
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-03
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Christmas Evil
1980-11-01
Christmas Evil
Overview: Garbed in his red suit, Harry, a toy factory worker, decides that the only thing he can do to save the spirit of Christmas is to become Santa Claus himself and make all of the naughty townspeople pay... in blood!
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-01
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Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow!
1971-11-18
Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow!
Overview: Barney owns the last working farm in Manhattan. For various reasons, city officials have decided to close it down. A special event is planned to raise awareness and money to keep it running.
Genres: Family Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-18
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Love and Death
1975-06-10
Love and Death
Overview: In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-06-10
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Bye Bye Braverman
1968-02-21
Bye Bye Braverman
Overview: One day, Morroe Rieff learns that his friend and fellow writer, Leslie Braverman, has died. After meeting Leslie's widow, Inez, who is more flirtatious than grieving, Morroe joins up with three other writer friends, Barnet, Felix, and Holly to attend funeral services. However, the quartet faces numerous obstacles that could keep them from paying their respects.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-02-21
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Zalmen, or The Madness of God
1975-01-13
Zalmen, or The Madness of God
Overview: This play takes place during Yom Kippur in a post-Stalinist Russian synagogue, where a Rabbi waits for a Western acting troupe and gets extremely angry about the repression of Jews in the Soviet Union.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-13
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Something Wild
1986-11-07
Something Wild
Overview: A free-spirited woman "kidnaps" a yuppie for a weekend of adventure. But the fun quickly takes a dangerous turn when her ex-con husband shows up.
Genres: Crime Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-11-07
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