David Opatoshu
Also Known As: David Opatovsky
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: January 30, 1918
Deathday: April 30, 1996
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Exodus
Overview: Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyprus to Palestine on a ship named the Exodus. He faces obstruction from British forces, who will not grant the ship passage to its destination.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-15
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Flash Gordon: The Greatest Adventure of All
Overview: Flash Gordon, Dale Arden and Dr. Hans Zarkov travel to the planet Mongo to fight the evil emperor Ming the Merciless.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-07-16
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The Defector
Overview: An American scientist is sent by the CIA to East Germany to retrieve a secret microfilm from a Soviet scientist interested in defecting to the West but the Stasi secret police's surveillance complicates matters.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-19
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Who'll Stop the Rain
Overview: John, a disillusioned Vietnam War journalist, turns to heroin smuggling. He cons Ray, an equally burnt out veteran into delivering the drugs stateside to his wife. Everything soon falls apart and Ray ends up on the run with John's wife trying to evade crooked narcotics agents.
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-08-02
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Forced Vengeance
Overview: A casino security guard is forced into violence from when the Hong Kong mob threatens his friends.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-07-30
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Party Girl
Overview: Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realizes that there's more to life than winning trials. Farrell tries to quit the racket, but mob boss Rico Angelo threatens to hurt the showgirl if Farrell leaves him.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-10-28
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The Dybbuk
Overview: A young woman is possessed by a malicious spirit.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: he
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Enter Laughing
Overview: A machinist's apprentice in Depression-era New York, David dreams of becoming the new Ronald Colman. Defying the wishes of his parents, David lands a nonpaying job in a seedy theatrical production directed by broken-down ham Marlowe.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-02-25
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The Brothers Karamazov
Overview: Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly. His four grown sons include Dmitri, the eldest, an elegant officer, always broke and at odds with his father, betrothed to Katya, herself lovely and rich. The other brothers include a sterile aesthete, a factotum who is a bastard, and a monk. Family tensions erupt when Dmitri falls in love with one of his father's mistresses, the coquette Grushenka. Two brothers see Dmitri's jealousy of their father as an opportunity to inherit sooner. Acts of violence lead to the story's conclusion: trials of honor, conscience, forgiveness, and redemption.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-02-20
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The Naked City
Overview: After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-04
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Cimarron
Overview: The epic story of a family involved in the Oklahoma Land Rush of April 22, 1889.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-01
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Sands of Beersheba
Overview: During the Palestinian War of 1948, an American falls in love with her late fiance's friend, an Israeli gunrunner.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-07-15
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Tarzan and the Valley of Gold
Overview: In Central America, a little native boy, Ramel, is abducted by Vinaro, a madman who believes the child to be the sole link to a lost Aztec city of gold. Vinaro uses one of his diabolical explosive mechanisms to eliminate police and army officials; and the legendary Tarzan is flown in to help locate the jungle city, rescue the boy, and bring Vinaro to justice.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-07-01
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One Spy Too Many
Overview: The men from U.N.C.L.E." are back! This time Robert Vaughn and David McCallum must stop the megalomaniac Alexander from committing the world's greatest crimes.
Genres: Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-08-05
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Beyond Evil
Overview: Middle-aged newlyweds Larry & Barbara spend their honeymoon at a palatial Caribbean mansion, unaware that it is inhabited by the vengeful spirit of a notorious voodoo witch queen who was murdered a century ago. The woman's evil spirit promptly begins precipitating a variety of violent deaths in accordance with a diabolical ritual intended to bring her back to life -a process which is ultimately consummated by taking possession of Barbara's body.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-01
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Romance of a Horsethief
Overview: Since time immemorial, the simple-minded boisterous people of Malava, a small Polish town near the border of imperial Russia, have lived on horse-stealing, horse-trading and horse-smuggling. Life changes abruptly when a Russian garrison, commanded by Captain Stoloff, occupies the town and, in the name of the Czar, requisitions all the horses for the Russian-Japanese War. With no more horses to steal, Kifke cannot afford to marry Estusha and all the young men in the village are likely to be incorporated into the Russian army. This state of affairs cannot continue and Zavill will take care of things.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-08-11
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Forty Days of Musa Dagh
Overview: Armenian guerrilla troops fight against the Turkish forces on the mountain of Musa Dagh.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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The Light Ahead
Overview: The Light Ahead is possibly the greatest of Edgar G. Ulmer’s shtetl films. Here, the director counterpoints his pastoral Green Fields to criticize the poverty and superstition that oppress a pair of star-crossed lovers. Made on the eve of World War II, The Light Ahead is at once romantic, expressionist, and painfully conscious of the danger about to engulf European Jews. Impoverished and disabled lovers Fishke and Hodel dream of life in the big city of Odessa, free from the poverty and stifling old-world prejudices of the shtetl. The benevolent and enlightened bookseller Mendele helps them, turning small-town superstitions to their advantage. Based on Mendele Mokher Seforim's story of love frustrated by small-town ignorance, this luminous allegory of escape marries Edgar Ulmer's masterful direction with superb acting by members of New York's Artef and Yiddish Art Theaters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-01
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Guns of Darkness
Overview: Committed pacifist Tom Jordan's decision to help former President Rivera escape a military coup is a simple act of mercy that takes him and his wife to the edge of despair. It turns them into outlaws and fugitives, hunted by a vicious South American regime; yet it could also bring them together in a way they have never been before.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-07-19
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Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8
Overview: A made-for-cable-TV docudrama about the trial of the men accused of conspiring to cause protesters to riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Combines in an innovative manner dramatic recreations (largely faithful to the actual trial transcripts) with documentary footage and interviews with the actual defendants.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-16
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The Goldbergs
Overview: Feature film using characters from the popular radio show and the pioneering 1949 TV series, about a Bronx family coping with everyday problems.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-23
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In Search of Historic Jesus
Overview: Re-created Biblical tableaux mixed with interviews.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-01
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The D.A.: Murder One
Overview: A Deputy District Attorney suspects that a nurse has been murdering her rich husbands and relatives by giving them unneeded insulin doses, but his superiors don't believe him.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-08
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Conspiracy of Terror
Overview: A husband-and-wife detective team investigate the existence of lethal Satanic cults , while the husband battles with his Orthodox Jewish parents who haven't forgiven him for marrying a Gentile woman.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Comedy Crime Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-29
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Under Siege
Overview: Terrorists launch an attack against the USA. Their first strike is by a suicide squad that detonates a truckload of explosives at an army base in Washington DC. FBI probes indicate that the attack is by Arab terrorists led by Iranians. Subsequent attacks are via airplanes exploded in mid-air, crowded restaurants, and an attack on a mall. Administration cabinet heads push the President to retaliate. The director of the FBI believes that there may be more to the story than the investigation has revealed and the Secretary of Defense is the only other person urging caution.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-02-09
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Thieves' Highway
Overview: Nick Garcos comes back from his tour of duty in World War II planning to settle down with his girlfriend, Polly Faber. He learns, however, that his father was recently beaten and burglarized by mob-connected trucker Mike Figlia, and Nick resolves to get even. He partners with prostitute Rica, and together they go after Mike, all the while getting pulled further into the local crime underworld.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-20
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Americathon
Overview: In a story told in narrative flashbacks, a young TV consultant is hired by the President of a bankrupt USA to organize a telethon in order to prevent the country from being repossessed by wealthy Native Americans.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-10
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Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident
Overview: The story of Francis Gary Powers, a U-2 pilot for the CIA who was shot down in his spy plane over Russia, captured and imprisoned.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-29
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Portrait: A Man Whose Name Was John
Overview: During World War II, Archbishop Angelo Roncalli attempts to save Jews in Italy from Nazi exterminators.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-21
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What Makes Sammy Run?
Overview: An adaptation of Budd Schulberg's incendiary 1941 novel about the rise of an unscrupulous Hollywood producer. The production was divided into two parts and aired on NBC's Sunday Showcase.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-09-27
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Torn Curtain
Overview: During the Cold War, an American scientist appears to defect to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the formula for a resin solution, but the plan goes awry when his fiancee, unaware of his motivation, follows him across the border.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-07-15
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Incident in San Francisco
Overview: A man who tries to stop a mugging finds himself accused of murdering the criminal after the victim and witnesses fail to corroborate his story. A young reporter believes the man and tries to find out why the parties involved are trying to frame him.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-28
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Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women
Overview: The life and times of the flamboyant showman who built his legendary Follies around beautiful women -- as told by the women in his life.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-21
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Raid on Entebbe
Overview: Based on a true operation by Israeli commandos. An Air France flight is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The airplane landed in Uganda. The terrorists released some passengers, keeping 94 Jews and 12 air crew hostage. The Israeli government would not negotiate. A rescue plan was devised, and less than 100 commandos were flown across Africa to rescue the passengers in surprisingly successful operation.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-26
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Death of a Gunfighter
Overview: In the turn-of-the century Texas town of Cottownwood Springs, marshal Frank Patch is an old-style lawman in a town determined to become modern. When he kills drunken Luke Mills in self-defense, the town leaders decide it's time for a change. That ask for Patch's resignation, but he refuses on the basis that the town on hiring him had promised him the job for as long as he wanted it. Afraid for the town's future and even more afraid of the fact that Marshal Patch knows all the town's dark secrets, the city fathers decide that old-style violence is the only way to rid themselves of the unwanted lawman.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-05-08
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The Best of Enemies
Overview: During World War II, a plane full of RAF fighter crashes in the Ethiopian desert and they are met upon by an enemy Italian patrol that allows them to go free. But, when the Brits are given orders to attack the Italians, lots of problems ensue.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-26
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Mayerling
Overview: Mayerling is the name of a notorious Austrian village linked to a romantic tragedy. At a royal hunting lodge there, in 1889, Crown Prince Rudolf--desperate over his father's command to put away his teenage mistress, the Baroness Marie Vetsera--shot her to death and killed himself. The misfortune may indeed have been a murder-suicide, but perhaps it was a political assassination, or even the result of a lunatic family vendetta: scholarship is still catching up with the facts.
Genres: TV Movie Romance War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-02-04
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The Smugglers
Overview: A woman and her stepdaughter attempt to sneak a few souvenirs past customs and inadvertently become the couriers for an international smuggling ring.
Genres: Mystery Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-24
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Black City
Overview: A charming rogue, the self-proclaimed leader of Naples, locks horns with an American Army general and a police inspector.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-09-16
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Crowded Paradise
Overview: A Puerto Rican immigrant anxiously awaits his wedding day, but his fiancé's racist landlord intervenes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-21
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