Goldberg & Eisenberg (2013)

Actors: Eran Bohem (actor), Uri Levanon (producer), Oren Carmi (producer), Uri Levanon (producer), Daniel Brusovani (actor), Oren Carmi (writer), Oren Carmi (director), Daniel Keysary (editor), Eyal Kentov (actor), Yitzhak Laor (actor), Ronny Dotan (actress), Yoav Stapler (actor), Greg Lyahovetsky (actor), Bruno Grife (composer), Ori Halevy (actor),

Plot: Goldberg is short and thin. He wears glasses. He's lonely. He's a mediocre computer programmer that lives in Tel Aviv and spends most of his energy searching online for a girlfriend. His only friend is Audrey, his beloved female dog. Eisenberg is a thug. Tall, fat, approaching middle age and not completely sane. He spends his days slouching around Meir Park, harassing innocent bystanders and doing business with petty thieves and small-time criminals. Unfortunately the two cross paths, and Eisenberg decides that they should start hanging out. But something in his demeanor says that he wants to be much more than just friends... Goldberg tries to avoid him, but Eisenberg's presence is everywhere: his apartment, his dating life, even his nightmares. When Eisenberg threatens Goldberg's beloved dog he realizes he must leave his manners behind, but his actions back-fire and events spin out of control. Goldberg is unwillingly drawn into Eisenberg's bizarre world, a world of petty thieves, Russian neo-Nazi punk rockers and Israeli "redneck" farmers... And the story gradually becomes darker and darker... This is a story about random meetings with strangers that lead to anxiety and paranoia. About lonely people in the big city. About losing control.

Keywords: psycho, stalker, suspense
Genres: Horror, Thriller,

Absalom (2012)

Actors: Douglas Cavanaugh (actor), Erica Ortiz (actress), Chris Campbell (editor), Courtney Cole (actress), Chris Campbell (writer), Chris Campbell (director), Clay Campbell (producer), Slava Shabanov (actor),

Genres: Drama, Short,

David (1997)

Actors: Luca Bernabei (producer), Maurice Roëves (actor), Jonathan Pryce (actor), Carlo Siliotto (composer), Sheryl Lee (actress), Enrico Sabbatini (costume designer), Leonard Nimoy (actor), John Gielgud (actor), Angelo Infanti (actor), Lina Sastri (actress), Roger Hammond (actor), Franco Nero (actor), Franco Penna (miscellaneous crew), Paul Rubell (editor), Roberto Penna (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: The tribes of Israel need to defeat the superior might of the Philistines: "Now appoint a king to lead us, such as all the other nations have." (I Samuel, 8:5). And so the prophet Samuel gives the Hebrews their first king, Saul, a simple farmer, who with God's help becomes a brave and mighty warlord who leads the united tribes of Israel against their enemies. Saul, however, has incessant doubts about his mission. Not trustful enough of divine wisdom, he acts of his own accord and thus sins against the Lord. The influential prophet Samuel turns away from Saul in order to select a new king according to God's will: David. He is still a young boy, tending sheep in the fields, when, secretly Samuel oints him as the next king of the Israelites. When David - as courageous as he is intelligent - emerges victorious from his encounter with Goliath, the Philistines' most powerful warrior, he becomes a hero. His fame arouses the jealousy of King Saul, who senses that David is going to dispute his right to be king - and tries to kill him. David flees from Saul, and finds many supporters and loyal companions who believe that he is destined to be king. In exile, David waits for his time to come, since he does not want to take the place of Saul by violence. He is young and in the prime of his strength, while King Saul is a broken man. When Saul falls upon his sword after losing a battle, David's hour is at hand. The new King David conquers Jerusalem. The magnificent city is to become the royal residence for the glorious hero, who now plans to leave the business of war to others in future and to become a King of Peace. However, this temperamental man, with so many years of battle behind him and still in the bloom of youth, is not predestined for a quiet, orderly life at all. Very soon he plunges into an illicit love affair with Bathsheba, a married woman - an affair that threatens to become the king's undoing when it turns out that she is expecting his child. To conceal his adulterous fatherhood, the king sends Bathsheba's husband Uriah - one of his best and most loyal soldiers - to his death, and then marries her. The prophet and royal adviser Nathan announces to David that his act will result in divine punishment: the Lord will not countenance such an outrage. Violence and evil will continue in David's own family and bring disaster upon the heads of the numerous sons born to David from his wives and concubines. Then the child of David and Bathsheba dies. She gives him another son, Solomon, but very soon David suffers another sharp blow of fate: his grown-up son Absalom kills one of his brothers for the latter's rape of his sister. David is far too mild in response to this: not only does he fail to bring the incestuous seducer to justice, he also leaves the fratricide unpunished. The king does not realise that he is gradually losing control over his family, and that his hold on the people is also growing weaker. For David is obsessed with his plan of building the finest and largest temple in the world in Jerusalem. He demands immense sums from the populace for this project, even though God has commanded him to leave the completion of the building to his successors. David's ambitious son Absalom thus finds it very easy to drum up support for a conspiracy against his father. After a fierce battle, culminating in Absalom's death, David makes it back to Jerusalem.

Keywords: 10th-century-b.c., adultery, ancient-israel, armor, army, based-on-book, based-on-true-story, battle, battlefield, biblical
Genres: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History,

King David (1985)

Actors: Carl Davis (composer), Alice Krige (actress), Massimo Sarchielli (actor), Edward Woodward (actor), Lorenzo Piani (actor), Bruce Beresford (director), Marino Masé (actor), David de Keyser (actor), Tomas Milian (actor), David Graham (actor), Jean-Marc Barr (actor), George Eastman (actor), Richard Gere (actor), Luciano Tartaglia (miscellaneous crew), June Randall (miscellaneous crew),

Genres: Adventure, Biography, Drama, War,

Quotes:

[first lines]::Saul's guard: The king cannot speak with you now. He is engaged in the affairs of state.::Samuel: Since when have the affairs of state taken precedence over the affairs of God? [shoves his way past and enters Saul's throne room]::Saul: ...Samuel. We welcome you. With God's blessing, our victory is complete.::Samuel: Is THIS how you show Him your gratitude... by robbing the Amalekites of their women and cattle? By holding their king in chains?::Saul: We were discussing a possible treaty. The king is to be ransomed...::Samuel: A *treaty?* *Ransom?* Saul, for this you have betrayed your own soul in the sight of God. His instructions were plain enough: "... Spare nothing from the sword." [beheads the Amalekite king]... When our tribes clamored for a king, to make us like other nations, I answered them: "We are not like other nations. The Lord of Hosts is both our God and our King." The people said, "We want a king we can see. We want a king of our own flesh and blood." [holds up the severed head] Here are your kings of flesh and blood. Here is a king you can see. [throws the head at Saul's feet]

Saul: [over the defeated Goliath] An entire army at my command. Yet it takes a shepherd boy to wipe out our disgrace.

Saul: [to David, when they first meet] Have you seen Him? Face to face? I saw Him... once. He smiled on me, too. But at daybreak He was gone.

Goliath's Captain: Slaves of a nameless God, once again I gring you the challenge of Goliath of Goth, champion of the Philistines. Where is your faith in your God? Where is your trust in His protection? You boast that He can move mountains, and yet He cannot move one man among you to defend His honor. Six times have we challenged you to put forward a champion, and six times have you cowered in silence. Send down a champion, and whoever wins the combat wins the day for his country and his God. Well, Israelites, what is your answer? [Nobody speaks out]... Then let all the world bear witness. There is no God in Israel!

Jonathan: ...Is Israel governed by a king, Father, or by the whims of a senile old prophet?::Saul: You cannot have the one without the other.::Jonathan: And who's to say that Samuel is not a false prophet?::Saul: If Samuel is a false prophet, I'm a false king. It was Samuel who annointed me, even as he has rejected me.::Jonathan: The people still look to you as their king, Father. They have not rejected you.::Saul: ...What was his name? The man who wrestled with me until daybreak.::Abner: What man, My Lord?::Jonathan: It was only a dream, Father.::Saul: Well, if it was a dream, send in my musician; let me dream on.

Samuel: God is not a man that He should deceive you... The Lord does not see as man sees. Men judge by outward appearances, but the Lord judges by the heart alone. [to David] You kneel before me as the shepherd of your father's flock, but God has chosen you... to be the shepherd of His people Israel, to unite His scattered tribes into one nation... and to send the heathen from His promised land.::Young David: My brothers are all soldiers. Why not choose one of them?::Samuel: It was not I who chose you. It was the Lord God of Israel.::Young David: I am the least in my father's house.::Samuel: You are a child after God's own heart.::Young David: If I stand so well in His sight, why not let Him command me face to face?::Jesse: Because no man may see God face to face and live. God speaks to man through the mouths of His prophets.::Samuel: So be it. When I have gone the way of all flesh, you shall be brought before the king by one of his sons. Then shall the Lord challenge you, even as you have challenged Him, to defend His name and His honor. Have no fear, David. The Lord shall not forsake you so long as you keep His laws and obey His prophets without question.

Jesse: Any man can teach, but David's are the gifts of God.

Saul: ...Hear how Jonathan warbles in praise of the cuckoo bird, David, who has fed from my table and now lies with my daughter... David has robbed me of my God, my people, even my children. What else can he take but my crown...? So long as David lives, neither I nor Jonathan nor the throne shall be safe... Samuel anointed him in my place! David! The boy I trusted and loved as my own son.::Jonathan: Then be glad of it! Give thanks that the future of Israel belongs to a man worthy of your love.::[Saul throws a javelin, just missing him]

David: Come with me to the sanctuary at Nob. We have a covenant of friendship between us.::Jonathan: I also have a covenant of honor between my father and myself. I would lay down my life for you willingly, but I cannot break faith with my father *or* with you. You have the love of One far greater than I [the Lord of Hosts] to care for you. My father has no one.

Saul: [at Nob, shortly after David has escaped] Abner, I want these priests killed, one by one, until their high priest "remembers" where David is, or is going. Then the killing will stop.::Abner: No soldier would carry out such an order. These priests...::Saul: THESE PRIESTS are maggots! In carrion! Fattening themselves on the offerings people give to the Lord! They are traitors, every one of them! And so is any soldier who refuses to obey the king's command. [He runs his javelin through one soldier who couldn't bring himself to slay the priests] Will no one obey the king? [Another soldier volunteers] It takes a gentile to obey. [the second soldier kills several priests, but still no one "remembers" David's whereabouts, so Saul kills the high priest with his javelin]

The Confessions of Amans (1976)

Actors: Humberto Cornejo (costume designer), Gregory Nava (editor), Gregory Nava (director), Gregory Nava (producer), Gregory Nava (writer), Anna Thomas (writer), Robert Case (actor), Richard Harding Gardner (actor), Stephen Bateman (actor), Leon Liberman (actor), William Bryan (actor), Susannah MacMillan (actress), Jeanne Graham (actress), María Rodríguez (actress), Michael St. John (actor),

Genres: Drama, Romance,

Lost in the Stars (1974)

Actors: John Holland (actor), Bill Walker (actor), Clifton Davis (actor), Brock Peters (actor), Paul Rogers (actor), Maxwell Anderson (writer), Melba Moore (actress), Walter Hannemann (editor), Raymond St. Jacques (actor), Harvey Jason (actor), Paulene Myers (actress), John Williams (actor), Ji-Tu Cumbuka (actor), Ivor Barry (actor), Edward Lewis (producer),

Genres: Drama, Musical,
Taglines: The shattering drama, the haunting music, the unforgettable love story.

I racconti di Canterbury (1972)

Actors: Laura Betti (actress), Pier Paolo Pasolini (writer), Vittorio Fanfoni (actor), Pier Paolo Pasolini (actor), Hugh Griffith (actor), Alberto Grimaldi (producer), Ninetto Davoli (actor), Michael Balfour (actor), Francis De Wolff (actor), Franco Citti (actor), Tom Baker (actor), Vernon Dobtcheff (actor), Philip Davis (actor), Danilo Donati (costume designer), Ennio Morricone (composer),

Genres: Comedy, Drama,

Quotes:

The Cook: Between a jest and a joke, many a truth can be told.

The Wife from Bath: There's nowhere in the Gospels that says we ought to stay virgins. Anyway, tell me, what were the genital organs made for at the creation? Not to lie dormant I suppose. And nobody's going to tell me they were just put there to piss through. Mark you, I use it for that as well. And every man must serve his wife in wedlock...

Perkin's mother: [singing] Oh, there was a little beggar man that goes from town to town, and wherever he get a job and work he's willing to sit down.

Angel: Hey Satan! Lift up your tail and show us where you keep the friars in hell!

Koning David (1965)

Actors: André van den Heuvel (actor), Tom van Beek (actor), Ramses Shaffy (actor), Jules Croiset (actor), Joris Diels (actor), Ellen Vogel (actress), Johan Schmitz (actor), Wim de Haas (actor), Kees Coolen (actor), Johan De Meester (director), Carl van der Plas (actor), Jurriaan Andriessen (composer), Anne-Marie Heijligers (actress), Eli Blom (actor), Joost Van den Vondel (writer),

Genres: Drama, History,

The Captain's Paradise (1953)

Actors: Nicholas Phipps (actor), Ferdy Mayne (actor), Miles Malleson (actor), Tutte Lemkow (actor), Andreas Malandrinos (actor), Henry B. Longhurst (actor), Michael Balfour (actor), Roger Delgado (actor), Joss Ambler (actor), Bill Fraser (actor), Peter Bull (actor), Robert Adair (actor), Sebastian Cabot (actor), Alec Guinness (actor), Robert Rietty (actor),

Plot: Mediterranean ferryboat captain Henry St James has things well organized - a loving and very English wife Maud in Gibraltar, and the loving if rather more hot-blooded Mistress, Nita in Tangiers. A perfect life. As long as neither woman decides to follow him to the other port.

Keywords: adulterer, adultery, apron, arab, band-concert, bazaar, bigamist, bigamy, bikini, cooking
Genres: Comedy,
Taglines: He makes two-timing an art...and gets away with it A Model Husband... in Gibraltar! A Gay, Dashing Lover... in North Africa!

Quotes:

Chief Officer Ricco: Mrs. 'Gibraltar' St. James: she's in there.::Capt. Henry St. James: I know.::Chief Officer Ricco: Madame 'Kalik' St. James: she's also in there.::Capt. Henry St. James: I'm quite aware of the fact.::Chief Officer Ricco: Then what do we do?::Capt. Henry St. James: In the words of a famous English statesman, "We cultivate the faculty of patient expectancy." We wait and see.

Maud St. James: [delighted with her new vacuum cleaner] When you go off on your old ship tomorrow, I'm going to plug this in and give this house the biggest spring cleaning it's ever had.::Capt. Henry St. James: That's the girl! Man toils and women spins.

Capt. Henry St. James: [referring to his two wives] That, Rico, is my solution to man's happiness on Earth. Two happy women, each in their way perfect, and in between the company of men, the clash of intellects to stimulate the mind.

Maud St. James: I'm 37, Henry, and I think it's time I started to live. I realize that I've missed a great many things, and I want to get them before it's too late. I want to stay up late before it's too late for me to stay up late.

Chief Officer Ricco: I'll introduce myself ladies... Chief Officer Ricco.::Susan Dailey: I'm Miss Dailey... and this is Miss Bligh.::Chief Officer Ricco: To you, Carlos.::Daphne Bligh: [rudely] And To YOU, Miss Dailey. and Miss Bligh.

Capt. Henry St. James: Keep an eye on them. They're a wicked lot.

Capt. Henry St. James: [On the bridge, musing out loud to no one in particular] 'He that would enter paradise must have a golden key.'::Chief Officer Ricco: [Overhearing] You said something about a key, captain...::Capt. Henry St. James: I was merely quoting, Ricco, an old proverb.

Capt. Henry St. James: [Greeting Susan Dailey and Daphne Bligh at table in the ship's dining room] Good evening. I hope you're enjoying your trip... I can thoroughly recommend the Brown Windsor Soup.

Prof. Killick: [With Capt. St. James and others at table in the ship's dining room] Captain, the trouble with the human race is, that it's entirely sub-human.::Capt. Henry St. James: There, Professor, I must raise a small cry of protest.::Prof. Killick: I ignore it. Mankind has consistently misused science, ever since Prometheus brought down fire from Heaven.::Capt. Henry St. James: In my opinion... I was just going to say, that the only hope for civilization...::Prof. Killick: [Interrupting] There isn't any!::Capt. Henry St. James: ...is that every device of science - radio, television, all of them - shall be used to show one half of the world how the other lives.::Mr. Wheeler: Well put, Captain.::Capt. Henry St. James: Within reason, of course...

Father's Day (1913)

Actors: William Stowell (actor), Adele Lane (actress), William Nicholas Selig (producer), Gilson Willets (writer),

Genres: Drama, Short,