Alain Jakubowicz Filmography

Tornado

Crew: Director, Editor

Actors: Daniel Bernhardt

Synopsis: When a photographer teams with a ambitious journalist to break an eerie story about a fanatic cult, the duo underestimates the power their foes wield over the elements in this windblown tale of terror from filmmaker Alan Jakubowicz. Years ago, Josh Barnaby's father was killed by a deadly tornado. Read More

Air Marshall

Crew: Director, Editor

Actors: Eli Danker, Ammar Daraiesh, Dean Cochran

Synopsis: Alain Jakubowicz's action thriller Air Marshal follows the title character as he must defend a plane that has been taken over by terrorists. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Dancing at the Blue Iguana

Crew: Editor

Actors: Charlotte Ayanna, Daryl Hannah, Sheila Kelley, Sandra Oh, Jennifer Tilly, Elias Koteas

Synopsis: The personal lives of five exotic dancers go under the microscope in this drama, the first American feature from director Michael Radford. Eddie (Robert Wisdom) is the manager of a strip club in suburban California known as the Blue Iguana, where he keeps an eye on the women who make their living Read More

The Body

Crew: Editor

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Olivia Williams, John Shrapnel, Derek Jacobi, Jason Flemyng

Synopsis: In this religious drama concerning the struggle between science and faith, Olivia Williams plays Sharon Golban, an Israeli archeologist who discovers a skeleton within a tomb in Jerusalem. After an intensive study and the accumulation of more information, the bones begin to resemble the remains of Read More

Along for the Ride

Crew: Editor

Actors: Melanie Griffith, Patrick Swayze, Penelope Ann Miller, Richard Schiff

Synopsis: A man discovers his past hasn't just caught up with him -- it's taking him on a cross-country road trip in this edgy comedy. Level-headed Ben (Patrick Swayze) gives his less-than-stable girlfriend Lulu (Melanie Griffith) her walking papers and heads out to California, in hopes of breaking into the Read More

Simon Sez

Crew: Editor

Actors: Dennis Rodman, Dane Cook, Natalia Cigliuti, Filip Nikolic, John Pinette, Jerome Pradon, Ricky Harris

Synopsis: Former basketball star Dennis Rodman stars in this action-and-espionage thriller as Simon, an Interpol agent called into action when the daughter of a close friend is abducted. In order to track down the kidnappers, Simon seeks the assistance of a pair of monks (John Pinette and Ricky Harris) who Read More

On the Border

Crew: Editor

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Bryan Brown, Casper Van Dien

Synopsis: A corrupt security guard finds his already shaky loyalties stretched to the breaking point in this action drama. Jake Barnes (Casper Van Dien) is hired to guard a bank in a small town near the Texas/Mexico border. Jake's boss wants him to keep an eye on his wife, whom he believes is being Read More

Digging To China

Crew: Editor

Actors: Kevin Bacon, Mary Stuart Masterson, Cathy Moriarty, Evan Rachel Wood, Marian Seldes

Synopsis: Actor Timothy Hutton's directorial debut is set in rural New Hampshire of the mid-'60s. Divorced motel owner Mrs. Frankovitz (Cathy Moriarty) has two daughters -- Gwen (Mary Stuart Masterson), who is preoccupied with various boyfriends, and troubled 10-year-old Harriet (Evan Rachel Wood). One day Read More

Plato's Run

Crew: Editor

Actors: Jeff Speakman, Tiani Warden, Gary Busey, Roy Scheider, Steven Bauer

Synopsis: When a vicious arms smuggler (Roy Scheider) abducts his daughter, an ex-Navy Seal (Gary Busey) rounds up a cadre of skilled mercenaries to find and rescue her. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Season of Change

Crew: Editor

Actors: Michael Madsen, Nicholle Tom, Jo Anderson, Hoyt Axton

Synopsis: In this coming-of-age drama follows a 13-year old girl living in Montana during 1946, as she copes with her father's adultery. Sally Mae Parker may be young, but she is not blind. She is quietly aware of the growing tension between her pregnant mother and her father, who recently returned from the Read More

American Cyborg: Steel Warrior

Crew: Editor

Actors: Joe Lara, Nicole Hansen, Yosef Shiloah, Uri Gavriel

Synopsis: Joe Lara, best known as TV's Tarzan, must protect the fetus of the last fertile woman on Earth in this silly post-nuke science fiction film. Much of the action is obviously Terminator-inspired, as John Ryan plays an evil cyborg chasing the heroes around an old factory. Israeli director Boaz Davidson Read More

Chain of Command

Crew: Editor

Synopsis: In this thriller, an undercover spy attempts to stop terrorists from staging a coup on the government of a country that is a major supplier of the world's oil. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

No Place to Hide

Crew: Editor

Actors: Kris Kristofferson, Drew Barrymore, Martin Landau, O.J. Simpson, Dey Young

Synopsis: In this gory thriller, a troubled dancer has just enough time to convince her little sister to hide a videotape before she is stabbed to death by an unseen killer, leaving the surviving sister in grave danger. Fortunately, a cynical but determined cop comes on the case to help her. ~ Sandra Read More

The Fifth Monkey

Crew: Editor

Actors: Ben Kingsley, Mika Lins, Vera Fischer, Sylvia de Carvalho, Carlos Kroeber

Synopsis: Ben Kingsley headlines this thoughtful adventure that was filmed on location in Brazil. The story centers on Cunda, a poor hunter who makes his meager living killing snakes. One day, he runs across four chimpanzees. The hunter is elated, for he hopes that selling them in the Big City will net him Read More

Mack the Knife

Crew: Editor

Actors: Raul Julia, Richard Harris, Julia Migenes, Roger Daltrey, Julie Walters

Synopsis: This film adaptation of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's musical play The Threepenny Opera portrays the engagement of a gangster (Raul Julia) to an innocent girl (Rachel Robertson) in Victorian-era London. The girl's family attempts to thwart the marriage by catching the thief in the act. ~ John Read More

Hanna's War

Crew: Editor

Actors: Ellen Burstyn, Maruschka Detmers, Anthony Andrews, Donald Pleasence, David Warner

Synopsis: Maruschka Detmers stars as Hannah Senesh, a real-life Hungarian Jew who became a martyr to the cause of freedom during WW II. Though safely ensconced in Palestine at the outbreak of the war, Hannah volunteers to venture behind enemy lines in Europe on a life-or-death mission. Unfortunately, she is Read More

Salsa

Crew: Editor

Actors: Robi Rosa, Rodney Harvey, Magali Alvarado, Miranda Garrison, Moon Orona

Synopsis: Disco-gone-Latin, that's what's happening in Salsa, where a grease monkey who's sick and tired of knuckle-busting lives for his nights on the dance floor where he gyrates to the salsa beat. Not much plot but plenty of dancing is the fare here, as the lead guy (Robby Rosa) is out to show he's the Travolta Read More

Shy People

Crew: Editor

Actors: Jill Clayburgh, Barbara Hershey, Martha Plimpton, Merritt Butrick, John Philbin

Synopsis: Writer Jill Clayburgh wants to remove her coke-addicted daughter Martha Plimpton from the corruptive environs of Manhattan. When assigned to write an article about family trees, Clayburgh, with daughter in tow, heads to the bayous of Louisiana, there to seek out an elusive great-uncle--and, it is Read More

Too Much

Crew: Editor

Actors: Bridgette Andersen, Masato Fukazama, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Char Fontana, Uganda

Synopsis: Bridgette Andersen stars as the young daughter of an American businessman residing in Japan. The father's partner gives Bridgette a most lifelike toy robot, and before long the girl and the toy are the closest of friends. But when Bridgette's dad prepares to return to the US, the girl is told that Read More

Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold

Crew: Editor

Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Sharon Stone, James Earl Jones, Henry Silva, Robert Donner

Synopsis: After receiving a mysterious gold piece, Quatermain travels to Africa to find his brother, who is searching for a lost white tribe. In his search, Quatermain discovers a lost civilization. This film is a follow-up to King Solomon's Mines. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

Crew: Editor

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Caroline Williams, Bill Johnson, Jim Siedow, Bill Moseley

Synopsis: Over ten years after making the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Tobe Hooper returns to his deranged family of reclusive cannibals for another round of chainsaw chases and non-stop screaming. Hooper brings a real budget this time (having recently directed Poltergeist for Steven Spielberg) and the Read More

Invaders from Mars

Crew: Editor

Actors: Karen Black, Hunter Carson, Timothy Bottoms, Laraine Newman, James Karen

Synopsis: Invaders from Mars, horror-film director Tobe Hooper's remake of the classic 1950's science fiction film, directed by William Cameron Menzies, centers on a young boy named David (Hunter Carson) who tries to stop an invasion of his town as aliens take over the minds of his parents George (Timothy Bottoms Read More

America 3000

Crew: Editor

Actors: Chuck Wagner, Laurene Landon, Camilla Sparv, Victoria Barrett, William Wallace

Synopsis: This future dystopia tale is set in what remains of the U.S.A. 900 years after a nuclear war. People have banded into clans, where women fight and win control over a region while men are held as slaves and divided into functional groups, such as laborers, servants, or those who father children. Read More

The Delta Force

Crew: Editor

Actors: Chuck Norris, Lee Marvin, Martin Balsam, Joey Bishop, Robert Forster

Synopsis: Menahem Golan melds a Chuck Norris action spectacle with the disaster film genre in The Delta Force. The story is based upon the June, 1985 hijacking of a TWA jet, where passengers were held at gun-point by terrorists in Beirut, Lebanon. The film re-enacts various real life incidents from the Read More

Alamo Bay

Crew: Editor

Actors: Amy Madigan, Ed Harris, Nguyen Ho, Donald Moffat, Truyen V. Tran

Synopsis: Director Louis Malle scrutinizes modern-day racism in Alamo Bay. The scene is the Texas coast, where local fishermen resent the "intrusion" of Vietnam refugees. Fair-minded shrimp supplier Wally (Donald Moffat) hires several Vietnamese workers, which serves to further infuriate the locals. The Read More

The Apple

Crew: Editor

Actors: Catherine Stewart, George Gilmour, Joss Ackland, Vladek Sheybal, Grace Kennedy

Synopsis: Unleashed just as the disco phenomenon had peaked and was slipping out of public favor, this one-of-a-kind pop musical is set in 1994, when a Mephistophelean entrepreneur named Mr. Boogalow (Vladek Sheybal) controls the international recording industry through the Worldvision Song Contest. Read More

Worlds Apart

Crew: Editor

Synopsis: This Israeli drama is based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Amos Kollek. Kollek's father is the mayor of Jerusalem and so Kollek leads a privileged life. He eventually joins the reserves and spends a few days a week fighting the Arabs. He then begins dating an American woman who lives in the Read More

Lemon Popsicle

Crew: Editor

Actors: Yftach Katzur, Anat Atzmon, Jonathan Segall, Zachi Noy

Synopsis: Boaz Davidson co-wrote and directed this nostalgic schoolboy romance, taking place in 1950s Tel Aviv. The story deals with three young men -- Bentzi (Jesse Katsur), Momo (Jonathan Sagalle), and Yuda'leh (Zachi Noy) -- who only have girls on their minds. The boys, searching for their first sexual Read More

It's a Funny, Funny World

Crew: Editor

Actors: Boaz Davidson, Zvi Shissel

Synopsis: Few possible embarrassments are spared the victims of Candid Camera-type practical jokes played on unsuspecting members of the general public in this controversial Israeli film. Among the gags: a recording of a passing train is played from concealed speakers at a dressed-up ordinary road crossing Read More

Neither by Day nor By Night

Crew: Editor

Actors: Miriam Berstein-Cohen

Synopsis: This drama follows a young American soldier in Israel who has been blinded and placed in a hospital. The old woman he shares a room with, who is also blind, believes that he is her long-lost lover, giving her an opportunity to relive her youth and helping both deal with their lives better. The Read More