Amos KollekFilmography

Born:: Israel
Occupation:: Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: With a solid background in studies of the human mind, Amos Kollek has a knack for insightfully capturing the very essence of his often troubled characters. Despite the fact that his early films were bleak in depicting their characters' fragility, the director has since excelled at transforming the...Read More

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Restless

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Moshe Ivgy, Ran Danker, Karen Young, Phyllis Somerville

Synopsis: Years after moving to American in order to pursue his fame and flee from the responsibilities of parenthood, an ambitious novelist discovers that no matter how far he runs, his past will always catch up. Moshe was a moderately successful Israeli novelist who believed he never received the fame Read More

2007
Music

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Dallas Roberts, Lara Harris, Tara Culp, Victor Argo, Angelica Torn

Synopsis: Part of producer Regina Ziegler's Erotic Tales series, Music is written and directed by Israeli-born American independent filmmaker Amos Kollek. Dallas Roberts stars as Matt, an young man who prefers his sexual fantasies to be set to classical music. While wandering through Manhattan one night, he Read More

2003
Nowhere to Go But Up

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Audrey Tautou, Justin Theroux, Jennifer Tilly, Catherine Curtin, Laila Robbins

2003
Fast Food Fast Women

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Anna Thomson, Jamie Harris, Louise Lasser, Robert Modica, Lonette McKee

Synopsis: Amos Kollek directs this quiet, understated comedy about lonely hearts and empty pockets in New York. Pushing 40, Bella (Anna Thomson) works as a waitress at small downtown diner in Manhattan. Her elderly regulars include Paul (Robert Modica), a lovelorn retiree who scours the personal ads and his Read More

5/18/01
Queenie In Love

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Victor Argo, Louise Lasser, Mark Margolis, Austin Pendleton

Synopsis: An elderly man falls in love with a woman young enough to be his daughter -- and that's not the least of their differences -- in this offbeat romantic comedy. Horace (Victor Argo) is a retired police officer who now works for a travel agency. Outwardly gruff, Horace is at heart a gentle soul, and Read More

2001
3 Erotic Tales

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Victor Argo, Austin Pendleton, Valerie Geffner, Ivan Trojan, Tomas Pavelka

2001
Angela

Crew: Director

Actors: Victor Argo, Valerie Geffner

Synopsis: Part of Regina Ziegler's Erotic Tales series, the short film Angela is directed by Israeli-born American independent filmmaker Amos Kollek. Victor Argo plays Bob, a professor in Manhattan about to have his 70th birthday. He's longing for one last sexual encounter before calling it quits. Juilliard Read More

2000
Sue

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Anna Thomson, Matthew Powers, Tahnee Welch, Tracee Ross, John Ventimiglia

Synopsis: Troubled, unemployed New York office worker Sue (Anna Thomson) lives in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood. However, job interviews lead nowhere, and she's behind in the rent, forced to accept a prostitute as a roommate. Meanwhile, she veers close to a mental precipice as she wanders the city Read More

11/20/98
Fiona

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Anna Thomson, Felicia Maguire, Alyssa Mulhern, Anna Grace, Bill Dawes

Synopsis: The director of Sue continues his exploration of the theme of lonely women lost in the big city with Fiona, which goes one step further and exposes the wasted lives of whores and junkies in New York. Fiona (Anna Thomson) was abandoned by her mother when she was six months old. She grew up in Read More

1998
Whore 2

Crew: Director

1994
Double Edge

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Faye Dunaway, Amos Kollek, Makram Khouri

Synopsis: An ambitious female reporter finds herself unable to remain an objective, third party observer while covering the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in this made for television war drama starring Faye Dunaway. Upon arriving Israel on her first foreign assignment, American photojournalist Faye Milano is Read More

1992
High Stakes

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Kathy Bates, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Sally Kirkland, Robert LuPone, Richard Lynch

Synopsis: Sally Kirkland stars as a good-hearted hooker named Bambi Rose in this odd crime-drama from director Amos Kollek. Bambi is getting a bit long in the tooth, and is at the mercy of a sadistic pimp named Slim (Richard Lynch), who has his fingers in nearly every sort of crime imaginable. When a greedy Read More

1989
Forever, Lulu

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Hanna Schygulla, Deborah Harry, Alec Baldwin, Annie Golden, Paul Gleason

Synopsis: In this comedy, a young German woman named Elaine Hines (Hanna Schygulla) moves to New York City with dreams of becoming a writer. Elaine becomes entangled in a mystery and falls in with a group of gangsters who lead her through a series of crazy adventures. Released on video under the title Crazy Read More

4/24/87
Goodbye, New York

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Julie Hagerty, Amos Kollek, David Topaz, Aviva Ger, Shmuel Shilo

Synopsis: Never mind the title: Goodbye, New York mostly takes place in Israel. Julie Hagerty plays Nancy Callighan, a spoiled Irish-Jewish lass who decides to see the world after her husband has betrayed her. En route to Paris by plane, Nancy takes a few too many sedatives, and when she awakens, she's in Read More

1985
Worlds Apart

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

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

1980
Al Tish'ali Im Ani Oheve

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Shelby Leverington, Yossi Yadin, Shraga Harpaz

Synopsis: Based on an autobiographical novel by Amos Kolek, the son of one of Jerusalem's more famous mayors (Teddy Kolek), this movie tells the story of an Israeli novelist with no visible means of support, who occupies the time he doesn't spend with his girlfriend, an American archaeologist, or with his Read More

1979