Ján Kadár

In Slovakia during WW2 a lowly carpenter is given the chance to take over a small sewing shop from its Jewish owner after a law is passed forbidding Jewish businesses.

Morris Mishkin is a elderly religious Jew in New York. His wife Fanny is very ill. He's a tailor, but he can't work because his back has given out. He doesn't even have enough money for Fanny's medicine. Finally, a black fellow appears from nowhere in the Mishkin kitchen. He says he's an angel from God, sent to help Mishkin. The black angel is even Jewish, named Alex Levine? But will Morris believe in the angel? And can the angel perform the miracle that he promises? (imdb)

A fisherman saves Anada, a woman adrift, from drowning. He takes her to his home, and protects her. Eventually, she occupies a larger place than was to be expected. He commits adultery with her, but his own wife seems to be in love with the strange young woman. (imdb)

A Jewish boy grows up in 1920s Montreal with a grandfather who tells stories and a father who won't work. (imdb)

Muhammad Ali, in a rare acting role, plays Gideon Jackson, an ex-slave in 1870's Virginia who gets elected to the U.S. Senate in Washington D.C. and battles other former slaves and white sharecroppers to keep the land they tended all their lives. (imdb)

Strangers stranded in a hotel by a blizzard pass the time by playing cards (High Five/Cinch/Double Pedro). Tensions rise when one of them accuses another of cheating.

Strong-willed peasant girl Katka disobeys her father and heads to the city to work in a factory, where no one knows quite what to make of her.

Managers at the construction of a big hydro plant are accused of having embezzled money. They have paid the workers generously in return for some of the money. (imdb)

A disturbed, but highly intelligent man is sent to a criminally insane hospital to serve time and rehabilitate. But when he arrives, he discovers it’s in fact a closed world where brutality is an everyday occurrence.