Fast Food, Fast Women 2000  R, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Amos Kollek
Cast: Anna Levine, Jamie Harris, Louise Lasser, Robert Modica, Lonette McKee, Victor Argo, Angelica Torn, Austin Pendleton, Valerie Geffner, Mark Margolis, Sandrine Holt, Judith Roberts, Lynn Cohen, Salem Ludwig, Irma St. Paule
Amos Kollek presents a number of storylines about ordinary people trying to find love. Bella (Anna Levine) waitresses at a Manhattan diner, and during her off-hours she begins a very shaky relationship with a cab driver (Jamie Harris). Meanwhile, one of Bella's friends, Paul (Robert Modica), meets the widowed Emily (Louise Lasser), and another friend, Seymour (Victor Argo), is entranced by young Wanda (Valerie Geffner).
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Fiona 1998 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Amos Kollek
Cast: Anna Levine, Felicia Maguire, Alyssa Mulhern, Anna Grace, Bill Dawes, Mike Hodge, Christopher McCann, Matthew Powers, Sue Ponczkowski, Susan Santopietro, Peggy Van Tries, Noel Robichaux, Steve Klingman, Phil LaRocca, James Mulholland
The theme of down-on-their-luck women is continued by Director Amos Kollek in this film following his "Sue" the year before. Fiona (Anna Levine) was abused in her foster home and now is a prostitute living the hard life on the streets of New York.
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Forever, Lulu 1987  R, 85 min.
Genre: Mystery / Comedy
aka: Crazy Streets
Director: Amos Kollek
Cast: Hanna Schygulla, Deborah Harry, Alec Baldwin, Annie Golden, Paul Gleason, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Raymond Serra, George Kyle, Bill Corsair, Jonathan Freeman, Amos Kollek, Charles Ludlam, Harold Guskin, Kathleen Gati, Beatrice Pons
Through a series of bizarre events, aspiring, but out-of-work, writer Elaine (Hanna Schygulla) gets her hands on information that the police could use to break up a drug ring. She turns over the information, gains instant celebrity status, writes a best-selling novel, and finds love as well. But, wait. There are more than a few problems to encounter along the way.
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Goodbye, New York 1985 R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Amos Kollek
Cast: Julie Hagerty, Amos Kollek, Shmuel Shiloh, Aviva Ger, David Topaz, Jennifer Prichard, Christopher Goutman, Hanan Goldblatt, Mosko Alkalai, Ya'ackov Ben-Sira, Chaim Banai, Irit Ben Zur, Chaim Girafi
Nancy (Julie Hagerty) discovers her husband Jack (Christopher Goutman) with another woman and decides to walk away and see the world. She boards a plane, takes sedatives, and sleeps through the plane's landing in Paris. Now, the plane is in Israel, and Nancy has no luggage. She meets a cab driver, David (Amos Kollek), who comes to her aid and takes her to a kibbutz where Nancy adopts a new lifestyle. When Jack tracks her down, Nancy must decide whether or not she should give up her life in the kibbutz–and the affections of David–or return home with Jack.
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High Stakes 1989 R, 102 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Melanie Rose
Director: Amos Kollek
Cast: Sally Kirkland, Robert LuPone, Richard Lynch, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Kathy Bates, W.T. Martin, Betty Miller, Eddie Earl Hatch, Maia Danziger, Larry Block
Sally Kirkland plays a stripper who tries to save her daughter from trouble and finds love with a Wall Street speculator along the way.
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Sue 1997  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Amos Kollek
Cast: Anna Levine, Matthew Powers, Tahnee Welch, Tracey Ellis Ross, John Ventimiglia, Austin Pendleton, Edoardo Ballerini, Matthew Faber, Robert Kya-Hill, Tom Cappadona, Michael Worth, Alice Liu, Susan Huffaker, Lazaro Perez, Joshua Kaplan
Sue (Anna Levine) is down on her luck–she's out of work and has difficulty finding friendships and, finally, is evicted. Then, a man she met and started an affair with is sent overseas, and things get worse as she seeks weird sex as an outlet.
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| 1. Double Edge (1992)
2. Fast Food, Fast Women (2000)
3. Fiona (1998)
4. Forever, Lulu (1987)
aka: Crazy Streets
5. Goodbye, New York (1985)
6. High Stakes (1989)
aka: Melanie Rose
7. Sue (1997)
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