Ace Up My Sleeve 1975  R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Crime and Passion
Director: Ivan Passer
Cast: Karen Black, Omar Sharif, Joseph Bottoms, Elma Karlowa, Bernhard Wicki, Heinz Ehrenfreund, Volker Prechtel, Erich Padalewski, Robert L. Abrams, Franz Muxeneder
Omar Sharif plays a sex-crazed financier who takes one step too far with his secretary (Karen Black)–a decision that leads to their being targeted by her new husband.
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Born to Win 1971  R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
aka: Addict
Born to Lose
Director: Ivan Passer
Cast: George Segal, Karen Black, Paula Prentiss, Jay Fletcher, Hector Elizondo, Robert De Niro, Sylvia Simms, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Jose Perez, Jack Hollander, Burt Young, Alex Colon
This comedy/drama features George Segal as a New York City hairdresser who resorts to crime to support his expensive heroin addiction.
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Creator 1985 R, 108 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Ivan Passer
Cast: Peter O'Toole, Mariel Hemingway, Vincent Spano, Virginia Madsen, David Ogden Stiers, John Dehner, Karen Kopins, Kenneth Tigar, Ian Wolfe, Rance Howard
A Nobel Prize-winning biology professor, Doctor Harry Wolper (Peter O'Toole), is obsessed with the possibility of cloning his dead wife, Lucy (Karen Kopins), who died 30 years ago. To accomplish this feat, he gathers two assistants: an impressionable graduate student, Boris (Vincent Spano), and the eccentric undergraduate, Meli (Mariel Hemingway).
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Cutter's Way 1981 R, 105 min.
Genre: Mystery
aka: Cutter and Bone
Director: Ivan Passer
Cast: Jeff Bridges, John Heard, Lisa Eichhorn, Ann Dusenberry, Stephen Elliott, Arthur Rosenberg, Nina Van Pallandt, Tony Epper
Richard Bone (Jeff Bridges), who is falsely accused of murder, joins forces with Vietnam veteran Alex Cutter (John Heard) in a scheme to identify the real killer.
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Law and Disorder 1974  R, 99 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Ivan Passer
Cast: Carroll O'Connor, Ernest Borgnine, Ann Wedgeworth, Anita Dangler, Karen Black, Jack Kehoe, David Spielberg, Pat Corley, Leslie Ackerman, Joe Ragno
Two New Yorkers (Carroll O'Connor and Ernest Borgnine) are fed up with the city's crime rate and become auxiliary policemen to help curb the problem.
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The Silver Bears 1977  PG, 113 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Ivan Passer
Cast: Michael Caine, Cybill Shepherd, Louis Jourdan, Stephane Audran, Tom Smothers, David Warner, Martin Balsam, Jay Leno, Charles Gray, Joss Ackland, Tony Mascia, Jeremy Clyde, Moustache
Filmed in Switzerland and Morocco, the story involves the efforts of Doc Fletcher (Michael Caine) to buy a bank, and he encounters assorted characters who will stop at nothing to strike it rich.
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The Wishing Tree 2000 TV, 102 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ivan Passer
Cast: Alfre Woodard, Helen Shaver, Mary Alice, Blair Underwood, Charles Weldon, Leslie Carlson, Peter Haworth, Stephen Joffe, Kaleigh Nevin, Maria Ricossa
Clara (Alfre Woodard) returns to her Georgia hometown after the death of her mother, a well-known storyteller in the area. As she reminisces with family and friends, she is caught up in the legends told by her mother.
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| 1. Ace Up My Sleeve (1975)
aka: Crime and Passion
2. Born to Win (1971)
aka: Addict
aka: Born to Lose
3. Creator (1985)
4. Cutter's Way (1981)
aka: Cutter and Bone
5. Kidnapped (1995)
6. Law and Disorder (1974)
7. The Silver Bears (1977)
8. The Wishing Tree (2000)
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