Mike Burstyn

Acting

Mike Burstyn

Born 1945-07-01 · New York, New York, U.S

Acting credits

No artwork available
6.0

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Shabat Hamalka

1965

Minotaur poster
6.5

Alex Abramov is Mossad secret agent looking after some bad guys. He falls in love with young music student Thea, but can not reveal himself and sends her gifts secretly. Thea first thinks that it must be another student, G.R., who sends gifts, and bad guys, knowing about Alex's feelings towards Thea, attack G.R. by mistake.

Minotaur

1997

Papa poster
4.3

A young man, Ben Freidman (Scott Wilson) raised by wealthy adoptive Jewish parents in Beverly Hills, decides that he is ready to finally meet his biological parents. He faces disappointment upon learning of the death of his biological mother. His biological father, meanwhile, resides in a psychiatric care unit.

Papa

2018

Sabine poster
4.6

A 15-year-old girl meets her father for the first time. He never married her mother because his adventurous life did not allow it. He takes his daughter on a working vacation to the exotic island of Aruba, where after a timid start a strong bond develops between father and daughter. Until she discovers that her father is 'unfaithful' to her.

Sabine

1982

Happy Times poster
4.8

A seemingly friendly dinner party erupts into a night of violence and terror at a lush Hollywood estate.

Happy Times

2021

Dog Watch poster
5.1

A San Francisco detective goes wild when he discovers his partner dead and the presumed culprit standing over him. After beating the man to death, he comes to his senses and realizes that he has to get rid of the body of the beaten man. Dumping the man in the river, he returns to his partner's body and calls in the death. He is then given a new partner and is assigned to investigate the death of a man just pulled from the river causing all the expected problems. However, the investigation does lead to police corruption and his own partner's involvement in drug running.

Dog Watch

1997

The Spy Who Never Was poster
8.0

A diabolical tale of romance, murder, and mistaken identity as a treacherous terrorist organization hunts an enemy agent with the intention of killing him, but instead they set their sights on the wrong man. Left in the wake of their mistaken pursuit is a trail of broken lives and brutal murders.

The Spy Who Never Was

1976

Tight as a Drum poster
NR

A military school graduation ceremony is interrupted when a student's dope-smuggling father is killed in the gym.

Tight as a Drum

1974

Sallah poster
6.8

Sallah Shabati, the patriarch of a big family recently arrived to Israel from Yemen, tries to make money and get better housing, in a country that can barely provide for its own and is in the midst of absorbing hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees from Arab countries.

Sallah

1964

Two Kuni Lemel poster
6.2

The town matchmaker searches for an honest match for Carolina, the daughter of a wealthy man. He finds it in the bumbling, stuttering Kuni Lemel, who has a remarkable resemblance to her lover, Max. Things go south when two Kuni Lemels arrive in town.

Two Kuni Lemel

1966

The Chosen One poster
10.0

After impulsively shaving off his beard and sidelocks, a young Hasidic man experiences a nightmarish transformation that leads him right back to where he started. Over the course of one painful night, Eli Eisenstein will come to realize that it’s much easier to shave your beard than to shed who you are.

The Chosen One

2022

Hershele poster
8.5

A European immigrant (Mike Burstyn) offers violin lessons to talented but impoverished children.

Hershele

1977

Kuni Lemel in Tel Aviv poster
8.5

Kuni Lemel's grandfather, who lives in Brooklyn, says he will give his fortune to the grandson who will move to Israel and marry a Jewish girl. The twin grandsons, Kuni the Orthodox and Moni the secular, compete for the money.

Kuni Lemel in Tel Aviv

1976

No artwork available
NR

A promotion film produced by the JNF and WIZO organization about the latter’s social projects for Israeli youth.

Youth At The Crossroads

1965

Kuni Leml in Cairo poster
7.5

Rabbi Kuni Lemle has just finished a Torah and is going to donate it to a congregation in Cairo. In exchange for the Torah scroll, the congregation in Cairo will give Kuni's congregation some antique coins valued at a million dollars. Kuni's twin brother's bosses hear about it and they make Muni dress up as Kuni so that he will get the coins instead. Muni gives the coins back to Kuni and the movie ends with a bunch of dancing Hassidim.

Kuni Leml in Cairo

1983

The Comedians poster
10.0

A documentary on the life and career of Yiddish actor Pasach Burstein and his family.

The Comedians

2000

Behind the camera