John Bleifer Movies

In 1820 Spain, the son of a California nobleman comes home to find his native land under a villainous dictatorship. On one hand, he plays the useless...

Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on the...

Rabbi Avram arrives in Philadelphia from Poland en route to San Francisco where he will be a congregation's new rabbi. An innocent and inexperienced...

Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. As he climbs higher and higher...

In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O'Neal...

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both...

A mysterious American gets mixed up with gunrunners in Syria.

An "underground" cartoonist contends with life in the inner city, where various unsavory characters serve as inspiration for his artwork.

The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.

In a 16th-century European town, the ruling family has been given a prophecy that, should there ever be twin boys born, the younger will murder the...

A silver-tongued poet and self-proclaimed "King of the Beggars" searches old Baghdad for a rich bachelor to marry his dreamy daughter, Marsinah....

A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.

A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul....

In New York, Sheila Bennet and her spouse, Matt Krane, are trying to unload a trove of rare jewels they smuggled into America from Cuba, but the...

A Catholic priest must convince a man to step forward to save the wrong person from being sent to the electric chair.

Four astronauts returning from man's first mission to Mars enter a time warp and crash on a 26th Century Earth devastated by atomic war. At first...

An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.

Three soldiers in Korea go through inner torment when they're ordered to execute an enemy soldier.

An agoraphobic must give up his sheltered life and venture outside after a series of personal and financial problems.

An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.