Actor Tinka Menkes: biography, where starred, where to watch

Queen of Diamonds

Nina Menkes

Tinka Menkes, Emmellda Beech

Set amid the glittering casino lights and deteriorating desert landscapes of the oasis city Las Vegas, QUEEN OF DIAMONDS revolves around the disaffected existence of of Firdaus (Tinka Menkes), a blackjack dealer whose world unfolds as a fragmented but hypnotic interplay between repetition and repressed anger.

Queen of Diamonds

6.0 ⚠️ 1991

США, драма

Aves

Nietzchka Keene

Tinka Menkes

A stop-motion menagerie of birds illuminate a nun’s spiritual ecstasy and terror in this experimental animated work set to the music of Christian mystic Hildegard von Bingen.

Aves

5.9 ⚠️ 1998

США, мультфильм

The Great Sadness of Zohara

Nina Menkes

Tinka Menkes

A young, orthodox Jewish woman is alienated from her Jerusalem community and drawn into the world of spirit.

The Great Sadness of Zohara

5.9 ⚠️ 1983

Израиль

Magdalena Viraga

Nina Menkes

Dave Gist, Scott Edmund Lane

Story of A Red Sea Crossing. Shot in the bars and seedy hotels of East LA, this film is about the inner life of a prostitute imprisoned for killing her pimp.

Magdalena Viraga

5.9 ⚠️ 1986

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A Soft Warrior

Nina Menkes

Tinka Menkes

Nina's first collaboration with her sister Tinka Menkes, the film documents, in a strange and beautiful way, a serious illness suffered by Tinka, and also expresses how art is a transformative response to life.

A Soft Warrior

5.6 ⚠️ 2021

The Bloody Child

Nina Menkes

Tinka Menkes, Sherry Sibley

This film was inspired by a real event—a young US Marine, recently back from the Gulf War, was found digging a grave for his murdered wife in the middle of the California Mojave.

The Bloody Child

5.0 ⚠️ 1996

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